Today on Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren, we continue in our riveting journey through the series The Invisible War.

In it, we'll explore the unseen world of good and evil and see how it impacts our day-to-day existence.

Join us for eye-opening biblical insights into the spiritual dimensions that influence our lives in ways

we never imagined.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part two of a message called Making the Hard Changes in Me.

Number 2, the next verse tells us the second requirement for personal change and it's this,

change requires making choices. Change requires

making choices and they've got to be good choices obviously but what I'm saying

here is that it's not enough just to want to change.

It's not enough to just desire to change.

It's not even enough to just say, I've got a dream of changing.

I've got a dream of being something else.

Dreams are worthless unless you wake up and actually act on them.

So more than desire, more than dreaming, it takes a decision.

You're not going to change until you choose to change. A lot of people think about

changing, they plan on changing, they want to change, this is someday I'll change

or when I get around to it I'll change, but they don't ever actually choose to change.

You see, it's not going to happen without intention.

Let me put it this way. How are you going to be different in six months? Are you

going to be emotionally stronger? Are you going to be mentally sharper? Are you

going to be physically healthier? Are you going to be

spiritually deeper? The answer is no, unless you choose to be that way, because it

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