RIck Warren - God’s Prescription for Health Part 2

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Daily Hope. Well today we continue in our series called

God's Prescription for a Healthy Life. In it, Pastor Rick

will show you how to improve your health physically, spiritually, relationally,

and emotionally by applying the five essentials needed.

For a more vibrant life.

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick with the final part of

a message called God's Prescription for Health.

Now, whatever your weakness is, you're going to probably struggle

with it the rest of your life, and so you're

going to need more than simply your own energy. You

got to plug into God's power. That's the first reason

we don't stick with it. Second reason we don't stick

with it is the wrong motivation. When the goal is

simply all about me, that's not enough.

To keep most people going.

You need something bigger than yourself to draw you out

of yourself so you can be greater than yourself to

get you out of bed in the morning.

When the goal is all.

About me, I can't tell you any diets I started

on simply because I wanted to look good.

Kind of hard to be better looking than this, but.

Look good, feel good, and live longer. Now, there's nothing

wrong with those. In fact, those are good goals. Those

are legitimate good goals. But what we're talking about today

is far deeper than this, the far more spiritual significance

to being in shape and simply looking good and feeling good.

There are other reasons for it, and we're looking at

these six reasons right now. The appearance isn't big enough reason.

You know why.

I discovered that once I got to the size I wanted,

I stopped caring, I stopped trying, I stopped doing willpower,

and I'd go right back to my old habits and

old ways, and pretty soon I'm just yo yoing back

and forth. Anybody identifying with this, Yeah, okay, you know

what I'm talking about. So when I've got the wrong motivation,

when I'm just using willpowers, that of God's power, that's

gonna think. Then The third one third reason why we

don't stick with it is when I try to change

on my own, it isn't going to happen. You were

made for community. You're created for community. You've got to

have group support. You've got to have a partner or

a coach or a support. You've got to have accountability.

You've got to have group It's why we insist thirty

thousand people in this church are in small groups every week,

five thousand small groups. Why because we know you're not

going to make it on your own. You say, well,

one of these days I'm going to change. If you could,

you would, but you can't, So you won't. You need help.

We're better together. You know, I have a trainer who

I work out with, and I know it doesn't look

like it, but I do. And you know what, if

he didn't show up, I wouldn't show up. I need

a partner. I need somebody who works with me, and

when I try to change my own it doesn't work.

You've got to have group support.

That's why we insist on everybody in this church being

in a small group. Okay, so God says I created

your body. I expect you to manage your body. One day,

I'm going to resurrect your body. In version two point zero,

number four, the Bible teaches, my body is connected to

the body of Christ. You've probably never heard this before,

but the Bible says my body is connected to the

body of Christ. It says this verse fifteen, Do you

not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself?

Flee sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are

outside his body. But he who sins sexually sins against

his own body. That's why it's in a special class,

because you're actually sinning against yourself, not just God. Number five.

The fifth reason the Holy Spirit lives in my body.

The Holy Spirit. God puts his spirit in my body.

And that's verse nineteen. Do you not know that your

body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is

in you, whom you have received from God. Now that

means God takes up residence inside you. He puts his

spirit in your spirit. So you are the temple of

God today. God puts his spirit in you. You study history,

God on earth has always had a dwelling place. First

he dwelt in the Tabernacle that was designed according to

the specifications he gave to Moses, and the Tabernacle was

the dwelling place of God. And then later God gave

to David the specifications for the Temple in Jerusalem, and

God dwelled in the Temple in that building. Today he

dwells in you. You are the Temple now. If you

were out walking down the street one day and you

saw a gang vandalizing a house of worship and they

were breaking the windows of a synagogue or a church,

and they were writing graffiti on a temple a house

of worship, you would say that's not right. You should

not be vandalizing a temple, and you would either try

to stop them or you'd call the police. But you

vandalize the temple all the time.

You your body by what you put in it, by the

way your sleep schedule, by not taking care of your body.

You are vandalizing the Temple of God. When you don't

take care of your body. Holy spirit livesn't number six.

Jesus bought my body on the cross. That's one of

the things he came to do. Look at this verse

verse twenty. You are not your own You were bought

at a price. Therefore, honor God with your body. Jesus

bought your real estate. And what does that mean? If

you want to know how valuable you are? You know,

Kaylek's to watch this show anti road show. She loves

that show. You know, A bird in the hands worth

two in the bush.

You know, you know you've seen that.

Guy co commercial. Yeah, and she loves that show.

They tell you.

This is really worth and the person's always your actions saying.

You got to be kidding me.

Do you know how much you're worth? If you want

to know how much you're worth, look the cross with

arms outstretched and nail pierced hands. Jesus said, this is

how much I love the world.

Everybody.

I don't care if your Buddhist, Baptist, Jewish, Mormon, Muslim, atheist.

Or whatever.

He said, this is how much I love you. I

love you this much. I love you so much it hurts.

I love you so much. I'd rather die than live

without you. I came all away from heaven to do

this for you. That's how value you are. Your body

is priceless. Now, question if you owned a million dollar racehorse,

would you feed that racehorse junk food?

You'd be crazy to do it.

But you put that stuff in you all the time.

And you are priceless. And you are worth more than

a million dollar race horse. And you are the temple

of God. God created your body. Jesus died for your body.

Spirit lives in your body. Your body is connected to

the body of Christ. Your body's going to be resurrected

and version two point zho someday, and you're expected to

care for it in the meantime. Now, based on these

six facts, can you see how caring for your body

is more than just I'd like to look better. It

is a spiritual discipline.

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I tried to lose weight, I tried to make the changes,

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The Bible says in Deuteronomy thirty two, these instructions that

God gives us are not mere words.

They are your life.

And by obeying them you will read this with me

enjoy a long life in the land.

Now.

If I stood up here today and said I have

discovered a new pill that will give you a long life.

This pill is guaranteed to extend your life, you'd pay

big bucks for it. And if I do, in the

Genzu knives and said, but wait only three payments of

nineteen ninety five operators are standing by right now. You'd

pay big bucks for any pill that would extend your life.

You don't have to pay me a thing. It's all

right here. There is promise after promise. You can do

a Bible study of all the verses in their mini

it says, if you do this, I will extend your life.

If you do this, you will have a long life.

If you do this, you will have a long life.

It's all through the scriptures. By the way, ninety eight

thousand Americans now are over one hundred years of age,

so the likelihood is you're going to probably live longer

than your parents. The question is what kind of quality

of life you're going to have. I mean, you're gonna

be sitting in a wheelchair drooling, or are you going

to actually live your life like Moses did, where it

says he was sharp as the day he was in

full health the day he died.

Proverbs chapter three, verses one to ten.

It says this, keep my commands in your heart, says God,

for they will what will they do prolong your life?

They will prolong your life many years and bring you prosperity.

And then he gives some of those commands. Trust in

the Lord with all your heart. Don't lean on your

own understanding in all your ways, acknowledge him. What's he

saying there? He said, trust in me instead of worrying.

Don't get stressed out. Live a tranquil life. Trust in me.

Don't try to lean, and don't try to figure it

all out. He will make straight your paths. He will

make your path straight. That's integrity. Living a straight life

of integrity. Don't be wise in your own eyes, that's humility.

Fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health

to your body and nourishment to your bones. Why the bones?

Why is that important? Because the marrow is created than

the bones. Honor the Lord with the first part of

your wealth. That's generosity, the first fruits of all your crops,

and then your barns will be filled to overflow. And

notice in this passage he mentions tranquility, trust in God, integrity,

pass straight, humility, don't be wise your own eyes, and generosity.

Give the first part of your wealth away. If you

live a life of tranquility, integrity, humility, and generosity, you

are going to.

Be in better health.

There is a direct connection between your spiritual health and

your physical health. So let me just wrap this up

by giving you and I could give you a hundred

of these from the word of God. Let me just

give you four things that you need to do that

will help you be healthier. Number one, Trusting God is

good for your health. Trusting God is good for your health.

Why because you don't worry. You're either going to worship

or worry.

In life, you're.

Gonna pray or you're gonna panic. And if you pray,

you won't panic. And if you worshiped, you'd have a

whole lot less to worry about. You trust God, the

Bible says in Someone sixteen seven, I said to myself,

relax because the Lord takes care of you. Said, you know,

just relax, the Lord will.

Take care of you.

That's trust in God. Proverbs fourteen thirty. A heart at

peace gives life to the body.

But envy what rots the bones.

Gay everybody, look up here, friends, It's not just what

you eat that matters, it's what eats you. You didn't

have the best microbiotic you know, playing all around and

eat fresh, healthy, organic improper portions. But if you're resentful

against your dad, and envious against your friend, and bitter

against your mom, and guilty against something you did yesterday.

It's what he eating you. He is a oh man,

she's a pain in the and that's why you got

a pain in the.

Okay.

When you take resentment and bitterness into you, it's like

a poison, it's like a fire. It'll burn you up

on the inside. It's not just what you eat, it's

what eats you. Never forget watching an old Columbo a

long time ago, and Johnny Cash was the bad guy

as a guest star. When he finally gets caught, he says,

I'm so glad I got caught because the guilt was

killing me.

I can't tell you how many.

Reports I've read of doctors said most people would leave

the hospital today if they could get rid of guilt

over what they've done and resentment over what others have

done to them. There is an issue there that says

trusting God and then getting rid of that stuff. And

that leaves me to number two, Confessing my sin. Confessing

my sin is good for your health. Now, you could

talk to any psychologist who'll confirm that one. Now, when

you cannot, you can't repress it, you can't suppress it.

You need to express it to God, and you confess

it to God. And you see, when I swallow my anger,

my stomach keeps score. If you don't talk it out

to God, you're going to take it out on your body.

And so the Bible says this. David says in Psal,

I'm thirty two. When I refuse to confess my sin,

I was weak and miserable. It is impossible to feel

guilty and happy at the same time. And I groaned

all day long. My strength evaporated. That's why you're weak

all the time. You're caring around a garbage bag of guilt. Finally,

I confessed all my sins to you, and I stopped

trying to hide them, and you forgave me, and all

my guilt is gone. One of the healthiest things you

can do is receive the forgiveness of God in your

life and just throw away that garbage stack that you

don't carry into the next decade. All the garbage of

this decade don't carry All the resentment, fear, worry, guilt, legalism,

jealousy and envy and all those other emotions don't carry

him into the new decade. Trusting God's good for your health.

Confessing my sin is good for your health. Number three,

Giving generously is good for your health. It's good for

your heart. Every time I give, my heart grows bigger.

Every time I give, I break the grip of materialism

in my life. People say, well, I'm not materialistic. Well

let me see your checkbook. Tell me how you spend

your money and spend your time. I'll tell you what's

your priority. Is it all spent on you or are

you giving it away?

Now?

There are more promises in the Bible about giving and

generosity than any other promise any other subject. Because God says,

I want you to learn to be like me. And

God is a giving God. He's generous. Everything you have

is a gift from God. You wouldn't take your next

breath if God didn't give it to you. Everything you have,

the next beat of your heart is a gift from God.

God everything you have. And so God says, I you know,

like father, like son. I want my kids to be

like me. I want you to learn to be generous.

And every time you give generously, you give away instead of.

Keeping and hoarding. You are healthier.

It is not a mistake that the word miser and

miserable come from the same word. Misers are miserables. There

are only two kinds of people on life, takers and givers.

Takers are always sad, they're always mad. Givers are glad.

They're the people who give away. The Bible says in

Proverbs eleven twenty five, a generous man will prosper. You

want to prosper. A generous man will prosper. And he

who refreshes others will himself be refreshed. Finally, number four,

and I wish I had a lot of time to

go in on this one.

Having fun.

Having fun, the Bible teaches, is good for your health.

And I wish I could take you through all of

these verses. The Bible teaches that life is to be enjoyed,

not merely endured. The Bible tells us God created everything

for our enjoyment. The Bible says in Proverbs seventeen twenty two,

a cheerful heart. That's a positive attitude, a happy, fun,

loving laughter, humorous, cheerful heart is good medicine. But a

crushed spirit dries up the bones. He who laughs lasts. Now,

let me tell you from personal experience. If you learn

to laugh at yourself. You'll never run out of material.

You'll always have lots of good stuff. It'll just keep coming.

You'll never run out of stuff to laugh. Now, you

need to put some fun in your life. Put play

in every day. People say the family that prays together

stays together. That's true, but also the family that plays

together stays together.

Now.

In John chapter five, Jesus is walking down the street

and he sees this guy who's sitting on the side

of the road who's been sick be eight years. He's paraplegic,

and Jesus walks up to him and he asks one

of the most important questions, and I want to ask

it you this morning. He says, do you want to

get well? That is a profound question. This guy's been

sick thirty eight years. You'd think, well, of.

Course he wants good.

But Jesus, do you really want to get well? And

that's my question to you. Where do you want to

be a year from now health wise? Do you want

to have the most energy, the sharpest mind, the brightest smile,

the strongest body that.

You've ever had. Do you really want to get well?

Let's bow our heads.

Father, you created our bodies, you sent Jesus to pay

for our bodies. Then you sent your spirit to live

in our bodies. Help us to never forget that our

bodies belong to You, not us, and that they are

connected to the body of Christ and one day they

will be right resurrected.

In version two point zero.

Forgive us for all the times we've misused our bodies

and abused our health, and we commit together to join

in a journey of health, to follow God's health plan

for your glory.

In Jesus's name, Amen.

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You know, honestly, I never paid much attention to my

health until I had a little epiphany a few years

back when I baptized over eight hundred people in a

single day by immersion. Now, looking at myself and everybody

that I was baptizing, it was real clear that we

all needed to get healthy. So I put together a

team of nationally known doctors to help me develop a

program for our church. I called it the Daniel Plan,

based on the passage in the Book of Daniel where

Daniel has a contest with King Nebeka Neezer on who

can be the healthiest. The Daniel Plan is centered on

five essentials that will help you become healthier. Faith, food, fitness,

focus and friends. There are a lot of diet plans

out there that deal with food and fitness, but the

secret sauce in the Daniel Plant is focus. Learning to

have your mind renewed, friends, learning to grow in community,

and faith, trusting God's power than willpower.

You know.

We found that when individuals addressed health issues in each

of these key areas, they are transformed. In fact, in

the first year of the Daniel Plan, over fifteen thousand

people from one hundred and ninety countries participated and the

results were life changing. In fact, our own church, Saddleback

Church lost over a quarter of a million pounds in

one year. Can you imagine that what did it do

for our church? It increased our energy, We started sleeping better,

It reduced our need for medication. The whole church was

healthier now. The Daniel Plan has recently been released in

a book format, and I want you to have a

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