This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we

continue in our series called Strategies for Stressful Times. In these lessons, Rick shares biblical

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Now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part two of a message called Jesus' Secrets of Resilience.

Now here's the third secret of resilience that we learn from looking to Jesus as our model.

I know that God loves me. I know who I am. Here's the third thing.

Know who I'm trying to please. Know who I'm trying to please. In other words, know who you're

living for. Now this is the principle of motivation. You need to know what is your deepest motivation. If you don't know that, if you

haven't figured it out, you are prone to get stressed. What motivates you every day? You see,

mixed motivations are a third great cause of stress. Jesus said no man can serve two masters.

This third cause of stress is trying to please everybody. The truth is you can't. You get crowd A please, crowd B ticks off, get kicked off.

About the time you get crowd B happy, crowd A is upset again. Did you know that even God can't

please everybody? Somebody's praying for it to rain and somebody's praying for it to be sunny on the same day.

Somebody's praying for some team to win and others praying for another team to win

or this guy to get elected and somebody else is praying for somebody else.

You know, as a pastor, I have learned that for 42 years, I'm always disappointing somebody.

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