Today on Pastor Ricks Daily Hope, we continue in our series called Financial Fitness.

In these lessons, we'll learn what God says about our finances and how to have true financial

freedom.

In just a few minutes, we're going to tell you about a tool you can use at home to help

you gain true financial freedom.

It's called the Financial Fitness DVD and Workbook Study Kit by Pastor Rick Warren.

And you can take a sneak peek right now by going to pastorrick.com or by texting the

word daily to 800, 600, 5,000, 4 while you listen to today's message.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a message called the Foundation

of Financial Health.

What keeps us from investing our lives?

What keeps us from moving to financial freedom?

I'll tell you what it is.

It is fear.

You see, in this book, there are principles that God guarantees, not me, God guarantees

that if you do these financial principles, you will be blessed.

The problem is some of them are counter-culture and it's exact opposite of what you feel

like doing.

And so then God says, we're going to make this a test.

Do you trust me or do you trust yourself?

And the reason why a lot of people never get out of debt is because they are unwilling to

trust God in the steps to getting out of debt.

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