Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.

Today we continue in our series called The Life You Were Mentholive.

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

for you, the life you were meant to live.

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called, Focusing Your Life.

If you have more to do than you've got time and energy to do, you get overloaded.

So you have to have margin, margin in your time, margin in your checkbook in every other

area.

And in this series, we've looked at the effects of this hectic, hurried lifestyle and the

value of slowing down in some ways to do that.

We've looked at the benefits of living with margin and some of the ways to build some

space into your life.

We've looked at the antidotes to workaholism and how that can make a difference.

And last week, we looked at Jesus' strategy for lowering the stress level in your life and

having more rest in your life.

But today, I want us to look at the purpose for margin.

Why have margin in your life?

And there on your top of your outline, you'll see that I've written that the purpose of margin

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