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

Today we continue with a series called 40 Days in the Word.

In these messages, Pastor Rick shares practical Bible study tools that will

reignite your passion for God's Word and revolutionize your life as you grow

closer to Jesus. In just a few moments, we're going to tell you how

you can go even deeper in this series. With Pastor Rick's video based Bible study

called 40 Days in the Word, this study will ignite your passion for God's Word

and revolutionize your relationship with Jesus. You can take a sneak peek at this

valuable tool by going to PastorRick.com while you listen to today's

message. That's PastorRick.com or you can text the Word Daily to 800-600-5004.

That's the Word Daily to 800-600-5004. Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren

with part two of a message called, How the Bible Changes Us.

You know, some of you know this story that at the end of the first year of

the Bible, I got out of back church when, Kay and I started the church in 1980.

At the end of the first year, I was standing up speaking and I fainted.

I just passed out and I went into a period of depression. It was literally my

burnout. I had my midlife crisis at age 25. You know, I wanted to get it over

early. So when I hit my 40s, I just went right through it. But I was working

so hard and working 18 hours a day and loving every minute of it, not taking

time off. And I just burned out physically, emotionally, spiritually.

And during 1981, for that entire month, I was depressed for the entire year.

It's like I was walking around with a cloud over my head. And I really didn't know

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