This is Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope. If you're new, we're so glad you found us. And if you're a daily, daily hoper, welcome back. Today we're going to continue with our series called 40 Days of Prayer. Such a great series, because Rick is going to help you cultivate a powerful prayer life so you can experience

breakthroughs. Breakthroughs in your relationships, breakthroughs and finances, health, and really

every area of your life. So don't miss a day of this life-changing series. I'm so excited about

today's message, so let's get started as Pastor Rick brings the final part of a

message called Who Do You Think You're Talking to? Sometimes we ask things, we don't really know what we're asking about.

One time, the mother of James and John, who were two of the disciples that Jesus picked, the 12 guys who traveled with him,

she comes to him like a good mom, she's proud of her boys, they're traveling with Jesus.

She goes up to the Lord and says, Lord, when you get to your kingdom in heaven, can my boys sit on

either side of you? I can just see a mom doing this. And John's going, oh, mom, come on. And Jesus, in Matthew 20,

verse 22, Jesus replied, you don't realize what you're asking for. You have a limited

perspective. You don't see the whole picture. You don't realize, ma'am, what you're asking for.

Many times God has wanted to say that to you.

You don't realize what you're asking for.

You don't really want that.

What you want is something different.

And so I'm not going to give you this because you think you want this, but it's not really

what you need. It's not good for you. It's not really even think you want this, but it's not really what you need. It's not good

for you? It's not really even what you want. You don't realize what you're asking for.

And in that point, when God says, no, you need to go, I trust a good, good father, then

I do my own judgment. Because I think this would be good for me, but God, you got the

bigger picture. And you can see my

whole life in front of me. You don't know where this turn is going to take me. I don't know,

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