Hello everybody this is

this is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope if you're joining us for the first time or you've

been listening every day for 10 years we just want to say welcome, we love you, and we pray for you every day.

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 if you're like me

you'd really like to be more bold and have more courage to share your faith in Christ.

And now let's join Rick as he shares the final part of a message called

daring to wait on God. Many of you know the story about my year of depression.

1980, we started the church at the end of 1980,

I stood up to speak and I passed out while I was preaching,

fainted, flat out.

And I went through 1981, I was depressed the whole year.

And I, you know, my goal was not, oh God, build a great church, it was, oh God, get me through Sunday.

Can I put one foot in front of the others?

I'd go and I'd preach a service and I'd go home and get in bed.

In that entire year of darkness and depression, God taught me habits and skills that prepared me

to handle enormous amounts of stress that I would have never had if I hadn't gone

through that waiting period. And I learned in that year of down

and discouragement and waiting to juggle more balls than you could possibly think of.

And God was putting skills and habits in my life during the downtime.

If you're going to lose, you want to lose in pre-season, not at the Super Bowl.

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