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

Today we continue in our series called Building a Better Future. In these lessons,

Pastor Rick shares how we can build a foundation for a better future by following the examples

of leaders in the Bible who followed God's calling to rebuild after a time of captivity.

What you've probably noticed, the more grateful a person is, the happier they are.

That's the power of gratitude. But it's not always easy to feel grateful.

That's why Pastor Rick developed a great new resource called The Power of Gratitude.

Go to pastorrick.com to find out more or just text the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4.

Now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called How to Handle Insults and Ritcule.

This week we continue our study in Building a Better Future.

And we're learning from the greatest builder in the Bible, a man named Nehemiah.

There will be people who don't understand what you're trying to do and what you're attempting to do

or how you expect to do it in building a better future. But even if they do understand it,

there will be many people who will oppose you. And that's what we're going to look at this week.

I've often said there is no opportunity without opposition. There's no opportunity without opposition.

In fact, here's a little equation. Opportunity plus opposition equals God's will.

Opposition is actually part of God's will in your life.

Now I could describe my past 41 half years as your pastor in the same way Paul says it in 1 Corinthians 16, verse 9.

And he says it like this, there is a great opportunity here for an effective work,

even though there is also much opposition. Those two things, opportunity and opposition, go together.

And if you're going to build a better future, if you're going to make something of your life,

not everybody's going to like it, not everybody's going to agree with it.

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