Dr. Jim Richards

Everything that happens in the supernatural between us and God is supposed to happen from and through the heart. At creation; God conceived and believed each element in His own heart. Once He conceived and believed it in His heart He spoke it into existence. He spoke with intention and it manifested exactly the way He believed. Speaking with intention is faith that says, “This is already mine.” We know what it looks like and what it feels like. We experience it as being real. When it does come into existence, it will be in exact harmony with what was conceived in our heart. Our hearts can interconnect with the invisible world in ways our mind can’t. When Jesus taught the disciples how to pray, He taught them how to use their authority by using the keys of the kingdom. This is where Jesus functioned and where we are supposed to function. We must decide what we want and if it is provided for us through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. If it is, we must make a faith (trust) decision and start using

Everything about our faith begins with what we believe about creation. The first and simplest place to understand what it looks like to be created in God’s likeness and image is in the life of Jesus. Jesus wasn’t just with God; He WAS God. When He came to Planet Earth, He emptied Himself and became a man. This means that everything Jesus did on Planet Earth required the same abilities to get things done that we possess today. In other words, since we are created in the likeness and image of God, we have all of the same power and authority Jesus did. Everything happening in the world is happening because of our beliefs and decisions. “... the heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to man” (Psalm 115:16). God is not in control of the world. God is in control of Himself. We are only controlled by God to the degree we choose to be because He cannot and will not violate our free will. If He tells us we have free will, that we are created in His likeness and image, and then tries to control us, that

God wants us to be able to move past the pain of our bad decisions. In order to do that, we must first identify and own it. Then, we have to decide what we will do with it - send it away or keep it and allow it to destroy our lives. Once we make a bad decision, it’s like having a rock in our shoe. When there’s a rock in our shoe, in order to remove it, we have to take hold of it and throw it away, otherwise, it irritates us and causes continued problems. Jesus has already died for every sin we’ve ever committed or will commit, and He’s already paid the price for every decision we’ve ever made. We can enter into that by faith and then experience God’s grace (His power working in us) to overcome the pain of those choices. You can overcome the bad decisions that have been affecting your life, come out on top, and get your life back on track. I want to give you the tools to help!

We all make bad decisions. When we do, God doesn’t beat us up, put us down, or try to make us feel guilty. However, the people around us often do. Some people use our failures as an opportunity to express their envies and jealousies towards us, in order to build themselves up, making it difficult for us to overcome our bad decisions by making new and good choices. Unfortunately, God is usually blamed for the actions of angry, wrathful people. But the Bible tells us that God teaches us by His Word and His Spirit. He brings us to repentance by His goodness and His kindness, not by anger and wrath. David made some horrible decisions, and he suffered the consequences for the rest of his life. At one point, David even believed God was telling people to be cruel to him. However, after dealing with his issues from a biblical perspective, David no longer believed it was God and was set free to live out his calling. You, too, can move past the consequences of your bad decisions. You can live your dreams. There may be

My new series, “Overcoming Bad Decisions,” starts today! Everything happening in our lives at this moment is, to some degree, related to a very specific decision that we’ve made. A single bad decision can take us down a road that we never intended to walk. That doesn’t mean we caused it, but we are where we are because of our decisions. As children of God, one of the most spiritual things that will ever happen in our lives is choosing to understand and accept personal responsibility. Responsibility answers the question, “Who has the authority (the right and responsibility) to take action and change what’s happening in my life?” God doesn’t have that responsibility. He gave it to us. Proverbs 4:23 instructs us to guard our hearts with all diligence for out of it flows the “issues” of life. The word “issues” means boundaries. Every boundary in our lives is determined by the beliefs of our hearts. Our lives can get no better or no worse than the beliefs of our hearts. When we mess up and make bad decisions, God

The one thing Jesus said more than anything else is, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” (Matthew 11:15) In the days to come, we will see some of the most phenomenal miracles that have ever happened. Most of them won’t happen at the altars of churches, or at the hands of the clergy. Most of the miracles will happen with real believers, facing real-life situations. We have to make a decision that we are going to walk with God. We need to read the Bible, pray, know God for ourselves, develop the capacity to hear and recognize the voice of God in our own hearts, and follow His voice, regardless of what everyone else is saying or doing. God will teach us how to have victory in every situation, regardless of what is going on around us, no matter how difficult or challenging it is. We can rise above the opposition and live an incredibly victorious life. You can live in victory and I want to do everything I can to help you!

Man has created a concept of God that has nothing to do with who God revealed Himself to be. The doctrine of sovereignty is the greatest theological misunderstanding that probably negatively affects more people in the world than any other doctrine. We have redefined sovereignty to mean that God is in control and can do anything He wants. All sovereignty really means is that God acts without being influenced by any outside sources. God gave all authority of Planet Earth to man, therefore we decide what’s going to happen. God is not in control beyond the degree that we yield to and follow Him. By listening to Him and following the leading of the Holy Spirit, we can avoid almost all tragedies of life and live a relatively peaceful life. The reason the very foundation of the world is destroyed is because we are supposed to be ruling and reigning in righteousness. Instead, we wanted to create a world in our own image that gave us permission to be wicked, ungodly, and immoral, where our standards and values replace

Everyone wants to be treated fairly, but we want to define fairness based on our own personal perspective. We feel like victims, but never go back and look at how we got where we are. We choose to blame others Instead of taking personal responsibility for our problems. The justice we need in our world today doesn’t come from any type of legislation but from the hearts of people who love righteousness. Unfortunately, most believers have little knowledge of what righteousness is and that righteousness in our hearts is the beginning of justice. We can’t have justice in our world if we aren’t applying it in our own hearts. The Commandments were given to show us how to treat others and should be our “signposts” for walking in love. When we choose not to use the Word of God as our reference for how to treat people, we come up with our own subjective definitions of fairness that only benefit us personally, not the other person. Every Commandment that tells us how we should treat others is an instruction showing us h

God’s justice is far more than a code of laws and consequences. God’s justice has the inherent power to transform the believer into a fair, merciful person. God doesn’t merely give us a standard; He gives us the power to live in that standard. We will never understand what it means to have a fair and just society, city, state, country, or workplace until we understand what God says about it. Once we choose God’s justice, which begins with righteousness, then the grace of God works in us to be, live, walk righteously, and conduct ourselves in a fair and just way. Righteousness, in the most basic sense, is to be in harmony with God. We make a choice, “I want to be like God. I want to have the character and nature of God. I want to be kind, merciful, compassionate, forgiving, patient.” We might not always know the right thing to do in a given situation, but if we are committed to righteousness, to staying in harmony with God, then we will always end up getting to the right place. No matter what our country does,

Most people define original sin as Adam and Eve disobeying God in the Garden by eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Original sin was not just them eating from the tree. Original sin was that they ate from the tree for a particular purpose - because they believed a lie. They believed God wasn’t good, that they weren’t created in His likeness and His image. They believed the only reason God didn’t want them to eat from the tree was because, if they did, they would become like God and would get to decide good and evil for themselves. That is the heart of all sin, unbelief, and all the wickedness going on in the world. Once we start deciding good and evil independent of what God says it is, we set ourselves on a course that seems right, but only leads to death. The entire world is in chaos because we’ve created our own concepts and ideas of good and evil. And as always, when we choose independently of God’s truth, we end up in disharmony with God, disharmony with one another, and a world full

In our world today, most everything is based on rumor rather than fact. The Bible speaks very strongly against liars, and people who exaggerate and spread rumors. It clearly shows us the destruction this type of communication causes. Once a rumor is accepted as truth and begins to pass through the population, the rumor does more damage than the activity that is actually taking place. The news media has become nothing more than a gossip mill. By daily exaggerating and distorting the facts, they stir hatred and anger among ethnic groups, filling people’s hearts with fear, and creating the very racism they claim they’re trying to stop. Are there real problems? Of course. There are always real problems. But God’s Word gives us ways to solve those problems. “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” [Gal. 3:28]. In Jesus, there are no races or ethnic groups. We are one kingdom. We do not have to buy into the deceptions and manipulat

A lot of people want to know what’s going on in America and the world. Is this the end? Is Jesus coming back? People don’t know who or what to trust. We are distracted through fear and trepidation. We are living in a time the Bible calls “the beginning of sorrows.” Times are bad, no doubt. But no matter what is going on around us or how bad it is, we can connect with God and experience strength, peace, and joy on the inside. In this week’s CyberChurch message you’ll learn more about what’s happening in the world than you might have learned in the entire past year. I want to help you have the courage and boldness to face what other people are too scared to even talk about, and understand how to face these things with God and do something about it.

The cry of the world today is that there is injustice. Everything is unfair and slanted toward the white or the wealthy, this group or that group. The people setting buildings on fire, stealing, robbing, and killing other people all say they’re seeking justice. The problem is in how you define justice. One of the primary characteristics God conveys about Himself in Scripture is justice. He is just (Ps 7:11). He is fair and equitable, and He always seeks for justice to prevail in human interaction. The Book of Job is probably the most misquoted book of the entire Bible, not because people quote the Scriptures wrong, but because the Scriptures are taken out of context. They always quote the foolishness that Job and his friends said, not what God said. In Job 40:8, God asked one of the most critical questions in the entire book: “Will you indeed annul my judgment, and would you condemn me that you might be justified and appear to be the righteous one.” This is what the whole world is doing. But you can have pea

One of the most important aspects of God’s character is Justice. Eight of the Ten Commandments were about treating one another with love, respect, and value. When Israel entered Canaan, the Ten Commandments were expanded into a code of justice, based on the love of God. God’s system of justice was revolutionary. It provided protection and rights for women, slaves, servants, and immigrants. It abolished ancient codes allowing unjust vengeance. It was a marvel to the ancient world. If the Israelites had continued in that code of justice, the world would have seen God as He is! The world is exploding with hatred and violence under the guise of social justice. However, those who are supposedly seeking social justice are unjustly destroying the lives of the innocent, the poor, and the helpless. In this series, you will discover how God’s plan for social justice can bring peace to the world. It will open your eyes to the depths of God’s love, compassion, and patience. You will discover new insights into the goodne

All it takes to completely change your life is a heart awakening and in an instant, everything in your world can be transformed. One glimpse of healing can forever change your health. A single inspiration can lift you out of poverty or lack. When your heart awakens, it will transform you into what it sees. You can use the Word of God to show your heart a completely new reality, the one God promised, and the one you choose, not the one that was imposed on you by life. This week’s message, “Awaken to a Miracle,” will help you open yourself to a heart awakening! One glimpse into eternity and everything changes!

I want to help you get past your failures! Sadly, we tend to define ourselves by our past mistakes. The greatest success stories in the world came from people who simply used their failures as stepping stones to success: Albert Einstein, Babe Ruth, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison, just to name a few. If we were to put as much effort into learning from our failures as we do making excuses for them, we would never need another excuse! The Bible doesn’t say that a righteous man never falls; it says he just keeps getting back up. Join me for this week’s CyberChurch message, “The Wake-Up Call,” and turn your past failures into stepping stones for success!

We are not who we think we are! In early childhood we began to act like our influences dictated. We buried our true identity beneath the behavior our family required. Sadly, we came to believe we were our behavior. But that’s not the real you. That is what the Bible calls the old man: the man you think you are outside of Jesus! But the Bible tells us we can put on the hidden man of the heart. Join me this week and begin to discover the truth about the real you. You’ll love meeting the real you!

Of all the factors that can consistently affect our lives negatively, there is probably nothing more devastating than what the Bible calls a “broken” heart. Because the heart is the seat of who we are, it affects every aspect of life. It is the source of all abiding emotions, good or bad. From the heart emerges all of life’s boundaries. In other words, every sense of limitation we experience flows out of our hearts. We can spend our entire lives focusing on problems and limitations that we perceive to be outside influences when, in reality, these limitations are based on what we believe about ourselves in our own hearts! In this month’s series, A Heart Awakening, I want to help you understand how your heart was broken and how you can move beyond the control of a broken heart and into a life without limits.

The Bible says that the end will come “like a thief in the night”. But it also says it will come with the “sound of a trumpet”. This is either talking about two separate events or there is an interesting caveat that we need to recognize. The truth is; people that won’t know when the end is here either don’t want to know, don’t believe, ignore the signs, or are so overtaken by the lust of their flesh and living life that they just aren’t paying attention. This is what Jesus was talking about when He said it would be like it was in the days of Noah. People were getting married, had families and carried on with their daily lives … until the flood came. Then, suddenly, they were taken by surprise. But Noah and his family were not taken by surprise. We never really have to be taken by surprise. Wise people understand the signs and know when and how to prepare so that they are not overcome.I want YOU to be an overcomer! I don’t want you to be overtaken by everything happening in the world today. To learn how you ca

Throughout history, we see Godless people, Godless regimes, world leaders hungry for power, and greedy people attempting to take over all the resources available in Planet Earth. Each monumental war has gotten more violent, more wicked, and more brutal. Jesus said that the time would come when we would have a tribulation on Planet Earth that would be far worse than anything that has ever happened. Many people have asked me if I thought we were in the Tribulation. “No, I do not!” People in Russia, China, the former Soviet Union, and all over the world have gone through worse than what we are going through right now. What we are going through will get worse unless we stop it. People who don’t know history, don’t know the Bible, or don’t understand how we got here, don’t know how to stop it. You may be asking yourself, “How did America get here?” I want to answer that question for you. I want to show you a Biblical perspective on how we reached this point. Once we understand how we got here, then we can unders