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

Today we continue with a series called How to Get Through What You're Going Through.

In this study, Pastor Rick and Kay Warren share biblical wisdom and their life experiences

to help you find God's path to peace in even the most difficult seasons of life.

Now in just a few minutes, we're going to tell you how you can get a set of 52 Bible-verse memorization cards

for this series, How to Get Through What You're Going Through.

You can find out more by going to PastorRick.com while you listen to today's message.

Or text the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4.

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick with part one of a message called Never Waste Your Pain.

This is the last week that we're doing in this series, Getting Through Whatever You're Going Through.

And I want us to look at how to never waste your pain.

Now we know that God has five purposes for your life.

We've talked about this for years and years and years.

These five purposes are repeated over and over in Scripture.

They are reinforced, they are emphasized, they are repeated over and over.

God has five purposes for your life.

Number one, we know that God wants you to know and love Him.

You were planned for His pleasure and that's called worship.

When you know and love God, we know that God wants you to learn to love other people.

That's the second purpose of life.

You were put on this planet to learn to love, to learn to love God, to learn to love others.

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