This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Well, today we continue in our series called Building a Better Future.

In these lessons, Pastor Rick shares how we can build a foundation for a better future

by following the examples of leaders in the Bible who followed God's calling to rebuild

after a time of captivity.

What you've probably noticed, the more grateful a person is, the happier they are.

That's the power of gratitude.

But it's not always easy to feel grateful.

That's why Pastor Rick developed a great new resource called the Power of Gratitude.

Go to PastorRick.com to find out more or just text the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4.

Now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with Part 2 of a message called Getting People to Work Together.

Number 3, here's the third principle.

Organize around natural relationships.

If you have a dream and you're going to get other people to help you with your dream,

you need to create work groups that use relationships that already exist.

We see this in verse 13, in Nehemiah 13, Nehemiah says,

4-13, I posted them by families.

We'll come back to that.

But in chapter 3, we see a lot of other examples of groupings using existing relationships, for instance.

In verse 1 of this chapter, we see a ministry-based work group.

In other words, people were working on a project together because they shared the same ministry.

The Bible says there in verse 1,

...