Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Your mind is the greatest gift God has given you. That's why today we continue with a series called

rethinking your life.

In these lessons, Rick shares nine biblical pillars

we need to reshape our minds so that we can become more like Jesus Christ.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick with Part 1 of a message called

How to Win over Pers over persistent temptations.

We're in this series where we're trying to look at key areas of our lives from a new fresh

perspective because we often get it wrong, our perspective is often wrong, and we want

to get it from God's perspective.

The Bible calls this, Repentance.

This is a series on Repentance, and I told you each time that the word repent

metanoia in the Greek literally means change your mind metanoia change your mind

anytime you change your mind any time you rethink something and you learn to see it from God's point of view, that's repentance.

And so we're looking at all different areas of our lives, what we're changing the way we thought about God and changing the way we think about ourselves and

changing the way we think about life and last week we talked, looked at changing the way we think

about sin.

And this weekend I want us to look at changing the way

we think about temptation.

Because we often get stuck in a cycle of good intentions, failure, and then guilt.

And then good intentions and failure and guilt.

Good intentions. And God doesn't want you to live in that cycle and so we're going to look at

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