Hey, guys, I want to welcome you to this month’s World Changer Letter. You notice I changed the format of the letter and put it in video and written form. That way, you can decide whichever form you most enjoy getting this information. For days, I’ve been consumed to share and remind you of the faithfulness of God. That’s one of those concepts we take for granted or define the terminology differently than what the Bible is talking about. I think it’s important that we recognize that God is faithful.
The word “faith” is rooted in the word “faithful.” Faith is not just us believing for something in the Bible that is legally ours because it says it’s ours. Faith is more about looking at what God promised and then looking at His character. We trust and have faith in Him because we trust His faithfulness.
Somehow, over the last 50 or 60 years, we’ve reached a point where faith is removed from trusting God personally, His character, and His nature. It has been reduced to working formulas. I hope you keep track of all the blessings of God in your life.
I’ve shared that over 40 years ago, when I began to pray about something, I would write what it was in my Prayer Organizer on the extra pages. I would put the date I decided to pursue something. I would then take myself through the scriptures to find what God said about that need or problem I was trying to solve. I knew I had no basis to believe God to be faithful to something He hadn’t said. I’ve had that happen to me with my kids. They would tell me I should do this or that for them, and I never said I would or promised I would. Now that my kids are more mature, they don’t do that, but that’s the example I look back to.
Once I wrote something in my Prayer Organizer, I would decide how to persuade my heart to see, believe, and trust this promise rooted in God’s faithfulness. Once I put something in my Prayer Organizer and committed to it, I did not stop. It didn’t mean I prayed about it daily or how most people pray. If you want to understand how Jesus taught us to pray and the results, you will want to get my book, Heaven on Earth, to understand how He taught us to pray. Maybe you can get this along with my book, Keys to the Kingdom. Jesus taught us how to pray to get results, and most of what we do in prayer is not what Jesus taught.
When that thing came to pass, I would circle it with a red felt-tip pen and put the date it came to pass. For years, whenever I faced a new situation, I would open and flip through all those pages with the red circles on them and remind myself of all the ways and times that God had been incredibly faithful.
If we want to walk in an awareness of God’s faithfulness,
we must focus on all the times we have experienced
God’s faithfulness.
Amazingly, we tend to keep a record of the things that don’t work more than those that do. We tend to remember and have our emotions affected by the things that don’t work than those that do. If we want to walk in an awareness of God’s faithfulness, we must focus on all the times we have experienced God’s faithfulness. Being faithful means that God is reliable. He is truthful, has character, and is always there when we need Him. The Bible says He will never leave, forsake, or fail us. That means He is always there, ready to meet the need.
Many of you are familiar with the name Jehovah Jireh. In the 70s, we sang a chorus called “Jehovah Jireh” about God being our provider. Jehovah Jireh means more than just the fact that He’s our provider. Jehovah Jireh means that Jehovah Jireh sees and provides for the need. He sees the need in advance.
We often forget that God exists outside of space and time, meaning He is not confined by past, present, or future as we perceive it. While we break time into segments, God perceives all time as one event. He is always aware of the future, where we will be and what will occur. Importantly, in terms of His faithfulness, God sees the problems we will encounter before we do. He always sees and provides solutions to our needs before we realize we have them.
For years, the concept of the law of attraction gained popularity, even among Christians. People asked if I believed it. While aspects like honesty and integrity attracting positivity make sense, simply believing hard for something to attract it has a low success rate. Instead, I believe in the law of manifestation. If God loads us with benefits daily, then His solutions to our problems are already provided, whether we perceive them or not. Our task is to recognize and believe in what God has already provided.
If God loads us with benefits daily, then His solutions to our problems are already provided, whether we perceive them or not. Our task is to recognize and believe in what God
has already provided.
God is always ahead of us. He gets there before we do. No temptation we face is unique; it’s common to all. God’s faithfulness ensures that we won’t face more than we can handle. We share in Jesus’ victory over temptation as He faced and conquered them all. Trusting in Him enables us to deal with and overcome any challenge. Focusing on problems only magnifies them, making them seem insurmountable.
God’s faithfulness is evident in His proactive nature. He solves problems before they manifest. He planned the salvation of humanity before creation. His predestination was not about predetermined individuals but about offering salvation to all humanity. God had already prepared the solution before sin entered the world, or we knew we needed a Savior.
God looked into our futures and said, “I’m going to have salvation ready for you before you ever see that you need it, before you ever pray for it, before you ever do one thing so that it can manifest immediately when you open your hearts to it.” Man alive, I don’t know about you, but that encourages me so much. Here’s another incredible thing about God’s faithfulness: we think that God’s faithfulness is contingent upon our capability to do everything right. 2 Timothy 2:13 says, “Even if we are faithless, He remains faithful because He cannot deny Himself.”
If God had changed because of our behavior, he wouldn’t have been faithful and denied His own character. He would be denying what Jesus did through the death, burial, and resurrection. He would deny every promise He ever made to the human race. When sin came into the world, God didn’t change. God didn’t stop loving man. God didn’t stop having value for man.
He prepared our salvation before there was a world, a human race, or before sin ever entered the world, but even after that, He remains faithful even when we’re not. When we become faithless and come to our senses, we go, “Oh wait a minute, I might have lost my mind, spiritually speaking.” So, I’m returning to God and can always trust He’s there and ready. Not only is He there and ready, but He has already met that need in advance. Once we return to Him and turn our hearts fully to Him, as our heart opens up, we can see how He has met that need and how we can join in and enter into this incredible promise He has given us.
Many people get twisted up about a scripture. 1 John 1:9 talks about how God is faithful, forgives our sins, and cleanses us from all unrighteousness. Some say that this passage of scripture isn’t for Christians because we are not sinners. Well, this is not talking about your sin nature. Our sin nature has been eradicated if we’re in Christ. You’ve been born again, and your spirit has been made perfectly righteous.
But that doesn’t mean all your behavior is righteous or you’re not doing anything unacceptable to God. But it does mean that even though you’re born again and have a new nature, God needs to cleanse us, if you will, regularly. When Jesus washed the feet of the disciples, that was what He was demonstrating to them. He said, “Even though you’re clean because I’ve made you clean by My word, you’re walking through this world and getting dust and dirt on your feet. I’m not saying I must wash you all over. I’m just saying I will wash your feet. I will wash or cleanse the part of you that needs it.”
God is faithful and just. Interestingly, the original language implies that if He were not freely going to continue to extend cleansing and forgiveness, He wouldn’t be faithful to His promises. The word “just” is where we get the concept of righteousness. It implies that because He is righteous, He always upholds His promise and is willing to meet all the needs that we have in our lives.
One of the most dramatic places where we can discover God’s faithfulness and His willingness to always be there, deliver, and help us is when the children of Israel went into Canaan. God promised them that He would deliver the land mass of Canaan into their possession. Canaan is a type of the kingdom of heaven that we can enter now, not of us dying and going to heaven.
Experience all the provisions available in heaven; we can do it here on earth while still alive. In Canaan, seven primary tribes were the most ferocious of all the nations in the Middle East. They dominated Egypt, Mesopotamia, and almost all the world. But why were these seven tribes so powerful?
Many fail to grasp it, but the Bible teaches us in Genesis 6 that before and after the flood, there were what are called Nephilim that existed. Every continent, including America, has had thousands of reports of bones of giants found. However, that always gets covered up because, if acknowledged, it would challenge the concepts of Darwinian evolution. It would reinforce the truth of the Bible. Governments never want you to trust the Bible more than you trust the government. Despite efforts to suppress it, this is historically documented in ancient writings worldwide.
These giants were born from an ungodly alliance between fallen angels and human beings, making them hybrids. The seven nations or groups of people that God told the children of Israel to eradicate were populated with Nephilim and other beings that were hybrid aspects of fallen angels and human beings. Many of them were giants, and the ones that weren’t were still ruthless and powerful, driven by demonic rage and bloodlust.
So, when the children of Israel prepared to enter Canaan, Moses sent spies who reported that they felt like grasshoppers in the eyes of these giant inhabitants. Some were reported to be 10, 12, or even 16 to 18 feet tall. These beings were the ones who built walled cities and likely constructed many ancient megalithic structures.
Just as God was with the Israelites, so too can He
help us overcome the obstacles in our lives,
no matter how daunting they seem.
Despite their fears, the children of Israel, ordinary people without unique spiritual gifts, eventually followed God’s command to drive out these giants. In Joshua 3:10, it’s written that by this act, they would know that the Living God was among them and that He would help them drive out these powerful nations. Significantly, God empowered ordinary people to conquer giants. Looking at our lives, we might not face literal giants, but we face external and internal challenges. Just as God was with the Israelites, so too can He help us overcome the obstacles in our lives, no matter how daunting they seem.
Additionally, these seven nations in Canaan represent all seven of the lusts of the flesh. This symbolism emphasizes the spiritual battles believers face in their journey toward righteousness. In 1 John 2, we are told that all that is in the world is the lust of the flesh, the pride of life, and the lust of the eyes—taste, sight, hearing, smelling, touching.
It comes out that we have seven lusts of the flesh that war against us. Each one of these nations represents a different lust of the flesh. God told them they had to drive them out, or they would never live in consistent victory. But He always promised He was there with them to give them victory in these situations if they were willing to follow and trust Him.
This tells me that if I’m willing to follow Him and trust what He says, He can give me victory over all the lusts of my flesh. He is faithful. He’s not just faithful to be there when we have temptations. He is faithful to be there and prevents us from entering temptation if we choose that. The faithfulness of God goes beyond anything that we can describe in this. But I want you to know that God is with you, for you, and working on your behalf. God constantly works in the invisible realm that we can’t see to ensure that when we encounter needs in our lives, He has a way to meet those needs. Once we trust Him for that, our heart opens, and we can see and recognize how He is leading us to victory in that situation.
In 2 Thessalonians 3:3, after Paul talks about the coming rapture, we need to remind ourselves to have comfort and hope. He says, “The Lord is faithful and will establish and guard you from evil.” I don’t know about you, but God is my hope for overcoming the evil in this world, for living in victory, and for conquering the giants in my life that tend to take me off track. And He can be that to you.
I want you to be encouraged. Maybe take some of this and go back and look at God’s faithfulness. Maybe start keeping a record of all the times that you experience God’s goodness. It might be things you’re praying about, and sometimes you wouldn’t even pray about it, but God shows up and does it. But we must keep a record of that so that we can go back and stir up our holy memory of those things that God is doing and that God has done for us in the past.
I want to tell you how much I appreciate you helping me reach people worldwide. Man alive, Nate Tanner just returned from Africa, and our Bible schools are rocking and rolling all through prisons in Zambia. I think we’re planning on probably close to a thousand graduates this year that will finish our Bible schools.
People working in the prisons, guards, and administrators are also going through our Bible courses. Next, we plan to do the same thing in prisons in America before the federal government makes it where we can’t. We want to start putting our new updated School of Ministry classes in local churches that want to use it to train people and make them available to those who want to go through these classes on their own.
By reaching, training, and developing one leader, throughout that leader’s lifetime, we could easily reach 10,000 people with grace, peace, faith-righteousness, and the unconditional love of God.
All over the world, we’re raising up leaders. And by raising leaders, we are not in the ministry of addition. Addition is where you add one, add one, add one. I’m not against that, but we’re in the ministry for multiplication, where if we influence the life of a leader, that leader will affect hundreds of people every year. By reaching, training, and developing one leader, throughout that leader’s lifetime, we could easily reach 10,000 people with grace, peace, faith-righteousness, and the unconditional love of God.
That’s what you’re helping us do. I want to thank you so very much for all that you do. And I want to encourage you to continue. I know times are tight for us. Times are tight for everybody. But do you know something? We only have a limited period to do what we will for the kingdom of God. And then this is going to be over. So, thank you for allowing us to change how the world sees God together. I want to thank you that we will continue to do this until Jesus calls us to come home—blessings to you.
Don’t forget to join me every Thursday when I release a new CyberChurch video. It’s free of charge and is available on our website, impactministries.com. It is also available on YouTube and Roku. You can find it everywhere, so join us.
Also, I’m getting ready to open the gates to our Ultimate Impact personal coaching program, which we offer online so that others can step in. You’ll be getting some information about that soon—blessings to you. Have a great life and a great week. But part of what will make it great and help you overcome all the fears and anxiety the world would put on you today is knowing, believing, and being fully convinced that God is faithful to His every promise.
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P.S. Please enjoy the following testimony from Abi Lopez. Together, we are…
Changing the Way the World Sees God!
Abi Lopez Testimony
Hi, my name is Abi Lopez. I come from Europe and Poland, and behind me is my hometown, Szczecin. It is one of the largest cities in Poland, located close to Berlin. I met Dr. Jim about 17 years ago. Twenty years ago, I graduated from my music college. I came to the United States, where I met my husband, and now we have three children. I met Dr. Jim Richards at one of the churches where I was ministering as a worship leader, and that’s how my journey began with the gospel of peace.
As you can imagine, my background was very much Catholic, combined with Evangelical movements that were flooding Poland from various American missionaries. Back then, when I grew up in Poland, it was still a communist, then post-communist country that allowed missionaries to come with the gospel and start small groups and churches other than Catholic. From all that confusion between who God is and where the truth is, I would have to tell you a long story of the years in my life when God spoke to me in so many ways, confirming what I’ve heard from Dr. Jim Richards for the first time 17 years ago when I met him at one church in Chicago.
When I heard him for the first time, something shook my heart. I said, “This is it; that’s what my heart was searching for, and I can’t believe that there is someone that’s talking so straight, so open, so bold about the true loving nature of God.” Dr. Jim was the first man I’ve heard saying, “God doesn’t punish you; this sickness doesn’t come from God. It’s not congruent with the Word of God,” and that’s what I’ve been reading all these years in the Bible. Yet, religion possessed my mind and would not allow me to realize this because I was just afraid.
From that moment of complete change and transformation in my heart, I dedicated my life to translating as many of his teachings as possible into my Polish language. So, my journey with Impact Ministries and Dr. Jim Richards’ teachings began many years ago. After a specific time, all of a sudden, it just blew up. I opened Pandora’s Box; people flooded me with messages, emails, and comments on my YouTube channel: “Hey, can I get more of this? How can I get peace in my heart? How can I connect with God? How can I learn what Dr. Jim Richards says about loving God and His nature?”
And boy, there were countless testimonies. I would have to write a book about how many lives were changed by the gospel of peace in Poland (just in my country). It is incredible, and the same thing is slowly happening with our German channel. Something is happening; we are growing; more and more German believers are reaching out to us, praise God. So, I suppose I would have to name one testimony. In that case, it is too hard because the stories flood my mind: mothers and fathers received freedom, and so many suicidal people were going to end their lives. However, after listening to Dr. Jim’s message, people’s lives, minds, and thinking changed completely.
I believe God wants to do it worldwide through you and me. Thank you so much. Do you know what the best news about the kingdom of God is? The best news is that you can enter it right now. You don’t have to wait until you die. That’s pretty amazing.
I was still young, a wife, and I had small children. It was overwhelming for one person to do it, so I said, “God, how can I do this? Please help me.” And then, between all these people who were contacting me, a few pastors from Poland reached out to me, asking how they could help. This was such an answer from God. Thanks to them, I could build incredible connections with them overseas in Poland while I lived in America. So, that’s how the gospel of peace expanded widely and flooded Polish churches, continuing through today. I am so grateful for it.
Dr. Jim and I believe this can happen in every country if we find one person passionate about the gospel of peace. It would be someone willing to dedicate their time because it costs time, energy, and effort. But how beautiful it is to see the fruits of your labor in the name of Jesus. And God will bless that ministry.
“He’s going to test you, He’s going to put you through stuff, and He’s going to kill your kids.” That’s the way most people approach God. They think it’s God that’s doing it. You can’t trust a God that you’re afraid of.
About four or five years ago, I finally got a hold of Dr. Jim. We did the first session together, where I translated for him, the second, and the third. He then asked me to work for him and expand my ministry in Poland to other countries as best as possible. So, we opened up new YouTube channels in Chinese, Mandarin, Spanish, Swahili, German, Italian, you name it. I contacted certain people already connected to Dr. Jim’s ministry or even people outside who are open to helping us. And we began to translate this in new ways, praying and hoping it would reach their countries.
So, if I could ask you to pray with me, it is to help us find and multiply faithful translators that we already work with and those who would be as passionate or even more towards their countries that would be willing to invest their precious time. It takes a lot of work to translate just one teaching. For instance, if we talk about Spanish, we have so many variables and different countries that we have the potential to reach out to—Spain, Mexico, and so many more where they speak Spanish. I’m thinking of Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and other countries.
So, with your financial help and spiritual support, if you pray for us, I believe we can reach the ends of the world. I am so grateful for Dr. Jim’s Ministry, that he never stops, that you always support him in every project, idea, and vision he has, and that you are here to be with us to show us your love in any way.
And my last words are, never give up. Remember that every word and every conversation matters; whoever you meet on your way, it matters what you say. You build the kingdom of God together with us, and wherever you are, God is there. And He wants to give you peace that surpasses all understanding. He is the answer to this broken world. Praise God!