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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.
And whether today is your first time tuning in or
if you're a regular listener, we're really excited that you're here. Well, today,
Pastor Rick is continuing his series called Discover Your Destiny,
So get ready to explore the practical steps to grow
in all areas of your life, spirit, mind, body, relationships,
(00:26):
and even your career. So stick with us as we
uncover God's incredible plan for your future. All right, well,
let's get started. Here's part one of a message called
the kind of Work God blesses.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
This week, we're going to look at your work. We've
been looking for several weeks at different key areas of
your life, your health, your finances. We're gonna look at
your family. This week, we're looking at your work now.
The Bible tells us in Proverbs chapter twenty two, when
you see people skilled in their work, you know that
they end up standing before kings, not working for ordinary people.
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God says that when you commit yourself to becoming skilled
at your work, God is going to prosper you. You're
gonna find promotions in your life. Let me just say
it this way. The economy does not control your success
in your career. Your faith in God does. The economy
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does not control your success in your career. Your faith
in God does. And if you have faith in God
and you're trusting Him and you're doing it His way,
you're going to find that He helps you even in
spite of what's going on all around you. And what
I want to do this weekend is just give you
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an overview of some of the key things that God
says about what causes some people to be successful and
what causes others cannot be successful in their work. I
can summarize it this way. What you do is not
as important to your success or for that matter, to God.
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What you do is not as important as why you
do it, how you do it, and what you become
while you're doing it. You could have one hundred different
careers that all would be in the will of God.
It's not like a bulls eye that, oh, I can
only do this and this is the only thing God
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wants me to do. There might be one hundred different
careers that God would say, it's your choice, whatever shape
I shaped you to do, what you'd love to do,
what you're passionate to do. I can bless all of
them because what God is more interested is in your
character than your career. Because you're not taking your career
to heaven, and you are taking your character. That's why
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why you do what you do, how you do what
you do, and what you become is far more important
than the job. God can bless any job if you're
working on those. In other words, let me just say
it this way, motive method and meaning matter more than money.
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You try saying that motive method, method and meaning matam
more than money. That's all I'll try saying that motive
method meaning matter more than money. That's what God says.
Why because none of that's gonna be taken to heaven,
you're gonna leave it all behind. But what you become
in the meantime is very very important. Now, what I
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want to do, is I said, is just give you
an overview. So we're gonna look at seven keys to
succeeding at work, and I just for fun put in
a little cross stick suc ceed how you succeed at work?
All right, let's get into it. Number one. If I
want to be blessed in my work, for my work
to be blessed by God. I first, I must start
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working enthusiastically wherever I am. I must start working enthusiastically
where I am right now now. It doesn't matter if
it's a menial job. It doesn't matter if it's a
part time job. It doesn't matter if you hate the job.
It doesn't matter if you intend to quit. If you
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want God's blessing on your career, you must start working
enthusiastically where you are right now. You see, you've got
to be kidne me. That's what the Bible says. Look
at this verse Ecclesiastes nine to ten. Whatever your hand
finds to do, do it with all your might. Now
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notice it doesn't say whatever you like to do, do
it with all your might. It says, whatever job you've
got at the point at this point, whatever you find
yourself doing, if you're cleaning toilets, do it with all
your might. That's not a suggestion, that's a command. Whatever
your hand finds to do, do with all your mind.
You are when you work, you are to work with zeal.
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You're to work with passion. You're to work with a
good attitude. You're to work with enthusiasm. You say, wait
a minute, Rick, you don't know my job. If you
had my job, you would not work with enthusiasm. It
doesn't matter what your job is, because enthusiasm is a
spiritual discipline. Enthusiasm is based on why you are working.
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It's not based on what you're doing. You can be
enthusiastic about anything if you have a right reason for
doing it. Enthusiasm is not based on the fact that
it's fun to do, it's paying you a lot of money,
or it's based on why you're doing what you're doing.
The word enthusiasm comes from the Greek word in Ean
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and theos. Theos In is the word for n means
to be in something. Theos is the word for God.
Theology is the study of God. Theos is the word
for God, which, by the way, Theodore and Dorothy means
both means in the lover of God. That's what it means.
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Theodore and dorothe mean lover of God. It's two Greek words.
And so what this is is he's saying you must
be enthusiastic. To be enthusiastic means to be in. Theist,
which means to be in God. Has nothing to do
with your job. It has everything to do with whether
you are in God or not? How do you get enthusiastic?
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You get in God. When you get in God, you
will be enthusiastic. It's based on why you're working, not
what you're doing. Now. If you want to learn to
be enthusiastic, because God says, whatever you want to do,
if you want me to bless it, I don't care
if you want. If this isn't your permanent job, You've
only got it for a little while. He says, I'm
watching you to see if you're enthusiastic in this job,
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in this this is in the perfect job, But in
this one, are you enthusiastic? Are you in God? And
if you want to be enthusiastic about any work, all
I have to do is remember three things. Number One,
this is a test from God. The job you're in
right now, it's not nearly as important as what's happening
in your attitude. Remember we've talked about this now for
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twelve weeks. That life is a test, and life is
a trust. And God is seeing what he can trust
you with and how much he can test you with
here so he knows if your faithful little things, who
he can trust you with more in eternity, this life
is preparation for the next, and the Bible says this
Luke sixteen, whoever can be trusted with very little can
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also be trusted with much. But if you've not been
trustworthy with somebody else's property or business, or job or assets,
who's going to give you your own? God says, I'm
watching to see if you're going to be enthusiastic even
in the little things of life. So you remember, first,
it's a test. Second one you've got to remember is
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but even though nobody else may be watching what you're doing,
God is doesn't matter what you're doing, doesn't matter what
your job is. It may be the most boring job
in the world. God is watching, and he's watching to
see your attitude. Look at this verse on the screen.
Work hard so that God can say to you, well done.
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Be a good workman, one who does not need to
be ashamed. When God examines your work. He said, you know,
you know, be positive about that. That's the third thing
you need to remember is that if I want to
be enthusiastic, I got to remember that my attitude determines
my joy. My attitude determines my joy allows you job
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is a lowsy job. But it's even worse when you
complain about it, Isn't that true? Does complaining ever make
a job better? Does it ever make a job easier?
Does griping ever make an unpleasant job more pleasant? No,
it makes it worse. And that's why the Bible says this,
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They the diligent, find freedom in their work, while the
lazy are oppressed by work. Why, it's all in your attitude.
And the first thing God says before we can talk
about anything else and succeeding in your life, you got
to change your attitude. You got some stinking thinking. You
need to check up from the neck up, okay, And
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you got to change your attitude about the work you're
doing right now. It may suck, but you need to
have an enthusiastic attitude because the Bible says, whatever you do,
do it with all your might. Romans twelve eleven says this,
never be lazy in your work. Why because God's watching.
Nobody else may be but God is. But serve the
Lord how enthusiastically. Now that leads us to the second
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key to succeeding in life. Let's first start working enthusiastic.
Where I am the you stands for understand who I'm
really working for. I need to under stand who I'm
really working for. Now this will turn your attitude around. See,
the truth is, neither your boss nor your board is
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really your lord. Jesus is your Lord, not the board.
Your boss is may be your supervisor, but he's not
your ultimate. He's not the big boss. You know, when
you play video games, you always want to go after
the big boss because he's the one who's got all
the controls. Now I need to understand who I'm really
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working for. Colossians three twenty three. Work hard and cheerfully.
Whatever you do as though you were working for the Lord.
Circle that for the Lord rather than for people. Remember
that the Lord will give you an inheritance as your reward,
and the master you are serving is Christ. Now that'll
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change your whole attitude. It's a whole up to be
easy going, to be enthusiastic or anything. I'm not really
doing it for this guy or this one, and I'm
doing it for the Lord. I'm doing it as unto
the Lord. And you can do anything. You can clean
dishes to the Lord. You can you can scrape paint
for the Lord. You can repair a car for the Lord,
you can do any job when you turn it from
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I'm doing it for my boss, or I'm doing it
for a paycheck, or I'm doing it for the Lord.
You just turned your work into worship. And when you
turn work into worship, you know what you're doing. You're
storing up credits in heaven. You're storing up treasures in heaven.
You're making an internal deposit in heaven. The Bible says
in First Prindians ten thirteen thirty one. So whatever you
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eat or drink, or whatever you do, you do it
all circle the word, all for the glory of God.
I don't care if it's rearranged in papers, signing bills
of lady or whatever it is. Any job can become
an act of worship if a you do it enthusiastically,
that is in God, Lord, I'm doing it because this
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is a test. You're watching me, and I want a
good attitude. And number two, I'm doing it as if
I'm doing it for you. Number three, the third key
to success is concentrate on building my character. Why because
your character is far more important than your career. What
you become as a result of your work is far
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far more important than any job you'll ever have. As
I said, you're not taking your job to heaven. You're
not taking your career to heaven. You're not taking some
gold watch or some trophy to heaven. You're taking you.
And so you want to work on concentrate on building
character God. As I said, God's more interested in what
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you become than what you do. Now look at this
verse Romans five, three and four. We can rejoice when
we run into problems and trials because we know they're
good for us. They help us learn to endure, and
endurance develop strength of character in us, and character strengthens
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our confident expectation of salvation. And let me explain this
to you. A lot of people get freaked out every
time they get tempted by something. They get tempted by greed,
or they get tempted by pride, or they get tempted
by sensuality or sexuality. And they say, wait a minute,
I shouldn't be having that thought. You know, I'm a Christian,
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I'm trying to do the right thing. Why And you
get all freaked out, like why should I be tempted?
Let me tell you what. You will never outgrow temptation.
In fact, the closer you get to the God, the
more enemy you are of Satan, the more he's gonna
work on you. I hate to tell you that, but
it's true. You know you have greater strength or resist it.
And but you don't need to be intimidated. Never be
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intimidated by temptation. The Bible says, everybody gets the same temptation.
Martin Luther used to say, you can't keep birds from
flying over your head, but you can keep them from
building a nest in your hair. God puts an idea
in your mind, that's inspiration. The devil puts an idea
in your mind. That's temptation. You decide what you're gonna
do about it. It's not a sin to be tempted,
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the Bible says Jesus was tempted in every way, yet
he never sins. It's not a sin to be tempted.
It's a sin to give in to temptation. Now, what
you need to understand is that when you're at work
and you're tempted, let's think of some of the common temptations.
To get irritated at people who are jerks. Is that
a common temptation? Yeah? Uh, to say to a rude employee,
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up your nose with a rubber hose, or you know,
to get back at people. Is that a temptation? Yeah, yeah,
it is. Okay. You may not be tempted to go
commit adultery. You may be, but or go steal something,
you may be. But really the common temptations are to
be unkind and unloving, and to get angry, and to
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be prideful, and the relational temptations. Now, what you need
to realize is that every temptation is not just an
opportunity to do bad. It's an opportunity to do good.
And so then you realize, oh, well, I can use
this for growth. Every temptation is either a stepping stone
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or a stumbling block. It either makes you better or
it makes you better. You can take temptation and when
that temptation comes to go, you know, I just want
to get even with that person right now. And if
you don't, instead you stop and say, you know, the
Bible says return good for evil. The Bible says, bless
us who curse you. The Bible says, pray for those
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who offen you. So, Lord, I ask you to bless
that person who just ticked me off. You just grew.
Your character just got better. So rather than every time
you get tempted, if you use it to grow, you
know what's going to happen. Satan's going to stop tempting
you so much. The last thing he wants what you're
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doing is growing. Let's say he one of the things
he likes to do is make you impatient. And so
he keeps adding delays in your life, and keeps adding
delays in your life, keeps adding irritations in your life.
The on these heavenly sandpaper people, the extra grace required people.
And you know all these people are bugging you and
bugging you, and you know, instead of you getting upset,
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you start, Lord, I thank you for that person. And
I want to pray they have a good day. And Lord,
I want to thank you for that person. I pray
they come to know you, and I pray you will
bless that person. And that person just got a promotion
and I didn't, and they're bragging about it. Lord, bless
them really good. Now, two things happen when you do that.
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Two things happen. Number one, the Satan wants you praising God. No,
So he's going to figure out pretty soon. Every time
I tempt that person that prays God, I'm going to stop.
That's going to stop being irritation to you. Number two,
God says, you're growing. That's my girl, that's my son.
You're growing, and you're building character. Every temptation is an
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opportunity to do good. The Bible says in Proverbs twenty
twelve verse twenty four, work hard and you'll be a leader.
Let's say you become a leader, be lazy and you
end up a slave. I need to concentrate on building
my character. The other see stands for I must if
I want God's blessing on my work, I must care
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about those I work with. This is so important. If
you'll learn this, you will find yourself having the favor
of God on your work. If you learn to care
about the people around you, even when they're irritable, even
when they don't like you, even when they make fun
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of you, even when they put you down for being
a believer, all of those different things, you just be
nice to them. You just be friends to them. By
the way, if you're only friends with people you agree
with completely, you will have no friends. In fact, you'll
never get married because your spouse doesn't even agree with
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everything you do. So if you only can be friends
with people agree with everything you do, you're not going
to ever have any friends. You need to concentrate and
care about those you work with. You know what this is.
This is all about love and friends. It is the
glaring omission in almost every secular business book or leadership book,
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or you know life planning book, or you know any
kind of business related career book. In my life, I
have read hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of business books.
Many of you know. I have a library of over
twenty thousand volumes, and for many years I used to
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read a book day, and so I've read hundreds and
hundreds of business books and they all have one glaring omission.
They never talk about love. Except the one exception is
a fantastic book you ought to read called Love and
Prophet by James Autry. It's not by Christian, but it's
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a very good book about love and profit as a businessman. Now,
why is it important to care about the people around
you if you want to be successful? The number one
lesson in life, the number one reason God puts you
on this planet is to learn how to love. Remember,
God is love. He wants you to be like him.
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He wants his children to learn how to love before
they go to heaven. It's easy to love people like you.
It's easy to love the lovely. It's easy to love
people who are easy to get along with. If God's
going to teach you real love, he puts you around
unlovely people. Don't look at them, but you know who
I'm talking about. And as He puts you around these
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heavenly sandpaper people who just kind of rub you the
wrong way, God is giving you opportunities to learn real love.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
What a life giving message from Pastor Reg. Now let's
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Thanks for listening today. You know, honestly, I never paid
much attention to my health until I had a little
epiphany a few years back when I baptized over eight
hundred people in a single day by immersion. Now, looking
at myself and everybody that I was baptizing, it was
real clear that we all needed to get healthy. So
I put together a team of nationally known doctors to
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help me develop a program for our church. I called
it the Daniel Plan, based on the passage in the
Book of Daniel where Daniel has a contest with King
nebeca neezer on who can be the healthiest. The Daniel
Plan is centered on five essentials that will help you
become healthier. Faith, food, fitness, focus and friends. There are
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a lot of diet plans out there that deal with
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Plant is focus. Learning to have your mind renewed, friends,
learning to grow in community, and faith. Trust in God's
power rather than willpower. You know, we found that when
individuals addressed health issues in each of these key areas,
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they are transformed. In fact, in the first year of
the Daniel Plan, over fifteen thousand people from one hundred
and ninety countries participated and the results were life changing.
In fact, our own church, Saddleback Church, lost over a
quarter of a million pounds in one year. Can you
imagine that What did it do for our church? It
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Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.
And whether today is your first time tuning in or
if you're a regular listener, we're really excited that you're here. Well, today,
Pastor Rick is continuing his series called Discover Your Destiny,
So get ready to explore the practical steps to grow
in all areas of your life, spirit, mind, body, relationships,
(00:26):
and even your career. So stick with us as we
uncover God's incredible plan for your future. All right, well,
let's get started. Here's part one of a message called
the kind of Work God blesses.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
This week, we're going to look at your work. We've
been looking for several weeks at different key areas of
your life, your health, your finances. We're gonna look at
your family. This week, we're looking at your work now.
The Bible tells us in Proverbs chapter twenty two, when
you see people skilled in their work, you know that
they end up standing before kings, not working for ordinary people.
(01:05):
God says that when you commit yourself to becoming skilled
at your work, God is going to prosper you. You're
gonna find promotions in your life. Let me just say
it this way. The economy does not control your success
in your career. Your faith in God does. The economy
(01:29):
does not control your success in your career. Your faith
in God does. And if you have faith in God
and you're trusting Him and you're doing it His way,
you're going to find that He helps you even in
spite of what's going on all around you. And what
I want to do this weekend is just give you
(01:50):
an overview of some of the key things that God
says about what causes some people to be successful and
what causes others cannot be successful in their work. I
can summarize it this way. What you do is not
as important to your success or for that matter, to God.
(02:11):
What you do is not as important as why you
do it, how you do it, and what you become
while you're doing it. You could have one hundred different
careers that all would be in the will of God.
It's not like a bulls eye that, oh, I can
only do this and this is the only thing God
(02:32):
wants me to do. There might be one hundred different
careers that God would say, it's your choice, whatever shape
I shaped you to do, what you'd love to do,
what you're passionate to do. I can bless all of
them because what God is more interested is in your
character than your career. Because you're not taking your career
to heaven, and you are taking your character. That's why
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why you do what you do, how you do what
you do, and what you become is far more important
than the job. God can bless any job if you're
working on those. In other words, let me just say
it this way, motive method and meaning matter more than money.
(03:13):
You try saying that motive method, method and meaning matam
more than money. That's all I'll try saying that motive
method meaning matter more than money. That's what God says.
Why because none of that's gonna be taken to heaven,
you're gonna leave it all behind. But what you become
in the meantime is very very important. Now, what I
(03:36):
want to do, is I said, is just give you
an overview. So we're gonna look at seven keys to
succeeding at work, and I just for fun put in
a little cross stick suc ceed how you succeed at work?
All right, let's get into it. Number one. If I
want to be blessed in my work, for my work
to be blessed by God. I first, I must start
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working enthusiastically wherever I am. I must start working enthusiastically
where I am right now now. It doesn't matter if
it's a menial job. It doesn't matter if it's a
part time job. It doesn't matter if you hate the job.
It doesn't matter if you intend to quit. If you
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want God's blessing on your career, you must start working
enthusiastically where you are right now. You see, you've got
to be kidne me. That's what the Bible says. Look
at this verse Ecclesiastes nine to ten. Whatever your hand
finds to do, do it with all your might. Now
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notice it doesn't say whatever you like to do, do
it with all your might. It says, whatever job you've
got at the point at this point, whatever you find
yourself doing, if you're cleaning toilets, do it with all
your might. That's not a suggestion, that's a command. Whatever
your hand finds to do, do with all your mind.
You are when you work, you are to work with zeal.
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You're to work with passion. You're to work with a
good attitude. You're to work with enthusiasm. You say, wait
a minute, Rick, you don't know my job. If you
had my job, you would not work with enthusiasm. It
doesn't matter what your job is, because enthusiasm is a
spiritual discipline. Enthusiasm is based on why you are working.
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It's not based on what you're doing. You can be
enthusiastic about anything if you have a right reason for
doing it. Enthusiasm is not based on the fact that
it's fun to do, it's paying you a lot of money,
or it's based on why you're doing what you're doing.
The word enthusiasm comes from the Greek word in Ean
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and theos. Theos In is the word for n means
to be in something. Theos is the word for God.
Theology is the study of God. Theos is the word
for God, which, by the way, Theodore and Dorothy means
both means in the lover of God. That's what it means.
(06:11):
Theodore and dorothe mean lover of God. It's two Greek words.
And so what this is is he's saying you must
be enthusiastic. To be enthusiastic means to be in. Theist,
which means to be in God. Has nothing to do
with your job. It has everything to do with whether
you are in God or not? How do you get enthusiastic?
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You get in God. When you get in God, you
will be enthusiastic. It's based on why you're working, not
what you're doing. Now. If you want to learn to
be enthusiastic, because God says, whatever you want to do,
if you want me to bless it, I don't care
if you want. If this isn't your permanent job, You've
only got it for a little while. He says, I'm
watching you to see if you're enthusiastic in this job,
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in this this is in the perfect job, But in
this one, are you enthusiastic? Are you in God? And
if you want to be enthusiastic about any work, all
I have to do is remember three things. Number One,
this is a test from God. The job you're in
right now, it's not nearly as important as what's happening
in your attitude. Remember we've talked about this now for
(07:16):
twelve weeks. That life is a test, and life is
a trust. And God is seeing what he can trust
you with and how much he can test you with
here so he knows if your faithful little things, who
he can trust you with more in eternity, this life
is preparation for the next, and the Bible says this
Luke sixteen, whoever can be trusted with very little can
(07:38):
also be trusted with much. But if you've not been
trustworthy with somebody else's property or business, or job or assets,
who's going to give you your own? God says, I'm
watching to see if you're going to be enthusiastic even
in the little things of life. So you remember, first,
it's a test. Second one you've got to remember is
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but even though nobody else may be watching what you're doing,
God is doesn't matter what you're doing, doesn't matter what
your job is. It may be the most boring job
in the world. God is watching, and he's watching to
see your attitude. Look at this verse on the screen.
Work hard so that God can say to you, well done.
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Be a good workman, one who does not need to
be ashamed. When God examines your work. He said, you know,
you know, be positive about that. That's the third thing
you need to remember is that if I want to
be enthusiastic, I got to remember that my attitude determines
my joy. My attitude determines my joy allows you job
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is a lowsy job. But it's even worse when you
complain about it, Isn't that true? Does complaining ever make
a job better? Does it ever make a job easier?
Does griping ever make an unpleasant job more pleasant? No,
it makes it worse. And that's why the Bible says this,
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They the diligent, find freedom in their work, while the
lazy are oppressed by work. Why, it's all in your attitude.
And the first thing God says before we can talk
about anything else and succeeding in your life, you got
to change your attitude. You got some stinking thinking. You
need to check up from the neck up, okay, And
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you got to change your attitude about the work you're
doing right now. It may suck, but you need to
have an enthusiastic attitude because the Bible says, whatever you do,
do it with all your might. Romans twelve eleven says this,
never be lazy in your work. Why because God's watching.
Nobody else may be but God is. But serve the
Lord how enthusiastically. Now that leads us to the second
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key to succeeding in life. Let's first start working enthusiastic.
Where I am the you stands for understand who I'm
really working for. I need to under stand who I'm
really working for. Now this will turn your attitude around. See,
the truth is, neither your boss nor your board is
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really your lord. Jesus is your Lord, not the board.
Your boss is may be your supervisor, but he's not
your ultimate. He's not the big boss. You know, when
you play video games, you always want to go after
the big boss because he's the one who's got all
the controls. Now I need to understand who I'm really
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working for. Colossians three twenty three. Work hard and cheerfully.
Whatever you do as though you were working for the Lord.
Circle that for the Lord rather than for people. Remember
that the Lord will give you an inheritance as your reward,
and the master you are serving is Christ. Now that'll
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change your whole attitude. It's a whole up to be
easy going, to be enthusiastic or anything. I'm not really
doing it for this guy or this one, and I'm
doing it for the Lord. I'm doing it as unto
the Lord. And you can do anything. You can clean
dishes to the Lord. You can you can scrape paint
for the Lord. You can repair a car for the Lord,
you can do any job when you turn it from
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I'm doing it for my boss, or I'm doing it
for a paycheck, or I'm doing it for the Lord.
You just turned your work into worship. And when you
turn work into worship, you know what you're doing. You're
storing up credits in heaven. You're storing up treasures in heaven.
You're making an internal deposit in heaven. The Bible says
in First Prindians ten thirteen thirty one. So whatever you
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eat or drink, or whatever you do, you do it
all circle the word, all for the glory of God.
I don't care if it's rearranged in papers, signing bills
of lady or whatever it is. Any job can become
an act of worship if a you do it enthusiastically,
that is in God, Lord, I'm doing it because this
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is a test. You're watching me, and I want a
good attitude. And number two, I'm doing it as if
I'm doing it for you. Number three, the third key
to success is concentrate on building my character. Why because
your character is far more important than your career. What
you become as a result of your work is far
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far more important than any job you'll ever have. As
I said, you're not taking your job to heaven. You're
not taking your career to heaven. You're not taking some
gold watch or some trophy to heaven. You're taking you.
And so you want to work on concentrate on building
character God. As I said, God's more interested in what
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you become than what you do. Now look at this
verse Romans five, three and four. We can rejoice when
we run into problems and trials because we know they're
good for us. They help us learn to endure, and
endurance develop strength of character in us, and character strengthens
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our confident expectation of salvation. And let me explain this
to you. A lot of people get freaked out every
time they get tempted by something. They get tempted by greed,
or they get tempted by pride, or they get tempted
by sensuality or sexuality. And they say, wait a minute,
I shouldn't be having that thought. You know, I'm a Christian,
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I'm trying to do the right thing. Why And you
get all freaked out, like why should I be tempted?
Let me tell you what. You will never outgrow temptation.
In fact, the closer you get to the God, the
more enemy you are of Satan, the more he's gonna
work on you. I hate to tell you that, but
it's true. You know you have greater strength or resist it.
And but you don't need to be intimidated. Never be
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intimidated by temptation. The Bible says, everybody gets the same temptation.
Martin Luther used to say, you can't keep birds from
flying over your head, but you can keep them from
building a nest in your hair. God puts an idea
in your mind, that's inspiration. The devil puts an idea
in your mind. That's temptation. You decide what you're gonna
do about it. It's not a sin to be tempted,
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the Bible says Jesus was tempted in every way, yet
he never sins. It's not a sin to be tempted.
It's a sin to give in to temptation. Now, what
you need to understand is that when you're at work
and you're tempted, let's think of some of the common temptations.
To get irritated at people who are jerks. Is that
a common temptation? Yeah? Uh, to say to a rude employee,
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up your nose with a rubber hose, or you know,
to get back at people. Is that a temptation? Yeah, yeah,
it is. Okay. You may not be tempted to go
commit adultery. You may be, but or go steal something,
you may be. But really the common temptations are to
be unkind and unloving, and to get angry, and to
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be prideful, and the relational temptations. Now, what you need
to realize is that every temptation is not just an
opportunity to do bad. It's an opportunity to do good.
And so then you realize, oh, well, I can use
this for growth. Every temptation is either a stepping stone
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or a stumbling block. It either makes you better or
it makes you better. You can take temptation and when
that temptation comes to go, you know, I just want
to get even with that person right now. And if
you don't, instead you stop and say, you know, the
Bible says return good for evil. The Bible says, bless
us who curse you. The Bible says, pray for those
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who offen you. So, Lord, I ask you to bless
that person who just ticked me off. You just grew.
Your character just got better. So rather than every time
you get tempted, if you use it to grow, you
know what's going to happen. Satan's going to stop tempting
you so much. The last thing he wants what you're
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doing is growing. Let's say he one of the things
he likes to do is make you impatient. And so
he keeps adding delays in your life, and keeps adding
delays in your life, keeps adding irritations in your life.
The on these heavenly sandpaper people, the extra grace required people.
And you know all these people are bugging you and
bugging you, and you know, instead of you getting upset,
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you start, Lord, I thank you for that person. And
I want to pray they have a good day. And Lord,
I want to thank you for that person. I pray
they come to know you, and I pray you will
bless that person. And that person just got a promotion
and I didn't, and they're bragging about it. Lord, bless
them really good. Now, two things happen when you do that.
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Two things happen. Number one, the Satan wants you praising God. No,
So he's going to figure out pretty soon. Every time
I tempt that person that prays God, I'm going to stop.
That's going to stop being irritation to you. Number two,
God says, you're growing. That's my girl, that's my son.
You're growing, and you're building character. Every temptation is an
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opportunity to do good. The Bible says in Proverbs twenty
twelve verse twenty four, work hard and you'll be a leader.
Let's say you become a leader, be lazy and you
end up a slave. I need to concentrate on building
my character. The other see stands for I must if
I want God's blessing on my work, I must care
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about those I work with. This is so important. If
you'll learn this, you will find yourself having the favor
of God on your work. If you learn to care
about the people around you, even when they're irritable, even
when they don't like you, even when they make fun
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of you, even when they put you down for being
a believer, all of those different things, you just be
nice to them. You just be friends to them. By
the way, if you're only friends with people you agree
with completely, you will have no friends. In fact, you'll
never get married because your spouse doesn't even agree with
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everything you do. So if you only can be friends
with people agree with everything you do, you're not going
to ever have any friends. You need to concentrate and
care about those you work with. You know what this is.
This is all about love and friends. It is the
glaring omission in almost every secular business book or leadership book,
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or you know life planning book, or you know any
kind of business related career book. In my life, I
have read hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of business books.
Many of you know. I have a library of over
twenty thousand volumes, and for many years I used to
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read a book day, and so I've read hundreds and
hundreds of business books and they all have one glaring omission.
They never talk about love. Except the one exception is
a fantastic book you ought to read called Love and
Prophet by James Autry. It's not by Christian, but it's
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a very good book about love and profit as a businessman. Now,
why is it important to care about the people around
you if you want to be successful? The number one
lesson in life, the number one reason God puts you
on this planet is to learn how to love. Remember,
God is love. He wants you to be like him.
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He wants his children to learn how to love before
they go to heaven. It's easy to love people like you.
It's easy to love the lovely. It's easy to love
people who are easy to get along with. If God's
going to teach you real love, he puts you around
unlovely people. Don't look at them, but you know who
I'm talking about. And as He puts you around these
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heavenly sandpaper people who just kind of rub you the
wrong way, God is giving you opportunities to learn real love.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
What a life giving message from Pastor Reg. Now let's
join Reg with today's offer.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Thanks for listening today. You know, honestly, I never paid
much attention to my health until I had a little
epiphany a few years back when I baptized over eight
hundred people in a single day by immersion. Now, looking
at myself and everybody that I was baptizing, it was
real clear that we all needed to get healthy. So
I put together a team of nationally known doctors to
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help me develop a program for our church. I called
it the Daniel Plan, based on the passage in the
Book of Daniel where Daniel has a contest with King
nebeca neezer on who can be the healthiest. The Daniel
Plan is centered on five essentials that will help you
become healthier. Faith, food, fitness, focus and friends. There are
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a lot of diet plans out there that deal with
food and fitness, but the secret sauce in the Daniel
Plant is focus. Learning to have your mind renewed, friends,
learning to grow in community, and faith. Trust in God's
power rather than willpower. You know, we found that when
individuals addressed health issues in each of these key areas,
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they are transformed. In fact, in the first year of
the Daniel Plan, over fifteen thousand people from one hundred
and ninety countries participated and the results were life changing.
In fact, our own church, Saddleback Church, lost over a
quarter of a million pounds in one year. Can you
imagine that What did it do for our church? It
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increased our energy, We started sleeping better, It reduced our
need for medication. The whole church was healthier. Now. The
Daniel Plan has recently been released in a book format,
and I want you to have a copy of this
book today so you can start getting healthier now. And
I'll send you a hardcover copy of the Daniel Planned
book as a very special thank you for your gift
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to this ministry.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Just go to pastorick dot com to get your copy
of this great resource. That's pastorick dot com. Or you
can just text the word hope to seven oh three
to oh nine. That's the word hope to seven oh
three oh nine, and thank you so much for your support.
Your gift to Daily Hope really helps us share the
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hope of Christ with people all over the world. Be
sure to join us next time as we look into
God's word for our daily hope. This program is sponsored
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