Hey everybody. You know, Pastor Rick Warren often says you were made by God and for God. And

until you understand that, well, life will never make sense. Thank you for joining us today on

Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. And in our series called God's Vision for the rest of your life, today Rick will continue in his

effort to help you discover the unique purpose and vision that the Lord has for your life.

Hey, let's join Pastor Rick right now for part one of a message called How to Get Ready to

Be Used by God.

Now, we've been talking about how God has a purpose for your life,

a plan for your life, a mission for your life. And the greatest adventure of life is to be used by God.

Nothing else compares to that. Nothing comes close to the feeling of being used by God.

And if you've never had that feeling of being used by God, I really feel

sad for you. Because God wants to use you. And the Bible says God is looking for people to use.

But there is a qualification. God says you must be usable. The Bible says this in Romans 613. Let's read it aloud together. Give yourselves completely

to God so you can be tools in the hands of God to be used for his good purposes. God wants

to use you for his good purposes. And the big question now is, now what? What do I do? What are my next steps?

Well, today we're going to look at those next steps. What you do, once you have surrendered your

life to say, God, whatever it takes, I want you to use my life. Because God says there are five things

he looks for in your life. If you're going to have the blessing and the power and be usable by God,

let's get right into them.

Step one, the first step, if I want to be used by God, is to purify my heart.

Purify my heart, because God uses people with a pure heart. Not a, not a perfect person, but a pure person.

The Bible says on 2.21, if you keep yourself pure, you'll be a utensil, that's a tool,

that God can use for his purpose if you keep yourself pure. Your life will be clean and you will be ready for the

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