Dr. Jim Richards

Jesus gave us another issue that must be resolved before we begin to actually pray. Sanctify God’s name in your own heart. Sanctification is the process of making something holy. God’s names reveal His character and nature. We know God will never act contrary to His name, moreover, He will always uphold His name. If we have made His name holy in our heart, praying in His name takes on an entirely new dimension. Join me this week and let’s discover a process that establishes our heart in faith in His name. Psalm 91 tells us He will answer and set on high those who know His name.

What most of us call prayer is more like beggars pleading their master for bread crumbs, unsure of what His response will be. That’s why Jesus taught that before we enter into any of what we call prayer, we should experientially connect to God as Father. Sons are not just legal heirs; they are joint rulers of their Father’s kingdom. They know their Father, what He wants, and how He gets things done. In other words, he knows the Father’s will without having to ask. Jesus modeled what it would look like in our lives if we really experienced and knew His will. Join me this week and discover an approach to prayer that is based on knowing God’s will and knowing what to do with complete confidence.

There is a door in our heart that gives entrance to the Kingdom of God: a place where we can access all the resources of God. We have been provided the key that opens this door. It was a free gift, but too often we don’t use the key we have been given. We attempt to use a key that our pastor gave us, our parents, or one we created ourselves. Millions of believers stand outside, baffled and discouraged when their key doesn’t open the door. Join me this week and I will help you find the key Jesus Himself has given you. It will open a door to a life of resources that no man can close.

The scriptures tell us that God’s mercies are renewed daily. In our limited concept of mercy we see that as God merely forgiving us for what we have done wrong. What we fail to see is that mercy has so many more dimensions. It is also a shelter that provides protection and provision; it is a hiding place where we can experience God’s creative power. It is a place where we can have revelation, and more. Every day God’s mercy is ready to transport all of us to the place in our heart where we can start over without the limitations of past failures. Join me this week as we explore God’s capacity to start over with no limitations!

The world desperately needs to see the glory of God. For centuries we have believed that more signs, wonders, and miracles would bring the world to Jesus, but it never has and never will. The world needs to see what we have all seen by looking at Jesus. They need to see God portrayed in the lives of people who are one with Him. The more we yield to Christ in us, the more we magnify God in the earth. When we love, people see God as loving; when we forgive, people see God as merciful. The more we choose to be like God the more the world sees the glory of God.

Jesus showed us the glory of God by revealing exactly who God was. His teaching, the way He treated people, and all of His miracles were expressions of the true character and nature of God! But in John 17:22, He says, the glory you gave me I have given them. In other words, He didn’t share any of His personal opinions; He didn’t make up new doctrine; His every action was an exact representation of God. If we want to see the glory of God, all we need to do is look at Jesus. Because He only revealed God, we can see that He and the Father are one. Christ in you is the clearest picture of God’s glory in the earth!

Most people look for some outward sign to see the glory of God. After all, that’s what religion has taught us. Religion never wants you to realize that God’s greatest expression of Himself is what happens in us. God’s glory was perfectly manifest in His Son Jesus. Today His glory can only be perfectly manifest in His children who yield to Him. Your Father, like any father, experiences His greatest joy when His children look like Him. The more we look like Jesus to the world the more the world will see the glory!

The scripture tells us when we behold the glory of God we are transformed into that glory! For thousands of years mankind has longed to see the glory of God. The children of Israel saw the cloud by day and the fire by night, which led them on the wilderness journey, but it didn’t transform them. While these were definitely expressions of God’s glory and goodness, they were not actually the glory of God. God wants to reveal His glory to you in ways few people have ever recognized. His glory always delivers the power of transformation Join me this week as we discover how to behold the glory of God!

Every believer is told to consider every path before choosing to walk it. Determine if it will lead in a way that ends with your heart in harmony with God. In this path there is no destruction, chaos, or fear, only peace. Join me this week as we gain insight into walking the path of peace!

It is a little known fact that God calls the New Covenant the Covenant of Peace. In this covenant Jesus is our peace offering. It is by His death that we have peace with God. As we celebrate our peace through Him our heart not only connects to Jesus, but it also connects to all the provisions of the Kingdom of God. Join me this week and connect to Jesus as your peace offering.

The ultimate celebration of the Hebrew believer was the peace offering. It was not an offering given to get something; it was a celebration of the fact that there was peace between God and the believer. In that connection the believer not only experienced God’s peace that passes all understanding, they experienced the acute awareness that all God’s resources were available to them. Join me this week and discover the intimate link between experiencing God’s peace and participating in all His benefits.

The way of peace is the process God provided for the believer to always abide in God’s peace, which is the precursor for hearing God and experiencing all His benefits and resources. If you’re ready to leave a life of stress and chaos, join me this week and discover what God calls the way of peace.

Jesus offers a peace that’s different from any other kind of peace. By knowing the difference between the peace of God and all other kinds of peace, the believer can not only avoid deception, but recognize the kind of peace that is supposed to rule our hearts. Join me this week and begin to experience the incredible difference between the peace of God and all other kinds of peace.

The Bible teaches that every aspect of our connection to God is faith and grace. It starts with faith and grace, and every step along the path of this journey is faith and grace. Faith and grace are in no way opposing one another. In fact, either one is meaningless without the other. Join me this week and discover great insights that will make your journey with God easy and light as we explore Faith and Grace: First to Last!

The blood of Jesus is for more than washing us clean at salvation. The Bible teaches that faith in the blood of Jesus is the solution for a defiled conscience. Sometimes our heart condemns us, sometimes we know issues that need to be dealt with, but the Bible actually teaches how we can deal with a defiled conscience: the vague sense of distance from God, or the feeling that something just isn’t right. Join me this week and look at what the blood of Jesus did so you could have a clear conscience! A violated conscience cannot receive all that God is freely offering.

One of the most anticipated and celebrated rituals of the Old Covenant was the peace offering. This celebration occurred when the worshiper had made peace with God by dealing with his or her guilty conscience. Today we have that peace through Jesus. Yet, the Bible defines a very specific process whereby we experience that peace. Join me this week to examine the path of peace. Discover the secrets of allowing peace to rule in your heart.

God always seeks to protect us from harm. Since we are free-will beings, He cannot force His protection on us. There are two primary things that make it possible to experience God’s protection: first, we must be vigilant. When we see or sense trouble, turning to Him should be our first option. Next, we run to Him. We are not running to Him just as a place to hide. When we run to Him we reconnect to His heart and harmonize with His truth. Then His wisdom becomes ours and His strength replaces our weakness. Join me this week to discover new realities in running to God for protection.

Religion has made us believe that once we have failed, we may get forgiveness, but our calling and destiny is over! One of the most crucial factors in motivating people to get up when they fail is the hope of recovering their call and destiny. If we lose the hope of our dreams, we lose all motivation. After all, who wants to live the rest of their life with no purpose, no hope of living their dreams? I’ve spent many decades helping recover those who had given up on themselves and their future. Just because society has given up on you and you’ve given up on yourself, doesn’t mean God has given up on you. Join me this week and discover God’s plan to recover your destiny and restore your dreams!

In the original language of the Bible, the psalmist tells us God is chasing us… not to hurt us, not because He’s angry, but to draw us into an intimate heart-to-heart relationship where we are protected, provided for, given direction and most important: deeply and personally connected to Him. Mercy isn’t just getting by with something; it’s not just getting better than we deserve. Mercy is an expression of love designed to draw us back to God! Join me this week and discover God’s ultimate plan for you: a loving, intimate heart-to-heart connection with your Creator!

There is one particular sin the Bible indicates may be the one from which you can’t recover. I’m not saying it cannot be forgiven; I’m saying it is so devastating to the heart that we cannot recover. The Bible says the reason Job was able to be recovered is because he did not commit this particular sin. Job didn’t let himself become so overwhelmed by his painful circumstances that he gave up hope and lost his sense of purpose and destiny. Join me this week as we talk about the sin Job didn’t commit. I want to help you keep hope alive in your heart. Hope is the confident expectation of good things! God not only has a good outcome for you, He also wants you to live your destiny, no matter what your past has been.