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

Warren. Today we continue in our series called strategies for stressful times.

In these lessons, Rick shares biblical wisdom

for navigating difficult and stressful times

so that you can experience God's peace

and thrive in any situation. Now in just a bit we're going to tell

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Or text the word hope to 800 600 5,000 4. Now here's Pastor Rick Warren with

part two of a message called How to be Happy no matter what happens.

Anytime you react to the pain pressures, problems, or people in your life

from God's perspective than your own,

it's going to be a witness to unbelievers and it's going to be an

encouragement to believers. You know, when our youngest child, Matthew, died and took his life during a period of great mental illness.

Kay and I noticed that both of these things happened with us because we saw God's perspective and we faced this horrible crisis in our lives

with faith, not fear.

And as a result, we were able to witness to millions of unbelievers, for instance, being on the cover of People magazine and doing a one hour interview on CNN and a lot of other things.

We were able to witness to millions of unbelievers,

and we were able to encourage, and even still today encouraging,

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