Hey everyone, thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.

This is the place where Rick Warren brings you uplifting messages from God's Word every day

to help you grow deeper in faith and live a life with purpose.

Today we're continuing in a powerful series called Toolbox for Life. In this series,

Rick teaches us four essential skills that you need to succeed, wherever God has placed you,

whether it's at home, at work, at school, or in your community. These are tools that every

follower of Jesus absolutely needs.

And now, here's the final part of a message called Ignoring the Naysayers.

Isaiah 8.13.

I want us to read this verse aloud with great enthusiasm.

Read it with me.

Do not fear anything except the Lord Almighty.

He alone is the holy one.

If you fear him, you need fear nothing else.

If you fear God, you're not going to be afraid of anybody else because you know God's

going to take care of you.

If you're afraid of people, the bigger God gets in your mind, the smaller people's opinion get in your mind.

The bigger people's opinion get in your mind, the smaller God appears.

So the starting point, if you want to be a leader, you've got to get a big vision of God, because that will

shrink all the problems. The bigger God feels in your life, the smaller your problems are.

The bigger God is, the smaller the opinions of other people. He says, the Lord Almighty,

God is a great God. He is an almighty God. And he said, you know, if I fear him, I don't have to

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