Hi, this is Pastor Rick Warren. On behalf of my family and all of our staff here at Daily Hope,

we wish you and your family a very happy Thanksgiving.

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 two of a

message called How to Handle Insults and Ritacule. Here's a second way that people try to stop you

from doing the right thing or saying the right thing or attempting something great for God. Number two,

people will accuse you of evil motives. And that's the next thing we see in Nehemiah's story.

People will accuse you of having the wrong motives, bad motivation, evil motives.

Nehemiah 219 tells us that those opposed to rebuilding the wall said this,

what are you doing? Are you rebelling against the king? What are they doing here? They're questioning

the motives of the people who are rebuilding the wall and they're doing it for shock value. They

want to make the builders afraid. You see, they're accusing the builders of revolting against the

king Cyrus of Persia. That would be a capital offense worthy of death penalty. So even suggesting

that it might be true would put God's people on the defensive. This happens all the time in society

today. The truth is Nehemiah had already gotten the king's permission to rebuild the wall.

And the king himself was providing all the lumber needed. So it was a false accusation. But they're

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