Hello everybody. Welcome to Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren. So we're

continuing with this series called Daring Faith The Key to Miracles and in this

series you're learning how to have a bold

unshakable faith that gives you courage to impact the world around you and I

know we all want that. All right here comes comes Pastorate with part two of a message called

daring to wait on God. I remember the 13 year battle for land in this church and

the church we started praying for land the first day

we started the church and we prayed we looked at hundreds of pieces over the next

13 years and we had one failure after another and one failure after another and one

and that piece fell through and that deal fell through and that deal fell through and

that deal fell through and a lot of people got discouraged and a lot of people

thought well we're never going to get land but I never felt that

way why because I knew that a delay was not a denial this piece of land here in

Lake Forest was not even on the map when Saddleback Church started

because there was no such thing as the city of Santa Margarita and there was no such thing as the city of foothill Ranch and nobody had even mapped or

partitioned this piece off. There was no Portola Parkway.

El Toro Road was a two-lane road. There was no toll road. It was in no man's

land. Nobody even knew it. But God, before the foundation of the earth, had planned where Saddleback Church would have its first campus.

He knew. And it was just a matter of time. And all of those things where we had the

delays and the denials and the dead ends and all those things where we had one

defeat after another, God was working on us. And I had said all along, God's much

more interested in building disciples than he isn't building buildings. And so we went from

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