Speaker 1: Sometimes in your life, you're gonna be so weak, you
Speaker 1: can't even pray. Sometimes in your life, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: so weak, you can't read the Bible. You can't go
Speaker 1: to a Bible study.
Speaker 2: You can't work.
Speaker 1: You can't do anything. What do you do in those moments?
Speaker 1: You're just laying there in bed so weak. I rest
Speaker 1: in the strength of the Lord, in his arms like
Speaker 1: a little child, and I trust. You see, weakness can
Speaker 1: actually be a good thing in your life. if it
Speaker 1: causes you to depend on God. Look at this verse
Speaker 1: up here on the screen.
Speaker 2: This is from St. Paul.
Speaker 1: Paul says this, 2 Corinthians 12. Three times I begged
Speaker 1: God to take away my weakness. Now you got some
Speaker 1: weaknesses you'd like God to take away. You've probably asked
Speaker 1: him to. And each time God said, my grace is
Speaker 1: all you need. My power works best in your weakness.
Speaker 1: So you don't need anything else.
Speaker 2: You just need me.
Speaker 1: My power works best in your weakness. So, Paul says,
Speaker 1: I now gladly boast. I boast about how weak I am.
Speaker 1: I used to hide my weaknesses. I used to be
Speaker 1: ashamed of my weaknesses. Paul says, not anymore. I'm proud
Speaker 1: of my weaknesses. Why? Because when I'm weakness, when I'm weakest,
Speaker 1: the power of Christ works in me and shows up
Speaker 1: through me. And when I'm weak, then I am strong. See,
Speaker 1: that's the paradox. of depending on God. The more you're weak,
Speaker 1: the more you depend on God. The more you depend
Speaker 1: on God, the stronger you get. To be blessed by God,
Speaker 1: I depend on God's wisdom and I depend on God's strength.
Speaker 1: But the third thing is I depend on God's timing,
Speaker 1: not mine. I depend on God's timing, not mine.
Speaker 3: The older I get, the more I understand how timing
Speaker 3: is so important in every area of life. Look at
Speaker 3: it in sports. You can see it easily. The difference
Speaker 3: between a professional pitcher and an amateur is timing. The
Speaker 3: difference between a professional golf player and an amateur is timing.
Speaker 3: You can see it in things like cooking. A professional
Speaker 3: cook knows that it takes 37 seconds in the toaster
Speaker 3: for the perfect Pop-Tart. They know that if they're a
Speaker 3: real professional. You just see it in all kinds of
Speaker 3: areas of life. You see it in your life. God's timing,
Speaker 3: the right timing, is God working in the right way
Speaker 3: in your life. The Bible's really clear about the fact
Speaker 3: that there are seasons to our life. And the fact,
Speaker 3: I don't like this, but the fact is one of
Speaker 3: those seasons that God talks about again and again is
Speaker 3: the season of waiting. He is working in our lives
Speaker 3: during this season of waiting. While you're waiting, God is working.
Speaker 3: Don't think that the season of waiting means that God
Speaker 3: has stopped working. He's still working. He's just taking us
Speaker 3: through a season of waiting because of timing, because of
Speaker 3: what he's doing in our lives, because of what he's
Speaker 3: doing in circumstances. So that's why the Bible says in
Speaker 3: Psalm 31, 14, and 15, I trust in you, O Lord.
Speaker 3: You are my God. My times are in your hands.
Speaker 3: You're going to spend a lot of life waiting. And
Speaker 3: if you don't figure out how to trust God while
Speaker 3: you're waiting, you're going to spend a lot of life
Speaker 3: not trusting God. Because there's a lot of life where
Speaker 3: we are in God's waiting room. You ever been in
Speaker 3: a hurry when God wasn't? That happen to anybody else
Speaker 3: I'm talking about? I mean, you want it to go along,
Speaker 3: but it's just not going along. God is never in
Speaker 3: a hurry. God is never in a hurry. Because he's eternal.
Speaker 3: And he is watching, he is working, he is seeing
Speaker 3: how and when you will trust him as you're waiting.
Speaker 3: We're saying, when, Lord, when is it gonna happen? And
Speaker 3: God's saying, what am I doing in your life? You
Speaker 3: can trust me with this. Now, the problem with waiting
Speaker 3: is our human nature and the culture around us, everything
Speaker 3: about it says don't wait. Get things as quickly as
Speaker 3: you can. And when we have fast track and fast
Speaker 3: passes and one of the best business magazines is Fast Company,
Speaker 3: everything is fast. When I go through the drive-through, I
Speaker 3: don't know if you guys are like this for getting food,
Speaker 3: I like to give my food at the first window
Speaker 3: and I want to see the bag come out so
Speaker 3: I can just sort of keep driving by and grab
Speaker 3: it as I go by. I don't want to even
Speaker 3: wait 20 seconds. That's the way we tend to be
Speaker 3: wired in our culture and it goes against it goes
Speaker 3: against God's blessing in our lives. Because God's blessing comes
Speaker 3: through these times of waiting. Ecclesiastes 3.11 says, God has
Speaker 3: set the right time for everything. Now I know some
Speaker 3: of you right now, you are in a time of waiting.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's for school to end. Maybe it's for a
Speaker 3: man or a woman to come into your life. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's for a marriage to happen or for a baby
Speaker 3: to come. You're in this time of waiting in your life.
Speaker 3: And If you were honest, you would say, I'm frustrated
Speaker 3: right now with how slow this is working. We've all
Speaker 3: been there at times. There's a promise in the Bible
Speaker 3: that tells you not only that God is working, but
Speaker 3: also how God is working. It's an important promise to
Speaker 3: understand for how God works in our lives during these
Speaker 3: times of waiting. Isaiah 60 verse 22 says, I am
Speaker 3: the Lord, and when it is time, I will make
Speaker 3: these things happen quickly. Here's how God's worked. working in
Speaker 3: how he works in our lives, and it will drive
Speaker 3: you crazy. You wait and wait and wait for something,
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, God just gives it
Speaker 3: to you all at once, and it's just overwhelming, and
Speaker 3: you say, I was asking for it, but could you
Speaker 3: slow it down a little bit now? This can happen with,
Speaker 3: I know a lot of people who've been through adoptions
Speaker 3: like this, where they've started the adoption process, and they
Speaker 3: thought the adoption was going to go through in a
Speaker 3: few months, and they waited months and months, and sometimes
Speaker 3: years and years, and thought it never was going to happen.
Speaker 3: And then they get the phone call. And the phone
Speaker 3: call says, okay, we got the baby for you. Are
Speaker 3: you ready in two days? And you got to go
Speaker 3: pick him up in another country. Can you do that?
Speaker 3: That's how God works many times. That's how God works
Speaker 3: in sending Jesus into this world. The Bible tells us
Speaker 3: that the world waited thousands of years for Jesus to
Speaker 3: come the first time. But at the right time, Jesus
Speaker 3: came into the world. And we've been waiting 2,000 years
Speaker 3: now for Jesus to come again. When's he gonna come again?
Speaker 3: God's right time. That's when he's gonna come. You might
Speaker 3: write this down in your outline, just this sentence. A
Speaker 3: delay is not a denial. Just remember that a delay
Speaker 3: is not a denial. We think God is saying no,
Speaker 3: but really God is saying not yet. Will you keep
Speaker 3: trusting me through this? And this has to do many
Speaker 3: times with how we talk to God about it, how
Speaker 3: we pray. Sometimes when we pray about something, we say, God,
Speaker 3: it's like, I wanna give you first option on this.
Speaker 3: Can you do this really fast? If you don't get
Speaker 3: it done, then I'm gonna go get it done myself.
Speaker 3: I don't care what I have to do, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: get it done. And God's saying, no, are you trusting me?
Speaker 3: Micah talked about that. Micah 7 says, I trust the
Speaker 3: Lord to save me, and I will wait on him.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna go out and get it myself. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna accomplish this myself. I'm gonna wait on him
Speaker 3: to answer my prayer. That is the kind of faith
Speaker 3: that God blesses.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that Tom just said,
Speaker 1: and I didn't see anybody writing it down, and it's brilliant,
Speaker 1: so you need to write this down.
Speaker 2: While I'm waiting, God's working. You need to write that down.
Speaker 1: He said, while I'm waiting, God's working. A lot of
Speaker 1: times we think, while I'm waiting, nothing's happening. But God
Speaker 1: is often working behind the scenes in ways you can't
Speaker 1: even see to get you ready for the answer to
Speaker 1: your prayer. While you're waiting, God's working. It's not like
Speaker 1: God's waiting. While you're waiting, God's working. Now let me
Speaker 1: just give you a little lesson. God always gives his
Speaker 1: best to those who wait. And if you get in
Speaker 1: a hurry, you're gonna settle for second best in your
Speaker 1: life And before God brings the best man into your life,
Speaker 1: the best woman into your life, the best job into
Speaker 1: your life, the best opportunity into your life, Satan's gonna
Speaker 1: give you all kinds of detours. And he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: see me over here, me over here. And you go, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm getting tired. Why don't we just pick
Speaker 1: this one? And you settle for less than God's best
Speaker 1: in your life. Don't do it. As your pastor who
Speaker 1: loves you, I'm telling you, don't do it. If you
Speaker 1: will wait for God's best, God always gives his best
Speaker 1: to those who leave the choice to him. But if
Speaker 1: you get frantic and you get nervous and you get
Speaker 1: in a hurry and you start trying to answer your
Speaker 1: own prayer, you will have a fatal flaw and a
Speaker 1: terrible mistake in your life. If you want God's blessing,
Speaker 1: you gotta learn this truth very deeply. Spiritual poverty means
Speaker 1: I don't do it myself. I depend on God's wisdom.
Speaker 1: I depend on God's strength. And I depend on God's timing.
Speaker 1: And he'll answer it when he's ready to answer it
Speaker 1: and when he knows I'm ready for the answer. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna trust him.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Number four, let me give you another way to practice
Speaker 1: this week. To be blessed by God, I depend on
Speaker 1: God's wisdom, God's strength, God's timing, and I also depend
Speaker 1: on God's defense, not mine. I'll explain this. But I
Speaker 1: depend on God's defense, not mine. There's always gonna be
Speaker 1: people in your life who misunderstand you.
Speaker 2: Do you agree with that?
Speaker 1: There'll always be people around you who misunderstand. There'll always
Speaker 1: be people who don't like you. There'll always be people
Speaker 1: who criticize you, judge you, attack you, gossip about you,
Speaker 1: spread rumors about you. And a lot of people are like,
Speaker 1: you know, if I could just be perfect, then everybody
Speaker 1: would like me. Jesus was perfect and a lot of
Speaker 1: people didn't like him. So even if you were perfect,
Speaker 1: even if you were Jesus, there would be people who
Speaker 1: are just not gonna like you. And so they're going
Speaker 1: to attack and they're gonna criticize and they're going to
Speaker 1: try to get, and even in your closest relationships, those
Speaker 1: who love you most, your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your husband,
Speaker 1: your wife, those who love you most, you're still gonna
Speaker 1: be misunderstood by them because we live in a broken world.
Speaker 1: And when you are misunderstood, you're gonna have a tendency
Speaker 1: to get in there and defend yourself. And when you're attacked,
Speaker 1: your tendency is to attack back. When people criticize you,
Speaker 1: you wanna criticize back. People slam you, you wanna slam
Speaker 1: them back. People insult you, you wanna insult them back.
Speaker 1: You're out on the freeway, somebody expresses to you the
Speaker 1: international sign of displeasure. You wanna express the international sign
Speaker 1: of displeasure back to them. Don't do it. Let God
Speaker 1: be your defender. Don't defend yourself. God says every time
Speaker 1: you get under attack, get criticized, get put down, get misunderstood,
Speaker 1: now you got two choices. You can defend yourself or
Speaker 1: you can let me defend you. What it'll be. Who
Speaker 1: do you think can do a better job of defending you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: God can. Now, you are, listen to me very closely.
Speaker 1: You're most like Christ. You're most like Jesus. When you
Speaker 1: say nothing, in the face of attack, in the face
Speaker 1: of unjust, unfair criticism, in the face.
Speaker 2: Of lies about you.
Speaker 1: You're most like Jesus when you say nothing and you
Speaker 1: remain silent and you just say, I'm gonna put this
Speaker 1: in the hands of God and let him be my
Speaker 1: defender and I'm not gonna try on myself and defend
Speaker 1: myself back.
Speaker 4: Do you know someone who's graduating this year? Maybe it's
Speaker 4: your son or daughter, a grandchild, or perhaps a neighbor
Speaker 4: or family friend. As you celebrate this important milestone and
Speaker 4: they begin the next phase of their journey, they need
Speaker 4: to know that God created them, loves them, and has
Speaker 4: a plan for their life. That's why Pastor Rick created
Speaker 4: a special resource just for graduates called The Purpose Driven
Speaker 4: Life Selected Thoughts and Scriptures for the Graduates. filled with
Speaker 4: inspirational scripture, biblical wisdom from Pastor Rick, and beautiful imagery.
Speaker 4: This unique hardcover gift book provides a priceless reminder of
Speaker 4: the bountiful life God has planned for your graduate, and
Speaker 4: it will inspire them to seek his unique plan and
Speaker 4: purpose for their life. Don't miss this opportunity to minister
Speaker 4: to the graduate in your life today. We'll send you
Speaker 4: a copy to say thanks when you give a gift
Speaker 4: to Daily Hope to help share the hope of Jesus
Speaker 4: Christ with people around the world.
Speaker 1: In 1 Peter 2.23, we talked about last week Jesus'
Speaker 1: crucifixion and his resurrection. It says, when they hurled insults
Speaker 1: at him, Jesus, he did not retaliate. When he suffered,
Speaker 1: he made no threats back. Instead, he entrusted himself to
Speaker 1: God to set things right. That means I depend on
Speaker 1: God to be my defender. You know, I told you
Speaker 1: last week that they did six trials for Jesus, three Roman,
Speaker 1: three Jewish trials. All of them were sham trials. They
Speaker 1: were all fake, phony trials. And one time, the religious
Speaker 1: leaders take Jesus to Pilate, who was the Roman governor
Speaker 1: of Israel at that time, Palestine, and they bring him in,
Speaker 1: and they make a false charge of Jesus, and they said,
Speaker 1: this guy's trying to overthrow you. He wants to be king.
Speaker 1: He wants your job, Pilate. He wants to overthrow you.
Speaker 1: He thinks he's the king. Pilate looks at him and goes,
Speaker 1: is that true? He's asking Jesus, you want my job?
Speaker 1: You trying to overthrow me? I'm the Roman appointed governor.
Speaker 1: You claim to be the king of Israel? Not when
Speaker 1: they don't have a king. You on my job? Is
Speaker 1: that what you're saying? And the Bible says Jesus would
Speaker 1: not even dignify that false accusation with an answer. It
Speaker 1: said he remained totally silent. He spake not unto them.
Speaker 2: He said not a word unto them.
Speaker 1: You are most like Jesus when you face flack and
Speaker 1: don't defend it and don't attack back.
Speaker 2: Now here's an interesting thing.
Speaker 1: When people don't like you, They get what's called motivated reasoning.
Speaker 1: And so often, if people don't wanna like you, they'll
Speaker 1: believe anything negative.
Speaker 2: Isn't that true?
Speaker 1: If people don't want to like you, they are quick
Speaker 1: to believe the negative and they do not believe anything positive.
Speaker 2: They only wanna believe the negative. Now here's the problem.
Speaker 1: Today on the internet, anybody can say anything about you
Speaker 1: and it's global, it's searchable, and it's permanent. And it's
Speaker 1: never going off. So somebody can say something bad about
Speaker 1: you and it's there and nobody's ever taken it down.
Speaker 1: And 10 years from today, somebody can Google your name
Speaker 1: and find that. And it wasn't true today. It won't
Speaker 1: be true 10 years from today, but they'll believe it.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of world you're gonna live in. So
Speaker 1: you gotta learn how to depend on God's defense, not
Speaker 1: your own. Why? Because to be a leader is to
Speaker 1: be misunderstood. If you're gonna be a leader in your home,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be a leader at your school, in
Speaker 1: your community, in your church, or anywhere else, to be
Speaker 1: a leader means somebody's gonna misunderstand you. You can spend
Speaker 1: all your time trying to correct those misunderstandings, but here's
Speaker 1: what happens. If they don't like you, and they have
Speaker 1: motivated reason, a lot of people are like, well, if
Speaker 1: I teach them the truth, then they'll like me. But
Speaker 1: if actually you teach them the truth, it just makes
Speaker 1: them more mad. it makes them more mad because you
Speaker 1: disproven they were wrong and now they really.
Speaker 2: Don't like you. And so they go out and they
Speaker 2: find out something else.
Speaker 1: The more effective you are in life, the more you're
Speaker 1: going to be attacked. I decided a long time ago
Speaker 1: that I'm not gonna spend any of my time trying
Speaker 1: to answer every lie, every criticism, every rumor, every gossip,
Speaker 1: every false misrepresentation, You know, I'm just gonna leave it
Speaker 1: to God. Why? Because if I did spend my time
Speaker 1: trying to correct all those things, I wouldn't have.
Speaker 2: Any time for anything else.
Speaker 1: The more influence you have, the more you're gonna be
Speaker 1: criticized in life.
Speaker 2: Just count on it.
Speaker 1: And pioneers get the arrows in the back. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna call the shots, you're gonna take the shots. So
Speaker 1: to be a leader in a business means you're gonna
Speaker 1: be criticized. To be a leader in a church means
Speaker 1: you're gonna be criticized. Community, anywhere else. I want you
Speaker 1: to be fearless. What God wants is a generation of
Speaker 1: fearless men and fearless women who say, I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: the right thing. Doesn't really matter what anything else, because
Speaker 1: I'm living for an audience of one. Well done, now
Speaker 1: good and faithful servant. That's what I'm living for. Now,
Speaker 1: you just leave it to God, because you can't correct
Speaker 1: it all. And even if you did, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: change their attitude. Now let me show you a couple verses.
Speaker 2: Psalm chapter two, verse 12.
Speaker 1: God blesses and God protects everyone who runs to him.
Speaker 1: Not everybody who defends himself, not everybody who fights back,
Speaker 1: not everybody who goes tit for tat and you hit me,
Speaker 1: I hit you back. No, God blesses those who run
Speaker 1: to him. So you let God be your defender against
Speaker 1: accusations and against critics. The next verse, Psalm 62, on
Speaker 1: your outline, gives us five metaphors for God's protection. I
Speaker 1: want you to underline them. David says this, I depend
Speaker 1: on God alone. I put my hope in him. He
Speaker 1: alone protects, underlines. He alone protects. He alone saves, underline saves.
Speaker 1: He alone protects and saves me. He is my defender,
Speaker 1: underline that, my defender. I shall not be defeated, underline
Speaker 1: not be defeated. My salvation and honor depend on God.
Speaker 2: What's your honor? It's your reputation. It's your reputation.
Speaker 1: My salvation and my reputation depend on God. He is
Speaker 1: my strong protector and he is my shield, underline shield.
Speaker 1: underline my shield. Now notice the five metaphors. God says,
Speaker 1: he's my protector, he's my savior, he's my defender, he's
Speaker 1: my victor, and he's my shelter. He's saying, let me
Speaker 1: handle it. When you do that, you are being poor
Speaker 1: in spirit. You're saying, God, I'm not depending on myself,
Speaker 1: I'm depending on you. I depend on your wisdom, I
Speaker 1: depend on your strength, I depend on your timing and
Speaker 1: your plan, And I depend on your defense, not mine.
Speaker 1: And when God sees a person like that, he goes,
Speaker 1: that's my boy, that's my girl, that's who I want
Speaker 1: to bless. You're most like Jesus when you don't defend yourself. Now,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest sources of stress you're going to
Speaker 1: have in your life is anxiety about money. In fact,
Speaker 1: studies show it's the number one cause of divorce, financial pressure.
Speaker 1: It's the number one anxious, anxiety-producing issue. Money, am I
Speaker 1: gonna have enough to survive? Am I gonna have enough
Speaker 1: to make it? Financial worries. It keeps people awake at night,
Speaker 1: and it causes people to do all kinds of stupid
Speaker 1: things because they start worrying about money. So let me
Speaker 1: just give you one more way to depend on God,
Speaker 1: and that is this. Number five, I depend on God's wealth,
Speaker 1: not money. Mine, for my own safety, for my own security.
Speaker 1: I depend on God's wealth, not my wealth, for my security.
Speaker 1: If you put your security in your bank account, you
Speaker 1: are an insecure person, because you can lose everything you
Speaker 1: got in the bank. If you put your security in
Speaker 1: your job, you are a very insecure person, because you
Speaker 1: can lose your job. If you put your security in
Speaker 1: your investments, you're a very insecure person, because you can
Speaker 1: lose your investments. You have to put your security in
Speaker 1: something that cannot be taken from you, and that is God.
Speaker 1: Here's what the Bible says about God's wealth, not yours.
Speaker 1: Philippians 4.19, and my God will supply all my needs.
Speaker 1: My God will supply all my needs, From his abundant wealth.
Speaker 1: Circle that. It's God's wealth, not your wealth, that makes
Speaker 1: you secure. From his abundant wealth. Because of what Christ
Speaker 1: Jesus has done for me. So I depend on God's wealth,
Speaker 1: not my wealth. I depend on how much God's got,
Speaker 1: not how much I've got, to be secure and to
Speaker 1: not be anxious. I want you to write this down.
Speaker 1: Write it down on your outline. My job is a channel,
Speaker 1: but God is my source. Let me explain, it's very important.
Speaker 1: If you understand this, you'll have so much less stress
Speaker 1: in your life. My job is a channel, but God
Speaker 1: is the source of my supply. Let me give you
Speaker 1: an example. If I were to go home from this service,
Speaker 1: and I were to turn on the faucet in our kitchen,
Speaker 1: and no water came out, What would I do?
Speaker 2: Would I say, oh my, the world has run out
Speaker 2: of water.
Speaker 1: There's no more water left in the whole wide world.
Speaker 1: I turned on the faucet, there is no more water left.
Speaker 2: Of course not.
Speaker 1: I know the problem is not with the source. The
Speaker 1: problem is with the distribution point. The problem is not
Speaker 1: the source. There's plenty of water in the world. The
Speaker 1: problem is the channel. The channel has gotten blocked one
Speaker 1: way or another.
Speaker 2: And you know what?
Speaker 1: If one channel gets blocked in your life and this
Speaker 1: faucet stops working, God can turn on another faucet just
Speaker 1: as easy. And if God closes a door in your life,
Speaker 1: he can open another door. And if another door closes,
Speaker 1: he can open a window and you can crawl through it.
Speaker 1: God is not limited to your ability and capacity.
Speaker 2: Your job is a channel.
Speaker 1: If you think that your job is what keeps you
Speaker 1: financially secure, you're gonna be insecure your entire life. Living
Speaker 1: poor in spirit means I realize that God is the
Speaker 1: source of my supply And I depend on God's wealth.
Speaker 1: My God shall supply all your needs according to his
Speaker 1: riches and glory in Christ Jesus. And I'm gonna trust
Speaker 1: in him. That is gonna handle me. Jobs may come
Speaker 1: and go. Bank accounts may come and go. Economies can
Speaker 1: go up and down. Stock markets can go bull or bear.
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: My source of supply is in God. I'm gonna pray
Speaker 1: a prayer and you can follow me in it. Dear God,
Speaker 1: thank you for sending Jesus to teach us how to live.
Speaker 2: Just say that.
Speaker 1: Dear God, thank you for sending Jesus to teach us
Speaker 1: how to live and to die for my sins. I
Speaker 1: want your blessing on my life. So today, I wanna
Speaker 1: take this first step.
Speaker 2: Of learning to depend on you more. Just pray this.
Speaker 1: I wanna depend on your wisdom this week your wisdom,
Speaker 1: not mine, so you can replace my confusion with your confidence.
Speaker 1: I wanna depend on your strength, not mine, so your
Speaker 1: power can show up in my weakness. I wanna depend
Speaker 1: on your timing. Help me to be patient, quietly trust.
Speaker 1: I know that at the right time, you can change
Speaker 1: things instantly. And Lord, When people misunderstand me or criticize me,
Speaker 1: I wanna quietly trust you for my defense. I don't
Speaker 1: wanna retaliate, I wanna be like Jesus. Finally, Lord, I
Speaker 1: wanna look to you as a source to meet all
Speaker 1: my needs. Help me this week to walk in the
Speaker 1: strength of the Lord. Help me to walk in the
Speaker 1: strength of the Lord. And I pray this in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 4: Do you know someone who's graduating this year? Maybe it's
Speaker 4: your son or daughter, a grandchild, or perhaps a neighbor
Speaker 4: or family friend. As you celebrate this important milestone and
Speaker 4: they begin the next phase of their journey, they need
Speaker 4: to know that God created them, loves them, and has
Speaker 4: a plan for their life. That's why Pastor Rick created
Speaker 4: a special resource just for graduates called The Purpose Driven
Speaker 4: Life Selected Thoughts and Scriptures for the Graduate. Filled with
Speaker 4: inspirational scripture, biblical wisdom from Pastor Rick, and beautiful imagery.
Speaker 4: This unique hardcover gift book provides a priceless reminder of
Speaker 4: the bountiful life God has planned for your graduate, and
Speaker 4: it will inspire them to seek his unique plan and
Speaker 4: purpose for their life. Don't miss this opportunity to minister
Speaker 4: to the graduate in your life today. We'll send you
Speaker 4: a copy to say thanks when you give a gift
Speaker 4: to Daily Hope to help share the hope of Jesus
Speaker 4: Christ with people around the world.