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

Today we continue in our series called Fifty Days of Faith.

In these lessons, Rick looks into God's Word to discover the true meaning of faith

and explore ways we can strengthen it.

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called stretching my imagination.

Now God puts you on this earth for a reason. He put you here for a purpose.

He has a plan for your life. He has a dream for your life.

And God wants to use you for a great purpose, one greater than you could ever imagine.

That's why God made you. God made you so He could use you on this earth.

Now the problem with this is in your mind, you have mental blocks.

You have emotional barriers that keep you saying, how could God ever use me?

And so for God to use you, for God to bless your life the way He wants to,

you have to have a change in your thinking, in your imagination.

Now every great accomplishment that's ever happened in history began as an idea in somebody's imagination.

It starts with the thought in your mind before it actually becomes a reality.

And psychologists tell us that if you really want to live, you have to learn to have a dream.

You've got to have a dream in life. Otherwise you're just existing.

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