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.

Well, here's Rick with the final part of a message called The Hope You Need for Change.

Romans 418, I love this in the message paraphrase.

When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway,

deciding to live not on the basis of what he couldn't do, but on what God said he would do.

Now the fact is, there are many things in your life you can't control. In fact, most of the

things in your life, you can't control. So that does mean that in those situations, you are

helpless, but you are not hopeless.

That's step two.

Step one says, I am helpless to change some things in my life.

Step two says, but I have hope.

I'm not hopeless because God has power that I don't have.

Philippians 2 says this.

For God is at work within you,

giving you the will and the power to achieve his purpose.

Circle the phrase, power, the word.

He gives you the will and the power. That's not willpower.

He gives you the will, that's the willingness, that's a desire from God, and then he gives you the

energy to complete what he gave you the desire to do. God will give you the power that is beyond

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