Ramesh Richard

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:31:00 +0000

How can we love someone we haven't seen, and yet love Him constantly? Loving the Lord with your mind helps with that question. God can preoccupy your mind even when you are not consciously thinking of Him.

"You love Him even though you have never seen Him. Though you do not see Him now, you trust Him; and you rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible joy." (1 Peter 1:8)

Intentional Life

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:20:00 +0000

Your intentional life begins in the interior, but doesn't end there. It controls, frames and results in an effective exterior life, and you will get to know the God you love better.

"A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart." (Luke 6:45)

Loving God, loving others

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:26:00 +0000

A life of love toward God shapes a life of love toward neighbor.

I am writing to remind you, dear friends, that we should love one another. This is not a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning." (2 John 5)

God is God

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:00:00 +0000

It is right to be involved with loving God, preoccupied with loving Jesus, simply because God is God.

Then mary took a twelve-ounce jar of expensive perfume made from essence of nard, and she anointed Jesus' feet with it, wiping His feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragance. (John 12:3)

God First

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Loving Jesus with passion experiences God as someone important in Himself, meaningful in Himself, whether or not He performs for us.

He said, "I came naked from my mother's womb, and I will be naked when I leave. The LORD gave m what i had, and the LORD has taken it away. Praise the name of the LORD!" (Job 1:21)

God-life

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

As the foundation-laying event of salvation, the very life of God-eternal life-entered us. We must live out that very God-life.

And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. (1 John 5:11)

A Passionate Life

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

The passionate life involves living the God-life for God, life by God.

This is why we work hard and continue to struggle, for our hope is in the living God, who is the Savior of all people and particularly of all believers. (1 Timothy 4:10)

Love

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Love. That's soul passion in a word. For what a man loves, he will follow. What a woman values, she will obey. For Christians, God is to be our ultimate love, our only passion.

Either way, Christ's love control us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. (2 Corinthians 5:14)

Obedience

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:00:00 +0000

The wise person transliterates God's expectation into core values. He then translates them into strategies for obedience. The first action acknowledges the timeless practicality of God's Word; the second acknowledges the timely practicaly of God's Word.

All Scripture is inspired by God an is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. (2 Timothy 3:16)

The Most Solid Foundation

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:00:00 +0000

God laid a new creation foundation for all people, a stratum wide enough and strong enough to hold everyone who wants to build his of her life on that solid rock foundation.

For we are both God’s workers. And you are God’s field. You are God’s building. (1 Corinthians 3:9)

The New Foundation

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:00:00 +0000

The new foundation and provision for rootedness was laid in human time by Jesus. God erected a “tree” as a symbol and instrument to provide the underlying support that our lives require, for by dying on the cross-tree Jesus attacked the root cause of human foundationlessness – sin.

But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When He was hung on the cross, He took upon Himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” (Galatians 3:13)

You Cannot Trust On Your Self

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Your self-reliant, self-oriented, self-centered, self-created ways of saving yourself, of being your own rock, cannot be trusted anymore.

God saved you by His grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. (Ephesians 2:8)

Critical Issue of Life

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:00:00 +0000

If you have not embraced Jesus as the bedrock of life, you must immediately deal with the critical issue that separates you from God, the founder and foundation of all reality.

Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins. (Ephesians 2:1)

Maintaining Spiritual Foundation

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:00:00 +0000

The maintenance of a spiritual foundation, the making of a godly life, remains an impossible God-thing in your life, but it also remains a possible God's thing in your life.

Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. (Ephesians 3:20)

Building a Sturdy Life

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 05:00:00 +0000

A person must embrace the Lord Jesus - His work for one's salvation, and His words for one's foundation - to build a sturdy life. The foundation must not only serve as a foundation on which to build but a foundation by which to live.

For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that Was His plan from before the beginning of time - to show us His grace ghrough Christ Jesus. (2 Timothy 1:9)

Keeping Spiritual Foundation

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:00:00 +0000

The maitnance of a spiritual foundation, the making of a godly life, remains an impossible God-thing in your life, but it also remains a possible God's thing in your life.

Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. (Ephesians 3:20)

Foundation

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:00:00 +0000

For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was His plan from before the beginning of time - to show us His grace ghrough Christ Jesus. (2 Timothy 1:9)

Restoring life’s foundation

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:00:00 +0000

How can we pursue a well-built, long-lasting house, a life that is well-grounded and well purposed? I point you to the basic action-laying the right foundation, or for many of us, restoring life’s foundation to original design, intent, and quality.

If the work survives, that builder will receive a reward. (1 Corinthians 3:14)

Foundation

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Your foundation rock secures your salvation but we must lay a foundation on the rock with the right materials, if your foundation has shifted due to hostile subsoil conditions, we need to undertake some foundation restoration.

Because of God’s grace to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful. (1 Corinthians 3:10)

Eternal Assurance

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Jesus’ foundational role in your life is secured by His eternal salvation. It is also possible to be sustained in present existence by that foundation.

God showed how much He loved us by sending His one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him. (1 John 4:9)

The Most Solid Foundation

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:00:00 +0000

God laid a new creation foundation for all people, a stratum wide enough and strong enough to hold everyone who wants to build his of her life on that solid rock foundation.

For we are both God’s workers. And you are God’s field. You are God’s building. (1 Corinthians 3:9)

The New Foundation

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:00:00 +0000

You Cannot Trust On Your Self

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Your self-reliant, self-oriented, self-centered, self-created ways of saving yourself, of being your own rock, cannot be trusted anymore.

God saved you by His grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. (Ephesians 2:8)

The Critical Issue of life

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:00:00 +0000

If you have not embraced Jesus as the bedrock of life, you must immediately deal with the critical issue that separates you from God, the founder and foundation of all reality.

Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins. (Ephesians 2:1)

The Bedrock

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Richard) — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:31:00 +0000

Jesus is the bedrock on which you can build with the right or wrong materials; but there is no negotiation who the bedrock is.

But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builder will be saved, but like someone barely escaping through a wall of flames. (1 Corinthians 3:15)