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.

Now in just a few moments, we're going to tell you how you can get a copy of the brand-new

Daily Hope Prayer Journal, a great resource that will help you tap into God's power and presence

as you discover the keys to praying with passion and purpose.

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Now here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a message called when you feel like giving up.

Now notice here, Nehemiah doesn't give up on the goal. He doesn't let everybody get scourged. He doesn't say, oh you're right guys, we should have never tried this.

Let's just all go home and have a TV dinner and watch the late night talk shows.

Now he goes to work and he goes to work.

He says, we're just going to do it differently. We're going to reorganize. We're going to reorder.

We're going to do a new strategy. When you have a goal, you have a dream, you have a desire, and you're going after it.

You are going to have opposition, and you are going to have people who oppose you.

And you're going to have opposition.

You are going to have opposition, and you are going to have people who oppose you.

And you're going to have discouragement and doubt and difficulty and even dead ends.

You need to understand this. Discouragement doesn't mean that you're doing the wrong thing, but it may mean you're doing it in the wrong way.

They were doing the right thing, building the wall. They were just doing it the wrong way.

And a lot of times when we get discouraged, we're like, I'm doing the wrong thing.

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