Thanks for joining us today. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today we continue in a series called Created to Dream. The six faces God uses to grow your faith.

In this series, Pastor Rick helps you recognize and understand the predictable patterns and processes God uses to strengthen your faith and develop your character

so you can live the truly extraordinary life he has planned for you.

In just a few moments, we're going to tell you about Pastor Rick's brand new book called Created to Dream.

This life-changing book will help you discover and live out the amazing dream God has just for you.

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a message called How God Builds Your Faith.

So how do you handle the waiting rooms of life? Some of you are in the waiting rooms right now.

Well, it reveals your faith. Once you start moving through the delay period, you're going to come to phase four.

And now you come to fourth phase and it's difficult. You say, oh no, we moved from dream to decision to delay and now difficult, yes.

You see, not only do you get to wait, but you're going to have problems while you wait. It's part of God's plan.

Now there are two primary kinds of problems. Circumstances and critics. And both of these would delay and add difficulty to your dream.

When God gives you a dream, there are going to be circumstances that hold you back and critics that put you down to make things difficult.

I mean, imagine the difficulty know ahead. How do you like that to build a floating zoo?

People say he was nuts. Imagine being know as kids. What's your dad doing out there in the front yard? He's building an ark.

How about Joseph? Joseph had a dream of becoming a ruler. Then he sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, falsely accused of rape, thrown into prison and forgotten by everybody.

You talk about difficulties on top of delay.

After Moses died, Joshua led the people in the promised land. But when they got there, they discovered it was full of giants. Big people, much stronger than they were.

And even in the promised land, there are problems because God is working on your faith and he's working on you.

Why does God allow this? Well, the Bible says this. At present time, you may be temporarily harassed by all kinds of trials. It's no accident.

It happens to prove your faith, which is infinitely more valuable than gold. That's 1 Peter 1, 7.

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