How to Win Over Persistent Temptations — Part 3

Pastor Rick's Daily Hope

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Bible is worthless to you when it’s sitting on a shelf at home. But with God’s Word in your mind, it becomes a powerful weapon to fight every temptation Satan can throw at you. In this message, Pastor Rick explains why memorizing God’s Word will help you overcome the persistent temptations in your life.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.
0:09.0	Your mind is the greatest gift God has given you. That's why today we continue with a series called
0:15.5	rethinking your life.
0:17.4	In these lessons, Rick shares nine biblical pillars
0:21.1	we need to reshape our minds so that we can become more like Jesus Christ.
0:27.0	Right now here's Pastor Rick with the final part of a message called
0:31.0	How to Win over Pers over persistent temptations.
0:35.8	So the key to overcoming any temptation is not to resist it, but to just refocus. Just turn your mind to something else. If I'm watching TV
0:46.4	and something on TV is either making me mad, sad, glad, sexually aroused, or anything else.
0:53.8	Whatever it's doing, and I go, I don't want that.
0:56.1	I don't sit there and go, I don't want this, I don't want this,
0:58.9	I don't want this, I don't want this, I don't want,
1:02.4	whoa, I don't want this. I don't want. Whoa. I do not want this
1:06.3	The whole time what am I doing focusing? It's real simple. Turn the channel
1:15.0	It was It wasn't that hard. Don't that hard.
1:16.4	Don't resist temptation, refocus.
1:20.0	You cannot control the thoughts that come into your mind,
1:23.2	but you certainly can't control changing the channel.
1:27.2	You don't have, does that make sense?
1:29.2	You don't have to accept, and turning the channel
1:31.7	is the refocus in your life.
1:35.0	So you change the channel.
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