Hey everyone, this is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, and we are so glad that you're here today.

You know, you can lose your money, your health, and even the people you love.

But you can never lose God's love for you.

Stay tuned today as Rick continues his new series called The Key to Hope.

Well, I can't wait to get started, so here is part two of a message called

How Being Anchored to God's Word is the key to hope.

When you accept God's identity for your life, there's a ritual that you say it openly to

everybody else. Like when you get

married, you put on a ring, when you say, I'm going to anchor my identity to Christ, accept

to salvation, the symbol of that new identity is called baptism. And one of the things baptism is a

picture of is, I'm dying to what everybody else says about me and I'm putting all my trust in Christ.

I'm dying to what the world thinks of me and I'm going to live for Christ.

If you haven't been baptized, it's a new way, the first way, to say, I got a new identity.

I'm not what everybody to say I was.

I'm a new person in Christ.

I've accepted his salvation.

Now, to live with hope, no matter what happens,

I first have to anchor my identity in what God says about me.

Second, I have to anchor my life mission.

We'll talk about that, to God's purpose for me. Write that down. I anchor my life mission, we'll talk about that, to what, to God's purpose for me. Write that down. I anchor my

life mission, what I'm supposed to do with my life, to God's purpose for me. God has never made

anything without a purpose. You've heard me say this hundreds of times. Every rock has a purpose,

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