Speaker 1: Hi, this is Rick Warren, Bible teacher of the Daily
Speaker 1: Hope Broadcast. Did you know that because of Easter, your
Speaker 1: past can be forgiven, you get a purpose for living,
Speaker 1: and you can have a home in heaven. That's good news.
Speaker 1: Where else can you get that kind of news? Nowhere else?
Speaker 1: And did you know that at Easter, studies have shown
Speaker 1: people are more open to an invitation to go to
Speaker 1: church than at any other time of the year. Don't
Speaker 1: go to church by yourself, but bring somebody who doesn't
Speaker 1: know Jesus Christ, a family member, a friend, a coworker,
Speaker 1: a neighbor, a relative. And if you bring them to
Speaker 1: that church service and they come to know Christ, You're
Speaker 1: going to be making a friend for eternity. It'll be
Speaker 1: the most important investment you can ever make in their lives.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if they come to Christ, would
Speaker 1: you let me know about it. I'd love to hear
Speaker 1: that story that you brought somebody to Easter and they
Speaker 1: found Jesus. You can write to me Rick at Pastorrick
Speaker 1: dot com. That's rickat Pastorrick dot com. I would love
Speaker 1: to hear from you. God bless you and Happy Easter.
Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Well, this weekend,
Speaker 2: across every continent and in thousands of languages, millions of
Speaker 2: people will join together to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: The cornerstone of our faith. But you know it doesn't
Speaker 3: stop there.
Speaker 2: Not only was Jesus resurrected, he is still alive. And
Speaker 2: now let's join Pastor Rick as he shares the final
Speaker 2: part of this powerful Easter message, what it means to
Speaker 2: believe in Jesus.
Speaker 1: Now, God has a purpose and a plan for your life,
Speaker 1: and he wants you to follow that plan. Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: did not come and die on the cross for your
Speaker 1: sins so you could go to heaven, just so you
Speaker 1: could continue living a self centered life. In fact, the
Speaker 1: Bible says this, It's up here on the screen. It
Speaker 1: says he died for everyone, that's Jesus, so that those
Speaker 1: who receive his new life will no longer live to
Speaker 1: please themselves. Instead, they will live to please Christ who
Speaker 1: died and was raised for them. God says, what on
Speaker 1: earth are you here for? You're here for his plan
Speaker 1: and his purpose, and God wants to use you in
Speaker 1: a way you can't even imagine. Look at this next verse,
Speaker 1: the Bible says, give yourselves completely to God, every part
Speaker 1: of you, for you've been saved from death, and you
Speaker 1: want to be tools in the hands of God. Tools
Speaker 1: in the hands of God to be used for his
Speaker 1: good purposes. Friends, that is the greatest adventure in life,
Speaker 1: to be used by God for the purpose he made you.
Speaker 1: Nothing comes close to this that when you finally experience
Speaker 1: the day where you go, WHOA, this is it. This
Speaker 1: is why God made me, and you know it, and
Speaker 1: you go, WHOA, this feels so good. Well, of course
Speaker 1: it does. It's what God made you to be. And
Speaker 1: there's satisfaction and their significance, and there's meaning, and there's
Speaker 1: fulfillment and the greatest thrill in life, the greatest adventure
Speaker 1: in life is the feeling of being used by God
Speaker 1: for the purpose that you know you were created for.
Speaker 1: If you've never experienced the thrill of being used by
Speaker 1: God for the purpose you were made for, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but you're missing out on it. You're missing There's nothing.
Speaker 1: It's better than sex, it's better than making a million dollars.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to compare to that feeling of WHOA, this
Speaker 1: is why I'm here. God made me for this purpose,
Speaker 1: and now I know why I'm on this planet, and
Speaker 1: it's the greatest adventure of life. God says, this is
Speaker 1: the difference between success and significance. I got a lot
Speaker 1: of successful friends. I probably know a dozen guys who
Speaker 1: are billionaires. But you know the problem is success it
Speaker 1: doesn't satisfy. Why because you always want a little bit more,
Speaker 1: and because there's always who's got somebody some more than
Speaker 1: you do. You were made for more than success. It's
Speaker 1: why so many people go, if I'm so successful, why
Speaker 1: do I feel like a fake? Why am I so unfulfilled?
Speaker 1: Because you were made for more than success. You were
Speaker 1: made for significance. Success is just the middle level of living.
Speaker 1: You can live at the lowest level, survival, or you
Speaker 1: can live at the success level. Or you can live
Speaker 1: at the best level, which is the significance level. And
Speaker 1: how do you live a life of significance being what
Speaker 1: God created you to be? And then you know, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm here for. There's so many stories in
Speaker 1: the Bible where Jesus talks about this concept and about
Speaker 1: investing your life. Most people don't realize about half the
Speaker 1: stories Jesus told have to do with business. In fact,
Speaker 1: every principle of business success is in the Bible. And
Speaker 1: if you'll do business by the book, you will prosper
Speaker 1: at it because God has given us the principles for business.
Speaker 1: And in one of the stories that Jesus told on investments,
Speaker 1: he ends his story by saying this, to those who
Speaker 1: use well and invest what they've been given by God,
Speaker 1: even more will be give to them. But for those
Speaker 1: who are unfaithful with what they've been given, even what
Speaker 1: little they have will be taken away from them. What's
Speaker 1: he saying? God has made an investment in your life.
Speaker 1: First he created you, then he gave you gifts and
Speaker 1: ability and personnelity and experiences, and he gave you talents.
Speaker 1: And God has made an investment in your life and
Speaker 1: expects a return on the investment. And he says that
Speaker 1: if you do well with what He gave you, and
Speaker 1: you use it for the right purposes, then God's going
Speaker 1: to say, I'm going to give you more of it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you more talent. I'll give you
Speaker 1: more experience. I'll give you more. One day, you're going
Speaker 1: to stand before God and God's going to give a
Speaker 1: final exam, And here are the two questions on the
Speaker 1: final exam. The first question God's going to ask you
Speaker 1: is this, what did you do with my son Jesus?
Speaker 1: What did you do with my son Jesus. He's not
Speaker 1: going to say, did you join a country club? Did
Speaker 1: you join a church? Did you have religion? He's going
Speaker 1: to say, what did you do with my son Jesus?
Speaker 1: You know, the one I sent to earth to die
Speaker 1: for your Did you ever develop a relationship with him?
Speaker 1: Did you ever follow him? You ever accept his grace?
Speaker 1: Second question he is going to ask is what did
Speaker 1: you do with what I gave you? Well, you know, Lord,
Speaker 1: I had a really good time and then I retired
Speaker 1: and died. What you think I put you on earth
Speaker 1: to live for yourself? Little puny self? You gotta be
Speaker 1: kidding me. You think that the biggest thing in life
Speaker 1: was you for you to live for you. If you
Speaker 1: don't have anything greater than yourself than yourself to live for,
Speaker 1: you got a pretty puny God. You don't have much
Speaker 1: reason to get out of bed in the morning just
Speaker 1: for you, and that's why you get stressed out all
Speaker 1: the time. You need something greater than yourself to pull
Speaker 1: you out of yourself. To make you greater than you
Speaker 1: think you could possibly be. God sees in you what
Speaker 1: you can't even see in yourself, the ability for greatness.
Speaker 1: And God says, I want to make an investment in you,
Speaker 1: and I expect a response back, what are you doing
Speaker 1: with what you've been given? And he says, Lord, what
Speaker 1: are we going to do with what you've given us? Well?
Speaker 1: Where to use it? And we're not to use it
Speaker 1: just on ourselves. We're to use it and helping other people. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, every investment has a return on it, either
Speaker 1: good or bad. Can you say bear Stearns, Because this
Speaker 1: last week I had some friends who were millionaires in
Speaker 1: there now zero errors because they lost it all. They
Speaker 1: had it all invested in bear Stearns. You better make
Speaker 1: your investments in life wisely. What is the ROI on
Speaker 1: following Jesus? What is the return on investment if I
Speaker 1: follow God's purpose for my life instead of my own
Speaker 1: dinky plans. Well, that's a good question, and Peter asked
Speaker 1: it about two thousand years ago on the screen. Peter said,
Speaker 1: in the Bible, Lord, we've given up everything to follow you.
Speaker 1: What will we get out of it? Jesus replied, I
Speaker 1: assure you this in heaven, anyone who has given up
Speaker 1: anything to follow me will receive a hundred times as
Speaker 1: much in return, and will inherit eternal life. Whoa he says.
Speaker 1: Whatever you give up to do God's purpose and plan,
Speaker 1: you get restored one hundred fold in eternity. Do you
Speaker 1: know what a hundredfold is? That's ten thousand percent interest.
Speaker 1: There's not a hedge fund in the world that'll give
Speaker 1: you those rates. There's not a single thing you could
Speaker 1: do with your life on this planet that will give
Speaker 1: you a ten thousand percent return on your investment except
Speaker 1: doing what God made you to do. And he says,
Speaker 1: and you get to enjoy that, by the way, not
Speaker 1: for eighty years, but for all of eternity. If I
Speaker 1: if I knew a better investment plan than give my
Speaker 1: life Christ, believe me, I'm due, I'd be doing it
Speaker 1: because I'm not going to waste my life. But there
Speaker 1: isn't and so I have given my life to invest
Speaker 1: my life for Him. Now, I want to tell you this,
Speaker 1: if you choose to join Saddlebacked Church at some point
Speaker 1: in your life, you need to realize that the people
Speaker 1: in this church, they get this principle They understand it,
Speaker 1: probably better than anybody else, that life is not about us.
Speaker 1: It's about investing it for good and for God in others,
Speaker 1: and the rewards are going to be eternal. I say,
Speaker 1: without fear of contradiction, this may be the most unselfish
Speaker 1: church around I heard this week. Just yesterday, I heard
Speaker 1: about a couple hundred guys in our church business, guys
Speaker 1: who quietly, without any fanfare, have been every weekend for
Speaker 1: the last year going and feeding the homeless here in
Speaker 1: Orange County. I didn't even know they were doing it.
Speaker 1: And then over eight almost eight thousand, seven thousand, seven
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six people in this church in the
Speaker 1: last four years have paid their own way to go
Speaker 1: overseas to care for the sick, assist the poor, educate
Speaker 1: the next generation, help people build stuff, to help people
Speaker 1: less fortunate than us. Paying their own way. Why because
Speaker 1: we have been blessed to be a blessing. Now, folks,
Speaker 1: we live in southern California, in an Orange County. This
Speaker 1: is a blessed area. Everybody want to agree with that.
Speaker 1: I don't know many. I've been around the world many times.
Speaker 1: They are not places in the world as blessed as
Speaker 1: Orange County, And why did God put us here just
Speaker 1: so weed be fat cats and spending all on ourselves. No,
Speaker 1: he put us here. We are blessed to be a
Speaker 1: blessing to others. And it's time for you to give back.
Speaker 1: It's time for you to make a difference with your
Speaker 1: life in the world, so you don't spend all your
Speaker 1: time and money just on yourself. Are you doing anything
Speaker 1: in your life that is totally unselfish? You do it
Speaker 1: for somebody less fortunate than you, and you don't get
Speaker 1: anything back from you. Just do it. It's good for
Speaker 1: your heart. Now the tea and Faith Pastor Tom is
Speaker 1: going to come and talk about the fourth facet of faith.
Speaker 4: And it's trust. You trust his wisdom and strength. Trust
Speaker 4: his wisdom and strength. The Bible says this in coloss
Speaker 4: in chapter two, verse six. Just as you trusted Christ
Speaker 4: to save, you trust him for each day's problems too.
Speaker 4: Live in vital union with him. That's how it works.
Speaker 4: You trust him at the beginning of this life of faith,
Speaker 4: and then you trust him for each day's problems too.
Speaker 4: It's about it's about trust. I don't know if you've
Speaker 4: ever talked to somebody I have often as a pastor
Speaker 4: who they feel frustrated with the whole idea of faith.
Speaker 4: To them, faith just seems like one more thing to
Speaker 4: add to a too busy life. And you hear people
Speaker 4: say something like this, I've tried the religion thing. It
Speaker 4: just didn't work for me. Anybody hear anybody say something
Speaker 4: like that, You know what I'm talking about. Here's the
Speaker 4: problem with that phrase. It's in the word tried. Faith
Speaker 4: is not about trying. It's about trusting. In fact, you might,
Speaker 4: if you're take a note, you might even write that
Speaker 4: down in your outline. It's not trying, it's trusting. If
Speaker 4: it's about trying, it's just one more thing to make
Speaker 4: me more weary. I got to get up and go
Speaker 4: to church on Sunday and try to be a good
Speaker 4: person for God. Now that's not what it's about. It's
Speaker 4: about trusting Him to do what only he can do
Speaker 4: in my life. Trusting God's wisdom and God's strengthened my
Speaker 4: daily life. I know some of you you're at the
Speaker 4: end of your trying. I mean you've tried and tried
Speaker 4: in your marriage, You've tried to make it at school,
Speaker 4: you've tried in a relationship to make things work. You've
Speaker 4: tried to make it work in your business. You're at
Speaker 4: the end of your trying. When we get to the
Speaker 4: end of our trying, Jesus meets us there and he says,
Speaker 4: trust me, trust me. I will lift you up. I
Speaker 4: will give you wisdom and I will give you strength.
Speaker 4: Now you need both. I need both. I need wisdom
Speaker 4: and I need strength. Wisdom that shows me what to do,
Speaker 4: and then strength that gives me the power to do it.
Speaker 4: And I got to have both. Another way to say
Speaker 4: that is I need perspective and I need power. Next
Speaker 4: couple verses talk about those two things. Romans eight twenty
Speaker 4: eight says, we know that in all things God works
Speaker 4: for the good of those who love Him, who've been
Speaker 4: called according to his purpose. That's perspective. That's a different
Speaker 4: way of looking at life. Even in the worst that
Speaker 4: life throws at me, God's working for my good. He's
Speaker 4: working to develop me. He's working to develop my character.
Speaker 4: Would you like to have that perspective on life or
Speaker 4: even the worst that comes your way, God is working,
Speaker 4: Jesus says, when you trust me, that's what I give
Speaker 4: in your life. He gives your perspective, and he gives
Speaker 4: you power. I love this next verse. It's one of
Speaker 4: my favorite verses in the Bible, Philippians four thirteen. Would
Speaker 4: you read it with me? I have the strength to
Speaker 4: face all conditions by the power that Christ gives me.
Speaker 4: He gives you both when you trust him. How do
Speaker 4: you know when you're not trusting? Well, let me tell
Speaker 4: you one of the sure signs that you're not trusting.
Speaker 4: It's in the little word worry. Anybody else is familiar
Speaker 4: with this word and know what I'm talking about. When
Speaker 4: you're worrying, you're not trusting. And when I'm trusting, I'm
Speaker 4: not worrying. If I'm sure that a chair I'm going
Speaker 4: to sit on is solid, I trust. I don't worry
Speaker 4: that it's going to collapse under me. But when I
Speaker 4: start worrying, I stop trusting. And one of the keys
Speaker 4: to knowing what's going on in my life is the
Speaker 4: worry factor in my life. How much am I worrying?
Speaker 4: Jesus Christ can help you with your worries.
Speaker 1: Now, the last facet of face the h and faih
Speaker 1: is hold on to his promises, hold on to his promises.
Speaker 1: Did you know that in the Bible. In this book,
Speaker 1: there are over seven thousand promises from God to you,
Speaker 1: and God says, if you'll trust him, he will make
Speaker 1: these promises true in your life because he wants you
Speaker 1: to learn to trust him. There's promises he'll say, I'll
Speaker 1: take care of you. Promises a provision, I'll meet your need.
Speaker 1: Promises of protection, I'll watch out for you. Promises of prosperity,
Speaker 1: promises of power, promises of peace. Did you know that
Speaker 1: in this Bible that there are promises to you about
Speaker 1: success if you do certain things, Promises about health, Promises
Speaker 1: about healing, promises about comfort when you're down about loneliness
Speaker 1: over and they're over seven thousand promises. They're like blank
Speaker 1: checks waiting for you to just write them out and
Speaker 1: send them back to God. Because God wants you to
Speaker 1: learn to trust him, you hold on to his promises. Now,
Speaker 1: if I have an insurance policy and I know what's
Speaker 1: covered in that policy, I don't worry about it when
Speaker 1: I get in an accident or I have some kind
Speaker 1: of surgery because I know my policy's going to cover that.
Speaker 1: When I don't know what my insurance covers, if all
Speaker 1: of a sudden I ask some of accident, I go,
Speaker 1: I don't know if covers that. I start worrying about it. Now,
Speaker 1: you know the reason why you worry all the time
Speaker 1: is you don't know what's covered in the policy. You
Speaker 1: don't know what God's promised to do in your life. Well,
Speaker 1: if you don't even know what, you certainly can't claim
Speaker 1: that promise for God to help you out. Now. I
Speaker 1: get asked all the time, is there anything that God
Speaker 1: can't do? Is there anything impossible for God?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: There is. The Bible tells us there's one thing it's
Speaker 1: impossible for God to do. God cannot lie. Because God
Speaker 1: is truth, he is ultimate truth. And God cannot lie.
Speaker 1: Something impossible for him to do. And the Bible says this,
Speaker 1: they're in your outline. God can't break his word, all
Speaker 1: these promises he's made, So we who have trusted our
Speaker 1: very lives to God have every reason to grab the
Speaker 1: promised hope with both hands and read it with me.
Speaker 1: Never let go, Never let go. Now. One of the
Speaker 1: great promises in the Bible is the promise that God says,
Speaker 1: I will never stop loving you. I will never stop
Speaker 1: loving you. Look at this next verse. He was a
Speaker 1: promise nothing will ever be able to separate us from
Speaker 1: the love his love. Death can't, and life can't. Angels can't,
Speaker 1: demons can't. Our fears for today are worries about tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Even the powers of hell can't keep God's love away.
Speaker 1: Whether we're high above the sky or in the deepest oceans,
Speaker 1: nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate
Speaker 1: us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ, Jesus,
Speaker 1: our Lord. You know you might try to make God
Speaker 1: stop loving you. You can try, but you're going to fail.
Speaker 1: You can't make God stop loving you because his love
Speaker 1: isn't based on what you do. It's based on who
Speaker 1: He is, and he says, I will never stop loving
Speaker 1: you now. I don't know how you've been heard in life,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure you've been heart many different ways. And
Speaker 1: I'm sorry as your friend, As a pastor, I'm so
Speaker 1: sorry about your hurt. Maybe you up, maybe you have
Speaker 1: been allied to, Maybe you've been deceived, Maybe you've been
Speaker 1: conned by somebody, Maybe you've been betrayed, and you go.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can believe anybody anymore. I
Speaker 1: don't know who to trust. I'll never trust a man again.
Speaker 1: I'll never trust a woman again. And you say, I
Speaker 1: don't know who I can believe. Well, Jesus says this,
Speaker 1: I am the truth. And he says the truth will
Speaker 1: set you free. And what you need in your life
Speaker 1: is freedom. You need freedom, and he will always tell
Speaker 1: you the truth. Now, maybe you felt battered and beaten
Speaker 1: and bruised and beat up. Maybe you've been abused. Maybe
Speaker 1: you've been abused physically or sexually, or maybe you've been
Speaker 1: abused verbally or emotionally. Jesus Christ says to you, he says,
Speaker 1: I promise, if you'll trust me, I can heal your
Speaker 1: heart and I can heal that hurt if you'll give
Speaker 1: it to me. Maybe you feel like you've been cast off.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've been rejected by somebody. You've known that pain
Speaker 1: of rejection, and you feel like you've been unwanted, You've
Speaker 1: been discarded. Jesus says to you, I will never leave you.
Speaker 1: I will never forsake you. He says, I will never
Speaker 1: abandon you. It's in the Bible. I will never abandon you.
Speaker 1: Maybe you feel like you've gotten burned in life. He said,
Speaker 1: you know, I really got burned recently, and my life's
Speaker 1: just a pile of ashes. It's all gone up in smoke.
Speaker 1: Did you know that there's a promise in the Bible
Speaker 1: where God says, if you'll give me all those pieces,
Speaker 1: I will restore beauty for the ashes. I will restore
Speaker 1: beauty for the ashes. You know, for so long I
Speaker 1: couldn't figure out how people could hear about how much
Speaker 1: God loves them and they walk away from it. I
Speaker 1: just couldn't figure that out about you know, the Bible says,
Speaker 1: he says, I'll give you your past forgiven. I'll give
Speaker 1: you a purpose for living, and I'll give you a
Speaker 1: home in heaven, past, president of future. Nobody can offer
Speaker 1: you that except Jesus Christ. And yet I've seen people
Speaker 1: walk away from it. And I couldn't figure it out
Speaker 1: for so many years. But after talking to thousands of people,
Speaker 1: I know now why behind every one of it is fear.
Speaker 1: It's fear that causes people to walk away from God.
Speaker 1: It's fear. Now. It may look like pride, but it's
Speaker 1: not pride. It may look like a stubbornness, but it's
Speaker 1: not stubbornness. It may look like intellectualism, oh, I have
Speaker 1: all these intellectual arguments. It may look like ego it's
Speaker 1: not ego. Underneath every single person's life. I found this
Speaker 1: every day. It's fear. I'm afraid of losing control. I'm
Speaker 1: afraid of giving up control to God. I'm afraid of
Speaker 1: letting God be God in my life. Now, if you're
Speaker 1: afraid of God, who could you not be afraid of?
Speaker 1: It's fear. I've seen grown men walk away from the
Speaker 1: greatest gifts. Say God has a plan and purpose for
Speaker 1: your life. And I've seen guys walk away out of
Speaker 1: fear and cowardice. It's fear on the inside. It says,
Speaker 1: don't give up, don't let go hold on, don't give
Speaker 1: up control. That's sad. The Bible says there's no fear
Speaker 1: in love. Perfect love casts out all fear. And because
Speaker 1: Jesus came at Easter and died on the cross and
Speaker 1: rose again, it says this. Jesus said, I am the
Speaker 1: one who raises the dead and gives them life again.
Speaker 1: Anyone who believes in Me, even though he dies, shall
Speaker 1: live again. He's talking about heaven. He has given eternal
Speaker 1: life for believing in me and shall never perish. Look
Speaker 1: at the next verse. The Bible says this, because Jesus
Speaker 1: was raised from the dead. That's what Easter is all about.
Speaker 1: We've been given a brand new life. That means you
Speaker 1: get a second chance, you get start over and everything
Speaker 1: to live for. That's purpose for life, including a future
Speaker 1: in heaven. That's God's retirement plan. And the future starts. Now, say,
Speaker 1: how do.
Speaker 4: I get it?
Speaker 1: How do I take that first step? Real simple? You
Speaker 1: give up your fear. You let go of your fear.
Speaker 1: You don't let fear keep you from the greatest thing,
Speaker 1: what you were created to enjoy. Now, I've written on
Speaker 1: your outline a believer's prayer, and what I want to
Speaker 1: do is I want to read through it and then
Speaker 1: I want us to all pray it together. So let
Speaker 1: me just read it to you, Dear Jesus. I want
Speaker 1: to have a real faith in you, not a fake faith.
Speaker 1: Thank you for dying for my sins and showing me
Speaker 1: the way to live today. I want to become a
Speaker 1: true believer in you. I want to follow your example.
Speaker 1: I want to accept your gift of grace. I need
Speaker 1: your forgiveness and mercy. You made me for a purpose,
Speaker 1: and I want to invest my life in serving you.
Speaker 1: I want to trust your wisdom and strength, and I
Speaker 1: want to hold on to your promises when times are tough. Friends,
Speaker 1: This is That's what it means to be a true believer.
Speaker 1: Whosoever believes in Me shall not perish, but have ever
Speaker 1: lasting life. Are you ready to accept that? Let's bow
Speaker 1: our heads. I'm going to pray this prayer again. You
Speaker 1: don't even have to close your eyes. You can keep
Speaker 1: them open and look at this prayer in your lap
Speaker 1: and you can just follow along with being Go me too, God,
Speaker 1: or you can read it aloud in your mind as
Speaker 1: I read it. Make this your prayer, Dear Jesus. I
Speaker 1: want to have a real faith in you, not a
Speaker 1: fake faith. Thank you for dying for my sins and
Speaker 1: showing me the way to live today. I want to
Speaker 1: become a true believer in you. I want to follow
Speaker 1: your example. I want to accept your gift of grace.
Speaker 1: I need your forgiveness and mercy. He made me for
Speaker 1: a purpose, and I want to invest my life in
Speaker 1: serving you. I want to trust your wisdom and strength,
Speaker 1: and I want to hold onto your promises when times
Speaker 1: are tough. Amen. If you prayed that prayer for the
Speaker 1: very first time, would you let me know about it?
Speaker 1: Write me Rick at pastor Rick dot com and say, Rick,
Speaker 1: I prayed that prayer of commitment, and I'll send you
Speaker 1: some material that will help you on your journey with Jesus,
Speaker 1: and I'll also pray for you.
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