Rick Warren - Winning with the Hand You’re Dealt Part 4

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A more vibrant life.

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Here's Pastor Rick with the final part of a message

called winning with the hand you are.

Dealt Number three. The third.

Are the circumstances of life, the trauma, the trouble, the pain,

the pressure, the problems, the stress, you know, the.

Suffering in my life. What do I do this? Number three?

I can choose to trust God no matter what happens.

I can choose to trust God regardless of my circumstance,

and that gives you an identity nobody else is going

to have Romans eight, twenty seven to twenty nine. I

love this in the message. God knows us far better

than we know ourselves. That's why we should trust him,

not our own judgment. God knows us far better than

we trust ourselves, so he knows better for.

Me than I do.

He knows us far better than we know ourselves. That's

why we can be so sure that every detail in

our lives of love for God circle, every detail, every

detail in our lives of love for God is worked

into something good. It's not all good, but it can

be worked into something good. God knew what he was

doing from the very beginning. I didn't, but he decided

from the outset to shape the lives of those who

love him, that's you and me, along the same lines

as the life of his son. God's goal is to

make me to make you like Jesus, his son. The

son Jesus stands first in the line of humanity. He restored,

and we see the original and intended shape of our

lives there in him. God wants to use every circumstance

in my life to make me like Jesus. So psal,

I'm thirty four to one. I will praise the Lord

no matter what happens. My friends, when you get to

that point, that's a choice. When you could say I

will praise the Lord no matter what happens, it's the consisses.

I don't know.

Come on, hit me, hit me with your best shot.

I will praise the Lord no matter what happens.

That is a confidence that is not built on money

or sex, or status or passion, possession, position, or it's

built on my relationship to God. And that can't be

taken from me. And I will praise the Lord no

matter what. And that is a confidence you can't get.

Anywhere else in the world.

And when you have that kind of confidence, you are

an amazing woman and you are an amazing man, because

most people never get that kind of confidence. But it's

an identity you're not gonna get anywhere else. I want

you to write this down on your outline. I am

a product of my past, but I'm not a prisoner

of it. I am a product of my past. Yeah,

it has influenced me. My chemistry, my connections, my circumstances,

They've all influenced me. I'm a product of my past,

but I am not a prisoner of it, and I

can be different. That leads me to number four, And

this is a big one, the fourth choice.

I can choose what I think about now.

I can't choose what other people say about me or

what they say to me, But I can't choose what

I continue to allow in my mind. Yourself is created

by your memories. You know, I've studied this for years.

I'm fascinated with the brain since I was born with

a brain dysfunction and has forced me to be dependent

upon God. Your memories actually come from two different parts

of your brain.

Now.

The badful memories, the painful memories, the memories of shame,

the memories of guilt, the memories of anger, the memories

of embarrassment, they're all up there in the amygdala. Your

happy memories are in another part. You know what those

other memories they're never going away. But you can overwrite them.

You can overwrite them, and I can choose what I

think about. Yourself is created by your memories, and your

memories are created by your mental habits, the way you

choose to think. Every time you think a thought, it

creates an electrical current across your brain. It's kind of

like if I were able to take the top of

my head off and show you if I think of

thought every time I think that same thought.

It's kind of like this.

Okay, kind of looks like me, doesn't it. Okay, that thought.

The electrical current goes across your brain when you think

of it creates a pattern. You think it again, a

bigger pattern. When you think a thought a thousand times,

it creates a rut. Some of you have a grand

canyon of doubt in your mind. Some of you have

a grand canyon of depression in your mind. Now, for years,

there wasn't a whole lot of hope that anything could happen,

because for years science has taught, in fact, the entire

twentieth century, everybody thought that the adult brain could not

be changed. This is a standard you read any science

textbook that your brain was pretty much formed as a

child in infancy and then became much more a little

more formed in childhood, and by the time you got

to be an adolescent, your brain was pretty much shaped

and formed. And for the entire twentieth century people basically

believed the adult brain cannot be changed. But then a

guy won the two thousand and two Nobel Prize in Neurobiology,

reproving that you can rewire the adult brain. You can

change your brain. It is elastic, it is not in concrete,

and your brain can change, and it can be rewired

regardless of what's happened in your past. You can change now.

It's great that science finally caught up with the Bible,

because two thousand years earlier, in Romans twelve, God said this,

don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, the

habits and their pattern of thinking. But let God transform you.

Change your mind, change your brain, transform you. You know

what that word transform is in Greek metamorphosis. It's a

Greek word metamorphosis. It's what a cocoon goes through to

become a butterfly. Let God turn you from a caterpillar

to a butterfly. Let God metamorphosize your brain. Let him

transform you into a new person by changing the way

you think, change your brain, change your life.

How do you do that?

You must feed your brain with truth. Whatever you feed

your brain garbage in, garbage out. Now in your brain,

you've got this scale between the negative and the positive,

and everything in the world is putting negative in your life.

You're no good, you're worthless, you don't amount to much,

you're not sexy, you're not coordinated, you're not smart, you're

not athletic.

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah wow wah wow,

wah whah.

And it's adding all these things. And on this scale,

you're putting pebbles of truth, positive pebbles of truth on

one side of your brain, or you're putting negative pebbles

of the world's lies on Satan's lies in your life. Now,

when you get more negative thoughts in your life than

positive thoughts, the truth of God's word and the scale

tips like this, the negative got up the most. That's

called depression. You gotta change it.

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Now, when you get more negative thoughts in your life,

then positive thoughts the truth of God's Word and the

scale tips like this. The negatives got the most. That's

called depression. You got to change it. Now, how do

you change it? By putting pebbles of truth in your mind?

And I'm not just talking about coming on Sunday. You

feed your mind in the Word of God. You read it,

you memorize it, you meditate it, You do the forty

days in the words stuff we talked about, and you

write little cards down and you memorize the Word of God,

and you write out affirmations based on the Word, and

you feed your mind. And the more you every time

you put these pebbles, suddenly the.

Scales start telthing.

Uh.

And when you get here where they're equal and you

have as many negatives as you have positive. You know

how you feel, you don't you feel nothing? You say

I feel empty, I feel blah. Well, congratulations, you've moved

from depression. Okay, you say I don't feel anything. I'm

not happy, but I'm just not sad anymore. Fine, you've

moved to hear. That's called blah. But the more you

keep feeding your mind with the word of God, that's

a technical term, it's in the dictionary. The more you

feed your mind with the world of God, all of

a sudden, when you get like this, that's called happiness.

And happiness is a choice. Don't blame anybody else for

your unhappiness. You're as happy as you choose to think.

You're as happy as you choose to believe. You're as

happy as you choose to fill your mind with the

right things Philippians four eight. Here on the screen, dear

brothers and sisters, let me say one more thing as

I close this letter. Fix your thoughts. That means intentional.

It's an intentional focus. Fix your thoughts. Fix your thoughts

on what is true and honorable and right. You need

to fill your mind with the truth, not lies. You

need to mind fill your mind with what's honorable, with

the right thing, not the wrong thing. Think about things

that are pure and lovely and admirable. That doesn't sound

like television. Not many admirable, pure and lovely things on television.

Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

That means you get the garbage out of your life.

You don't watch junk TV. There's some movies you don't

go to, and there's a lot of books you just

don't read because you think about things that are excellent

and worthy of praise. Now, let me give you a

suggestion on how.

To do this.

Those of you who are interior decorators are going to

hate me for this. Don't put stuff on your walls

that doesn't inspire you. Don't put stuff on your walls

that doesn't mean anything to you. Surround yourself visually and

orally with things that create good memories that tell you

who you are and tell you whose you are, so

you see it.

All the time.

Put the Word of God on your walls. Put promises

on the wall, Put beautiful sunsets on the old. Put

whatever inspires you. Put things that create the positive memories

in your life. To reinforce those things the best of

both worlds is to take a positive memory from your

past and put a scripture on it. I was talking

to the guy I work out with every day, and

he was showing me that he grew up on a

farm in Nebraska, and he took this beautiful picture of

the pathway down from his old house, and at the

bottom he wrote a scripture on I will follow your paths,

O Lord. That's combining a beautiful memory with the word

of God, and that double reinforces it in his mind.

You can rewire your brain.

You can. It's a choice.

I can choose what I think about. I can choose

my consciousness. Now there's one more choice that I can make,

and remember, the fifth card is the wild card. This

is the wild card that can change the number and

the suit of the color of every other card that

I've been dealt. And the fifth choice that I can

choose is this. I can choose Jesus as my savior.

And when I talk about savior, I'm not just talking

about saving you out of hell and into heaven. I'm

not just talking about saving you from your sins and

forgiving you. You ought to have done that. If you

haven't done that, you need to settle that one today.

That's the first thing. But I'm talking about letting Jesus

be your savior every day. This changes everything because when

I choose Jesus as my savior every day, I get

the power to follow through on these choices. I can

make these choices, but I'm not going to stick with

them on willpower. I've got to make choices and then

depend on Jesus to give me the power to do

these things.

I choose them as my savior.

And I said, hey, Jesus, I need you to save

me from my chemistry. I need you to save me

from my physical, emotional, mental defects.

I need your.

Salvation in my heart, body, mind. Jesus, I need you

to save my relationships. They're going south. I need you

to save me to have healthy relationships, not hurtful harmfulness.

And Jesus, I need you to save me from my circumstances,

from the problems, from the pressures, from the trauma, from

the trouble. And Jesus, I need you to save my

mind and help put a guard up there, help me

put on the helmet of salvation.

What's a helmet for? To guard your mind?

So you've protected you from the thoughts that come in

and influence because your mind controls your life. I need

you to save me, Jesus, I need you to save me.

Not from sin, I need you to save me from myself.

The Bible says this on the screen. When someone becomes

a Christian, he becomes a brand new person. Inside. He's

not the same anymore. A new life has been done.

It's like being born again. It's like starting over. That's

a whole new identity. Now you think that you're waiting

on God to change something in your life. God, I've

really wanted to be married.

God.

I've really wanted to get healthier. God, I've really wanted.

To have that job.

God, all those things that you think you're waiting on

God for God says, I'm waiting on you to use

the wild card I gave you, because according to your faith,

it will be done unto you.

Pray this prayer, Dear God.

There are some things in my hand that you've dealt me,

and that life has dealt me, and that others have

dealt me that I don't like. But I thank you

for the wild card that you made me in your image,

and I can make choices. So today in your power

and in your strength, I choose to get healthier. I

choose to do the things that will give me more

energy and a healthier body, and a healthier mind and

healthier emotions.

You made my body.

Lord, Now give me sense to heed your laws, and

you think about what you need to do in a

practical way to get healthy or healthier. Then say, Lord,

I choose to build healthy relationships. I am so scared

to death, but I'm going to risk building some new

healthy connections.

Jesus Christ.

I want my heart to be filled with you by faith,

and I want to be strong in love, and I

want to.

Be built on love.

Dear God, thank you that I can choose, and I

do choose what I think about. No more garbage in

my mind, no more junk, no more pornography, no more

gross stuff. I choose to think about what you want

me to think about. Most of all, Jesus, I choose

you as my savior, and I pray this in the

name of my Savior, Jesus.

Amen.

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the truth is that most of us don't pay much

attention to our health until something goes wrong. We put

on a couple of pounds every year and think no

big deal, right, But a few pounds over five or

ten years can really add up. That's why Pastor Rick

Warren has put together the Daniel Plan DVD study kit.

This sixth session video based study by Rick Warren, doctor

Daniel Ayman and doctor Mark Hyman is an out of

the box approach to a healthy lifestyle based on five essentials, faith, food, fitness, focus,

and friends. The Daniel Planned Study Kit gives individuals the

encouragement and accountability needed to succeed. If you've been watching

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