This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today we continue with a series based on the 23rd Psalm called Living in the Goodness of

God.

In these lessons, you'll discover that God is good all the time, even in life's most

difficult circumstances.

And you'll experience the hope and favor that spring from God's divine goodness.

In a few moments, we're going to tell you about a very special resource called the Living

in the Goodness of God guided experience book.

This Bible study tool will help you fully trust the goodness of God and experience God's

favor in every area of your life.

Find out more by going to PastorRick.com or by texting the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4

while you listen to today's message.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a message called How Jesus

treats His sheep.

Now, let me give you an example of how you think God responds to your failures.

Because unless you get this right, you're going to avoid God all the time.

Every time you fail, and that's daily, it's going to cause you to pull away from God

instead of going close to Him.

If you think God is going to restore you and rescue you when you fail, you're going to

run to Him every time you mess up.

But if you think God's going to scold you and and raz you and give you a long sermon

about it and condemn you, you're not going to go to God on that.

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