Welcome back to Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope.

We are so glad that you're here with us to help us celebrate this season.

You know, on the very first Christmas, when Mary was just about ready to give birth to Jesus,

she and Joseph were turned away by the innkeeper because there was no room. Well, today, Pastor Rick is

going to continue his Christmas series, Will I Make Room for Jesus? And he shows us how just like

the innkeeper we can miss out on being part of God's greatest plans if we don't make room for Jesus

in our everyday lives. And now,'s Rick with the final part of a

message called, Will I Make Room for Jesus? You see, your life is extremely significant. It is so

significant that God cared enough for it to come and to earth at Christmas, live a perfect life,

and then die on the cross for your sins.

And if you want to know how much you matter for God,

you look at Jesus hanging on the cross with his arms outstretched

and he says, this is how much you matter to me.

You matter to me so much, I'd rather die than live without you.

You matter so much for me.

I love you so much it hurts.

That's how much you matter to God.

So your life is extremely significant, but you are living it in such a tiny, small, insignificant

way because you've stuffed the rooms of your heart with stuffing instead of stuff

that's going to really matter the longest. Now, not only does God give me a new sense of purpose

when I invite Jesus to take over the rooms of the inn in my life, but I get a new sense,

and this is a big one, of peace. Jesus said it like this. I'm leaving

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