We were created for life and will never be prepared to die until we have truly lived. People who experience life fully are the ones most able to die with the same passion in with which they have lived. Those who fear death the most are those who have not yet begun to live. Those who live in the realm of faith, hope, and love, live for eternity now. Today is another good day to live in the conscious presence... Read more
It’s a New Year! (There is Nothing New Under the Sun). 2012 has now dawned among every inhabitant of planet earth. All around the world, a rising chorus competes with another refrain: The first is “Thank God 2011 has ended,” while the other asks, “What will befall us in the dreadfully anticipated, 2012? But while we focus on a new year and new possibilities, new challenges and new experiences, there is a sense in which we ought to remember and... Read more
A Prophetic Word for 2012: Lam 3:21-26: Yet there is one ray of hope: his compassion never ends. It is only the Lord’s mercies that have kept us from complete destruction. Great is his faithfulness; his loving-kindness begins afresh each day. My soul claims the Lord as my inheritance; therefore I will hope in him. The Lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him, to those who seek for him. It is good both to hope and wait... Read more
What is Your Vision? Vision is a critical issue for leaders, and no leader of any consequence can be without one. However, our idea of what constitutes vision may be lacking. People often ask me about my vision. Of course the answers typically expected are numeric in nature or involve a desired effect. Many expect that a vision must reach ‘such and such’ a number or cause ‘this or that’ effect. The question in and of itself is not a... Read more
As we move along into the New Year, I wanted to share 25 key initiatives that I feel are significant for every Believer. I am hopeful that these will confirm some things the Lord has already been showing you as well as encourage you to pray into these initiatives for your own lives, and for the Body of Christ. I pray that each of us would ask the Father to reveal to us our part in the Body and that... Read more
Fusion with God and His ways is radical because it confronts our being, the very place where illusion and ego are generated. It touches the unconscious where most of our wounds and needs for healing lie. As we allow our minds and hearts to be healed and renewed it is likely to produce next generation Christ-like leaders. It will have little to do with being ordained, or being charismatically powerful or popular. We need teachers, but we mainly need teachers... Read more
(En Español) It is not God who hinders the healing of our land. Rather it is our apathy, our own unbelief, that keeps us from grasping the potential offered in the Gospel of Christ! Do not marvel when I say entire cities can be saved. The Scripture tells us that nations will come to our light and kings to the brightness of our rising! (Isaiah 60:1-3) All We Lack is Christlikeness! “He then began to denounce the cities in which... Read more
Talking to God and quieting ourselves enough to hear from God has the power to bring transformational wisdom, maturity, and favor. It does not require formal education, or a hierarchy of decision makers, does not need preachers, and does not need membership requirements that include and exclude. Engaging with God is about you and God first, and then being led in how we may engage with others. Deep prayer on the inside heals the outside and the in-between simply by... Read more
Words change their meanings, and people who assume that older meanings still prevail invite deception thereby. It is part of current Marxist ideology to give a new content and an alien meaning to such familiar words as peace, freedom, republic, law, and so on. New meanings precede revolutions, because the content of human hopes is altered dramatically, and the existing order finds that it cannot satisfy the new meanings. Before the French Revolution, the idea of liberty had taken on... Read more
Giving and receiving are reciprocal and happening at once. This is a powerful shared experience, or can easily become ego-inflated, especially by giving because of religious or moral mandates. The goal is to lessen the fortress of “I,” while not giving power to exclusivity or superiority. There is a divine flow between the one who is giving and the one who is receiving. The one who gives receives much more than they can give in the flow of Spirit. Significance... Read more
Robert Ricciardelli
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