DAILY HOPE WITH RICK WARREN 5TH JUNE 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 5th June 2025 “While You’re Working on Your Goals, God Is Working on You”
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: Philippians 3:12 (CEV)
I have not yet reached my goal, and I am not perfect. But Christ has taken hold of me. So I keep on running and struggling to take hold of the prize.
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RICK WARREN DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY 5TH JUNE 2025.
Yesterday we began looking at why it’s important to set goals. Today we’re going to explore three more reasons why goal setting matters.
You need to set goals because they give you the hope you need to keep moving.
Job says, “What strength do I have left that I can go on hoping? What goal do I have that I would want to prolong my life?” (Job 6:11 GW). To keep moving forward, you need to have a goal.
A goal doesn’t have to be big to motivate you. For instance, if you had surgery, your first goal in recovery could be to sit up in bed. Then you might work toward standing up and then later walking down the hallway.
Each of those goals is very small, but they’re all important—because getting from where you are to where you want to be isn’t one big leap. It’s many small steps. A goal doesn’t have to be big to be important—it just has to encourage you to carry on.
You need to set goals because they build your character.
The greatest benefit to your life will not be your accomplishments but rather what happens inside you while you’re moving toward your goal.
God is more interested in your character than he is in your accomplishments. While you’re working on your goal, God is working on you. He is building your character, and that’s what’s going to last for eternity.
That’s why Paul says in Philippians 3:12, “I keep on running and struggling to take hold of the prize” (CEV). It takes energy, effort, and focus to reach your goal, and the result is that you become more like Christ.
You need to set goals because good goals will be rewarded.
Proverbs 11:27 says, “If your goals are good, you will be respected” (GNT). When you give your life to a good goal, it brings honor and builds a legacy on earth.
But the real reward in setting good goals will come in eternity. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 9:25-26, “All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. So I run with purpose in every step” (NLT).
Paul was a purpose-driven goal setter. You need to be that, too, so that you can win the prize that God has prepared for you in heaven.
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