Dr. Jim Richards

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 we...

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 Fai...

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 r...

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...

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 t...

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 drea...

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 expr...

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...

When you’re standing at a crossroads there are so many factors that flood your mind telling you which way to go. God wants to help you make the decision that will ensure your life is filled with peace and the promises of God. But life is often so complicated that we can’t weigh out all the factors. As hard as we try we often fail to make the best decision. Wisdom comes from the mouth of God. Wisdo...

More than anything else Jesus came to reveal God’s true character and nature. Everything He did was exactly what the Father would have done; everything He said was exactly what the Father would have said; every person He healed is what the Father would have done! Jesus made it possible to cut through all the religious perversion of God’s nature and see God in the flesh!   Join me this week for The...

God asked the question, whose report will you believe? There are two reports about the nature, character, and true identity of God: there is God’s report and everyone else’s! God’s power manifests in our life based on what we believe about Him. Faith is more about what we believe about God than it is what we believe about what God will do. When we know His character and nature we know, without a d...

One of God’s names indicates that He is self-revealing. In other words no one can accurately show us God other than God Himself. Thankfully He has given us specific ways we can see Him as He is! One of the most unique ways God has chosen to reveal His true nature and character is through His names. All of God’s names reveal His loving, nurturing, caring passion for mankind. When you know God’s nam...

Jesus was the perfect model of God and the perfect model of a man yielded to God. When we look at His life and believe God’s account of who He is we can do the things He did and even more (Jn. 14:12)! Jesus’ secret to moving in the power of God was rooted in being one with God; i.e. the same character, the same nature, the same truth, and the same actions. In order to become one with God we must c...

Seeing God as He really is ends all problems with faith, peace, and relationship. The prophet Isaiah said that the failure to see God as He is causes people to blaspheme His name continually. People blame God for things because of what religion has taught them. But at some point we must decide if we will believe God’s revelation of Himself or religion’s deception! God is good and only good; when w...

What would change if you thought someone was angry with you and then found out they stood up for you and even protected you when others meant to hurt you? The first thing that might change is the way you felt about that person. Not only did you find out they weren’t mad at you; you found out that they cared enough to fight for you! This is what happens when people discover how God really feels abo...

The Bible warns of reaching a place where we are past feeling, sensing, and hearing the voice and presence of God in our heart. When that happens we think God isn’t speaking to us or leading us; it seems that He is never protecting us. Religion wants you to believe God has left you. But the truth is, any time we can’t sense or recognize God speaking and ministering to us in our heart we have reach...

When the Bible says, “God so loved the world,” that is not the same type of love He expresses to those who love Him back. The Bible speaks of a relationship with God where He shares His secrets; He shows us things to come; He reveals His ways, and so much more! That’s not the relationship He has with everyone. It is the relationship He offers to everyone, but that is not the relationship everyone...

Anything we talk about but don’t actually experience soon becomes boring and uninteresting. In fact, something happens to us psychologically after we have talked about something for a time but not really experienced it; we convince ourselves that we actually tried it and it wasn’t that great! Many people talk about the love of God for years and then find themselves disillusioned, empty, and search...

In a world filled with terrorism, and political and corporate corruption, Young people are giving themselves away sexually, women are spending millions on plastic surgery, men are body building and buying expensive cars, everyone wants to wear the latest, hottest clothes. Why? Everyone is trying to attract attention in hopes of finding love. Only God’s love can fill the deep void and hunger we hav...

In years gone by there was a total emphasis on our need to love God. Religion attempted to force us into feelings of love as if they could be worked up through some religious manipulation of our emotions. In recent years a new brand of religion has totally ignored the need for us to love God and put all the emphasis on God loving us. Both of these religious extremes ignore the fact that in a relat...

Religion has created a sterile, non-feeling concept of God. The result is people tend to attempt to relate to God legally, through doctrine, instead of relationally. All God has ever wanted from mankind is a relationship. Nearly every word that describes our connection to God is either in the form of family or relationship in general. The Bible portrays a kind, loving God that has the capability o...