This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today we continue in our Christmas series called Jesus came to light up your life. In these messages, Rick shares how Jesus

came to Earth to enlighten and transform us. But before we get started, we want to let you know that very generous

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Pastor Rick.com or by texting the word hope to 800 600 5,000 4. Now here's Pastor Rick Warren with part two of a message called

when God changes your plans. Now the truth is most of us are poor

listeners and we're so busy talking that we don't have time to listen to God.

We listen to the radio, we listen to TV, we listen to social media, we listen to talk news, but God can't get through.

And so God gets a busy signal.

Have you ever put God on call waiting? Yeah you have, you just didn't realize

it. Now look at these verses. Psalm 81, verse 13 says this. God says, I wish my people would listen to me. You see, when it comes

to listening to God, I think all of us have A.D. We have attention deficit disorder. And so God

often has to change our plans because we're not listening. If we had been listening we would have

gotten in with his plan and he wouldn't have had to change our plan. But when God

has to change my plan it just means I was not listening.

I went ahead and made my plans without consulting God, without talking to God, without considering,

without listening to God, without considering, without listening to God.

In James chapter 4, it says this, verse 13 to 15, now listen, there's that word, listen,

now listen, you who say, today or tomorrow we'll go to this or that

city and spend a year there and carry on business and we're going to make money.

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