Hi, I'm Rick Warren and Merry Christmas. Christmas is going to be here very soon.

And Jesus said in Luke 1423, go out into the highways in the countryside and urge everybody

you find to come in so that my house will be full. Who are you thinking of to bring to your church?

Whoever it is, I want to challenge you to be a light at Christmas and invite them to services at your church.

Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. This is the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

Hey, we're so glad you've joined us. Today, we're continuing a powerful series called Radicalis,

Developing Spiritual Roots. And in this series, Rick will show you how to grow deep in your faith,

stay grounded in God's Word, and become everything He created you to be. Well, let's get right

to Rick for the final part of a message called Radical Hope.

Now, what is God doing in your life while you're going through what you're going through right now?

While you're going through what you're going through, God is doing three things behind the scenes.

You might write these down.

Number one, God uses trials, number one, to test my faith.

God uses trials, problems, to test my faith.

These trials, it says, are only to test your faith to show that it is strong and pure.

And, of course, testing not only test it, it strengthens us. The way you build muscle

is you test your muscle. And when you lift weights or you exercise, you're testing the limits of

your muscle, but you're also strengthening it at the same time. So God is testing your faith.

The second way God uses trials is to purify my motives, to purify my motives.

And that's the next part of the verse. It says, your faith is being tested as fire tests and purifies

gold. And your faith is far more precious to God than mere gold.

Now, what's he talking right here?

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