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Rick Warren - When Your World Is Shaken Up (Part 3)

May 18, 2025 | S25:E20

Rick Warren - When Your World Is Shaken Up (Part 3)
Pastor Rick shares biblical truth and practical tools for living the full life God desires for everyone.
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Rick Warren | Rick Warren - When Your World Is Shaken Up (Part 3) | May 18, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick warren: now, we're living in a time of great
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  • Upheaval, when there's a lot of shakiness going on, but i'm not
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  • Here to talk about doom and gloom because this book is not
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  • About doom and gloom, it's about the answer to those.
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  • And god says, "no matter how bad the world gets in a rapidly
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  • Changing world and even in a decaying culture," god says, "i
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  • Want you to survive and not only that, thrive, and not only that,
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  • I want you to succeed."
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  • Jeremiah 29:11 says this--god says, "the plans i have for you
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  • Are plans for good and not to harm you.
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  • They're plans to give you hope and a future."
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  • In daniel's life, god did five things with the problems that he
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  • Had to face, and they are the same five things that god wants
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  • To do in your life, regardless of what kind of problems you're
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  • Going through.
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  • And number one, sometimes god shakes things up to inspect me,
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  • To inspect me.
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  • And what i mean by that is god will bring a problem in my life
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  • That reveals a motivation that's out of whack or a character or a
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  • Thought or an emotion or a motive.
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  • He examines and he checks it out and he does it all the time.
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  • I want you to write down a question.
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  • I'm gonna give you a question in each of these.
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  • Here's the question to ask about when god uses problems to
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  • Inspect me.
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  • What does this problem reveal about me?
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  • When your whole life is being shaken and everything--you're on
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  • Shaky ground, the foundation is unstable, what does this problem
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  • Reveal about me?
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  • God is inspecting you.
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  • Number two, and here's another reason, sometimes god shakes
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  • Things up in your life, not to inspect you, but to correct you.
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  • God wants to correct me.
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  • And so, sometimes god allows pain and problems and shakeups
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  • To inspect us, what's really in you.
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  • But sometimes god use pain and problems and shakeups to correct
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  • You, like he did with israel.
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  • So, here's the question, write this down.
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  • What is this problem teaching me?
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  • Instead of going, "why me?"
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  • Instead of asking, "why?", you should ask, "what?"
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  • Don't ask why when you go through problems, ask what, what
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  • Should i be learning.
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  • Not, "why is this happening to me?"
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  • But, "what should i be learning?"
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  • Because god uses problems to correct you, all right?
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  • Well let's look at number three.
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  • Sometimes god shakes things up to inspect me, sometimes god
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  • Shakes things up in my life to correct me, and number three,
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  • Sometimes god shakes things up to direct me, to direct me.
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  • He wants to point us in a new direction.
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  • He wants to guide us down a different path.
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  • So, god uses problems to prod us and to poke us and to push us
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  • And to prompt us, and he uses things to direct us.
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  • Write this down, question, where is this problem leading me?
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  • You wanna ask yourself, you want to get the most out of
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  • Your problems.
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  • Where is this problem leading me?
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  • Problems never leave you where they found you.
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  • You know, jonah--god told jonah to go east to nineveh.
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  • We talked about this the other week, and he didn't want to
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  • Go there.
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  • He's racially prejudiced, so he went to spain and parshus,
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  • Headed that direction.
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  • Went as far west as he could and god arranged a
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  • Custom-made problem.
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  • A custom-made fish swallowed him up.
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  • Sometimes you get swallowed up by a big problem, but when it
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  • Spits you out, you're headed in the right direction.
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  • And sometimes you're going this way and a problem swallows you
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  • Up and when it spits you out, you're going in the
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  • Right direction.
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  • God uses problems to direct us.
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  • Number four, sometimes god shakes things up to protect us.
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  • Sometimes god shakes things up to protect us.
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  • Did you know that sometimes pain protects you from
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  • Something worse?
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  • That you're going through a problem, but it's actually
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  • Preventing you from a bigger problem, it's keeping you from
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  • Greater harm.
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  • Job 36:16, "god led you away from danger," god often does
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  • This and you don't even realize it.
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  • "god has led you away from danger, giving you freedom."
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  • Problems are the preparation for success, and it really comes
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  • Down to a matter of faith.
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  • Will you trust god?
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  • You remember the story of joseph in the bible?
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  • You know, he had this vision that one day he'd be a great
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  • Leader and literally for the first 40 years of his life,
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  • Everything went wrong.
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  • He's betrayed by his brothers, he's sold into slavery, he's
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  • Taken down to egypt, he gets a job as a slave in a boss's home.
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  • The woman--the wife of the boss is attracted to him.
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  • She comes on to him, offers herself to him, he refuses.
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  • He said, "i have integrity.
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  • I'm not gonna have an affair with my boss's wife."
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  • And so, she feels spurned, she accuses him of rape, and he's
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  • Put in prison for the rest of his life for a crime he
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  • Never committed.
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  • Everything's gone wrong in his life, but it's exactly where god
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  • Wanted him.
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  • And a series of circumstances, the second half of his life is
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  • Like this, and he ends up second in command, helping pharaoh save
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  • The most powerful nation of that time.
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  • You don't know.
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  • Sometimes god is protecting you with a problem in your life.
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  • And when it was all over, joseph said to his brothers who had
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  • Betrayed him, genesis 50:20, "you intended to harm me, but
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  • God intended it for good."
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  • Sometimes god shakes things up just to protect you.
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  • It's kinda like a fever.
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  • When you get a fever and you feel really bad, fever is not
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  • The problem, friend.
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  • Fever is just a symptom.
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  • The fever is telling you something worse is going on in
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  • Your body.
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  • And if you didn't have the fever, you wouldn't get
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  • The help.
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  • You know, a fever warns you of an infection that needs to be
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  • Dealt with and sometimes a small pain can alert you to a
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  • Life-threatening disease.
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  • Now this goes true with your emotions too.
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  • Sometimes you're feeling really bad and you're feeling really,
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  • Really bad, you're down and you're depressed and you're
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  • Discouraged and you got all these bad negative feelings and
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  • You're praying to god take away the feelings, he doesn't take
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  • Away the feelings.
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  • You know, "why don't you take away the feelings?"
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  • God says, "because the feelings aren't your problem.
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  • The problem is what you're thinking about is causing
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  • Those feelings.
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  • You gotta stop believing the lies.
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  • And when you stop believing the lies about you, the lies about
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  • Me, and the lies about other people, you're gonna
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  • Feel better.
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  • I'm not gonna take away the feelings.
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  • The feelings are telling you that you're thinking
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  • Is stinking.
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  • You need a checkup from the neck up.
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  • You know, you gotta get your thoughts right."
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  • I remember when we're doing the 23rd psalm series and i read
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  • About how shepherds in the middle east will sometimes
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  • Intentionally break a leg of a healthy sheep.
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  • Why?
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  • Because that sheep is prone to wander.
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  • And it'll wander off.
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  • And in order to protect that sheep from wolves and bears and
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  • Other predators, they will break the leg of the sheep and the
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  • Sheep walks with limp so it doesn't wander off.
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  • And if god has to break your leg to keep you from wandering off
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  • And getting in a worse problem, he will.
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  • He loves you that much.
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  • That's no fun to hurt somebody you love, but just like a
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  • Surgeon will cut you to heal you, god will break you to save
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  • You if that's what it takes.
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  • Sometimes god may do that to you.
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  • You see those things that you think are disappointments,
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  • Disappointments are his appointments.
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  • Disappointments are actually his appointments.
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  • God has appointed them, and there's a reason behind it for
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  • Your own good.
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  • Now sometimes god removes a harmful person in your life, and
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  • It breaks your heart.
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  • Don't run after them.
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  • Some of you, that's all you need to hear.
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  • You just need to hear your pastor say that.
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  • Sometimes, there's a harmful person in your life, but you're
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  • Addicted to them.
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  • And god will remove them from your life, don't run after them.
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  • God has shake things--shaking things up to protect you.
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  • So ask this question, question number four, how could this
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  • Problem protect me?
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  • How could this problem be protecting me?
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  • What's being prevented?
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  • What could be worse in my life than what's--than this problem?
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  • Well there are a lot of things that could be worse.
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  • All right, number five.
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  • The fifth way that god shakes things up in your life or--and
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  • The fifth reason for shaking things up in your life is not to
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  • Correct me or inspect me or direct me, but god uses things
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  • And problems to perfect me, to make you more like jesus christ,
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  • To grow your character, to grow you up.
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  • Margaret carlson years ago wrote a book called "grace grows best
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  • In winter."
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  • You know, it's possible to grow during the bright fair weather
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  • Times, but growth is faster and deeper often during your
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  • Darkest days.
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  • Like when you lose a child.
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  • And that's where you grow deep.
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  • I could read you thousands of letters that have been written
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  • To me over the last 36 years from people who say, "you know,
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  • I grew more, pastor rick, through that separation.
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  • I grew more, pastor rick, through that unemployment,
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  • Through that illness, through that tragedy, through that loss,
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  • Through that storm than i ever would have grown if things were
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  • Going good in my life."
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  • I want you to write this down in your outline.
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  • Pain is the high cost of growth. pain is the high cost of growth.
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  • If you wanna grow up, you wanna be mature, there is no way to do
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  • It without pain.
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  • Pain is the cost of growing up.
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  • You can't grow up on the easy street.
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  • And see, we want the product without the process.
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  • It is a cliche, but it is true.
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  • There is no gain without pain.
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  • There's no maturity without growing pains, and the very
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  • Thing that discourages you is the very thing that god is using
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  • To develop you.
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  • When you learn this, you're gonna be unshakable in life like
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  • Daniel was.
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  • We're gonna see all these things in his life.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick: friends, one of the most powerful ways you can
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  • Transform your spiritual life is to memorize scripture.
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  • God tells us in proverbs 7:2, "guard my words as your most
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  • Precious possession.
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  • Write them down, and also keep them deep within your heart."
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  • Now here's how i want to help you memorize god's word.
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  • We've put together a new packet, a new set of cards with verses
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  • From the bible for you to memorize.
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  • They're very beautiful, and they will keep these bible verses,
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  • God's word, before you every day, helping you to memorize the
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  • Word of god.
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  • I hope you'll take advantage of this new resource.
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  • Female announcer: today, when you support pastor rick's "daily
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  • Hope" with a gift to help share the hope of jesus christ with
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  • People around the world, we'll send you these scripture cards
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  • To say thanks.
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  • Pastor rick: the things that discourage you are actually the
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  • Things that god wants to use to develop you, and there is a
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  • Reward coming.
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  • 1 peter 5:10, the bible says this, "after you have suffered a
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  • Little while, the god of all grace, who calls you to share
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  • His eternal glory," god's gonna share his glory with you, "in
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  • Union with the christ, will himself perfect you," circle
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  • That, "will perfect you and give you firmness and strength and a
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  • Sure foundation," why?
  • 00:13:00.895 --> 00:13:02.230
  • Because you're not taking your car or your cash or your career
  • 00:13:02.230 --> 00:13:06.968
  • Or your clothes or your china to heaven, you're taking
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  • Your character.
  • 00:13:10.638 --> 00:13:12.674
  • God is not interested in making your life easy on this earth.
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  • He's interested in growing your character.
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  • The easy part comes for eternity.
  • 00:13:18.246 --> 00:13:21.149
  • You're in school right now.
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  • You're in school.
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  • And in school, god says, "there are eternal rewards coming and
  • 00:13:24.552 --> 00:13:28.156
  • I'm going to perfect you."
  • 00:13:28.156 --> 00:13:29.791
  • So, knowing that god can even use the bad things in my life to
  • 00:13:29.791 --> 00:13:33.962
  • Inspect me, to direct me, to correct me, and to even perfect
  • 00:13:33.962 --> 00:13:41.703
  • Me, what should be my response?
  • 00:13:41.703 --> 00:13:44.138
  • Romans chapter 5 tells us, we can rejoice, we can rejoice, "we
  • 00:13:44.138 --> 00:13:49.944
  • Can rejoice when we run into problems and trials, for we
  • 00:13:49.944 --> 00:13:53.815
  • Know," it's perspective, "that they're good for us."
  • 00:13:53.815 --> 00:13:57.151
  • We run into problems and drugs.
  • 00:13:57.151 --> 00:13:58.519
  • We know they're good for us.
  • 00:13:58.519 --> 00:13:59.854
  • "they help us learn to be patient.
  • 00:13:59.854 --> 00:14:01.589
  • And patience develops strength of character," boom, "in us and
  • 00:14:01.589 --> 00:14:07.795
  • Helps us trust god more each time we use it."
  • 00:14:07.795 --> 00:14:11.733
  • So, here's the fifth question, how can i grow from
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  • This problem?
  • 00:14:14.469 --> 00:14:17.238
  • See, the bottom line, your problems are not your problems.
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  • All those things that you think are your problems, they're not
  • 00:14:21.709 --> 00:14:24.345
  • Your problems.
  • 00:14:24.345 --> 00:14:25.680
  • Your problems are not your problems.
  • 00:14:25.680 --> 00:14:28.249
  • Your real problems are how you choose to respond to
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  • Your problems.
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  • And if you respond to them in a way where you trust god and you
  • 00:14:32.687 --> 00:14:36.157
  • Praise god and you thank god and you maintain your integrity and
  • 00:14:36.157 --> 00:14:40.395
  • You don't give up and you don't give in and you do the things
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  • That we'll see daniel do in 70 years of his life, you're just
  • 00:14:43.331 --> 00:14:47.568
  • Gonna get promoted and promoted and promoted and promoted and
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  • Promoted into eternity.
  • 00:14:50.939 --> 00:14:54.175
  • How can i grow from this problem?
  • 00:14:54.175 --> 00:14:57.912
  • And those problems you think you've got right now--really,
  • 00:14:57.912 --> 00:15:02.083
  • When do problems really become problems?
  • 00:15:02.083 --> 00:15:05.019
  • When do your problems really become real problems?
  • 00:15:05.019 --> 00:15:08.389
  • Well my problem becomes a real problem when i lose
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  • My perspective.
  • 00:15:11.125 --> 00:15:12.927
  • My problem becomes a real problem when i give up on
  • 00:15:12.927 --> 00:15:16.230
  • Important values, and i just say, "forget it.
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  • I'm not gonna waste time anymore.
  • 00:15:18.099 --> 00:15:20.234
  • I give up. i'm giving it up."
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  • Our problem becomes a real problem when you lose your sense
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  • Of humor.
  • 00:15:24.372 --> 00:15:27.108
  • Your problem becomes a real problem when you start feeling
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  • Sorry for yourself and have a pity party.
  • 00:15:29.744 --> 00:15:32.613
  • Your problem becomes a real problem when you get bitter and
  • 00:15:32.613 --> 00:15:35.049
  • You start blaming everybody else for your unhappiness.
  • 00:15:35.049 --> 00:15:38.086
  • Now it's a problem.
  • 00:15:38.086 --> 00:15:39.821
  • That's the real problem.
  • 00:15:39.821 --> 00:15:41.589
  • So, god is saying, and we're gonna see this.
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  • This is an index to daniel's life.
  • 00:15:44.192 --> 00:15:47.462
  • He said, "don't be surprised when you have adversity."
  • 00:15:47.462 --> 00:15:52.066
  • "in the world you will have tribulation," jesus said.
  • 00:15:52.066 --> 00:15:55.436
  • "realize that i can use it five different ways, okay?
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  • I can inspect you and i can correct you and i can direct you
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  • And i can protect you and i can perfect you.
  • 00:16:04.512 --> 00:16:07.081
  • I can use all these different ways in what's going on in
  • 00:16:07.081 --> 00:16:10.018
  • Your life."
  • 00:16:10.018 --> 00:16:12.754
  • And so, what's the third suggestion?
  • 00:16:12.754 --> 00:16:14.622
  • Here it is.
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  • Finally, trust god for what i don't understand.
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  • When there's a problem in my life, but this one does not
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  • Make sense.
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  • I don't get it.
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  • I don't see the perfection.
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  • I don't see the inspection.
  • 00:16:29.904 --> 00:16:31.272
  • I don't see the correction.
  • 00:16:31.272 --> 00:16:32.607
  • I don't see the protection.
  • 00:16:32.607 --> 00:16:33.941
  • I don't see the perfection.
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  • I--this problem does not make sense.
  • 00:16:35.510 --> 00:16:39.113
  • Then i trust god for what i don't understand, knowing that
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  • He has my best interest at heart.
  • 00:16:42.550 --> 00:16:44.285
  • Last two verses, proverbs 20:24, "since the lord is directing our
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  • Steps, why try to understand everything that happens along
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  • The way?"
  • 00:16:52.693 --> 00:16:54.062
  • Hello.
  • 00:16:54.062 --> 00:16:56.531
  • Some of us need to memorize that and tattoo it on our arm, okay?
  • 00:16:56.531 --> 00:17:00.668
  • If you're ever gonna get a tattoo, get that verse right
  • 00:17:00.668 --> 00:17:02.637
  • There, okay?
  • 00:17:02.637 --> 00:17:03.971
  • "since the lord is directing our steps, why try to understand
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  • Everything that happens along the way?"
  • 00:17:07.108 --> 00:17:09.677
  • It's foolish.
  • 00:17:09.677 --> 00:17:11.546
  • You're trying to understand god's ways like an ant trying to
  • 00:17:11.546 --> 00:17:14.282
  • Understand the internet.
  • 00:17:14.282 --> 00:17:15.650
  • You don't have the brain capacity.
  • 00:17:15.650 --> 00:17:18.019
  • God is god and you're not.
  • 00:17:18.019 --> 00:17:20.288
  • So, what do you do when you don't understand?
  • 00:17:20.288 --> 00:17:22.190
  • You trust.
  • 00:17:22.190 --> 00:17:23.524
  • Last verse, proverbs 3:5-6, "trust the lord with all your
  • 00:17:23.524 --> 00:17:28.563
  • Heart," it doesn't say intellect, heart.
  • 00:17:28.563 --> 00:17:31.199
  • "trust the lord with all your heart.
  • 00:17:31.199 --> 00:17:33.668
  • Don't depend on your own understanding.
  • 00:17:33.668 --> 00:17:36.370
  • Honor the lord in everything you do and he will give you," what's
  • 00:17:36.370 --> 00:17:42.110
  • The word?
  • 00:17:42.110 --> 00:17:43.644
  • Circle that, "success."
  • 00:17:43.644 --> 00:17:45.980
  • I want you to be a success in life.
  • 00:17:45.980 --> 00:17:49.350
  • God wants you to be a success in life.
  • 00:17:49.350 --> 00:17:52.220
  • As your pastor, as your spiritual coach, it is my goal,
  • 00:17:52.220 --> 00:17:55.656
  • My job, my role to help you succeed in every area of the
  • 00:17:55.656 --> 00:17:59.727
  • Life that god has given you.
  • 00:17:59.727 --> 00:18:01.462
  • I want you to be a success.
  • 00:18:01.462 --> 00:18:04.232
  • Not just survive when times are tough, not just survive in a
  • 00:18:04.232 --> 00:18:08.603
  • Hostile culture to christians, but to thrive and actually get
  • 00:18:08.603 --> 00:18:13.875
  • Promoted and have greater influence and be used by god in
  • 00:18:13.875 --> 00:18:18.079
  • An amazing way.
  • 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:19.413
  • That's what we're gonna look at in this series.
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  • Let's bow our heads.
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  • Let me close with a little self-evaluation.
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  • Why don't you ask these questions to god in your mind.
  • 00:18:29.790 --> 00:18:33.494
  • Here's the first one to say, "lord, are you using these
  • 00:18:33.494 --> 00:18:37.565
  • Problems to inspect me?
  • 00:18:37.565 --> 00:18:40.201
  • You know, the ones i'm going through right now?
  • 00:18:40.201 --> 00:18:42.870
  • Are you using these problems to inspect me?
  • 00:18:42.870 --> 00:18:44.672
  • If so, what does it reveal about my life?
  • 00:18:44.672 --> 00:18:48.176
  • Is there a weakness?
  • 00:18:48.176 --> 00:18:50.511
  • Is there a misplaced priority in my life?
  • 00:18:50.511 --> 00:18:54.081
  • Is there someplace i've compromised the truth and you're
  • 00:18:54.081 --> 00:18:59.287
  • Trying to show it to me?"
  • 00:18:59.287 --> 00:19:02.590
  • Then say, "lord, are you using this problem to correct me?
  • 00:19:02.590 --> 00:19:07.795
  • If so, what do you want me to learn?
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  • I'm not gonna ask why?
  • 00:19:10.798 --> 00:19:12.166
  • Why is this happening to me?
  • 00:19:12.166 --> 00:19:13.501
  • I'm gonna ask what?
  • 00:19:13.501 --> 00:19:14.869
  • What do you want me to learn?
  • 00:19:14.869 --> 00:19:16.204
  • What do you want me to know?
  • 00:19:16.204 --> 00:19:19.707
  • Lord, are you using this problem not just to inspect or correct,
  • 00:19:19.707 --> 00:19:22.410
  • Are you using this problem to direct me?
  • 00:19:22.410 --> 00:19:25.479
  • If so, what's the direction?
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  • What do you want me to change?
  • 00:19:28.716 --> 00:19:30.618
  • What's the new direction?
  • 00:19:30.618 --> 00:19:32.920
  • Where do you want me headed?
  • 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:36.757
  • Lord, are you using this problem to protect me?
  • 00:19:36.757 --> 00:19:42.663
  • Did that thing not happen because you knew something that
  • 00:19:42.663 --> 00:19:46.834
  • I didn't know, and i was walking into a bigger trap, a bigger
  • 00:19:46.834 --> 00:19:50.605
  • Problem, a bigger fiasco, a bigger difficulty and you
  • 00:19:50.605 --> 00:19:55.042
  • Protected me?
  • 00:19:55.042 --> 00:19:56.644
  • So lord, then i'm just gonna tell you, i trust you.
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  • I know that you know best.
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  • Thank you for protecting me.
  • 00:20:02.250 --> 00:20:03.784
  • And god, i want you to protect me.
  • 00:20:03.784 --> 00:20:06.487
  • And when there's something that i want that would be bad for me,
  • 00:20:06.487 --> 00:20:09.690
  • Don't let me have it.
  • 00:20:09.690 --> 00:20:12.326
  • I want your will more than my will."
  • 00:20:12.326 --> 00:20:19.100
  • And then say, "lord, are you using this problem to
  • 00:20:19.100 --> 00:20:21.335
  • Perfect me?"
  • 00:20:21.335 --> 00:20:24.338
  • You see, god's at work in your life, even when you don't
  • 00:20:24.338 --> 00:20:26.340
  • Recognize it or even understand it.
  • 00:20:26.340 --> 00:20:28.676
  • God's work in your life is not dependent upon you
  • 00:20:28.676 --> 00:20:31.479
  • Understanding it.
  • 00:20:31.479 --> 00:20:34.048
  • So, i want you to pray this prayer very simply.
  • 00:20:34.048 --> 00:20:36.350
  • Say, "dear god, i wanna trust you with all my heart," just say
  • 00:20:36.350 --> 00:20:40.621
  • It in your mind, "i trust you with all my heart, not
  • 00:20:40.621 --> 00:20:43.524
  • My intellect.
  • 00:20:43.524 --> 00:20:46.060
  • I'm not gonna depend on my own understanding.
  • 00:20:46.060 --> 00:20:50.631
  • And god, i wanna honor you in everything i do, work, home,
  • 00:20:50.631 --> 00:20:56.103
  • Anywhere else.
  • 00:20:56.103 --> 00:20:58.673
  • And if i trust you, and i don't depend on my own understanding,
  • 00:20:58.673 --> 00:21:02.376
  • And i honor you in everything i do, you've promised to give me
  • 00:21:02.376 --> 00:21:05.212
  • Success, and i'm gonna believe that.
  • 00:21:05.212 --> 00:21:10.051
  • Teach me through the life of daniel in these weeks ahead.
  • 00:21:10.051 --> 00:21:15.690
  • Jesus christ, i want to trust you with all of my life, as best
  • 00:21:15.690 --> 00:21:20.161
  • I know how, and i'm doing it today.
  • 00:21:20.161 --> 00:21:23.898
  • In your name i pray, amen."
  • 00:21:23.898 --> 00:21:27.068
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:21:27.068 --> 00:21:34.375
  • Pastor rick: today i'd like to read a testimony that really
  • 00:21:34.375 --> 00:21:37.011
  • Blessed me.
  • 00:21:37.011 --> 00:21:38.346
  • It shows how even when you make mistakes, god's faithful to
  • 00:21:38.346 --> 00:21:41.148
  • Forgive you and that he's always working in your life to bring
  • 00:21:41.148 --> 00:21:44.285
  • About everything together for good in your life.
  • 00:21:44.285 --> 00:21:47.888
  • Not everything is good in your life, but god works it all for
  • 00:21:47.888 --> 00:21:51.058
  • Good in your life.
  • 00:21:51.058 --> 00:21:52.760
  • Now this is from a man who says he's a recovering addict, and
  • 00:21:52.760 --> 00:21:55.763
  • This is part of his story that starts when he listened to a
  • 00:21:55.763 --> 00:22:00.401
  • "daily hope" podcast.
  • 00:22:00.401 --> 00:22:01.936
  • Here's what he wrote, "pastor rick, a couple of months ago, i
  • 00:22:01.936 --> 00:22:06.173
  • Started a twelve-step program in working the steps and in turning
  • 00:22:06.173 --> 00:22:09.710
  • My addiction over to god.
  • 00:22:09.710 --> 00:22:11.312
  • I searched out many sources for daily inspirational, daily
  • 00:22:11.312 --> 00:22:15.816
  • Devotionals, daily meditations to help me reconnect with the
  • 00:22:15.816 --> 00:22:19.487
  • Lord as a support for the progress in my recovery.
  • 00:22:19.487 --> 00:22:24.525
  • Now in what just seemed to be a random chance," seemed to be, "i
  • 00:22:24.525 --> 00:22:28.529
  • Just came across your "daily hope" podcast and i blindly just
  • 00:22:28.529 --> 00:22:32.967
  • Picked a message from early july."
  • 00:22:32.967 --> 00:22:35.936
  • I'm sure some of--a lot of other people have done that too.
  • 00:22:35.936 --> 00:22:38.973
  • "well the very first one i listened to was on romans 7,
  • 00:22:38.973 --> 00:22:41.876
  • Which is all about why do i do the wrong things that i don't
  • 00:22:41.876 --> 00:22:46.180
  • Want to do when i know what's wrong and what makes me
  • 00:22:46.180 --> 00:22:49.617
  • Do that?"
  • 00:22:49.617 --> 00:22:51.485
  • I can't believe that was the first one you listened to.
  • 00:22:51.485 --> 00:22:54.355
  • Well knock me over with a feather.
  • 00:22:54.355 --> 00:22:56.457
  • "it was a bolt of lightning that i needed to hear, and it was
  • 00:22:56.457 --> 00:22:59.894
  • Followed by tears of joy because the very next podcast, of
  • 00:22:59.894 --> 00:23:03.330
  • Course, was romans 8, which is the solution to my dilemma."
  • 00:23:03.330 --> 00:23:08.369
  • That's right, folks.
  • 00:23:08.369 --> 00:23:09.703
  • Romans 7 explains the mess we're in, romans 8 explains how to get
  • 00:23:09.703 --> 00:23:13.441
  • Out of it.
  • 00:23:13.441 --> 00:23:14.775
  • He says, "rick, it was like a smack on the head by
  • 00:23:14.775 --> 00:23:16.777
  • Divine intervention.
  • 00:23:16.777 --> 00:23:18.712
  • So i joined a small group, and i haven't missed a week since, and
  • 00:23:18.712 --> 00:23:21.749
  • I love it.
  • 00:23:21.749 --> 00:23:23.284
  • And i have a weekly bible study with a close friend who
  • 00:23:23.284 --> 00:23:25.486
  • Graciously offered to help me.
  • 00:23:25.486 --> 00:23:27.688
  • And i subscribe to your daily devotional email.
  • 00:23:27.688 --> 00:23:31.859
  • And i've continued to listen to your podcast when i go for my
  • 00:23:31.859 --> 00:23:35.729
  • Morning walk."
  • 00:23:35.729 --> 00:23:37.398
  • He says, "the spiritual growth that i've achieved in a
  • 00:23:37.398 --> 00:23:41.268
  • Relatively short period of time is really nothing short of
  • 00:23:41.268 --> 00:23:44.038
  • A remarkable.
  • 00:23:44.038 --> 00:23:45.372
  • It's a miracle and it's a blessing, and it's helped me
  • 00:23:45.372 --> 00:23:48.108
  • Turn my life around.
  • 00:23:48.108 --> 00:23:49.777
  • I now understand why god allowed me to suffer through all my
  • 00:23:49.777 --> 00:23:52.413
  • Addiction and that the path to recovery is through
  • 00:23:52.413 --> 00:23:54.915
  • Jesus christ.
  • 00:23:54.915 --> 00:23:56.884
  • From the bottom of my heart, rick, thank you for all you do
  • 00:23:56.884 --> 00:24:00.521
  • Through him."
  • 00:24:00.521 --> 00:24:02.323
  • Well, wow, wow, wow.
  • 00:24:02.323 --> 00:24:04.692
  • This testimony is a powerful reminder of how god can take
  • 00:24:04.692 --> 00:24:09.029
  • Everything in our lives, the mistakes, the sins, the
  • 00:24:09.029 --> 00:24:11.732
  • Failures, the hurts, the bad decisions, even destructive
  • 00:24:11.732 --> 00:24:15.236
  • Habits, and guess what?
  • 00:24:15.236 --> 00:24:17.004
  • God can even bring good out of them.
  • 00:24:17.004 --> 00:24:20.808
  • The bible says, "in all things god works for the good
  • 00:24:20.808 --> 00:24:26.347
  • Of those who love him."
  • 00:24:26.347 --> 00:24:27.681
  • It doesn't say all things are good because not all things are
  • 00:24:27.681 --> 00:24:29.583
  • Good, but, "in all things god is working for the good of those
  • 00:24:29.583 --> 00:24:34.321
  • Who love him."
  • 00:24:34.321 --> 00:24:35.689
  • That's romans 8:28.
  • 00:24:35.689 --> 00:24:37.024
  • Now this story is a beautiful example of romans 8:28 and
  • 00:24:37.024 --> 00:24:40.794
  • That truth.
  • 00:24:40.794 --> 00:24:42.563
  • Listen very closely.
  • 00:24:42.563 --> 00:24:44.798
  • No matter what we've done, i'll say it again, no matter what
  • 00:24:44.798 --> 00:24:48.802
  • We've done, we're never outside of god's master plan for
  • 00:24:48.802 --> 00:24:54.275
  • Our lives.
  • 00:24:54.275 --> 00:24:55.643
  • Your life is not random.
  • 00:24:55.643 --> 00:24:58.879
  • In this case, god led somebody to "daily hope" podcast just at
  • 00:24:58.879 --> 00:25:02.149
  • The right moment to hear exactly what he needed.
  • 00:25:02.149 --> 00:25:05.753
  • Now god could have used any method.
  • 00:25:05.753 --> 00:25:07.354
  • He could have used any person.
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  • He could have used any podcast, but god in this instance chose
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  • To use "daily hope."
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  • You know, friends, it's because of your support, your prayers,
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  • And your giving that we're able to make "daily hope" bible
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  • Teaching available to over 35 million people every month.
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  • So, thank you, thanks a lot.
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  • I mean this from the bottom of my heart.
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  • Thank you for your support.
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  • This man who is a recovering addict was helped because you
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  • Cared enough to support this ministry.
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  • So let me just say it again.
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  • I don't ever get tired of saying it.
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  • Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick: friends, one of the most powerful ways you can
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  • Transform your spiritual life is to memorize scripture.
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  • God tells us in proverbs 7:2, "guard my words as your most
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  • Precious possession.
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  • Write them down, and also keep them deep within your heart."
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  • Now here's how i want to help you memorize god's word.
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  • We've put together a new packet, a new set of cards with verses
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  • From the bible for you to memorize.
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  • They're very beautiful, and they will keep these bible verses,
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  • God's word, before you every day, helping you to memorize the
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  • Word of god.
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  • I hope you'll take advantage of this new resource.
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  • Female announcer: today, when you support pastor rick's daily
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  • Hope with a gift to help share the hope of jesus christ with
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  • People around the world, we'll send you these scripture cards
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  • To say thanks.
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  • ♪♪♪
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