Hello everybody. Welcome to Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren. So we're

continuing with this series called Daring Faith The Key to Miracles and in this

series you're learning how to have a bold

unshakable faith that gives you courage to impact the world around you and I

know we all want that. All right well let's hear what Rick has to share with us today with the final part

of a message called daring to give God my best. Now to be the best I can be for God first I have to do it intentionally I have to be the best I can be for God, first I have to do it intentionally, I have to make the choice to go after it.

Second, I must discipline myself.

And of course this is what athletes do.

No athlete becomes a pro athlete without discipline,

without training.

You don't become great by doing whatever you feel.

You don't become great by living by your moods. You just can't make up your own rules.

You can't, there are no shortcuts to maturity. There are no shortcuts to greatness.

Look at a couple of verses.

Verse says this, if anyone competes as an athlete, he cannot receive the victor's crown

unless he competes according to the rules.

And in 1st Corinthians 9, 25, 27,

to win the contest,

you must deny yourself many things that would keep you

from doing your best. An athlete goes into strict training just to win a ribbon or a

metal that won't last, but we do it for an eternal reward that will last forever.

So I discipline my body like an athlete training it to do what it should.

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