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, Job, 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.
Speaker 2: This series offers.
Speaker 1: Encouragement and biblical truth to help you keep going and
Speaker 1: get the breakthrough you need. Okay, now here's Rick with
Speaker 1: part one of a message called Talking to Your Heavenly Father.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I defined a couple weeks ago the word breakthrough as
Speaker 3: when God does a miracle, when He miraculously solves an
Speaker 3: unsolvable problem in your life that you have no control over.
Speaker 3: There's some problems you can pray for, but you could
Speaker 3: really have some input. You could use your own ingenuity
Speaker 3: to solve those problems. But when God solves something that's unmanageable, uncontrollable,
Speaker 3: you have nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2: That's called a breakthrough.
Speaker 3: And we all have different breakthroughs in different areas of
Speaker 3: our lives. Now, I just want to say this at
Speaker 3: the start. God did not bring you here during this
Speaker 3: particular season when we're studying how to have a breakthrough
Speaker 3: in your life by seeking God.
Speaker 2: He didn't bring you.
Speaker 3: Here to watch everybody else have their prayer be answered.
Speaker 3: God brought you here because He wants to answer your prayer.
Speaker 3: God wants to do a breakthrough in your life. If
Speaker 3: He didn't want to do a breakthrough in your life,
Speaker 3: believe me, you wouldn't be here. But God wants to
Speaker 3: answer your prayer. He wants to have a breakthrough in
Speaker 3: your life. Now, you know, when you look at the
Speaker 3: life of Jesus, he chose twelve men to be his
Speaker 3: interns or disciples or followers, and they followed him for
Speaker 3: three and a half years. They saw Jesus do all
Speaker 3: kinds of amazing things. He healed people, he did flat
Speaker 3: out miracles, He calmed storms, He fed the five thousand
Speaker 3: with a single launch. He did all kinds of miracles,
Speaker 3: all kinds of healings. He raised people back to life,
Speaker 3: people who died they saw this happen. He preached great sermons.
Speaker 3: He was an amazing man of miracles because he was
Speaker 3: obviously God in flesh. But when the disciples went to Jesus,
Speaker 3: they never asked him, Lord, teach us how to preach.
Speaker 3: We want to preach like you do. They never said
Speaker 3: teach us how to teach. Never once in the Bible
Speaker 3: of the Disciples. These interns of Jesus say, teach us
Speaker 3: how to do miracles, teach us how to heal people,
Speaker 3: teach us how to do the spectacular things in life,
Speaker 3: teach us how to see you do great, great things.
Speaker 3: But instead, the one thing they asked Jesus to teach
Speaker 3: them was this.
Speaker 2: Lord, teach us to pray.
Speaker 3: Why, of all the things they could have asked Jesus
Speaker 3: to teach them, after watching him for three and a
Speaker 3: half years, they said, Lord, teach us to pray. Because
Speaker 3: they realized that prayer was the secret power behind the healings,
Speaker 3: behind the miracles, behind the spectacular behind the great teachings
Speaker 3: behind the way he handled processes of life. If you
Speaker 3: teach us Lord how to pray like you do. This
Speaker 3: guy obviously prays in a very different way than we do,
Speaker 3: then we're going to have the power of Jesus. You've
Speaker 3: heard me say this many times. Much prayer, much power.
Speaker 3: Little prayer in your life, little power. No prayer in
Speaker 3: your life, no power. And so they said, Lord, teach
Speaker 3: us how to pray. Now, the truth is, if we
Speaker 3: were honest, if you're honest, if I'm most of us,
Speaker 3: we're not very confident about prayer. In fact, prayer is
Speaker 3: confusing to most of us. I talk to a lot
Speaker 3: of men who got I don't know how to pray,
Speaker 3: and we find prayer to be very confusing, and we're
Speaker 3: not confident in it. We say, I don't know what
Speaker 3: to say, I don't know who to say it to,
Speaker 3: I don't know how to say it. I don't know
Speaker 3: what to pray. I don't even know if this thing works.
Speaker 3: I'm filled with doubt. I'm filled with confusion, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm filled with insecurities. I don't know how long to
Speaker 3: keep praying.
Speaker 2: And so most of us, when we come to the
Speaker 2: idea of prayer. I don't get it.
Speaker 3: I know I'm supposed to pray, but I don't get it,
Speaker 3: and I don't I don't enjoy it. I don't understand it.
Speaker 3: What I want to do for just a couple minutes
Speaker 3: in this service is take.
Speaker 2: The worry out of prayer for you.
Speaker 3: When you leave here at the end of the service,
Speaker 3: I want you to be able to go. I am
Speaker 3: confident I know how and what to pray, and you
Speaker 3: won't have that worry. You won't have that lack of
Speaker 3: confidence in your life.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: In Luke chapter eleven, they're on the beginning of your notes.
Speaker 3: Jesus' followers said, Lord, teach us to pray. And then
Speaker 3: Jesus said, well, here's where he starts. When you pray,
Speaker 3: begin by saying our Father, begin by saying our Father
Speaker 3: in Heaven. Now we don't realize how shocking that statement was,
Speaker 3: because up to this time in history, nobody called God Father.
Speaker 3: They called him a lot of other things. But Jesus said,
Speaker 3: I'm here to tell you that when you pray, you
Speaker 3: were to call God Father. And he says, if you
Speaker 3: understand this, it's gonna change the way you pray. You're
Speaker 3: gonna pray much more confidently. You're not gonna worry. You're
Speaker 3: not gonna be so insecure about it.
Speaker 2: What Jesus is saying is, prayer is not about words.
Speaker 2: Listen to me.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what words you say. You don't have
Speaker 3: to be eloquent a guy who doesn't speak much to
Speaker 3: anybody else. God's not expecting you to be very eloquent
Speaker 3: to him. Jesus says, prayer is not about your words.
Speaker 3: It's about a relationship. And it's a very special kind
Speaker 3: of relationship. Like a father to a child. It's to
Speaker 3: be intimate, it's to be loving, it's to be casual,
Speaker 3: it's to be no barriers. A little child doesn't walk
Speaker 3: into the presence of her father and wonder about how
Speaker 3: do I say this? A little child just walks in
Speaker 3: and says it in the best language they've got at
Speaker 3: that particular age and stage of life. And God is
Speaker 3: saying here, prayer is not about words. It's about a relationship.
Speaker 3: So he says, when you start, you start with our Father.
Speaker 3: He's saying, to be confident in prayer, you got to
Speaker 3: have the right relationship idea in your mind. God is
Speaker 3: not some impersonal force. May the force be with you.
Speaker 3: God is not some psychological or philosophical term, the unmoved,
Speaker 3: mover the ground of all of our beings, all of
Speaker 3: these phrases, the omnipotent, omniscient, unfeeling power, impersonal force. Now,
Speaker 3: he says, to pray, you got to realize God is
Speaker 3: your father. Now, if you're going to be confident in
Speaker 3: your prayer, listen to me. You got to use the
Speaker 3: name that God has chosen for himself. And God chose
Speaker 3: the name Father. You have a right to choose what
Speaker 3: you're called by. You were given a name by your parents,
Speaker 3: but when you grew up, if you wanted to shorten
Speaker 3: it or change it or whatever you could. You have
Speaker 3: the right to be called by what you want to
Speaker 3: be called by. So, for instance, if your name is Laurie,
Speaker 3: you don't like it as somebody calls you.
Speaker 2: Laura or Lauren or Laura or Loretta. That's not your name.
Speaker 2: Your name is Laurie. And God says, I want you
Speaker 2: to call me Father, not mother.
Speaker 3: By the way, not mother. God is not your mother.
Speaker 3: God says, I am your father. Now we know. God
Speaker 3: tells us in the Bible that God has both male
Speaker 3: and female qualities and The reason why there are two
Speaker 3: sexes on earth, male and female, is because God has
Speaker 3: both male and female qualities, and we were made in
Speaker 3: His image, and no one.
Speaker 2: Person has all the image of God.
Speaker 3: And the Bible says women need men and men need women,
Speaker 3: and that we need each other because together we project
Speaker 3: what God is really like.
Speaker 2: So God is a spirit. He's neither male nor female.
Speaker 3: But God has said I want you to call me father,
Speaker 3: and he has a right to say you call me by.
Speaker 2: What I want you to call me.
Speaker 3: And actually Jesus even takes it further as he goes
Speaker 3: into explaining this, he says, I want you to call
Speaker 3: God abba Abba. Now that's not the Swedish rock group.
Speaker 3: It's an air make term. Every child who's born in
Speaker 3: the Middle East, the first word they learn is Ahba.
Speaker 3: It means Papa, dad, Dad, It's like mama, something very
Speaker 3: easy to say. And what abba means is not even father.
Speaker 3: It means daddy. It's a term of endearment. It's a
Speaker 3: term of love. And God says, when you pray, the
Speaker 3: first thing you got to get right is the relationship.
Speaker 3: You got to realize I'm not some CEO sitting up
Speaker 3: there in the sky waiting to judge your prayer.
Speaker 2: I'm your Abba, I'm your daddy, and.
Speaker 3: You can come to me in a loving, gentle, trusting,
Speaker 3: intimate relationship, like a little child, come to.
Speaker 2: God and say, Daddy, that's what he says to do.
Speaker 3: Now, I realize that this is a problem for some people,
Speaker 3: because father is a negative term for some people. Maybe
Speaker 3: your dad was distant, maybe your dad was demanding, Maybe
Speaker 3: your dad was demoralizing. Maybe your dad was abusive. Maybe
Speaker 3: your dad was absent in your life. And you have
Speaker 3: a lot of bad memories about that term father. So
Speaker 3: when you say, well, if God is like my father, no,
Speaker 3: thanks God our father in heaven. But God, your heavenly father,
Speaker 3: is unlike any father on earth. Now, there are good
Speaker 3: fathers on earth. I had a good father. I hope
Speaker 3: maybe you had a good dad. But every dad, including
Speaker 3: me and those of you who are dads, we're flawed,
Speaker 3: we're imperfect, we make mistakes. Your father in heaven is
Speaker 3: absolutely perfect. He never loves you conditionally. He never loves
Speaker 3: you one day and not the next. He's not inconsistent.
Speaker 3: Some of you grew up with dad. She said, I
Speaker 3: don't know if he's gonna hug me one day or
Speaker 3: slug me on another day. But God is not like
Speaker 3: your dad. God is unlike any father on earth. He's perfect.
Speaker 3: He always loves you. He always knows everything about you.
Speaker 3: He always understands you. My dad didn't always understand me.
Speaker 3: Your dad didn't always understand you. I didn't always understand
Speaker 3: my kids. But God knows what you think more than
Speaker 3: you know what you think. And so we know that.
Speaker 3: God says we're to call him father. What kind of
Speaker 3: father is God? This is really important. If you understand this,
Speaker 3: then prayer becomes very easy for you. God is a
Speaker 3: caring father. He will never stop loving you. He doesn't
Speaker 3: have bad days or good days. He is unconditionally loving
Speaker 3: towards you. God is a caring father, is a close father.
Speaker 3: Some of you had distant dads and you didn't see
Speaker 3: if God is with you all the time, He's paying
Speaker 3: attention to you all the time. He has the ability
Speaker 3: to watch every move in your life. He knows every
Speaker 3: hair on your head. The Bible says they're numbered by God.
Speaker 3: He's caring, he's close, he's consistent. He's consistent. He's always
Speaker 3: the same. He's not one way, this way and another
Speaker 3: way another.
Speaker 2: He is capable.
Speaker 3: When I was a little kid, I used to say,
Speaker 3: my daddy can do anything. When I grew up, I
Speaker 3: realized he couldn't do everything. And when my kids were little,
Speaker 3: they used to think I could do everything, and then
Speaker 3: they grew up and realized that I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I'm not capable in every area. But God is your.
Speaker 3: Heavenly Father, is capable, and he's close, and he's consistent,
Speaker 3: and he's committed, and he's competent, and he's caring. Now,
Speaker 3: Jesus has a lot to say about prayer this morning.
Speaker 3: I want us to just look at one set of
Speaker 3: verses by Jesus, just five verses in the Sermon on
Speaker 3: the Mountain. And in this five verses, Jesus gives us
Speaker 3: five reasons, five reasons that you can always pray with
Speaker 3: confidence no matter who you are. Did you hear that
Speaker 3: no matter who you are, no matter what you've done,
Speaker 3: no matter what your religious background is. Jesus in this
Speaker 3: passage gives you the five reasons you can stop worrying about.
Speaker 3: I don't know how to pray and how you can
Speaker 3: pray with confidence all the time, So you need to
Speaker 3: write this down. This will change your life. It'll change
Speaker 3: the whole way you look about prayer if you'll do
Speaker 3: it the way Jesus said. Now in Matthew chapter seven,
Speaker 3: verses seven to twelve. This is in Jesus' famous sermon
Speaker 3: the Mountain. He says this up here on the screen,
Speaker 3: Ask and it will be given to you. Seek and
Speaker 3: you will find. Knock and the door will be open
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 2: This is a promise.
Speaker 3: Now, by the way the verbs there, ask, seek, and knock,
Speaker 3: they're actually present participles. Jesus is actually staying there. Keep
Speaker 3: on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking. No, just
Speaker 3: knock one time. If I told you go over to
Speaker 3: that house and knock on the door, and when you
Speaker 3: open it up, when the door opens, they're going to
Speaker 3: give you a million dollars, you wouldn't walk up and
Speaker 3: go and walk away. No, if you knew a million
Speaker 3: dollars behind that, you'd start knocking, and you'd keep knocking,
Speaker 3: and you'd keep knocking until the door opened. So God says,
Speaker 3: keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking. Be
Speaker 3: persistent in your prayer, for anyone who asks will receive.
Speaker 2: That's a promise.
Speaker 3: Anyone who seeks will find, and everyone who knocks the
Speaker 3: door will be opened. And then Jesus says this, For example,
Speaker 3: if your child ask you for some bread to eat,
Speaker 3: would any of you fathers give her a stone? And said, obviously,
Speaker 3: the answer is no, of course not. Or if your
Speaker 3: child asked you for some fish, would you put a
Speaker 3: snake on their plate?
Speaker 2: The answer is obviously no. He's using this.
Speaker 3: Metaphor, this image of prayers, like a father and a
Speaker 3: child talking together, and he says this, Now, since even you,
Speaker 3: as sinful imperfect parents, I'm an imperfect parent. I don't
Speaker 3: always get it right. You're an imperfect parent. As a
Speaker 3: sinful imperfect parents, I know how to give good gifts
Speaker 3: to your children. Even though I'm often selfish, I'm off
Speaker 3: in self centered, I'm not perfect. I know how to
Speaker 3: give good gifts to my kids, and so do you.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 3: Even if you're an imperfect parent and you know how
Speaker 3: to give good gifts to your children, how much more
Speaker 3: does your good and perfect father in Heaven give only
Speaker 3: gifts that are good to those who ask him. There's
Speaker 3: that image of parent and child, and then he says,
Speaker 3: so he concludes, in every situation, always due to others,
Speaker 3: what you would want them to do to you. You're
Speaker 3: familiar with this. This is called the Golden rule. Doing
Speaker 3: to others as you would have them doing to you.
Speaker 3: Most of you didn't know that. It's in the context
Speaker 3: of prayer. He's talking about prayer. In every situation. Always
Speaker 3: do to others what you would want them to do
Speaker 3: to you. Because this sums up all the commands and
Speaker 3: all the teachings in the Bible, all the law and
Speaker 3: the provinces is summed up in this.
Speaker 2: Treat other people the way you'd like to be treated.
Speaker 3: Now, in that passage there, he gives us five reasons.
Speaker 3: You don't have to worry when you pray. You don't
Speaker 3: have to worry about what you say, where you say it,
Speaker 3: how you say it, how long you pray. You don't
Speaker 3: have to worry. You could be confident. Would you write
Speaker 3: these down? Number one?
Speaker 2: These will change your life. Number one.
Speaker 3: The first thing God teaches us in this passage is
Speaker 3: that God promises to answer if I keep asking. God
Speaker 3: promises to answer if I keep asking. He says, keep
Speaker 3: on asking and you'll be given what you ask for.
Speaker 3: Keep on looking seeking and you'll find Keep on knocking
Speaker 3: and the door will be open for Anyone who asks
Speaker 3: will receive, anyone who seeks will find, and everyone who
Speaker 3: asks knocks.
Speaker 2: The door will be open.
Speaker 3: Now, what's the difference between asking, seeking, and knocking. It's
Speaker 3: just three ways of say in the same thing. If
Speaker 3: you take in English the letter first letter of each word, ask, seek,
Speaker 3: and knock.
Speaker 2: What does that's pat well? Ask?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just saying ask three different ways. But what
Speaker 3: he's me saying here is proximity to your heavenly Father
Speaker 3: makes a difference. Write this down. I'm not going to
Speaker 3: go into detail on it, but let me explain it
Speaker 3: to you. When I'm close to my father, I just ask.
Speaker 3: When I'm close to my father, I just ask. In
Speaker 3: other words, if I'm a little kid and I'm at
Speaker 3: home and my dad's sitting there in the living room
Speaker 3: and I have something I need from him, I don't
Speaker 3: write him a letter. I don't send him an email,
Speaker 3: I don't call him on the phone. If I'm close
Speaker 3: to my father, I just go, hey, Dad, I need
Speaker 3: and then I ask. And when you're close to God,
Speaker 3: then all you need to do is just ask, like
Speaker 3: a child asks the father God, I need this, Daddy, Abbah,
Speaker 3: I need this. When you're close to God, you just ask.
Speaker 3: But sometimes I'm not close to my father, and sometimes
Speaker 3: you're not close to God. And sometimes I have something
Speaker 3: I want to ask my dad, And as a little kid,
Speaker 3: I go, well, he's not here in the living room,
Speaker 3: so I have to go seek him. I go look
Speaker 3: in the backyard. His dad in the backyard. I want
Speaker 3: to ask a questions. Now he's not there. I want
Speaker 3: to go to the garage. His dad in the garage.
Speaker 3: No he's not there.
Speaker 2: Is he?
Speaker 3: Is he in his little study area, his office at home?
Speaker 3: No he's not there. Is he at work?
Speaker 2: If he's at work, I might have to call him.
Speaker 3: And when when I'm distant from God, I have to
Speaker 3: do a little bit more than.
Speaker 2: Seeking I ask him. I have to seek him.
Speaker 3: I have to seek him when I'm distant from God,
Speaker 3: when I'm when he's not close. And then sometimes my
Speaker 3: dad is behind a wall and I have to knock.
Speaker 3: And when a wall keeps me from seeing my father,
Speaker 3: I knock. When I when he's in the room with me,
Speaker 3: I just ask. When I don't know where God is,
Speaker 3: when I'm distant from God, I seek. And when there's
Speaker 3: a barrier between me and God, I knock. I knock,
Speaker 3: and so I want to ask as a little kid,
Speaker 3: my dad's something, and I look for him and I
Speaker 3: find now he's in his office, but the door is shut.
Speaker 3: What do I do do I just give up? No,
Speaker 3: I just go up and knock on the door, and
Speaker 3: Dad goes, who is this? It's me, Dad, Come on in, No,
Speaker 3: no problem, no hassle, I just knock.
Speaker 2: Is it okay for me to come in?
Speaker 3: Yeah, come on in, Come on in. And So what
Speaker 3: is he saying by this? Listen very closely. It doesn't
Speaker 3: matter how close you are to God or how far
Speaker 3: away you are to God.
Speaker 2: God still wants you to ask. Listen to this. Some
Speaker 2: of you think I'm not worthy to ask God. I'm
Speaker 2: too far away from God. Right now? God says, no,
Speaker 2: you can ask. You can see if you can knock.
Speaker 3: Doesn't matter what the distance is, doesn't matter whether you're
Speaker 3: closer or far away.
Speaker 2: The very act of you asking is going to bring
Speaker 2: you closer.
Speaker 3: So it's not like you got to clean up your
Speaker 3: life and then you can start asking God, he says,
Speaker 3: just ask, no matter whether you're really close to Me
Speaker 3: or you're trying to find me. Some of you are seekers.
Speaker 3: You're trying to find God, or you're there's a barrier
Speaker 3: between you.
Speaker 2: And God and you know it.
Speaker 3: God says it doesn't matter. You can still ask that
Speaker 3: will give you confidence. That'll give you a confidence regardless
Speaker 3: of how close and far away you are.
Speaker 2: You can ask for anything in prayer.
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
Speaker 1: tell you how you can partner with Daily Hope to
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Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 3: I'd like to read a testimony that really blessed me.
Speaker 3: It shows how even when you make mistakes, God's faithful
Speaker 3: to forgive you, and that He's always working in your
Speaker 3: life to bring about everything together for good in your life.
Speaker 3: Not everything is good in your life, but God works
Speaker 3: at all for good in your life. Now, this is
Speaker 3: from a man who says he's a recovering addict, and
Speaker 3: this is part of his story that starts when he
Speaker 3: listened to a Daily Hope podcast. Here's why he wrote
Speaker 3: Paster Rick. A couple months ago, I started a twelve
Speaker 3: step program. In working the steps and in turning my
Speaker 3: addiction over to God, I searched out many sources for
Speaker 3: Daily inspirational daily devotionals, daily meditations to help me reconnect
Speaker 3: with the Lord as a support for the progress in
Speaker 3: my recovery. Now, in what just seemed to be a
Speaker 3: random chance, seemed to be I just came across your
Speaker 3: Daily Hope podcast and I blindly just picked a message
Speaker 3: from early July. I'm sure a lot of other people
Speaker 3: have done that too.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: The very first one I listened to was on Roman seven,
Speaker 3: which is all about why do I do the wrong
Speaker 3: things that I don't want to do when I know
Speaker 3: it's wrong? And what makes me do that? I can't
Speaker 3: believe that was the first one you listened to. Well,
Speaker 3: knock me over with a feather. It was a bolt
Speaker 3: of lightning that I needed to hear, and it was
Speaker 3: followed by tears of joy because the very next podcast,
Speaker 3: of course, was Roman's eight, which is the solution to
Speaker 3: my dilemma. That's right, folks. Roman seven explains the mess
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Speaker 3: He says, Rick, it was like a smack on the
Speaker 3: head by divine intervention. So I joined a small group
Speaker 3: and I haven't missed a week since, and I love it,
Speaker 3: and I have a weekly Bible study with a close
Speaker 3: friend who graciously offered to help me, and I subscribe
Speaker 3: to your daily devotional email, and I've continued to listen
Speaker 3: to your podcast when I go for my morning walk.
Speaker 3: He says, the spiritual growth that I've achieved in a
Speaker 3: relatively short period of time is really nothing short of remarkable.
Speaker 3: It's a miracle and it's a blessing, and it's helped
Speaker 3: me turn my life around. I now understand why God
Speaker 3: allowed me to suffer through all my addiction and that
Speaker 3: the path to recovery is through Jesus Christ. From the
Speaker 3: bottom of my heart, Rick, thank you for all you
Speaker 3: do through him. Well wow, wow, wow. This testimony is
Speaker 3: a powerful reminder of how God can take everything in
Speaker 3: our lives, the mistakes, the sins, the failures, the hurts,
Speaker 3: the bad decisions, even destructive habits, and guess what, God
Speaker 3: can even bring good out of them. The Bible says
Speaker 3: in all things God works for the good of those
Speaker 3: who love him. It doesn't say all things are good,
Speaker 3: because not all things are good, But in all things
Speaker 3: God is working for the good of those.
Speaker 2: Who love him. That's Romans eight twenty eight.
Speaker 3: Now this story is a beautiful example of Romans eight
Speaker 3: twenty eight and that truth listen very closely. No matter
Speaker 3: what we've done. I'll say it again, no matter what
Speaker 3: we've done, we're never outside of God's master plan for
Speaker 3: our lives. Your life is not random. In this case,
Speaker 3: God led somebody to Daily Hope podcast just at the
Speaker 3: right moment, exactly what he needed.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: God could have used any method. He could have used
Speaker 3: any person, he could have used any podcasts, but God
Speaker 3: in this instance, chose to use Daily Hope. You know, friends,
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Speaker 3: my heart. Thank you for your support. This man who
Speaker 3: was a recovering addict was helped because you. You cared
Speaker 3: enough to support this ministry. So let me just say
Speaker 3: it again. I don't ever get tired of saying it.
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