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. And jumping right in,

here's Pastor Rick with part one of a message called the Prayer of Deliverance. About a year ago,

I got a note that says this. Pastor Rick, every morning I start out with great intentions to change my ways.

I think today is going to be different.

But it never is.

Somehow and some way, I always seem to fall back into the same old pattern of relating to people

and my old bad habits.

Sometimes I feel like there's a tug of war going on inside of me, honestly.

I really want to do what's best, but I always end up disappointing myself and God.

Rick, I have tried everything.

Prayer, resolutions, self-help tapes, even hypnosis.

Nothing seems to work.

Why do I keep making the same mistakes over and over and over?

Why am I so resistant to change?

Why do I think, why do I do things that I know are bad for me?

I'm really discouraged and I need help. But, Why do I do things that I know are bad for me?

I'm really discouraged and I need help getting unstuck.

If you're honest, every one of us have felt that way at different times in our lives

about different things in our lives.

Because the reality of living on this planet is good intentions are never good enough.

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