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Pastor Rick Warren
So, I've asked my dear friend Nick Vujicic, who was born without arms or legs, to share his life story this weekend, as a part of my series "The Keys To A Blessed Life."
If you've never heard Nick, you will be blown away! He is truly one of the most inspirational guys on the planet. This is a weekend when you NEED to bring your friends to one of Saddleback's 14 campuses or get them to watch online. They will be profoundly moved and inspired and you will be blessed!#LivingWithoutLimits!
Thanks for your help in getting this news out.
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Thanks to my production team who produced the 40 Days of Prayer videos for 2015. You guys are all-pro, but more important, you depend on the Holy Spirit!
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MANY THANKS to all of you who prayed for me during my taping of #40DaysOfPrayer - the next, new spiritual growth campaign from Saddleback that about 30,000 churches will use next February-March leading up to Easter 2015.
Our churches, communities, and nation desperately need revival and renewal! I pray this new 40 DAYS OF PRAYER campaign will be one of many tools that God uses to bring us to our knees and experience a New Awakening of His Spirit. Will you join me in prayer for that to happen?
I taped the 6 small group sessions this week at Saddleback's retreat grounds, which we use to train pastors, worship leaders, small group pastors, and other staff ministers in small, intimate settings. It's been HOT all this week- about 97 degrees on Wednesday when I taped this outside.
40 DAYS OF PRAYER will be the first of 5 campaigns to be used by churches and groups over 5 years in order to renew plateaued or declining churches through the 5 RENEWALS: Personal renewal, Relational renewal, Missional renewal, Structural renewal, and Cultural renewal. All true renewal/revival begins with personal renewal - It starts in your heart, so we will begin with #40DaysOfPrayer in 2015 and cover each of the 5 renewals 2015-2020. I invite your church to join us for the journey,
If you're interested in having your church or small group join in
40 DAYS OF PRAYER in 2015, email me PastorRick@Saddleback.com and I'll get some info to you in the next couple of weeks.
In the meantime, if you'd like info on our previous spiritual growth campaigns, such as 40 Days of Purpose... Faith... Love ... 40 Days in the Word (on Bible Study Methods) ... Live your Calling, or 2014's 50 Days of Transformation check outwww.saddlebackresources.co
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MADU Odiokwu Pastorvin
You can break through...or break out - It's up to you!
It may seem like others around you have no problems. As you look at their lives, you may wonder why things are always so good for them. They seem to move from one great experience to the next, while you’re struggling to get by and keep your head above water. From a distance you start thinking things like, It’s not fair. Why can’t I get a break? When is it going to be my turn? If you’ve ever had these thoughts, I want to let you know that you are not forgotten.
We all face challenges and problems. We all face obstacles that tempt us to be discouraged, to settle for less or to give up hope. But the important thing is what we do when those challenges come our way. With every problem, we have a choice: Will I still believe God is a good God and that He has great things in store for me, or will I settle for less than God’s best? When you face challenges, especially really significant ones, it’s easy to slide into survival mode, but we’re not supposed to stay there.
Even in your most difficult season, there is still opportunity. God has given you everything you need to succeed. He wants you to do more than survive; He wants you to THRIVE.I want to encourage you to choose to fill your mind with God’s promises and His expectations for your life. This is really the key to thriving. Don’t let your problems shape your expectations. You can live with confidence knowing that great things are coming your way. This is your moment to BREAK THROUGH...this is your moment to thrive.
I believe that you can start new and fresh today. Remember that if you’ve slid into a survival mentality, don’t stay there. Go deeper and get planted. It all comes back to a simple choice: believe that God is who He says He is.
I love you and want you to know that am praying for you.Amen
It may seem like others around you have no problems. As you look at their lives, you may wonder why things are always so good for them. They seem to move from one great experience to the next, while you’re struggling to get by and keep your head above water. From a distance you start thinking things like, It’s not fair. Why can’t I get a break? When is it going to be my turn? If you’ve ever had these thoughts, I want to let you know that you are not forgotten.
We all face challenges and problems. We all face obstacles that tempt us to be discouraged, to settle for less or to give up hope. But the important thing is what we do when those challenges come our way. With every problem, we have a choice: Will I still believe God is a good God and that He has great things in store for me, or will I settle for less than God’s best? When you face challenges, especially really significant ones, it’s easy to slide into survival mode, but we’re not supposed to stay there.
Even in your most difficult season, there is still opportunity. God has given you everything you need to succeed. He wants you to do more than survive; He wants you to THRIVE.I want to encourage you to choose to fill your mind with God’s promises and His expectations for your life. This is really the key to thriving. Don’t let your problems shape your expectations. You can live with confidence knowing that great things are coming your way. This is your moment to BREAK THROUGH...this is your moment to thrive.
I believe that you can start new and fresh today. Remember that if you’ve slid into a survival mentality, don’t stay there. Go deeper and get planted. It all comes back to a simple choice: believe that God is who He says He is.
I love you and want you to know that am praying for you.Amen
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Father in heaven, today I come to You giving You all that I am.I thank You for working all things together for my good. I choose to release any doubt, any frustration, any confusion over my past, and I choose to trust in You.I am committed to Your Word and I invite You to work in my life. Make me more like You and may everything I do be pleasing to You. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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MAKE YOURSELF SOFT!
Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart (Psalm 37:4, AMP).
Delight means to be soft in the Lord. One of the definitions of this word in the original Hebrew means: to be soft or pliable. In other words, when we allow God to shape and mold our character, we are delighting ourselves in Him.
We are the ones to decide if we will allow God to work with us or not. We decide if we are going to be soft and pliable or if we are going to allow the world to make us hard and dry. How do we stay soft and moldable? By simply immersing ourselves in the water of God’s Word. when you and I make God’s Word a priority in our lives, we are setting ourselves up to be used by God. We are delighting in Him. We are yielding to Him, and we are opening the door for Him to give us the desires and secret petitions of our hearts.God bless you.
Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart (Psalm 37:4, AMP).
Delight means to be soft in the Lord. One of the definitions of this word in the original Hebrew means: to be soft or pliable. In other words, when we allow God to shape and mold our character, we are delighting ourselves in Him.
We are the ones to decide if we will allow God to work with us or not. We decide if we are going to be soft and pliable or if we are going to allow the world to make us hard and dry. How do we stay soft and moldable? By simply immersing ourselves in the water of God’s Word. when you and I make God’s Word a priority in our lives, we are setting ourselves up to be used by God. We are delighting in Him. We are yielding to Him, and we are opening the door for Him to give us the desires and secret petitions of our hearts.God bless you.
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YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
Ever felt like nobody cares about your circumstances, your hurts, even your dreams?
Let me encourage you. I may not know all the specific challenges you’re facing, but these two Words will make all the difference:First, I want you to know that God is with you. Second, I want you to know that God is for you.
No matter how alone you feel, no matter how discouraged you might be,God will always be with you and for you. He’s promised it, and God doesn’t break His promises.Comfort one another with these Words.I pray that you will keep this incredible promise front and center in your life every day.God bless you.
===Ever felt like nobody cares about your circumstances, your hurts, even your dreams?
Let me encourage you. I may not know all the specific challenges you’re facing, but these two Words will make all the difference:First, I want you to know that God is with you. Second, I want you to know that God is for you.
No matter how alone you feel, no matter how discouraged you might be,God will always be with you and for you. He’s promised it, and God doesn’t break His promises.Comfort one another with these Words.I pray that you will keep this incredible promise front and center in your life every day.God bless you.
Events
- 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholic.
- 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
- 1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
- 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
- 1675 – King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
- 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- 1886 – Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
- 1902 – 8 fishermen lose their lives in Galway Bay, County Galway, Ireland in the Galway Bay drowning tragedy.
- 1904 – Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
- 1919 – May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chineseterritory to Japan.
- 1932 – In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
- 1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces atTulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
- 1945 – World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
- 1945 – World War II: German surrender at Lüneburg Heath, the North German Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
- 1949 – The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
- 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
- 1959 – The 1st Grammy Awards are held.
- 1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
- 1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
- 1974 – An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
- 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Births
- 1008 – Khwaja Abdullah Ansari, Persian sufi (d. 1088)
- 1649 – Chhatrasal, Indian warrior (d. 1731)
- 1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the piano (d. 1731)
- 1767 – Tyagaraja, Indian composer (d. 1847)
- 1796 – Horace Mann, American educator and politician (d. 1859)
- 1796 – William H. Prescott, American historian (d. 1859)
- 1852 – Alice Liddell, English model (d. 1934)
- 1864 – Marie Booth, English daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1937)
- 1914 – Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (d. 1971)
- 1916 – Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist (d. 2006)
- 1923 – Ed Cassidy, American drummer (Spirit and Rising Sons) (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-English actress and singer (d. 1993)
- 1937 – Marisa Robles, Spanish harpist
- 1946 – John Watson, Irish race car driver
- 1950 – Darryl Hunt, English bass player (The Pogues and Plummet Airlines)
- 1954 – Pia Zadora, American actress and singer
- 1960 – Andrew Denton, Australian television host and producer
- 1961 – Jay Aston, English singer-songwriter and dancer (Bucks Fizz)
- 1966 – Jane McGrath, English-Australian activist, co-founded the McGrath Foundation (d. 2008)
- 1994 – Pauline Ducruet, Monegasque daughter of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
- 2009 – Prince Henrik of Denmark
Deaths
- 1436 – Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish rebel leader (b. 1390)
- 1677 – Isaac Barrow, English mathematician and theologian (b. 1630)
- 1916 – Members of the Easter Rising
- Edward Daly, Irish commandant (b. 1891)
- Joseph Plunkett, Irish journalist and general (b. 1887)
- Willie Pearse, Irish activist (b. 1891)
- 1970 – Victims of the Kent State shootings
- Allison Krause, American student (b. 1951)
- Jeffrey Miller, American student (b. 1950)
- Sandra Scheuer, American student (b. 1949)
- William Knox Schroeder, American (b. 1950)
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