WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:06.519 Hello, and thanks for joining us here on Pastor Rick's 2 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:10.080 Daily Hope. Well today we continue in our series called 3 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:14.160 God's Prescription for a Healthy Life. In it, Pastor Rick 4 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:17.719 will show you how to improve your health physically, spiritually, 5 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:23.160 relationally and emotionally by applying the five essentials needed for 6 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:26.079 a more vibrant life. If you want to have what 7 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:29.160 it takes to live out your calling in life, stay 8 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:32.840 with us for this amazing series. Now, in just a 9 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:35.679 few moments, we're going to tell you about the Daniel 10 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:40.039 Plan DVD study Kit, a sixth session video based study 11 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:43.960 by Rick Warren, doctor Daniel Aman, and doctor Mark Hyman. 12 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:47.679 This out of the box approach to a healthy lifestyle 13 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:54.039 is based on five essentials faith, food, fitness, focus and friends. 14 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:57.000 You can find out more right now by going to 15 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:00.880 Pastorick dot com while you listen to today's message, or 16 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:03.960 you can just text the word daily to eight hundred 17 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:08.680 six hundred five thousand and four. That's Pastorick dot com, 18 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:12.959 or the word Daily to eight hundred six hundred five 19 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:17.040 thousand and four. Right now, here's Pastor Rick with part 20 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:20.480 one of a message called the Awesome Power of Faith. 21 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:24.159 You know, for thirty years I've been studying this question, 22 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:28.359 what kind of person does God bless? What kind of 23 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:32.040 person does God use? What kind of qualities do you 24 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:36.879 find in people that He unusually blesses? Because I want 25 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:38.799 to be a person like that. I hope you do too. 26 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.079 And you know, what I've discovered is that God uses 27 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:48.760 all kinds of people backgrounds, ages, economic status, language, ethnic everything, 28 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:53.200 but there is one common denominator you can find in 29 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:57.319 every single person that God blesses in an unusual way. 30 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:00.680 It doesn't matter who or where they are, where they're from, 31 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:03.439 they always have this quality. 32 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:03.840 In their life. 33 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:06.040 If you find somebody that God is blessing in an 34 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:09.479 unusual way, and what is it? It is people who 35 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:14.120 are not afraid to trust God completely. That is what 36 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:18.919 I call the faith factor. God blesses people who are 37 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:24.360 not afraid to trust Him completely, and when you do that, 38 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:31.240 it produces enormous power in your life, enormous power. Now, 39 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:34.719 the Bible tells us there's a direct connection between faith 40 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.439 and power. That the more faith you put in God, 41 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.400 the more you let Him steer your life and drive 42 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:46.120 your life, the more power and the more blessing you're 43 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:50.280 going to have in it. Jesus illustrated this and Matthew thirteen. 44 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:53.400 It says he had gone to Nazareth, which was his hometown. 45 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:56.319 It said Jesus did not do many miracles of power 46 00:02:56.319 --> 00:03:01.199 in his hometown because of their lack of faith. Notice 47 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:05.599 the connection between faith and power in the Bible. Abraham 48 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:08.280 is called the father of faith. Why is he the 49 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:11.719 father of faith? Look at the next verse. Abraham's faith 50 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:16.319 did not leave him, and he did not doubt God's promise. Instead, 51 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:19.520 would you read this with me? His faith filled him 52 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:23.159 with power. Would you like to have more of God's 53 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:26.319 power in your life? You see, if you don't have 54 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:28.919 God's power in your life, you're going to be running 55 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:31.800 on your own energy. And that's why you're tired all 56 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:36.199 the time. It's why you're always wiped out, why you're 57 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:39.400 always fatigued. God never meant for you to go through 58 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:42.199 life just on your own power. It's like having a 59 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:46.199 laptop unplugged. The battery is eventually going to drain. You 60 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:49.199 got this much of a battery, and behind you is 61 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:51.800 God's Santa, no free power plant waiting for you. 62 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:55.439 To plug in. Now you can do either. You can either. 63 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:57.639 Run through life on your power, which means you're going 64 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:00.319 to be tired all the time, or you can plug 65 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:03.840 into God's power and have enormous amounts of energy that 66 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:08.879 you never thought possible. So today, what's the secret. It's 67 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:12.280 through getting more faith. Today we're going to look at 68 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:14.680 four ways that you grow on faith. These are just 69 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:18.120 four of maybe hundreds. We could spend an entire year 70 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:20.800 on this subject. But here are four ways that you 71 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:23.800 can grow in faith so that God's power can be 72 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:27.319 more evident in your life, and God's blessing will be 73 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:29.720 more evident in your life. Whatever you want God to 74 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:33.160 bless you need to trust Him for a relationship, a job, 75 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:33.680 or whatever. 76 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:35.759 So let's look at four ways. Number one. 77 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:41.439 First, faith is choosing God's dream for my life. Faith 78 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:46.240 is choosing and believing God's dream for my life. It 79 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:49.360 all starts with a dream. It all starts with vision, 80 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:52.079 an idea. What does God want to do in my life? 81 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:54.319 Proverbs twenty nine eighteen. Would you read it with me? 82 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:59.720 Where there is no vision, the people perish. I tell 83 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:02.639 where there's a church with no vision, that people go 84 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:04.519 to another parish. 85 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:08.680 Everybody wants to know where it's going. Now. 86 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:11.600 The point here is this, nothing starts happening in your 87 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:16.040 life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability 88 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:19.680 to dream, to create, to imagine. Nothing happens there, and 89 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:23.720 dreaming is an act of faith. Everything you see on 90 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:26.759 the planet started as a dream, started as an idea, 91 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:29.879 started as a concept. Everything on this campus, this building, 92 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:33.240 all the other buildings, before they became reality, they were 93 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:36.120 a dream in somebody's mind. There weren't mine. Somebody else 94 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:38.319 thought this up. Somebody else thought all the buildings up. 95 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:42.160 Everything you see first was an idea. It first was 96 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:44.800 a dream. And so until you get a dream, nothing 97 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:46.120 becomes reality. 98 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:47.279 You see. 99 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:48.720 There are a lot of things in life you can 100 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:52.240 delegate to other people. You can pay somebody else to 101 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:53.680 do it, you can get a friend to do it, 102 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:56.439 you can pawn it off on your kids. But there's 103 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:59.959 one thing you cannot delegate, and that is trusting God. 104 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:04.519 I cannot delegate my faith in God to somebody else. 105 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:06.560 I can't ask my wife to believe God for me. 106 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:09.600 I can't ask my husband, or my kids, or my 107 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:13.720 parents to believe God for me. You cannot ask other 108 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:16.680 people to do that. You have to decide, and you 109 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:19.360 trust God as much as you choose. It's your choice. 110 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:21.120 You can trust him a little and trust him a lot. 111 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:25.399 It's totally your choice. Now, how do you get God's 112 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:26.439 dream for your life? 113 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:27.000 Well? 114 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:30.199 You do three things, and it's the next three verses, 115 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:36.759 First Ephesians three twenty. God, by his mighty power at 116 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:40.079 work within us, is able to do far more than 117 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:43.800 we would ever dare to ask or even dream of, 118 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:50.079 infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes. God says, 119 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:52.120 think up the biggest dream you can think for your life, 120 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:54.800 and guess what I can top that. I can do 121 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:56.959 something bigger in your life than the biggest thing you 122 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:58.879 could dream of. Now, I want you to circle a 123 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:01.839 phrase in that dare to ask? Would you circle that? 124 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:08.160 Here's the first characteristic of dreamers that God blesses dreamers 125 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:11.879 dare to ask. If you want God's blessing on your 126 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:15.120 life this year, you must dare to ask for it. 127 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.399 You must say, God, this is my dream, and this 128 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:20.480 is I'm daring to ask for it. 129 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:22.399 So what do you do? Well? 130 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:25.480 You ask God? First, God, what's your dream for my life? 131 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:28.639 What do you want me to do? And then you 132 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:31.439 ask yourself what have I always dreamed of doing? Let 133 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:34.800 me ask you that right now? What's your dream? If 134 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:38.199 I asked you, what have you always dreamed of doing? 135 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:41.279 And it probably comes to mind and go and I'm 136 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:42.759 gonna ask you, why aren't you doing it? 137 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:43.480 Well? 138 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:44.879 I don't have the time, and I have the money, 139 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.720 don't have the ability, don't have the dream. So what 140 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:51.360 you're talking about looking at yourself? Why don't you look 141 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:57.279 to God? Where do you think that dream came from? 142 00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:00.639 You're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Rick will be 143 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:03.519 back in just a moment with the rest of today's lesson. 144 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:07.000 You can sign up for Pastor Rick's free email devotional 145 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:11.319 at pastorick dot com. 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There are only three days left 171 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:48.879 to get this great resource, so contact us today once again. 172 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:49.759 Here's Rick. 173 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:53.879 If I ask you, what have you always dreamed of doing? 174 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:57.480 And it probably becomes mindegol and I'm gonna ask you, 175 00:09:57.519 --> 00:10:00.000 why aren't you doing it? Well, I don't have the time, 176 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.759 don't the money, don't have the ability, don't have the truth. 177 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.720 So what you're talking about looking at yourself? Why don't 178 00:10:06.759 --> 00:10:09.000 you look to God? Where do you think that dream 179 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:15.639 came from? God puts desires in our hearts. See, I've 180 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.600 always dreamed of d D D. Well, why don't you 181 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:22.120 go after it? And why don't you ask God? God 182 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:24.679 blesses people who dare to ask God? 183 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:25.840 Would you help me this dream? 184 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:29.600 I've always wanted to, you know, be a whatever, I've 185 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:32.200 always wanted to go to, whatever, I've always wanted to 186 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:34.600 accomplish whatever, Well, why don't you ask God for it? 187 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:38.039 The Bible says you have not because you ask not. 188 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:40.320 Here's the question I want you to think through. You 189 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:44.600 might even write this down. What would I attempt for God? 190 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:48.440 If I knew I couldn't fail? Just ask yourself that, 191 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:51.480 well would I attempt if I knew I couldn't fail? 192 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:55.120 Let that expand your vision. It always starts with a dream. 193 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:57.279 When you get a dream and you set a goal, 194 00:10:57.399 --> 00:11:00.080 goals are statements of faith. I believe I'm supposed to 195 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:02.240 do this by such and such a date. I believe 196 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:05.320 God will empower me and so if you want God's 197 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:08.360 blessing on your life, first you dare to ask. Second, 198 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:11.960 you believe God's promises. And that's the next verse. You 199 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:15.440 believe God's promises. The Bible says, I am the Lord, 200 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:18.240 the God of all people of the world. That's why 201 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:21.799 we're doing the Peace plan. Is anything too hard for me? 202 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:27.240 The answer is obviously no. You see, nothing is impossible 203 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:34.320 with God, and today's impossibility is tomorrow's possibility. It's tomorrow's miracle. 204 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:37.039 So you never let just because you've got a dream 205 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:38.120 and say, well it's impossible. 206 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:38.759 Well so what. 207 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:42.639 A lot of things that are impossible become possible when 208 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:47.200 you do it. Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. 209 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:49.919 Let it motivate you to pray more, to believe more, 210 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:53.600 to trust more, to experience more, to learn more, to 211 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:57.600 grow more. That's how you grow. Just because your dream 212 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:01.480 seems quote impossible, doesn't mean you shouldn't go after it. 213 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:04.960 God is the God of the impossible. That's where faith works. 214 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:08.039 Faith always works in the realm of the impossible. Hudson 215 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:11.639 Taylor said there are three stages to God's will in 216 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:16.080 your life, impossible, possible, and done, and a lot of 217 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:18.200 things I've done in my life that were impossible when 218 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:21.679 I started to do it. But I trusted God, and 219 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:24.679 first I believed God and I dared to ask, And 220 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:27.480 second I believed his promises. And we've talked about those 221 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:30.360 over seven thousand of them in the Bible. You see 222 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:33.759 Satan's favorite words to you and that dream he've always 223 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:34.480 dreamed of doing. 224 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:36.799 His favorite words are you can't do it. 225 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:39.759 Let me say right now, when you get a dream 226 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:41.799 and you hear the words you can't do it, those 227 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:42.759 words aren't from God. 228 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:46.159 That's not from God. That's from Satan. 229 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:48.360 And he said you can't do it because he wants 230 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:52.519 to keep you stuck in mediocrity. And as your pastor, 231 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:55.399 I want your life to be an embarrassment to the devil. 232 00:12:57.440 --> 00:12:58.960 I want him to look in you and go, oh, 233 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:03.879 I hate that person because they believe God, they dare 234 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:06.120 to ask, and they trust God's promises. 235 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:06.600 I hate that. 236 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:09.360 If you're going to have God's blessing on your life, 237 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.720 you dare to ask, you believe God's promises. And the 238 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:14.200 third thing is you dream big. That's the next verse. 239 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.240 God says, ask of me. There's that word ask, and 240 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:22.159 I will make the nations, your inheritance, the ends of 241 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:22.840 the earth. 242 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:23.519 Your possession. What do these? 243 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:26.240 Says says, Ask me for the world. I mean, that's 244 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:27.799 about as big as you can get. You ask me 245 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:30.039 for the world. I'll give you the nations. This is, 246 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.039 by the way, as one of the promises that we're 247 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:35.039 holding on to for the Peace plan. God says, ask me, 248 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:38.399 and I'll give you the nations. You see, the size 249 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:41.080 of your God should determine the size of your goal. 250 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:44.360 And you haven't really believed God until you've attempted something 251 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:46.360 that can't be done in the power of the flesh 252 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:49.879 are done in your own effort. The only way you 253 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:52.159 really please God is when you're living by faith, which 254 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:54.360 means you're doing something you can't do on your own power. 255 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:57.200 So let me just say this. 256 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:00.279 When you begin to dream and you say, okay, God, 257 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:02.919 I'm going to take a step of faith this year, 258 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:05.440 I'm going to go after my dream. First, I'm going 259 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:07.200 to pray and say, what's your dream for my life? 260 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:09.639 Then I'm going to think what if I always wanted 261 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:11.840 to do? What would I attempt if I knew I 262 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:14.840 couldn't fail? And then I'm going to believe God's promises 263 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:18.759 and I'm going to dream big and you go out there, 264 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:20.679 and what's going to happen is you're going to go 265 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:22.600 out and you're going to start your dream and you're 266 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:23.919 going to fall flat on your face. 267 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:25.440 What. 268 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:28.799 Because there's three parts to a dream, this is very important. 269 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:29.679 You need to understand this. 270 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:32.759 When God gives you a dream, the first party gives 271 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:36.000 you Phase one is what that's when you get the idea. 272 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:38.399 He gives you an idea of what he wants you 273 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:40.960 to do. That's phase one. And then you go out 274 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:42.360 and you start trying to do it and you fall 275 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:44.720 on your face and you think, well, maybe I just 276 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:47.360 made that up. And then you come back and say, God, 277 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:49.960 did I miss your dream? And God says, no, it's 278 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.480 still the dream you just didn't wait for part two. 279 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:56.559 And part two of the dream is how how am 280 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:59.000 I going to do it? And the way God fulfills 281 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:01.960 the dream in your life usually be the exact opposite 282 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:05.679 of what you thought, okay, because you don't think like 283 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:08.440 God thinks. And so He's gonna show you how to 284 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:11.720 fulfill your dream in a way different than you thought 285 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:15.320 you were gonna fulfill it. And then there comes the 286 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:17.000 third part and this is the most important of all, 287 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:20.240 and that's the win. God shows you what he wants 288 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:21.759 to do in your life, then he shows you how, 289 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:23.720 and then he shows you when. And it always comes 290 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:26.759 in phases. And the win is the timing. And God's 291 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:29.919 timing is always perfect. And a lot of times, well 292 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:32.159 have you ever been in a hurry when God wasn't 293 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:35.639 And you go, God, you know, I want this dream 294 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:37.840 right now? And God says, well, yeah, it's a good dream, 295 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:42.080 but I'll do it in my timing. It's not like 296 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:44.879 it's not gonna happen. It's you know, the differens we 297 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:47.840 know and not yet. You have to learn that as 298 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:51.360 a little kid between know and not yet. God says 299 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:53.080 a lot of times, not yet when I tell you 300 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:56.240 it'll be right, you know, Kay, and I talk about 301 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:58.440 how we have what we call polaroid vision. 302 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:00.679 You know, if you look at a boiler picture. 303 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:02.879 And you hold it up, the longer you look at it, 304 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:04.919 the clearer it gets. When it first comes out of camera, 305 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:08.480 it's pretty blurry. When I started Saddleback Church twenty five 306 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:10.919 years ago, I didn't have envision all of what was 307 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:13.039 going on here. I just knew this is the right 308 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:15.399 thing to do. Go start the church. And you know, 309 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:17.919 the longer I look at the picture, the clearer it gets, 310 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:19.720 and I go, oh, that's what you had in mind. 311 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:24.240 That's cool. Oh, and look at that. That's cool too. Oh, 312 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:26.279 and there's something else coming up. It's kind of like 313 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:28.639 reading the scroll. You read a little bit and unroll it, 314 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:30.480 and you read a little bit and unroll it. God's 315 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:32.000 not going to show you what he's going to do 316 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:34.000 in your life all at once. If he did, it 317 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:38.080 scare you to death. So what he does is just 318 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:39.919 shows you a little bit of the time. So the 319 00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:43.120 dream's going to come in stages and phases. Now, the 320 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:46.799 question is how big should my dream be? You say, okay, Rick, 321 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:47.799 I'm supposed to dream big. 322 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:49.000 I'm supposed to dare to ask. 323 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:52.080 I'm supposed to believe the promises. I'm supposed to dream big. 324 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:55.960 How big should my dream be? You ask yourself two questions. 325 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:00.240 The first question is how much time do I have 326 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:03.720 to give to it? If it's a dream, you got 327 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:05.960 a year on it better not be a very big goal. 328 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:08.160 If it's a dream, here you say, I can give 329 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:09.440 the rest of my life to this. 330 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:12.400 You can really dream big. 331 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:16.039 You see we overestimate what we can do in a year, 332 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:18.559 and we underestimate what we can do in ten or 333 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:20.920 twenty or thirty or forty. 334 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:22.680 So you have to look at you see. 335 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:25.960 Most people set goals too low and try to accomplish 336 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:29.200 them too quickly. What you need to do is set 337 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:31.920 a bigger dream for your life and take a longer 338 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:35.279 time to do it. I came here at saddle Back. 339 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:37.559 I said, God, I'll go anywhere in the world and 340 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:39.720 start at church if you give me the privilege of 341 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:43.480 spending my entire life in one location. So it's twenty 342 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:45.359 five years old, I said, I'm going to give my 343 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:49.440 entire life to one goal, building Saddleback Church. 344 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:53.319 So you guys are stuck with me. You know. 345 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:55.960 Sorry, I'm going to be around for a long time 346 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:58.759 unless God decides otherwise. I haven't read the rest of 347 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:01.680 the scroll, but my goal is just to say God, 348 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:03.559 I'll spend my entire life in one place. 349 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:04.440 Well, you can do a lot. 350 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:06.359 When you take forty or fifty years to do it, 351 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:10.119 you can get a lot done. You just take you know, 352 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:13.599 inch by inch. Anything's a cinch. It's like that old cliche, 353 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:15.720 how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. 354 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:19.799 So you ask yourself how much time do I have? 355 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:22.000 And that determines the size of the dream. The other 356 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:25.000 question you ask yourself to decide that your dream is 357 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:29.839 what am I really shaped to do? Spiritual gifts, heart, 358 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:33.799 your abilities, your personality, your experiences, the five things that 359 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:37.039 make you, and just be honest. You must be optimistic 360 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:39.640 and realistic at the same time. Now, I know you've 361 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:42.759 heard motivational speakers say you know you can be anything 362 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:47.480 you want in life. Well, it's not true. And you 363 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:50.079 probably read some books that say you can be anything 364 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:52.680 you want in life. It's just not true. Something you 365 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:56.359 just stand up and say, hello, it's not true. What 366 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:59.240 you can only be what God shaped you to be. 367 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:02.880 If you try to be something that you're not shaped, 368 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.759 wired gifted to do, guess what it causes. A little 369 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:11.559 thing called stress. Stress is when you try to be 370 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:15.240 something you're not. You you aren't and that's why so 371 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:17.559 many people. I guess eighty percent of people in the 372 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:21.480 world are in the wrong job. They're not being they're 373 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:23.200 not you know how you know when you're shaped to 374 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:27.839 do something, it's fun, you love to do it, you 375 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:30.880 get I can't wait to go do that now. 376 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:32.480 If you have that editude, I can't wait. 377 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:34.720 If you don't have that attitude, you're likely in the 378 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:39.039 wrong job because God wired you. When you're doing what 379 00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:41.240 you're shaped to do, you go, this feels good, this 380 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:43.279 is me, and you're not as stressed. 381 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:46.240 Stress comes from trying to be something you're not. 382 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:48.960 I mean, somebody could tell me Rick, you can be 383 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:50.279 whatever you want to be, and I said, I want 384 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:54.160 to be an opera star. That would not only stress 385 00:19:54.200 --> 00:19:59.039 me and stress you having to listen to it, and 386 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:01.880 you create stress for other people around you when you're 387 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:05.319 doing things that you weren't gifted to do. So you 388 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:07.400 look at how long you're going to focus on the goal, 389 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:10.640 and you look at what you're shaped to do. Now, 390 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:12.640 I want you to write down on your outline in 391 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:20.720 SD okay inn SD that means no small dreams. I 392 00:20:20.759 --> 00:20:23.759 want to challenge you to dream great dreams for God. 393 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:27.720 It's your first step in the walk of faith and 394 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:28.720 it pleases God. 395 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:31.240 All right. So step one and really. 396 00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:33.480 Getting God's blessing in your life is living by faith. 397 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:35.240 And how do you do that? First, I get God's 398 00:20:35.319 --> 00:20:36.079 dream for my life. 399 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:41.839 Second step faith is being willing to risk failure. Once 400 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:44.440 I get a dream, I got to take some risks 401 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:47.359