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Pastor Rick's Daily Hope | How To Pray Throughout Your Day Part 3 | June 5, 2022
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- Pastor Rick Warren: Now we come to this fifth statement
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- in the Lord's prayer, Matthew 6, verse 12.
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- "Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin
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- against us."
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- This is the kind of prayer-- I told you the different kinds
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- of prayer.
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- We've had thanksgiving, or adoration,
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- and we've had petition, okay, and then we've had dedication.
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- Now we've got confession, and confession, what I do,
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- I just own up to my own wrong reactions.
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- I admit my sins, and while I'm at it, I forgive everybody else
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- who has sinned against me, because I certainly don't want
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- to hold onto grudges.
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- They hurt you more than they hurt anybody else.
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- You don't want to be carried around by resentment.
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- Now, listen, read your pastor's lips right now.
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- There is never any reason for you to walk around feeling
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- guilty, if you know the Lord.
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- Some people actually think they're more spiritual by
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- feeling guilty.
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- I remember one time, years ago, this lady who, she'd come to
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- Saddleback, and after every service, I'd be out on the
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- patio, and she said, "You know, Pastor Rick, today, God just
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- spoke to me--" and it was always something bad, all right.
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- You're doing this wrong.
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- You're doing that wrong.
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- You're doing this wrong.
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- You're doing that wrong.
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- And she did this for, like, months and finally, one day,
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- I said, "Ma'am, does God ever say anything nice to you?"
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- Because my God isn't always, you know, causing me to be
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- focused on that stuff.
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- He knows I'm going to see it, but if you do this on a regular
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- basis in the afternoon, you just kinda take out the garbage.
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- That's forgive us our sins as we forgive those sins against us.
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- Doctors say most people gonna leave the hospital today,
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- except for guilt and resentment.
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- Guilt over things that I've done to hurt others, resentment over
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- what other people have done to hurt me, and as a result,
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- we regret the past and we worry about the future and we waste
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- today and we kill-- crucify ourselves on the cross
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- of guilt and resentment.
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- That's dumb.
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- You're not more spiritual feeling guilty.
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- Jesus died on the cross so you don't have to carry guilt.
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- And so, every day you need to take out the garbage.
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- It might be a good idea to do it in the afternoon.
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- Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin
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- against us.
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- Here's what I do.
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- Write this down.
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- I admit my sins, and I forgive others who frustrated me,
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- and there is no rational reason for carrying around guilt.
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- Just confess it.
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- Should I ever feel guilty?
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- Yeah, for about three seconds.
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- That's about how long it takes to admit it and ask forgiveness.
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- And then it's cleaned up.
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- Psalm 32, verse 5, a great, great verse.
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- "I confess my sins to you, and I didn't try to hide them.
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- Then you forgave me and now all my guilt is gone."
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- I remember driving down the street one day and I saw a sign
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- on a service station, gas station, and it was talkin'
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- about certain kind of oil, and it said a clean engine has
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- more power.
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- That's true of people too.
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- When you let sin stockpile in your lives and you have stuff
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- there that you--you haven't confessed to God, it just clogs
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- up the system.
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- You're not running on all your cylinders, a clean engine
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- has more power.
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- A clean soul has more resilience, and you need
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- resilience in today's world.
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- So, in the afternoon time, that break what's three o'clock or
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- whatever it is in the afternoon, you just take a little time and
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- say, let's do some house cleaning.
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- God, is there any sin, any attitude, any action.
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- I just need to admit, I'll admit it to you.
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- Now, you're closing up your work, and you're heading home,
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- and you get in your car and start to head home.
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- By the way, did you know studies have shown this.
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- Ninety percent of all arguments in the world happen one hour
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- before dinner.
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- Two--or three words: low blood sugar, cranky, cranky, cranky,
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- and you're tired, and you're hungry, and you've got a low
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- blood sugar, and you come home and everybody takes it out on
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- each other.
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- The husband yells at the wife, and the wife yells at the kids,
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- and the kid kicks the dog.
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- The dog chases the cat.
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- The cat bites the head off the Barbie doll, and there's a chain
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- taking place-- chain reaction going on.
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- You need to just be aware, and then at the end of the day when
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- you go home, that's a prime time for you to get in an argument
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- and knowing it is wise to ask for help, and so now we come to
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- the sixth prayer time, and that's when you get home, and
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- you just take a minute.
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- You know, and I'll tell you what I used to do, when my kids were
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- growing up, you know, I listened to people's problems all day.
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- When I to talk to people and I carry them, and when I
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- come home.
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- I would pause at the door to our house.
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- And I was gonna go I'm not taking these problems in the
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- house and dumping 'em on my wife and kids.
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- I'm just not gonna do it.
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- And so what I did is I found an old milk can at some antique
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- store, and I painted it blue, and I stuck it out there in
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- front of the front door, and I called it my worry-and-problem
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- can, and every day when I come home, I would walk up, and I'd
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- go, Lord, you know all those problems?
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- Half of 'em aren't solved yet, but I'm not taking 'em inside.
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- I'm gonna dump them in this can right here, and tomorrow morning
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- when I walk out, they'll still be there, but
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- I'm not gonna load them on my wife, and I'm not gonna load
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- them on my kids because I don't want to do that.
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- The sixth thing you pray in this time of day, late afternoon,
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- is you ask God to help me make wise decisions.
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- Whether you got kids at home or not anymore or you're living
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- with some friends, you need to ask God to help you make wise
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- decisions and, by the way, to protect you from making dumb
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- decisions too, and this is the sixth phrase of the Lord's
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- prayer, and it goes like this: "And lead us not into temptation
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- but deliver us from the evil one."
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- Now, I don't know about you, you're probably different, but
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- I don't know about you, my worst temptations actually come in the
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- evening, and they come from two very demonic sources:
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- the television and the refrigerator.
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- They're of the devil.
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- You know, I can stay on a diet 'til at least 6 p.m.,
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- but between 6 p.m. and midnight, aw brother.
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- When you're tired, your resources are low.
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- You're going to get in arguments.
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- You're gonna say things.
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- You're gonna hurt people unintentionally, and it's a good
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- thing to pray before you go walk back in the home.
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- Lord, lead me not into temptation but deliver me
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- from evil.
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- Some of you, the television is a big temptation, and I'm talking
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- about you're watching stuff you shouldn't be watching.
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- Or maybe it's your computer, and you're watching some stuff
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- on the computer you shouldn't be watching.
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- Before you get home, Lord, lead me not into temptation.
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- God has given us great promise.
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- Look up here on the screen.
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- 1 Corinthians 10:13, "Remember that the temptations that come
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- into your life are no different from what other
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- people experience."
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- Now, this is a good thing.
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- It says we all go through the same common temptations, okay?
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- You think you're special.
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- You're not when it comes temptation.
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- You have the exact same temptations everybody else does.
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- You have the same temptations they've had for thousands of
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- years, and Jesus had them in the same way, same root temptation.
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- Now, the good news is if there are common temptations
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- that means there are common solutions, and it says this.
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- "Remember the temptations come in your life.
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- There are no different from what others experience."
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- We're all in the same boat.
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- So don't act so higher and mighty and holy holy.
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- We all have the same temptations.
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- "And God is faithful.
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- He will keep the temptation from becoming so strong that
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- you can't stand up against it, and when you're tempted--"
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- that's a great promise.
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- You might memorize this.
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- "When you're tempted, He'll show you a way out so that you will
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- not give in to it."
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- Anybody who says, "I can't help myself," was lying, because
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- God's promised I'll always make a way out, but you gotta
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- choose it.
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- You've gotta choose it.
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- Let's say, "I--it was over-- I couldn't help myself."
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- Yes, you could.
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- God says, "I always make a way out for you."
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- Now, you need to understand two very important things
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- about temptation.
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- It's not a sin to be tempted.
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- Jesus was tempted.
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- It's a sin to give in to temptation.
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- In fact, a lot of people when they get tempted, they go, "Ooh,
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- I shouldn't even be tempted.
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- Like, where did that thought come from?"
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- I'll tell you where it came from.
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- It came from the evil one.
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- Came from the devil."
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- You can't--Martin Luther said you can't keep the birds from
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- flying over your head, but you can keep them from building
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- a nest in your hair.
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- So, you can't control every idea that's put in your mind.
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- Something that comes from stuff you saw the movie theater
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- 20 years ago, and Satan pulls it back out.
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- That's why you want to watch what you put in your mind.
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- Everybody's worried about air pollution, water pollution.
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- Are you worried about mind pollution?
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- Some people are so open minded, their brains fall out, and they
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- just allow anything--a tractor pull through their brain,
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- with all kinds of garbage.
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- You should worry about mind pollution more than you worry
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- about water pollution, because your brain affects your
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- character, but I'm saying, God says, "I'll give you a way out,"
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- and by the way, if you're watching stuff that's no good
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- for you on the internet, you might want to memorize this
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- verse up here on the screen.
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- Psalm 101:3, "I will refuse to look at anything vile
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- and vulgar."
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- Nowadays, that might mean the news.
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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, verse 2, "Guard my words as
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- your most precious possession."
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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
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- the Word of God.
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- Study after study has shown that memorizing Scripture will cause
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- your brain to have a stronger memory in other areas too.
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- Pastor Rick: Finally, we come to the end of the day.
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- Now you're gettin' ready for "Beddy-bye," you're putting on
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- your PJ's, and here's the last thing you pray.
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- You prayed when you get up, here's the last phrase
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- in the Lord's prayer.
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- I end my day with an encouraging truth.
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- Write that down.
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- I end my day--this was called a benediction, a good word.
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- You end your day with a good word.
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- It's good to read Scripture, promises, read some promises
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- from God.
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- I end my day with an encouraging truth, and the Lord's prayer
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- ends with one of the most encouraging truths around,
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- and it goes like this.
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- Matthew 6:13.
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- For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory,
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- forever, amen.
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- Now, let me tell you what that means.
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- If you'll think of that verse and you'll remember what it
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- means, you're just sleep a whole lot better, because what that
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- verse says is three incredibly encouraging truths.
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- Number one, God is in control.
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- God is in control.
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- The politicians aren't.
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- Other nations aren't.
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- Your boss isn't.
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- God is ultimately in control, and the Bible says the heart of
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- the king is in the heart--hand of the Lord, and he can turn it
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- whithersoever he wishes.
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- It's just enough people pray.
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- That's why the world changes when God's people pray.
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- He is waiting on us.
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- Sometimes we say, "God, we're waiting on you to do something."
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- God's saying, "I'm waiting on you to pray."
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- This is a partnership, but when I pray, yours is the kingdom
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- and the power and the glory, forever, amen.
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- Good night, Lord.
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- I'm saying, God, number one, you're in control.
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- Second, this is not the end of the story, and third,
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- God and his family win in the end.
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- I've read the last chapter of the book.
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- God wins.
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- God wins.
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- And so, that's when you're looking, if you go to bed and
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- the last thing you watch is either news or late-night TV
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- talking about the news, you're gonna go to depressed.
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- Corrie Ten Boom said it.
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- "If you look at the world, you'll be distressed.
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- If you look within, you'll be depressed.
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- If you look at Christ, you'll be at rest."
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- It all depends on who you're lookin' at.
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- Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever.
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- God, you're in control.
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- This is not the end of the story, and we win in the end.
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- Good night, Lord.
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- I'll see you in the morning, and when I wake up, it's gonna be
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- get up with gratitude, and then bless your name at breakfast.
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- And so, I'm ending positive, and I'm gonna start positive.
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- You'll sleep a whole lot better.
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- Now, I wanna encourage you to not just listen to this, but to
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- actually try this format of using the Lord's Prayer to mark
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- out, mmm, six, seven, times during the day, I'm not talking
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- about 20 minutes a day.
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- I'm just talking about,
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- a minute here, a minute here, five minutes here, whatever,
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- what you've got time for; God just wants to,
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- he just wants to hear from you.
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- Now, I know what you're thinking.
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- "Rick, you don't know how busy I am."
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- You're busier than me?
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- I would love to compare schedules.
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- You're busier than me?
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- Martin Luther once said, "I have so much to do today, I must pray
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- three hours, because I can't get it all done if I don't go pray."
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- When you pray, God helps you.
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- "Seek first the kingdom of God and all these other things
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- will be added unto you."
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- God can do more in a few minutes less if you use some of that
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- in prayer.
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- And if you say, with your excuse, I don't have the time to
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- pause and pray, then you're too busy, and you could explain that
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- to God when you get to heaven one day, why you were too busy
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- to talk to him.
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- Let me give you a promise.
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- You need to write this down.
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- Proverbs 10:27 on the screen.
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- I love it in the Living Bible.
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- The Living Bible says, "Reverence for God adds hours to
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- each day."
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- Hello, do you need more time?
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- "Reverence for God adds hours--" it's kinda like tithing.
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- God can make 90% of my money go further than 100%, and God can
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- make by time go further when I give part of it to him
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- in prayer.
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- Reverence for God adds hours to each day.
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- Proverbs 10:27, Living Bible.
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- The Lord's prayer is not just a ritual that people pray.
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- It is a pattern for living.
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- It is a model for how to manage your day, and if you do this,
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- you'll have more energy, you'll have more peace, you'll be
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- closer to God, you'll have more power in your life, you'll have
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- more confidence.
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- If you'll do it, Jesus says this is the way you ought to pray.
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- Pray throughout your day.
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- 150 years ago, a young Boston woman married
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- a printer, and they got married and had three kids,
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- but Civil War ended their happiness because Mary's husband
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- got conscripted in the Civil War, in the Northern Army,
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- and he died in the Battle of Antietam,
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- Antietam, and then after her husband died,
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- her 12-year-old son drowned, and then her
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- only daughter died.
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- It was one calamity after another, and in her grief,
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- Maryann Kidder began to turn to writing hymns, and if you've
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- been in a traditional church, you've sung Maryann Kidder
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- hymns, because she wrote hundreds and hundreds of them.
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- It would be very well-known, helped millions of people.
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- Fact, she wrote, I think, 181 hymns, and there's one that she
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- wrote that I remember as a little kid hearing my parents'
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- singing, and it's called, "And Did You Think to Pray?"
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- And we'll end with this.
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- "When you left your room this morning, did you think to pray?
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- In the name of Christ our Savior, did you ask for loving
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- favor as a shield today?
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- When you met with great temptation, did you think
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- to pray?
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- By his dying love and merit, did you claim to the Holy Spirit
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- as your guide and stay?
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- When your heart was filled with anger, did you think to pray?
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- Did you plead for grace my brother, that you might forgive
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- another who had crossed your way?
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- When strong trials came upon you, did you think to pray?
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- As your heart was filled with sorrow, the love of Christ you
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- borrow at the gates today," and the refrain goes like this,
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- "Oh, how praying rests the weary.
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- Prayer will change your night to day.
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- So when life seems dark and dreary, don't forget to pray."
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- Let's bow our heads.
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- What I've just taught you will change your life if you actually
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- practice it.
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- You'll grow closer to Christ.
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- You'll have more energy.
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- You'll make better decisions.
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- You'll have less stress.
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- You get better ideas at work.
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- You'll be more productive.
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- You'll be healthier.
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- I could go on and on and on.
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- The Lord's Prayer covers every major need in your life, and if
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- you'll use it as a model for a daily schedule of checking in
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- with God, "God, I'm checking in with you.
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- It's mid morning.
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- God, I'm checking in with you.
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- It's noon.
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- God, I'm checking in with you.
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- It's the afternoon."
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- Remember, I told you there are two ways to pray throughout
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- your day.
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- One is conversationally.
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- Or you just talk to him all the time, and that's a good thing,
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- but it's also a good thing to set aside specific times and
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- say, these are gonna be the times that I check in with you
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- every day.
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- Our Father, who art in heaven, you're good, God, and I'm going
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- to be grateful for everything you've done.
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- Hallowed be your name.
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- Your name, Lord, tells me all the things you've promised to do
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- in my life.
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- Why don't you pray it right now.
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- Say, Our Father in heaven, just say it in your mind.
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- Say, God, you're a good, good God.
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- I want to be grateful.
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- I want to start each day with gratitude,
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- the healthiest emotion.
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- I don't want to start it with news.
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- I don't wanna start it with bad news.
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- Well, it started with the goodness of God.
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- And then say, Lord, I want to bless your name at breakfast.
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- I wanna learn these names of God so that I can know what
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- you promised to do in my life.
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- You're my healer.
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- You're always present.
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- You will give me power.
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- You're my forgiver, all of the things that you've promised by
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- your names, and I'm gonna bless your name.
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- Your kingdom come, Lord, your will be done on earth
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- as it is in heaven.
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- I want to seek first your kingdom.
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- God, I want your plans and purposes for the world and
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- for my life to be number one.
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- I don't want to be in cross purposes with you.
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- I want to seek first your purpose, believing that
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- everything else I need, you're gonna take care of, and Lord
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- every day, I want to say give me this day our daily bread.
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- Just enough to get me through today.
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- Give me strength for today.
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- Give me wisdom for today.
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- Give me the finances I need for today, and I want to make a list
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- at lunchtime as I eat my sandwich, you would give me more
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- than that: inner food, soul food.
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- And, Lord, I want to ask you to forgive me of all my sins
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- as I forgive those who've sinned against me.
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- Remove guilt and shame and resentment and bitterness
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- from my life.
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- I can't waste energy on those energy drainers, and Lord,
- 00:24:02.289 --> 00:24:11.131
- there's some things in my life that you know I'm tempted by and
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- I'm not very good at handling on my own, and I'm asking you to
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- lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, and I want
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- to ask you to help me make wise decisions and not impulsive ones
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- and not dumb decisions.
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- Deliver us from evil.
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- For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
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- Lord, when I'm down, when I'm depressed, when I feel
- 00:24:44.865 --> 00:24:48.302
- overwhelmed, when I feel discouraged, help me remember
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- that you're in charge, you're in control, you're still
- 00:24:51.071 --> 00:24:54.575
- on the throne, but this is not the end of the story.
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- There was more to life, the here and now, and that ultimately
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- we win.
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- And when the world outside looks darker and darker and dimmer and
- 00:25:04.552 --> 00:25:07.821
- dimmer, help me to realize that you hold the keys to the future,
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- and that because I'm on your side and I'm in your family,
- 00:25:15.696 --> 00:25:19.366
- ultimately, it'll all work out.
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- If you've never opened your life to Jesus Christ,
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- that Jesus Christ come into my life right now.
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- Change me.
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- Save me.
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- I want to get to know you.
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- And I humbly ask this in your name, amen.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Pastor Rick: Hi, friends, would it surprise you to know that
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- there are entire groups of people who have never heard
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- about Jesus still in our world today.
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- I'm talking about the small tribes of less than 100.000
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- people who have never heard the name of Jesus Christ.
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- Would you help me reach these unreached, unengaged people?
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- You know, one of the reasons I started "Daily Hope" was to find
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- partners who would help us take the hope of the good news
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- of the gospel to the whole world, to the final frontier,
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- these unreached, unengaged tribes.
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- Jesus wants us to witness to all nations and to all people.
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- He never made a person he didn't love.
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- He never made a person he didn't want saved, and Jesus died
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- so that all may be saved.
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- So I'm asking you to help me in this finishing-the-task project.
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