Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.
Speaker 1: We are so glad that you found us today. I've
Speaker 1: got a question for you. Are you feeling stuck like
Speaker 1: maybe you've hit a wall and just nothing's moving forward. Well,
Speaker 1: you're not alone and you're not without hope. You know,
Speaker 1: the Bible is full of people who faced impossible situations
Speaker 1: like Mary, Noah, Joe, even the apostle Paul, and they
Speaker 1: all experienced one thing that changed everything, a breakthrough from God.
Speaker 1: So today Pastor Rick continues his series called Seeking God
Speaker 1: for a Breakthrough. Rick's going to walk us through biblical
Speaker 1: accounts of faith, prayer, and perseverance, reminding us that God
Speaker 1: still moves in powerful ways whether you're in a season
Speaker 1: of waiting or searching for hope. This series offers encouragement
Speaker 1: and biblical truth to help you keep going and get
Speaker 1: the breakthrough unied. And now here's Rick with part two
Speaker 1: of a message called how to Pray in a Crisis.
Speaker 2: Now, did you know that you can actually do this
Speaker 2: with God? You can turn your face to God in prayer,
Speaker 2: how physically? Just look up God. I'm here, I'm ready
Speaker 2: to talk. I'm checking in for my three times a
Speaker 2: day conversation. You go outside and look up at the heavens.
Speaker 2: You can stare up at you just look up. There's
Speaker 2: nothing in the Bible says you have to close your
Speaker 2: eyes to pray. Nothing in the Bible says you have
Speaker 2: to bow your head to pray. That's one of the
Speaker 2: ways to pray. It's a good way. But many times
Speaker 2: in the Bible people didn't close their eyes. They actually
Speaker 2: looked up and they talked aloud. I like to pray
Speaker 2: aloud to God. When I close my eyes and think
Speaker 2: I go to sleep. I don't pray with my eyes closed,
Speaker 2: and I don't pray in my mind. When I'm praying,
Speaker 2: I'm praying allowed and I'm driving the car, or I'm
Speaker 2: looking up or whatever. You could get in your lazy
Speaker 2: boy chair and lean back, look up, God, I'm turning
Speaker 2: my face to you. Okay. Let me say, but if
Speaker 2: a physical reminder that I'm refocusing my attention. Okay, this
Speaker 2: is what Daniel did. He physically noticed verse three. In
Speaker 2: the New American Standard version, it says this, so I
Speaker 2: gave my attention to the Lord to seek him by
Speaker 2: prayer circle the word seek. This is the second step
Speaker 2: of prayer. The first is listening. The second step of
Speaker 2: prayer is seeking. And now we're gonna talk a lot
Speaker 2: about this. I'm gonna cheat you. I'm gonna train you
Speaker 2: how to do this. You're gonna get really good at
Speaker 2: seeking God. And during the thirty four days of seeking God,
Speaker 2: I'm going to teach you about this. So I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna cover it right now, but let me just show
Speaker 2: you some of the benefits. If you'll learn how to
Speaker 2: do this, it'll change your life. Your whole life's just
Speaker 2: gonna get a whole lot better. Let me just show
Speaker 2: you three or four or five promises. How about this
Speaker 2: one up here on the screen Amos five to four.
Speaker 2: God says this, seek me and you will live. In others,
Speaker 2: You're not going to just exist. You're gonna really live.
Speaker 2: You're not living life to the fullest. Some of you
Speaker 2: just existing, he says, seek Me and you will live.
Speaker 2: You're gonna learn how to really live. Proverbs eight, verse seventeen.
Speaker 2: God says this, I love those who love me, and
Speaker 2: those who seek me. Will what find me find me?
Speaker 2: He said, I can't find God. You're not seeking. You
Speaker 2: gotta seek in the right way. Those who seek me
Speaker 2: will find me. Let me show you another one. Jeremiah
Speaker 2: twenty nine, verse thirteen says this. God says, you will
Speaker 2: find me when you seek me, what with all your heart.
Speaker 2: That's serious, that's emotional seeking. We'll talk about that in
Speaker 2: a minute. You're gonna find me when you really want
Speaker 2: to know me now. Like ah, I kind of like
Speaker 2: to know God in my spare time between the football
Speaker 2: game and work. Maybe No, when you with all your heart,
Speaker 2: then you're going to know me now. Hebrews eleven, verse
Speaker 2: six says this God rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Speaker 2: Would you like God to reward your business? Seek him?
Speaker 2: Would you like God to reward your finances? Seek him?
Speaker 2: Would you like God to reward your marriage? Would you, guys,
Speaker 2: like God to reward your children? Would you like God
Speaker 2: to reward your relationships, your boyfriend, your girlfriend? Would you
Speaker 2: like God to reward your future? Wherever you seek God,
Speaker 2: God is going to reward Wherever you don't seek God.
Speaker 2: God says, you're on your own. You're on your own.
Speaker 2: Let me show you another verse. This is a very
Speaker 2: familiar one. Luke Chapter twelve, Jesus says, this, seek, there's
Speaker 2: that word again. Seek first, God's kingdom, before everything else.
Speaker 2: God's came to this his priorities, not your priorities, His
Speaker 2: priorities before everything else, And all the other things you
Speaker 2: will need, you need will be given to you. Another
Speaker 2: one of those blanket promises. He says, don't seek wealth,
Speaker 2: Seek God. He'll take care of what you need. Don't
Speaker 2: seek fame, Seek God, He'll take care of what you need.
Speaker 2: Don't seek pleasure, don't seek a husband, don't seek to
Speaker 2: all these other things you're seeking, he says, seek first me,
Speaker 2: And if I'm in first place, he goes, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take everything else into consideration. You put me first. I
Speaker 2: bless the people who put me first. You have probably
Speaker 2: never realized this, but with a lot of the pain
Speaker 2: you're in right now, the difficulties, the stress, the pressure
Speaker 2: you feel, the troubles you're facing, the mess that's all
Speaker 2: tangled up in relationships, almost all of that stuff that
Speaker 2: you're facing right now is the result of you not
Speaker 2: seeking God. Because you didn't ask God first. You didn't
Speaker 2: seek his guidance, you didn't seek his wisdom, you didn't
Speaker 2: seek his help, you didn't seek his permission. You just
Speaker 2: made a decision, and so you went out and you
Speaker 2: bought something without even asking God, God, should I buy
Speaker 2: this house? Should I do this job? Should I do
Speaker 2: this car? Should I get in this relationship? You didn't
Speaker 2: even ask God, you didn't see God. You just did it.
Speaker 2: And now you're reaping the consequences of it. And that
Speaker 2: causes so much of the problem in your life because
Speaker 2: you made a decision without talking to God first. You
Speaker 2: weren't having that daily conversation with God. God, I'm getting
Speaker 2: ready to Costco. Go to Costco. Help because I don't
Speaker 2: want to come home with four giant jars of pickles
Speaker 2: that I really don't need. In every area you ask God,
Speaker 2: you see God, he'll help, even blessed, he'll bless your shopping.
Speaker 2: Now here's a very important point. Anytime we ignore God,
Speaker 2: we don't ask for his help. We don't ask for
Speaker 2: his guidance. We don't ask for his blessing, we don't
Speaker 2: ask for his permission, we don't ask for his wisdom.
Speaker 2: You know what God does when we don't ask for
Speaker 2: those things and ask res direction. God just backs off
Speaker 2: in your life. Fine, I only go where I'm invited,
Speaker 2: So God says to you, Burger King, have it your way,
Speaker 2: go right? Ahead. Okay. You didn't ask me if you
Speaker 2: should buy that. You didn't ask me if you should
Speaker 2: date her. You didn't ask me if you should accept
Speaker 2: that job. You didn't ask me if that was a
Speaker 2: good goal. You just did it. So fine, have it
Speaker 2: your way, and God just backs off. I'll just go
Speaker 2: back to heaven, hang out there and let you reap
Speaker 2: the results of your decisions. And then you got all
Speaker 2: kinds of chaos and problems and trials and troubles in
Speaker 2: your life. And then you cry out to God, said God,
Speaker 2: I'm seeking you. He goes, Okay, I'm coming back. And
Speaker 2: that's what happens when we reap the consequences of our sin.
Speaker 2: Let me show you this on the screen. HOSEI, chapter five.
Speaker 2: God says this, when I don't seek God in everyar
Speaker 2: of my life. He says this, Okay, I will return
Speaker 2: to my place on high and I'll just wait and
Speaker 2: I'll just wait until they, that's you and me, acknowledge
Speaker 2: our offenses. We didn't seek God, We didn't ask him
Speaker 2: his opinion and this decision, and they feel their guilt
Speaker 2: and then they seek my face. And then in their
Speaker 2: troubles and distress, which is always getting our attention, they
Speaker 2: will earnestly seek me, saying, let us return to the
Speaker 2: Lord so that he may heal us. Friends, that is
Speaker 2: the description of what's happening in America and in the
Speaker 2: world right now because we have not sought God. We
Speaker 2: didn't ask God's permission, we didn't ask God's wisdom, we
Speaker 2: didn't ask God's help, we didn't ask God's guidance. We
Speaker 2: just did whatever we wanted to do. And we're in
Speaker 2: trouble and distress. And that's in our lives and our
Speaker 2: marriages and our families, in our work, and finally gets
Speaker 2: so bad. You know, we don't change when we see
Speaker 2: the light. We change when we feel the heat, and
Speaker 2: we say, let us us return to the Lord so
Speaker 2: he may heal us. What needs healing in your life? God,
Speaker 2: I need you to heal me of my depression. I
Speaker 2: need you to heal me of my anxiety. I need
Speaker 2: you to heal me of my secret fears that scare
Speaker 2: me to death that I'm panicked about. God, I need
Speaker 2: you to heal my body. God, I need you to
Speaker 2: heal the finances that I messed up because of my
Speaker 2: own decisions. God, I need you to heal my marriage.
Speaker 2: I need you to heal my relationship. God, I need
Speaker 2: you to heal my nation. I need healing my job,
Speaker 2: my career needs healing. I don't know where you need it,
Speaker 2: but he says it starts with focusing my attention on
Speaker 2: God and seeking him. So let me ask you a
Speaker 2: couple questions here. Is it possible that the pain you're
Speaker 2: going through right now is because you did not seek God,
Speaker 2: but you just went ahead and made a decision without
Speaker 2: checking in with him. Highly probable, And now God said,
Speaker 2: I could have saved you a lot of effort if
Speaker 2: you just sought me. Just have a conversation with you
Speaker 2: two or three times a day, and I'll go red
Speaker 2: light danger. Read Will Robinson, that's danger, don't go that direction.
Speaker 2: Is it possible, Yes, that pain is because you did
Speaker 2: not seek God in the past. You made a bunch
Speaker 2: of dumb decisions, and now you're paying the results of it. Question,
Speaker 2: let me rephrase it in the more positive way. What
Speaker 2: are you really really looking for in life? What are
Speaker 2: you really looking for in life? If you were to
Speaker 2: paint out next year and say this is the way
Speaker 2: I want my life to be next year, this would
Speaker 2: be the ideal year. For me, This would be the
Speaker 2: perfect year for me. I'd like to see this thing's
Speaker 2: happen in my life. I'd like to see these changes
Speaker 2: in my life. If you painted out that picture, what
Speaker 2: would it be? And I follow up that with this question,
Speaker 2: is it worth spending thirty four days seeking God to
Speaker 2: get you ready for next year? Yes? And it'll save
Speaker 2: you from an awful lot of pain and heartache and discouragement.
Speaker 2: And that's where we're going to go next. It's thirty
Speaker 2: four days of seeking God. Okay, here's the third step.
Speaker 2: The third step in prayers that get answered is express
Speaker 2: my desires with emotion. Express my desires. When I want
Speaker 2: to ask God for something I'm praying about. God, I
Speaker 2: need this, whether it's a physical need, a material need,
Speaker 2: a spiritual need, and emotional need, whatever you're asking for God,
Speaker 2: in prayer, you express my emotion my desire with emotion.
Speaker 2: So many of our prayers are just cut and dried.
Speaker 2: We just say these words. We don't even know what
Speaker 2: we're talking about. We have these little you know, things
Speaker 2: we've memorized. Now I lay me down to sleep, I
Speaker 2: pray the Lord my soul to keep you know, and
Speaker 2: if I should die, before I wake, I pray the
Speaker 2: Lord my soul to take that means nothing, it's just
Speaker 2: little thing. Or you sit down free, bless this food
Speaker 2: to the nourishment of our bodies, the bless the gift
Speaker 2: and the andes. And it's it's not there's no emotion,
Speaker 2: there's no authenticity. It's just things you've learned. God doesn't
Speaker 2: care how beautiful your prayer sounds. In fact, God doesn't
Speaker 2: even care as much about the words as he cares
Speaker 2: much about the emotions. Have you learned that you can
Speaker 2: say the right words and the wrong emotion and your
Speaker 2: spouse doesn't get it. Yes, you can say all the
Speaker 2: right things, but you didn't what do you mean by that?
Speaker 2: Because of the tone of your voice? And so he's saying,
Speaker 2: God is an emotional god. The only reason you have emotions,
Speaker 2: the good ones and the bad ones, is because you're
Speaker 2: made in God's image. Human beings have emotions that none
Speaker 2: of the animals have. We have a whole pentipley of
Speaker 2: emotions because God is an emotional god. The Bible says
Speaker 2: God gets happy. The Bible says God gets sad. He's
Speaker 2: sad when he sees a rape, when he sees a molestation,
Speaker 2: and he sees a war. God is sad when he
Speaker 2: sees what people do to each other out of selfishness,
Speaker 2: and the Bible says, God gets angry. That's why you
Speaker 2: can get angry. You're made in God's image. The Bible says,
Speaker 2: God gets jealous. Why because and that's why you get jealous,
Speaker 2: Because when God sees you giving your love to something
Speaker 2: else instead of him that belongs to him, he gets jealous.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, God gets frustrated. He looks down and
Speaker 2: he sees all of the stuff we're doing. He goes,
Speaker 2: I told you not to do that, and you're doing
Speaker 2: it anyway. It's gonna mess you up. He gets frustrated.
Speaker 2: Now could God change it? Of course, he could turn
Speaker 2: us all into puppets. But God's gonna just back out
Speaker 2: of your life. Have it your way. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to force you to love me. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: force you to do the right thing. So you and
Speaker 2: I make selfish decisions every day, and people get hurt.
Speaker 2: That's why there's sin, that's why there's evil in the world,
Speaker 2: because God gives us the freedom to choose. And so
Speaker 2: God just says, well, I'll just back off. Let you
Speaker 2: reap the results of your own own decision. But God says,
Speaker 2: I'm an emotional god. God, Jesus dying on the cross
Speaker 2: was an emotional scene, highly emotional. Jesus dying the cross
Speaker 2: was emotionally agonizing to him. It was agonizing to God
Speaker 2: the father watching his son die that way, but doing
Speaker 2: it for your benefit. It was agonizing with the people
Speaker 2: who are watching. It's an emotional thing, and God is
Speaker 2: very emotional about you. Do you realize this? God? Just go, Oh,
Speaker 2: I love you now. God loves you passionately, emotionally. God
Speaker 2: has deep, deep, deep feelings for you. How much he
Speaker 2: loves you. If you don't know how much he loves you,
Speaker 2: look at the cross. I'm willing to die. I'm willing
Speaker 2: to die for you. That's how much God has emotion
Speaker 2: for you. And so God says, I want you. When
Speaker 2: I have such emotion for you, I want you to
Speaker 2: talk to me emotionally. Don't just do these little prayer
Speaker 2: things where you read a prayer and there's no emotion
Speaker 2: in it. Let me ask you. Does tone make a
Speaker 2: difference and you make a request. Of course it does,
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, how about guys, if you had
Speaker 2: said to your future spouse on a date, you go,
Speaker 2: like you to marry me. Oh please, I want you
Speaker 2: to marry me. She go, buddy, If you can't say
Speaker 2: it with a little bit more passion than that, forget it.
Speaker 2: That ain't gonna happen. Do any of you remember when
Speaker 2: you were little and somebody was tickling you and it
Speaker 2: was fun at the start, and then it got too
Speaker 2: much and when you wanted to stop taking you go
Speaker 2: you stop tickling me. No, please stop tickling me. I
Speaker 2: can't handle it anymore. And you are passionate of passion
Speaker 2: intensity shows house up much. Something matters to you. Now
Speaker 2: if you ask God about something, God, I really like this,
Speaker 2: but you're not passionate about it. God go ww do
Speaker 2: I know it's just a if you only pray about
Speaker 2: it once, you're not willing to pray about it more
Speaker 2: than once. And you never talked to God about God,
Speaker 2: I really need this. I gotta have this, you know
Speaker 2: I've got to have it. Then God goes, well, what
Speaker 2: is this a wish or a whim or is it
Speaker 2: really a true desire? And so the Bible says this,
Speaker 2: here's the third thing Daniel did. Verse three. The second
Speaker 2: part of it, He says, I began pleading with God
Speaker 2: earnestly in prayer circle. The word pleading, pleading means to
Speaker 2: ask with emotion. It's not cut and dry. It's more
Speaker 2: than a mundane request. I'm asking with emotion. I'm pleading.
Speaker 2: The Hebrew where there is pakash, it means an emotional request.
Speaker 2: It's a serious seeking. It's searching with all your heart.
Speaker 2: It's earnestly begging. It's I'm begging you. I'm begging you.
Speaker 2: I'm begging you please, please please, I'm begging you please.
Speaker 2: I'm down on my knees. I gotta have this. That's pleading.
Speaker 2: God listens to pleading. Makes me think about a story
Speaker 2: I heard a while back where as a kid, a
Speaker 2: young kid who at Christmas time he wanted a Star
Speaker 2: Wars watch and it was a really cool watch. I
Speaker 2: had Yoda on it. He just and so he was
Speaker 2: bugging his parents, Mom, I want this Star Wars watch
Speaker 2: for Christmas, Dad, I want this Star Wars watch for Christmas.
Speaker 2: He just keeps on and on and on, every conversation,
Speaker 2: every meal, he's mentioning the Star Wars watch, and finally
Speaker 2: his dad goes Johnny we got it. If you mentioned
Speaker 2: this one more time, you're not gonna get the watch.
Speaker 2: Smart kid backs off, doesn't doesn't do anything. About a
Speaker 2: week later, they're having this the whole family sitting at dinner,
Speaker 2: and the dad says, hey, you know what, it's good
Speaker 2: for us to talk about the Bible. So everybody just
Speaker 2: share your your favorite Bible verse, anything or Bible verse
Speaker 2: that you know you could say. And so one of
Speaker 2: the kids goes John three sixteen because everybody knows that
Speaker 2: one for God so loved the world. And the teenager
Speaker 2: goes John eleven thirty five. Jesus wept shortest verse in
Speaker 2: the Bible. Anybody can memorize that two words, Jesus wept,
Speaker 2: So okay, john John love the third right. Jesus wept
Speaker 2: that his verse. So they're going around the room and
Speaker 2: they come to Johnny and Johnny goes So they said, Johnny,
Speaker 2: what's your favorite verse? He said, well, my favorite verse
Speaker 2: would be Mark thirteen thirty seven, where Jesus said I
Speaker 2: told you once and I sand to you again. Watch good, Yeah,
Speaker 2: smart kid, Okay, that's what you get for going putting
Speaker 2: your kid in saddle back Kids Ministry. They're gonna learn
Speaker 2: Bible verses like that, watch as so you know he was.
Speaker 2: He was already. Look at this verse in the Message paraphrase,
Speaker 2: Daniels nine three says, I poured out my heart to God,
Speaker 2: bearing my soul to God. Have you ever done that?
Speaker 2: Have you ever poured out your heart to God? Have
Speaker 2: you ever bared your soul to God? This is not
Speaker 2: wimpy week praying. This is gut cease praying. This is
Speaker 2: gut wrenching praying. I'm pouring out my soul to God. God.
Speaker 2: I gotta have your help in this business. I gotta
Speaker 2: have your help in this marriage. I've got to God.
Speaker 2: I am telling you, I'm pouring out my heart. I am.
Speaker 2: I am being authentic. I'm burying my soul. It's kind
Speaker 2: of like Jacob wrestling with the Angel. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: let go until you bless me God. Now, when was
Speaker 2: the last time you ever prayed like that, pouring out
Speaker 2: your soul to God? Emotionally? I can tell you may
Speaker 2: have forgotten, but I can tell you the last time
Speaker 2: you prayed like that, As your pastor friend, spiritual coach,
Speaker 2: the last time you prayed like that is when you
Speaker 2: were in deep, deep pain. Because we don't pour out
Speaker 2: our hearts to God like that when we're things are
Speaker 2: going great and we're skipping the hills of Jerusalem picking
Speaker 2: flowers and talking about peace, love and Bobby Sherman, you know,
Speaker 2: just to have a happy day, smiling faith. No, you
Speaker 2: pour out your God when you are in deep pain?
Speaker 2: Is that the only time you pour out your heart
Speaker 2: to God when you're in deep pain? Can you do
Speaker 2: it any other time? This is called traying with emotion,
Speaker 2: called quote crying out to God.
Speaker 1: I am so grateful for that message by Rick, and
Speaker 1: I hope you are too. And now here's Rick to
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Speaker 2: Today. I'd like to read a testimony that really blessed me.
Speaker 2: It shows how even when you make mistakes, God's faithful
Speaker 2: to forgive you, and that He's always working in your
Speaker 2: life to bring about everything together for good in your life.
Speaker 2: Not everything is good in your life, but God works
Speaker 2: at all for good in your life. Now, this is
Speaker 2: from a man who says he's a recovering addict, and
Speaker 2: this is part of his story that starts when he
Speaker 2: listened to a daily Hope podcast. Here's what he wrote
Speaker 2: past Rick. A couple months ago, I started a twelve
Speaker 2: step program. In working the steps and in turning my
Speaker 2: addiction over to God, I searched out many sources for
Speaker 2: daily inspirational, daily devotionals, daily meditations to help me reconnect
Speaker 2: with the Lord as a support for the progress in
Speaker 2: my recovery. Now, in what just seemed to be a
Speaker 2: random chance, seemed to be I just came across your
Speaker 2: Daily Hope podcast and I blindly just picked a message
Speaker 2: from early July. I'm sure some of a lot of
Speaker 2: other people have done that too. Well. The very first
Speaker 2: one I listened to was on Roman seven, which is
Speaker 2: all about why do I do the wrong things that
Speaker 2: I don't want to do when I know what's wrong?
Speaker 2: And what makes me do that? I can't believe that
Speaker 2: was the first one you listened to. Well, knock me
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Speaker 2: was Roman's eight, which is the solution to my dilemma.
Speaker 2: That's right, folks. Roman seven explained the mess we're in.
Speaker 2: Roman Zata explains how to get out of it. He says, Rick,
Speaker 2: it was like a smack on the head by divine intervention.
Speaker 2: So I joined a small group and I haven't missed
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Speaker 2: devotional email, and I've continued to listen to your podcast
Speaker 2: when I go for my morning walk. He says. The
Speaker 2: spiritual growth that I've achieved in a relatively short period
Speaker 2: of time is really nothing short of remarkable. It's a
Speaker 2: miracle and it's a blessing, and it's helped me turn
Speaker 2: my life around. I now understand why God allowed me
Speaker 2: to suffer through all my addiction, and that the path
Speaker 2: to recovery is through Jesus Christ. From the bottom of
Speaker 2: my heart, Rick, thank you for all you do through him.
Speaker 2: Well wow, wow wow. This testimony is a powerful reminder
Speaker 2: of how God can take everything in our lives, the sins,
Speaker 2: the failures, the hurts, the bad decisions, even destructive habits,
Speaker 2: and guess what, God can even bring good out of them.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, in all things, God works for the
Speaker 2: good of those who love him. It doesn't say all
Speaker 2: things are good, because not all things are good. But
Speaker 2: in all things God is working for the good of
Speaker 2: those who love him. That's Romans eight twenty eight. Now
Speaker 2: this story is a beautiful example of Romans eight twenty
Speaker 2: eight and that truth. Listen very closely. No matter what
Speaker 2: we've done, I'll say it again, no matter what we've done,
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