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

Pastor Ritt 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

failure and one failure and that piece 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 whole 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

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