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

Well, today we continue in our series called 50 Days of Faith.

In these lessons, Rick looks into God's Word to discover the true meaning of faith

and explore ways we can strengthen it.

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called

how to keep on believing.

Have you ever been in a hurry when God wasn't?

One of the most difficult things in life is to sit in God's waiting room.

God's waiting room is when there's something beyond your control that you can't speed up.

An answer to prayer, a miracle, a change in a situation,

and you wanted to change, but it is totally out of your control.

And you have to wait on God.

The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 3.11,

God does everything just right and on time.

But people can never completely understand what He's doing.

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