WEBVTT - Rick Warren - Oct 29 - 8:00 pm 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:05.760 Hey friends, thanks for spending some time here at Pastor 0:00:05.820 --> 0:00:09.620 Rick's Daily Hope. And today we're continuing our series with 0:00:09.700 --> 0:00:14.500 Rick Warren called Time to Dream, Trusting God to Open Doors. 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:18.720 Maybe you've been waiting for a breakthrough, an opportunity, or 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:21.279 just some clarity about what's next. 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:23.800 If so, you're in the right place. 0:00:24.220 --> 0:00:26.920 Rick will turn to the Bible and you'll see how 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.440 God opens doors when we trust Him with our future. 0:00:30.830 --> 0:00:33.470 All right, and now here's the final part of a 0:00:33.530 --> 0:00:37.200 message called Dreaming, the Future God Wants for You. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.400 Now when God gives you a dream, it's not like 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:42.260 the plan is all laid out and you can see 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.120 it from beginning to end. Because if you could see 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.510 the end of the dream of God's dream for your. 0:00:47.450 --> 0:00:48.589 Life, it'd scare you to death. 0:00:50.050 --> 0:00:52.419 What it is, it's kind of like a scroll. where 0:00:52.460 --> 0:00:54.120 you roll down a little bit, and you read that 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.180 part of the dream, and you do that, then you 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:57.800 roll it down a little bit more, and you do that, 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:59.100 then you roll it down a little bit more, and 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:00.820 you do that, and eventually, you. 0:01:00.700 --> 0:01:01.270 Get to the end. 0:01:02.370 --> 0:01:09.230 Number five, my dreams define me. My dreams define me. 0:01:09.569 --> 0:01:13.619 We shape our dreams, and then our dreams shape us. 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:19.160 If you don't have any dream, you don't have any definition. 0:01:18.590 --> 0:01:19.030 Of your life. 0:01:19.370 --> 0:01:23.729 Why are so many people today confused about their identity? 0:01:25.090 --> 0:01:28.610 One of the biggest problems in our society is identity confusion. 0:01:29.130 --> 0:01:29.720 Who am I? 0:01:29.990 --> 0:01:31.929 Where did I come from? Where am I going? What 0:01:31.950 --> 0:01:33.830 am I supposed to be doing? Does my life matter? 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.420 Is there any significance to my life? Is there meaning 0:01:36.459 --> 0:01:44.340 to life? What is it life all about, Alfie? And 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.200 the reason why is because your dreams define you, and 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.080 if you don't have God's dream, you don't have any 0:01:50.140 --> 0:01:51.260 definition to your life. 0:01:52.180 --> 0:01:55.980 You don't know who you are. You don't know the woman. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:57.460 You're supposed to be. You don't know the man you're 0:01:57.500 --> 0:02:02.840 supposed to be. My dreams define me. So you better 0:02:02.860 --> 0:02:04.620 make sure you got the right dream, because you don't 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.240 want to be dreamed in the wrong way. Jesus said 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.540 it like this, Matthew chapter six, here on the screen. 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:14.210 Verse 22 and 23, he said, your eye, is the 0:02:14.270 --> 0:02:16.890 light for your body. Your eye is like the window 0:02:16.950 --> 0:02:20.870 to your soul. It lets light into your body. Your 0:02:21.130 --> 0:02:24.010 eye is the light or the lamp for your body. 0:02:25.070 --> 0:02:29.290 If your eye, if your vision is good, it's clear, 0:02:29.550 --> 0:02:32.620 it's bright, if your vision is good, your whole body 0:02:32.660 --> 0:02:36.679 will be full of light. But if your vision, your eye, 0:02:36.780 --> 0:02:39.840 is evil, your whole life will be full of darkness. 0:02:40.180 --> 0:02:44.310 Your dream defines you. Your dream defines you. A great 0:02:44.370 --> 0:02:48.770 dream will define a great person. A small dream will 0:02:48.790 --> 0:02:52.890 define a small person. An evil dream will define an 0:02:53.050 --> 0:02:59.270 evil person. It's your choice. Your dream defines you. So 0:02:59.350 --> 0:03:02.720 pick your dream wisely. Make sure it's the dream God 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:07.440 has for your life. Because the dreams define us. If 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.700 your body is full of light, if your vision is clear, 0:03:11.250 --> 0:03:13.400 then your body will be full of light. If your 0:03:13.460 --> 0:03:17.560 vision is unclear, it's cloudy, or it's dark, or it's evil, 0:03:18.540 --> 0:03:21.799 then that's the way you're gonna end up living, okay? 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:27.780 Number six, a dream keeps me growing. This is one 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.140 of the reasons I wanna teach this to you, is 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.980 because it is in having a dream you keep growing. 0:03:34.300 --> 0:03:38.000 A dream forces you to develop skills that you don't have. 0:03:38.910 --> 0:03:42.270 I have had to be on a learning curve my 0:03:42.450 --> 0:03:46.970 entire life. When God called me and gave me the 0:03:47.010 --> 0:03:50.410 dream at 25 to start Saddleback, I had none of 0:03:50.470 --> 0:03:54.120 the skills, zero zip that I was gonna need to 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.800 lead a church this big. None of those skills, not 0:03:56.820 --> 0:03:59.020 a one of them. They might have been latent, they 0:03:59.060 --> 0:04:01.840 might have been hidden, but I certainly didn't know I 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.840 had them. You don't even know what you're good at 0:04:05.900 --> 0:04:09.280 until the dream pulls it out of you. And then 0:04:09.290 --> 0:04:11.120 you go, oh, I didn't know I had that skill. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.880 I didn't know I had that spiritual gift. I didn't 0:04:13.900 --> 0:04:16.200 know I had that ability. I didn't know I was 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.539 shaped for that. It is only in the dream that 0:04:20.580 --> 0:04:23.060 it pulls you out of yourself, forces you to be 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.640 bigger than yourself, to grow beyond yourself so you're not 0:04:26.820 --> 0:04:27.860 selfish anymore. 0:04:29.900 --> 0:04:31.820 Dreams make us great. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.580 You know, I really have decided, I've read hundreds and 0:04:35.620 --> 0:04:40.080 hundreds and hundreds of biographies of great people When I 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.760 really just come to the conclusion, there aren't any great people. 0:04:45.540 --> 0:04:50.279 There are only great dreams. But when an ordinary person 0:04:50.940 --> 0:04:56.270 goes after a great dream, she or he becomes. 0:04:56.010 --> 0:04:56.690 A great person. 0:04:58.230 --> 0:05:02.770 There are no intuitively, instinctively great people on the planet. 0:05:03.610 --> 0:05:06.620 We're all born the same way. We don't even know 0:05:06.660 --> 0:05:08.520 how to eat. We know nothing. 0:05:08.860 --> 0:05:13.080 We all start at the same level. And I just 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:17.480 have concluded that we're all just ordinary people. But some 0:05:17.580 --> 0:05:22.900 ordinary people attach themselves to an extraordinary dream. And in 0:05:22.980 --> 0:05:27.760 attaching yourself to an extraordinary dream, you become an extraordinary person. 0:05:29.140 --> 0:05:31.750 You have no idea what God could do in your life. 0:05:33.529 --> 0:05:36.790 Most of the things in your life that control your life, 0:05:37.029 --> 0:05:40.770 you had no choice over. I call them the sovereignty factors. 0:05:41.620 --> 0:05:45.619 You didn't choose who your parents were. You didn't choose 0:05:45.779 --> 0:05:49.099 when you were born. You didn't choose where you were born. 0:05:49.660 --> 0:05:54.039 You didn't choose your race. You didn't choose your gender. 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:59.900 You didn't choose your parents. That's all God's choice. But 0:05:59.930 --> 0:06:05.130 there's one thing you do have 100% control over. It's 100% 0:06:05.130 --> 0:06:07.190 I have control over in my life, and you have 0:06:07.210 --> 0:06:09.529 it in your life. And that is this. You have 100% 0:06:09.529 --> 0:06:14.839 control over how much you choose to believe God. And 0:06:14.860 --> 0:06:17.460 that's your choice. Believe God for a little, you have 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.260 a little in your life. Believe God for more, you'll 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.380 have more in your life. You believe God for great things, 0:06:23.430 --> 0:06:26.190 God will do great things in your life. You believe 0:06:26.210 --> 0:06:27.890 God for big dreams, God will do big dreams in 0:06:27.910 --> 0:06:30.090 your life. According to your faith, it will be done 0:06:30.110 --> 0:06:30.370 unto you. 0:06:31.589 --> 0:06:32.830 A dream keeps me growing. 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.839 Philippians chapter three says this, verse 12 to 15. 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:40.940 Paul says, I know. Paul admits this. He's the greatest apostle. 0:06:41.620 --> 0:06:42.440 He goes, I know. 0:06:42.860 --> 0:06:45.820 I'm not yet what God wants me to be. Well, 0:06:45.860 --> 0:06:49.270 thank God Paul admits it. Because we can all admit 0:06:49.310 --> 0:06:49.770 that too. 0:06:50.470 --> 0:06:50.969 Everybody agree? 0:06:51.070 --> 0:06:53.150 I'm not all what God wants me to be. Everybody 0:06:53.170 --> 0:06:55.590 agree with that? Okay, we're all in the same boat 0:06:55.610 --> 0:06:56.930 on that. We're not all what God wants. 0:06:56.950 --> 0:06:59.910 I'm not, you're not. None of us are what God 0:06:59.950 --> 0:07:01.070 wants us to be completely. 0:07:01.830 --> 0:07:05.750 I'm not yet, I love that word yet, circle that. 0:07:06.550 --> 0:07:08.630 I'm not yet what God wants me to be. I 0:07:09.770 --> 0:07:13.540 haven't reached that goal, that dream, but I keep moving 0:07:13.630 --> 0:07:17.060 toward it to make it mine because Christ made me 0:07:17.340 --> 0:07:18.720 and he saved me for this. 0:07:19.060 --> 0:07:20.800 You were saved to make a difference. 0:07:22.980 --> 0:07:26.560 I know that I haven't yet reached my goal, but 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:32.440 there is one thing, one thing I always do. Forgetting 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.880 the past, that's a good starting point. Forgetting the past 0:07:37.260 --> 0:07:39.300 and straining toward what is ahead. 0:07:39.340 --> 0:07:40.500 That's the dream ahead of you. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:46.430 I keep my eyes focused on the goal so that 0:07:46.550 --> 0:07:50.510 I may one day win the prize that God has 0:07:50.570 --> 0:07:56.010 called me to receive through Christ in the life above. 0:07:57.900 --> 0:08:01.260 All of you who are spiritually mature should think this 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.560 same way. If you don't wanna have a big dream 0:08:05.580 --> 0:08:09.280 for your life, you are not spiritually mature. The mark 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.000 of spiritual maturity is. 0:08:10.980 --> 0:08:11.620 That right there. 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.020 I have a dream that's so big for my life, 0:08:16.250 --> 0:08:17.870 I couldn't possibly do it on my own. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.550 It's gonna take. 0:08:19.500 --> 0:08:22.970 All of us working together. I can't do it on 0:08:23.010 --> 0:08:25.010 my own gifts. I'm gonna need God to step in. 0:08:25.530 --> 0:08:27.970 I'm gonna need other people in my life. I'm gonna 0:08:27.990 --> 0:08:33.390 need a small group. I'm gonna need support. If your 0:08:33.470 --> 0:08:38.140 dream doesn't scare you, it's too small. And it doesn't 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.140 require any faith. He says, I'm not what I ought 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.780 to be, but I just keep moving forward toward the 0:08:44.820 --> 0:08:47.040 dream that God has called me to receive through Christ. 0:08:48.460 --> 0:08:51.110 And he says, if you're spiritually mature, you'll get this. 0:08:51.510 --> 0:08:53.929 You'll understand this. If you're spiritually mature, you. 0:08:53.870 --> 0:08:54.530 Go, I'm in. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.020 For the next six weeks, I'm in. Sign me up, 0:08:57.059 --> 0:08:59.680 whatever it takes. I'm in for the next six weeks. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:01.990 I will do all, I'll cross all the boxes. 0:09:02.750 --> 0:09:05.470 I'll do whatever you ask. Let's focus on this together. 0:09:06.150 --> 0:09:06.390 I'm in. 0:09:07.010 --> 0:09:13.210 Number seven, a dream focuses my energy. A dream focuses 0:09:13.809 --> 0:09:19.929 my energy. By now, you've learned that you can't do everything. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.439 Everybody agree with that? You can't do everything. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.589 But you hopefully have also learned not everything's worth doing. 0:09:29.610 --> 0:09:32.650 That there's some things that are more important. God doesn't 0:09:32.710 --> 0:09:34.870 expect you to do everything. I don't expect you to 0:09:34.910 --> 0:09:38.990 do everything. You shouldn't expect yourself to do everything. God doesn't, obviously, 0:09:39.050 --> 0:09:43.100 expect you to do everything. So what really is the 0:09:43.130 --> 0:09:45.120 key to life is selection is the name of the game. 0:09:45.500 --> 0:09:46.380 Prioritization. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.160 To know what matters and know what doesn't. To know 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.840 what counts and know what doesn't count. to know what 0:09:51.900 --> 0:09:55.230 dream is worth my life and what dream is not. 0:09:55.110 --> 0:09:56.929 Worth a second of my life. 0:09:57.770 --> 0:10:00.839 Like the dream of being famous, that's not worth a 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:05.660 second of your life because it's fleeting one minute you're 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.640 the hero the next minute you're the zero one minute 0:10:09.660 --> 0:10:11.480 you're on the cover of some magazine the next week 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:16.120 it's in the trash giving it up going after trophies 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.689 is a dumb goal why Because given enough time, all 0:10:19.710 --> 0:10:24.410 your trophies are gonna be trashed. Somebody's gonna throw them out. 0:10:24.850 --> 0:10:29.470 If not this generation, the next one will. So don't 0:10:29.850 --> 0:10:34.229 live your life for trophies. And whatever record you set 0:10:34.270 --> 0:10:36.150 is gonna be broken by somebody else. That's not a 0:10:36.270 --> 0:10:39.130 big enough dream. You need a dream that affects eternity. 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.960 A dream focuses my energy. First Corinthians 9 26, Paul 0:10:43.980 --> 0:10:47.600 says this. I run straight to the goal, that's the dream. 0:10:48.210 --> 0:10:52.030 with purpose in every step. He's purpose driven. 0:10:52.890 --> 0:10:53.670 I fight to win. 0:10:53.690 --> 0:10:58.330 I'm not like some boxer punching the air, playing around. 0:10:58.510 --> 0:11:02.130 I'm not shadow boxing. When I pull a punch, I 0:11:02.190 --> 0:11:05.949 punch to win. I wanna hit something, I wanna score. 0:11:06.370 --> 0:11:08.470 I'm not just shadow boxing, I'm not playing around with 0:11:08.510 --> 0:11:11.630 my life. As I said last week, we're not in 0:11:11.970 --> 0:11:17.130 the shallows of Baby Beach anymore. A dream focuses my energy, 0:11:17.230 --> 0:11:19.770 I run straight to the goal. You waste a lot 0:11:19.790 --> 0:11:22.530 of time when you don't know the dream for your life. 0:11:24.050 --> 0:11:27.290 Numbers eight, related to it. A dream stretches my faith. 0:11:28.730 --> 0:11:32.410 A dream stretches my faith. The Bible says according to 0:11:32.450 --> 0:11:34.370 your faith it will be done unto you. You get 0:11:34.410 --> 0:11:38.460 to decide what God does in your life. A dream 0:11:38.820 --> 0:11:41.819 stretches my faith. It forces me to trust God. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:43.360 Number nine. 0:11:43.890 --> 0:11:50.370 A dream keeps me going in tough times. A dream 0:11:50.470 --> 0:11:53.830 keeps me going in tough times. If you don't have 0:11:53.870 --> 0:11:58.130 a dream, you're gonna flame out, burn out, give up 0:11:58.590 --> 0:12:04.110 when things don't work out immediate. Every dream has delays 0:12:04.210 --> 0:12:08.980 in it. Every dream has, no dream is instantly fulfilled. 0:12:09.780 --> 0:12:10.980 It's gonna take the rest of your life. 0:12:11.860 --> 0:12:16.280 But if you have a dream It actually gives you 0:12:16.300 --> 0:12:19.140 the ability, the motivation to keep going when you feel 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.720 like giving up. You know, you've heard me say this 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.120 many times. You know how many times I wanted to 0:12:24.140 --> 0:12:29.530 give up as pastor? Every Monday morning. When I get PMS. 0:12:31.770 --> 0:12:36.670 Post-message syndrome. God, surely somebody could have done a better 0:12:36.710 --> 0:12:41.900 job than that. That sermon stunk. It didn't help anybody. Surely, God, 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:47.170 find somebody who's better at this But you know what 0:12:47.250 --> 0:12:49.910 has kept me going for 40 years? A dream that 0:12:50.010 --> 0:12:52.610 won't let hold of me, won't let go. 0:12:54.410 --> 0:12:55.170 What is that dream? 0:12:55.770 --> 0:13:01.700 Your maturity to present you before Christ as the man, 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:09.020 as the woman God intended you to be. I'm growing 0:13:09.059 --> 0:13:11.939 my fruit on other people's trees. I want to see 0:13:12.340 --> 0:13:15.520 fruit in you. I want to see you become all 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.120 God made you to be. I'm not gonna let you 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.020 settle for less than the best. I'm not gonna. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.020 Let you play in Baby Beach anymore. 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:28.610 I'm gonna push you to become the woman, the man 0:13:28.870 --> 0:13:32.309 that God knows and you know instinctively, I'm not what 0:13:32.330 --> 0:13:32.770 I could be. 0:13:34.410 --> 0:13:38.270 It's not too late. It's never too late to start dreaming. 0:13:39.030 --> 0:13:39.650 Never too late. 0:13:40.390 --> 0:13:43.880 And so a dream keeps me going through tough times. 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.680 This was the problem with Job. When he lost everything, 0:13:47.980 --> 0:13:51.620 here's what he said. Job chapter six, verse 11. Job goes, 0:13:51.980 --> 0:13:53.980 I don't have the strength to endure. 0:13:54.380 --> 0:13:54.620 Why? 0:13:54.940 --> 0:13:57.780 Because I don't have a goal that encourages me to 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:05.010 carry on. Does that make sense? It's not pain that 0:14:05.050 --> 0:14:09.170 makes you give up. It's pain without a purpose that 0:14:09.190 --> 0:14:13.380 makes you give up. Human beings have the ability to 0:14:13.420 --> 0:14:18.190 handle enormous amounts of pain, like people who survived the 0:14:18.250 --> 0:14:24.770 Holocaust and the Auschwitz death camps. And they survived that, why? 0:14:24.950 --> 0:14:28.720 Because they had a dream bigger than the pain. And 0:14:28.740 --> 0:14:31.760 it is a dream that gives us hope. A dream 0:14:31.820 --> 0:14:33.620 keeps me going in tough times. I don't have a 0:14:33.660 --> 0:14:37.940 goal that encourages me to carry on. Number 10, a 0:14:38.020 --> 0:14:44.920 great dream inspires others to dream. This is one of 0:14:44.940 --> 0:14:48.840 the reasons we're doing this. I want your life to 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:54.470 be an inspiration to others. I can tell you from 0:14:54.530 --> 0:14:58.270 personal experience, it's a cool thing when you know you've 0:14:58.310 --> 0:15:03.950 inspired somebody. It's a good feeling. Wow, I'm glad I 0:15:04.010 --> 0:15:09.050 encouraged that guy. I'm glad I encouraged that woman. I 0:15:09.170 --> 0:15:13.640 want you to experience the joy of being an inspiration 0:15:14.180 --> 0:15:17.340 to other people. Because I know we have been given 0:15:17.420 --> 0:15:21.300 something God wants us to share. And I want you 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:25.280 to be an inspiration to others. There's nothing like it. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.580 There's nothing like the feeling of knowing you've been used 0:15:28.620 --> 0:15:34.960 by God. A dream inspires others to dream. Proverbs 11, 27. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:38.520 If your goals, that's dreams, if your goals are good, 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:40.240 you will be what? 0:15:41.540 --> 0:15:41.980 Respected. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.260 Now, you got self-centered goals, you're not gonna be respected. 0:15:45.860 --> 0:15:48.780 But if you have unselfish goals, you have godly goals, 0:15:48.820 --> 0:15:52.600 you have big dreams, you have great plans, you have 0:15:52.660 --> 0:15:55.000 to make a difference, you wanna help people, you wanna 0:15:55.020 --> 0:15:56.400 make the world a better place, guess what? 0:15:57.460 --> 0:16:02.230 You're gonna be respected. Respect comes from having a great dream. 0:16:02.490 --> 0:16:03.750 Number 11. 0:16:03.750 --> 0:16:08.830 My self-discipline, that's what it's gonna take to reach your dream, 0:16:09.210 --> 0:16:14.390 my self-discipline will be rewarded in heaven. Not only are 0:16:14.710 --> 0:16:18.130 the dreams that you're given here on earth good for earth, 0:16:18.510 --> 0:16:21.860 but you're gonna be rewarded in heaven for all the 0:16:21.900 --> 0:16:25.940 character that you developed and the discipline and the intensity 0:16:25.980 --> 0:16:29.760 that you put in to go after your dream. First Corinthians, 0:16:30.540 --> 0:16:35.540 the Bible says in 925, All athletes practice strict self-control. 0:16:35.580 --> 0:16:37.100 You gotta be disciplined to be an athlete. 0:16:38.340 --> 0:16:40.560 They do it to win a prize that'll fade away. 0:16:40.580 --> 0:16:44.180 I mean, who's gonna remember the Super Bowl next year? 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:47.900 They do it to win a prize that'll fade away, 0:16:48.100 --> 0:16:53.220 but we do it for an eternal prize. My self-discipline 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:58.660 will be rewarded in heaven. And then number 12. God-given 0:16:58.780 --> 0:17:05.909 dreams are a gift of the Holy Spirit God-given dreams. 0:17:05.990 --> 0:17:07.890 Are a gift of the Holy Spirit. 0:17:07.950 --> 0:17:14.310 God's Holy Spirit gives us the ability to dream. Acts 0:17:14.369 --> 0:17:18.609 chapter two, verse 17 and 18, which Peter preached on 0:17:18.650 --> 0:17:21.820 the first day of the first church in Jerusalem. 0:17:23.020 --> 0:17:23.820 And here's what he said. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.700 He was predicting the future, he was prophesying. Acts chapter two, 0:17:27.700 --> 0:17:30.420 17 and 18. God says, this is from the book 0:17:30.460 --> 0:17:35.990 of Joel, In the last days, I will pour out 0:17:36.050 --> 0:17:39.170 my spirit on all people. Your sons and your daughters 0:17:39.210 --> 0:17:43.350 will proclaim my message. Your young men will see visions. 0:17:43.390 --> 0:17:47.690 Your old men will dream dreams. Yes, on all, all, 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:52.820 all my servants, both men and women, I will pour 0:17:52.900 --> 0:17:56.240 out my spirit in those days and they will proclaim 0:17:56.340 --> 0:18:00.760 my message. Regardless of gender or age, he says sons 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.139 and daughters, Young and old, men and women, as I 0:18:04.180 --> 0:18:05.720 said last week, who's left out of that? 0:18:05.940 --> 0:18:09.270 Nobody. Everybody gets included. 0:18:09.590 --> 0:18:12.530 And he says, when I pour out my spirit, what's 0:18:12.570 --> 0:18:15.210 gonna happen? You're gonna have visions and dreams. They are 0:18:15.230 --> 0:18:20.270 a gift of the Holy Spirit. That's what brings revival 0:18:20.330 --> 0:18:22.530 to a church. It's what brings revival to a nation. 0:18:22.850 --> 0:18:27.770 It's what brings revival to a world. When God's people 0:18:27.910 --> 0:18:30.710 are so attuned to the Holy Spirit that they start 0:18:30.770 --> 0:18:37.700 dreaming again Start dreaming again. Now, here's my homework. I 0:18:37.740 --> 0:18:42.359 want us all to memorize this promise. Revelation 3.8. I 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.590 have set before you an open door that no. 0:18:45.530 --> 0:18:49.470 One can shut. Come on, you can memorize that. All right? 0:18:49.770 --> 0:18:52.230 Now, remember when you're trying to memorize a verse, you 0:18:52.290 --> 0:18:56.000 say the hardest part to remember is the reference, the address. 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:57.679 Revelation, what is it? 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.940 Revelation 3.8. And what does Revelation 3.8 say? 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:04.960 Say it with me. I have set. 0:19:04.780 --> 0:19:08.850 Before you an open door that no one can shut. 0:19:09.230 --> 0:19:14.150 And where is that found? Revelation 3.8. Okay, what is 0:19:14.310 --> 0:19:18.970 Revelation 3.8? I have set before you an open door 0:19:19.310 --> 0:19:25.500 that no one can shut. Revelation 3.8. All right, if 0:19:25.540 --> 0:19:27.139 you say it over and over this week, you'll get it. 0:19:28.100 --> 0:19:28.919 Why do I want you to get it? 0:19:29.140 --> 0:19:31.479 Because God's gonna bring that to your mind and you're 0:19:31.500 --> 0:19:34.360 gonna find an opportunity and you're gonna go, what? Where'd 0:19:34.380 --> 0:19:36.800 that come from? And God's gonna say, I've set before 0:19:36.820 --> 0:19:39.219 you an open door that no one can shut. And 0:19:39.260 --> 0:19:42.070 another opportunity to come up, what? I've set before you 0:19:42.090 --> 0:19:44.790 an open door that no one can shut. And then 0:19:44.810 --> 0:19:50.760 you get another opportunity to go, what? you, I've said before, 0:19:50.780 --> 0:19:52.020 you're an open door that no one can shut. 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:57.020 We're going after dreams, guys. All right? 0:20:00.230 --> 0:20:03.450 Now, I just wanna tell you, this happens every time 0:20:03.690 --> 0:20:04.610 when we do a campaign. 0:20:04.930 --> 0:20:05.830 When you start getting. 0:20:05.630 --> 0:20:08.810 Serious about spiritual growth, first, expect a lot of joy. 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.480 Because you're gonna see some miracles in the next eight weeks. 0:20:13.380 --> 0:20:13.620 Why? 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:15.260 Because I've set before you an open door that no 0:20:15.300 --> 0:20:22.320 one's gonna shut. Where is that, by the way? Revelation 3.8, good, good. 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.180 By the way, what is Revelation 3.8? I have set 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.680 before you an open door that no one can shut. 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:36.340 What? That's a new opportunity. All right. 0:20:37.660 --> 0:20:40.899 Now, next week, we're gonna look at How do I 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.219 know a dream is from God? How do I know 0:20:44.260 --> 0:20:48.040 I'm not just making this up myself? How do I know? 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:53.629 When is it the taco talking? And when is it 0:20:53.670 --> 0:20:57.590 my mother talking? And when is it something I read yesterday? 0:20:57.609 --> 0:21:00.930 How do I know when it's God? We're gonna talk 0:21:00.950 --> 0:21:08.170 about that next week. Let's pray. What a wonderful God 0:21:08.210 --> 0:21:12.570 you are. Literally everything we have comes from you and 0:21:12.590 --> 0:21:13.610 we wouldn't have anything if. 0:21:13.570 --> 0:21:14.290 It weren't for you. 0:21:15.869 --> 0:21:18.949 We have life, we have air, we have breath, we 0:21:18.970 --> 0:21:22.850 have water, we have food, we have family, we have minds. 0:21:23.890 --> 0:21:30.260 We have the ability to dream. Raise up an army 0:21:30.410 --> 0:21:35.900 of great dreamers. The Bible says young and old will dream. 0:21:37.420 --> 0:21:41.270 May young people in this church dream great dreams. May 0:21:41.310 --> 0:21:45.490 middle-aged people in this church dream great dreams. May people 0:21:45.550 --> 0:21:50.550 facing retirement dream great dreams. May elderly people in our 0:21:50.609 --> 0:21:54.520 church dream great dreams. Lord, if we're still alive, you're 0:21:54.560 --> 0:22:01.100 not finished with us. Make our lives an inspiration to others. 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:06.260 Forgive us for small thinking and petty grieving and. 0:22:07.700 --> 0:22:09.850 Complaining. Help us to. 0:22:09.830 --> 0:22:12.429 See the future you have for us. The fact that 0:22:12.450 --> 0:22:16.370 we're still alive means you're not done. May we commit 0:22:16.470 --> 0:22:20.859 to pray for each other so that together we'll be 0:22:20.980 --> 0:22:25.720 better together, that we'll grow as a family. And today, Lord, 0:22:25.780 --> 0:22:30.000 we covenant with you to do these things that will 0:22:30.020 --> 0:22:30.840 help us grow. 0:22:32.740 --> 0:22:35.220 And we pray this in your humble name. 0:22:36.530 --> 0:22:36.810 Amen. 0:22:41.990 --> 0:22:44.209 Hey, thanks so much for being with us today and 0:22:44.270 --> 0:22:46.969 listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. I hope that you 0:22:47.010 --> 0:22:50.210 were just as blessed as I was from today's broadcast. 0:22:50.470 --> 0:22:53.100 Right now, here's Pastor Rick with a special message. 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:55.859 You know, when I started Saddleback Church over 40 years 0:22:55.900 --> 0:22:58.220 ago with just a handful of people in our living room, 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:03.439 I also began writing a simple devotional just for the 0:23:03.460 --> 0:23:06.380 people in our church to help them start each day 0:23:06.619 --> 0:23:10.490 with hope and with truth and with peace that comes 0:23:10.510 --> 0:23:13.470 from Jesus Christ. Well, you know, that little devotional grew 0:23:13.530 --> 0:23:16.490 and grew and grew, and today, Daily Hope is one 0:23:16.530 --> 0:23:19.869 of the largest email devotions in the whole world. 0:23:20.430 --> 0:23:21.590 And each day, people all. 0:23:21.530 --> 0:23:25.729 Around the globe are reconnecting with God's promises and finding 0:23:25.900 --> 0:23:30.490 fresh strength in his word to face whatever comes their way. Now, 0:23:30.500 --> 0:23:34.040 here's the best part. It's absolutely free, okay? We don't 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:36.619 have any charge for this. Every day, you'll get a 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:41.150 quick devotional read and a podcast. that you can listen 0:23:41.190 --> 0:23:45.250 to on the go. Now, you know, in a world 0:23:45.290 --> 0:23:48.850 that's more distracted and uncertain than ever, I want to 0:23:48.910 --> 0:23:53.840 help you start your day centered on what never changes. 0:23:54.900 --> 0:23:58.540 And what never changes is a God's love, his unconditional 0:23:58.580 --> 0:24:02.439 love for you and his promises to you. You know, 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:04.160 if you'll just spend just a few minutes a day 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:07.680 in the morning with the Lord, it can bring so 0:24:07.780 --> 0:24:13.740 much more clarity, more purpose, more peace to everything that 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:17.920 happens in your day. Particularly, psychologists have said that what 0:24:17.960 --> 0:24:19.800