Rick Costa

He that shall overcome, shall thus be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

– Revelation 3:5 (Douay-Rheims Bible)

Wait a minute!  Hold the phone!  You mean to tell me that one day Jesus is going to say something like, “Hey Father, and you angels too…let me tell you about Rick Costa {insert your own name here}”  I don’t know about you my friend but the thought of that blows me away.  That the Creator of everything that exists will mention me BY NAME to His creation?  Wow.

Make no mistake about this: You can never make a fool out of God. Whatever you plant is what you’ll harvest. If you plant in the soil of your corrupt nature, you will harvest destruction. But if you plant in the soil of your spiritual nature, you will harvest everlasting life.

– Galatians 6:7-8 (GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995))

If you invest your time in the foolishness of this world you will hurt your spiritual growth in God. Instead build yourself up in His Word, in prayer and in fellowship with your brothers and sisters in the Lord.

Everything written long ago was written to teach us so that we would have confidence through the endurance and encouragement which the Scriptures give us.

– Romans 15:4 (GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995))

One of the great things about reading the Bible is you find out that all of God’s people from throughout time go through the same types of things that we do and if they can make it, so can you!

But, in reality, Christ *has* risen from among the dead, being the first to do so of those who are asleep. For seeing that death came through man, through man comes also the resurrection of the dead. For just as through Adam all die, so also through Christ all will be made alive again. But this will happen to each in the right order–Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ’s people rising at His return.
– 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 (Weymouth New Testament)

Not only did Jesus rise from the dead but because He did, so will we! Hallelujah!

Just as Jonah was in the belly of a huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.
– Matthew 12:40 (GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995))

It may look like something happened to put a stop to the plan of God in your life but keep the faith…it might just be put on hold so He can accomplish something else in the meantime.

Proverbs 18:2 

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

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Proverbs 16:25

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

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Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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1 Corinthians 15:57

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Ephesians 3:16-19

that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith–that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

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