Hey there, everybody. Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. We are so glad that you've tuned in.

You know, today, Pastor Rick Warren is going to continue a brand new series called Seeing Through God's Eyes.

Now, in this series, he'll dive into the Bible to help us discover how God sees us and how we can start seeing life from

his perspective. Okay, let's dive right in. Here's Rick with part one of a message called

Seeing God's purpose in my problems. You know, when a lot of people have problems, they

think God is mad at them. They think God is angry, God's mad, God is getting even, God is punished me, punishing me.

Something must be wrong in my life.

I must be out of God's will because I've got all these problems.

And the truth is, no.

In fact, a lot of times problems are God's will for your life.

He uses them, and we're going to look at how he uses them today. Now, would you write this down in your outline? God doesn't cause my problems,

but he uses my problems for good. God doesn't cause my problems. I mean, I cause most of my own

problems, and so do you. And then other people cause problems, and the devil can my problems. I mean, I cause most of my own problems, and so do you. And then other

people cause problems, and the devil can cause problems, and the world can cause problems, and

nature can cause problems. There are a lot of reasons. It really doesn't matter why or who caused

the problems in your life. Regardless of the source, God wants to use them for good in your life. You've heard me say many

times anybody can bring good out of good, but God knows how to bring good out of bad. And today,

we're going to look at the five ways God uses problems for good in your life. And I hope this

will be an encouraging message. If you felt a little

down or discouraged, you picked a good week to come to church. Look at 1 Peter chapter 4 there on

your outline. The first verse says this from the Bible. Friends, when life really gets difficult,

don't jump to the conclusion that God isn't on the job.

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