Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Home.

Today we begin a series called The Life You Were Menteleave.

In this series, Pastor Rick looks into the Bible to help you discover the Life God Plan

for you, The Life You Were Menteleave.

In just a few moments, we're going to tell you about a life-changing tool that will show

you how to re-energize your spiritual life in ways you may have never dreamed possible.

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called, evicting envy from

your heart.

The Bible in Ephesians 1 verses 4 and 5 says this, long ago, even before He made the world,

God loved us.

Did you get that?

Long ago, even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be

holy and without fault in His eyes.

His unchanging plan, circle that, His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His

own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ.

Now, we've talked about this before, that before God even created the universe, He had

you in mind.

In fact, God made the universe because He wanted a family and He wanted you to be a part

of it.

If God hadn't wanted a family, He wouldn't have created the universe.

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