Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Home. When life gets complicated and you start

to feel overloaded and sluggish, it's time to hit the reset button. Today we continue

with a series called Resetting My Life. In this series, Pastor Rick looks into the Bible

and shares the steps you can take to reset your life and experience positive lasting

change. In a few moments, we're going to tell you about a wonderful resource called Journey

with Jesus. This beautifully illustrated book will help you uncover deep biblical and

historical insights into the most important event in human history. Find out more by going

to PastorRick.com or by texting the word daily to 800, 600, 5,000, 4 while you listen to

today's message. Here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a message called Changing

Always Starts with Choosing.

Romans chapter 8 verse 5. Those who are dominated by their sinful nature,

I guess, my old way of doing things, the way I'm habitually trained to act. Those who are

dominated by their sinful nature, think about sinful things. It's what you think about.

But those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit, think about things that please the spirit.

Now notice in that verse, he talks about dominated and he talks about controlled. You're

either controlled by the devil, thoughts that he puts in your mind and you allow them

or you're controlled by God's thought, the spirit puts in your mind. Here's the point.

Your mind has to be liberated. Your mind needs to be delivered. Your mind needs to be

released. Your mind needs to be set free. Why? Because otherwise it's dominated by all

those wrong things, all those wrong thoughts. It needs to be done, it needs to be set free.

Now this isn't easy because there are three forces around you that battle in your mind

against good intentions. None of us give up ground easily. None of those enemies give

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