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 Set Free from Me.

Now if you really are serious about changing your life for the better,

you've got to start where God tells you to start.

And God says you don't start with your behavior, your actions,

and you don't start with your feelings, your emotions.

You start with your mind, the battle for you to be set free from me starts in changing your mind.

Be renewed, be transformed by the renewing of your mind. The Bible teaches very clearly that the way we act

is determined by the way we feel and the way we feel is determined by the way we think.

For instance, if I'm acting depressed,

it's because I feel depressed.

And if I'm feeling depressed,

it's because I'm thinking depressed thoughts.

And if I want to get over my depression, I don't force myself to change my behavior.

That doesn't work. And I don't force myself to change my my feelings you can't

change a feeling you cannot force a feeling a guy says know, I don't love my wife anymore. So how do I

I said, well, okay, what are you going to do about it? Well, I'm just going to

force myself to feel that I love her. How will that work? It doesn't work.

You can't force a feeling.

It's like telling the crying kid,

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