Hey, welcome to Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope. We are so glad you're here because today we're

starting an amazing series called 40 Days of Prayer. And in this series, Rick will help you

cultivate a powerful prayer life so you can experience breakthroughs in your relationships, finances,

health, and every other area of your life.

So please don't miss a single day of this life-changing series.

Okay, so I'm excited to hear what Pastor Rick shares today in part one of a message called,

Do you really want to grow up?

When we're not spiritually mature, we make dumb decisions. We build our decisions based on how we feel, which is a terrible basis for making decisions.

Well, I just feel like doing it.

Well, your feelings are wrong a lot of the time.

And you're manipulated by your moods.

Mature people make decisions based on truth,

not based on feelings.

So many of the problems in our world today,

national debt and other things like that

happened because of immaturity,

that people don't know how to do what's wise,

how to do what's mature.

And so the Bible tells us that growth is God's will for your life.

You know, earlier we had these little girls out here with Tosh and Christi, and they're cute.

Babies are cute, kids are cute, but a child that doesn't grow up, that's not cute, that's tragic.

It is possible to grow old and not ever grow up.

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