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

Well, today we continue with our series called The Keys to a Blessed Life.

In these lessons, Rick shares the practical steps found in Jesus' sermon on the Mount

that will help you live the hopeful and purpose-filled life God planned for you.

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Bible Scripture cards. With 52 verses selected by Pastor Rick to help you live the amazingly

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part two of a message called,

handling opposition to your faith. Opposition will actually deepen my faith. It's how your faith

grows. It's like the way you grow a muscle. A muscle is grown, not by sitting in a chair and eating

popcorn. A muscle is grown by stretching it, by straining it, by testing it. If you've ever

gone to a gym and worked out, and obviously many of you haven't,

then you know that the way you grow a muscle is by straining it, by stretching it, by pressuring it,

by putting tension against it and having weight pulling the opposite direction. You're never

going to grow any muscle if no weights ever pulling in the opposite direction. So opposition

strengthens your faith. It deepens your faith. You have no opposition in your life,

then you have no growing faith. And it is without a doubt that the strongest believers in the

world right now are those who are having their faith tested the most. The strongest believers

aren't in America. The strongest believers are where people hold on the gun saying,

renounce Christ and convert to whatever we are or die, which is happening right now in Syria

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