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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.
And whether today is your first time tuning in or
if you're a regular listener, we're really excited that you're here.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Today, Pastor Rick is continuing his series called Discover Your Destiny,
So get ready to explore the practical steps to grow
in all areas of your life, spirit, mind, body, relationships,
and even your career. So stick with us as we
uncover God's incredible plan for your future. Let's join Rick
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right now with the final part of a message called
God's Plan for Financial Blessing.
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Now, notice this next verse Proverbs thirteen eleven. Money that
comes easily disappears quickly, But money that has gathered little
by little will grow. In other words, it's going to
calm downd like with interest, circle little by little. The
reason why most people don't save number one is they
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spend it all, and number two is they don't think
it's gonna matter that much. It says, money saved little
by little will grow. It's not listen, it's not how
much you save. It's the consistency that matters.
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Doing it.
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Every single week. A lot of people say, well, I
can't put a whole lot in well, what can you
put in? Start saving every week, and the consistency, little
by little, it will grow. My parents taught me to
tithe and save as a child. I started saving when
I was seventeen years old. I started putting away a
dollar a week, and then more and then more. It
wasn't a whole lot, but you know what, let that
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compound for fifty years.
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It adds up.
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That's why I don't have to take a salary today,
because my savings works for me and I've been saving
for fifty years. That's called wisdom. Spending it all is
called foolish. Now notice this next verse. If you just
keep on doing it a little bit at a.
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Time, it'll all add up.
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Proverbs twenty four twenty seven says develop your business first
before building your house. This is one of the many
financial principles that Solomon gives in the Book of Proverbs.
Develop your business first before building your house.
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What's he saying there?
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He's saying when you get some income, instead of going
out and spending on a luxury or buying a new
painting or painting the house, or doing something that doesn't
really grow your wealth, he says you need to reinvest it,
and you put it back into your business, or you
put it back into some kind of investment, so it's
growing and the money's working for you instead of you
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just spending it on some luxury.
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I see this happen all the time.
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Somebody gets a big promotion or a raise, and the
first thing to do is go out and buy a
new car.
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That's stupid.
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First place, as soon as you drive that car off
the lot, it's worth ten thousand dollars less you just
lost it in second place, it's going to depreciate each year.
On the other hand, if you take that difference in
your raise and you continue to live at the same
level you're living at, and you take that money and
you invest in, all of a sudden, you're making money
with your money.
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God says, that's wise.
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It's one of the reasons why I drive a ten
year old forward. It gets me the same place anything
else does. I haven't had a car payment, it's actually
eleven year old forward. I haven't had a car payment
in ten years. What am I doing with that money? Well,
I'm not spending it. I'm putting it into savings and investment,
and that's making money and that's making money.
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So then I'm serve saddleback for free.
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Now, the Bible says that you need to develop your
business before you build your house. Others put it back
into investment rather than saying, oh, let's just go buy
a bigger house.
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Now.
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The number five, number six, the six things you need
to do. And by the way, these are in order.
Is you set up a repayment plan. You set up
a repayment plan to get yourself out of debt. Some
of you it may take you the whole ten years,
but I want you to get out of debt. Why
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you have no idea how good it feels to be
debt free, to have say I owe nothing to anybody.
And on top of that, God wants you debt free
so he can tell you what to do with your life.
Some of you, if God told you to do something
he had a great opportunity for you, you couldn't. You're
in such financial bondage you couldn't move if you had to.
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And here's what the Bible says Priors three to twenty seven,
don't withhold repayment of your debts. And the Bible says
in Romans thirteen to eight, let no debt remain outstanding.
What is an outstanding debt means? It means you're only
paying the minimum. If you're only paying the minimum on
your card, you're not paying your card off every month.
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You are letting a debt remain outstanding.
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That's wrong. Not only is it wrong.
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Instead of you working for your money working for you,
you're working for your money and you're doing an exact opposite. Now,
remember I said, these are in order keep good records.
Give the first ten percent back to God. Save an
investment future instead of a repayment plan. He said, wait
a minute, Rick, are you telling me to save and
to tie before I pay my debts?
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That's exactly what I'm telling you to do.
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You say, why, because you need God's help getting out
of debt. Somebody asked John D. Rockefeller, who was the
wealthiest man of his day. He was the Bill Gates
of his day, the Warren Buffett of his day. How
did you get so wealthy? He called it the ten
ten eighty plan. He said, you tie ten percent, first
ten percent to God, second ten percent, You pay yourself
in savings, and then live on eighty percent. He said,
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I can't live on eighty percent. Then you are living
beyond your means. You can live on anything if you
want to. You are living beyond your means. You need
to pay God first. You need to pay yourself second.
And then you set up a repayment plan for your
debts and God will help you with those things.
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If you wait till.
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You're out of debt, you're never going to start saving
and you're never going to tie because you're always going
to Your earnings will always be exceeded by your yearnings.
Now you need to set up a repayment plan.
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Number seven.
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If you want God's blessing on your finances, you must
budget you're spending. You must budget you're spending. Now, what
is a budget? A budget is simply a plan. It
is planned spending, that's all it is. A budget is
telling your money where you want it to go, rather
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than wondering where it went. You say, I want this
to go here. I want this to go to college,
I want this to go to my kids. This is
the savings, I want this to go to the Lord.
I want this to go to food. A budget is
telling your money where you want it to go, where
you control it. Instead it controls you and the Bible says,
you need to have a plan Proverbs twenty one to five.
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Plan carefully. Let's talk about a budget, and you will
have plenty. If you act too quickly, you will never
have enough. Now circle the phrase act too quickly. What's
he talking about there? He says, if you act too quickly,
you're always going to be in debt, You're never going
to have enough money, You're always going to be behind schedule.
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What does it mean if you act too quickly?
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The Bible there is talking about what advertisers and marketers
and merchandisers call impulse buying. Have you ever gone into
a store and bought something you didn't plan on buying,
but you looked at it and you saw it and go, WHOA,
how did I ever live without that? And you buy
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stuff not based on reason, not based on rationality. You
buy it purely on emotion. And have you noticed it's
geared at right at the most visible spots. Let's take
some of those things, those look great's, and that's planning.
That is a impulse buying. Now, marketers know that there
is one word that will get you to act too quickly,
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and it is the word you got it sale, But honey,
it was on sale. Did we need it?
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No? Could we afford it? No?
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Do we really need five thousand gallons from costco of this?
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No?
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But it was on sale, and that causes impulse buying.
If you act too quickly, you will never have enough.
What is the antidote to impulse buying? How do you
spell relief? B U d get You gotta nip it
in the budget. Nipp it, nipp it, nipp it, as
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Barney Fife would say, Now look at this next verse
in planning your spending. Budgeting your spending Proverbs ten sixteen.
The earnings of the godly enhance their lives.
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Isn't that great? That's what I want to happen with you.
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I want your income, I want your wealth, I want
your money to enhance your life, as the Bible says,
but evil people squander their money on sin. Now Proverbs
twenty one twenty. Let's read this with great enthusiasm allowed.
Stupid people spend their money as fast as they get it.
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Some of you, that's all the truth you needed. Go home,
you don't need any more sermon. Your cup is full
right there, Okay, if you'll just put that verse on
your refrigerator. Stupid people spend their money as fast as
they get it. That's dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. God
says no, No, you need to plan your spending. You
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need a budget you're spending now. There's one more number eight,
and all of these are important. Must enjoy what I
have If I want God's blessing on my finances, I
can't always be griping and complaining. I must learn contentment.
I must enjoy what I have now. This is one
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of the major problems, particularly in southern California. We're so
busy getting more, we don't have time to enjoy.
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What we've got.
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People buy these beautiful homes and then they're never there
because they're always busy working to pay the mortgage on
that beautiful house. Ecclesiastes six 't nine says this, it's
better to be satisfied with what you have than to
always be wanting something better. Until you learn that truth,
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you're never going to start saving because you're always going
to you're addicted to upgrades. It's better to be satisfied
with what you have than to always be wanting something else.
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And when you're.
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Always wanting something else, it's so involved in getting more
and getting more. We got to get the newest model,
we got to get the greatest fashion, we got to
get the latest style. We've got to keep moving up
and on. You know, we got to keep up with
the Joneses. Don't worry about the Joneses. They just file
for bankruptcy. Okay, just about the time you catch up
with them, they refinance. And this is not you know,
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you get in the rat race, you may win it,
you're still a rat.
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So don't get caught in the rat race. Okay.
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It's better to be satisfied with what you have than
always be wanting something else. And you know what, sometimes
we're always wanting something else. We're so busy getting our
kids things. We don't have any time for our kids.
Kids don't need things, they need attention. When my three
kids are growing up, we live for over ten years
in Laguna Neguel in a twelve hundred square foot home
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that didn't have enough bedrooms for my three kids, so
I built. I turned the garage into two bedrooms, two
boys on one side and my daughter on the other side.
And they grew up in the bedrooms I built in
their garage. You know what, none of them are worried
about it, because the fact is it allowed Kay to
stay at home with them and allowed me to not
have to take on a second job when the church
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was small. They needed me and they needed k more.
They needed our money, and they're never going to be
resentful for the fact that they You know, they had
a small bedroom in a garage. When we moved out
of that house, I took it out and turned it
back into a garage. And the Bible says this in
one Timothy six't eighteen. Tell them to use their money
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to do good. They should be rich in good works
and should give generously to those in need, always being
ready to share with others whatever God has given them.
You know, I was interviewed recently on a radio and
somebody said, why do you think God let you write
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Purchaserve in Life, best selling book in American history because
it brought in a lot of money. I said, you
know why, because God knew what I'd do with the money.
He knew in advance. I had already had thirty five
years of faithfulness. He had trusted me in little things,
so he could trust me in bigger things.
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Can God trust you? Have you proven by your past?
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Does your finances right now, prove that you know how
to manage money according to the biblical way. Now, what
we're talking about here, friends, if you want God's blessing
is you're going to have to do the exact opposite
of our culture. This is extremely counter culture because everything
in society tells you spend it as fast as you
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get it.
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In fact, spend more than you've.
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Got, put it on the credit card, charge it on
your outline. I've given you two columns on the left
hand side of what most people do.
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This is what culture does.
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The first thing people do is as soon as they
get it, they spend it immediately, they spend it all.
And then after they spend it all, they worry about it. Now,
if they have any left, they repay a little bit
the minimum. If they have any left, we say, don't,
they save it, And if they have any left after
that they give it, which they don't. On the other
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house side is the order God bless us. First, I
dedicate it to God. God is all from you. You're
my source, you're my supply, and you're my security. Second,
I tithe it. First ten percent goes back to you
because I'm trusting that you'll make the night ego further
than the hundred. It's a statement of faith. Third, I
save it and I invested. I pay God first, I
pay myself second, Fourth, I set up a repayment plan,
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and fifth, I enjoy it. I want you to hear
the testimony of somebody who has lived out these principles
and God has blessed him.
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Would you give him a warm welcome? Love you man.
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By the way, I'm standing up. If anybody's wondering, so
are you on the front row? Sorry, sir, I'm humbled
and honored to be asked to share my story with
you this morning. The fact that I'm standing here today
is an example of being careful what you pray for.
You see, last Friday, as we prepared to announce that
ge Healthcare was buying Clariant, I got to p around
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three am in the morning to pray before heading into
what I knew was going to be extremely fanatic day.
And my prayer went something like this, Lord, You're an
amazing God and you deserve all the credit for what's
been accomplished at our company. I'm just the steward you
put in charge to see your plan executed. I know
that people and the press will likely blow my role
out of proportion today. So I ask you, Lord, give
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me a form where I can boldly and publicly proclaim
you as Lord and recognize that the author of this
amazing financial success of our company is You. As a
crazy day ended, thank you. As that crazy day ended,
I was on my way to see my daughter cheer
at Santa Marta, Rita football game, and I expectedly got
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an email from Pastor Rick congratulating me and asking me
to update him on the big deal in God's role
in the process.
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So I returned to his email. Well, the next thing
you know, I'm standing here.
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So tomorrow of the story is if Pastor Rick emails,
you don't answer him. Truly, though, the story of our
company's success is an amazing testimony to how God can
take a group of ordinary people, inspire them with a
divine vision, grant them the wisdom to develop a solid
long range plan, and then provide them with discernment, strength,
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and most of all, perseverance to navigate the challenges along
the way.
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I'd like to give you some background.
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At thirty five, I was having breakfast one morning with
our pastor of our little church when we live in Chicago.
I was having my little pity party and expressing my
desire to leave the corporate world for what I thought
what would be the safety of church ministry. Dave looked
across the table at me after listening to me drone
on for about thirty minutes or so, and said something
that changed my life. He said, Ronnie, you are in
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the ministry. Some are called to preach, some are called
to teach, and some are called to minister in the marketplace.
He went on to say, God has uniquely gifted you
with an aptitude for the sciences and with the servant's
heart that he wants to use to transform the lives
in the health care business community. I was stunned at
his comments. It wasn't what I wanted to hear at all.
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I was looking for his encouragement to quit my current job.
But it was a wake up call for me. My
destiny was to serve God in the business world, meeting
the needs of others, making a profit from it, and
using those profits for God's glory. The last sixteen years
since that day have been just an amazing journey, filled
with challenges, some failures, and some successes. But I was
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determined to do it by the greatest business book ever written,
the Bible. I would build a business on godly principles
in God's financial plan. Another real important piece of the
story is that my grandmother had breast cancer when she
was fifty two. I was only eleven at the time,
but she would often tell me that she believed I
was smart enough to do something about that disease. That
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dream of a destiny that she had really made an
impression on me. She lived thirty more years with the disease,
and finally it took her life. But on the night
before she died, I held her hand and she looked
at me and said, Ronnie, you promised me you would
do something about this disease. God will provide a way.
Just follow him so as a good Southern boy always does.
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I said, yes, ma'am.
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And through a secuitous route of divinely ordained moves, five
years later, I ended up as they had, of worldwide
commercial operations for the world's largest molecular diagnostics company. I thought,
finally my chance to do something about breast cancer. Soon
discovered that the corporate world is full of bureaucracy and egos,
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and we were slowing down both the discoveries and patients'
access to it. God wouldn't let me sleep. In two
thousand and four, God gave me the opportunity to take
over a felled medical instrument company here in Orange County
that had the ability to map proteins and cells and
help doctors in any community United States identify the most
appropriate therapy for that breast cancer. With an idea to
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change the way breast cancer be managed, I began to
pray about making a faith commitment as Rick calls it,
to lead the safe corporate security for a new, extremely
risky startup venture. All my friends and advisors told me
I was crazy. Rick calls them dream busters. They'd ask, Ronnie,
why do you want to do this to yourself? You
could take any job in the diagnostics industry. Well meaning
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friends poured water on the fire that God had lit
in me. I was afraid and kept coming up with
all kinds of compromises and shortcuts so would not have
to step out in faith and trust God. Still, the
conviction from God would not leave me alone. And one night,
as I sat outside in northern California and looking up
at a beautiful, crystal clear false guy, it hit me
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the science geek kicked in.
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Our God is a big god.
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The universe is twenty seven billion light years wide. And
God laid on my heart that the Psalmist said, he
holds it between his thumb and his forefinger.
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That's a big God. That same omniput God cared enough
to design the human.
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Body with cells that have the ability to uniquely repair
themselves when DNA is mutated.
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And that wasn't good enough.
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He put a fail safe mechanism in that if that
cell repair system failed, that the cell would know it
and kill itself in a process called apoptosis, so that
cancer would not eradicate eradicate the human race.
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That's the God I serve, So despite.
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How impossible, that's what I felt my destiny would be
to fulfill. The same God would be with me. And
I remembered the promise of Isaiah forty three to two
and three. When you pass through the waters, I will
be with you. And when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you. When you walk through
the fire, you'll not be burned. The flames will not
set you ablaze, for I am the Lord your God.
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I realized that this step of faith would lead me
totally dependent on God, and that's exactly what God wanted
and exactly where I wanted to be. I'd never be
able to do this financially or any other way on
my own. It was that moment I realized I had
to do it. As I prepared to launch my vision
to my new company, I listed to a group of.
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People to pray for me.
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Those prayers kept me going because on my first day,
I laid out my plan and proclaimed my faith in
front of fifty plus employees. And immediately afterwards, as I
made my way up the stairs, I was met by
a woman who boldly proclaimed, this will never work. Even
your God isn't good enough to fix this mess. You
should just get back on your plane and fly back
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to northern California and hopefully get your old job back.
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Talk about it in your face. Moved by Satan, I
knew he.
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Was trying to deliver a discouraging message to me and
weaken my faith. You see, Satan was fighting me not
only because we had a passion to change the way
breast cancer would be managed, but also because I was
determined that my company would be built on financial principles
and the leadership.
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Model of Jesus Christ.
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I went straight to my office, ask a few folks
to come in. We got on our knees and we prayed.
We dedicated our company, our vision, our profits, and our
plan to God. I don't have time this morning to
share the full story with you, but I can say
that over the past six years, we've had many ups
and downs, failures and successes, and most of all test
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of faith. God needed to change me before he could
bless me in person.
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Change, as you know, is never easy.
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Thankfully, though, saddle Backed Church has been instrumental in my
personal growth and the growth of our company, especially Saddleback's
workplace ministry. These small group studies have helped us define
servant leadership in Christ's terms. They've had a profound impact
on our company culture and as a testimony to these
groups and their impact on our corporate culture, last week,
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Clariant was named the top medium sized healthcare company the
United States to work for by Modern Healthcare magazine. This
truly shows that when your business and finances are focused
on bringing glory to God, people will want to work there.
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We have an extremely compassionate, energized workforce and a very
sustainable business, but my testimony today is not about the
effectiveness of my leadership, but about the greatness of our
God and the fact that God always keeps his promises
if we just fulfill our part of the deal and
obey him completely. I don't know why we think we
know how to do things better than God, because we
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certainly don't. But as a result of my simple faith
commitment I made six years ago, God has delivered in
a big way.
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At Clarion.
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We touched over five hundred thousand cancer patients and have
grown at a sixty percent compounded annual growth rate since
we began. We've pianted new technologies that are saving lives
while bringing in this year over one hundred and fifteen
million dollars in revenue. Again, I'm not the owner of
this company. I'm just a steward of what God plays
in my hands. If you think you can't, if God
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can't use you, let me encourage you.
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Right now.
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I am the least likely person in this building to
be a CEO. I'm a Southern boy with a funny accent,
extreme case of attention deficit, no big name school education,
no NBA from a top business school. In fact, my
MBA stands for more Bible than anything. I simply agreed
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to do it God's way and fulfill his destiny for me,
not mine. It has been an extremely wild ride, and
now what God placed in my hands for many years,
He's now placing in someone else's hands. Decade of destiny
could not have come at a better time in the
life of our congregation, Orange County and our country.
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People need hope and a vision today.
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There is an absolutely huge void of Godly leadership in
the marketplace, and no matter where you are in your company,
you can have an impact. After all, leadership is not
about a title, It's all about your influence. In closing,
the movie Chance of Fire told the true story of
Eric Little, the missionary and Olympic sprinter from Scotland who
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at the time was thought to be the fastest man
on earth. But he's most famous for refusing to compete
in the nineteen twenty four one hundred meter race because
it was held on a Sunday. He insisted on honoring
God first in every area of his life. He became
famous for this saying, and it's a saying this inspired
me through the years. God made me fast, and when
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I run, I feel his pleasure. As we begin decade
of destiny together as a church family, I challenge you
to consider how God has made you in your shape.
You will find your calling that allows you to each
day to feel God's pleasure, to have a lasting impact
on the lives of others, and to succeed in being
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who God created you to be.
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Thank you, Thank you, Ronnie, thank you.
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Now let me say this to you as your pastor
who loves you deeply. You have no idea how God
wants to bless you if you'll just do it his way.
You have no idea what God might want to do
in your life. But you got to decide. Am I
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going to trust God or me with my finances? Am
I going to do it my way?
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Or am I going to do it God's way?
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Do I want my blessing or do I want God's blessing? Now,
you got to do all eight of these habits. I
know some people who tie, but they're not satisfied with
what they've got. And I know some people who are,
you know, trying to repay their ins, but they're not
saving anything.
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You've got to do at all.
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I know debt is a big problem and that many
of you and I pray for you, those of you
who are in debt. I pray for you, and I
hurt for you. The Bible says this on the screen,
Jesus said, don't worry.
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Don't worry.
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Your heavenly Father already knows what you need, and he
will give it to you. That's the promise. Here's the
premise if you give him first place in your life
and you live as he wants you to. And I
want to pray for you. Let's bower heads, Heavenly Father.
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I thank you that you want to bless our health,
you want to bless our families. I thank you that
you want to bless our jobs and our finances. That
these are not areas that you're uninterested in. I thank
you for the story of Ronnie and his faithfulness to you,
and how he followed God's financial plan and he followed
your will, and he listened to your voice, and he
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felt himself as a steward, not as an owner. I
pray for all who are here today in debt, who
are worried about their finances. I pray for all who
are out of work right now, Lord give them a job.
I pray that many today will say I'm going to
take that step of faith. I'm going to stop pretending.
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I'm going to follow God's financial plan. And I pray
that you will create a generation of wealth creators and
kingdom builders at saddleback in the next decade.
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And I pray this in your name. Amen.
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What a life giving message from pastor Reg. Now let's
join Reg with today's offer.
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Thanks for listening today. 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 own doctors to
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help me develop a program for our church. I call
that the Daniel Plan, based on the passage in the
Book of Daniel where Daniel has a contest with King
nebeca 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.
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And friends.
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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. Trust in God's
power rather than willpower. You know, we found that when
individuals addressed health issues in each of these key areas,
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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 for life changing.
In fact, our own church, Saddleback Church, lost over a
quarter of a million in one year. Can you imagine
that what did it do for our church? It increased
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our energy, We started sleeping better, It reduced our need
for medication. The whole church was healthier.
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Now.
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The Daniel Plan has recently been released in a book format,
and I want you to have a copy of this
book today so you can start getting healthier now. And
I'll send you a hardcover copy of the Daniel Plan
book as a very special thank you for your gift
to this ministry.
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Just go to Pastororick dot com to get your copy
of this great resource. That's Pastorick dot com. Or you
can just text the word Hope to seven oh three
to oh nine. That's the word hope to seven oh
three oh nine. And thank you so much for your support.
Your gift to Daily Hope really helps us share the
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hope of Christ with people all over the world. Be
sure to join us next time as we look into God's.
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Word for our daily hope.
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This program is sponsored by Pastor Rick's Daily Hope and
your generous financial support.
Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.
And whether today is your first time tuning in or
if you're a regular listener, we're really excited that you're here.
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Well.
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Today, Pastor Rick is continuing his series called Discover Your Destiny,
So get ready to explore the practical steps to grow
in all areas of your life, spirit, mind, body, relationships,
and even your career. So stick with us as we
uncover God's incredible plan for your future. Let's join Rick
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right now with the final part of a message called
God's Plan for Financial Blessing.
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Now, notice this next verse Proverbs thirteen eleven. Money that
comes easily disappears quickly, But money that has gathered little
by little will grow. In other words, it's going to
calm downd like with interest, circle little by little. The
reason why most people don't save number one is they
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spend it all, and number two is they don't think
it's gonna matter that much. It says, money saved little
by little will grow. It's not listen, it's not how
much you save. It's the consistency that matters.
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Doing it.
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Every single week. A lot of people say, well, I
can't put a whole lot in well, what can you
put in? Start saving every week, and the consistency, little
by little, it will grow. My parents taught me to
tithe and save as a child. I started saving when
I was seventeen years old. I started putting away a
dollar a week, and then more and then more. It
wasn't a whole lot, but you know what, let that
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compound for fifty years.
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It adds up.
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That's why I don't have to take a salary today,
because my savings works for me and I've been saving
for fifty years. That's called wisdom. Spending it all is
called foolish. Now notice this next verse. If you just
keep on doing it a little bit at a.
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Time, it'll all add up.
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Proverbs twenty four twenty seven says develop your business first
before building your house. This is one of the many
financial principles that Solomon gives in the Book of Proverbs.
Develop your business first before building your house.
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What's he saying there?
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He's saying when you get some income, instead of going
out and spending on a luxury or buying a new
painting or painting the house, or doing something that doesn't
really grow your wealth, he says you need to reinvest it,
and you put it back into your business, or you
put it back into some kind of investment, so it's
growing and the money's working for you instead of you
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just spending it on some luxury.
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I see this happen all the time.
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Somebody gets a big promotion or a raise, and the
first thing to do is go out and buy a
new car.
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That's stupid.
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First place, as soon as you drive that car off
the lot, it's worth ten thousand dollars less you just
lost it in second place, it's going to depreciate each year.
On the other hand, if you take that difference in
your raise and you continue to live at the same
level you're living at, and you take that money and
you invest in, all of a sudden, you're making money
with your money.
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God says, that's wise.
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It's one of the reasons why I drive a ten
year old forward. It gets me the same place anything
else does. I haven't had a car payment, it's actually
eleven year old forward. I haven't had a car payment
in ten years. What am I doing with that money? Well,
I'm not spending it. I'm putting it into savings and investment,
and that's making money and that's making money.
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So then I'm serve saddleback for free.
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Now, the Bible says that you need to develop your
business before you build your house. Others put it back
into investment rather than saying, oh, let's just go buy
a bigger house.
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Now.
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The number five, number six, the six things you need
to do. And by the way, these are in order.
Is you set up a repayment plan. You set up
a repayment plan to get yourself out of debt. Some
of you it may take you the whole ten years,
but I want you to get out of debt. Why
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you have no idea how good it feels to be
debt free, to have say I owe nothing to anybody.
And on top of that, God wants you debt free
so he can tell you what to do with your life.
Some of you, if God told you to do something
he had a great opportunity for you, you couldn't. You're
in such financial bondage you couldn't move if you had to.
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And here's what the Bible says Priors three to twenty seven,
don't withhold repayment of your debts. And the Bible says
in Romans thirteen to eight, let no debt remain outstanding.
What is an outstanding debt means? It means you're only
paying the minimum. If you're only paying the minimum on
your card, you're not paying your card off every month.
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You are letting a debt remain outstanding.
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That's wrong. Not only is it wrong.
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Instead of you working for your money working for you,
you're working for your money and you're doing an exact opposite. Now,
remember I said, these are in order keep good records.
Give the first ten percent back to God. Save an
investment future instead of a repayment plan. He said, wait
a minute, Rick, are you telling me to save and
to tie before I pay my debts?
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That's exactly what I'm telling you to do.
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You say, why, because you need God's help getting out
of debt. Somebody asked John D. Rockefeller, who was the
wealthiest man of his day. He was the Bill Gates
of his day, the Warren Buffett of his day. How
did you get so wealthy? He called it the ten
ten eighty plan. He said, you tie ten percent, first
ten percent to God, second ten percent, You pay yourself
in savings, and then live on eighty percent. He said,
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I can't live on eighty percent. Then you are living
beyond your means. You can live on anything if you
want to. You are living beyond your means. You need
to pay God first. You need to pay yourself second.
And then you set up a repayment plan for your
debts and God will help you with those things.
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If you wait till.
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You're out of debt, you're never going to start saving
and you're never going to tie because you're always going
to Your earnings will always be exceeded by your yearnings.
Now you need to set up a repayment plan.
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Number seven.
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If you want God's blessing on your finances, you must
budget you're spending. You must budget you're spending. Now, what
is a budget? A budget is simply a plan. It
is planned spending, that's all it is. A budget is
telling your money where you want it to go, rather
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than wondering where it went. You say, I want this
to go here. I want this to go to college,
I want this to go to my kids. This is
the savings, I want this to go to the Lord.
I want this to go to food. A budget is
telling your money where you want it to go, where
you control it. Instead it controls you and the Bible says,
you need to have a plan Proverbs twenty one to five.
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Plan carefully. Let's talk about a budget, and you will
have plenty. If you act too quickly, you will never
have enough. Now circle the phrase act too quickly. What's
he talking about there? He says, if you act too quickly,
you're always going to be in debt, You're never going
to have enough money, You're always going to be behind schedule.
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What does it mean if you act too quickly?
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The Bible there is talking about what advertisers and marketers
and merchandisers call impulse buying. Have you ever gone into
a store and bought something you didn't plan on buying,
but you looked at it and you saw it and go, WHOA,
how did I ever live without that? And you buy
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stuff not based on reason, not based on rationality. You
buy it purely on emotion. And have you noticed it's
geared at right at the most visible spots. Let's take
some of those things, those look great's, and that's planning.
That is a impulse buying. Now, marketers know that there
is one word that will get you to act too quickly,
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and it is the word you got it sale, But honey,
it was on sale. Did we need it?
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No? Could we afford it? No?
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Do we really need five thousand gallons from costco of this?
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No?
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But it was on sale, and that causes impulse buying.
If you act too quickly, you will never have enough.
What is the antidote to impulse buying? How do you
spell relief? B U d get You gotta nip it
in the budget. Nipp it, nipp it, nipp it, as
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Barney Fife would say, Now look at this next verse
in planning your spending. Budgeting your spending Proverbs ten sixteen.
The earnings of the godly enhance their lives.
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Isn't that great? That's what I want to happen with you.
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I want your income, I want your wealth, I want
your money to enhance your life, as the Bible says,
but evil people squander their money on sin. Now Proverbs
twenty one twenty. Let's read this with great enthusiasm allowed.
Stupid people spend their money as fast as they get it.
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Some of you, that's all the truth you needed. Go home,
you don't need any more sermon. Your cup is full
right there, Okay, if you'll just put that verse on
your refrigerator. Stupid people spend their money as fast as
they get it. That's dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. God
says no, No, you need to plan your spending. You
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need a budget you're spending now. There's one more number eight,
and all of these are important. Must enjoy what I
have If I want God's blessing on my finances, I
can't always be griping and complaining. I must learn contentment.
I must enjoy what I have now. This is one
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of the major problems, particularly in southern California. We're so
busy getting more, we don't have time to enjoy.
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What we've got.
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People buy these beautiful homes and then they're never there
because they're always busy working to pay the mortgage on
that beautiful house. Ecclesiastes six 't nine says this, it's
better to be satisfied with what you have than to
always be wanting something better. Until you learn that truth,
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you're never going to start saving because you're always going
to you're addicted to upgrades. It's better to be satisfied
with what you have than to always be wanting something else.
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And when you're.
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Always wanting something else, it's so involved in getting more
and getting more. We got to get the newest model,
we got to get the greatest fashion, we got to
get the latest style. We've got to keep moving up
and on. You know, we got to keep up with
the Joneses. Don't worry about the Joneses. They just file
for bankruptcy. Okay, just about the time you catch up
with them, they refinance. And this is not you know,
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you get in the rat race, you may win it,
you're still a rat.
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So don't get caught in the rat race. Okay.
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It's better to be satisfied with what you have than
always be wanting something else. And you know what, sometimes
we're always wanting something else. We're so busy getting our
kids things. We don't have any time for our kids.
Kids don't need things, they need attention. When my three
kids are growing up, we live for over ten years
in Laguna Neguel in a twelve hundred square foot home
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that didn't have enough bedrooms for my three kids, so
I built. I turned the garage into two bedrooms, two
boys on one side and my daughter on the other side.
And they grew up in the bedrooms I built in
their garage. You know what, none of them are worried
about it, because the fact is it allowed Kay to
stay at home with them and allowed me to not
have to take on a second job when the church
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was small. They needed me and they needed k more.
They needed our money, and they're never going to be
resentful for the fact that they You know, they had
a small bedroom in a garage. When we moved out
of that house, I took it out and turned it
back into a garage. And the Bible says this in
one Timothy six't eighteen. Tell them to use their money
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to do good. They should be rich in good works
and should give generously to those in need, always being
ready to share with others whatever God has given them.
You know, I was interviewed recently on a radio and
somebody said, why do you think God let you write
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Purchaserve in Life, best selling book in American history because
it brought in a lot of money. I said, you
know why, because God knew what I'd do with the money.
He knew in advance. I had already had thirty five
years of faithfulness. He had trusted me in little things,
so he could trust me in bigger things.
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Can God trust you? Have you proven by your past?
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Does your finances right now, prove that you know how
to manage money according to the biblical way. Now, what
we're talking about here, friends, if you want God's blessing
is you're going to have to do the exact opposite
of our culture. This is extremely counter culture because everything
in society tells you spend it as fast as you
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get it.
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In fact, spend more than you've.
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Got, put it on the credit card, charge it on
your outline. I've given you two columns on the left
hand side of what most people do.
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This is what culture does.
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The first thing people do is as soon as they
get it, they spend it immediately, they spend it all.
And then after they spend it all, they worry about it. Now,
if they have any left, they repay a little bit
the minimum. If they have any left, we say, don't,
they save it, And if they have any left after
that they give it, which they don't. On the other
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house side is the order God bless us. First, I
dedicate it to God. God is all from you. You're
my source, you're my supply, and you're my security. Second,
I tithe it. First ten percent goes back to you
because I'm trusting that you'll make the night ego further
than the hundred. It's a statement of faith. Third, I
save it and I invested. I pay God first, I
pay myself second, Fourth, I set up a repayment plan,
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and fifth, I enjoy it. I want you to hear
the testimony of somebody who has lived out these principles
and God has blessed him.
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Would you give him a warm welcome? Love you man.
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By the way, I'm standing up. If anybody's wondering, so
are you on the front row? Sorry, sir, I'm humbled
and honored to be asked to share my story with
you this morning. The fact that I'm standing here today
is an example of being careful what you pray for.
You see, last Friday, as we prepared to announce that
ge Healthcare was buying Clariant, I got to p around
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three am in the morning to pray before heading into
what I knew was going to be extremely fanatic day.
And my prayer went something like this, Lord, You're an
amazing God and you deserve all the credit for what's
been accomplished at our company. I'm just the steward you
put in charge to see your plan executed. I know
that people and the press will likely blow my role
out of proportion today. So I ask you, Lord, give
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me a form where I can boldly and publicly proclaim
you as Lord and recognize that the author of this
amazing financial success of our company is You. As a
crazy day ended, thank you. As that crazy day ended,
I was on my way to see my daughter cheer
at Santa Marta, Rita football game, and I expectedly got
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an email from Pastor Rick congratulating me and asking me
to update him on the big deal in God's role
in the process.
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So I returned to his email. Well, the next thing
you know, I'm standing here.
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So tomorrow of the story is if Pastor Rick emails,
you don't answer him. Truly, though, the story of our
company's success is an amazing testimony to how God can
take a group of ordinary people, inspire them with a
divine vision, grant them the wisdom to develop a solid
long range plan, and then provide them with discernment, strength,
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and most of all, perseverance to navigate the challenges along
the way.
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I'd like to give you some background.
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At thirty five, I was having breakfast one morning with
our pastor of our little church when we live in Chicago.
I was having my little pity party and expressing my
desire to leave the corporate world for what I thought
what would be the safety of church ministry. Dave looked
across the table at me after listening to me drone
on for about thirty minutes or so, and said something
that changed my life. He said, Ronnie, you are in
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the ministry. Some are called to preach, some are called
to teach, and some are called to minister in the marketplace.
He went on to say, God has uniquely gifted you
with an aptitude for the sciences and with the servant's
heart that he wants to use to transform the lives
in the health care business community. I was stunned at
his comments. It wasn't what I wanted to hear at all.
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I was looking for his encouragement to quit my current job.
But it was a wake up call for me. My
destiny was to serve God in the business world, meeting
the needs of others, making a profit from it, and
using those profits for God's glory. The last sixteen years
since that day have been just an amazing journey, filled
with challenges, some failures, and some successes. But I was
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determined to do it by the greatest business book ever written,
the Bible. I would build a business on godly principles
in God's financial plan. Another real important piece of the
story is that my grandmother had breast cancer when she
was fifty two. I was only eleven at the time,
but she would often tell me that she believed I
was smart enough to do something about that disease. That
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dream of a destiny that she had really made an
impression on me. She lived thirty more years with the disease,
and finally it took her life. But on the night
before she died, I held her hand and she looked
at me and said, Ronnie, you promised me you would
do something about this disease. God will provide a way.
Just follow him so as a good Southern boy always does.
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I said, yes, ma'am.
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And through a secuitous route of divinely ordained moves, five
years later, I ended up as they had, of worldwide
commercial operations for the world's largest molecular diagnostics company. I thought,
finally my chance to do something about breast cancer. Soon
discovered that the corporate world is full of bureaucracy and egos,
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and we were slowing down both the discoveries and patients'
access to it. God wouldn't let me sleep. In two
thousand and four, God gave me the opportunity to take
over a felled medical instrument company here in Orange County
that had the ability to map proteins and cells and
help doctors in any community United States identify the most
appropriate therapy for that breast cancer. With an idea to
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change the way breast cancer be managed, I began to
pray about making a faith commitment as Rick calls it,
to lead the safe corporate security for a new, extremely
risky startup venture. All my friends and advisors told me
I was crazy. Rick calls them dream busters. They'd ask, Ronnie,
why do you want to do this to yourself? You
could take any job in the diagnostics industry. Well meaning
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friends poured water on the fire that God had lit
in me. I was afraid and kept coming up with
all kinds of compromises and shortcuts so would not have
to step out in faith and trust God. Still, the
conviction from God would not leave me alone. And one night,
as I sat outside in northern California and looking up
at a beautiful, crystal clear false guy, it hit me
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the science geek kicked in.
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Our God is a big god.
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The universe is twenty seven billion light years wide. And
God laid on my heart that the Psalmist said, he
holds it between his thumb and his forefinger.
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That's a big God. That same omniput God cared enough
to design the human.
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Body with cells that have the ability to uniquely repair
themselves when DNA is mutated.
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And that wasn't good enough.
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He put a fail safe mechanism in that if that
cell repair system failed, that the cell would know it
and kill itself in a process called apoptosis, so that
cancer would not eradicate eradicate the human race.
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That's the God I serve, So despite.
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How impossible, that's what I felt my destiny would be
to fulfill. The same God would be with me. And
I remembered the promise of Isaiah forty three to two
and three. When you pass through the waters, I will
be with you. And when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you. When you walk through
the fire, you'll not be burned. The flames will not
set you ablaze, for I am the Lord your God.
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I realized that this step of faith would lead me
totally dependent on God, and that's exactly what God wanted
and exactly where I wanted to be. I'd never be
able to do this financially or any other way on
my own. It was that moment I realized I had
to do it. As I prepared to launch my vision
to my new company, I listed to a group of.
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People to pray for me.
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Those prayers kept me going because on my first day,
I laid out my plan and proclaimed my faith in
front of fifty plus employees. And immediately afterwards, as I
made my way up the stairs, I was met by
a woman who boldly proclaimed, this will never work. Even
your God isn't good enough to fix this mess. You
should just get back on your plane and fly back
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to northern California and hopefully get your old job back.
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Talk about it in your face. Moved by Satan, I
knew he.
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Was trying to deliver a discouraging message to me and
weaken my faith. You see, Satan was fighting me not
only because we had a passion to change the way
breast cancer would be managed, but also because I was
determined that my company would be built on financial principles
and the leadership.
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Model of Jesus Christ.
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I went straight to my office, ask a few folks
to come in. We got on our knees and we prayed.
We dedicated our company, our vision, our profits, and our
plan to God. I don't have time this morning to
share the full story with you, but I can say
that over the past six years, we've had many ups
and downs, failures and successes, and most of all test
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of faith. God needed to change me before he could
bless me in person.
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Change, as you know, is never easy.
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Thankfully, though, saddle Backed Church has been instrumental in my
personal growth and the growth of our company, especially Saddleback's
workplace ministry. These small group studies have helped us define
servant leadership in Christ's terms. They've had a profound impact
on our company culture and as a testimony to these
groups and their impact on our corporate culture, last week,
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Clariant was named the top medium sized healthcare company the
United States to work for by Modern Healthcare magazine. This
truly shows that when your business and finances are focused
on bringing glory to God, people will want to work there.
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We have an extremely compassionate, energized workforce and a very
sustainable business, but my testimony today is not about the
effectiveness of my leadership, but about the greatness of our
God and the fact that God always keeps his promises
if we just fulfill our part of the deal and
obey him completely. I don't know why we think we
know how to do things better than God, because we
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certainly don't. But as a result of my simple faith
commitment I made six years ago, God has delivered in
a big way.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
At Clarion.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
We touched over five hundred thousand cancer patients and have
grown at a sixty percent compounded annual growth rate since
we began. We've pianted new technologies that are saving lives
while bringing in this year over one hundred and fifteen
million dollars in revenue. Again, I'm not the owner of
this company. I'm just a steward of what God plays
in my hands. If you think you can't, if God
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can't use you, let me encourage you.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Right now.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
I am the least likely person in this building to
be a CEO. I'm a Southern boy with a funny accent,
extreme case of attention deficit, no big name school education,
no NBA from a top business school. In fact, my
MBA stands for more Bible than anything. I simply agreed
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to do it God's way and fulfill his destiny for me,
not mine. It has been an extremely wild ride, and
now what God placed in my hands for many years,
He's now placing in someone else's hands. Decade of destiny
could not have come at a better time in the
life of our congregation, Orange County and our country.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
People need hope and a vision today.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
There is an absolutely huge void of Godly leadership in
the marketplace, and no matter where you are in your company,
you can have an impact. After all, leadership is not
about a title, It's all about your influence. In closing,
the movie Chance of Fire told the true story of
Eric Little, the missionary and Olympic sprinter from Scotland who
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at the time was thought to be the fastest man
on earth. But he's most famous for refusing to compete
in the nineteen twenty four one hundred meter race because
it was held on a Sunday. He insisted on honoring
God first in every area of his life. He became
famous for this saying, and it's a saying this inspired
me through the years. God made me fast, and when
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I run, I feel his pleasure. As we begin decade
of destiny together as a church family, I challenge you
to consider how God has made you in your shape.
You will find your calling that allows you to each
day to feel God's pleasure, to have a lasting impact
on the lives of others, and to succeed in being
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who God created you to be.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Thank you, Thank you, Ronnie, thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Now let me say this to you as your pastor
who loves you deeply. You have no idea how God
wants to bless you if you'll just do it his way.
You have no idea what God might want to do
in your life. But you got to decide. Am I
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going to trust God or me with my finances? Am
I going to do it my way?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Or am I going to do it God's way?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Do I want my blessing or do I want God's blessing? Now,
you got to do all eight of these habits. I
know some people who tie, but they're not satisfied with
what they've got. And I know some people who are,
you know, trying to repay their ins, but they're not
saving anything.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
You've got to do at all.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
I know debt is a big problem and that many
of you and I pray for you, those of you
who are in debt. I pray for you, and I
hurt for you. The Bible says this on the screen,
Jesus said, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Your heavenly Father already knows what you need, and he
will give it to you. That's the promise. Here's the
premise if you give him first place in your life
and you live as he wants you to. And I
want to pray for you. Let's bower heads, Heavenly Father.
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I thank you that you want to bless our health,
you want to bless our families. I thank you that
you want to bless our jobs and our finances. That
these are not areas that you're uninterested in. I thank
you for the story of Ronnie and his faithfulness to you,
and how he followed God's financial plan and he followed
your will, and he listened to your voice, and he
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felt himself as a steward, not as an owner. I
pray for all who are here today in debt, who
are worried about their finances. I pray for all who
are out of work right now, Lord give them a job.
I pray that many today will say I'm going to
take that step of faith. I'm going to stop pretending.
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I'm going to follow God's financial plan. And I pray
that you will create a generation of wealth creators and
kingdom builders at saddleback in the next decade.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And I pray this in your name. Amen.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
What a life giving message from pastor Reg. Now let's
join Reg with today's offer.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Thanks for listening today. 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 own doctors to
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help me develop a program for our church. I call
that the Daniel Plan, based on the passage in the
Book of Daniel where Daniel has a contest with King
nebeca 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.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
And friends.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
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. Trust in God's
power rather than willpower. You know, we found that when
individuals addressed health issues in each of these key areas,
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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 for life changing.
In fact, our own church, Saddleback Church, lost over a
quarter of a million in one year. Can you imagine
that what did it do for our church? It increased
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our energy, We started sleeping better, It reduced our need
for medication. The whole church was healthier.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Now.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
The Daniel Plan has recently been released in a book format,
and I want you to have a copy of this
book today so you can start getting healthier now. And
I'll send you a hardcover copy of the Daniel Plan
book as a very special thank you for your gift
to this ministry.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Just go to Pastororick dot com to get your copy
of this great resource. That's Pastorick dot com. Or you
can just text the word Hope to seven oh three
to oh nine. That's the word hope to seven oh
three oh nine. And thank you so much for your support.
Your gift to Daily Hope really helps us share the
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hope of Christ with people all over the world. Be
sure to join us next time as we look into God's.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Word for our daily hope.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
This program is sponsored by Pastor Rick's Daily Hope and
your generous financial support.
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