Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Your mind is the greatest gift God has given you. That's why today we continue with a series called

rethinking your life.

In these lessons, Rick shares nine biblical pillars

we need to reshape our minds so that we can become more like Jesus Christ.

Right now here's Pastor Rick with part one of a message called Defeating Disc discouragement.

In this series, I've been telling you that you have to rethink the things in your life if you're going to change the things in your life.

The same kind of thinking you've been using doesn't work.

If you think the same thing over and over, you're not going to have any changes in your life.

The Bible calls changing your mind, repentance. This is a series on repentance. The Greek word

metanoia is the word for repentance. It simply means change your mind. Anytime

you change your mind from the way you've been looking at something to

the way God sees it is called repentance. And life is about learning to think less and less

from my point of view, which is often skewered and

messed up and, you know, twisted because of background and all kinds of stuff, biology.

But the best way is to think the way God thinks,

because God's always going to think the truth.

And the more I get God's truth in my life,

the more than I can change my thoughts, I can repent, and then

I can start living in a better way.

Now last week I told you that if you're going to deal with temptation you have to you can't resist it you have to outthink it

You have to think about temptation in a different way you have to change your mind, you have to repent. And the same is true with life and with

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