Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.

Today we embark on a journey through a powerful series called God's Amazing Promises.

In the upcoming lessons, you'll discover some of the most profound promises that God has made to you.

These promises are not mere words.

They are the keys to a renewed life, inner peace,

and a hopeful future. But before we get started, we want to let you know that very generous

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called God's Promises About Giving.

Today we're going to begin a new series for the summer that I'm very excited about.

And I want to begin by telling you that the words promise and promises are actually

used over a thousand times in different English translations of the scripture. One scholar

did a study and he counted over 8,000 different promises of God in the Bible. The Bible tells us that God is a promise

making and a promise keeping God. He makes promises in the Bible to literally everybody.

Now, God's promises are like a divine insurance policy. And in an insurance policy, when you know

what's covered, then you don't sweat it when that circumstance happens in your life or that illness

or that accident. When you know what's covered in the policy, you relax. On the other hand,

if you don't know what's covered in the insurance policy, if you're ignorant of it, you worry.

And one of the problems that we have today is people don't know the promises of God,

so they spend a lot of time worrying. Today, we're going to begin a new series that I'm calling

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