WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:07.080 Today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we continue in our 2 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:11.720 series called the Habits of Happiness. In these lessons, Pastor 3 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:15.039 Rick dives into the Book of Philippians and helps you 4 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:20.440 discover God's path to true and lasting happiness. Now we're 5 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:23.399 excited to let you know that very generous friends of 6 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:27.679 Daily Hope have stepped forward with a special fifty thousand 7 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:31.239 dollars matching grand That means any gift you give now 8 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:34.759 will be doubled up to fifty thousand dollars. But this 9 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:39.320 grant expires this Thursday at midnight, So contact us right away. 10 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:42.799 Go to Pastorick dot com or text the word Daily 11 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:47.640 to eight hundred, six hundred five thousand and four. Right now, 12 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:50.640 here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a 13 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:53.960 message called how to keep from Stressing Out. 14 00:00:54.920 --> 00:01:00.880 Now, when you think about these things true, good, right, pure, beautiful, respected, excellent, worthy, 15 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:02.719 you know what that is. 16 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:05.280 It's a picture of God. 17 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:10.760 And what he's really saying is think about God. Here's 18 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:14.280 what Isaiah says there on your outline. You Lord will 19 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:16.680 keep in perfect peace. Wouldn't you like to live in 20 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:19.079 perfect peace? Would you like to be less stressed out? 21 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:22.959 You Lord will keep in perfect peace all who trust 22 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:27.480 in you, whose thoughts are fixed on. 23 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:29.599 You. 24 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.239 If you fix your thoughts on God, he says, I 25 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:33.959 will keep. 26 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:35.480 You in perfect peace. 27 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:39.879 You see, what you think about is going to determine 28 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:42.840 how stressed and how worried you are. You know, I've 29 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:45.000 told you the story of Corey tin Boom. Corey tin 30 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:51.560 Boom was a Dutch Christian young woman during World War Two. 31 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:54.480 Her family the ten Boom family. Her dad was a 32 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:58.079 clockmaker and they lived in Amsterdam during World War two 33 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:02.040 and they made a story that she wrote a book about, 34 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:03.680 and they actually made a movie of her life called 35 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:06.560 The Hiding Place. And during World War two, the ten Boom, 36 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:11.120 this Christian family took in Jewish friends and hid them 37 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:13.280 in what was called the Hiding Place in their house 38 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:16.639 for many years to prevent them from being captured by 39 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:20.599 the Nazis and shipped off to death camps. One day, 40 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:25.919 the Nazis found out and not only took the Jewish friends, 41 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:29.280 but took Corey and her family and they went were 42 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:34.280 taken to death camps in Poland and Corey lost her 43 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:35.000 entire family. 44 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:36.479 She was the only one that survived. 45 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:39.800 And it's a very wonderful story, and in it she 46 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:42.560 says something I've never forgotten. She said, if you look 47 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:46.840 at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, 48 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:50.960 you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll 49 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:54.639 be at rest. It all depends on what you have 50 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:58.520 your eyes on. You know, people say, well, look within, 51 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:02.000 Well I did. I didn't like what I said. I 52 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:03.639 don't want to look with it. I want to look without. 53 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:05.000 I want to look at God. I want to look 54 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:09.280 at Christ. Think about good things. Now there's one other step. 55 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:15.199 That's number five. Be content with anything. The Bible tells 56 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:19.039 us to be content with anything. This is the fifth 57 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:24.120 key to living a reduced stress life, where God says, 58 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:26.080 if you do these things, you'll have God's peace in 59 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:28.759 your life. Now, let me explain contentment, because a lot 60 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:31.240 of people misunderstand the meaning of contentment. A lot of 61 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:33.800 people think means contentment means I have no ambition. 62 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:36.000 No, no, no, no no. 63 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:39.199 Paul who wrote this book, Remember, he's probably one of 64 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:42.039 the most ambitious men who ever lived. He single handedly 65 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:45.280 takes the good News the Gospel all across the Roman Empire. 66 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:47.439 He's one of the most ambitious people ever. And he says, 67 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:49.719 I've learned to be content, so it has nothing to 68 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:54.240 do with ambition. That's not contentment. Contentment is not laziness. 69 00:03:55.280 --> 00:04:01.639 Contentment is not apathy. Contentment is not complacency. Contentment is 70 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:06.319 not fatalism. What will be will be case. Contentment is 71 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:11.960 not lacky ambition content Here's what contentment is. It's enjoying 72 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:17.879 what I have right now, rather than waiting for something 73 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:20.240 else to happen in order for me to be happy. 74 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:22.160 Does that make sense. 75 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:25.439 It's enjoying what I've got right doesn't mean I don't 76 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:27.480 want to progress, doesn't mean I don't have goals. 77 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:28.920 The Bible says you should have goals. 78 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:31.639 It means I'm not waiting for something to happen in 79 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:35.879 my life in order to be happy. Contentment is the 80 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:39.920 opposite of coveting. Coveting is when and then thinking, when 81 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.360 this happens, then i'll be happy. When this happens, then 82 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:46.360 i'll be happy. And when that happens, then I'll be happy. 83 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:53.319 That's when and then thinking. Contentment is actually independence from circumstances. 84 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:58.040 It means my joy is not connected to what's happening 85 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:01.439 in my life right now. 86 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:06.079 You're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Rick will be 87 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:08.959 back in just a moment with the rest of today's lesson. 88 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:12.160 If you've missed any part of today's teaching, you can 89 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:18.079 listen online anytime at Pastorick dot com. That's pastorick dot com. 90 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:20.480 One of the things you ask us about the most 91 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:23.800 here on Daily Hope are the Bible scripture cards. 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And when that happens, 111 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:27.800 then I'll be happy. 112 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:29.519 That's when. 113 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:35.319 And then thinking contentment is actually independence from circumstances. It 114 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:39.600 means my joy is not connected to what's happening in 115 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:43.360 my life right now. My joy, my happiness is not 116 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:48.759 based on my happenings. It's not based on my circumstances. 117 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:52.160 It means I've learned to enjoy whatever I've got right now, 118 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:55.360 and I'm not waiting for something or someone to make 119 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:59.560 me happy. Now, here's what Paul says in the next 120 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:00.920 few verses, verse eleven twelve. 121 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:03.079 He says, I've learned. 122 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:08.519 I've learned to be content circle the word learned. Contentment 123 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:11.959 is not natural. I'm about my nature content. You're not 124 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.240 by nature content. You have to learn it, just like 125 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:17.079 you have to unlearn worry and you have to learn happiness. 126 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:18.120 You have to learn. 127 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:21.800 Contentment something that we get educated on. I've learned to 128 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:25.160 be content whatever the circumstances. He says, I know how 129 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.480 to live on almost nothing. Or I know how to 130 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:31.240 live with everything. And in the original Greek here he said, 131 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:33.639 I know how to live in poverty, and I know how. 132 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:35.199 To live in luxury. I know them both. 133 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:39.120 I know how to be happy, and either in poverty 134 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:42.399 or luxury and nothing or with everything, I've learned the 135 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:47.920 secret of contentment in every situation, whether I'm well fed 136 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:50.800 or hungry, or whether I have more than I need, 137 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:54.480 or when I don't have enough. Now, he says, there, 138 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:59.040 I have learned to be content. How do I learn contentment? 139 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:01.480 Let me give you a couple of three ways. You 140 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:03.199 might just write these down. They're not in your notes, 141 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:05.199 so just write them down. The first way you learn 142 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:13.519 contentment is this, stop comparing. Stop comparing. That's so important 143 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:21.839 because the source of all discontent is comparison. I remember many, 144 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:23.680 many years ago, when I was a little boy and 145 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:26.560 got up on Christmas morning and my parents had given 146 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:35.039 me the gift of my lifetime a stingray bicycle. Okay, 147 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:44.120 with these butterfly handles, get your motor runing banana seats. 148 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:46.879 I thought it was so cool, and I thought I 149 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:50.000 was so cool until I saw my neighbor got a 150 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:55.159 better one, and my happiness went out the door. 151 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:56.360 Now. 152 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:58.840 The Bible tells us over and over and over, it's 153 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:01.360 foolish to compare yourself to anybody else. 154 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:02.240 Why two reasons. 155 00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:06.519 One, you're always gonna find somebody who's doing a better 156 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:09.639 job than you, and somebody who has more than you, 157 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:13.279 and you're gonna get discouraged. Two you're always gonna find 158 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.200 somebody you're doing a better job then, and you have 159 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:19.799 more then, and you get full of pride. Either way, 160 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:20.639 you're dead. 161 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:20.919 In the water. 162 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:23.080 God takes you out of the game and you sit 163 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:27.039 on the sidelines for the rest of the game. Discouragement 164 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:29.320 and pride are the two things that take you, knock you. 165 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:33.159 Out of life. So he says, don't do that. God says, 166 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:34.840 I called you to be you. I made you to 167 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:36.519 be you. If you don't be you, who's gonna be you? 168 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:39.320 When you get to having God is gonna say, why 169 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:45.159 weren't you more like your sister? Or why weren't you 170 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:46.480 more like your mom or your dad? 171 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:49.559 Or what? God didn't why didn't you be you? I 172 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:50.440 made you to be you. 173 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:52.679 Most of us start off as originals and end up 174 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:57.840 as carbon copies. God never makes copies of anything. 175 00:09:57.879 --> 00:09:57.960 No. 176 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.879 Two snowflakes are like two human beings are like. You 177 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:04.559 have a unique thumb print, handprint, voice print, footprint, ieprint. 178 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:05.840 You are unique. 179 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:10.399 Even even identical twins aren't really identical. They're different in 180 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:15.360 millions of ways. God never makes a repeat. God man 181 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:18.200 makes clones. God never makes clones. When God made you, 182 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:21.039 he broke the mold. God wants you to be you. 183 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:22.759 And if you don't be you, who's going to be you? 184 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:27.399 And so he says, stop comparing. And when you because 185 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:30.039 when you compare, you get jealous and you get envious. 186 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:32.000 Now the Bible says this, look at this verse on 187 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:37.559 your outline. Peace of mind makes the body healthy. But 188 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:40.519 envy is like a cancer. In other words, it. 189 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:44.159 Eats you up. It will eat you alive if you 190 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:45.240 get envious. 191 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.679 Now that phrase peace of mind makes the body healthy. 192 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:52.600 Phrase that word peace of mind. Actually another translation is 193 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:58.200 the word contentment. Contentment makes the body healthy. So stop comparing. 194 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:04.960 Here's a second tip for learning contentment. Stop thinking that 195 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:10.039 having more is better. You see, there are three myths 196 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:13.120 that we're taught by advertising in society. Having more will 197 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.799 make me more happy. Having more will make me more important. 198 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:20.200 Having more will make me more secure. None of those 199 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:24.600 are true. They're all lies. Having more will not make 200 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:28.279 you more happy, having more will not make you more valuable, 201 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.000 and having more will not make you more secure. In 202 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:32.879 the first place, you can lose it all. You can 203 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:34.720 use billions. You can lose a billion dollars in a 204 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:38.519 lot of ways. And your value is not based on 205 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:41.519 your valuables, and your net worth is not based on 206 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:43.759 your self worth is not based on your net worth. 207 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:46.679 It's based on who you are, not what you own. 208 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:50.879 So stop thinking that having more will make me more happy, 209 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:52.960 having more will make me more important, having more will 210 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:53.879 make me more secure. 211 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:55.440 None of those are true. 212 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:58.320 You need to find your security in something that can 213 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:00.000 never be taken from you. 214 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:02.039 Well, I can't. 215 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:04.200 If I put my security in my job, it can 216 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:06.440 be taken from me. If I put security in my 217 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:09.799 bank account, I can lose that. If I put my 218 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:12.279 security in my health, I can lose that. Or my 219 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:14.559 good looks I can lose that. It has to put 220 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:16.440 security and something can't be taken from me, and that 221 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:21.399 is my relationship to God. I'll never forget Victor Frankel 222 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:25.440 standing in a death camp. If you've never read his book, 223 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:27.559 A Man Search For mes terrific book. 224 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:28.480 And he says, you know. 225 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:31.000 They stripped me naked, they took away everything, including my 226 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.360 wedding ring. And then he said, I realized that there 227 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:35.600 was one thing that could never be taken away from me, 228 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:43.360 my ability to choose my response. You cannot control everything 229 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.480 that happens in your life, but you can choose how 230 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:46.000 you respond. 231 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:47.080 That's your freedom. 232 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:50.799 Now here's what the Bible says, Ecclesiastes chapter four. 233 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:53.960 It's better to. 234 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:57.960 Only have a little with peace of mind than to 235 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:00.039 be busy all the time with both hands trying to 236 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:02.720 catch the wind. That's what I call the saddleback center. 237 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:05.240 We go out and we buy things we can't afford 238 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:07.200 with money, we don't have to impress people we don't 239 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:11.200 even like, and then we get in debt. We have 240 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:14.080 to become workaholics to pay for all the things we've bought. 241 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:18.240 And if you own something and God told you to 242 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.159 give it away, you don't own it, it owns you. 243 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:23.279 A lot of people are possessed by their possessions. There's 244 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:27.200 nothing wrong with possessions, nothing wrong with them. But unless 245 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:30.440 you make it your God, and you cannot be possessed 246 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:33.919 by your possessions. And he said, you know, if your 247 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:37.879 whole life is trying to work harder to pay for stuff, 248 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:41.519 he says, you're missing the point. A third thing, and 249 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:44.679 I'll end with this is learn to learn to admire 250 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:49.320 without having to acquire. I've found this personally fun for me. 251 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:56.000 Learn to admire without having to acquire. In other words, 252 00:13:56.279 --> 00:13:58.519 I have learned that I don't have to own it 253 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:04.519 in order to enjoy it. The fact is, with ownership, 254 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:05.879 ownership's a lot. 255 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:07.559 Of pain a lot of the times. 256 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:10.279 I mean, you got to insure it, you gotta maintain it, 257 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:12.720 you gotta store it, you gotta haul it. I mean, 258 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:15.639 let me give you an example. My family and my 259 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:19.120 kids and my grandkids, we like the jet ski and 260 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:20.799 we like to go down to Mission Bay in San 261 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:23.519 Diego particularly and jet ski we've done on several vacations, 262 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:26.279 will go jet skiing. And because we've done this a 263 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:29.000 lot as a family, I've offered thought, well, maybe I 264 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:31.200 should go buy some jet skis. 265 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:34.120 And then why in the world would I do that? 266 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:37.879 I mean, then I got to insure it, Then I 267 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:41.519 gotta maintain it, then I gotta store it, then I 268 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:46.000 gotta haul it back and forth. You know, if it's 269 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:47.679 just down there. I go down there and use it, 270 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:50.519 rent it for an hour or two. I'm gonna give 271 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:52.320 you a true confession. I know it's gonna shock you. 272 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:57.360 I have never spent one hour of my life scraping 273 00:14:57.399 --> 00:14:58.320 barnacles off. 274 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:03.879 My boat because I don't know one. 275 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:09.360 I just use yours. You gotta lodge it aspen. I'll 276 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:12.519 jump up and down on your bed. You can ensure it, 277 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:15.399 maintain it, and store and haul it and all. Learn 278 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:18.799 to admire without having to acquire. Learn that I don't 279 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.840 have to own it to enjoy it. That's part of contentment. Now, 280 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:26.440 these five strategies that I've just meaned, they're very easy 281 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:28.480 for me to explain, but they're very hard to do. 282 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:35.120 It's not easy to worry about nothing. It's not easy 283 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:40.519 to pray about everything. It's not easy to thank God 284 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:47.200 in everything. It's not easy to think about good things, 285 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:53.759 and it's not easy to be content with anything. So 286 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:55.960 where in the world am I going to get the 287 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.720 energy to do these things that reduce the stress in 288 00:15:58.759 --> 00:15:59.799 my life? 289 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:02.679 God says this, You come to me. 290 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:06.039 You come to me, and I will give you the 291 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:09.039 power and the ability to do what will help you 292 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:13.200 do what is best for you. Paul ends this passage 293 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:15.919 with verse thirteen. One of the most famous verses in 294 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:20.960 the Bible is verse thirteen. I have the strength to 295 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:25.480 face anything and everything by the. 296 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:27.639 Power that Christ gives me. 297 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:32.639 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. 298 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:39.720 I can worry about nothing when Christ strengthens me. I 299 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:44.519 can pray about everything when Christ strengthens me. I can 300 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:47.919 thank God in everything and all things when Christ strengthens me. 301 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:51.399 I can keep my mind on the right thing when 302 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:55.039 God strengthens me. And I can be content with anything 303 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:59.399 when Christ strengthens me. What we're talking here is not 304 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:03.480 about a religon religion, about a relationship. You may be Buddhist, 305 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.319 you may be a Baptist. You may be a Catholic 306 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:11.440 or Protestant, or Jewish, mean, Muslim, or Mormon, or no 307 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:14.720 religion at all. God has never made a person he 308 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:16.559 doesn't love. God has never made a person he didn't 309 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:19.240 die for. God has never made a person he doesn't 310 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:22.000 have a purpose for. And he says, if you'll come 311 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:24.119 to me, I will help you. I'm going to close 312 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:27.440 with this last verse joke twenty two. Verse twenty one 313 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:32.799 says this obey God and be at peace with him. 314 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:39.200 This is the way to happiness. You see, the real 315 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:42.359 reason you're not at peace is because you're at war 316 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:45.200 with God. And until you make your peace with God, 317 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:47.240 that's what the Bible says God sent Jesus to do, 318 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:51.279 is to make peace with God for us. When you 319 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:54.720 make peace with God, then you get the peace of God, 320 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:58.000 and then you can have peace with others. They're not 321 00:17:58.039 --> 00:17:59.799 gonna be peace in the world till the Prince of 322 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:05.000 is reigning in our hearts. So in order for you 323 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.119 to have the peace of God, you have to first 324 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:11.720 have the peace with God. And let's close of that. 325 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:13.480 Let's bow our heads. Would you bow your heads with me? 326 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:18.240 And I'm going to lead you in a prayer. My 327 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:23.119 blessing on you this week is Romans fifteen thirty three. 328 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:26.920 It says, I pray that God, who gives peace, will 329 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:30.799 be with you. So would you pray this simple prayer. 330 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:35.720 It doesn't really matter what your words you say. If 331 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:37.519 you just say, as I say this, you say me 332 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:42.759 to God, me too, say Dear God, I don't really 333 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:46.039 want to be stressed out. I want to learn the 334 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:50.359 habits of happiness. And you have promised that if I 335 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:53.279 do these things, I will experience your peace. 336 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:59.519 So I'm going to hold you at your word. Now. 337 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:01.640 I don't have the strength to do these, so Jesus Christ, 338 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:04.279 I need you to give me that strength. Help me 339 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:10.960 to worry about nothing. To remember it's unreasonable and unnatural 340 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:13.119 and unhelpful and unnecessary. 341 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:16.599 You're gonna take care of me. Dear God. 342 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:21.759 Help me to worry about nothing. And Dear God, help 343 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:26.319 me to pray about everything instead of talking to myself, 344 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:30.519 to talk to you. Help me to thank God in 345 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:35.839 all things. Help me to think about the good things. 346 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:38.279 And God, I ask you to help me to be 347 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:43.240 content with anything. God, I want to have peace with 348 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:48.000 you so I can have the peace of God. 349 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:50.000 Jesus Christ. 350 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:52.440 I don't understand it all, but as much as I 351 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:55.240 know how I say yes to you. I don't want 352 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:58.319 a religion. I want a relationship. I just want to 353 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:01.319 get to know you. So I opened my heart and 354 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:05.000 as humbly God, I say, make yourself real to. 355 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:09.880 Me, and I pray this in your name. Amen. 356 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:20.000 Hi, everybody, this is Rick and I hope you enjoyed 357 00:20:20.039 --> 00:20:23.400 today's broadcast. You know, if you just prayed that prayer 358 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:27.400 for the very first time or you just recommitted your 359 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:30.039 life to Jesus again today, would you let me know 360 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:33.759 about it. There's something real about sharing your commitment. So 361 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:36.920 write me Rick at Pastorrick dot com and say, Rick, 362 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:40.279 I prayed that prayer of commitment, I gave my life 363 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:43.079 to Christ. And I'll send you some material that will 364 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:46.000 help you on your journey with Jesus. And I'll also 365 00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:47.759 pray for you. God bless you. 366 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:58.680 This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Now, if you've missed 367 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:01.279 any part of this message, or you'd like to find 368 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:04.839 out more about Pastor Rick Warren in this ministry, just 369 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:09.680 visit Pastorick dot com where you can listen online anytime. 370 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:14.039 That's Pastor Rick with two rs inthemiddle dot com. Be 371 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:17.240 sure to sign up for Rick's free daily email devotional 372 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:21.440 while you're there. Right now, we have some really exciting news. 373 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:25.640 Generous friends of Daily Hope have offered a fifty thousand 374 00:21:25.720 --> 00:21:29.160 dollars matching grant. That means whatever amount you give to 375 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:33.200 help share the hope of Jesus worldwide will be matched 376 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:37.440 up to fifty thousand dollars. So twenty five dollars becomes 377 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:41.519 fifty one hundred becomes two hundred and five hundred becomes 378 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:45.680 one thousand dollars. Whatever amount you give will be doubled 379 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:49.200 by the grant. But don't wait, because this opportunity will 380 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:51.759 be gone at the end of this month, and we'll 381 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:54.960 miss out on any amount leftover from the grant if 382 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:57.680 not matched. Here's rick to tell you more. 383 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:01.200 Jesus told his disciples that they should live their lives 384 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:04.559 according to five specific purposes. He said, you've got to 385 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:07.920 love God with all your heart. That's worship. And love 386 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:11.880 your neighbors yourself. That's ministry. That's called the Great Commandment. 387 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:15.920 And then Jesus said, go make disciples. That's evangelism. Baptize 388 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:18.839 them into the Family of God. That's fellowship, a sign 389 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:21.440 of fellowship. And then he said, teach them obey everything 390 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:25.039 I've taught you. That's discipleship. And we call that the 391 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:29.359 Great Commission. We believe it daily hope that a great 392 00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:33.720 commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will 393 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:37.759 produce a great Christian, a great church, a great company, 394 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:41.359 a great community. You know, I started daily hope so 395 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:43.960 I could spread the good news about Jesus, not just 396 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:48.480 across America, but all around the world. And we want 397 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:51.319 people to know that God's word is filled with hope 398 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:54.839 and truth and the power that we need to follow 399 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:57.519 Him every day is available to every single one. You 400 00:22:57.640 --> 00:22:59.319 know as well as I do, that the Word of 401 00:22:59.319 --> 00:23:02.400