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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey there, and welcome back to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Today.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Rick continues in his series called Connecting with God the
Lord's Prayer. In this series, Rick shows us what it
means to be truly spiritually connected to God and to
each other through the power of God's love and God's word. Well,
I know you all want to hear Rick's message today,
so here he is with part two of a message
(00:28):
called the Prayer of Deliverance.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Here's at step number two. Plan to avoid it? You
plan to avoid it. You don't wait until you're in
the situation. Deside. Am I going to give into this
or not? No, you decide before your emotions kick into gear.
You know when I used to be a youth pastor
(00:51):
many years ago, and I would tell kids that they
needed to plan their dates. I just don't go out
on a date and say what do.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You want to do?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
You're gonna end up in the back of a car
because you're bored. There's nothing else to do. I said,
you're either going to go by your plans or your glands.
So I said, plan your dates, know where you're headed,
know what you and parents, you need to teach that
to your kids. Don't just go out and say we're
(01:20):
going to We don't know what we're gonna do. It says,
you know, plan to avoid it. You need to know
what you're going to do. Now, the Bible says is
plan carefully what you do. Avoid evil, Walk straight ahead,
don't go one step off the right way. Whenever I
read that verse, it reminds me when I was in
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college in nineteen seventy four, I actually lived in Nagasaki, Japan,
and I taught English in a church in Nagasaki, Japan,
and I lived with the missionaries who lived there permanently
in Nagasaki, and their house was at the top of
a hill. Nagasaki is kind of like San Francisco. It's
(02:02):
all hills and valleys and beautiful bay and but to
get from the church to their house, I had to
walk through the Nagasaki red light district every single day.
And there were no there were I mean no holds
barred there. I mean it was there were posters of
nudity everywhere, and and I basically had to walk, and
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as I did, I would avoid evil, walk straight ahead,
don't step off one to the right or to the left.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Okay, I just put.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
My blinders on, just headed for the home. You know,
it's like cow going back to the barn or whatever. Now,
temptation always begins with the natural desire in you.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Temptation.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
If you didn't have a natural desire, it would never
key into it. And often temptation is fulfilling a legitimate
desire in the wrong way, or fulfilling a legitimate desire
at the wrong time or in the wrong amount. You
have a natural desire to eat, You have a need
to eat. You have a natural desire to drink, to sleep,
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you have natural sexual drives. These are natural. Where do
you think you got those? God gave them to you.
Those are not evil. What is temptation. Temptation is when
we abuse and misuse what God has given us. That's temptation.
When we abuse and misuse something that God has given
to us for good. Fire's good, but if you amuse it,
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use it and misuse it, it's going to burn up
your house. Water is a good thing. Your body is
ninety percent water. But if you get too much of it,
you're gonna drown. And so there's nothing wrong with water,
it's just misused and abused. It becomes a temptation. So temptation.
What it does is it turns a routine desire into
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a runaway desire. I gotta have it, and I gotta
have it now and now now, now, wrong time, wrong way,
wrong amount, and it becomes more than any important, than
anything else, and it's all you think about. And any
good God given desire out of control becomes a sin.
(04:16):
So you have to plan in advance. I say, you
know what I know. I get tempted in sports bars. Well, simple,
don't go to sports bars. Okay, I get tempted to
pick up the porno magazines and seven elevens. Don't go
to seven elevens. It's real simple. If you don't want
to get stung, you stay away from the bees. So
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you know that the when, the where, the why, the who,
the what, the how that makes you vulnerable, and then
you plan to avoid that area. Step number three, I
guard my heart. I must guard my heart. Now, this
is very, very important because the Bible says out of
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the heart. Everything comes out of the heart a man
speaks and all of the issues of life. Temptation always
starts inside of you. We think temptation is on the outside,
No it is not. The triggers on the outside. But
the temptation is actually inside you. And if there were
no natural temptation inside you, based on your shape and
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your nature, it wouldn't have any attraction to you. It's
like a magnet, you know, if a magnet doesn't attract
plastic because there's nothing inside the plastic that's metal to
pull it out. The Bible says this up here on
the screen James one fourteen. We are tempted by our
own desires that drag us off and trap us. And
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look at this next verse. The Bible says, it is
inside you. It's inside you, out of a person's heart.
That's why you have to guard your heart. Come evil thoughts,
sexual immorality, theft, the desire to kill people, adultery, greed, wickedness,
deceitfulness that's when you manipulate other people, lust, envy, slander, arrogance,
(06:14):
and foolishness. All these vile things come from not outside,
but from inside. So if you're serious about breaking some
bad habits and breaking a bad temptation, you got to
do a little heart check up first. So let's do
(06:34):
a little X ray, a spiritual X ray of your
heart right now. And I've listed there some questions. There
are ten questions. What I want you to do is
I want you to circle zero one, two, three, four four,
being really strong about it, our zero being you know,
on the on the left handed side, and I want
you to evaluate. Then we'll add up to points and
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I'll interpret it for you. Know, this is going to
be a real eye opener for some of you. Okay,
So number one right now your emotional experience. Do you
feel more physically exhausted over to the left hand side
of the column, or do you tend to feel right
now more energetic and in shape? Okay, just give yourself
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a zero one, two three four more physically exhausted. Are
you tending towards that end? Are you tending more toward
I feel energetic and in shape? Okay? How about the
next one right now?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
How are you feeling right now?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Are you more discouraged and pessimistic about your life, about
the economy, about your family, or your faith, whatever, or
are you more encouraged and hopeful? You need to give
yourself rate yourself on zero, one, two three four. Okay,
the number three right now? Are you feeling in your
life more bored with your life, more discontented with your life,
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or are you feeling at the other end more challenged
and contented?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Okay, the next one? Right now?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Do you feel more spiritually dry or spiritually empty or
do you feel no, I feel spiritually alive and I
feel like I'm really growing. I'm growing again. How about
the next In relationships? Right now, are you feeling more
alone a lot of the time or distant from others,
especially those you love, or are you feeling right now
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close to those you love. There's not a lot of
conflict going on. You feel pretty close to those you love.
The next one. Do you feel more insecure or unsure
about yourself? Or are you feeling right now more confident.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And secure because you're you sure?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
The next one? Are you feeling wounded? Are you feeling
deeply hurt? Or do you feel loved and understood? Give
yourself zero to four? Next one?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Do you tend to feel more bitter or angry about
something that's happened in your life that you've just gone
through or are you feeling I really have forgiven everybody
in my life. I'm not holding on to any regrets
or any resentments. Next one, where are you on the
happiness sad continuum? Are you feeling more sad these days?
Are you feeling more happy these days? And this the
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last one? Have you felt recently more like you've failed
or have you felt more recently like you have been
succeeding at whatever you were doing? Okay, now, what I
want you to do is just count up that number
right now and write your score at the bottom, and
I'm going to interpret it for you.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Okay, So just add it all up.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Count up all of the ones and the twos and
the threes and the fours, and add it all up. Obviously,
if you've got all zero's, you got zero. If you've
got all ones, you've got ten, and all twos would
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be twenty, and all fours would be forty.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
So you're not gonna have more than forty. So add
that up. Okay. Let a doctor Rick give his evaluation.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I've got a doctorate. Okay, I'm a doctor. Okay, yeah,
I'm a doctor. All right, All right, here we go.
If your total is thirty to forty, you are in
good shape. You're in really good shape, and you're going
to be much more resistant to temptation than most people would.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
That's a really good sign.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
If you have between twenty to thirty points. Friends, you're
in serious danger. Really, the yellow lights are flashing in
your life right now. You need to be aware that
you are being set up by for a fall, because
he always hits.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You when you're down.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You just need to be aware of that twenty to
thirty points. If you've got less than twenty points on
your score, friend, you are in crisis and you.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Don't even know it. And you really.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Need to talk to somebody in your small group or
get a reference for a Christian counselor or somebody. You
are in crisis right now and you seriously need some support.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Some energy in your life. Now.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Once you know the when and the how and the
where and the who and the what, and you know
all of this, how your heart is going, you need
to ask yourself, how long have I been at this level?
The longer you've been at the twenty level, the more
vulnerable you are, the longer you've been at the condition
you're in.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
The more serious it is. Now.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
When you mix all of these together, and you mix
several of these like frustration and anger and hurt, it
is a powerful combo, and all of a sudden you'll
hear somebody start whispering in your air. I deserve to
have some relief, I deserve.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
To have some fun. I deserve to be loved. And
that's not God whispering that in your ear.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
At that moment, you are being tempted and you're being
set up. And the Bible says this look on the
back of your outline. It says, do not give the
devil a foothold. Circle the word foothold. How do you
give the devil a foothold? What is a foothold? It's
a mental state. It is a negative emotion. Anytime you
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hold a negative emotion in your life for an extended
period of time, whether it's anger or worry, or fear,
or bitterness, or envy or jealousy or all of these
other things, the longer you hold that, you are allowing
the evil one to get a stronghold in your life,
in your brain. So you've got to guard your heart,
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all right. Number four, The fourth thing you need to
do is you need to pray for deliverance. Pray for deliverance,
and what I mean by that is just ask for
God's help. And the Bible tells us God is ready
to help. He says we're to pray lead us not
into temptation, but deliver us from evil. That is the
prayer of deliverance. And you ask God for help. Now,
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the prayer of deliverance.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Is often just one word help. Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
It doesn't have to be our gracious heavenly Father and
going on. No, you can do when you come to
the prayer deliverance. You can do a microwave prayer help.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
You know I'm walking through. Keep my eyes straight, you
know I'm going through this time. I don't like this person.
I'm gonna have to deal with that clerk who's a jerk.
And I do not want to get impatient. I do
not want to get an angry. I do not like
the way my relative treats me. And I'm going to
see them today, and oh God, you got to help
me because I just I lose my Christianity when I'm
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around that person. And God, I really need your help
today because everything in me just wants me to slugger
you know, or him or whatever. You know, you just
that relative out there who just irritates you no end, okay,
And so you pray for deliverance. Now, the Bible is
full of examples. The people who prayed for deliverance David, Daniel, Peter, Paul.
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And God provides assistance for anybody who asks, why can
I expect God to help me when I pray the
prayer of deliverance? Because God has promised it. Look at
this verse, Psalm fifty, verse fifteen. Call upon me in
your day of trouble. I will deliver you.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
You will honor me.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
God says, you don't have to have a long conversation.
You can just say help may day, may day, may day,
sos God, I'm facing something now that will powers not
enough to keep me being nice to this.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Person or whatever. God, I need to pray the prayer
of deliverance. And you know what.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
God's sympathetic to your situation. He knows everything that's going
on in your life. He knows how irritating those people are.
He knows the things that tempt you. In fact, look
at this next verse. Jesus understands our weakness, for he
faced all of the same temptations we do, yet he
did not sin. So let us come boldly to our
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gracious God, and then we will receive his mercy and
grace to help us when we need it. Notice, he
says Jesus understands. Why is he sympathetic? Notice he faced
the same temptation, underlining that Jesus faced the same temptation.
Wait a minute, You saying Jesus was tempted to get angry?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You're telling me Jesus was tempted to have self pity. Yes,
you're telling me that Jesus had sexual temptations. Absolutely, you're
telling me that Jesus sometimes was fatigued and tempted to
be cranky. Absolutely every basic temptation. The Bible says he
was tempted in all ways like as we Yet he
said not, that's the difference. He never gave in. And
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so he had the freedom to choose. How do we
know that Jesus had the freedom to choose? I mean,
didn't he just have to be perfect because he was God?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
No, he didn't. He had the freedom to choose.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
That's why even at the cross the night before he's
going to be crucified, he's thinking, I don't want to
be crucified. I don't want to go through all that thing,
and in the garden against him, and he's praying and
he's struggling with it, and he says, Father.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Not my will, not my will, but yours be done.
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Jesus had a choice, and he suffered the same temptations
we do in life, and so he understands. And in
John six thirty eight he says, I didn't come to
do my will. I came to do the will of
the Father. So he was God in a human body.
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But even better is that he never sinned. What does
that mean he can help you overcome? And so the
Bible says, come boldly to God, Come and say, mayday, sos,
I need your help. God isn't ticked with you when
you get tempted. He's not gonna scold you when you
tempt me. He said, I'm ready here to help. So
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I pray for deliverance.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
What a special message from Pastor Wreck And now let's
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Speaker 3 (18:02):
You know I like to share letters from people like
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and what a blessing it's been to my life. I've
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Hey there, and welcome back to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Today.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Rick continues in his series called Connecting with God the
Lord's Prayer. In this series, Rick shows us what it
means to be truly spiritually connected to God and to
each other through the power of God's love and God's word. Well,
I know you all want to hear Rick's message today,
so here he is with part two of a message
(00:28):
called the Prayer of Deliverance.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Here's at step number two. Plan to avoid it? You
plan to avoid it. You don't wait until you're in
the situation. Deside. Am I going to give into this
or not? No, you decide before your emotions kick into gear.
You know when I used to be a youth pastor
(00:51):
many years ago, and I would tell kids that they
needed to plan their dates. I just don't go out
on a date and say what do.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You want to do?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
You're gonna end up in the back of a car
because you're bored. There's nothing else to do. I said,
you're either going to go by your plans or your glands.
So I said, plan your dates, know where you're headed,
know what you and parents, you need to teach that
to your kids. Don't just go out and say we're
(01:20):
going to We don't know what we're gonna do. It says,
you know, plan to avoid it. You need to know
what you're going to do. Now, the Bible says is
plan carefully what you do. Avoid evil, Walk straight ahead,
don't go one step off the right way. Whenever I
read that verse, it reminds me when I was in
(01:41):
college in nineteen seventy four, I actually lived in Nagasaki, Japan,
and I taught English in a church in Nagasaki, Japan,
and I lived with the missionaries who lived there permanently
in Nagasaki, and their house was at the top of
a hill. Nagasaki is kind of like San Francisco. It's
(02:02):
all hills and valleys and beautiful bay and but to
get from the church to their house, I had to
walk through the Nagasaki red light district every single day.
And there were no there were I mean no holds
barred there. I mean it was there were posters of
nudity everywhere, and and I basically had to walk, and
(02:25):
as I did, I would avoid evil, walk straight ahead,
don't step off one to the right or to the left.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Okay, I just put.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
My blinders on, just headed for the home. You know,
it's like cow going back to the barn or whatever. Now,
temptation always begins with the natural desire in you.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Temptation.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
If you didn't have a natural desire, it would never
key into it. And often temptation is fulfilling a legitimate
desire in the wrong way, or fulfilling a legitimate desire
at the wrong time or in the wrong amount. You
have a natural desire to eat, You have a need
to eat. You have a natural desire to drink, to sleep,
(03:12):
you have natural sexual drives. These are natural. Where do
you think you got those? God gave them to you.
Those are not evil. What is temptation. Temptation is when
we abuse and misuse what God has given us. That's temptation.
When we abuse and misuse something that God has given
to us for good. Fire's good, but if you amuse it,
(03:34):
use it and misuse it, it's going to burn up
your house. Water is a good thing. Your body is
ninety percent water. But if you get too much of it,
you're gonna drown. And so there's nothing wrong with water,
it's just misused and abused. It becomes a temptation. So temptation.
What it does is it turns a routine desire into
(03:56):
a runaway desire. I gotta have it, and I gotta
have it now and now now, now, wrong time, wrong way,
wrong amount, and it becomes more than any important, than
anything else, and it's all you think about. And any
good God given desire out of control becomes a sin.
(04:16):
So you have to plan in advance. I say, you
know what I know. I get tempted in sports bars. Well, simple,
don't go to sports bars. Okay, I get tempted to
pick up the porno magazines and seven elevens. Don't go
to seven elevens. It's real simple. If you don't want
to get stung, you stay away from the bees. So
(04:39):
you know that the when, the where, the why, the who,
the what, the how that makes you vulnerable, and then
you plan to avoid that area. Step number three, I
guard my heart. I must guard my heart. Now, this
is very, very important because the Bible says out of
(05:02):
the heart. Everything comes out of the heart a man
speaks and all of the issues of life. Temptation always
starts inside of you. We think temptation is on the outside,
No it is not. The triggers on the outside. But
the temptation is actually inside you. And if there were
no natural temptation inside you, based on your shape and
(05:25):
your nature, it wouldn't have any attraction to you. It's
like a magnet, you know, if a magnet doesn't attract
plastic because there's nothing inside the plastic that's metal to
pull it out. The Bible says this up here on
the screen James one fourteen. We are tempted by our
own desires that drag us off and trap us. And
(05:48):
look at this next verse. The Bible says, it is
inside you. It's inside you, out of a person's heart.
That's why you have to guard your heart. Come evil thoughts,
sexual immorality, theft, the desire to kill people, adultery, greed, wickedness,
deceitfulness that's when you manipulate other people, lust, envy, slander, arrogance,
(06:14):
and foolishness. All these vile things come from not outside,
but from inside. So if you're serious about breaking some
bad habits and breaking a bad temptation, you got to
do a little heart check up first. So let's do
(06:34):
a little X ray, a spiritual X ray of your
heart right now. And I've listed there some questions. There
are ten questions. What I want you to do is
I want you to circle zero one, two, three, four four,
being really strong about it, our zero being you know,
on the on the left handed side, and I want
you to evaluate. Then we'll add up to points and
(06:55):
I'll interpret it for you. Know, this is going to
be a real eye opener for some of you. Okay,
So number one right now your emotional experience. Do you
feel more physically exhausted over to the left hand side
of the column, or do you tend to feel right
now more energetic and in shape? Okay, just give yourself
(07:16):
a zero one, two three four more physically exhausted. Are
you tending towards that end? Are you tending more toward
I feel energetic and in shape? Okay? How about the
next one right now?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
How are you feeling right now?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Are you more discouraged and pessimistic about your life, about
the economy, about your family, or your faith, whatever, or
are you more encouraged and hopeful? You need to give
yourself rate yourself on zero, one, two three four. Okay,
the number three right now? Are you feeling in your
life more bored with your life, more discontented with your life,
(07:53):
or are you feeling at the other end more challenged
and contented?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Okay, the next one? Right now?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Do you feel more spiritually dry or spiritually empty or
do you feel no, I feel spiritually alive and I
feel like I'm really growing. I'm growing again. How about
the next In relationships? Right now, are you feeling more
alone a lot of the time or distant from others,
especially those you love, or are you feeling right now
(08:23):
close to those you love. There's not a lot of
conflict going on. You feel pretty close to those you love.
The next one. Do you feel more insecure or unsure
about yourself? Or are you feeling right now more confident.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And secure because you're you sure?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
The next one? Are you feeling wounded? Are you feeling
deeply hurt? Or do you feel loved and understood? Give
yourself zero to four? Next one?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Do you tend to feel more bitter or angry about
something that's happened in your life that you've just gone
through or are you feeling I really have forgiven everybody
in my life. I'm not holding on to any regrets
or any resentments. Next one, where are you on the
happiness sad continuum? Are you feeling more sad these days?
Are you feeling more happy these days? And this the
(09:22):
last one? Have you felt recently more like you've failed
or have you felt more recently like you have been
succeeding at whatever you were doing? Okay, now, what I
want you to do is just count up that number
right now and write your score at the bottom, and
I'm going to interpret it for you.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Okay, So just add it all up.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Count up all of the ones and the twos and
the threes and the fours, and add it all up. Obviously,
if you've got all zero's, you got zero. If you've
got all ones, you've got ten, and all twos would
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be twenty, and all fours would be forty.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
So you're not gonna have more than forty. So add
that up. Okay. Let a doctor Rick give his evaluation.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I've got a doctorate. Okay, I'm a doctor. Okay, yeah,
I'm a doctor. All right, All right, here we go.
If your total is thirty to forty, you are in
good shape. You're in really good shape, and you're going
to be much more resistant to temptation than most people would.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
That's a really good sign.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
If you have between twenty to thirty points. Friends, you're
in serious danger. Really, the yellow lights are flashing in
your life right now. You need to be aware that
you are being set up by for a fall, because
he always hits.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You when you're down.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You just need to be aware of that twenty to
thirty points. If you've got less than twenty points on
your score, friend, you are in crisis and you.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Don't even know it. And you really.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Need to talk to somebody in your small group or
get a reference for a Christian counselor or somebody. You
are in crisis right now and you seriously need some support.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Some energy in your life. Now.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Once you know the when and the how and the
where and the who and the what, and you know
all of this, how your heart is going, you need
to ask yourself, how long have I been at this level?
The longer you've been at the twenty level, the more
vulnerable you are, the longer you've been at the condition
you're in.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
The more serious it is. Now.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
When you mix all of these together, and you mix
several of these like frustration and anger and hurt, it
is a powerful combo, and all of a sudden you'll
hear somebody start whispering in your air. I deserve to
have some relief, I deserve.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
To have some fun. I deserve to be loved. And
that's not God whispering that in your ear.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
At that moment, you are being tempted and you're being
set up. And the Bible says this look on the
back of your outline. It says, do not give the
devil a foothold. Circle the word foothold. How do you
give the devil a foothold? What is a foothold? It's
a mental state. It is a negative emotion. Anytime you
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hold a negative emotion in your life for an extended
period of time, whether it's anger or worry, or fear,
or bitterness, or envy or jealousy or all of these
other things, the longer you hold that, you are allowing
the evil one to get a stronghold in your life,
in your brain. So you've got to guard your heart,
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all right. Number four, The fourth thing you need to
do is you need to pray for deliverance. Pray for deliverance,
and what I mean by that is just ask for
God's help. And the Bible tells us God is ready
to help. He says we're to pray lead us not
into temptation, but deliver us from evil. That is the
prayer of deliverance. And you ask God for help. Now,
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the prayer of deliverance.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Is often just one word help. Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
It doesn't have to be our gracious heavenly Father and
going on. No, you can do when you come to
the prayer deliverance. You can do a microwave prayer help.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
You know I'm walking through. Keep my eyes straight, you
know I'm going through this time. I don't like this person.
I'm gonna have to deal with that clerk who's a jerk.
And I do not want to get impatient. I do
not want to get an angry. I do not like
the way my relative treats me. And I'm going to
see them today, and oh God, you got to help
me because I just I lose my Christianity when I'm
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around that person. And God, I really need your help
today because everything in me just wants me to slugger
you know, or him or whatever. You know, you just
that relative out there who just irritates you no end, okay,
And so you pray for deliverance. Now, the Bible is
full of examples. The people who prayed for deliverance David, Daniel, Peter, Paul.
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And God provides assistance for anybody who asks, why can
I expect God to help me when I pray the
prayer of deliverance? Because God has promised it. Look at
this verse, Psalm fifty, verse fifteen. Call upon me in
your day of trouble. I will deliver you.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
You will honor me.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
God says, you don't have to have a long conversation.
You can just say help may day, may day, may day,
sos God, I'm facing something now that will powers not
enough to keep me being nice to this.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Person or whatever. God, I need to pray the prayer
of deliverance. And you know what.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
God's sympathetic to your situation. He knows everything that's going
on in your life. He knows how irritating those people are.
He knows the things that tempt you. In fact, look
at this next verse. Jesus understands our weakness, for he
faced all of the same temptations we do, yet he
did not sin. So let us come boldly to our
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gracious God, and then we will receive his mercy and
grace to help us when we need it. Notice, he
says Jesus understands. Why is he sympathetic? Notice he faced
the same temptation, underlining that Jesus faced the same temptation.
Wait a minute, You saying Jesus was tempted to get angry?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You're telling me Jesus was tempted to have self pity. Yes,
you're telling me that Jesus had sexual temptations. Absolutely, you're
telling me that Jesus sometimes was fatigued and tempted to
be cranky. Absolutely every basic temptation. The Bible says he
was tempted in all ways like as we Yet he
said not, that's the difference. He never gave in. And
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so he had the freedom to choose. How do we
know that Jesus had the freedom to choose? I mean,
didn't he just have to be perfect because he was God?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
No, he didn't. He had the freedom to choose.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
That's why even at the cross the night before he's
going to be crucified, he's thinking, I don't want to
be crucified. I don't want to go through all that thing,
and in the garden against him, and he's praying and
he's struggling with it, and he says, Father.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Not my will, not my will, but yours be done.
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Jesus had a choice, and he suffered the same temptations
we do in life, and so he understands. And in
John six thirty eight he says, I didn't come to
do my will. I came to do the will of
the Father. So he was God in a human body.
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But even better is that he never sinned. What does
that mean he can help you overcome? And so the
Bible says, come boldly to God, Come and say, mayday, sos,
I need your help. God isn't ticked with you when
you get tempted. He's not gonna scold you when you
tempt me. He said, I'm ready here to help. So
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I pray for deliverance.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
What a special message from Pastor Wreck And now let's
hear how lives are changing through Daily Hope. Here's rig
with a letter from one of our listeners.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You know I like to share letters from people like
you who are listening to Daily Hope. Let me read
one from a guy named Lee who lives in Chicago.
Dear Pastor Rick, I was introduced to Daily Hope this year,
and what a blessing it's been to my life. I've
listened almost every day since. You've helped me in ways
that I've never been helped before. I'm divorced, I've made
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many mistakes in my life, yet I always have had
some sort of connection with God, even though I never
really truly walked the line as a true disciple. But
I want to thank you for taking the time that
it takes to produced Daily Hope. I'm somebody that, regardless
of the distance, you're helping in far more ways than
I can explain in a simple email. I'm now attending
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a local church that's great, and I met a wonderful
Christian woman that's great that God has put in my life,
and I'm gaining ground on a much brighter and more
powerful relationship with God. I had to share this with
you and thank you for all you're doing and how
your impact my life in positive ways as you do
for so many others through Daily Hope. Thanks Lee, Well,
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thank you Lee for writing. I want you to know
your note made my day. Means a lot to me
to know that these broadcasts are helping normal people out
there just like you and like me, And I'm really
glad you found a local church where you can meet
with other believers and find support and encouragement in your
walk with Christ. Daily Hope is never meant to be
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a replacement for a church family. Nothing can replace a
church family. But one of the most powerful things you
can do is to share your story with others. And
you can actually share it with me if you'll write
me Rick at Pastorrick dot com. That's rickat Pastorrick dot
com with two hours in the middle. I would love
to hear from you, and we'll share some of these
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testimonies on the air from time to time so that
other people can be encouraged to Thanks again for listening
today and join me next time as we continue.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
To look into God's word for our daily hope.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
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