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, now here's Rick with the final part of a message called The Transformation Choice.

Now you finish this sentence for me, 10 times in your mind.

It's just like me to be, and I'll tell you your old identity.

God says, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you've been all your life.

But if you'll go through these steps of recovery, these steps of growth, these steps of healing, I'm going to give you a new identity.

And you're not going to be Jacob anymore. You're going to be a prince. You're going to be a princess.

So Jacob gets a new identity in conversion. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature.

The old is passed away.

The new has come.

And the second thing is it says, and he blessed him.

You get blessed.

And that leads us to this week's beatitude.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.

When you're hungry and thirst, you say, I've got to have it at all cost.

Hunger and thirst for righteousness.

Let me say it another way.

I'm not letting go of you till you bless me, God.

That's what it means to hunger and thirst for righteousness. It's exactly what

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