Richard Ellis Talks

It does not matter where we’ve come from and the mistakes that we’ve made in the past. God wants to give us a new life and write a new story for our future if we would just give our lives over to Him.

We need to be fully present where God has placed us and focused on where He is moving us forward. Rather than being like a fish who jumps out of an aquarium because they think it’s better on the other side, we need to be content where God has put us because it is there that He provides all that we need.

As believers, we are representations of the change that God can make in someone’s life and we need to be willing to share His message of truth with others. When we spread the Gospel we are making war on hell and it will not be easy, but it is what God has called us to do so He will give us the strength to do it.

God gave Joseph a dream that took years of hardship until it was fulfilled. Joseph’s story is encouraging to us because God used specific places and people to give Joseph a leg up along the way to finally get him to where He needed him to be. God can use our lives, no matter how messy it seems, if we would just trust Him with the pieces and take every step at a time.

We all face giants in our lives that seem impossible to overcome, but with God backing us up and filling us with His power He is able to overcome those giants through us. God wants to bring us to a place where we are stepping out in faith and giving Him the necessary opportunity to intervene so that He gets the glory from the work that is accomplished.

There are many stories in the Bible of men who stood strong in their faith and God used them to change the world. God wants to use us the same way if we would just yield our lives to Him, stand firm in our faith, and allow Him to use us as the light in the world.

Just as a gardener plants seeds and waters those seeds in the ground, it is not him that makes the growth happen. His job is to create the environment where growth is possible. As Christians, this is how we are to approach other people, planting and watering seeds of the Gospel and depending on God for the growth.

The devil offers us many deals that seem good in the moment but that carry heavy consequences. We need to stop falling into his traps and begin reading the Bible, allowing God to speak to us through His Word. As we study and learn the Scriptures, we must cling to God’s truth and live our lives according to His instruction.

The Bible tells the story of a widow who continually asked an uncaring judge for retribution on someone who wronged her and he eventually gave in because she wouldn’t stop asking. This is how God wants us to come to Him when we ask for something, with faith believing that He can and with persistency.

Our lives are always producing fruit, but we only produce good fruit like love, joy, and peace when we are connected to Christ. Others see when our life is transformed and we start producing good fruit and they want to get connected to Christ so that they can be transformed as well because they want what they see that we have.