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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello everybody, and welcome to another episode of Pastor Rick's
Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. Hey,
we're so glad you've joined us today because Rick is
bringing his series Transformed to a close. Now, together, we're
going to dive into God's word and discover powerful principles
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that can truly change our lives from the inside out spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally, financially,
and vocationally. You'll get to experience how God's truth brings
real transformation to every part of your life. So let's
jump right in and join Rick for the final part
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of a message called Facing Giants in Life and Work.
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Now, why had everybody given up? Why had they all
gotten so discouraged from this one giant? The answer is
they were listening to the wrong voice. They were listening
to this guy every single day. Look at the next verse,
verse sixteen, For forty days, twice a day, morning and evening,
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the Philistine giant loudly berated Di Israeli or Israelite Army. Well,
it's no wonder they got discouraged. They're listening to this
guy day after day after day after day. Question who
are you listening to? Who are you listening to? Who
says it can't be done? Who is pooh poohing your dream,
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putting down your dream, saying it won't ever happen, forget it?
Who is telling you that you're not the person to
do it. You know, if you listen to negative people
long enough, you know what happens. You get negative because
it's highly contagious. Maybe one of the best things you
should do is stop listening to talk radio, because it
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is negative, negative, negative, negative, negative. And you know what,
if you listen to negative, you know what, You're gonna
become a negative, bitter person. And if you listen to
people who are against, against, against, against, every day of
your likeness, what you end up being against everything. Negativity
is contagious, and so is fear, and so is discouragement.
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And if you listen to somebody who said America is
going to hell in a handbasket day after day after day, pretty.
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Soon you start acting like it. Now.
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Sometimes you just need a fresh voice, You need a
kid from the village with fresh eyes. Go this guy's nothing.
We can take him down. It's a slam dunk.
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Look.
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In the next verse, verses twenty three and twenty four.
As David talked with his brothers on the front line,
he saw Goliath start shouting his usual threats to Israel's army,
and when the army heard Goliath, they all ran away
in terror. They all ran away. Let me give you
some advice. Don't hang out with fearful people. Don't hang
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out out with fearful people, because if you do, you
will become fearful. If you hang out with cowards, you
become a coward. You hang out with bitter people, you
become bitter. You hang out with angry people, you become angry.
You hang out with negative people, you become negative. It's
highly contagious. The first barrier to your dream is delayed,
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somebody's trying to hold you back. But the second barrier
to your dream, the second dream buster, is discouragement because
everybody around you is telling you that life sucks and
it can't be done and they're wrong. They're wrong. Now
there's a third dream buster, and I call it the
giant of disapproval. And David had to handle this one.
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Is he had to be willing to face the disapproval
of people around him in order to go after his
dream and you will too. Now here's the problem. The
reason why most people don't ever go after their dream
is they are afraid of disapproval. They are afraid of rejection.
In this David's own brother questioned his motives. David's own
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brother questioned his motives and disapproved of David even going
after the giant. We want everybody to like us, I
mean we really do. We want everybody to approve of
everything we do. But if you go after God's dream
for your life, I'm guaranteeing you this, there will be naysayers,
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there will be critics, there will be miss understanding, there
will be attacks, there will be people who are judging
you for what you do because they don't get it.
And that is the disapproval giant. In this case, David's
own brother questions David's motivation, and he treats his younger
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brother with disdain and disgust, and he demeans him, and
he disregards them, and he belittles him. In Verse twenty
eight and twenty nine notices conversation between the older brother
and the younger brother, and David's there on the front
line and he asks the.
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Soldiers, what's the reward for.
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Killing this philistine and ending this disgraceful abuse.
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What's the reward? Now?
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When David's older brother heard David and even asked this question,
he burned with anger at David, and he said, now,
listen to this conversation.
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And see if you can identify with it. David's older
brother says, why are you here anyway?
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Why aren't you taking care of your scrawny little flock
of sheep, You cocky little brat. I know how conceited
you are. And David, the younger brother, goes, now, what
have I done? Can I even ask a question? Do
any of you vaguely relate to this conversation? Yeah, it's
called sibling rivalry, and it's happened in every single family
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because the older brother and the younger brother, the people
closest to you can't see what you see. They can't
imagine you accomplishing something that they've never imagined themselves. They
think they know who you are, but they don't know
you like God knows you, and so they come out
with this demeaning, demoralizing disapproval. You hear the family dynamics
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going on here. The sad truth is this, Sometimes it
is your own family that doesn't want you to accomplish
God's dream. It may be envy, It may be jealousy.
It may be they think they know you better than
you do and they know your weaknesses, but they don't
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know God's strength. It may be that they would be embarrassed.
It may be that they would resent you being successful
and it would make them look bad. I don't know
really what it is, but sibling rivalry often leads to resentment.
Did you know that even Jesus had to you with this?
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You know, Jesus was born of a virgin marrying Joseph
had that sex because God was the father of Jesus.
But the Bible tells us very clearly that after Jesus
was born, later on, Joseph and Mary had many kids.
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In fact, we were given their names in the Bible.
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In fact, Mary and the kids followed Jesus around during
his ministry. Now, what is interesting is that none of
jesus half brothers or sisters accepted him as Lord and
savior until after the resurrection, and then they all became believers.
Because when your brothers died on the cross and then
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three days later he's walking around talking to you.
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That would make me a believer.
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But I have to, you know, show a little grace
to these guys, because I wouldn't.
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Want to believe in my brother either.
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You know, if my brother said, by the way, I'm God, Yeah,
you and who else?
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Okay?
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How would you like to have Jesus as your old brother?
Mister perfect? I mean, there's noise going on and the mother,
mom walks in, and Mary goes, what's going on in here?
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Kids? Well Jesus did Now you guys know he didn't
do it. Mom.
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He like Jesus, never lies. But Ma, how would you
like to have a brother who was always right? That
would be hard.
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Growing up in that family. Okay, And so I could.
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See every reason why they would not accept him as
the Messiah until after his death and resurrection. But even
Jesus had to deal with this sibling rivalry because a
brother or a sister will always say, who do you
think you are? When you have a dream? I'll never forget.
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When this church many years ago bought this piece of
land one hundred and twenty acres and saddleback was a
much smaller church at the time, and the word got
out of the community that this little church was going
to go buy one hundred and twenty acres in Orange
County and said, yeah, who else? And the word got
out around this community, those people over there at Saddleback Church, who.
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Do they think they are?
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And I remember having to address it in a service
and I had to stand up and say, folks, you've
heard this rumor going around people saying who do those
people think they are?
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What kind of they think they're special or something?
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And I had to say, that's not the question. That's
the wrong question. The question is not who do we
think we are? The question is who do we think
God is. You let the size of your God determine
the size of your goal. And if you have a
big God, you better have some big goals because God
doesn't give you pitily dreams. If a dream is from God,
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how do you know? If your dreams from God, it's
so big you're bound to fail unless God bails you out.
The dream will be so big you are guaranteed failure.
You totally depend on God to see it happen. It's
just outrageously enormous. It's a big dream from a big God.
The wrong question the right questions who do we think
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God is? Let the size of your God determine the
size of your goal. Now, listen, when God gives you
a dream, and it's a dream that other people are
afraid to attempt, or afraid to accomplish, or afraid to
even step out and try. If you take that dream
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and you go for it, you will be misjudged. You
will be maligned, you will be misinterpreted, and you will
be misunderstood.
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That is the giant of disapproval.
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And you have to decide what matters more to you,
the approval of other people or the approval of God.
I decided a long time ago that the approval of
God is more important to me than the other people.
And it's not my job. It's none of my business
what you think of me. It is my business what
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God thinks of me. And that's the issue of disappointment.
Now there's one other dream buster. Oh, by the way,
David did find out what the reward would be? Did
you know what the reward would be for killing Elith?
It was three things. Number one, the king would give
you great wealth. Number two, you got to marry the
king's daughter. And number three, this was the best of all.
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You were exempt from taxes the rest of your life. Hello, shoot,
I would have gone after you know, Goliath for that one.
No taxes for the rest of my life. Yeah, yeah,
well that was the reward. But then there's the fourth
dream buster that David had to face, even before he
faced Caliath.
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And it is the giant of doubt.
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First there is delay, then there's discouragement, then there's disapproval,
and then there's doubt. Am I capable for this? Am
I up to the task for this? Can I actually
do what God is asking me to do? And then
there are people are all around you who tell you can't.
And in David's case, the expert doubted his ability. Now
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there was nobody who was a greater expert on war
than King Saul. But Gasaul had been in battle his
entire life. And when Saul King Saul, here's that this
little kid is willing to take on the giant who's
paralyzed the nation. He invites David to come see him
at the palace. So David goes to say King Sault,
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see King Saul, And here's the conversation, verse thirty two
and thirty three. David says to the king, don't worry
about a thing. King David told the King, I'll fight
this philistine, and by the way, let me just stop
right here. Confidence is God is often misinterpreted as cockiness
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by other people. A lot of people might think a
person is cocky when they're just a person of faith.
It's not that they think that they can do it.
It's that they know God can do it. That's confidence
in God, not cockiness. David says, don't worry about a thing, King,
I'll fight this philistine. Don't be ridiculous. Saul replied, there's
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no way you can go against this philistine. You're only
a boy and he's been a professional warrior all his life.
Now that expert is saying you can't do it, and
there's enough to make you start doubting yourself. I will
say it about experts that I said about conventional wisdom.
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The experts are often wrong. They're often wrong. I remember
when I'm a Californian, but I went to seminary in Texas.
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And when I went to seminary in.
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Texas, while I was there, God gave me a dream
of moving to southern California, to a city I'd never
been in, and to start at church with no money,
no members, no building, and no support, and I'd never
been a senior pastor. And so I called up an
expert on starting churches in Texas. His name was Jane
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and I called him up and I said, Hey, I'm
thinking about graduating, going to southern California, starting at church
with no money, no members, no building, no support, and
I've never been a senior pastor. What do you think?
And this gene said expert said, that's the dumbest idea
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I've ever heard. He said, Rick, if you do that,
you will never be heard from again.
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Hmm.
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Twenty years later he called me back. He said, that
was the dumbest advice I ever gave in my life.
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I was dead wrong, dead dead wrong on that. Okay.
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Now, remember when I wrote Purpose Driven Life, I got
a letter from the editor. I framed it and said,
this book will never work. Nobody's going to read forty chapters.
The experts are often very wrong, very very wrong. So
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there's this doubt that comes. Now, how do you defeat
these giants that are keeping you from being the man
God wants you to be? How do you defeat these
fears that are keeping you from being the woman God
wants you to be? To be a person of great
faith with a great dream and a great life work.
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How do you overcome those giants? You do the very
things that David did. Quickly, let me just give him
to you. The four things that David did to defeat
these giants before he gets to Goliath. Number one, I
remember how God has helped me in the past. That's
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the first thing you do to face the giants and
to fulfill your dream. Remember how God has helped me
in the past. This is a confidence builder when I recall,
when I recollect, when I remember ways that God has
helped me in the past, it gives me confidence for
the future. I said, remember those time I thought I'm
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going to make it, but I did. And I remember
that time I thought it was the end, but it wasn't.
And remember I thought it was at the bottom and
I was never going to climb out, but I did.
And remember when I thought it was all alone, but
I wasn't. And you remember how God has helped you
in little times, and realize He's going to help me
in big times in the future. Because God never changes.
God doesn't love you one day and not another day.
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And if He helped you in the past in little
ways He will willingly help you in the future in
big ways. You remember how God has helped you in
the past.
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This is what David did. Verse thirty six.
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David says when everybody tells him it can't be done,
he says, you know, in protecting my sheep as a shepherd,
I've killed both a lion and a bear, And the
Lord who delivered me from the teeth of that lion
and the claws of that bear will surely now deliver
me from this philistine too.
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That's confidence.
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I remember how God's helped me in the past.
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Number two.
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I use the tools that God has given me now.
I use the tools that God has given me now.
I don't wait for something I don't have. I don't
have enough money, I don't have enough education, I don't
have enough connections, I don't have enough opportunities.
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I don't have this or I don't have that.
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No, you use the tools you've got right now.
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Now.
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Some people are just waiting for something to happen. You
don't wait for your ship to come in. You swim
out to it, because if you wait for it to
come into the harbor, you're going to wait a long
long time. You use the tools God has given me. Now,
David goes to see Saul, and Saul says, well, if
you're gonna fight this guy, you may as well use
my armor. How ridiculous is that David is a short,
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small boy. Saul is a tall, big grown man. To
take his armor and put it on David, his hands
probably didn't even show through it, it would be comical.
And David says this verse thirty eight to forty. Then
Saul dressed David in his own armor, but David said, if.
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I can't go out in these.
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He said, I can't go out in these because I'm
not used to them, so he took him off. Instead,
he chose five smooth stones for his sling. He goes,
this is what I'm used to. I know how to
use a slingshot. I don't need your armor. I'm gonna
just do this now. Let me just say this. When
you start going after your dream that God has given you,
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some people are gonna pose you on it. They're going
to be opposition. But other people say, oh yeah, go
ahead and go after your dream, but do it my way.
And they're gonna try to condense you to do it
their way, but you're not them, and.
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It's gonna fail.
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I see this Saul's armor syndrome in businesses everywhere. Well,
they're doing it that way, so we should do it
that way. Well, not necessarily, because God doesn't create clones.
God made you to be you, and God's gonna use
you to fulfill the dream. He asks for you your way,
not the way somebody else did it. And if you
try to do it the way somebody else did it,
you are.
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Bound to fail.
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It's like trying to wear Saul's armor. You can't wear
it because you're not Saul. You just need to use
the tools you got. He had a swing shot.
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So he picks up some stones and he's gonna go
after it.
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Often people will try to load some things on you
that are just too heavy for you, and you're not
gonna fulfill your dream that way. I love this verse
in Ecclesiastes eleven, look up here on the screen. Verse
four says, if you wait for perfect conditions, you'll never
get anything done.
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How many of you agree with that verse?
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Yeah, if you wait for perfect conditions, you're never gonna
get started on your dream. Someday I'll one of these. No,
today's the day we're ending fifty days of transformation. This
is the day to start the new dream. This is
the day to go after it. And when everybody else
is saying you can't do it, discouragement, and when you're
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full of doubt, you're going to trust God. And when
there's been a delay and people have held you back,
and when people disapprove you, just say sorry, I've got
to do what God's asking me to do. Number three,
The third thing he did is ignore the dream Busters.
You must ignore the dream Busters in your life.
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Now.
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It is interesting to me that as David's going to
take on a giant that everybody else is scared to
death to take on, he didn't get any encouragement from anybody,
not a single word of encouragement as he's going out
on this show. His dad didn't encourage him. His mom
didn't encourage him, His brothers didn't encourage him. The army,
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the soldiers are scared to death, didn't encourage him. The king,
whose reputation is on the line, didn't encourage him. Nobody
gave David any encouragement.
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What did he do? He had to encourage himself.
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In the Lord, look at the next verse first Samuel
thirty verse six, when others were speaking against him, David
read it with me encouraged himself in the Lord circle
in the Lord.
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Do you do that? Do you encourage yourself in the Lord? Now?
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This is so important. If you're going to go after
your dream, you're gonna have to learn how to encourage
yourself because somebody, sometimes nobody else is going to encourage you,
and you're gonna have to encourage yourself in the Lord.
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Now.
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This is very, very different from simply having a positive
mental attitude. No, no, this is far more deep. When
you encourage yourself in the Lord, there is a bedrock
trust in God's faith, God's grace, God's provision, God's security,
God's kindness, God's power.
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You're trusting in God. It's not just a positive metal latitude. Now.
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I'm not against positive thinking. I mean considering the alternative.
I think you ought to be a positive thinker because
the alternative is negative thinking, and that's worse. So between
negative and positive thinking, you ought to be a positive thinker.
But friends, there are some problems in your life that
are so significant, and some giant's so big. All the
positive thinking in the world isn't going to make a
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difference at all. The sun will come out tomorrow, have
a nice day is just pretty shallow. When you're facing
the deepest, darkest problems of life and you've had a
son who struggled with mental illness for twenty seven years,
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all the positive thinking in the world is worthless. Well,
just feel better, put a smile on your face, think
good thoughts, believe, have fun. No, No, you need something
far deeper that in the deepest darkest days of life.
You need a bedrock trust in God's grace, in God's love,
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in God's power, in God's sovereignty, in God's plan, And
you have to encourage yourself in the Lord because nobody
else can give you that encouragement. Number four, the fourth
thing David did expect. I expect God to help me
for his glory. I expect God to help me for
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his glory. This is what David did. This is what
you must do in going after your dream. It is
the faith factor. I love what David says to Goliath
as he runs onto the battlefield. David runs onto the
battlefield shouting, and he says says this. David shouted to Goliath,
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you come at me with sword and with fear.
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And with javelin.
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But I come to you in the name of the
Lord Almighty, and today.
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The Lord will conquer you, not me. The Lord will
conquer you, and the.
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Whole world will know that there is a God, and
everyone will know that the Lord doesn't need weapons to
rescue his people. It is his battle, not ours. Are
you fighting God's battle? And that's why you're tired. It
is his battle, not ours, And the Lord will give
you to us. What are you expecting God to do
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in your life? Without even knowing you, I can tell
you this God is doing exactly what you expect him
to do, no more and no less. Because every time
God moves out of heaven and moves on earth and
does a miracle, it's because somebody believed. The Bible says,
according to your faith, it will be done unto you.
The Bible says that just shall live by faith. The
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Bible says, without faith, it is impossible to please God.
The Bible says, whatever is not a faith is sin.
According to your faith, that would be done to you.
You get to choose how much God does in your life.
It's based on how much you choose to trust him.
I don't have to be the smartest person in life.
I don't have to be the best looking person in life.
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I don't have to be the wealthiest purpose in life.
I have a choice to trust.
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God, and you do too.
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Whatever is not a faith the sin, he says, I
expect God to help me for his glory. I made
this decision when I was a young man, and in
the mountains of northern California one night, I got down
on my knees and as a young man, I said, God,
I'm not the smartest guy. I'm not the most educated,
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and I'm not the best looking, and I'm not the
most talented. But God, by your grace, I'm going to
trust you. And I don't have to know or understand
why you tell me to do what you wanted me
to do. But I will do anything, anytime, anywhere, in faith,
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even when it doesn't make sense to me. And what
an adventure my life has been. I would have never
imagined as a teenager that one day I would stand
and speak to a crowd like this, much less to
all of our campuses around the world, because this group
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right here is about five times bigger than the town
I grew up in. I'm a country boy with a slingshot,
and God says, I will use anybody who will trust me,
and say, I expect God to use me, not because
of who I am, but for his glory. That God
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knows and the world knows that there is a God.
I'll never forget. I'm looking into my wife's eyes many
years ago as we were finishing up school in Texas,
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and I said, Okay, I think God has given me
a dream, and it is to be a pastor. And
I think we're supposed to go to southern California, to
a place we've never been, and started church with no money,
no members, no building, no support, and I've never been
a senior pastor. And I said, what do you think
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about that dream? And she looked into my eyes and
she says, it scares me to death. But I believe
in God and I believe in you, so let's go.
Let's go for it.
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Now.
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I've often thought, how would history be different if my
wife had said no, If she'd been afraid and scared
and said let's don't do it. There would be no
saddle backed church, there would be no purpose driven life,
there would be no movement of churches. In one hundred
and sixty nations, there would be no peace plan. Thousands
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of people that are going to heaven now would not
be headed to heaven. You have no idea how much
your unbelief could be. Limiting somebody you love is your unbelief.
Limiting your wife is your unbelief. Limiting your husband is
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your unbelief. Limiting your child. Don't be jesse, don't hold
them back when God has a great dream for their lives.
It's not your dream for them, It's God's dream for them.
And you need to say, I'm not gonna let anybody
else's unbelief hold me back, and I'm not gonna let
my unbelief hold anybody else back.
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Let's vow for prayer.
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There are a lot of things in your life you
don't have control over. You didn't choose your natural talent.
You didn't choose when you would be born, where you
would be born. You didn't choose your race, you didn't
choose your gender, you didn't choose your talent. But you
do get to choose how much you're gonna trust God.
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And it is that faith factor that will defeat the
giants of delay and discouragement and disapproval and doubt. And
if you will say yes to God. He will take
you on the adventure of your life. It doesn't really
matter what's happened in your life. You say, I want
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the rest of my life, no matter how many years
I've got to be God's I want you to pray
this prayer. Dear God, you have helped me many times
in the past. You've helped me through things I thought
i'd never get out of, but you did help me.
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And if you've helped me in the past, I know
you're going to help me in the future. Help me
to remember that and draw my confidence from that, even
when people discourage me, or disapprove of me, or even
when people misunderstand me. Help me to use the two
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that you've given me now, To not wait for a
perfect time and a perfect place and a perfect tool,
but to use the sling shot and the stones that
I have right now. Help me not to wear somebody
else's armor, but to just go in your strength.
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And Lord, help me to ignore the dream busters.
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And help me to start every day with a time
alone with You, so that I will encourage myself in
the Lord that I don't need the encouragement of other people,
because I'm encouraging myself.
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In the Lord. I'm spending time.
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With you, help me to expect you to help me
not for my glory, but for yours. That the whole
world will know that there is a God, and that
everyone will know that the Lord doesn't need weapons to
rescue his people. Lord, I've been tired because I've been
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trying to fight battles as if they're mine. It's your battle.
I want to relax and trust you to give me
the victory. Jesus Christ, I invite you into every room
in my life, the living room, the bedroom, the bathroom,
the kitchen. I want you to run every area of
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my life. I want you to be the manager and
the Lord from this day forward. And I thank you
in advance that the giants will fall and the dream
will come true.
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And I pray this in your name. Amen.
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Hello everybody, and welcome to another episode of Pastor Rick's
Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. Hey,
we're so glad you've joined us today because Rick is
bringing his series Transformed to a close. Now, together, we're
going to dive into God's word and discover powerful principles
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that can truly change our lives from the inside out spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally, financially,
and vocationally. You'll get to experience how God's truth brings
real transformation to every part of your life. So let's
jump right in and join Rick for the final part
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of a message called Facing Giants in Life and Work.
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Now, why had everybody given up? Why had they all
gotten so discouraged from this one giant? The answer is
they were listening to the wrong voice. They were listening
to this guy every single day. Look at the next verse,
verse sixteen, For forty days, twice a day, morning and evening,
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the Philistine giant loudly berated Di Israeli or Israelite Army. Well,
it's no wonder they got discouraged. They're listening to this
guy day after day after day after day. Question who
are you listening to? Who are you listening to? Who
says it can't be done? Who is pooh poohing your dream,
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putting down your dream, saying it won't ever happen, forget it?
Who is telling you that you're not the person to
do it. You know, if you listen to negative people
long enough, you know what happens. You get negative because
it's highly contagious. Maybe one of the best things you
should do is stop listening to talk radio, because it
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is negative, negative, negative, negative, negative. And you know what,
if you listen to negative, you know what, You're gonna
become a negative, bitter person. And if you listen to
people who are against, against, against, against, every day of
your likeness, what you end up being against everything. Negativity
is contagious, and so is fear, and so is discouragement.
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And if you listen to somebody who said America is
going to hell in a handbasket day after day after day, pretty.
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Soon you start acting like it. Now.
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Sometimes you just need a fresh voice, You need a
kid from the village with fresh eyes. Go this guy's nothing.
We can take him down. It's a slam dunk.
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Look.
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In the next verse, verses twenty three and twenty four.
As David talked with his brothers on the front line,
he saw Goliath start shouting his usual threats to Israel's army,
and when the army heard Goliath, they all ran away
in terror. They all ran away. Let me give you
some advice. Don't hang out with fearful people. Don't hang
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out out with fearful people, because if you do, you
will become fearful. If you hang out with cowards, you
become a coward. You hang out with bitter people, you
become bitter. You hang out with angry people, you become angry.
You hang out with negative people, you become negative. It's
highly contagious. The first barrier to your dream is delayed,
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somebody's trying to hold you back. But the second barrier
to your dream, the second dream buster, is discouragement because
everybody around you is telling you that life sucks and
it can't be done and they're wrong. They're wrong. Now
there's a third dream buster, and I call it the
giant of disapproval. And David had to handle this one.
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Is he had to be willing to face the disapproval
of people around him in order to go after his
dream and you will too. Now here's the problem. The
reason why most people don't ever go after their dream
is they are afraid of disapproval. They are afraid of rejection.
In this David's own brother questioned his motives. David's own
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brother questioned his motives and disapproved of David even going
after the giant. We want everybody to like us, I
mean we really do. We want everybody to approve of
everything we do. But if you go after God's dream
for your life, I'm guaranteeing you this, there will be naysayers,
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there will be critics, there will be miss understanding, there
will be attacks, there will be people who are judging
you for what you do because they don't get it.
And that is the disapproval giant. In this case, David's
own brother questions David's motivation, and he treats his younger
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brother with disdain and disgust, and he demeans him, and
he disregards them, and he belittles him. In Verse twenty
eight and twenty nine notices conversation between the older brother
and the younger brother, and David's there on the front
line and he asks the.
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Soldiers, what's the reward for.
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Killing this philistine and ending this disgraceful abuse.
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What's the reward? Now?
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When David's older brother heard David and even asked this question,
he burned with anger at David, and he said, now,
listen to this conversation.
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And see if you can identify with it. David's older
brother says, why are you here anyway?
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Why aren't you taking care of your scrawny little flock
of sheep, You cocky little brat. I know how conceited
you are. And David, the younger brother, goes, now, what
have I done? Can I even ask a question? Do
any of you vaguely relate to this conversation? Yeah, it's
called sibling rivalry, and it's happened in every single family
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because the older brother and the younger brother, the people
closest to you can't see what you see. They can't
imagine you accomplishing something that they've never imagined themselves. They
think they know who you are, but they don't know
you like God knows you, and so they come out
with this demeaning, demoralizing disapproval. You hear the family dynamics
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going on here. The sad truth is this, Sometimes it
is your own family that doesn't want you to accomplish
God's dream. It may be envy, It may be jealousy.
It may be they think they know you better than
you do and they know your weaknesses, but they don't
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know God's strength. It may be that they would be embarrassed.
It may be that they would resent you being successful
and it would make them look bad. I don't know
really what it is, but sibling rivalry often leads to resentment.
Did you know that even Jesus had to you with this?
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You know, Jesus was born of a virgin marrying Joseph
had that sex because God was the father of Jesus.
But the Bible tells us very clearly that after Jesus
was born, later on, Joseph and Mary had many kids.
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In fact, we were given their names in the Bible.
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In fact, Mary and the kids followed Jesus around during
his ministry. Now, what is interesting is that none of
jesus half brothers or sisters accepted him as Lord and
savior until after the resurrection, and then they all became believers.
Because when your brothers died on the cross and then
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three days later he's walking around talking to you.
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That would make me a believer.
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But I have to, you know, show a little grace
to these guys, because I wouldn't.
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Want to believe in my brother either.
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You know, if my brother said, by the way, I'm God, Yeah,
you and who else?
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Okay?
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How would you like to have Jesus as your old brother?
Mister perfect? I mean, there's noise going on and the mother,
mom walks in, and Mary goes, what's going on in here?
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Kids? Well Jesus did Now you guys know he didn't
do it. Mom.
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He like Jesus, never lies. But Ma, how would you
like to have a brother who was always right? That
would be hard.
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Growing up in that family. Okay, And so I could.
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See every reason why they would not accept him as
the Messiah until after his death and resurrection. But even
Jesus had to deal with this sibling rivalry because a
brother or a sister will always say, who do you
think you are? When you have a dream? I'll never forget.
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When this church many years ago bought this piece of
land one hundred and twenty acres and saddleback was a
much smaller church at the time, and the word got
out of the community that this little church was going
to go buy one hundred and twenty acres in Orange
County and said, yeah, who else? And the word got
out around this community, those people over there at Saddleback Church, who.
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Do they think they are?
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And I remember having to address it in a service
and I had to stand up and say, folks, you've
heard this rumor going around people saying who do those
people think they are?
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What kind of they think they're special or something?
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And I had to say, that's not the question. That's
the wrong question. The question is not who do we
think we are? The question is who do we think
God is. You let the size of your God determine
the size of your goal. And if you have a
big God, you better have some big goals because God
doesn't give you pitily dreams. If a dream is from God,
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how do you know? If your dreams from God, it's
so big you're bound to fail unless God bails you out.
The dream will be so big you are guaranteed failure.
You totally depend on God to see it happen. It's
just outrageously enormous. It's a big dream from a big God.
The wrong question the right questions who do we think
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God is? Let the size of your God determine the
size of your goal. Now, listen, when God gives you
a dream, and it's a dream that other people are
afraid to attempt, or afraid to accomplish, or afraid to
even step out and try. If you take that dream
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and you go for it, you will be misjudged. You
will be maligned, you will be misinterpreted, and you will
be misunderstood.
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That is the giant of disapproval.
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And you have to decide what matters more to you,
the approval of other people or the approval of God.
I decided a long time ago that the approval of
God is more important to me than the other people.
And it's not my job. It's none of my business
what you think of me. It is my business what
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God thinks of me. And that's the issue of disappointment.
Now there's one other dream buster. Oh, by the way,
David did find out what the reward would be? Did
you know what the reward would be for killing Elith?
It was three things. Number one, the king would give
you great wealth. Number two, you got to marry the
king's daughter. And number three, this was the best of all.
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You were exempt from taxes the rest of your life. Hello, shoot,
I would have gone after you know, Goliath for that one.
No taxes for the rest of my life. Yeah, yeah,
well that was the reward. But then there's the fourth
dream buster that David had to face, even before he
faced Caliath.
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And it is the giant of doubt.
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First there is delay, then there's discouragement, then there's disapproval,
and then there's doubt. Am I capable for this? Am
I up to the task for this? Can I actually
do what God is asking me to do? And then
there are people are all around you who tell you can't.
And in David's case, the expert doubted his ability. Now
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there was nobody who was a greater expert on war
than King Saul. But Gasaul had been in battle his
entire life. And when Saul King Saul, here's that this
little kid is willing to take on the giant who's
paralyzed the nation. He invites David to come see him
at the palace. So David goes to say King Sault,
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see King Saul, And here's the conversation, verse thirty two
and thirty three. David says to the king, don't worry
about a thing. King David told the King, I'll fight
this philistine, and by the way, let me just stop
right here. Confidence is God is often misinterpreted as cockiness
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by other people. A lot of people might think a
person is cocky when they're just a person of faith.
It's not that they think that they can do it.
It's that they know God can do it. That's confidence
in God, not cockiness. David says, don't worry about a thing, King,
I'll fight this philistine. Don't be ridiculous. Saul replied, there's
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no way you can go against this philistine. You're only
a boy and he's been a professional warrior all his life.
Now that expert is saying you can't do it, and
there's enough to make you start doubting yourself. I will
say it about experts that I said about conventional wisdom.
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The experts are often wrong. They're often wrong. I remember
when I'm a Californian, but I went to seminary in Texas.
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And when I went to seminary in.
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Texas, while I was there, God gave me a dream
of moving to southern California, to a city I'd never
been in, and to start at church with no money,
no members, no building, and no support, and I'd never
been a senior pastor. And so I called up an
expert on starting churches in Texas. His name was Jane
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and I called him up and I said, Hey, I'm
thinking about graduating, going to southern California, starting at church
with no money, no members, no building, no support, and
I've never been a senior pastor. What do you think?
And this gene said expert said, that's the dumbest idea
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I've ever heard. He said, Rick, if you do that,
you will never be heard from again.
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Hmm.
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Twenty years later he called me back. He said, that
was the dumbest advice I ever gave in my life.
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I was dead wrong, dead dead wrong on that. Okay.
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Now, remember when I wrote Purpose Driven Life, I got
a letter from the editor. I framed it and said,
this book will never work. Nobody's going to read forty chapters.
The experts are often very wrong, very very wrong. So
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there's this doubt that comes. Now, how do you defeat
these giants that are keeping you from being the man
God wants you to be? How do you defeat these
fears that are keeping you from being the woman God
wants you to be? To be a person of great
faith with a great dream and a great life work.
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How do you overcome those giants? You do the very
things that David did. Quickly, let me just give him
to you. The four things that David did to defeat
these giants before he gets to Goliath. Number one, I
remember how God has helped me in the past. That's
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the first thing you do to face the giants and
to fulfill your dream. Remember how God has helped me
in the past. This is a confidence builder when I recall,
when I recollect, when I remember ways that God has
helped me in the past, it gives me confidence for
the future. I said, remember those time I thought I'm
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going to make it, but I did. And I remember
that time I thought it was the end, but it wasn't.
And remember I thought it was at the bottom and
I was never going to climb out, but I did.
And remember when I thought it was all alone, but
I wasn't. And you remember how God has helped you
in little times, and realize He's going to help me
in big times in the future. Because God never changes.
God doesn't love you one day and not another day.
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And if He helped you in the past in little
ways He will willingly help you in the future in
big ways. You remember how God has helped you in
the past.
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This is what David did. Verse thirty six.
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David says when everybody tells him it can't be done,
he says, you know, in protecting my sheep as a shepherd,
I've killed both a lion and a bear, And the
Lord who delivered me from the teeth of that lion
and the claws of that bear will surely now deliver
me from this philistine too.
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That's confidence.
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I remember how God's helped me in the past.
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Number two.
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I use the tools that God has given me now.
I use the tools that God has given me now.
I don't wait for something I don't have. I don't
have enough money, I don't have enough education, I don't
have enough connections, I don't have enough opportunities.
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I don't have this or I don't have that.
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No, you use the tools you've got right now.
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Now.
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Some people are just waiting for something to happen. You
don't wait for your ship to come in. You swim
out to it, because if you wait for it to
come into the harbor, you're going to wait a long
long time. You use the tools God has given me. Now,
David goes to see Saul, and Saul says, well, if
you're gonna fight this guy, you may as well use
my armor. How ridiculous is that David is a short,
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small boy. Saul is a tall, big grown man. To
take his armor and put it on David, his hands
probably didn't even show through it, it would be comical.
And David says this verse thirty eight to forty. Then
Saul dressed David in his own armor, but David said, if.
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I can't go out in these.
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He said, I can't go out in these because I'm
not used to them, so he took him off. Instead,
he chose five smooth stones for his sling. He goes,
this is what I'm used to. I know how to
use a slingshot. I don't need your armor. I'm gonna
just do this now. Let me just say this. When
you start going after your dream that God has given you,
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some people are gonna pose you on it. They're going
to be opposition. But other people say, oh yeah, go
ahead and go after your dream, but do it my way.
And they're gonna try to condense you to do it
their way, but you're not them, and.
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It's gonna fail.
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I see this Saul's armor syndrome in businesses everywhere. Well,
they're doing it that way, so we should do it
that way. Well, not necessarily, because God doesn't create clones.
God made you to be you, and God's gonna use
you to fulfill the dream. He asks for you your way,
not the way somebody else did it. And if you
try to do it the way somebody else did it,
you are.
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Bound to fail.
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It's like trying to wear Saul's armor. You can't wear
it because you're not Saul. You just need to use
the tools you got. He had a swing shot.
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So he picks up some stones and he's gonna go
after it.
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Often people will try to load some things on you
that are just too heavy for you, and you're not
gonna fulfill your dream that way. I love this verse
in Ecclesiastes eleven, look up here on the screen. Verse
four says, if you wait for perfect conditions, you'll never
get anything done.
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How many of you agree with that verse?
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Yeah, if you wait for perfect conditions, you're never gonna
get started on your dream. Someday I'll one of these. No,
today's the day we're ending fifty days of transformation. This
is the day to start the new dream. This is
the day to go after it. And when everybody else
is saying you can't do it, discouragement, and when you're
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full of doubt, you're going to trust God. And when
there's been a delay and people have held you back,
and when people disapprove you, just say sorry, I've got
to do what God's asking me to do. Number three,
The third thing he did is ignore the dream Busters.
You must ignore the dream Busters in your life.
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Now.
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It is interesting to me that as David's going to
take on a giant that everybody else is scared to
death to take on, he didn't get any encouragement from anybody,
not a single word of encouragement as he's going out
on this show. His dad didn't encourage him. His mom
didn't encourage him, His brothers didn't encourage him. The army,
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the soldiers are scared to death, didn't encourage him. The king,
whose reputation is on the line, didn't encourage him. Nobody
gave David any encouragement.
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What did he do? He had to encourage himself.
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In the Lord, look at the next verse first Samuel
thirty verse six, when others were speaking against him, David
read it with me encouraged himself in the Lord circle
in the Lord.
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Do you do that? Do you encourage yourself in the Lord? Now?
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This is so important. If you're going to go after
your dream, you're gonna have to learn how to encourage
yourself because somebody, sometimes nobody else is going to encourage you,
and you're gonna have to encourage yourself in the Lord.
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Now.
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This is very, very different from simply having a positive
mental attitude. No, no, this is far more deep. When
you encourage yourself in the Lord, there is a bedrock
trust in God's faith, God's grace, God's provision, God's security,
God's kindness, God's power.
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You're trusting in God. It's not just a positive metal latitude. Now.
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I'm not against positive thinking. I mean considering the alternative.
I think you ought to be a positive thinker because
the alternative is negative thinking, and that's worse. So between
negative and positive thinking, you ought to be a positive thinker.
But friends, there are some problems in your life that
are so significant, and some giant's so big. All the
positive thinking in the world isn't going to make a
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difference at all. The sun will come out tomorrow, have
a nice day is just pretty shallow. When you're facing
the deepest, darkest problems of life and you've had a
son who struggled with mental illness for twenty seven years,
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all the positive thinking in the world is worthless. Well,
just feel better, put a smile on your face, think
good thoughts, believe, have fun. No, No, you need something
far deeper that in the deepest darkest days of life.
You need a bedrock trust in God's grace, in God's love,
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in God's power, in God's sovereignty, in God's plan, And
you have to encourage yourself in the Lord because nobody
else can give you that encouragement. Number four, the fourth
thing David did expect. I expect God to help me
for his glory. I expect God to help me for
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his glory. This is what David did. This is what
you must do in going after your dream. It is
the faith factor. I love what David says to Goliath
as he runs onto the battlefield. David runs onto the
battlefield shouting, and he says says this. David shouted to Goliath,
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you come at me with sword and with fear.
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And with javelin.
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But I come to you in the name of the
Lord Almighty, and today.
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The Lord will conquer you, not me. The Lord will
conquer you, and the.
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Whole world will know that there is a God, and
everyone will know that the Lord doesn't need weapons to
rescue his people. It is his battle, not ours. Are
you fighting God's battle? And that's why you're tired. It
is his battle, not ours, And the Lord will give
you to us. What are you expecting God to do
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in your life? Without even knowing you, I can tell
you this God is doing exactly what you expect him
to do, no more and no less. Because every time
God moves out of heaven and moves on earth and
does a miracle, it's because somebody believed. The Bible says,
according to your faith, it will be done unto you.
The Bible says that just shall live by faith. The
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Bible says, without faith, it is impossible to please God.
The Bible says, whatever is not a faith is sin.
According to your faith, that would be done to you.
You get to choose how much God does in your life.
It's based on how much you choose to trust him.
I don't have to be the smartest person in life.
I don't have to be the best looking person in life.
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I don't have to be the wealthiest purpose in life.
I have a choice to trust.
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God, and you do too.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Whatever is not a faith the sin, he says, I
expect God to help me for his glory. I made
this decision when I was a young man, and in
the mountains of northern California one night, I got down
on my knees and as a young man, I said, God,
I'm not the smartest guy. I'm not the most educated,
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and I'm not the best looking, and I'm not the
most talented. But God, by your grace, I'm going to
trust you. And I don't have to know or understand
why you tell me to do what you wanted me
to do. But I will do anything, anytime, anywhere, in faith,
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even when it doesn't make sense to me. And what
an adventure my life has been. I would have never
imagined as a teenager that one day I would stand
and speak to a crowd like this, much less to
all of our campuses around the world, because this group
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right here is about five times bigger than the town
I grew up in. I'm a country boy with a slingshot,
and God says, I will use anybody who will trust me,
and say, I expect God to use me, not because
of who I am, but for his glory. That God
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knows and the world knows that there is a God.
I'll never forget. I'm looking into my wife's eyes many
years ago as we were finishing up school in Texas,
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and I said, Okay, I think God has given me
a dream, and it is to be a pastor. And
I think we're supposed to go to southern California, to
a place we've never been, and started church with no money,
no members, no building, no support, and I've never been
a senior pastor. And I said, what do you think
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about that dream? And she looked into my eyes and
she says, it scares me to death. But I believe
in God and I believe in you, so let's go.
Let's go for it.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I've often thought, how would history be different if my
wife had said no, If she'd been afraid and scared
and said let's don't do it. There would be no
saddle backed church, there would be no purpose driven life,
there would be no movement of churches. In one hundred
and sixty nations, there would be no peace plan. Thousands
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of people that are going to heaven now would not
be headed to heaven. You have no idea how much
your unbelief could be. Limiting somebody you love is your unbelief.
Limiting your wife is your unbelief. Limiting your husband is
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your unbelief. Limiting your child. Don't be jesse, don't hold
them back when God has a great dream for their lives.
It's not your dream for them, It's God's dream for them.
And you need to say, I'm not gonna let anybody
else's unbelief hold me back, and I'm not gonna let
my unbelief hold anybody else back.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Let's vow for prayer.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
There are a lot of things in your life you
don't have control over. You didn't choose your natural talent.
You didn't choose when you would be born, where you
would be born. You didn't choose your race, you didn't
choose your gender, you didn't choose your talent. But you
do get to choose how much you're gonna trust God.
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And it is that faith factor that will defeat the
giants of delay and discouragement and disapproval and doubt. And
if you will say yes to God. He will take
you on the adventure of your life. It doesn't really
matter what's happened in your life. You say, I want
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the rest of my life, no matter how many years
I've got to be God's I want you to pray
this prayer. Dear God, you have helped me many times
in the past. You've helped me through things I thought
i'd never get out of, but you did help me.
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And if you've helped me in the past, I know
you're going to help me in the future. Help me
to remember that and draw my confidence from that, even
when people discourage me, or disapprove of me, or even
when people misunderstand me. Help me to use the two
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that you've given me now, To not wait for a
perfect time and a perfect place and a perfect tool,
but to use the sling shot and the stones that
I have right now. Help me not to wear somebody
else's armor, but to just go in your strength.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
And Lord, help me to ignore the dream busters.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
And help me to start every day with a time
alone with You, so that I will encourage myself in
the Lord that I don't need the encouragement of other people,
because I'm encouraging myself.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
In the Lord. I'm spending time.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
With you, help me to expect you to help me
not for my glory, but for yours. That the whole
world will know that there is a God, and that
everyone will know that the Lord doesn't need weapons to
rescue his people. Lord, I've been tired because I've been
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trying to fight battles as if they're mine. It's your battle.
I want to relax and trust you to give me
the victory. Jesus Christ, I invite you into every room
in my life, the living room, the bedroom, the bathroom,
the kitchen. I want you to run every area of
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my life. I want you to be the manager and
the Lord from this day forward. And I thank you
in advance that the giants will fall and the dream
will come true.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
And I pray this in your name. Amen.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Hey, if you've just prayed along with Rick to accept
Jesus in your life, Rick would love to hear from you.
Just email Rick at Pastorick dot com. And now here's
Rick with an important message.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Hi everybody, thanks so much for listening today. You know,
my hope is that God uses this broadcast to help
deepen your relationship with Jesus. Now, these Daily Hope messages
are distributed on radio stations and digital platforms all across
the globe, and listeners are writing and letting us know
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that their lives are being changed. They're telling us that
they're walking with Jesus and that guilt and fear has
been chased from their lives by God's love. You know,
relationships are being restored, and marriages are being healed, and
many people are saying that they've found their life purpose.
I want to say thank you to you, because we're
only able to carry the hope of Jesus to these
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people all around the world because of gifts from generous
listeners like you. I just wanted to say I am
so grateful for your prayers and your financial support. Now,
I understand in time like these, many of you are
unable to give financial support.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Hear it from me.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
That's okay, because I never want anybody to give unless
God leads them to give. That's between you and God,
not between you and me, but between you and God.
And your prayers are a continual and incredible contribution to
this Daily Hope ministry. Now, if you do want to
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give a financial gift, I've got some really great news
to share with you. There's a generous friend of Daily
Hope Broadcast who is offering to match the amount of
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then that person's combined it with a grant to make
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Speaker 3 (34:49):
Now, if you've never given a.
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Gift to Daily Hope, I want you to pray about
partnering with us so that together we can continue to
share the hope of Jesus.
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Throughout the whole world. I love you so much.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
You know when you give a gift to Daily Hope,
you're helping share the hope of Jesus with people everywhere.
And right now your gift will be doubled by the
fifty thousand dollars matching grand. So please go to Pastororick
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or just text the word hope to seven oh three
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