Pastor Rick's Daily Hope

Happy people are more likely to look at every situation in life from God's viewpoint. They look past the pain and pressure; they see the bigger picture. Listen to Pastor Rick to learn that God “causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God” (Romans 8:28 NLT).

The negative opinions of others can easily get us down. But if our happiness depends on the approval of other people, disappointment is bound to follow. Discover God's strategy for happiness in this broadcast by Pastor Rick.

Pain, pressure, people, and problems—they're the four most common sources of unhappiness. They're the killjoys of life. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick examines why happiness is not based on circumstances; happiness is a choice we all get to make.

Many of us tend to focus on our problems instead of on God. But when we do that, we don't have the eternal perspective we need to keep going, no matter what happens. Listen to Pastor Rick as he once again reminds us that God promises to help us when we feel like giving up.

Do you feel under attack? Tell God. Do you feel like you have no energy? Tell God. Do you feel rejected or lonely? Tell God. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick encourages you to dump everything you're feeling right now onto the Lord—he wants to hear it all!

Spectators at a race often shout, “Keep going!” to motivate the athletes. That's also great advice for anyone who feels emotionally, mentally, or spiritually exhausted from running the marathon of life. Join Pastor Rick as he reminds us that God will give us the power we need to finish what he has called us to do.

In the Bible, there are more promises attached to faithful giving and generosity than any other subject. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches that God wants his children to be generous because he's generous—and he wants his children to be like him!

Each time you give an offering to God, it represents three kinds of gratitude: past, present, and future. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how your offering shows God you trust him for all things and at all times—and how God will always honor your faith.

Too many of us focus our lives on unimportant causes. Trivial Pursuit isn't just a game; it's a description of our culture! In this ­­message, Pastor Rick shows how goals focus your energy and are an antidote for the kind of life that chases what's urgent rather than what's important.

Goal setting isn't just a good idea for productivity. It's a spiritual discipline, like prayer, fasting, giving, and reading your Bible. In fact, goal setting can be an act of stewardship. Pastor Rick continues in this message to teach from Noah's life about how to make the most of your life and invest it in a way that outlasts you.

The Bible has more than 7,000 promises from God to you—promises of success, confidence, health, prosperity, strength, and wisdom that will help you learn to trust in him. When you set a goal, don't focus on the problems; focus on the promises. Learn from Pastor Rick in this message how to find a promise in God's Word that will take you to your goal.

Whenever you want to make a fresh start with faith in your life, you have to face your fears. Don't let them control you! Pastor Rick continues in this message to show how Mary made the choice to tame her fear and step forward in faith and how you can make the same choice.

Your fears reveal where you do not trust God—whether it's a fear of feeling inadequate, rejection, change, or disappointment. Pastor Rick teaches from the life of Mary in this message and reveals how she overcame her fears with faith. Like Mary, you'll learn how to replace your fears with trust.

Joseph depended on God's help in every setback—and he had a lot of them! In each one, he faced a new challenge that was way beyond his ability, but he trusted God to provide what he needed to get him where God wanted him to be. Join Pastor Rick as he continues to look at Joseph's life for inspiration on how to handle your setbacks.

Setbacks are a stepping stone to get you where God wants you to be. In this message, Pastor Rick continues to look at the life of Joseph and how he handled setbacks. You'll see that God has a plan for your life and, if you don't give up when you have setbacks, he will get you in position to fulfill your purpose.

God wants to know if you will depend on his presence like Joseph did, whether you're in the pit or the prison or the palace. Pastor Rick teaches in this message how to handle one setback after another by having the kind of faith Joseph had, no matter the circumstances.

Nothing you do is private. You have an audience in heaven! That should encourage you, because it means you have a cheering section that doesn't want you to give up. Pastor Rick explains in this message how that “crowd of witnesses” helps us “run with endurance the race God has set before us” (Hebrews 12:1 NLT).

Have you noticed how discouragement sets in at the midpoint of almost anything you do? It's true in parenting, marriage, school, and in your career. But God has called you to finish the race he has prepared for you—and to finish it well. Pastor Rick continues to teach in this message from the life of Nehemiah about how to keep going when you feel like giving up.

If you're discouraged because something is taking longer or is more complicated than expected, then you may start to doubt yourself and get discouraged. As Pastor Rick looks at Nehemiah's efforts to rebuild Jerusalem after the Israelites' returned from captivity, he'll explain what Nehemiah did at the halfway point of the project to keep people from becoming discouraged.

At the time Jeremiah wrote Lamentations, he was emotionally exhausted and for an entire book of the Bible released his frustrations to God. He wrote, “Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this” (Lamentations 3:21 NLT). Pastor Rick explains in this message what gave Jeremiah hope during this difficult time that can also help you in your setback.

When Elijah faced emotional exhaustion, God led him to do three things that helped him recover—and they're the same things that can help you recover, too, when you're at the end of your rope. Join Pastor Rick as he continues to teach lessons from Elijah's experience with setbacks.

After a highlight in his ministry, Elijah, one of the most important prophets in Israel's history, began a downward spiral of emotional exhaustion. In this message, Pastor Rick shows you how to keep your eyes open for 10 indications of emotional exhaustion from Elijah's experience.

When we experience a setback, we tend to focus on the wrong things. But when everything in life is falling apart, God wants you to focus on one thing instead. Find out what it is as Pastor Rick continues to teach about how the apostle Paul anchored his life when he experienced a setback.

No one gets through life without setbacks. All of us will face storms from time to time! The real issue is how we respond. Do setbacks dominate you? Do you stop trying and give up? Pastor Rick continues to teach in this message how Paul's life models how to make wise and helpful decisions when you have setbacks.

Sometimes a setback is rooted in your own actions or choices. But often the storms we face in life aren't because of something we did. Instead, we suffer because of other people's poor decisions. In this message, Pastor Rick talks about the three anchors Paul used to get past setbacks caused by other people.

When we experience setbacks, our most common response is our worst response: We want to withdraw, to build a wall around ourselves, to push people away. But that's the last thing we should do! Learn what you need to do instead in this message from Pastor Rick.

Bitterness is like saying you don't trust God when troubles hit. It's like a poison that will tear your life apart if you let it! Pastor Rick shares in this message why it's okay to express all your emotions to God when you experience a setback so that you don't become bitter.

Sometimes our setbacks are so devastating that we think, “How am I ever going to get out of this? I'll never recover from it!” Pastor Rick teaches in this message the five things that Job did when he faced setbacks that seemed irreversible.

Do you need to turn your setback into a comeback? Join Pastor Rick for this message as he explains why, no matter what you've experienced with your work, God can still turn the faucet on even more quickly than it was turned off. Your comeback may be just around the corner!

If you've ever felt discouraged with your work, then you're not alone. We've all faced setbacks at work! Whether you're worn out from overwork or reeling from failure, learn from Pastor Rick why you can expect God to reverse your setback when you acknowledge that your ways have not been working and you need God's help.

Ever wonder why God isn't blessing your work? Maybe you never invited him to be a part of it! Join Paster Rick as he uses Simon Peter as an example of how to ask Jesus to take control of your boat so you can get back to catching the fish. You'll learn why you can expect God to turn things around when you submit your plans to him.

God's kind of love can be challenging! In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches how you can keep your love tank full so you can consistently love others the way God wants you to.

Love is a skill. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how God will help you develop genuine, lasting love for other people.

God will never force you to love him. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains why you have the God-given ability to make your own choice.

Before you react in anger, you need to reflect. Pastor Rick teaches three reflection questions: “Why am I angry?”  “What do I really want?”  “How can I get it?”

How does God help you with your anger habit? He goes straight to the heart of the problem, which is a problem in the heart. Pastor Rick teaches that anger doesn't start in your behavior, your background, or your feelings. It starts in the heart.

The way you express your anger is a learned response. The good news is you can unlearn it. Pastor Rick teaches how, to change the way you act, you first need to change the way you think.

We often use anger to get people to do something. It works in the short term, but the long-term effects are devastating. In this message, Pastor Rick explains the cost of anger and what the Bible teaches about how you can manage your temper.

How do you respond in love when people disappoint you? In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches about the words and speech that bring life and healing to a relationship.

How should we respond to difficult people? In love. Pastor Rick teaches in this broadcast how the Bible says that love is understanding, not demanding.

God doesn't expect you to ignore the hurt in your past. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains why you need to deal with your pain, and why doing that is essential to forgiving others.

In this broadcast, Pastor Rick continues to teach how we're to not only model God's love by loving each other, but we're also to carry it together to the rest of the world.

Jesus believes in you—because when you place your trust in him, his Spirit lives inside you. Listen as Pastor Rick teaches how God can use you—as part of his spiritual body of believers—to share his love with the world.

One way Jesus wants you to love is through membership in a local church. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches why the church is God's agenda for the world.

Loving like Jesus means you must value others the way Jesus values you. Join Pastor Rick as he explains how the Bible reveals the depth of God's love for you and how you can express God's love to others.

God never made a person he didn't love. He made you; he loves you. Period. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches what the Bible says about self-esteem, status symbols, and God's love.

Human love has its limits. But as Pastor Rick explains in this broadcast, God's unconditional love has no limits—a significant truth for us to understand.

In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches how Jesus demonstrates God's unconditional love for you, and why we can never be separated from God's love.

You're alive because you were made to be loved by God. And the only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how life is a lesson in love.

Love is an action, not just an emotion; love is something you do. Real love does the loving thing even when you don't feel like it or someone doesn't deserve it. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches what mature love looks like.

If you want to learn how to love other people, you first need to understand and feel how much God loves you. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick examines how God uses Christian community to teach us how to love.