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A Different Perspective Official Podcast

A Different Perspective Official Podcast

De: Berni Dymet
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 God has a habit of wanting to speak right into the circumstances that we’re travelling through here and now; the very issues that we each face in our everyday lives. Everything from dealing with difficult people … to discovering how God speaks to us; from overcoming stress … to discovering your God-given gifts and walking in the calling that God has placed on your life And that’s what these daily 10 minute A Different Perspective messages are all about.Christianityworks Cristianismo Espiritualidad Ministerio y Evangelismo
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  • Is God Still Speaking? // How Can I Hear God Speak To Me?, Part 1

    Is God Still Speaking? // How Can I Hear God Speak To Me?, Part 1
    Jul 14 2025
    Let me ask you a question – is God still speaking to us here and now Today? And if so – how? Well – what are the answers? If God is indeed still speaking, shouldn’t we be listening? Imagine what a difference it could make in our lives, to know His will for our lives. Now here’s a question that these days pretty much divides the church down the middle. Are you ready? Here it is. Does God still speak today? Whoa. The controversy that that little question creates, the division it creates, is huge. There are some who can tell you that the only way that God speaks today, the single only way, is through the Bible. Read the Bible, that’s God’s Word, that’s how He speaks. Then at the kind of opposite end of the spectrum we have Christians who claim to have seen signs and wonders, to have so called words of knowledge and prophecies over their lives. I even know one man whose pastor constantly claims to have visions of Jesus. Well, man, what do you do with that? How do we understand that? And then there’s little old you and me. And if you’re anything like me, deep inside there’s a desire that burns for God. Something that’s hard to explain, a hunger after God Himself, and a yearning that can’t be satisfied by a dry, academic, cerebral answer to the question, "Does God still speak today?" You won’t be dismissed by shallow responses either and nor will sensational claims quench the thirst I have after Christ Himself. And so that’s why this week and next week on the program we’re going to explore this question: "Does God still speak today and if so how?" I don’t know about you but I do hunger after God. I ache to know Him, to experience Him, to hear Him speak into my life and I know that there are many, many more people on this earth who feel exactly the same. I want to live my life out completely for Him; everything that I am, everything that I have; all my hopes, all my dreams to serve Him with the absolute complete lot. And it’s not because I’m some great guy. Believe you me, I’m not. It’s because I’ve tasted the sweetness of God’s love – "the many splendid love of Christ" as A. W. Tozer calls its. I’ve tasted His goodness and His joy and His peace and you know what? I want more. And so I want to hear my God speak because any relationship that means something, that has value to it, is based on communication. And not just one way communication, it has to be two way communication. A marriage is headed for divorce when there’s a stony silence between husband and wife. If all they do is to communicate on a transactional basis about the mundane things of life and they no longer communicate heart to heart, then friend, unless they do something about that their marriage is headed towards divorce. That’s because a rich relationship is founded on intimate communication. It’s true in a marriage and it’s true in our relationship with God. So the question is: is God still speaking today? Well, over the coming couple of weeks as we explore that, let me tell you where I’m coming from. In my experience God speaks to me and to others in many different ways. In fact I’ve grouped those into nine different ways that God speaks today. But experience, you see experience isn’t the be all and end all. We have emotions: they go up, they go down. Sometimes we’re at the top of our game and yet others days, well frankly, let's be honest, we’re off with the pixies. So whilst we may experience God speaking through prophecies, through signs, through dreams, all sorts of different ways, I believe with all my heart, the truth, God’s chosen way of revealing Himself to us, of providing us with a rock solid basis for understanding Him and understanding our experience of Him is His Word. This thing they call the Bible is inspired by Him, written through human beings for sure – each of the 66 books of the Bible are written in different times in history and under different circumstances and for specific purposes, but together those 66 books are the inspired Word of God. It is God speaking to the generations that have gone before us, and to us and to the generations that will come after us. And you see God never contradicts Himself. He never says one thing over here and does something else over there. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. So if anyone whether it’s me or anyone else, claims to have heard from God in a certain way, then: a. Does the Bible say that’s how God communicates with us, because if it doesn’t then friend, at the very least, I am very, very suspicious this person has indeed heard from God at all. b. If this person claims to have heard from God and acts on it or shares what God has allegedly said to Him or to her, is it consistent with the Word of God, the whole counsel of God? Because if God says one thing and some so called prophet comes up with some so called revelation that contradicts God’s Word, then forget it. That ain’t God talking...
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  • The Joy of the Overflow // Full to Overflowing, Part 5

    The Joy of the Overflow // Full to Overflowing, Part 5
    Jul 11 2025
    There are so many good things out there in life. And it’s great to get our fill. But what’s even better, is when we’re so full of goodness – that we overflow – right into the lives of other people. I love to see other people doing what God made them to do. Being who God made them to be. It's awesome when they excel at that. A brilliant musician or a sports person or someone who's great at caring for other people. Someone who can just lead an organisation, somehow make it sing. It never ceases to amaze me how different we all are and how when someone discovers their unique gig, whatever that is, what a wondrous thing that is to behold. For me it leaves me in awe of God, His grace to let us have gifts like that. His imagination. His plan to bless each one of us through the gifts and the abilities of other people. Sometimes we get all silly and we compare ourselves to other people and go, "Oh well, I can't do that." Of course we can't, it's not what God made us to do. He made us to be, well you and me. To be and to excel at whatever He's gifted us in our DNA. In fact it's a real passion of mine. To see people living out who God made them to be and the plan that He has for their lives. And when we're right in that sweet spot there's just nothing better. That's why I enjoy doing what I'm doing right now. I'm custom made for this gig. A whole bunch of other things I can't do but I love, I love sharing the good news of Jesus with you. This week we're looking at Jesus' ideal plan for our lives. A plan to use us as the entry point for His flood-tide of blessing into this world. Yesterday we looked at this passage, I want to look at it again today. It's John chapter 7, verse 37. And Jesus is talking at a time of a festival where they celebrate the enactment in a temple of the flowing of the Holy Spirit into the land. He says: If anyone is thirsty (anyone, that means, you know that's for you and me right? This is an invitation) If anyone is thirsty (Are you thirsty?) then let them come to me (Says Jesus) and drink because whoever believes in me streams of living water will flow out from within them. By this He meant the Holy Spirit whom those who would believe in Him were later to receive. This picture for the "anyone" and the "whoever", for you and for me, is for God to fill us to overflowing. When we're thirsty go to Jesus and we drink and we believe and then rivers of living water, His Spiritual blessing flows out of us. The Bible says literally: From our bellies into the world around us rivers, a flood-tide of blessing. You know near the delta of a river, when there's a flood all the wonderful silt goes out into the land and makes the land rich and fertile and things grow and they come to life. That's the picture. It's almost like we're a channel, an entry point for Gods blessing, a vessel used in His service. When I look around at the people I know it never ceases to amaze me how different we all are. A friend of mine, Bob, who's a counsellor, he sits and listens to people and empathises and helps them think through and work through their problems. I couldn't do that. Another good friend of mine, Lawrie. He's a gentle man, he has a special ministry. When Churches are going through hurts, sometimes when they go through splits or they sack their pastor or whatever went on, his ministry is to go and to be their pastor for the next few months or even the next few years and bring reconciliation and forgiveness and healing into that place. It's a really special ministry. I couldn't do that. Another friend of mine, James, he's the baby boomer social director at our Church. He's always organising for us to get together or to go away for weekends and he ushers in a sense of community. He loves doing that, he's passionate about it. That's not me either. The people I really admire, teachers. I spoke recently at a gathering of 300 high school teachers. Now those people, I reckon they deserve a medal. I mean I definitely couldn't do what they do. You know by now I could be tearing my hair out, I could be feeling really insecure. Wow, I can't do any of those things that those other people can do. What good am I? Me, I just sit in a radio studio behind a microphone. How boring is that? But you know something, when I'm doing what God made me to do it's such an incredible joy. It is your decision and my decision to draw close to Jesus and to get to know Him and to be filled by His Spirit. And when we're thirsty to go to Him for our spiritual nourishment, that's the inflow, it's an awesome thing. I was worshipping at Church recently and it was such a delight to sing praises and to bow down my life before God but if that's all I did with my faith it would get boring. You fill up and you fill up and you fill up with God and you never spend any of that and you never let any of it flow out, I think we'd explode. You know where there's as much, in a sense, an even more delight for me? When I see those rivers of living ...
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  • The Satisfaction of Being Full // Full to Overflowing, Part 4

    The Satisfaction of Being Full // Full to Overflowing, Part 4
    Jul 10 2025
    Ever been so thirsty you think you’re going to die. And then – then you have a deep drink of fresh, cool, clear, living water. Awesome. In fact Jesus talked a lot about water. I remember when I was training to be an officer in the Australian Army. We used to go out on exercises for weeks at a time, war games and we'd be fighting this imaginary army and learning, I guess, how to fight a war. Back in those days the army was heavily into water rationing. Two water bottles per man per day perhaps. And that was for shaving, washing, cleaning your teeth, cooking and drinking. So those hot summer months with all the physically heavy work that the battle entails, it was never enough. Many a time we'd finish an attack up a steep hill in the middle of the noon days sun or be digging a trench and all I wanted to do was to guzzle down a whole bottle of water. Of course you couldn't do that and I'd close my eyes and I'd imagine that I was swimming in a nice cool river with stacks and stacks of water. When you're that thirsty what you really want is water in abundance. You want to be filled to overflowing. This week on the program we're looking at what it means to be filled by God to overflowing. Not just half full, not just three quarters full, not just full to the brim but filled so that we overflow all His goodness and all His blessings and his Spirit. When we're really thirsty we have a deep longing to drink. It is such a satisfying thing when we drink. I mean our need for water is one of the most basic of all needs. 70% of the human body is water and after oxygen water is our most important physical need. You can't go for very long without water. The body starts closing down some of it's functions and depending on your condition you can be dead in just a couple of days. Or if you're stuck in a hot car without water you can be dead in a few minutes in extreme heat. It's interesting that when Jesus was talking about His plan for our lives He uses thirst and water to explain what He means. I think it's because it's something we can really relate to. He meets a woman, a Samaritan woman, at a well and He says to her: Everyone who drinks out of this water will be thirsty again but those who drink the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give them will become in them a spring of water gushing up into eternal life. See life gets thirsty and this week on the program we've been looking at what it means to be filled to overflowing 'cause that's Jesus plan. No ifs, no buts. "Oh well, that’s not my experience'". Maybe not but its Jesus promise. Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water I will give them will become in them a spring of water gushing up into eternal life. I wonder sometimes whether in life we don't make things just a bit too complicated. For me, faith is a simple thing. I read what Jesus says. I hear what God has to say to me and then you say, "Well okay, if that's from God that's what I'm going to believe even if my circumstances are screaming at me saying that's never going to be possible. You're never going to have a fountain of spring water gushing up in you." And every time my feelings or the things that are going on around me scream at me, "God’s a liar, God’s a liar, God’s a liar". I'm just going to pick up that Book and go to that passage again and read what Jesus had to say again. I'm just going to believe in Him and not all these other things. Now you might say to me, 'But Berni that’s unrealistic. I've been trying to have a life of peace and joy and abundance. It seems like forever and it's just not happening for me'. Look at His promise again friend. Let's read it. John chapter 7, verse 37: If anyone (not some special people). If anyone is thirsty let them come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me (not just the special spiritual people). Whoever believes in me, rivers of living water will flow from them. By this He meant the Spirit whom those who believed in Jesus were later to receive. There are three parts to that promise. The first one is, "if you're thirsty get a drink". When life is dry and parched and empty, if anyone is thirsty. You know what anyone means? Anyone means anyone. Come to Jesus and He will fill us full of His water. A water that when we drink it, a living water, we'll never be thirsty again. The second thing He says is, "and whoever believes in me". You see, it's a faith thing. When He says, "whoever believes in me" that word "in" means literally "into". So it says whoever believes into me. You may have heard me say this before. I can look at a chair in the distance and believe that it will hold me and I'm believing in it. But if I want to believe into the chair I walk over and I sit down in the chair and I say, "you see, the chair can hold me". I've put my faith into the chair. My trust into the chair and so Jesus says, "...
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