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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, everybody, welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. This is
your place for inspiration and encouragement. And whether you're a
longtime listener or you're just joining us for the first time,
we are so thrilled to have you today. Well, Pastor
Rick's going to kick off a powerful news series called
Discover Your Destiny. And in this life changing journey, you'll
(00:25):
uncover how to grow in every area of your life spiritually, emotionally, financially, physically, mentally, vocationally,
and relationally. So let's dive right into God's word and
discover how to make the next ten years the best
years of your life. And now here's Rick with part
one of a message called Your Choice.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Blessed or stress. One of the most common phrases I'm
sure you've heard on a daily basis is the phrase
God bless you, God bless you. What in the world
does that mean? What is a blessing? Can anybody define it?
I mean most people wouldn't know a blessing of it
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hit him flat in the face. When you pray, God,
bless my family, God bless my work, God bless my church,
God bless America. What are you praying? What is a blessing.
I spent the last two weeks studying this subject, and
I studied every single verse in the Bible and every
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promise of blessing for God on your life, because that's
what we're talking about when we go into the decade
of destiny. You know, as your pastor, the Bible holds
me accountable for your spiritual growth. I don't take that lightly.
In fact, it keeps me up at night. And if
you choose to put yourself in this family, in this
(01:50):
flock under my spiritual care, the Bible says, I am
accountable to God to help you grow. I want the
next ten years of your life to be the best
ten years of your life. I want you to be
more blessed and less stressed in the next ten years.
I want God's blessing on your finances. I want God's
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blessing on your health, your relationship, your family, if you're married,
your children. I want God's blessing in every area of
your life and on your life. Now, what is a blessing?
The word actually means good word. It means to speak
a good word. But a blessing is a powerful word
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because when God blesses someone or something, he takes what
they naturally have, and he multiplies it and he makes
it sufficient to meet all of your needs. That's what
a blessing is. Do you remember the story of Jesus
feeding the five thousand in that miracle where they were
out in the middle of the desert and nobody brought
any food. One little kid out of lunch and he
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gave it to Jesus. Jesus took that little lunch of
that little boyfriend, I little rolls and a couple of fish,
and he raised it up to heaven and he blessed it.
And then he broke it and it multiplied and it
met everybody's needs. Now, that's what happens when you are blessed,
all your needs are met. Now, the common word for
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blessing in the Bible in the Greek, which the Bible
was originally in. The New Testament was written in Greek,
is the word macarios. And macarios, interesting was the same
word that they used for the island of Cyprus in
ancient times, because Cypress was famous for being an island
that was self contained in that everything you needed to
sustain life was already on the island. It was famous
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for that, so the people didn't have to go off
the island for anything they didn't need. The island was
self sustaining. It had all of the needs met there.
And to be blessed macarios means that all of your
needs are met and they're all sustained. Now. God's blessing
on your life is not limited to how big your
needs are. God's blessing on your life is not limited
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to how you got those needs. It may be your
own stupidity, your own fault that you got into that need.
God's blessing is not based on the resources available. It's
based on His power and your trust and obedience to
what he tells you to do. You know, I read
a story recently about a man who was a prisoner
of war in North Vietnam for seven years in the
(04:24):
famous Hanoi Hilton, and he said, you know, for seven years,
my daily meal was a bowl of broth. Really, it
was just colored water. There was never any meat in it,
seldom any vegetables. It was just pretty watered down broth.
And he said, but you know, every day I would
take that meal and I would pray and I would
ask God to bless it. And he said, somehow God
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used that to be like meat and potatoes, and it
kept me alive for seven years when I wouldn't have
had it stayed alive on my own. God says, I
want bless your life. And what I want to do
before we get into the second half of the message
today is in the first half, give you a summary
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of all that the Bible says about His blessings on
your life. Now, this isn't on your outline, so don't
even try to take notes. The Bible tells us seven
very important facts about God's blessing on our lives. The
first fact that tells us is that we don't deserve it. Now,
that's an obvious one. I don't deserve God's blessing. I
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can't earn God's blessing. I can't work for God's blessing.
I can't figure out a way to pay for God's blessing.
It is totally a gift. In fact, the Bible says,
all these verses are here on the screen from the
fullness of his grace. We've all received one blessing at
an after another, God's blessing. Everything God does in for
and to your life, he does because He's a good God,
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not because you're good. But because he's good. It's all
because of his grace. And the Bible says everything in
our lives is a gift of God. Everything is because
of his grace. Now the reason number two, the reason
God blesses you, is because he enjoys doing it. God
enjoys blessing his children. Now any father can understand this.
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I really get a kick out of buying my kids things,
and I especially get a kick out of buying my
grandkids things. And it's like it's always burning a hole
in my pocket. It's like when I first fell in
love with k Man, I could not keep money in
my pocket. I was always buying her stuff. I'd see
all this stuff on TV, you know, fishing magician. Oh
she'd like one of those, and I'm sure you know
(06:37):
the Oriental Walk steamer, but wait, we'll throw in the
Ginzu knives and I'd buy that. And I was always
buying her stuff, just because you cannot love without giving.
God enjoys blessing his children. And one of the big
things I want you to learn and decade of destiny
is that God wants to bless you. He's not holding back,
He's waiting on you. The Bible says this, I will
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enjoy blessing them. This is God talking with all my
heart and soul. I will faithfully plant them in this land.
Now he's talking here about Israel being moving into the
Promised Land, and he says, I'm going to enjoy blessing them.
He said, well, great, Rick, but he's talking to the Israelites.
He's talking to Jews. I'm not Jewish. Well let me
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show you another verse. Look at this verse on the screen.
My blessings are for gentiles too. Who's a gentile? Anybody
who's not a Jew? That's me, that's you. My blessings
are for gentiles too when they accept the Lord. Don't
let them think that I will make them second class citizens.
They can be as much as mine as anyone. God
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wants to bless your life. Now, the third thing the
Bible teaches is that God promises and actually even guarantees
that he will bless your life if and here's the
big condition, if you do what he says. The promises
of God and the blessings of God in your life
are not automatic, they are conditional. Would you write this down.
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Every promise has a premise. Every promise has a premise.
There are over seven thousand promises in the Bible where
God says, if you do this, I will do this.
If you confess your sins, I will forgive you. If
you call upon me, I will save you. If you
obey me, I will bless you. There are over seven
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thousand promises, and every promise has a condition. Now God
isn't waiting. You're not waiting on God. God's waiting on
you to fulfill the condition so he can bless your
life in ways you've never imagined. Let me give you
one example here in your outline Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight,
Versus two to eight. This is a longer passage. It says,
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and notice all the different blessings in here, But notice
the condition you will experience all these blessings if circle that.
If here's the condition, if you obey the Lord your God.
Another as you follow the instructions, you will be blessed
in your towns and in the country. You'll be blessed
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with many children and productive fields. You'll be blessed with
fertile herds and flocks. He's talking about blessing your business.
You'll be blessed with baskets overflowing the fruit and kneading
balls filled with bread. You'll have all the food you need.
You'll be blessed wherever you go, both in coming and
in going. The Lord will conquer your enemies when they
(09:30):
attack you. That's a blessing. And the Lord will bless
circle this everything you do, and will fill your storehouses
with grain. That's called prosperity. Bless everything you do. As
your pastor who loves you, I want this verse true
in your life in the next ten years. I want
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you to be in such a position so that God
can bless you. You got to get blessable so God
can bless you. When you are blessable, God says, I
will bless everything you do. Now. Not only does God
want to bless you, this is a cool thing. God
wants to bless you visibly publicly in front of other people.
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In any ways. God wants to show off his blessing.
He wants to show what a good and loving God
he is. And when God blesses you, it is a
witness to other people. Notice this verse here on the screen. Lord,
you have stored up great blessings for those who honor you.
Now let me stop right there before we look at
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overse The Bible says that right now God has already
stored up the blessings he has for you in the
next ten years. He already wants to give them to you.
They're already stored up. He's already planned what he wants
to give. But they're not automatic, and you can go
the whole next ten years and not get a one
of them because there's a condition, there's a premise for
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every promise. They're not automatic. God has stored up blessings.
But you can go through life and miss all the
blessings of God that He intended for your life. You
miss him relationships, successes, you know, goals that are reached.
You can miss them all. They're stored up. But he
says they're blessings for those who honor you. You do much, Lord,
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for those who come to you for protection, blessing them
before the watching world. I want God to bless your
life in such a way in the next ten years
as your pastor and as a part of our church
family that when people look at you, they go good night.
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That woman is blessed, that man is blessed, that family
is blessed. What's going on over there at that saddleback church.
The people who go there, man, they're all blessed over there.
What are they smoking? What's in the water? How do
all those people over there in that church? How do
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they get so blessed? God says he wants to bless
you in front of a watching world. It's a testimony.
Now why does God bless you? Well, there are three reasons,
not because you deserve it, but first, because he's a
blessing God. He loves to bless He enjoys blessing. Second,
he wants it to be a witness to other people.
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And third, God blesses you so you can be a
blessing to others. That's the third reason. He blesses you.
Not so you can be just some fat cat and
be self centered, but he blesses you so you can
help people less fortunate. The Bible says this on the screen.
I will cause my people and their homes. God wants
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to bless your home around my holy hill to be
a blessing, not notice, not receive, but be a blessing.
And I will send showers, God says, showers of blessings.
In other words, that's a ton which are will come
just when they are needed. I can't think of a
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better time than right now. We need the blessings and
showers of blessings of God in our lives now. It
all depends on what you're looking at, because your focus
determines your feeling. If you're looking at the problems, you're
going to be down. If you're looking at the provision,
you're going to be up. It's all what you focus on.
Your obsession with the recession will cloud your vision of
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God's provision and you'll miss it. You'll miss it and
you'll miss what God wants to do in your life.
God wants to bless you so you can be a
blessing to others. And here's another thing that I learned
in studying all these verses is that blessings can be
multi generational. Did you know that? Yeah, you can actually
pass on the blessing of God to the next generation.
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They are multi generational. There are many, many examples of this.
If you live a blessable life, it can actually benefit
those who come after you. Here's one example. I could
have given you hundreds of verses for each of these points.
Genesis twenty five to eleven. After Abraham's death, God poured
out rich blessings on Isaac, Who's Isaac Abraham's son. Decade
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of Destiny is a program and an attitude and an
idea of obedience to God so that you are so
blessed it blesses those after you too. You know, I'm
exhibit A of this. The reason God has blessed me
so much is not because I deserve it. I don't.
But the reason why God blesses me is because I
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had four generations in front of me who were all godly.
I had parents who were godly, follower of Jesus Christ.
I had grandparents, and I had great grandparents. So I'm
getting fourth generation blessing down. I just got lucky. I
got in this family. I had a grandmother who told
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me when I was a little boy, she said, I
pray for two people every day, Billy Graham and Ricky.
I think I'm still floating on some of those prayers. Now.
I want you to start that in the next generations.
And one of the things we're going to look at
you may be fifteen years old one of them, or
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you maybe fifty. One of the things we're going to
look at in decaded Destiny is how to create a legacy.
I want your children and their children and their children
blessed because you lived a blessable life. I want that
to happen, and I'm going to show you how that
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happens in decade of destiny. Now, somebody saying, Rick, this
is all good, but it's a little too late for
me because I'm on the back side of the mountain.
You know, I've already passed middle age or I'm no
spring chicken, I'm out of college, I'm married, my kids
are growing up. You know, I'm on the back side
of this, and I've already had a number of years. Well,
here's the good news. It's never too late to get
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in the blessing of God. You may have five years left,
or fifteen years left, or fifty years left. I don't know,
but I'm praying that God will give you in this
next ten years will be the best ten years of
your life. That it will make all the previous years
of your life look like a Sunday school picnic in
terms of blessing, that all of the blessing of God.
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People going to look at you, go what is going
on in that guy's life and that woman's life. They
are so blessed everything they touch God blesses. That's what
Decade of Destiny is all about. Notice is verse they're
on your outline job for two twelve, the Lord blessed
job in the second half of his life even more
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than in the first half. I want that to be
true of you. I want God's blessing in the next
ten years of your life to be so great. The
first all just looks like prologue. I want the second half,
the next phase, the next stage of your life, to
be far more blessed. God says it can be. You
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must just meet the conditions. God says, if you do this,
I will do this. If you do this, I will
do this. Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Some powerful words from Pastor Rick today. And now this
is really one of my favorite parts of the broadcast.
This is letters from our listeners. And now here's Rick today.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I want to share a note from Dion with you.
Who listens to Daily Hope and she came to faith
in Jesus along with their husband. Isn't that wonderful? Here's
what Dion wrote Pastor Rick a couple of years ago.
I would describe myself as a person who believed in
God but definitely was not a Christian. My husband started
listening to pastors on YouTube, and he started sending me
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your different videos, and you spoke my language. Your explanation
about Jesus Christ described the person I was striving to
be more like. I then found your podcast at Daily
Hope and a Purpose Driven Life and even the Daniel Plan.
Basically I became a super fan. You always emphasized the
need for a church home in small groups, and I
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began asking God to lead my husband and I to
find the right church home. Well, the third church that
we tried just happened to be a church where we
attended a weekly AA meeting for over three years, and
we loved the Sunday messages from the very first service.
It felt like home. They have small groups like you
talk about, and we jumped into attending the small group
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meetings weekly and within two months we both got baptized
and are now official members of our church. I truly
believe God allowed you to plant this seed in our
souls that led me to want a deeper relationship with
God through Jesus. I'm now a Christian that's working to
spread the love of Jesus to others. Thank you so much.
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I pray that you can continue being a vessel for
others who seek Jesus. May God bless you Dion. Well, Wow, Dion,
I am so encouraged to know that you and your
husband became followers of Jesus. And it's always so exciting
to hear how God uses our simple small steps of
faith to make a lasting difference in our lives. You know,
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those of you who are listening right now, did you
notice that Dion and her husband also got baptized and
they joined the local church and they're part of a
small group. Have you done that yet? If you haven't,
I want to encourage you to do that. I hope
though everybody listening here will get baptized, will join a
church family and get involved there. This is how we
grow in the Body of Christ. We need each other,
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we're better together.
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Hey, everybody, welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. This is
your place for inspiration and encouragement. And whether you're a
longtime listener or you're just joining us for the first time,
we are so thrilled to have you today. Well, Pastor
Rick's going to kick off a powerful news series called
Discover Your Destiny. And in this life changing journey, you'll
(00:25):
uncover how to grow in every area of your life spiritually, emotionally, financially, physically, mentally, vocationally,
and relationally. So let's dive right into God's word and
discover how to make the next ten years the best
years of your life. And now here's Rick with part
one of a message called Your Choice.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Blessed or stress. One of the most common phrases I'm
sure you've heard on a daily basis is the phrase
God bless you, God bless you. What in the world
does that mean? What is a blessing? Can anybody define it?
I mean most people wouldn't know a blessing of it
(01:07):
hit him flat in the face. When you pray, God,
bless my family, God bless my work, God bless my church,
God bless America. What are you praying? What is a blessing.
I spent the last two weeks studying this subject, and
I studied every single verse in the Bible and every
(01:30):
promise of blessing for God on your life, because that's
what we're talking about when we go into the decade
of destiny. You know, as your pastor, the Bible holds
me accountable for your spiritual growth. I don't take that lightly.
In fact, it keeps me up at night. And if
you choose to put yourself in this family, in this
(01:50):
flock under my spiritual care, the Bible says, I am
accountable to God to help you grow. I want the
next ten years of your life to be the best
ten years of your life. I want you to be
more blessed and less stressed in the next ten years.
I want God's blessing on your finances. I want God's
(02:13):
blessing on your health, your relationship, your family, if you're married,
your children. I want God's blessing in every area of
your life and on your life. Now, what is a blessing?
The word actually means good word. It means to speak
a good word. But a blessing is a powerful word
(02:34):
because when God blesses someone or something, he takes what
they naturally have, and he multiplies it and he makes
it sufficient to meet all of your needs. That's what
a blessing is. Do you remember the story of Jesus
feeding the five thousand in that miracle where they were
out in the middle of the desert and nobody brought
any food. One little kid out of lunch and he
(02:56):
gave it to Jesus. Jesus took that little lunch of
that little boyfriend, I little rolls and a couple of fish,
and he raised it up to heaven and he blessed it.
And then he broke it and it multiplied and it
met everybody's needs. Now, that's what happens when you are blessed,
all your needs are met. Now, the common word for
(03:17):
blessing in the Bible in the Greek, which the Bible
was originally in. The New Testament was written in Greek,
is the word macarios. And macarios, interesting was the same
word that they used for the island of Cyprus in
ancient times, because Cypress was famous for being an island
that was self contained in that everything you needed to
sustain life was already on the island. It was famous
(03:39):
for that, so the people didn't have to go off
the island for anything they didn't need. The island was
self sustaining. It had all of the needs met there.
And to be blessed macarios means that all of your
needs are met and they're all sustained. Now. God's blessing
on your life is not limited to how big your
needs are. God's blessing on your life is not limited
(04:02):
to how you got those needs. It may be your
own stupidity, your own fault that you got into that need.
God's blessing is not based on the resources available. It's
based on His power and your trust and obedience to
what he tells you to do. You know, I read
a story recently about a man who was a prisoner
of war in North Vietnam for seven years in the
(04:24):
famous Hanoi Hilton, and he said, you know, for seven years,
my daily meal was a bowl of broth. Really, it
was just colored water. There was never any meat in it,
seldom any vegetables. It was just pretty watered down broth.
And he said, but you know, every day I would
take that meal and I would pray and I would
ask God to bless it. And he said, somehow God
(04:47):
used that to be like meat and potatoes, and it
kept me alive for seven years when I wouldn't have
had it stayed alive on my own. God says, I
want bless your life. And what I want to do
before we get into the second half of the message
today is in the first half, give you a summary
(05:08):
of all that the Bible says about His blessings on
your life. Now, this isn't on your outline, so don't
even try to take notes. The Bible tells us seven
very important facts about God's blessing on our lives. The
first fact that tells us is that we don't deserve it. Now,
that's an obvious one. I don't deserve God's blessing. I
(05:29):
can't earn God's blessing. I can't work for God's blessing.
I can't figure out a way to pay for God's blessing.
It is totally a gift. In fact, the Bible says,
all these verses are here on the screen from the
fullness of his grace. We've all received one blessing at
an after another, God's blessing. Everything God does in for
and to your life, he does because He's a good God,
(05:51):
not because you're good. But because he's good. It's all
because of his grace. And the Bible says everything in
our lives is a gift of God. Everything is because
of his grace. Now the reason number two, the reason
God blesses you, is because he enjoys doing it. God
enjoys blessing his children. Now any father can understand this.
(06:15):
I really get a kick out of buying my kids things,
and I especially get a kick out of buying my
grandkids things. And it's like it's always burning a hole
in my pocket. It's like when I first fell in
love with k Man, I could not keep money in
my pocket. I was always buying her stuff. I'd see
all this stuff on TV, you know, fishing magician. Oh
she'd like one of those, and I'm sure you know
(06:37):
the Oriental Walk steamer, but wait, we'll throw in the
Ginzu knives and I'd buy that. And I was always
buying her stuff, just because you cannot love without giving.
God enjoys blessing his children. And one of the big
things I want you to learn and decade of destiny
is that God wants to bless you. He's not holding back,
He's waiting on you. The Bible says this, I will
(07:00):
enjoy blessing them. This is God talking with all my
heart and soul. I will faithfully plant them in this land.
Now he's talking here about Israel being moving into the
Promised Land, and he says, I'm going to enjoy blessing them.
He said, well, great, Rick, but he's talking to the Israelites.
He's talking to Jews. I'm not Jewish. Well let me
(07:21):
show you another verse. Look at this verse on the screen.
My blessings are for gentiles too. Who's a gentile? Anybody
who's not a Jew? That's me, that's you. My blessings
are for gentiles too when they accept the Lord. Don't
let them think that I will make them second class citizens.
They can be as much as mine as anyone. God
(07:42):
wants to bless your life. Now, the third thing the
Bible teaches is that God promises and actually even guarantees
that he will bless your life if and here's the
big condition, if you do what he says. The promises
of God and the blessings of God in your life
are not automatic, they are conditional. Would you write this down.
(08:05):
Every promise has a premise. Every promise has a premise.
There are over seven thousand promises in the Bible where
God says, if you do this, I will do this.
If you confess your sins, I will forgive you. If
you call upon me, I will save you. If you
obey me, I will bless you. There are over seven
(08:26):
thousand promises, and every promise has a condition. Now God
isn't waiting. You're not waiting on God. God's waiting on
you to fulfill the condition so he can bless your
life in ways you've never imagined. Let me give you
one example here in your outline Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight,
Versus two to eight. This is a longer passage. It says,
(08:48):
and notice all the different blessings in here, But notice
the condition you will experience all these blessings if circle that.
If here's the condition, if you obey the Lord your God.
Another as you follow the instructions, you will be blessed
in your towns and in the country. You'll be blessed
(09:09):
with many children and productive fields. You'll be blessed with
fertile herds and flocks. He's talking about blessing your business.
You'll be blessed with baskets overflowing the fruit and kneading
balls filled with bread. You'll have all the food you need.
You'll be blessed wherever you go, both in coming and
in going. The Lord will conquer your enemies when they
(09:30):
attack you. That's a blessing. And the Lord will bless
circle this everything you do, and will fill your storehouses
with grain. That's called prosperity. Bless everything you do. As
your pastor who loves you, I want this verse true
in your life in the next ten years. I want
(09:53):
you to be in such a position so that God
can bless you. You got to get blessable so God
can bless you. When you are blessable, God says, I
will bless everything you do. Now. Not only does God
want to bless you, this is a cool thing. God
wants to bless you visibly publicly in front of other people.
(10:17):
In any ways. God wants to show off his blessing.
He wants to show what a good and loving God
he is. And when God blesses you, it is a
witness to other people. Notice this verse here on the screen. Lord,
you have stored up great blessings for those who honor you.
Now let me stop right there before we look at
(10:37):
overse The Bible says that right now God has already
stored up the blessings he has for you in the
next ten years. He already wants to give them to you.
They're already stored up. He's already planned what he wants
to give. But they're not automatic, and you can go
the whole next ten years and not get a one
of them because there's a condition, there's a premise for
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every promise. They're not automatic. God has stored up blessings.
But you can go through life and miss all the
blessings of God that He intended for your life. You
miss him relationships, successes, you know, goals that are reached.
You can miss them all. They're stored up. But he
says they're blessings for those who honor you. You do much, Lord,
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for those who come to you for protection, blessing them
before the watching world. I want God to bless your
life in such a way in the next ten years
as your pastor and as a part of our church
family that when people look at you, they go good night.
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That woman is blessed, that man is blessed, that family
is blessed. What's going on over there at that saddleback church.
The people who go there, man, they're all blessed over there.
What are they smoking? What's in the water? How do
all those people over there in that church? How do
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they get so blessed? God says he wants to bless
you in front of a watching world. It's a testimony.
Now why does God bless you? Well, there are three reasons,
not because you deserve it, but first, because he's a
blessing God. He loves to bless He enjoys blessing. Second,
he wants it to be a witness to other people.
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And third, God blesses you so you can be a
blessing to others. That's the third reason. He blesses you.
Not so you can be just some fat cat and
be self centered, but he blesses you so you can
help people less fortunate. The Bible says this on the screen.
I will cause my people and their homes. God wants
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to bless your home around my holy hill to be
a blessing, not notice, not receive, but be a blessing.
And I will send showers, God says, showers of blessings.
In other words, that's a ton which are will come
just when they are needed. I can't think of a
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better time than right now. We need the blessings and
showers of blessings of God in our lives now. It
all depends on what you're looking at, because your focus
determines your feeling. If you're looking at the problems, you're
going to be down. If you're looking at the provision,
you're going to be up. It's all what you focus on.
Your obsession with the recession will cloud your vision of
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God's provision and you'll miss it. You'll miss it and
you'll miss what God wants to do in your life.
God wants to bless you so you can be a
blessing to others. And here's another thing that I learned
in studying all these verses is that blessings can be
multi generational. Did you know that? Yeah, you can actually
pass on the blessing of God to the next generation.
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They are multi generational. There are many, many examples of this.
If you live a blessable life, it can actually benefit
those who come after you. Here's one example. I could
have given you hundreds of verses for each of these points.
Genesis twenty five to eleven. After Abraham's death, God poured
out rich blessings on Isaac, Who's Isaac Abraham's son. Decade
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of Destiny is a program and an attitude and an
idea of obedience to God so that you are so
blessed it blesses those after you too. You know, I'm
exhibit A of this. The reason God has blessed me
so much is not because I deserve it. I don't.
But the reason why God blesses me is because I
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had four generations in front of me who were all godly.
I had parents who were godly, follower of Jesus Christ.
I had grandparents, and I had great grandparents. So I'm
getting fourth generation blessing down. I just got lucky. I
got in this family. I had a grandmother who told
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me when I was a little boy, she said, I
pray for two people every day, Billy Graham and Ricky.
I think I'm still floating on some of those prayers. Now.
I want you to start that in the next generations.
And one of the things we're going to look at
you may be fifteen years old one of them, or
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you maybe fifty. One of the things we're going to
look at in decaded Destiny is how to create a legacy.
I want your children and their children and their children
blessed because you lived a blessable life. I want that
to happen, and I'm going to show you how that
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happens in decade of destiny. Now, somebody saying, Rick, this
is all good, but it's a little too late for
me because I'm on the back side of the mountain.
You know, I've already passed middle age or I'm no
spring chicken, I'm out of college, I'm married, my kids
are growing up. You know, I'm on the back side
of this, and I've already had a number of years. Well,
here's the good news. It's never too late to get
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in the blessing of God. You may have five years left,
or fifteen years left, or fifty years left. I don't know,
but I'm praying that God will give you in this
next ten years will be the best ten years of
your life. That it will make all the previous years
of your life look like a Sunday school picnic in
terms of blessing, that all of the blessing of God.
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People going to look at you, go what is going
on in that guy's life and that woman's life. They
are so blessed everything they touch God blesses. That's what
Decade of Destiny is all about. Notice is verse they're
on your outline job for two twelve, the Lord blessed
job in the second half of his life even more
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than in the first half. I want that to be
true of you. I want God's blessing in the next
ten years of your life to be so great. The
first all just looks like prologue. I want the second half,
the next phase, the next stage of your life, to
be far more blessed. God says it can be. You
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must just meet the conditions. God says, if you do this,
I will do this. If you do this, I will
do this. Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Some powerful words from Pastor Rick today. And now this
is really one of my favorite parts of the broadcast.
This is letters from our listeners. And now here's Rick today.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I want to share a note from Dion with you.
Who listens to Daily Hope and she came to faith
in Jesus along with their husband. Isn't that wonderful? Here's
what Dion wrote Pastor Rick a couple of years ago.
I would describe myself as a person who believed in
God but definitely was not a Christian. My husband started
listening to pastors on YouTube, and he started sending me
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your different videos, and you spoke my language. Your explanation
about Jesus Christ described the person I was striving to
be more like. I then found your podcast at Daily
Hope and a Purpose Driven Life and even the Daniel Plan.
Basically I became a super fan. You always emphasized the
need for a church home in small groups, and I
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began asking God to lead my husband and I to
find the right church home. Well, the third church that
we tried just happened to be a church where we
attended a weekly AA meeting for over three years, and
we loved the Sunday messages from the very first service.
It felt like home. They have small groups like you
talk about, and we jumped into attending the small group
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meetings weekly and within two months we both got baptized
and are now official members of our church. I truly
believe God allowed you to plant this seed in our
souls that led me to want a deeper relationship with
God through Jesus. I'm now a Christian that's working to
spread the love of Jesus to others. Thank you so much.
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I pray that you can continue being a vessel for
others who seek Jesus. May God bless you Dion. Well, Wow, Dion,
I am so encouraged to know that you and your
husband became followers of Jesus. And it's always so exciting
to hear how God uses our simple small steps of
faith to make a lasting difference in our lives. You know,
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those of you who are listening right now, did you
notice that Dion and her husband also got baptized and
they joined the local church and they're part of a
small group. Have you done that yet? If you haven't,
I want to encourage you to do that. I hope
though everybody listening here will get baptized, will join a
church family and get involved there. This is how we
grow in the Body of Christ. We need each other,
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we're better together.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Hey, if you'd like to let Rick know how this
broadcast has blessed.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You, he would love it. Please feel free.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
To send him an email at Rick at Pastorick dot com.
That's Rick at pastorick dot com. Be sure to join
us next time as we look into God's.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Word for our daily hope.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
This program is sponsored by Pastor Rick's Daily Hope and
your generous financial support
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