Hello everyone and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry that's here

to encourage and inspire you every day. And today we're continuing our series called

Awesome Relationships. In it, Rick Warren shares practical ways to help you take your relationships with family, friends,

coworkers, and even God, from ordinary to extraordinary.

And this is a series you don't want to miss.

Well, it's time to hear from Rick with the final part of a message called What Destroys Relationships and What Builds Them?

You know, I couldn't count the number of times out on the patio.

After service, somebody's come up to me in the last 25 years and said,

you know, Pastor Rick, I've never told this to anybody else what I'm about to tell you.

And when I hear that, there is something that wells up inside of me,

a sense of hope and enthusiasm and joy,

because I know that person is about to have a breakthrough.

They are about to experience freedom for the first time in their life.

They are about to experience a liberation that is unlike anything else

because for their entire life they have carried this in their life

and they've never told anybody and they're about to open the door

and the boogeyman's going to come out and it's not as big as they thought he was and they're about to experience real legitimate freedom and new hope and new joy and new power and the love and the grace and the power of God can flood into their life you You don't have to share it with everybody, but you need to tell somebody.

You were never meant to go through life with secrets.

In fact, you are as only sick as your secrets.

You're only sick as your secrets.

And if you're living in fear, you're not really living.

You want to open it up and let it go. Pastor Tom is going to come and explain this.

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