Hi Vinnie,
This is very good!. I can really hear the Holy Spirit speaking through him!
Thank you very much for sharing this with us.
Sheila
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From: "Vinny Samarco" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 5:47 AM
Subject: Fw: [CCNN] Fwd: Interesting Interview
: Hi,
: Thought you would like this interview.
: Vinny
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: From: "Rick Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
: To: <[log in to unmask]>
: Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:20 AM
: Subject: [CCNN] Fwd: Interesting Interview
:
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: > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
: > From: T.J. Northern <[log in to unmask]>
: > Date: Aug 2, 2006 4:59 AM
: > Subject: Interesting Interview
: > To:
: >
: > You may have read this before, but it is worth another look. Enjoy!
: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: >
: >
: > Rick Warren Interview (Author Purpose Driven Life)
: >
: >
: >
: > You will enjoy the new insights that Rick Warren has, with his wife now
: > having cancer and his having "wealth" from the book sales.
: >
: > This is an absolutely incredible short interview with Rick Warren,
: > "Purpose
: > Driven Life " author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California.
: >
: >
: > In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said:
: >
: >
: > People ask me, What is the purpose of life? And I respond: In a
: > nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were made to last
: > forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.
: >
: > One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my
: > body-- but not the end of me. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth,
: > but
: > I am going to spend trillions of years in
: > eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal.
: >
: > God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in
eternity.
: > We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out,
life
: > isn't going to make sense.
: >
: > Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're
just
: > coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go in to another one.
: >
: > The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character
: > than your comfort.
: >
: > God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making
: > your life happy.
: >
: > We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of
: > life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.
: >
: > This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the
: > toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer.
: >
: > I used to ! think that life was hills and valleys you go through a
: > dark
: > time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't
: > believe
: > that anymore.
: >
: > Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind
of
: > like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have
: > something
: > good and something bad in your life.
: >
: > No matter how good things are in your life, there is always
something
: > bad that needs to be worked on.
: >
: > And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always
: > something good you can thank God for.
: >
: > You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems.
: >
: > If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness,
: > "which is my problem, my issues, my pain."
: >
: > But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus
: > off
: > yourself and onto God and others.
: >
: > We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of
: > thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy
: > for
: > her.
: >
: > It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her
: > character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her
a
: > testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people.
: >
: > You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life.
: > Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For
: > instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15
: > million copies, i t made me instantly very wealthy.
: >
: > It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with
: > before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own
: > ego
: > or for you to live a life of ease.
: >
: > So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money,
: > notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages tha
: > thelped
: > me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.
: >
: > First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our
: > lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases.!
: >
: > Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary
from
: > the church.
: >
: > Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace
: > Plan to plant churches,
: > equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the
: > next
: > generation.
: >
: > Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years
: > since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was
: > liberating
: > to be able to serve God for free.
: >
: > We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions?
: > Popularity?
: >
: > Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness?
: > Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my
: > life)?
: >
: > When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say,
: > God,
: > if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more
and
: > love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a
to-do
: > list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why
: > we're called human beings, not human doings.
: >
: >
: > Happy moments, PRAISE GOD. Difficult moments, SEEK GOD. Quiet
: > moments,
: > WORSHIP GOD. Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
: >
: > Every moment,
: >
: > THANK GOD
: >
: >
: >
: >
: > --
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: > Rick Johnson
: > http://360.yahoo.com/ccnnowner
: > http://www.frappr.com/ccnnowner
: > http://www.pandora.com/
: > http://wolfgangsvault.com
: > http://www.romad.com
: >
:
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