Richard Ellis Talks

The Bible is very clear when it comes to sin that we, as believers, must abstain from when we choose to follow Christ. God disciplines those He loves, and we need to respond to His discipline with gratitude, repentance, and worship for His forgiveness.

God wants us to pursue Him because when we do that our hearts begin to change and He places specific desires in us to pray about. When we pray with persistence about these things that He has put on our hearts, He promises that He will give us those desires.

A jerk is someone who thinks they have the answer to all the problems and tries to quickly fix things so they can move on. What we need to be, as the Body of Christ, is a Church family who weeps together and rejoices together. The only way we can do this is if we stop trying to fix everything and simply sit and listen, loving well and patiently letting someone process however long it takes.

God always sees a bigger picture than we do and He often calls us to trust Him when we don’t see how something is possible. When we put our faith in Him and step out as He leads, we will be astonished at what He can do.

The Bible tells us that we are all going to sin and mess up, however God made a way through His Son so that we can be forgiven and healed. No matter how far away we may have gotten by the poor choices we’ve made, we can always come back to Him, pick up where we left off and move on.

The Bible tells us stories of promises God made to His people and they had faith in His Word, even if those promises were not fulfilled until generations down the line. God has promised us that He will be with us, and that He will return to take us home to Heaven and we can count on Him to keep that promise.

As Christians we tend to point our fingers at other people’s sins and ignore our own, however it is not until we can admit to our own sin that we fully experience God’s grace and mercy and can extend it to someone else. Jesus is the only one who lived a perfect life and can say that everyone else has sinned, and it was His death that made it possible for us all to be made clean.

Hindsight gives us the ability to look back in the past to see a situation clearly based on the outcome, while faith allows us to have hindsight in the middle of any situation because we know that it will all be okay. When we trust God and focus on Him regardless of the trial we face, He will give us wisdom and strength to get through whatever it is we are going through.

We will constantly be tempted to sell out our Christianity for a certain reputation, job, relationship, anything that the devil might offer us. We must remember that our relationship with Jesus is priceless and He has already given us all that we could ever want in Himself.

We are born into sin and there is nothing that can cancel our debt to God except for Jesus Christ. He took our debt of sin on Himself and it was nailed to the cross as He died in our place so that all we must do is believe in Him and our sins will be completely forgiven.