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 the final part of a message called defeating discouragement.

Number four, the fourth secret of defeating discouragement is in the next verse.

And it has to do with this.

I need to relax in my limitations. I need to relax in my limitations.

Now why is that an important antidote to discouragement? Because you get discouraged when you try to be Superman.

You get discouraged when you try to be superwoman.

You get discouraged when you try to do more than you is humanly possible.

You have not relaxed in your limitations or I have not relaxed in my limitations.

What we all need is a realistic view of you. I need a realistic view of me, you need a realistic view of you.

And the facts are, I mean, let's just say them. You can't fix everybody's problems. You agree with that? But sometimes you act like you can. You can't be in more than one place at one time. Is that true? Yeah. You know people say, well I'll be with you in spirit. What does that mean? Absolutely nothing.

As long as you're in a human body, you can't be in spirit somewhere else.

You can only be where your bod is, okay?

So you can't do everything you want to do.

You can't spend money you don't have.

Now you try, and there's a word for that debt.

And then you get discouraged.

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