Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. I'm so glad you're here today. We're going to continue our series called Unshakeable.

Rick is taking us through the book of Daniel, and that's so we'll be equipped to handle whatever curveball life throws at us, even the most difficult trials.

Hey, before we get started, I'm very excited because I want to let

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And now here's Rick with part two of a message called When Your World is Shaken Up.

Anytime the world, your world is shaken up. Number two, look for ways that God might use it

for good. Look for ways, I look for ways that God might use it in my life for good.

Because he wants to use everything, even the bad things in your life. He wants to bring good

out of even those. And if you want to succeed and thrive rather than just survive in a hostile

culture, you need to look for ways

that God takes the things that shake you up and can use them for good.

Jeremiah 29-11 says this.

God says, the plans I have for you are plans for good and not to harm you.

There are plans to give you hope and a future. The devil has bad plans for

your life and therefore bad and for destruction. God has plans, his plans are always good

there to give you hope and they're to give you a future. Now, I'm going to give you a sneak

peek at where we're going in the next eight weeks. Because in Daniel's life, God did

five things with the problems that he had to face. And they are the same five things that God wants

to do in your life, regardless of what kind of problems you're going through. So you might write these

down. This is kind of an index to Daniel's life. Number one, sometimes God shakes things up, I'm talking about in your life, sometimes God

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