Dr. Jim Richards

The number one limitation we place on God is that we don’t believe how good He is. Living our dreams is not just about getting God to hand us something; He wants us to be the person that can live the kind of life we want. That starts in the heart through biblical transformation. Our life should be about BEING and HAVING, not becoming and getting, which is the ultimate limiting factor. God rules in...

A fake religious question asks whether something is God's will. If we don’t know something is God’s will, we can’t be in faith. Most of the time when we are asking if something is God’s will, we are creating a smokescreen. We make resolutions to live a better quality of life but we don’t remove from ourselves those beliefs and destructive behaviors that keep limiting God in our lives. God has alre...

Everything God has ever said can either give us life or destroy us, depending on the beliefs of the heart and how bad we want it. “The sun that melts butter is the same sun that hardens the clay” is a saying relevant to our lives. People who value their relationship with God more than the promises are not destroyed in their pursuit. If we trust in something else more than we seek God, we won’t hea...

God’s desire is for us to succeed, but first, our heart must be fully committed to God’s process. If we don’t change the beliefs of our hearts that cause us to cycle through the same mistakes, we will either destroy the successes we make or destroy ourselves so we can no longer have those successes. Jesus taught us how to establish new beliefs in our hearts in a godly way. Once you learn His proce...

Do you want 20/20 vision before making a resolution this year? Consider using the biblical tools and resources in this series that will help you see through God’s perspective. Deciding to do something differently brings us to a crossroads, which is a form of repentance. The biblical concept of repentance means turning to God to make the right decisions because you are the one who determines what p...

Are you ready to make a New Year’s resolution and see it through when you do it God’s way? We did not stick with most of the resolutions we made in the past because we didn’t follow the way God created us to govern our own lives. When we quit before seeing that resolution through, it leads to loss of self-confidence and some form of self-destruction. If you have made a resolution this year but don...

A clone is conformed to the image of the world; a believer transforms into the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. God’s ultimate goal of mankind was to become like His Son; He is not trying to make us clones. Clones are influenced to become like other people because the world always pressures by association. But God is trying to develop our character so we are walking in the very best version of us t...

God wants us to be living stones – not man-made bricks. God makes a real distinction between us being stones or bricks because stones are unique and all different – none is the same shape, size, or color. We are living stones built up into a holy altar (1 Pet. 2:5). It takes every person being who they are in Jesus. God does not want us to be building an altar to Him made of bricks that we shaped....

God is not interested in making you be like anybody else. The message sent out to most people is: you need to be like me. The self-righteous and insecure person takes the position to require everyone else to do what they are doing so they can feel right about themselves. People who are secure in who they are in Jesus will not let others remake them in their image. Most of us have been made to beli...

God needs you to be you. God wants you – your personality, sense of humor, and life experiences. He wants you to be the righteous version of that. You’re not trying to become something new – you have already become something new. God says, “I have made you unique. There are things you can do that nobody else can do. If you will just walk with Me and learn how to live your uniqueness in connection...

The good news of the message of the kingdom of God is that nobody outside you is in control of your life. One of the most destructive beliefs in the world spiritually is that God is in control of everything. Jews incorporated their pagan beliefs in with what God said. The moment you become fearful or unwilling to make decisions about the quality of your life, now you have succumbed to being a vict...

The message of the Kingdom is what Jesus has done for us and whether we believe His teachings. My first priority after being born again is to seek the Kingdom and His righteousness. Jesus’ whole message was about how to enter the Kingdom of God and experience the resources of heaven. When Jesus taught the principles of the Kingdom, He was not telling us how to be born again. He was telling us that...

When we are born again, it is only then that we have the capability of perceiving there is a kingdom of God. In John 3:3, Jesus makes a distinction between being born again and being able to perceive there is a kingdom of God. What is it that opens our eyes? Jesus’ ministry and teachings were about the kingdom of God and lost people cannot perceive this internal realm. The Kingdom is an environmen...

God's goal is that we live in the Kingdom with such an incredible quality of life that we influence and touch the lives of others. We fall short of how good God is when holding to our own reality; therefore, we can’t go through that portal of our heart and enter this realm where we realize all the resources of God are right here for us. If God's goal is not our goal then we will never hit that tar...

We did get an operator’s manual in the Bible, but because people don’t trust what God said, they struggle to work a plan. Jesus taught us everything we need to know to have life at its best, and He taught us the keys of the Kingdom – the operating system for a believer who intends to have the abundant life. Jesus said, “Those who hear my words and put them into practice will be the one who builds...

Planet Earth becomes a place of death or life based on the entire collective beliefs and expectations of the people who live here. What is happening in our nation is the last big push to overthrow true civil justice and to establish a socialist government where the government’s word replaces God’s morals, values, and standards. It is not God bringing the downfall – it is iniquity bringing it. A co...

No matter how bad the wickedness is on Planet Earth, God will always move to recover, redeem, and protect us. God will always try to get us out of this mess we have gotten ourselves in. And even when the world reaches such wickedness that it is on the brink of destruction, He will show up and give us 1,000 years of peace and goodness. When we are standing before God and know we don’t deserve somet...

Isaiah 30:18 says, “For the Lord is a God of justice." As we see a lack of justice, the foundations of the earth are becoming unstable. To the degree that man abandons justice based on righteousness, mercy, and truth, to that degree, the very pillars of all foundations of the earth are being shaken. Without mercy and truth, there is no justice! God is incredibly merciful but He is also incredibly...

The world today presents a version of justice that is totally contradictory to the Word of God, and Christians are accepting that because they don’t know what true justice is. We often ask, “What is fair?” We must decide if man is more just than God. If we don’t believe God is fair, we’ll never trust Him and more than likely, we have been indoctrinated by religion or by Luciferianism. Isaiah 30:18...

It doesn’t matter where we start—what matters is the day we start over. God wants us to know what to expect from Him. Even if sin has hardened our heart, the moment we come to our senses we will remember the goodness of God and experience His tender mercies. No matter where we have been or how many mistakes we have made, our hope will be restored. God has paid an incredible price for us to have th...

God gets the wrap for being mean and hateful, but the truth is that generation after generation He shows love and compassion to people. When God began to declare His name or His goodness to Moses, He started with compassion. In other words, God is filled with loving sympathy for human frailty, does not put people into situations of temptation, and eases the punishment of the guilty. The word “comp...

If we believed what religion told us, it would be impossible to believe that God is fair and just. Most Christians struggle with whether God is fair. If we say that God allowed something we are saying He could have stopped it but He didn’t. Religion teaches that killing our relative was the only way God could get to us and teach us something. But would we go to someone who arranged for the destruc...

Clearly, the Bible shows that society and culture influence us, but we are not to solve problems the way modern society dictates. Socialization is an important biblical principle to living in victory and making life work for us. But we are being socialized or programmed by messages developed into society that go against the Word of God. Jesus said to take His yoke, which is His Lordship and His in...

The glory of God is the view, the reality, the opinion as God sees it. God has a view. His view is real. Our view is distorted by our emotions, limited understanding, and corrupt beliefs of the heart. I want to live in God’s reality; anything less than that is not God’s glory. So, if I want to live in His reality, but I am falling short of the glory of God, it means I am failing to perceive how go...

We won’t experience the goodness of God if we don’t believe the goodness of God! Just knowing about God is different than experiencing God with all of one’s capacity, according to the Greek word “know.” Scripture says, “Taste and see that the Lord is good” (Ps. 34:8). Believing is in a continuum with experiencing. When we experience the goodness of God, our level and capacity to believe expand gre...