Hey there and welcome back to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Today Rick continues in his series called

Connecting with God, the Lord's Prayer. In this series, Rick shows us what it means to be truly

spiritually connected to God and to each other through the power of God's love and God's word. Okay, no need to wait.

Here's Pastor Rick with part two of a message called the Prayer of Cleansing. I tried to bargain with

God. God, if you'll forgive me, I will never do it again. God said, don't make promises. Just go get it right. God, if you will forgive me, I will never do it again. God said, don't make promises, just go get it right.

God, if you will forgive me, I will never sin again. Right. Just go get it right. God, if you will

forgive me, I tried to bargain with God. I will read my Bible every day the rest of my life. I will

tell somebody about Jesus every day. God said, don't make

promises. Go get it right. And I said, I don't want to. He said, Rick, if you won't be real

with me, I won't be real with you. I want to bless your life. I want to use your life. But if I can't

trust you in the little things of life, how can I trust you in the big

things of life? This is a test. I tossed and turned all night from about midnight to about

5 a.m. in the morning and finally I just go, okay. And I just finally said I would do it so I could go to sleep.

But I didn't really mean it.

And I got up the next morning, and it was a Saturday, and I did everything except go make those sins right.

I did all my homework.

I cleaned up my room.

I washed both of my parents' cars.

I cleaned up the patio.

I offered to do errands for my mom.

I was doing everything except that which I really needed to do.

That night I had been invited to be a guest speaker to a youth meeting, a youth rally at a small church about 30 miles away.

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