Thanks for joining us today. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today we continue in a series called Created to Dream. The six faces God uses to grow your faith.

In this series, Pastor Rick helps you recognize and understand the predictable patterns and processes God uses to strengthen your faith and develop your character

so you can live the truly extraordinary life he has planned for you.

In just a few moments, we're going to tell you about Pastor Rick's brand new book called Created to Dream.

This life-changing book will help you discover and live out the amazing dream God has just for you.

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

Hi everybody, welcome back to our study of the six faces of faith.

Now in the last session, I just gave you an overview of all six different phases that you'll go through time and time again throughout your life.

In this session, we're going to begin focusing on each phase one at a time and of course the first phase, as I mentioned last time, is the dream phase.

You've got to get God's dream for your life because your dream determines your destiny and your dream determines your dignity, how you feel about yourself.

If you don't have a dream for your life right now, you're probably just like you're just existing. Why am I here? Why do I get up in the morning? Why do I go to work?

What is the purpose of my life? No dream means no esteem. When you get God's dream for your life and you begin to fulfill the plan for which He made you, then you feel good about yourself.

Nothing is more important after coming to know Jesus Christ than to get God's dream for your life. It's the reason you exist. It's your purpose for living. When you don't have it, you just kind of drift around without a dream.

You see, it's only when you discover why God needs you and what He wants you to do with your life that life makes sense.

The Bible says this in Jeremiah 29-11. God says, for I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you, not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.

God's dream for your life is first of all personal. In other words, it's a dream for you. It's not just a plan for the whole world, but it is unique. It's custom made. It's a personal plan for your life.

Not only is it personal, it's positive. He says it will give you hope. How do I get God's dream for my life?

Well, I want you to write these five statements down. You can think of them in the word Acrosity, D-R-E-A-M. The D in Dream stands for Dedicate. I dedicate my life to God.

In other words, you've got to be willing to do whatever God wants you to do even before He tells you what He wants you to do. The Bible says this.

Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to His service. Don't conform yourselves to the standards of this world. In other words, don't let the other people around you determine God's dream for your life. Let God transform you. Then you'll be able to know the will of God. That's God's dream for your life. What is good and pleasing to Him and is perfect.

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