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.

Hey, let's join Rick right now as he shares part one of a message called The Transformation Choice.

Now, we've been in this series for five weeks where we're looking at life's healing choices, which are the eight beatitudes.

And they're actually in order, in the order of finding freedom.

And I've been hearing about all the kinds of things going on in our

45, 4,600 small groups that we now have here at Saddleback.

And today we're going to look at the fifth beatitude,

which is, blessed of those who hunger and thirst for righteousness sake.

And there's two kinds of hungers that people have.

There's a spiritual hunger and there's a physical hunger. But we're going to look tonight and this

weekend at the physical, excuse me, the spiritual hunger that we have to have in our hearts in order

for God to change us. Now before we actually look at that verse, which I'm going to actually end the message

with, I want to take you through the story of Jacob, because the story of Jacob actually

illustrates all of the first five steps we've just been through.

One, two, three, four, and the one we're going to look at this weekend.

These steps, these healing choices of life are not just something we made up.

They're all through scripture.

They're not just in the beatitudes, but you can actually find them as the road to healing,

the road to growth, the road to wholeness, the road to recovery,

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