Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. We are so glad that you're with us today. You know,

Rick Warren is kicking off a brand new series called Seeing Through God's Eyes. And in this series,

he'll dive into the Bible to help us discover how God sees us and how we can start seeing life from his perspective.

Now let's get started and join Rick for part one of a message called Seeing Yourself

as God sees you.

The Bible says this.

Look at the first verse in your outline.

Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes white in wonder and

belief, your body fills up with light. Now, he's not talking about physical eyes and physical

light. He's talking about spiritual insight. He's talking about seeing in a new way spiritually. The Apostle Paul calls it seeing

with the eyes of your heart, seeing from God's perspective. In fact, Paul praised this prayer

for us in Ephesians. He says this, I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened.

That's where this song, Open the Eyes of My Heart, comes from from this verse. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened. That's where this song, Open the Eyes of My Heart,

comes from from this verse. I pray that the eyes of your heart will be enlightened in order that you

may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of glorious inheritance in the saints,

and his incomparable great power for us who believe.

Now today, as we begin this series on seeing from God's point of view,

we're going to look at seeing yourself as God sees you.

Now, that's so important because the Bible says, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.

If you see yourself as a loser, you're going to be a loser in life. If you see

yourself as a victim, you're going to let other people victimize you all your life. If you see

yourself as not too creative, you'll never create anything. If you see yourself as a failure in life,

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