God uses tests in your life to grow your character and strengthen your faith. As long as you’re on Earth, you’ll be constantly growing and developing to become more like Jesus. In this message, Pastor Rick Warren will go over the six ways God tests your faith to build character. ——— Listen to Pastor Rick’s daily Bible teaching and subscribe to his Daily Hope email devotional at http://pastorrick.com Connect with Rick! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pastorrickwa… Twitter: https://twitter.com/RickWarren Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pastorrickw… Podcast: http://pastorrick.com/listen/podcast
If you take out your message
notes inside your program,
you may not have realized
that for the past four
or five weeks I’ve
had you in a series
on building character.
We didn’t announce it, but
that’s where we were going.
I started with a message called
Making the Hard Changes In Me,
that was the first message
right after Easter.
Making the hard changes in me,
about character development.
Then the next week, I had Jason,
a friend teach on
building or breaking
the destructive
patterns in your life.
Breaking the destructive
patterns in your life.
The next week, George
and Tondra Gregory
talked about how God uses
marriage to build your character
and how God says that
marriage is not simply
to make you happy,
it’s to make you holy.
And then last week, of
course Kay taught us
on learning to see
your blind spots.
What a message, huh?
What a message.
(congregation applauds)
I wanna continue in
that theme this week
by looking at how God
uses tests in your life
to grow your character and
to strengthen your faith.
Now Kay said this last week,
it’s one of the fundamental
laws of spiritual growth
and one of the
values in our church
is that God’s number
one goal in your life
is to make you like Jesus.
God’s goal on earth is
not to make you happy;
God’s goal on your
life is to grow you up
the spiritual maturity.
Happiness comes from holiness.
And in heaven you’re
gonna be happy
for trillions and
trillions of years.
This is the growing stage.
This is the development stage.
Not everything works perfectly
and not everything goes
the way you want it to go
because God is much more
interested in your character
than He is your comfort.