Rick Costa

Because this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide.

– Psalm 48:14 (Bible in Basic English)

God is always there to lead you in the way you should go…if you will listen.

And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

– Jeremiah 24:7 (Webster’s Bible Translation)

God doesn’t want us to know Him from afar off.  He wants You to seek Him with all that’s within you.  Don’t bother seeking things of this world that are temporary when the Eternal God waiting to talk to you.

Let us look closely at our ways and examine them and then return to the LORD.  Let us raise our hearts and hands to God in heaven.

– Lamentations 3:40-41 (GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995))

Take time every day to look at your life and see how you could have done better.  Don’t just keep making the same mistakes over and over.  Reach out to God and ask Him to make you more like Him.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.

– 1 John 5:3 (New American Standard Bible (©1995))

God doesn’t give us commandments because He loves telling us what we cannot to.  No, He knows what is best for us like any good parent strives to do.  He is trying to protect you from messing up your life!

Because you are God’s children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into us to call out, “Abba! Father!”

– Galatians 4:6 (GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995))

Good fathers are wonderful but our Daddy in heaven in the best!

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

– John 6:63 (International Standard Version (©2008))

The devil makes many people believe the miraculous power comes from a man.  It’s doesn’t.  It comes directly from God.  Stop seeking man’s touch and reach out to Jesus Himself.

Many people followed him, and he cured all of them.

– Matthew 12:15b (GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995))

If we are going to do greater works than Jesus, and He said He would, then I’m looking for the day when every person in a church service will get healed.  Not some but ALL!

For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.  You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin

– Hebrews 12:3-4 (New American Standard Bible ©)

When you feel like you just can’t take it anymore, think about all that Jesus suffered for us knowing that He didn’t have to go through any of it.

My brothers and sisters, be very happy when you are tested in different ways.  You know that such testing of your faith produces endurance.  Endure until your testing is over. Then you will be mature and complete, and you won’t need anything.

– James 1:2-4 (GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995))

It’s not fun going through hard times but God will use every experience we go through to mold us and change us into that which He wants us to be.

Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children

– Ephesians 5:1 (Bible in Basic English)

Just like little kids pretend to be their parents in the things that they do so we should want to be like our heavenly Father.