A Final Covenant of Better and More by Robert Ricciardelli

Spirit led living creates a hunger for more. More of Him, more giving of our life to others, a progressive Father pleasing existence. Once we taste the elements of eternity, we want live in the elements of His Kingdom and will not go back to obsolete, aging, and disappearing covenants. We are now becoming human as God has intended, supernaturally living, moving and having our being in the garden of His presence.

Childlike Reality by Robert Ricciardelli

We are all eternal children of a loving God and Father. He wants us to approach Him with childlike faith. That means we recognize our need for Him and that we do not have it all figured out, ever. This allows us to have grace for each other's messes while Christ is being more fully formed in us. Many trials and mistakes are all part of the learning. Enjoy the eternal journey you are on, you are not alone.

Looking to the Mountain of His Majesty by Robert Ricciardelli

We have been created with eyes that can see God's truth and glory. When we search for answers beyond circumstances by looking to the Mountain of His Majesty, the answers flow like lava upon our hearts and minds. As His fire cleanses and heals our soul, peace returns to us and we can breathe again. We regain our sight of the beauty of today and the reality above the surface, which is His eternal hope and glory.

Battle Tested and Battle Ready by Robert Ricciardelli

What looks like a loss may be the beginning of a major shift in direction towards victory. It is most important to not turn inward, and to realize that your life matters much. Powerful testimonies are birthed through extreme testing. You will get through this battle and the next, but you are never alone in your fight. Get back into the battle of life again! We need you!

Contradictions That Move Us Toward God by Robert Ricciardelli

Many contradictions in life may cause us to feel never fully present sometimes as we see doors open for us while many other doors remained closed. These same contradictions can bring us into touch with a deeper desire of fulfillment that lives beneath all other desires, and one that only God can satisfy. Contradictions, thus understood, create the friction that can help us move toward God.

Little Christ's For Today by Robert Ricciardelli

The Word becomes flesh in us as we receive Him. God became flesh long ago through Christ and continues so today through us. As revelation of the Word of God renews our minds and descends into our hearts, we become different people. The Word gradually becomes flesh in us and thus transforms our whole being as we become living epistles and living Christ's for today. Christ in us and through us, the hope of glory.

Good Leaders are Givers by Robert Ricciardelli

Good leaders are called to lay down their lives for those they lead. They are not to be worldly takers but heavenly givers. They should lead in the nature of God, by becoming a source of life to others through authentic sharing of friendship, wisdom, and love. One of the greatest gifts we can give others is ourselves.

The Gift of Children by Robert Ricciardelli

Children are not property but a gift from God to raise and release to Him. We empower them through Unconditional love, and communicating to them that their value is not measured by performance. Give your children continual praise and encouragement even in the small things, and watch them soar in the confidence of being loved and valued.

Hitting Rock Bottom Can Be a Good Thing by Robert Ricciardelli

Hitting rock bottom is not always a bad thing. Shift your prospective to realize the fabulous opportunities ahead. You have learned what does not work, and are making positive changes that will lead to brand new possibilities. Even at Rock bottom you stand in Christ, your Rock solid foundation, and in Him you have limitless potential! The Spirit of the Living God is your springboard for a bright future.

No Doormats in the Kingdom of God by Robert Ricciardelli

Authority and obedience are a two way street. Without mutual submission we can have extreme control on one end and doormat behavior on the other. To be great in the Kingdom you must rule as a servant, and willingly submit to others for the fullness of God's desires. Likewise, no one is a doormat in the Kingdom of God, but is in formation for growth into the wisdom and stature of Christ.

He is Our Everything by Robert Ricciardelli

Father, Your will be done as our life is in your hands. Life is much more than food, wealth, or health, yet you provide them as you will. Our wellness does not rest in human hands. Our hope is in you alone. You are our life, our food, our wealth, and our health. Give us the strength to weather the storms as you fill every need. We endlessly pursue you, and follow every step you choose for us. 

Answers from the Deep by Robert Ricciardelli

Things we counted on, are no more, and health declining as darkness seemingly overtakes us. Money or optimum health cannot replace what is inside of each one of us. The spark of His divine nature can never be extinguished, and so the uprising of hope swells again. The darkness is dispelled as His light comes forth from the deep. The deep calls to the deep and the answer comes.

Daring to Be Dependent by Robert Ricciardelli

Independence becomes bondage in isolation. It is easy to choose independence rather than trusting others. It is clear that God created us to be dependent fully in Him and interdependent with others. Freedom is the woven reality of our need for each other, and God powerfully dwelling in that unity so that His glory can be revealed in our love for one another.

Receiving from the Giver by Robert Ricciardelli

Receiving from others can sometimes be more difficult than giving. Giving is important, but receiving from a giver can be equally as important. Whether it is hope, inspiration, or encouragement, receivers create opportunity for for the giver. We can help givers become  aware of their unique and precious gifts by our acceptance of them.

Passion, Motivation, and Habits to Success by Robert Ricciardelli

God births passion in each one of us toward His plans and purposes. Our passion for Him and His Kingdom fuels our motivation. We are motivated to live by His Spirit and obediently patterned into His way, His truth, and His life. His principles and presence create godly habits that lead to empowered living to the glory of God.

The Divine Exchange by Robert Ricciardelli

Everyone has something to give no matter how poor they are, and receive no matter how rich they may be. There is a God ordained reciprocity in giving and receiving. When we are giving let's be looking for what we are receiving from whom we give to. Likewise, let's begin to ask what we may be giving to those we receive from. In big or small ways, we can expect divine exchange in the giving and receiving.

Wise Choosing in Uncertainties by Robert Ricciardelli

It is not easy to live faithfully in a world full of uncertainties. God's eternal truths are often woven into liberal religion and rational solutions for humanity. Discernment of absolute truth while practically trying to live out those principles reminds us of how much we need God and His wisdom. We have to learn to make wise choices daily without needing to be entirely certain of the outcome.

My Mother, My Best Friend, My Hero by Robert Ricciardelli

A mother is often the truest friend we have. When chaos surrounds us, she embraces us, and through her loving kindness brings peace to the storm. A mother's love is not acquired or deserved, but just is, and is forever constant. I can never forget my mother. She was my bridge to God's love, and not a saint departed nor remaining can impact my life as she has. She was my best friend and remains my hero.

His Purpose Driven Life by Robert Ricciardelli

Our purpose must be found in our Creator. Trying to find purpose outside of God is like a fish trying to find it's purpose outside of water. He desires so much for you to live, move, and have your being in Him. He will prepare you for every step, as every next step is revealed along the way. He will guide you through life as your destiny is fulfilled through Him.

Heaven Coming Through You by Robert Ricciardelli

Why do you get up each morning? Since you become what you think about most of the time, purpose gives you a focus for every waking and walking moment. God's plans prevail, and so we must align ourselves with His plans for us. As we seek His counsel, He brings people, opportunities, ideas, and resources from heaven to move us further toward our destiny in Him. He uses us to bring heaven to the earth.

Friendship of Parents and Children by Robert Ricciardelli

Many children leave their parents to find independence and return to them only to find that they often feel like children again, and parents want to care for them as children once again. But a dynamic relationship can take place where sometimes the son or daughter can bring advice and direction to the parents and a reciprocal friendship can be established. This can be a beautiful and honoring family friendship.

Eternal Shores Await by Robert Ricciardelli

Dying is a final vanishing from this dimension of life. When we watch a sailboat leaving port and moving toward the horizon, it becomes smaller and smaller until we can no longer see it. But we trust that someone is standing on a faraway shore waiting to see it reach its new harbor. When loved ones pass on, our hearts are in grief. But when we think about the One standing at eternity's shore eagerly waiting to welcome our beloved into a new home, a smile can break through the tears.

Faith Without Love is Dead by Robert Ricciardelli

Faith without works is dead, and equally, faith without love is dead. You can fast and pray for supernatural experiences and in the end get not much more than skinny. High level agape love produces high level supernatural results. So expect the Spirit of God to move through your faithfulness. Expect miracles to happen, but know that it will come through faithfulness in a loving God, and loving others with His love.

Empower Your Faith Through Love by Robert Ricciardelli

Neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters most is a faith filled life expressed through love. Faith can move mountains. Faith can heal, and receive answers to prayers. Nothing is impossible with faith. Yet many know the power of faith and still are not seeing positive results. Empowered faith comes only through God's love.

Touch of Healing by Robert Ricciardelli

Touch is a powerful expression of love. Babies receive a lot of touch and less as they grow older. Touch often gives more life than words. A warm handshake, a hug, or a kiss, can be powerful moments that can restore, forgive, and heal. Everyone who touched Jesus and everyone whom Jesus touched were healed. God's incarnate love and power went out from Him and goes out from us to heal one another.

Significance of Our Presence by Robert Ricciardelli

There are places in our own hearts that we ourselves cannot see. Even when we know a lot about ourselves, like our gifts, weaknesses, or motives, a large part of ourselves remain in the shadow of consciousness. Other people, especially those who love us, can often see those areas better than we ourselves can. We will never fully know the significance of our presence in the lives of our friends. That's a grace that calls us not only to humility but also to a deep trust in those who love us.

Perfection, The Enemy of Action by Robert Ricciardelli

If we viewed mistakes as a chance to learn something, then we might actually make something excellent some day. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of trying something good! We can inspire others with the things we do now, not the things we’re going to perfect some day. Try something creative, learn from the experience, and enjoy the process! After all, perfection is like trying to hold moon beam in your hand.

Be a Good Friend by Robert Ricciardelli

To have good friends you need to be a good friend. It is foundational on love as a never ending commitment. Are you a servant in the relationship, and look out for their best interests? Patience and understanding is needed during tough times. Being friendly with a genuinely cheerful outlook matters. People like to be around positive people. At the end of the day, true friends become family.

Friends are Easy and Always by Robert Ricciardelli

A friend is a safe harbor that is often God's messenger of His grace and healing in the most critical of times. A friend is a person with whom we can share our solitude, our silence, and our prayer. A friend is the person we share our most intimate secrets with, or nothing at all. With a friend we don't have to say or do anything special. With a friend we can be still and know that God is there with both of us.

Positively Seize This Day! by Robert Ricciardelli

We can look at our lives as moments of discipline or regret. Discipline because we see the opportunity to change, and see the past as lessons learned, or regret because we do not have the hope for change and look at the past as a constant weight of perpetual failure. Seek after godly wisdom, and take action into the disciplines that take you on the right path for your future. Forgive yourself for missteps as you seize this day in a positive way.

Fear Not! Love Never Leaves by Robert Ricciardelli

Fear changes us and takes us from the confidence of unconditional love. God reminds us to "Fear not! My Perfect love casts out fear, and I have come to you and made my home in you, forever". We are free to relate with the Source of all life. Welcoming unconditional love gives us the ability to become unconditional lovers for Him. Jesus came to convince us that God's love is a pure gift, unearned, and lasts forever.

Love Yourself First by Robert Ricciardelli

Are you friends with yourself? Do you love who you are? This impacts our capacity to love others. We are wonderful but limited, may have success with insecurities, yet beyond all that we are people with spirits with sparks of the Divine. When we trust that we are unconditionally embraced by a loving God, we can befriend ourselves and reach out to others in loving relationships.

Living Each Moment Significantly by Robert Ricciardelli

What truly counts is not the length of our lives but the quality and impact of how we lived. Jesus was in his early thirties when he was killed. Anne Frank was a teenager when she lost her life. But their short lives continue to bear fruit long after their deaths. Live a life of significance and infinite value, while trying to live every moment in gratitude, wisdom, joy, and peace.

The Currency of the Kingdom is Relationship by Robert Ricciardelli

Currency of the Kingdom is relationship and the currency of relationship is conversation. The quality of the conversation directly influences the quality of our relationship. Sharing of hearts is transformational, beginning with God and extending to others. People near you want to engage in conversation with you, and a conversation that flows well both ways as it harvests relationship that reveals God's glory.

Community is Not a Talent Show by Robert Ricciardelli

Community is not a talent show in which we dazzle the world with our combined gifts of intelligence, health and wealth. In true community there can be many forms of poverty beyond economics, such as bankruptcy in spiritual, emotional, and physical health. New life comes from acknowledging one another, and the richness that comes from needs being met through the sharing of each others lives.

Agape Ambassadors See Strength Hidden in Weakness by Robert Ricciardelli

Who has time for a hurting friend when it is easier to be with the healthy ones? "Newsflash" we all are part of the imperfect tribe of humanity. When we errantly dismiss people, we hinder their growth by ignoring gifts that are often buried in their wounds. Agape Ambassadors know that strength is hidden in weakness, and that true community is a fellowship of the weak with a very strong God.

Faith Soars Above Reality by Robert Ricciardelli

Emotions impact how we awake each morning, and how we react to life each day. Present conditions can impact our emotional ability to overcome. Being aware that present conditions happened because of previous causes is a first step to renewed emotions. Having faith that God is with us and wants us to be his instrument to a better tomorrow, gives us wings to soar over our present reality and be his agent for change.

Flexibility is a Virtue by Robert Ricciardelli

Trees are strong, yet the winds topple trees while bending grass remains. When we cling to our own positions and are not willing to explore and value the ideas and actions of others, we can be broken. Being flexible does not mean being wishy-washy. It means moving with the winds of time, change, and differences, while remaining solidly anchored to our foundation. Flexible and rooted outlasts the storms of life.

Listening Breeds Acceptance by Robert Ricciardelli

The beauty of listening is that, those who are listened to feel accepted, valued, and can believe in themselves even more. They discover more fully how uniquely and wonderfully God has made them to be. Listening is a form of godliness by which you invite strangers to become friends. By honoring the persons verbal expression, the friend feels loved, and in the place of safety will feel accepted, even when the words are few and silence comes.

Listening Brings Freedom by Robert Ricciardelli

Listening can be difficult as it takes an inner strength that no longer needs to prove ourselves by speaking our own mind. True listeners no longer need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, and accept. Listening is much more than allowing another to talk. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. True Listening can bring freedom to the talker

Your Part Matters by Robert Ricciardelli

Every interaction is part of the whole. So much information races by us each day, and we snatch little bits and then magnify them into what we embrace as a fuller picture. That talk you had, the smile you gave, and every moment matters as part of the whole. Little or much becomes significant. God wants to partner through us to serve others and change the world. The world is changing, and your part matters.

Free For Mercy by Robert Ricciardelli

We spend enormous amounts of energy perceiving others. Not a day goes by without somebody doing or saying something that evokes in us the need to form an opinion about them. We see, hear, and experience a lot. The feelings we sort out can be quite oppressive. Once we can let go of our need to judge others, we will experience an immense inner freedom. Once we are free from judging, we will be also free for mercy.

Today is Tomorrow's History by Robert Ricciardelli

History starts Now. What do you today becomes your part of history for tomorrow. God is giving you this day to be part of His plan to change the world, one life at a time, beginning with you. Yesterday is over,and every day is a new day as you let go of the former things. God is carving out a path for you, even through the pounding waves of life. Rejoice, for He has a new thing for you, He is with you, and His-story for you going forward is a Master-piece.

Moving Away from Prejudices by Robert Ricciardelli

We are called to live without prejudices. Sometimes we do not know how deeply rooted our prejudices are. We may relate well to "others" until a reaction reveals that our prejudices are still there. Only when we can truly claim God's unconditional love, and look at "others" as equally loved, can we begin to discover the richness of God's heart in the diversity of His creation. Then unity can come without uniformity.

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Motivated For Good by Robert Ricciardelli

When we declare the grace of God to the world, His love in us will motivate us to do good to others as ambassadors of the grace we declare. We do not settle for being good, but seek opportunities to DO GOOD. While we bask in His goodness, how much of it is flowing out to others? Are we willing to become vulnerable and ask the question, "Father am I loving and doing the things that please you and empower others?"

The God of Every Moment by Robert Ricciardelli

God answers general prayers generally, and specific prayers specifically. He cares for your specifics, your every step, and your every moment. Allow Him to be part of your every moment. Ask Him in the now, what step you must take in order to get to the next step. Your steps are ordered by Him, but He desires your willingness to hear His voice in the moment, any moment. He is waiting for you now, and you need Him now!

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Trusting First Love by Robert Ricciardelli

You are loved, and can trust that the intimacy you desire is there for you. Do you know that you are loved first, independent of what you do or accomplish? As long as we think love is earned, we will miss what we need and desire most, a love that cannot be earned, but that is freely given. Willingly renounce such thoughts and return to to your true "first loved" identity as a cherished child of God.

Greatness in Going Low by Robert Ricciardelli

The true test of greatness is humility. Humility is not lowering of one's value but having a proper perspective of self. It is not a lack of confidence, but confident of God's Spirit within, and what He can do. People who serve well know that greatness is not in them, but flows through them. They also have the ability to see the divine nature of every human being. One must go low to lift others high.

Children Are Parents' Long Term Guests by Robert Ricciardelli

Children are parents' long term guests. They come into the space created for them, stay for a while, then leave to create their own space. Although parents speak about "our children," their children are not their property. The greatest gift parents can give, is their love for God, each other, and lovingly guiding them towards maturity, and freedom in making their own decisions.

Relational Hospitality by Robert Ricciardelli

Two or more people, in friendship, marriage, or community, can create space where strangers can enter as friends. True hospitality is a reflection of the relationship of those who host, and makes warm welcoming possible. Conflict filled environments prevent true hospitality. Hospitality is more than an expression of love for the guest. It is also and foremost an expression of love between the hosts.