Hey friends, thanks so much for joining us today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

We're so glad to have you with us, and today Rick continues in his series called Transform.

Together, we'll dive into God's Word and discover powerful principles that can truly change our

lives from the inside out, spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally, financially,

and vocationally. You'll experience how God's truth brings real transformation to every part of your life.

And now let's join Rick for the final part of a message called From Stressed to Blessed.

Number six, in the next verse of Psalm 23, David says, I'm going to let God be my defender.

Let God be my defender. Let God be my defender.

Now, another common source of stress is conflict.

Opposition, criticism, attacks.

And there are people in your life who simply don't like you. There are people you work

with. They criticize you, maybe out of jealousy, maybe out of fear. But maybe there are people in your

life, in your own family. Maybe there's a family member who will not let you enjoy anything.

They just are always ragging on you. They're always putting you down.

They never have a positive word. If you have any success, they downplay it, they minimize

it. And you've had these people in your life and they're always attacking you and they're

always putting you down and they're always criticizing you and when that happens

your natural response is what attack back criticize back retaliate get even but when you get even

with somebody who's criticizing you it puts you on the same level now if you forgive them it puts you above them but if you if you if you if you, it puts you on the same level.

Now, if you forgive them, it puts you above them.

But if you get even, you're no better than they are.

Now, because of the pluralization in our society, we have people around us all the time who totally disagree with us.

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