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. Now today, let's join

Pastor Rick as he shares the final part of a message called the Prayer of Dependence. Now, every time

God gives a negative, don't do this. He always follows it with a positive. Do this instead.

Don't do this.

Do, do this.

And when he says, worry about nothing, the next thing he says is this, pray about everything.

He says, here's the alternative.

I don't want you worrying, I want you praying.

Worry about nothing. Pray about everything.

Everything? Yep. Every single thing. God says, here's what you can do in life. You've got two choices.

You can worry or you can pray. And every day you're doing one of the others. And every time you worry,

you're not praying. And every time you pray, you're not worrying.

So you've got two choices.

You can either pray or panic, or you can worry or you can worship.

And you're always going to be doing one of the other in life.

Talking to God about it or talking to yourself.

Now worry has never solved the

problem. It's never solved a single problem. It's stewing without doing. It's like sitting in a

rocking chair. A lot of motion but no forward action. Worry has never solved any, any problem.

It is the most useless emotion. But prayer can change things. If you prayed as much as you worry, if you prayed about all the

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