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.

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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,

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