DAILY HOPE WITH RICK WARREN 22ND SEPTEMBER 2025.
Daily Hope Devotional by Pastor Rick Warren for today is here to give you the encouragement to live the life God has called you to. Please read, pray and share this devotional with someone today.
The topic of Daily Hope by Rick Warren 22nd September 2025 “How to Let Go of Battles That Aren’t Yours”
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: 2 Chronicles 20:15 (NLT)
“The battle is not yours, but God’s.”
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RICK WARREN DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY 22ND SEPTEMBER 2025.
Imagine you’re sitting on a plane that’s about to take off. As the plane goes down the runway, you start flapping your arms. As the speed picks up and the plane’s nose lifts in the air, you flap your arms faster and faster. Once in the air, the flight attendant approaches you and says, “What are you doing?”
And you say, “Oh, I’m helping us get off the ground.”
That’s ridiculous, right? But that’s basically what you’re doing when you try to do things only God is equipped to do. Just like you don’t need to hold up a plane, you don’t need to hold up God.
Do you want to know why you’re tired all the time or frustrated or worn out by life? The reason might be because you’re trying to fight battles that belong to God, and you are not God.
“The battle is not yours, but God’s” (2 Chronicles 20:15 NLT).
People often try to be independent when they face a problem. They think, I’ve got to figure this out. If it’s to be, it’s up to me! But when you assume God’s role, it wears you out because you were never meant to carry problems by yourself in the first place.
Maybe you’ve been running in circles trying to solve problems in your marriage, your body, the economy, your school, or the world. You’re trying to solve them in your own power. You’re trying to fight the battle on your own, and you’re tired.
When your strength gives out and you finally give up, God wants you to come back to him. And when you do—when you tell him you’ve made a mess of things—you may think you’ve let him down. But God isn’t disappointed in you, because he’s not expecting you to do what only he can do.
The truth is, you don’t have God in your hands; he’s got you in his. If you think you’ve got God in your hands, it’s not God. It’s an idol. If you’re trusting in something you think you can control, then that thing is not God.
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