Take the Bull

By the Horns

By: Dr. Robert E. Richarz

Take the Bull by the Horns

Copyright © 2014 Dr. Robert E. Richarz

All rights reserved.

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E-mail : rricharz@yahoo.com

Take the Bull By the Horns Dr. Richarz Table of Contents

Introduction

Take the Bull by the Horns……………………………………1

Chapter One

1st Learn Who Jesus Is .........................................15

Chapter Two

2nd Meditate on the Word of God.......................21

Chapter Three

3rd Learn to Take Our Thoughts Captive ..............27

Chapter Four

4th Learn to Roll Off Your Cares ...........................35

Chapter Five

5th Learn to Enter God’s Presence .......................41

Chapter Six

6th Putting On Your Armor ..................................53

Chapter Seven

7th Learn to Use the Power of Your Tongue ........61

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Chapter Eight

8th Learning to Worship ..................................... 73

Chapter Nine

9th Preparing Your Heart ..................................... 79

Chapter Ten

10th Tithing ........................................................ 87

Outline

Take the Bull by the Horns .................................. 95

ABOUT THE AUTHOR......................................... 109

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Take the Bull By the Horns Dr. Richarz Introduction

Take the Bull by the Horns

The title of this book is “Take the Bull by the

Horns.” I wanted the title to be something you

can remember. Just to give you a little

information, history says that the first bull

dogger was William Pickett. He was born in

Texas and had seen a bull dog take a steer to the

ground by biting its lip and stopping it. So

William decided he could do it too. So, he would

ride up beside a running steer, leap from his

horse, bite the steer on the lip and fall backwards

causing the animal to fall down. This method is

what eventually turned into our modern day

steer wrestling. The point is, we have all seen

steer wrestling at a rodeo; a cowboy and a steer

charge down the arena and the cowboy slides off

of his horse, grabs the running steer by the

horns, stops it and throws it to the ground.

We use that phraseology “take the bull by

the horns” to mean something is running away.

This is what we have to do if something has run

away or if something has gone crazy in life; we

have to take the bull by horns. You have to stop

it. You have to throw it. You have to do it or it

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz will run away with your life. The next pages of

this book will help you get control of your life

and bring order to it so you can live in victory.

I keep hearing over and over that Jesus did it

all for us. He made a way where there seemed to

be no way. There was no way man could be

righteous before God. There was no way that we

could stand before Him and go into the throne.

There was no way to have any sort of

relationship with our heavenly Father because of

sin. The original sin in the garden has always

been in our way. Man will always need to be

cleansed.

Let’s look at a couple of scriptures. In John

1:29, John the Baptist saw Jesus coming and he

said, “…. Behold! the Lamb of God who takes

away the sin of the world!” That’s what Jesus did.

He took away the sin of the world. He took away

the obstacle that was keeping us from our

relationship with God. In 1 John 1:1-3, it says:

“That which was from the beginning, which

we have heard, which we have seen with our

eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands

have handled, concerning the Word of life -- the

life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear

witness, and declare to you that eternal life

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz which was with the Father and was manifested

to us -- that which we have seen and heard we

declare to you, that you also may have fellowship

with us; and truly our fellowship is with the

Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.”

You need to understand that God always

wanted fellowship with man, but there was no

way for man to fellowship with God because man

could not come into His presence. 1 John 1: 4-7

goes on to say:

“And these things we write to you that your

joy may be full. This is the message which we

have heard from Him and declare to you, that

God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we

say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk

in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we

have fellowship with one another, and the blood

of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

Fellowship comes from walking and

spending time with Him. Maybe I’m the only one

who is catching this. Maybe you all are sitting

there saying, “Yeah Pastor, we got this back in

Sunday school.” But it just hit me. People are

walking around in this world and they are not

having a relationship with their heavenly Father.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz They’re not having fellowship with their

heavenly Father. They are not having any

revelations from heaven. They are not living a

life of victory by walking in the light. Jesus is the

light and the life coming into them, but they are

dead, defeated by the obstacles this life throws at

them. These people are dead and hung because

something happened in their lives. Whatever the

issues are in life, be it an offense, an injustice,

rejection, their lives can never get in touch with

God because the bottom line is: He said that we

are supposed to trust Him and His Word in all

things and when we are not trusting God for

something, folks, that’s sin.

Sin can’t just be labeled. It’s not just a can of

Bud Light or Jack Daniels or some specific action.

No! Sin is anything that we are not letting the

Spirit of God come into our lives and have

dominion over. This happens because we don’t

fellowship with God. When we don’t fellowship

with God, we stay bound in those cords of sin.

We stay bound in those emotions and all that we

are hung up in. We keep walking, making one

mistake after another and just adding to the

problems. We are basically pulling the cart of our

sins down the road throwing more rocks in. We

are making our load heavier and heavier, while

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz Jesus is standing there saying, “I’ll take

everything from you if you would turn to Me and

repent. If you will just come to Me and lay it all

down, if you would come to Me and give it to Me,

I’ll take care of every bit of it. I’ll work with you.

I’ll help you and I’ll set you free. I’ll come on the

inside of you and I will begin to fix what’s wrong

with you; the things on the inside of you that

make you feel inept and why you don’t feel loved.

I’ll work by the power of the Holy Spirit so you

can be whole and we can have fellowship.”

You know one time I had a person come to

me and they said “I just wanted to ask you, what

have I done to make you mad at me?” I said,

“What in the world are you talking about? Why

would you think I was mad at you? I don’t

understand.” Then they said, “Well, the other day

I was in the grocery store and you were walking

down the aisle and you didn’t recognize me. You

didn’t see me.” And I said, “Well, I’m really sorry

but I just didn’t see you.” Now, I am a pretty

focused guy. If I have to go into a grocery store, I

am trying to get out as fast as I can. I am only

looking for what I need and nothing else. So I

said to them, "If I missed you, why didn’t you say

something? Why didn’t you say, ‘Hey Robert!’?”

They said, “Well, I just didn’t and I thought you

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz would recognize me and when you didn’t, I

figured you were mad at me.” You see, there was

something in them that made them feel like I

wasn’t going to acknowledge them. So I had a

long talk with them. We worked it all out and got

it straight.

What I’m talking about is that sometimes our

craziness doesn’t come from something that is

real; it’s from something that we have in our

head. And its base root is back in our past, upon

some old sin that we never confessed to God. We

never really worked it out. We never had

fellowship because if we were sitting in the

presence of God and having fellowship with Him

we would say, “Oh by the way Lord, I have this

thought. Is this right?” Or, “I had this feeling

about this situation. Is this really right? Do I

perceive this as correct?”

If you are sitting in His presence then He can

say, “Well no, you’re not thinking straight. That’s

just your personality and it doesn’t have

anything to do with the situation. That was just

you.” Then the Holy Spirit can deal with it. But if

you never take it to the throne of God and you

have fellowship with Him, then the blood of Jesus

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz isn’t going to cleanse you and make everything

straight within you.

1 John 2:1,

“My little children, these things I write to

you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins,

we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus

Christ, the righteous.”

Verse 2, “And He Himself is the propitiation for

our sins, and not for ours only but also for the

whole world.”

He’s the propitiation for our sins. He’s the

mercy seat, the covering for all of our sins. There

is nothing you can get yourself into that Jesus’

blood can’t cover and fix if you go into the light

and let Him deal with it.

Verse 9, “He, who says he is in the light, and

hates his brother, is in darkness until now…”

See, John is talking about how hating your

brother puts you into darkness. And like I have

said, the Christian world just looks at “the four

major sins”: drinking, dancing, smoking and

cussing. If you don’t do any of those, then you’re

pretty good and therefore you’re not walking in

sin. But Jesus is talking about more than that. He

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz is talking about what is in your heart; anger,

hatred, jealousy, bitterness, and unforgiveness.

These are more than just an outward

manifestation of something. He says that if you

hate your brother then you are not walking in

the light. You won’t walk in the light because you

won’t carry that burden into the throne room. So

you won’t fellowship with Him. What you’re

doing is separating yourself from Him, rather

than taking it into the light and saying, “Lord,

this is the way I feel. I repent.”

He says in verse 10, “He who loves his

brother abides in the light, and there is no cause

for stumbling in him.”

See, he’s walking in the light so there is no

cause for him to stumble. Jesus is right there

with him taking care of him because he is

walking in the light and has a repentant heart.

Verse 11 says, “But he who hates his brother

is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does

not know where he is going, because the

darkness has blinded his eyes.”

In other words, if you stay in that sin long

enough, you become blind. You are walking in

blindness. We humans have this ability to be

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz absolutely, one hundred percent, completely

blind, but believe that everybody else can’t see.

We are bumping into the walls and believing that

somebody put the walls in the wrong place. We

are stumbling over the chair and blaming

somebody else for putting it there. It’s always

everybody else’s fault; it’s never our fault. And

we believe that nobody else can see. We say,

“You just can’t see; you don’t understand what is

happening.” When in reality, we are the ones

who are blind and can’t see and He is trying to

help us come into the light.

Now I want you to look a parable Jesus told.

Luke 19:11-13,

“Now as they heard these things, He spoke

another parable, because He was near Jerusalem

and because they thought the kingdom of God

would appear immediately. Therefore He said: ‘A

certain nobleman went into a far country to

receive for himself a kingdom and to return. So

he called ten of his servants, delivered to them

ten minas,’”

Everyone got the same amount, one mina,

which is about three month’s wages. Everybody

got the same amount. Is salvation all the same?

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz Saved is saved, isn’t it? Confess with your mouth

and believe in Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior

of your life and you shall be saved, right? You’re

saved. Everybody got saved. So that means at

salvation, at the point that somebody confesses,

they receive equal access to the kingdom. A lot of

people want to take the story of the minas and

turn it into what gifts God has given you. The

gifts you have on the inside of you. For example,

one guy may be gifted as a prophet or another

guy may be gifted as an evangelist and someone

might think, “This guy is gifted as this and I am

just gifted with this lowly gift.” But He said

everyone got an equal amount. That means that

all of heaven is open to every person equally.

When you read through the story, you’ll find

that it says one came back and said, “I got ten.”

Another said, “I made five.” And another said, “I

didn’t know what to do, so I just hid mine.” When

we examine this story and look at it in terms of

salvation, it means one guy went out there and

got a hold of the revelations of the kingdom of

God and took off and ran with it. He said, “I

understand this. You’re going to give me

everything. I want to be healed and I want to be

whole. I want to rescue as many people as I can

and tell everybody about you and live for victory.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz So I am just going to walk by faith.” And he went

out and rescued ten. And the second one had

some hang ups. He didn’t think his father loved

him. So he didn’t go quite as far as the first. He

had some obstacles to overcome. But he finally

got going and he got five. But the other one, he

said, “Well, I am just going to squander my

salvation.”

So what I am saying to you is when Jesus

says, “I am going to take all your sins away and I

am going to throw open the door,” that means

everybody gets equal amounts of minas. What

are you going to do with them? You see we can

either sit back in life, wanting everybody else

around us to change, wanting the world to

change, or we can go and change our world. We

can step up to the plate and say, “I’m not going to

be crazy all my life. I’m not going to be

intimidated all my life. I’m not going to walk in

fear all my life. I’m not going to be anxious all my

life. I am not going to follow the path of the

family curse.” So then it’s up to us to take the bull

by the horns. Stop this beast that is running our

life, slide off the saddle, grab him by the horns

and get this dude thrown so that we can walk in

victory. It all comes through fellowship and

repentance. Victory begins when we realize,

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz recognize and say, “Lord, I am feeling this way

and I repent because that’s an emotion not You.

I’m not trusting in You, and that’s why I have this

fear in my life.”

As I began to look at this message and think

about how the Lord is telling us to take

responsibility for the actions of our lives, I began

to think about the word consequence. I looked

up the word because I wanted to make sure I

was using it correctly. It’s a simple word but I

began to question the meaning of it. Every

decision you make has a consequence. The word

consequence just means the result of an action.

Every decision you make is going to have a

consequence. If you make enough bad decisions

then you are going to have a whole basket full of

bad consequences on your back. The only way to

get rid of those is to not let the bad consequences

dig in and begin to warp and twist you from

carrying the heavy load. You’ve got to give it over

to Jesus so He can free you from those

entanglements of life. Jesus has made a way for

us to be free by repenting for our mistakes and

allowing Him to cleanse us from our sin. He

made a way, through His sacrifice on the cross,

by giving His life for us and shedding His blood

so we can have a relationship with our heavenly

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz Father. He made a way where there was no way.

He did all of this for us.

Ephesians 2:11-18,

“Therefore remember that you, once

Gentiles in the flesh—who are called

Uncircumcision by what is called the

Circumcision made in the flesh by hands—that at

that time you were without Christ, being aliens

from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers

from the covenants of promise, having no hope

and without God in the world. But now in Christ

Jesus you who once were far off have been

brought near by the blood of Christ. For He

Himself is our peace, who has made both one,

and has broken down the middle wall of

separation, having abolished in His flesh the

enmity, that is, the law of commandments

contained in ordinances, so as to create in

Himself one new man from the two, thus making

peace, and that He might reconcile them both to

God in one body through the cross, thereby

putting to death the enmity. And He came and

preached peace to you who were afar off and to

those who were near. For through Him we both

have access by one Spirit to the Father.”

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz So now we have to do our part. He has done

His. We have to start out on this process of

taking the bull by the horns. I believe it does no

good to tell you we have a problem without

telling you how to get out of the problem. We

have to start out on a journey, not a race, to

develop a relationship with Jesus. This means a

process of increasing our time spent with Jesus

daily. I’m going to lay out a map or outline to

help you get there. It will be up to you to apply it

in order to get results.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz Chapter One

1st Learn Who Jesus Is

In Matthew 11:28-30, Jesus said, “Come to

Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I

will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and

learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart,

and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke

is easy and My burden is light.”

Many Christians come and they get saved.

They have that experience with Jesus and they

leave it right there. That’s all they ever do. They

say, “Oh well, I know I’m saved.” And that’s it.

They never go on. They never walk with Jesus.

They never learn about Him. They never learn

what Jesus likes and dislikes.

Something funny that I find in the Bible is

that no matter where you look, in the Old

Testament or in the New Testament, God loves a

good party. It’s the truth. He loves to be where

people are merry. He loves to be where there is

joy. Jesus’ first miracle was at a wedding. God has

feasts for Israel that they all had to keep. People

had to stop working and laboring to sit, eat and

fellowship. He loves family. God loves family and

fellowship. Not getting belligerent and drunk and

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz getting into a fight; that’s just the devil’s

perversion of what God wanted. But He loves to

sit around with people, have fun and enjoy life.

That is God. But you are never going to know

that unless you read the Bible and learn for

yourself.

So the very first thing you have to learn is

what Jesus likes and doesn’t like. The best way to

do this is to start reading the Bible daily. I

believe it is best not to try and read as much as

possible. But to form a habit of reading at a

certain time every day. This will form a habit in

your life.

For almost 30 years I have read one chapter

in the Old Testament, one Psalms, one Proverb,

one chapter in the Gospels, and one chapter in

the Epistles each morning before I go to work.

This allows me to hear what God is saying to me

in His Word before I get out into the world and

hear what it is saying to me.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz Chapter Two

2nd Meditate on the Word of God

Joshua 1:8, “This Book of the Law shall not

depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate

in it day and night,”

So the second thing to do as you are daily

reading your Bible, is begin to write down the

Scriptures that speak to you in a notebook. As

time goes on and you continue to gather

scriptures, begin to read over them. Think about

them and what they mean and how they apply to

your life. This is what is meant by meditating on

the Word.

Some of y’all have been saved for a long time

and you have been building your spiritual house.

Maybe you have been building your house and

you put the windows in too quick. Or maybe you

didn’t put them in quick enough. You know when

we build a house, there are steps. There are

certain things you have to do. You have to start

at this point and go to the next point. You can’t

put the roof on before you have the walls up. I

think, because in our Christian walk, we haven’t

been systematically taught, we have gathered all

sorts of pieces of information. But we have no

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz idea how to put them together correctly in order

to accomplish everything Jesus wants for us.

What He wants for us is simply to be His

powerful servants on the face of the earth,

demonstrating His love to humanity. We have

gathered all of these pieces, but the pieces

haven’t been assembled because we haven’t

systematically gone through them.

That’s the reason why I’m writing this book.

If somebody would have sat down with me and

shown me these points when I first got saved

and said, “Okay Robert, this is what you need to

do in order to grow.” It would have saved me a

lot of time in my walk with Jesus.

So we must learn to meditate on the Word.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz Chapter Three

3rd Learn to Take Our Thoughts

Captive

The third thing is that you’ve got to learn to take

your thoughts captive.

2 Corinthians 10:4-6,

“For the weapons of our warfare are not

carnal but mighty in God for pulling down

strongholds, casting down arguments and every

high thing that exalts itself against the

knowledge of God, bringing every thought into

captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being

ready to punish all disobedience when your

obedience is fulfilled.”

Listen to me. You have got to learn to

discipline your thoughts. I was messing around

with my thoughts the other day. I was hungry for

something sweet. I had just eaten supper and I

was sitting around hungry for something sweet.

So I got a small handful of walnuts and I said,

“Man, this is the best chocolate I think I’ve ever

eaten. It’s a little different than normal chocolate,

but this is great chocolate.” And I started eating

those walnuts slowly saying, “Mmmmmmm,

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz man, this must be like Russian chocolate or

something.” I just started making all this stuff up

to myself. Saying “This is really, really, good

chocolate.” I finished eating the walnuts then I

said, “Man, I am so satisfied. That was the best

sweet chocolate that I have ever eaten.” I sat

there for a minute and my sweet craving went

away. Now maybe the walnuts just did it. I don’t

know. But I was telling myself the thought I was

going to think, not sitting there saying, “I am

eating this stupid walnut and I wish I was eating

a piece of chocolate.” You have to control those

thoughts. Just like you have to control thoughts

like, “I don’t think so-and-so likes me and I think

they are mad at me.” Or, “I can’t believe they said

or did that.” You have to learn to control your

thoughts. You have to learn about Jesus. You

have to meditate on His Word because you need

to have the Word in order to replace the thought.

You cannot just stop thinking about something.

You have to replace the thought. This is why in

step one you’re reading the Bible to learn about

Jesus and His Word. Then you’re taking the Word

and meditating on it so you have something to

replace the negative thought that's in your head.

In Luke 4, when Jesus was in the wilderness

with the devil, every time the devil said

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to him a scripture. Jesus was simply taking the

thought captive by replacing it with the

appropriate Scripture. This is how you must live.

When a negative thought comes to you, simply

reach down in your heart and replace it with the

Word and watch the mountain move.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz Chapter Four

4th Learn to Roll Off Your Cares

Psalms 37:5 says, “Commit your way to the

Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to

pass.” That word, commit, means to roll off. You

have to learn to roll off your cares onto the Lord.

You have to come to the place where when

things come against you in a day, you cannot just

look at them and let them overwhelm you. You

have to let them roll off onto Jesus and say,

“Lord, You’re going to take care of that because I

don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to

handle it. You didn’t create me as a being of

worry and stress. You created me to be a being of

worship and love for You. You created me to tell

people about You and to be the temple of God.

Therefore, I don’t want this stress in my life and

You are going to take care of it.” To roll off your

cares is the very heart of prayer. We sometimes

get too caught up in the formality of prayer .

When you feel the stress mounting on your

shoulders, you have waited too long to go to

prayer. You are carrying the load instead of

Jesus.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz I Peter 5:7 says, “Casting all your care upon Him,

for He cares for you.”

You must realize that it is pride that keeps us

from asking Jesus for help. It's the devil’s number

one trick for keeping us beat down. If we stay

burdened with cares, then we can't do what we

should be able to do. We must learn to trust

Jesus at His Word and by faith roll off our cares.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz Chapter Five

5th Learn to Enter God’s Presence

Colossians 3:1-4,

“If then you were raised with Christ, seek

those things which are above, where Christ is,

sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on

things above, not on things on the earth. For you

died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ who is our life appears, then you

also will appear with Him in glory.”

So the fifth thing that you must learn to do is

understand and walk in His presence.

I Corinthians 3:16 says, “Do you not know

that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit

of God dwells in you?”

When Jesus left this earth, He knew we

would need help. He knew that we could not be

left alone. He had a plan. He would cleanse us by

His blood and make us the dwelling place of His

Spirit. The temple of God on earth filled with His

Spirit.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz John 14:15-18,

“If you love Me, keep My commandments.

And I will pray the Father, and He will give you

another Helper, that He may abide with you

forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world

cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor

knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells

with you and will be in you. I will not leave you

orphans; I will come to you.”

What happens to us is we get so wrapped up

in the activity of our lives we forget who we are.

Our Christianity becomes our service of going to

church, saying a few prayers and trying to be

good. We must take time out of our busy lives to

stop, clear our thoughts and become aware that

God is in us. This takes discipline.

When you have been operating in steps one

through four by reading the Word, meditating on

the Word, controlling your thoughts, and rolling

your cares over on the Lord then it becomes easy

to enter God’s presence. Like Colossians 3:1-2

said, “… seek those things above and set your

mind on the things above not on the things of

this world.”

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where the hair stands up on your neck or you

begin to tingle all over. I'm talking about a place

where you have peace, confidence and joy; a

place where you’re not overwhelmed with life

and its problems. Some people want a short cut

to His presence so they look for feelings, signs,

and visions. They are deceived and are seeking

signs, not Jesus. I call this hyper-spiritualism. In

the Bible, people were always coming up to Jesus

and seeking a sign. They wanted to see

something happen so then they would believe.

Jesus said He would give them no sign but the

knowledge of the resurrection. It is the same

today. We must build a relationship with Jesus,

one that is based on the Word, one that is written

on our heart by spending time learning who He

is.

So let’s put these five steps together and look

at them again. You have to learn who He is. Then

you are meditating on His Word. That gives you

the power to take your thoughts captive. Then

you can roll the cares of your life over on Him

and bask in His presence. Remember, He has

taken the sin away. He has made it to where you

can come into the throne room. He has done His

part. He has done it all so that all you have to do

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz is walk in it. But you have to learn these first five

things if you are going to walk in victory. I don’t

care how long you have been walking with Jesus;

there are going to be days when you’re going to

get stumped. You’re going to have a bad day.

You’re going to feel like you have lost some

ground, but you usually don’t lose any ground.

You just aren’t gaining any that day. You are

having to work through an issue, having to work

through a problem. That’s always there. That’s

just life. You might as well quit trying to put on

the facade that you’ve got it all straight. We are

all nuts! All of us are. There is none, no, not one,

who is not crazy. I don’t care who you are. We all

have something on the inside of us that needs to

bask in the presence of God and get worked out.

That’s just life. Just quit trying to fool everybody.

I don’t want to offend you. I don’t want to hurt

your feelings and I’m not talking about anyone

specifically, because I am in the whole group too.

Sometimes, somebody can say something to me

in a wrong way and I am ready to go to war.

There is no need in doing it so I just take it to

Jesus. I say, “Lord, when they said this, it made

me think this and that made me want to start

sharpening my sword and take their head off. I

don’t like that feeling. So you need to help me

understand why this is going on and what is

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talking to Him saying, “Jesus, you got to help me

do this.”

Let me put it to you like this, if you can’t take

time during the day to shut your eyes and feel

the presence of Jesus wherever you are, then you

haven't got the first five points down. You need

to work on that. It’s just that simple. If you can’t

sit in a lawn chair in the yard or wherever you

are comfortable. Maybe taking a shower or

whatever. If you can’t close your eyes and say,

“Jesus, I love you. I worship you, Lord. You are

amazing to me. I want to walk with You and be

with You.” If you can’t talk to Jesus like that and

sense His presence, then you haven’t got it down

yet. You cannot live without His presence.

When I first got saved, I became hungry for

God’s Word. I would read my Bible every night

and run and tell my wife, "Look what it says

here!" Everything was fresh and new to me. I

found out there was a minister having some

meeting during the week not far from my house.

They were small meetings with not many people.

I remember going the very first time. They were

singing and worshiping. I had never been in a

church service where people lifted their hands

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz and worshiped God openly. I was standing there

and I closed my eyes. I had only been saved for a

month or two and I remember closing my eyes

and saying, “Man, I just love you, Jesus. I just

thank you for saving me.” And when I said that, I

felt like someone set a glass over me. As I stood

there, with my eyes closed worshiping the Lord, I

began, for the first time, to sense His presence,

although I didn’t know at the time.

I had never been in the presence of God. At

the church I was raised in, that never happened. I

didn’t know I was coming into the presence of

God. I didn’t know what it was. I felt like a

vacuum had been placed around me. I remember

kind of feeling different and thought, “Oh

something’s wrong. Maybe I’m not getting

enough oxygen here or something. Something is

funny.” I started looking around the building to

see if there wasn’t a gas leak in there or

something. And it would go away as soon as I

opened my eyes. So I would close my eyes again

and say, “Ok I’m sorry, Jesus. I’m just getting

distracted. I love you. I am so glad I got saved.”

And then I would feel it again. This went on for

months without me realizing what was going on.

I thought something was wrong. It got to the

point where I was thinking I got saved because I

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happening to me. I thought that maybe I had a

brain tumor because I was feeling this light

headed sensation whenever I went to worship

God. I would literally think this. Then one day, I

was reading scripture about God’s presence and

I said, “That’s You that I am sensing. That’s Your

presence I’m sensing. I’m sorry. I didn’t know

that was You who walked into the room. I never

knew that.” All of this was new to me, but

because I was reading my Word every day,

seeking to know more about Jesus, and focusing

my thoughts on Him, I became aware of His

presence with me.

You must find some place to sit down and

know that you are in His presence, whether you

feel anything or not. You must know you are

there in His presence. That He is hearing your

prayers, even if it’s just for two minutes because

you are in the middle of your workday, you must

get there. You must work to enter God’s presence

on a daily basis in order to make it in this life.

So that’s the first five things you have to do

as a Christian to get yourself sane enough to

move into step six.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz Chapter Six

6th Putting On Your Armor

Step six is Ephesians 6:10. You have to put on

your armor.

Ephesians 6:10-20 says,

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord

and in the power of His might. Put on the whole

armor of God, that you may be able to stand

against the wiles of the devil. For we do not

wrestle against flesh and blood, but against

principalities, against powers, against the rulers

of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts

of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore

take up the whole armor of God, that you may be

able to withstand in the evil day, and having

done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded

your waist with truth, having put on the

breastplate of righteousness, and having shod

your feet with the preparation of the gospel of

peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with

which you will be able to quench all the fiery

darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of

salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is

the Word of God; praying always with all prayer

and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz this end with all perseverance and supplication

for all the saints and for me, that utterance may

be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly

to make known the mystery of the gospel, for

which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I

may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.”

You can break this down and come up with

all kinds of great teachings about putting on the

armor of God and what it means. But what I want

you to realize is if you are living out the first five

points I have taught you, then putting on the

armor is just the next step in your walk of faith.

When a warrior puts on his armor, he is going to

war. His mindset changes; he becomes more

aware of his surroundings. This is what you have

to do. You must realize that you are in the world

and can come under attack. But you can be ready

for war. No person goes to war in a pair of shorts

and flip-flops. This is what you wear when you

are relaxing, not going to make war.

I Peter 5:8-9 says,

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your

adversary the devil walks about like a roaring

lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him,

steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood

in the world.”

Your enemy is the devil, not people. Our war

is not with flesh and blood, but with the devil

and all his ways of trying to trip us up. He is

always trying to get us off track by placing

thoughts that are not in line with God’s promises

to us. He knows if we take a thought and begin to

dwell on it that it will begin to direct our lives in

the wrong direction.

If you put on the armor of God and make

yourself ready for war, but you are not practicing

the first five points, you might as well not have

the armor on. If you do go to battle, you might be

going against one of your own people, not the

enemy. There could be Christians who have their

armor on, slinging their swords, killing more

fellow Christians rather than fighting off the

devil. Without the Word and God’s presence to

guide us, we don’t understand who our enemy is.

When you go through steps one through five and

get in the presence of God, learn His ways,

meditate on His Word, get your thoughts straight

and under control and roll off your cares, then

you know your enemy and know who to fight. If

you haven’t got the first five down, you are a

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hand, going around with the armor on, killing all

those around you. Remember, it’s a process. It’s

called sanctification. It’s the process of getting all

of this right.

In the military, soldiers go through boot

camp where they are trained not to get their

heads blown off. They don’t just go out there and

give everybody guns and say, “Hey, you like that

big ol’ gun over there? Well, go out there and

take that gun and shoot it if you want.” It would

be chaos. Well, that in a sense, is what people

have done with Christians. They’ve been told

about Jesus and that Jesus has given them

salvation. He has opened up the door to them.

But people have run amuck. They are crazy with

no focus on what is going on in life and can be

dangerous to be around.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz Chapter Seven

7th Learn to Use the Power of

Your Tongue

Now that you have your armor on, you have

to turn your mouth around. Your mouth has

probably gotten defiled and the rudder of your

ship has gotten turned the wrong direction. The

enemy throughout your life has always wanted

you to use your tongue against yourself and

others.

James 3:1-4,

“My brethren, let not many of you become

teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter

judgment. For we all stumble in many things. If

anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect

man, able also to bridle the whole body. Indeed,

we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may obey

us, and we turn their whole body. Look also at

ships: although they are so large and are driven

by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small

rudder wherever the pilot desires.”

James goes on to talk about the tongue. You

can read it all, but the point is now the mouth

comes into play. The words you speak out of

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz your mouth can be life giving or curses to those

who hear. They can be weapons that advance

your life or destroy it. Think about this:

Everything comes out of your mouth. All your

life, people have been blessed or cursed by what

comes out of your mouth. This is why we have to

take control of our mouths. If you haven’t done

steps one through five, you haven’t learned

about Jesus, you haven’t meditated on His Word,

you don’t have control of your thoughts and you

have not rolled off your cares, then what is going

to come out of your mouth? Anything and

everything that you want to say. So the next step

is to learn to control what comes out of your

mouth and to make it an effective weapon in

your life.

With your mouth under control, you can go

out and change things. You are able to look at

someone and say, “Jesus loves you.” You’re able

to speak into someone’s life and give them some

wisdom because your mouth is now lined up to

become a great offensive weapon for Jesus. Let's

look at what we are supposed to do with our

mouth. The Bible says we can move mountains

with our words.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz Mark 11:23,

“For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to

this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the

sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes

that those things he says will be done, he will

have whatever he says.”

Ok, so you have your mouth lined up, but

what is the mouth going to do? How is it going to

become this offense weapon for you? You have to

start speaking to the mountains in your life.

When I was writing all of this down, the Holy

Spirit popped one thing into my heart that I have

been praying about. I said, “Lord, this thing

needs to happen.” He said, “You have to start

speaking to that mountain. You haven’t been

speaking to the mountain.” I said, “You’re right. I

haven’t been directly speaking towards that

thing. I’ve been asking You to do something. I

haven’t actually been speaking about that one

situation.”

See, we forget. We just want to pray that

prayer, “Jesus, will you take care of that situation

for me?” When Jesus is saying, “No, I took care of

that sin issue so that you could go to the throne

room and you could have fellowship with God. It

was done so that you could walk in the light as

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz He is in the light. So that you could be there with

Him and that you could hear and you could speak to the mountain and tell that mountain to be

moved.” I said to the Holy Spirit, “Man, you got

me on that one. I am not practicing what I’m

preaching.”

But you can bet that mountain got some

missiles this morning. Do you see what I am

saying? We have to speak to those mountains.

Jesus said, “That’s your part; I’ve done My part.

Quit asking Me to move the mountain. You speak

to it and tell it to go.” All of the Word that you

have learned by reading your Bible and by

writing and meditating on the scriptures

becomes your ammunition to speak to your

mountains. Let me give you an example. You

wake up in the morning and look at yourself in

the mirror. The thoughts runs through your

mind that you’re stupid and that you’re not going

to succeed in life. These are thoughts you have

had all your life. So you say, “No, that's not true,

according to Psalm 139:13-14, ‘God formed me

and wonderfully made me.’ And Jeremiah 29:11

says, ‘God gives me a future and a hope’.” You

just shot a missile at a mountain in your life. That

is how it is done.

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with your mouth is binding and loosing. This is

similar to speaking to your mountains. If you

have a garden, you have different tools for

different jobs. You may use a shovel or a hoe to

move dirt depending on how much dirt you want

to move. Mountains are strongholds that you

have wrestled with most your life, but there are

other weapons that come against you like storm

clouds that arise in your life that must be put

down. Mountains are permanent fixtures that

must be destroyed, but storms come and go.

Matthew 16:19 says, "And I will give you the

keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever

you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and

whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in

heaven.” We must bind ourselves to what God’s

Word says about us and loose ourselves from the

attacks the enemy throws at us. All the negative

words that come against us, our thoughts of

defeat that cause us to stumble, they will be

stopped by God’s Word coming out of our mouth.

Point number seven is about getting your mouth

in line. You have to start speaking to the

mountains. You have to start binding and

loosing.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz The next part of what you’re going to do

with your mouth is that you ask for your needs.

The Bible says that God knows what we need

before we ask Him. I always thought, “Well, why

don’t You just do it then without me asking? I

could just wake up in the morning and You

would have already done it. Seems like a better

system. You know what I have need of, so why

don’t You just do it? Why do I have to ask? I don’t

even know if I am asking right sometimes.” The

Bible says He wants us to ask. It says that we are

supposed to ask for our daily needs and He gave

us the Lord’s Prayer. We call it the Lord’s Prayer,

but it’s not the Lord’s Prayer; it’s actually the

Disciple’s Prayer. He gave it to the disciples to

pray and told them this is the way you are

supposed to pray, “Our Father in heaven,

Hallowed be Your name. .” We teach people this.

We teach them the Lord’s Prayer and say the

Lord’s Prayer as if it’s a prayer, but it’s really not

a prayer. It’s an outline for you to learn to pray.

So that’s what you are doing with your

mouth. You are speaking to the mountains. You

are binding and loosing and you are asking for

your needs. Next, we must pray for others.

Ezekiel 22:30 says, “So I sought for a man among

them who would make a wall, and stand in the

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not destroy it; but I found no one.” God wants us

to intercede for people. Intercession is praying

for people, saying, “Lord, I know so-and so is

going through a hard time and they really need

something.” Or “I see what is going on with our

government and I ask you to move in that

situation.” He wants us to intercede for those

things. There are four things that you are doing

with your mouth: Speaking to the mountains,

binding and loosing, asking for your daily needs

and interceding for others.

Now let’s stop and look back at what you are

learning. You started reading your Bible and

learning about Jesus. Then you began to write

those scriptures down that spoke to your heart

and meditate on them. Now you have some

ammunition to use against the wrong thinking

you have and can take control of your thoughts.

Daily, you are rolling your cares over on Jesus

and walking in His presence. You have now

become a warrior and put on your armor and are

slaying the enemy. Your mouth has become a

weapon, destroying mountains and also a well of

water spewing out blessings to all those around

you. Now we need to learn how to keep it all

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz Chapter Eight

8th Learning to Worship

After you have put on your armor, gotten a

hold of your mouth, and doing all these things

you’ve learned, you are eventually going to run

out of steam. You are going to run out of energy.

You are going to run out of any emotional

strength that you have unless you learn number

eight, which is learn to worship.

John 4:23-24 says, “But the hour is coming,

and now is, when the true worshipers will

worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the

Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is

Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship

in spirit and truth.”

You will run out of steam. You will become

tired. You will become frazzled. You will lose

focus and direction if you do not have a worship

life. A worship life is different than a prayer life.

You can pray all you want, but if you don’t have a

worship life, you have no steam, no spunk, and

no zip. Worship is simply taking time to express

your gratitude and love to your heavenly Father

and His Son, Jesus. I understand we sometimes

can be people of few words and we need help to

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You can do this by listening to songs that express

your feelings and singing along with it. If you’re

not a singer, then read a Psalm out loud that

expresses your feelings.

I had a mini vision one time about being in a

great music hall. I was on stage and the only one

in the audience was Jesus. I thought, “What do I

want to say to Him?” This is the place you need

to put yourself on a daily basis. Worship does not

have to be in song, but it needs to come from

your heart, spoken out loud and directed toward

Him. Something great takes place when you can

worship freely from your heart and are not

hindered by what people think; a pure

expression of your heart to your God. When this

takes place, the very life of God begins to flow

through your veins bringing joy, peace, and love

to your heart. This is the fuel that keeps you

going.

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9th Preparing Your Heart

The ninth thing you have to do in that time

of worship is to prepare your heart. Proverbs

16:1 says, “The preparations of the heart belong

to man, But the answer of the tongue is from the

Lord.” Preparing your heart means examining

your heart in God’s presence, as you are

worshiping Him, to see if there is any baggage

that you are carrying around.

A problem we have here, living in the

country, is that sometimes you get a tick stuck on

you. You don't see it right away and it bores into

your skin and begins to suck blood from you. You

know all of us good ole country people have

probably had a tick on us at least once in our

lives. When you finally discover it, you say, “Oh

my God!” You get all grossed out because you

have this nasty tick on you, sucking the blood

right out of you. This is just what happens in life

with our heart. The Bible says the enemy shoots

fiery darts at us. There are words that people

say. There are instances that happen. There are

things that push us over the limit. There are

things that we are in need of. Sometimes we are

just crazy; our hormones are out of whack or

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happen to us. The enemy is just like a tick. The

words that we hear get stuck in our heart and

become a hindrance to us. They are slowly

sucking life out of us. If we don’t prepare and

examine our hearts in the presence of God,

making sure that we don’t have anything stuck to

us, asking the Holy Spirit to get it off of us if we

do, then whatever it is will fester up and makes

us sick.

You can live with a tick stuck on you. You

may get lime disease, but you can exist. You can

have a tick stuck on the side of your neck and go

around with it. Everybody might say, “Oh my

God! You got a tick on the side of your neck!” But

you can't see it. That is what is happening to our

heart and it happens all the time. Just about the

time you think you got yourself all healed up and

everything is going well, then, boom! Someone

stupid is going to say something to you because

people feed at the trough of stupid every

morning. Just about the time you think that your

ship is sailing pretty good, there will be a storm.

What it takes to be free of all attachments in

life is going into the presence of God. Worshiping

Him and taking out your heart in the presence of

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does not belong there. You only want to do this

in the presence of God because this is a sterile

environment. If you examine yourself without

the presence of God, you will get into

condemnation and become critical of yourself.

This is not going to be productive. You wouldn’t

want someone to do open heart surgery when

you are out in the middle of a field. That wouldn’t

be too good. You want a good, sterile, and clean

environment. It’s the same with the presence of

God and examining your heart. You don’t want to

open your heart out there for everybody. You

want to put it right in front of the presence of

God, when you know that you are in His

presence, when you are worshiping Him, say,

“Lord, is everything okay? Am I doing okay? I feel

kind of like this or that or whatever.” Let Him

work on your heart. The Holy Spirit will then

begin to reveal things to you that you must deal

with. He will lead you to victory over the hurts of

life if you will take this step and prepare your

heart in God’s presence. Then you know what?

You go to sleep, wake up the next day and do it

all over again. Because it never ends, it never

quits. This is our battle; this is our walk. This is

our everyday walk until we get to heaven.

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10th Tithing

Malachi 3:8-12,

“Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed

Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed

You?’ In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with

a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole

nation. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,

That there may be food in My house, And try Me

now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not

open for you the windows of heaven And pour

out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it. “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not

destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the

vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” Says

the Lord of hosts; “And all nations will call you

blessed, For you will be a delightful land,” Says

the Lord of hosts.

No matter what your occupation is in life, we

all need money to survive. We have to learn to

apply God’s principles to our life. Tithing is the

only thing we do in the physical that has a

spiritual effect. By honoring God with our

finances we are connecting ourselves with the

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heaven in our lives for prosperity here on earth.

II Corinthians 9:8 says, “And God is able to make

all grace abound toward you, that you, always

having all sufficiency in all things, may have an

abundance for every good work.” When we tithe,

we put our finances in the hands of God and He is

able to make provision for you so you can have

an abundance to help others in their need.

Some people worship all the time but never

have control over their mouth. All the worship

that you’re doing is flying out the window

because the next morning your mouth goes

shooting off and you say all the wrong things.

Some people have been asking Jesus to do it all

for them and don’t realize that they have to

speak to their mountains in order to see their

prayers answered. Some people love God with all

their heart but never control their thoughts.

That's why there is torment in their lives.

I see this book as putting these points all

together as one big syllabus helping you get in a

place where the blessings of God can begin to

flow in your life. If somebody had put this all

together for me and got me off on the right road

when I started out my walk with Jesus, I could

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lesson that I have shared with you, preached

over my whole Christian life of 30 years, but I

have never heard or seen it all put together in

one book like this. I would hear someone talking

about binding and loosing and I would be out

there binding and loosing but never controlling

my thoughts or replacing my thoughts and I

would get defeated. Now that I have learned

these 10 points, peace and joy rule in my life.

Now it is up to you to take the bull by the horns

and bring victory to your life and all those

around you.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz Take the Bull by the Horns

Outline

I. What Jesus did for You

A. Takes away our sin

1. John 1:29 The next day John saw

Jesus coming toward him, and said,

“Behold! The Lamb of God who takes

away the sin of the world!”

2. I John 2:1, 2 “My little children, these

things I write to you, so that you may

not sin. And if anyone sins, we have

an Advocate with the Father, Jesus

Christ the righteous. And He Himself

is the propitiation for our sins, and

not for ours only but also for the

whole world.”

B. Jesus made it so we could see

1. I John 2:9-11, “He who says he is in the

light, and hates his brother, is in

darkness until now. He who loves his

brother abides in the light, and there is

no cause for stumbling in him. But he

who hates his brother is in darkness and

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where he is going, because the darkness

has blinded his eyes.”

2. Luke 19:12, 13, “Therefore He said: ‘A

certain nobleman went into a far

country to receive for himself a kingdom

and to return. So he called ten of his

servants, delivered to them ten minas,

and said to them, ‘Do business till I

come.’"

a. The nobleman gave each one

three months wages and told them

to put it to use. Jesus has made a

way for you and all has been placed

in your hand so what are you going

to do with it. Now that we can come

to the throne room and fellowship

with the Father because sin is not an

issue. We have to take the bull by

the horns.

C. Open the Door of Heaven

1. Hebrews 10:19 - Boldness to enter the

Holiest by the blood of Jesus.

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A. Learn Who Jesus is

1. Matthew 11:28-30, “Come to Me, all

you who labor and are heavy laden, and I

will give you rest. Take My yoke upon

you and learn from Me, for I am gentle

and lowly in heart, and you will find rest

for your souls. For My yoke is easy and

My burden is light.”

2. Learning means to spend time

researching a thought then applying it to

your life.

3. You need to gather information then

cross reference it with the Word to see if

it's true.

4. Allow the Holy Spirit to guide you.

a. I John 2:27, “But the anointing

which you have received from Him

abides in you, and you do not need

that anyone teach you; but as the same

anointing teaches you concerning all

things, and is true, and is not a lie, and

just as it has taught you, you will abide

in Him.”

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not the Holy Spirit.

a. The Holy Spirit will always

bring:

1. Inspiration

2. Correction

3. Comfort

B. Learn to Meditate on Word of God

1. Joshua 1:8 “This Book of the Law shall

not depart from your mouth, but you

shall meditate in it day and night, that

you may observe to do according to all

that is written in it. For then you will

make your way prosperous, and then

you will have good success.”

2. Take a verse and write it down. Keep

them in a note book.

3. Take the verse and commit it to

memory.

4. Start asking the Holy Spirit to

illuminate it to you.

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speak it out.

C. Learn to Take Your Thoughts Captive

1. II Corinthians 10:4-6, “For the

weapons of our warfare are not carnal

but mighty in God for pulling down

strongholds, casting down arguments

and every high thing that exalts itself

against the knowledge of God, bringing

every thought into captivity to the

obedience of Christ, and being ready to

punish all disobedience when your

obedience is fulfilled.”

2. Any thought that brings torment or

anxiety is not from God. You need to ask

yourself what brought this thought on.

3. What can stop a thought?

a. Repentance – clearing your

conscience

b. Renewing of your Faith – What

does the Word say? Are you

believing what it says?

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz c. Revelation of the Word – What

you really believe.

d. Replacing the thought with Word

D. Learn to Roll off Cares

1. Psalms 37:5, “Commit your way to the

Lord, Trust also in Him, and He shall bring it

to pass.”

a. Commit means to roll off. God never

intended you to carry burdens. He wanted

you to pray and trust Him to answer.

b. I John 5:14, 15 “Now this is the

confidence that we have in Him, that if we

ask anything according to His will, He

hears us. And if we know that He hears us,

whatever we ask, we know that we have

the petitions that we have asked of Him.”

c. I Peter 5:6, 7 “Therefore humble

yourselves under the mighty hand of God,

that He may exalt you in due time, casting

all your care upon Him, for He cares for

you.”

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better for us to handle our own problems

than to trust in Him to take care of it.

E. Learn to Enter His Presence

1. Colossians 3:1-4 “If then you were

raised with Christ, seek those things

which are above, where Christ is, sitting

at the right hand of God. Set your mind

on things above, not on things on the

earth. For you died, and your life is

hidden with Christ in God. When Christ

who is our life appears, then you also

will appear with Him in glory.”

2. Learning His presence takes time.

You can't tell Jesus you only have 5

minutes can you come quickly.

a. You have to set aside time.

b. You have to clear your thoughts.

c. You have to do something that's

pleasing to Him.

1. Quote scripture, read a psalm,

sing a worship song, play worship

music, read a parable.

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Spirit of God to pray through you.

a. I Corinthians 14:2, “For he

who speaks in a tongue does

not speak to men but to God, for

no one understands him;

however, in the spirit he speaks

mysteries.”

3. Create an environment that is

conducive for fellowship.

III. 5 steps to level 201

A. Putting on Your Armor

1. Ephesians 6:10-20, “Finally, my

brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the

power of His might. Put on the whole

armor of God, that you may be able to

stand against the wiles of the devil. For

we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,

but against principalities, against powers,

against the rulers of the darkness of this

age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness

in the heavenly places. Therefore take up

the whole armor of God, that you may be

able to withstand in the evil day, and

having done all, to stand. Stand therefore,

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having put on the breastplate of

righteousness, and having shod your feet

with the preparation of the gospel of

peace; above all, taking the shield of faith

with which you will be able to quench all

the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take

the helmet of salvation, and the sword of

the Spirit, which is the word of God;

praying always with all prayer and

supplication in the Spirit, being watchful

to this end with all perseverance and

supplication for all the saints— and for

me, that utterance may be given to me,

that I may open my mouth boldly to make

known the mystery of the gospel, for

which I am an ambassador in chains; that

in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to

speak.”

2. Putting on the armor of God is taking

the revelations you have learned in the

first 5 steps and now walking in that

truth.

a. Waist Gird with Truth

b. Breastplate of Righteousness

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d. Shield of Faith

e. Helmet of Salvation

f. Sword of the Spirit - Word of God

B. Learn to Use the Power of Your Tongue

1. James 3:1, 2, “My brethren, let not

many of you become teachers, knowing

that we shall receive a stricter judgment.

For we all stumble in many things. If

anyone does not stumble in word, he is a

perfect man, able also to bridle the

whole body.”

2. What you do with your mouth

a. Speak to the mountains – The

obstacles in your life

1. Mark 11:23, 24, “For assuredly, I

say to you, whoever says to this

mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast

into the sea,’ and does not doubt in

his heart, but believes that those

things he says will be done, he will

have whatever he says. Therefore I

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when you pray, believe that you

receive them, and you will have

them.”

b. Bind and Loose – Telling the enemy,

“No!” Standing on the Word.

1. Matthew 16:19, “And I will give you

the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and

whatever you bind on earth will be

bound in heaven, and whatever you

loose on earth will be loosed in

heaven.”

c. Ask for Needs

1. Matthew 6:9, 10, 12, 13, “In this

manner, therefore, pray: Our Father

in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

Your kingdom come. Your will be

done on earth as it is in heaven. And

forgive us our debts, As we forgive

our debtors. And do not lead us into

temptation, But deliver us from the

evil one. For Yours is the kingdom

and the power and the glory forever.

Amen.”

d. Intercede for others

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man among them who would make

a wall, and stand in the gap before

Me on behalf of the land, that I

should not destroy it; but I found no

one.”

C. Learn to Worship - Fall in love with Him

1. John 4:23, 24, “But the hour is coming,

and now is, when the true worshipers

will worship the Father in spirit and

truth; for the Father is seeking such to

worship Him. God is Spirit, and those

who worship Him must worship in spirit

and truth.”

2.Take time to express your gratitude

and love to your heavenly Father and

your Savior.

D. Learn to Prepare your Heart

1. Proverbs 16:1, “The preparations of

the heart belong to man, but the answer

of the tongue is from the Lord.”

2. Searching your heart so the enemy

does not get in.

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life to see what is directing you. Only do

this in the Presence of God or

condemnation will come in.

E. Tithing

1. Malachi 3:10, “Bring all the tithes into

the storehouse, That there may be food in

My house, And try Me now in this,” Says

the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for

you the windows of heaven And pour out

for you such blessing That there will not

be room enough to receive it.”

2. This is something we do in the physical

that has great spiritual significance. It

shows God were our heart is and that it is

connected to the work He has put us in.

Now that we have put these 10 steps into daily

practice we are ready to go out and tell the world

about Jesus and help others come to Him.

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Take the Bull by the Horns Dr. Richarz ABOUT THE AUTHOR

As a 5th generation Texan, Dr. Robert Richarz has

a deep heritage in this land. His ancestors were Texas

Rangers, captains of military forts and ranchers that fought everyday hardships to help settle the area and

make Texas a place where people could live safe and

secure from the adversities of their times.

Today, Dr. Richarz and his wife Laura fight for the

same freedoms as his ancestors in the spiritual realm.

It is their dream to see people come to know the

saving knowledge of Jesus and God’s amazing love

for them.

Dr. Richarz strives to teach people the simple,

everyday applications of the Word of God through

humor and his personal life stories and encounters.

He and his family are deeply rooted in Texas and

committed to working with the people to see their

lives change forever.

Dr. Richarz serves as pastor of Living Waters

Church in Utopia, Texas and is president of The

Water Hole™, a Christian non-profit worldwide

ministry.

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Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

2nd Meditate on the Word of God.......................21

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

4th Learn to Roll Off Your Cares ...........................35

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

6th Putting On Your Armor ..................................53

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

9th Preparing Your Heart ..................................... 79

Chapter Ten

10th Tithing ........................................................ 87

Take the Bull by the Horns .................................. 95

ABOUT THE AUTHOR......................................... 109