Hey everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. And whether you listen every day or you just found us,

we are so glad you've joined us. Today Rick wraps up his series called Preparing for Your Future.

Rick shares how God's destiny for your life is good and how you get to choose much of your destiny.

And now here's Rick with the final part of a message called Making the Most of Your Mind.

Now, how do I store up knowledge? There are two ways. Just write these down. One is by reading,

and two is through relationships.

Reading and relationships.

Now, if you don't like to read, fine.

You don't like to read.

You can listen to audio books, and you can listen to podcasts,

and you can listen to MP3s, and you can listen to CDs of sermons and all kinds of things. So you don't have to read, but reading, which is individualized input, and relationships, which

is communal input. And you need them both if you're going to be all you're going to be in the

next 10 years in the decade of destiny. Wise men store up knowledge. You know, when I was 16 years old, I read a book, and in that book, the one thing I got out of that book, it said this,

your life will be largely influenced and determined by the books you read and the people you meet. The books you read and the people you meet.

The books you read and the people you meet.

So I decided I'm going to be intentional about both of those.

Who I meet, who I get to know, and there are a lot of people I just like to get to know,

and I just write to them.

And it was before anybody knew who I was.

And I would just take the effort to reach out to people, to learn.

And I started collecting books when I was just 16 years old.

It was a period of my life.

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