Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren. We are so glad you're here with us today.

We're going to continue our series called The Keys to a Blessed Life. Now in these messages, Rick walks through Jesus's sermon on the Mount and shows us how to live a truly hopeful and purpose-filled life. Let's jump back in.

This is part two of It Depends on Who You Depend on. Now, I put down here a couple verses that I would

encourage you to memorize. One of them is for when you're young and another one is for when

you're old. But the first one, everybody can memorize this.

It's only one sentence.

Psalm 71 16.

Look at this verse.

I walk in the strength of the Lord.

I walk in the strength of the Lord.

That's an affirmation.

Psalm 71.16.

In fact, let's memorize it right now.

Let's say it together.

Psalm 71 16,. In fact, let's memorize it right now. Let's say it together. Psalm 71.16,

I walk in the strength of the Lord. And where is that verse? Psalm 71.16. And what does Psalm 71.16 say?

I walk in the strength of the Lord. Now here's what I encourage you to do. Write that verse on a card and read it over and over and over until you got memorized so you can say it 10 times a day. And here's what you do. You make it the most important affirmation in your life. And when you get up in the morning and you want to go right back to bed and you're worn out and you go,

I don't even have enough energy to get started today, you sit on the side of your bed and you say,

I walk in the strength of the Lord.

And then when you get up and you go to school or you go to work or whatever you're doing

and you have that first conflict with

somebody you say I walk in the strength of the Lord and later in the afternoon when you get a phone

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