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.

So now, let's go to Pastor Rick as he shares part two of a message called the Prayer of

Fulfillment.

Let me give you a little secret that I've learned.

Whatever you want God to bless, put him first in that area.

If you want God to bless your marriage, put him first in your marriage.

If you want God to bless your education, put him first in your education.

If you want God to bless your career, put him first in your career.

If you want God to bless your money, put him first in your money.

If you want God to bless your time, put him first in your money. If you want God to bless your time,

put him first in your time. God blesses whatever we put him first in. He says, the Bible says,

seek ye first the kingdom of God. That means above everything else. Now, anytime you put

anything besides God in first place in your life, there's a word for that.

It's called an idol.

And the second commandment says, don't have any idols.

No other gods before me.

And he says, whatever you want God to bless, you put him first.

Anything that takes

first place in your life that's not God that becomes an idol now what does it mean to

put God first in my life oh I'm glad you asked so I made up a little cross stick to

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