Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Today we continue 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. And these promises are not mere words. They are keys to a renewed life, inner peace,

and a hopeful future. But before we get started, have you ever felt you're made for something

more or had a dream that just seemed out of reach? Then we've got the perfect resource for you.

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journal. You can find out more by going to pastor rick.com or by texting the word hope to 800, 600,

500, 5,0004. Right now, here's pastor rick Warren with part three of a message called God's promises to you

when you're afraid of failing.

When you've gone through tough times, then you're going to cut some people other, some slack,

because you know what it's like.

That's why I won't hire anybody on my team who hasn't either A, had a major failure in their life or been through

B, major pain. Because if you've never had any major pain in your life or never had any major

failure, when you're around people in pain, your attitudes basically will get over it.

It's very unsympathetic. It's very unkind. It's very uncompassionate. But when you've been through

the ringer, you just have a little bit more grace. And when you've been shown grace by God,

you're more gracious to other people. So pride is put in the toilet when you fail. And failure can actually restrain arrogance and restrain your

pride and promotes humility. I mean, if you had an unbroken string of successes in your life,

you would be insufferable. Nobody would want to be around you because you'd think everything you

touch turns to gold.

And that unbroken string of successes you would be impossible to live with.

Now, not only are we to learn from our own failures, but let me give you a little tip.

We're to learn from the failures of everybody else.

And if you learn from the mistakes of others, then you don't have to make them all

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