Pastor Rick's Daily Hope Sustaining Grace - pt 1
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Mar 17, 2026 A message about the power that helps you keep going when you want to give up. Short talks on how God completes His work in believers and provides strength in temptation. Discussion of spiritual endurance, ways of escape from trials, and trusting Christ to live through you. Encouragement about divine will and power to persevere through trouble.
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God Guarantees The Finish For Believers
- God always completes the work he begins in a believer, so salvation is secure and not based on performance.
- Pastor Rick Warren emphasizes the word "will" in Philippians to show finishing the race depends on God's sustaining grace, not our effort.
Rely On Sustaining Grace When You Want To Quit
- Rely on sustaining grace to keep going when you feel like giving up and to do the right thing when you don't want to.
- Warren defines sustaining grace as the power to continue and urges listeners to count on it regardless of circumstances.
Temptation Versus Sin
- Temptation itself isn't sin; sin is yielding to it, and even Jesus was tempted but did not sin.
- Warren uses the image of birds over your head to show thoughts come unbidden but dwelling on them creates sin.