Hey everyone, it's so great to have you with us today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.

We are going to continue our very encouraging series today called Life's Healing Choices.

And in these lessons, Rick Warren will guide us through a deep biblical exploration of how to overcome the hurts, hang-ups, and habits that really hold us

back. So get ready for some practical insights and powerful truths that can lead to lasting change

and freedom in your life. Okay, let's jump right in with Rick as he begins the final part of a message called the growth choice.

What does God do when I come to him with my relapses?

Does he go, oh, come on, not that sin again?

Can't you come up with any new ones?

You've come to me with that sin 9,900 times.

Can you come up with any...

Come on, I've already forgiven you 9,900 times.

No, he doesn't say that at all.

God is love.

He never tires of forgiveness.

He's waiting on you. So you come to him. The Bible says this. Read it with me. Psalm 103 on the screen. He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. He keeps me from the grave and blesses me with love and mercy.

Not criticizes me with judgment and scorn. He blesses me with love and mercy. God gives me what I need, not what I deserve.

So if you have been stumbling in an area, a thing that you've had a natural attraction to do,

you just need to come to God and say, one more time, Lord, I need your forgiveness.

Now that's not the end of it there are ways to get over

it but that's the starting point and you don't hold it back the bible says god is the healer

of the brokenhearted and when my heart is brokenhearted over something i've done done again, God says, I'm here to heal you.

Now there's three more steps. If I'm going to make it to the finish line, if I'm going to be all God wants me to be, I have to fix a daily time with God, I have to fill my mind with His word. I have to focus on the future

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