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. I'm so excited to hear

what Rick has to say today in part one of a message called the Prayer of Release. Two of the

greatest barriers in your life that keep you from experiencing genuine peace of mind are Our guilt and resentment, I call them the misery twins.

Guilt and resentment do more messing up in your life than anything else.

And one of them has to do with, when you hurt other people, then you feel guilty.

And when other people hurt you, then you feel resentful.

The Lord's Prayer deals with both of these issues in a very powerful way.

Now, you know we're in this series.

I'm calling Connecting with God as we go line by line through the Lord's prayer.

And we first looked at our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

And that's the prayer of connection.

What kind of Father is God really like?

And then we talked about thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

That's the prayer of surrender.

And it is the antidote to stress.

If you're stressed out, you need to go hear that message. And's the prayer of surrender. And it is the antidote to stress. If you're stressed out,

you need to go hear that message. And then the next week, give us this day our daily bread,

which is the prayer of dependence, which is really the antidote to worry. And if you understand what God has promised to do in your life, you don't have any need to worry. Last week, we looked

at what I call the prayer of cleansing

and forgive us our debts or forgive us our transgressions or really it just means forgive us

our sins. And I gave you a spiritual evaluation tool for you to go home and work on this last week.

And we talked about guilt last week. This week,

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