This is Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope. If you're new, we're so glad you found us. And if you're a daily, daily hoper, welcome back. Today we're going to continue with our series called 40 Days of Prayer. Such a great series, because Rick is going to help you cultivate a powerful prayer life so you can experience

breakthroughs. Breakthroughs in your relationships, breakthroughs and finances, health, and really

every area of your life. So don't miss a day of this life-changing series. All right, let's join Pastor Rick

with the final part of a message called do you really want to grow up now

there are a lot of habits we could teach you but during 40 days of prayer we're going to focus on these

four that are there on your outline first the habit of weekly large group worship that's what we're

doing right now then the habit of small group fellowship. Then the habit

of a daily time alone with God, where you pray a little bit and you talk to God and you read the

Bible, let him talk to you. Now notice, it's large group, small group, and personal. That's three

different kinds of habits. And then the habit of memorizing

God's word. These four will change your life more than almost any other thing in your life.

Now, these first two, large group worship and small group fellowship. Where did we get that idea?

From the Bible. It's the way all the churches in the Bible were organized.

Let me show you. Look up here on the screen. This is the first church. It was in Jerusalem,

and these are the first Christians. And here's how they organized themselves. Every day,

the believers had the habit. Notice, there's that word, and it's a lot of meeting together,

not just on Sundays, but they met,

different groups met during the week.

Every day the believers had the habit of meeting together

in the temple courts, that's what we're doing here,

large group worship, and also in their homes,

that's small group fellowship.

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