Rick Warren - The Prayer of Fulfillment Part One

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Pastor Rick with part one of a message called the

Prayer of Fulfillment.

In our Society.

In our culture, we have a choice right now of

either continued disintegration, which we see going on in our society,

or a new revitalization, revival, reform, renewal, renaissance, reawakening. And

I believe deeply that everything that we need for that

second thing is found in this prayer, the Lord's Prayer,

And as you know, we've gone through it week by week,

line by line, and.

This weekend we come to the.

Final phrase, and the final phrase up here on the

screen of this prayer that Jesus prayed is this for thine.

He's talking about God. For Thine is the Kingdom and

the power and the glory forever. Now, I want you

on your outline to circle those three words Kingdom, power, glory.

I can't think of.

Three more important words you need to understand for yours. Oh,

God is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Now,

I want you to listen very closely in this introduction

because I'm going to explain to you right now the

reason for everything, everything that's happened in the past, everything

that's going to happen in the future, the reason for

the universe, the reason why you are alive. These three

words kingdom, power, and glory are so essential. You will

never understand history until you understand kingdom, power and glory.

History is his story. It's God's story. He is in control,

he is sovereign. You will never understand life until you

understand kingdom, power and glory. You will never understand your

particular purpose on this planet until you understand God's kingdom,

God's power, and God's glory, because it all exists for

that reason. Now you've heard me say many times you

were made by God and you were made for God.

And until you understand that, life's not going to make sense.

Let me say it again in a little bit clearer way.

You were not only created by God. You were not

only designed by God. You were not only made by God.

You were created, designed and made for God. That's why

you're alive. You weren't just made by God. You were created,

designed and made for God. He made you for himself.

And if God had not wanted you alive, you wouldn't

be taking your next breath, You would not be your

heart would not be beating. The Bible tells us that

God is the compassionate one. The Bible tells us he

is a God of mercy and compassion. He is a

God of love. The Bible tells us God is love.

It doesn't just say he has love. It says he is.

Love is the essence of his character, It is his nature.

God is love, and God made you to love you.

You were created as an object of God's love. And

so God didn't just create you. He made you for him,

for himself, and he made you for himself. He made

you to live in his kingdom and to fulfill his kingdom.

He made you to show his power, and he made

you to bring him glory. Let me say it again,

You were not just made by God. You're made for God,

and He made you to fulfill his kingdom, to reveal,

to show his power, and to bring him glory. Now,

let me explain it in a different way. First, the

Kingdom of God is his plan. It is his plan

for history, and it is his plan for all of eternity.

Is not an exaggeration to say God.

Has long range plans for you.

History is just a little bit of time we have

here as humans on this planet. But God existed before

and he will exist after.

This is just a.

Little parenthesis in eternity, and God's plan involved much more

than history. It involves eternity, and the Bible says this

up here on the screen in the Book of Daniel.

It says God's plans are unshakable, nothing's.

Gonna change them.

If you were to get on an ocean liner with

me in New York City, and we were going to

go to London. On that ocean voyage, you could do

a lot of different things. You could sleep all day,

you could walk around the deck, you could eat the

six or eight banquets a day, you could play shuffleboard,

you could read. You would have amount of freedom, but

it is limited freedom. That ship's going to London, whether

you like it or not. History is moving the way

God wants it to move, whether you like it or not.

Now on that ship, you've got a lot of freedom

to do different things, but you're not turning the ship around.

Does that make sense? Okay?

So the Kingdom of God is his plan for history

and eternity.

The power of God is his program.

What I mean by that, it is how God accomplishes

his plan. God does not accomplish his plan through marketing,

through merchandising, through manufacturing, through advertising. He does not accomplish

his plan through all these human tools. He does it

with his and he accomplishes his program and his plan

through his power. Let me read your verse up here

on the screen. The Bible says this in Isaiah chapter

forty five. I God am the one who made the

earth and created human beings to live there. By my power,

I stretched out the heavens. I control the sun, the moon,

and the stars. I myself have stirred Cyrus to action,

to fulfill my purpose. Notice fulfill my purpose and put

things right. No one has hired him or bribed him

to do this. The Lord Almighty has spoken. Who was Cyrus.

Cyrus was a Persian king, he was an Iranian. He

lived in Babylon. And God chose Cyrus as a king

to discipline Israel and to put things right. And he says,

I have chosen this man to do my will. And

I have a program, and I have a plan, and

I'm in control. God's kingdom is his plan. God's power

is his program. God's glory is his purpose. God's glory

is his purpose. Everything God does he does to reveal

what he's like. That's his glory. He wants us to

understand what's he's like. And everything in the world and

in the universe, every plant, every rock, every animal, everything

brings glory to God.

God made it to reveal what he's like.

And just looking at the world, there's a lot of

things we.

Can learn about God.

Even if we didn't have the scriptures, there are a

lot of it we could know about God. For instance,

we know God likes variety. Have you figured that one out?

Look down your robe. There's not anybody in the world

like you. You know, God could have figured ah fifteen

or twenty varieties of human beings and then just stamped

us out. God has never made a copy, never made

a clone, never made a repeat. You have you unique handprint,

I print, voice print. And God overdoses on variety. God

loves right. He never does the same thing twice. Look

at all the people, Every person, even twins, are different

in hundreds and thousands of ways. And so God, we

know God is organized. We know God is powerful, We

know God is creative. Just by looking at his nature

and then through scriptures we know so much more that

God is loving, and he's merciful, and he's kind. We

know that he's a God of justice. We know he

is a God of righteousness. And so God's glory is

his purpose. Now, let me explain it one other way

before we get into this today. God's kingdom is a

present reality. Some people think the kingdom is something that's

still out there waiting to come. Well it is, that's

part of it. But the truth is the kingdom of

God is wherever God is king. Jesus said this, The

Kingdom of God is wherever God is king. If he's

king in heaven, then the Kingdom of God is in heaven.

If he is king on earth, then the Kingdom of

God is on earth. If he's king inside you, he's

ruling in your heart, and you are surrendered and submitted

to his will, then.

The Kingdom of God is in you.

And Jesus said all three things, it's wherever God is king.

And so the kingdom God's kingdom is a present reality.

When Jesus sent his following worse out to do good

in the world, it's in Matthew chapter ten, and in

Luke chapter ten, and in Mark chapter nine. He sent

them out with a series of instructions, and he says,

this is what I want you to do in the world,

and this is what I don't want.

You to do.

And we built the entire Peace Plan on those passages.

But when Jesus sent them out, he said, you know,

I want you to go out and assist the poor,

and I want you to care for the sick, and

I want you to educate people, and I want you

to share the good news, and I want you to

show love. And he said, I want you to lift

up the downtrodden and relieve the oppressed, and establish justice

and all of the good things that he said you

are to do. He said, this is the demonstration of

the Kingdom. And I don't have time to get into it.

Let me just show you one verse when he was

talking about helping people with their health in healthcare, healing

the physical needs of people. Here's what he said. Jesus said,

and heal the sick. And as you heal them, say

the Kingdom of God, God.

Is near you now.

Now the Kingdom of God is a present reality. Now

the power of God. Remember thine is the Kingdom, the power,

and the glory. The Kingdom of God is a present reality.

It's what we're to be doing on the earth right now.

The power of God is the present resource. It's the

energy you get to do what God wants you to

do once you're surrendered and submitted to his will. It

is the power of God, the present resource. In fact,

Jesus said this up here on the screen. Things that

are impossible by human resources are possible for God. And

he says, when you plug into God's power, you're not

going to be just doing it on your own effort.

And God's power is the present resource. What is God's glory.

It's the reason.

It's not the reality of the resource, it's the reason.

It is the present reason for everything. It's all for

God's glory. This is Pastor Rick's daily hope. We're so

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Here's Rick.

I want you to read this verse a loud with me.

It's on your outline. It's notice there at the top

the second verse Romans Chapter eleven, verse thirty. Let's read

it aloud together. Everything comes from God alone, Everything lives

by His power, and everything is for his glory.

That is the glory of God.

Now you know, I talk to people all the time

and say, Rick, I have so much, and yet I

feel unfulfilled. I've got a good family, I've got a

good job, i got great kids, I've got good friends,

I've got a good congregation to be a part of.

Why am I so unfulfilled? It's because you were made

for more than success. You were made for more than survival.

You will never be satisfied living for yourself. You weren't

made to live for yourself. You were made to live

for the kingdom and the power and the glory. And

you will never find fulfillment in life. Never will you

find fulfillment in life until you begin to live in

God's kingdom.

By God's power, for God's glory.

Well that was a long introduction, but that's what I

want to teach you how to do today. How do

I live in God's kingdom? How do I live by

God's power? How do I live for God's glory? How

do I live a fulfilled life? The kind of life

that I was made wired, designed by God to live.

Jesus said in John chapter ten, Verse ten, I have

come that you might have life By the way, notice

he didn't say religion. He said life, and have it

more abundantly. Now, why did Jesus say I've come to

give you life, Because most people aren't living, they're just existing.

Get up in the morning, go to work, come home,

watch TV, go to bed, get up in the morning,

go home, go to work, come home, watch TV, go

to bed, get up in the morning, go to work,

come home, watch TV, go to bed, go to a

party on weekend.

And say, man, I'm living. No, you're just existing.

Jesus said, I came that you might have life, real life,

abundant life, the kind of life God intends for you

to live. And why are most people not really living?

Because they're living for themselves. And let me be real

frank with you. You're not a big enough cause to

get yourself out of bed.

You're not enough.

You're not a big enough cause to give yourself meaning.

You need something bigger than yourself to give your life meaning.

And there is a cause. It's called the Kingdom of God.

So let's look at the three keys to living a

fulfilled life. Number one, if you might want to write

this down, filment comes through living in God's kingdom, living

in God's kingdom. I must live in God's kingdom.

You know you too.

Bono and those guys, they actually wrote a song on

this called in God's Kingdom? Should sang it this morning?

Maybe y'all sing it? No, no, maybe I won't. The

Bible says this first Thessalonians, you should live in a

way that proves you belong to the God who calls

you into His kingdom and glory. What does it mean

to live in God's kingdom? It means you make God's

agenda your agenda. You make God's will your will. That

you care about what God cares about in life. Now,

usually we care about everything else except what God cares about.

In the Sermon on the Mountain, Jesus spends a major

section talking about worry, and he says there's six reasons

you don't need to worry, and he goes through all

of the different things that we typically worry about. He says,

you don't need to worry about your health, and you

don't need to worry about your happiness, and you don't

need to worry about security, and you don't need to

worry about your future, and you don't need to worry

about your relationships. You don't need to worry about your job,

and you don't need to worry about your family. And

he talks about all these things that you shouldn't worry about.

And then he concludes this section unworthy worry with a

major statement, and he says this up here on the screen,

Jesus said, God will give you all you need from

day to day. Notice it's give us this day our

daily bread, not our monthly, not our annual bread. He

gives it to you on a daily basis. God will

give you all you need from day to day. If

here's the condition you live for Him, and you make

the Kingdom of God your primary concern, you are surrendered,

You are submitted to the will of God.

You make the Kingdom of God.

And he says, if you make that your primary concern,

I'm going to live in the king nom of God.

God says, you don't need to worry about happiness. He says,

I will cover you one coverage.

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wife Ka created an Advent calendar with specially commissioned custom artwork.

It's beautiful. This two part resource includes a calendar with

a special door for every day of December that opens

to reveal a hidden image and an encouraging Bible verse.

Use it with the companion Daily Devotional Booklet to help

you and your family draw closer to Jesus and prepare

your heart for the real celebration. The Daily Hope Advent

Calendar will help you spend the holidays worshiping instead of worrying,

slowing down and reconnecting with God and expressing gratitude for

the true meaning of the season. You'll want to get

the Daily Hope Advent Calendar and devotional booklet in your

hands now to start using it on December first. This

resource is a perfect way to share the gift of

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