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.

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Now here's Pastor Rick Warren with part two of a message called,

when you feel like giving up.

Let me give you three rules of rubble removal in your life.

Here's the first one.

I must continually clean it out of my life.

I must continually be on, vigilantly, be on a guard to clean out the broken stuff in my life

that keeps tripping the up.

It's a never-ending task.

You will never clear out all the rubble in your life until you get to heaven.

But it's one of the things God wants you to do.

I have to continually be vigilantly cleaning out the broken things in my life.

Or I'm going to trip all over and I'm not going to make it to the finish line.

Second rule of rubble removal is if I don't deal with it, it'll take over my life.

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