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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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  • What about Your Dream? // Living Your Dreams, Part 10

    What about Your Dream? // Living Your Dreams, Part 10
    Sep 26 2025
    Over these last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at what it means to live out our big dreams in life. But what about your dream? The one that God’s created just for you. What does that look like? Good to be with you again today on this Friday, end of another week. These last two weeks we’ve been chatting about living out the big dreams that God lays on our hearts, and I’m always conscious when you talk about dreaming, that, well, we’re all at different places in life. Some people are on top of the world at the moment that might be you. Your life might be going on just wonderfully well. On the other hand, you may be in the depths of despair. You may be coming out of it, on the way to being on top of the world. Or well maybe you were on top of the world last month and you feel like life is slipping a bit. We’re all at different places on that roller coaster of emotions and life. I heard from the vice president of a large, successful, global organisation recently, it’s based in the U.S.A. And he said this, “Berni, I have ten years left in the job and I’m kind of laying out my priorities. I want to do a bit of dreaming. What should I achieve? What do you think?” He asked me the question. So I gave him an opinion that jolted him, it was something he didn’t expect. And so it’s Friday. We always like to look at the subject that we’ve been talking about during the week from the perspective of someone who’s asked a question. And today we’re doing that in relation to this man who is the vice-president of international operations in a large, global, very successful organisation. Now this man is a mature Christian I’ve known him for many years. He’s been walking with the Lord all his life, serving God. And he asked my opinion in the early stages of a process of dreaming. And it’s a good thing to do. He said, “Look, I’ve got ten years before I retire. I’d like to map out what’s my dream for these next ten years. I just don’t want to sit in the chair. I’d like to achieve some stuff. What’s my dream, what are my aims? When I retire what would I like to look back on over these ten years?” A really good thing to do. But as is often the way in the early stages. We don’t have all the pieces. We don’t know how all of the pieces of that dream fit together. We need to deal with the ambiguity and the uncertainty. When I looked at his dream, I read through some of the things he had there. Somehow to me the pieces were too small. They were too operational. They were too much about his organisation rather than the people that he was wanting to help. So this is how I answered his e-mail. In helping you put some of the pieces of the puzzle in place, I’d first like you to tell me what sort of a dream do you have in mind? I mean, is this a dream of relative safety, bite sized in achievable chunks? Flags outside the office, notches on the belt as it were to help you ride out the last ten years of your job with satisfaction? Or is it a big dream? One that’s so large and so unachievable without the Lord that it lies utterly outside your personal comfort zone? It’s exciting and terrifying all at once. I don’t mean to be unkind in asking the question, but I think that when we’re dreaming it’s an entirely healthy question to ask. In fact, it’s the question. Psalm 2:8 says: Ask of me and I will make the nations your heritage and the ends of the earth your possession. Now for someone in your role, there’s one heck of a dream. Tell me, what sort of a dream do you have in mind? He sent me an e-mail back saying, “I wish you’d stayed in bed this morning.” But he said, “You know something? You’ve asked me exactly the right question.” And so now he’s gone away to think about his dream. Big dreams are always outside our comfort zones. We have a big God. We have a huge God. A God who loves this world so much that He has huge plans to use small, ordinary, fallible people like you and me to touch the world with his love. What about your dream? Let’s just focus on your dream for a minute. What does that look like? When you look back at the end of your life on the time between this moment and that, what would you like to have achieved? What would you like to have done? That’s an interesting question and it’s a question I believe that we should all ask. But let’s begin with the here and now. First question. Are you satisfied with life right now? The way that life is going, what you’re doing, how you’re spending your time, how the energies are being spent? How satisfied are you with your life right now? The chances are that if you’re living out that one thing that God made you to do, you’ll have a sense of deep satisfaction. But if you have a dream out there somewhere, and you’ve never stepped towards it, you’ve never said, ‘I’m going to live that dream.’ My hunch is that your level of satisfaction is pretty low. The statistics say that ...
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  • Beyond Your Wildest Dreams // Living Your Dreams, Part 9

    Beyond Your Wildest Dreams // Living Your Dreams, Part 9
    Sep 25 2025
    Each one of us has some big dream for our lives – woven into our DNA by God. But sometimes – we feel so inadequate. And that dream – well it looks so big! Great to be with you again today. For the last couple of weeks we’ve been talking about living out the big dreams for our lives. We’ve been doing that because I believe that God has an amazing plan for each one of us and He has an amazing plan for this world. And His plan is to use ordinary, fallible people like you and me to reach other ordinary, fallible people with the love of His Son, Jesus Christ. Who me? Yes, you. Most times He communicates a little bit of His plan at a time by laying a dream on our hearts. Something that burns inside us, something that we lose sometimes or forget. But a desire that comes back again and again. So many people live their lives but forget to live God’s dream in their hearts. And one reason for that is that God’s dream can be so big, it can seem so far beyond us, that it’s scary. Let me read to you something that a woman called Marianne Williamson wrote back in 1992. She wrote this: “Our deepest fear is not that we’re inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, or gorgeous, or talented, or fabulous? Actually who are you not to be? You’re a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing in writing about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We are all meant to shine as children do. We were born to manifest the glory of God that’s within us. It’s not just in some of us. It’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Do you find that thought provoking? I certainly do. The notion that we aren’t good enough, the notion that I couldn’t possibly ever live out a dream as big as this. It’s a notion that a lot of us have. I often wonder about Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years, 27 years in jail because of his opposition to apartheid in South Africa. Have you thought about that? 27 years is a very long time. And it must have been the dream in his heart one day to lead his country. One day to see apartheid abolished. And I’m sure, when he was sitting in that prison cell, in fact if you read his book, we discover this. There were times when he felt that he wasn’t adequate. People often ask me, “How do you know that the dream that you have for your life is from God?” Well one sure way to tell is that it’s way beyond anything that you or I could do, it’s so outrageous. That unless God’s in it, we can’t succeed. Now in a sense that’s scary. But when you think about it, that’s also really good. If God’s not in something, frankly I don’t want it to succeed. I don’t want to get two-thirds the way down a path and find that I’m carrying a huge and heavy load and God’s not in this to carry that load with me. This was never God’s plan for my life. So I don’t want to succeed in anything that isn’t God’s plan. All right. But then are you saying that we all have to end up doing high profile things that make us famous? No, I’m not saying that at all. Sometimes beyond a young mother with a young child that has nappy rash, that’s teething, there are dirty nappies all over the lounge room, it’s a mess, you’re tired, the whole breast-feeding thing isn’t working and your dream was always to have a little baby and be a Mum and see this child grow up. God is in that place too. We live in this entertainment world where we have larger than life celebrities and we see people, and even Christians, succeed at their dreams. And we look at them and think , “Ah, I could never do that. God’s not in my world the way that God’s in that person’s world.” That is such wrong thinking. Look at who Jesus hung out with when He walked on this earth. Who did Jesus hang out with? Jesus hung out with prostitutes, He hung out with lepers, He hung out with tax collectors, He touched lepers. Yet all the people, the society said, “These are flotsam and jetsam. These are nobodies.” They’re the ones that Jesus spent His time with. Not the famous people. The little people. Paul writes this to the church in Ephesus. He says: God is able to do immeasurably more than all that we can ask for or even imagine according to His power that’s at work in us. (Ephesians 3:20) Do you have a dream that seems so far beyond anything that you can do? You can imagine the dream. You can picture it. You can see it. But there’s just no way that you can get there. Let’s have a look at that little verse again. God is able to do immeasurably more than all that we can ask for or imagine. So let’s take your dream for a minute and say, “That’s ...
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  • Thriving in the Promise // Living Your Dreams, Part 8

    Thriving in the Promise // Living Your Dreams, Part 8
    Sep 24 2025
    Each one of us has some big dream for our lives – woven into our DNA by God. But how do we know if we’re actually living the dream? I mean, how do we know when we’ve arrived? How are you doing? Great to be with you again today. This week and last week we’re talking about living out the big dream that we have for our lives. I have one and you have one, even if it’s hidden down deep inside somewhere, maybe long forgotten. And if that dream is a part of God’s plan for your life, (all dreams aren’t of course), then somehow, somewhere it’s going to fit into God’s bigger plan touching the people in this world with His love. It may not be immediately obvious. Often He only shows us one piece at a time, but eventually, as we find ourselves living out our dream for our lives, whatever that is, it’s going to involve just that, touching other people with God’s love. But how do we know when we’ve arrived? I mean, how do we know when we’ve actually started living that dream? It’s a good question. Over these last couple of weeks we’ve been having a bit of a look at a book called, "The Dream Giver" by Bruce Wilkinson and David Kopp. It’s a book that I would really encourage you to buy. If you go to our website, and we’ll give you that address at the end of this program, you can go to a link where you can buy that book. It’s a book about a man called Ordinary. He’s a nobody from the land of Familiar. And this book traces his journey where he embraces his big dream, where he leaves his comfort zone, where he deals with the bullies along the way and ends up in a wasteland and spends time with God in a sanctuary and travels through the Valley of Giants and finally he arrives in the land of promise, the land where he believes his dream lies. But it kind of doesn’t look very much like his dream. So what does it look like? How do we know when we’ve actually started to live our dream? How do we know when it’s gone from being a dream to being an actuality? It wasn’t what Ordinary expected and sometimes, when we get to a point where we’re living our dream, it doesn’t look like what we expected. Let’s have a listen to this little excerpt from the book: In the days that followed Ordinary walked through every street and every lane and every path of this dismal city of Anybody’s. He talked to young anybodies and old anybodies. And what he saw and heard filled him with sadness. The needs of the anybodies were great and their hopes were few. Ordinary’s heart began to ache in a way it never ached before. One day Ordinary took a stroll near the city gates. As he walked he talked with the friendly anybody children who followed him. And then he heard the Dreamgiver say, ‘What do you see?’ Ordinary stopped. He looked down into the children’s faces. ‘I see beautiful anybodies in great need,’ he said. ‘Yes,’ the Dreamgiver said. ‘What else to you see?’ Ordinary looked up. He could hardly believe his eyes. Carved on the inside of the gate was the name of his dream. ‘Your big dream lies here,’ said the Dreamgiver. Could it be true? Instantly he knew it was true. He’d arrived. Then Ordinary understood why he hadn’t recognized his big dream when it was right in front of him. The lovely city he’d imagined all along wasn’t his dream but a picture of what his dream would accomplish. The big needs of these anybodies matched perfectly to the big dream in his heart and it was time to do his dream. Ordinary was so excited that he let out a whoop of joy much to the delight of the anybody children. Isn’t that the way? We say to God, “I’ve got a dream. I want to be a nurse or I want to be a teacher or I want to be a preacher or I want to be a Mom or I want to be a husband. I have this dream to help other people. God use me to help other people. Use me Lord.” But somehow we imagine that God will take us to a beautiful place full of nice, well-adjusted, wonderful, lovely people. And we imagine that when we get there, those that will work with us on our dream, will share every aspect of our dream. They’ll see the world completely our way. Come on, we know life’s not like that. But we have these idealized, unrealistic pictures in our heads of what the land of our dreams will look like. Listen, if we have a God-shaped dream in our hearts, then that God-shaped dream is going to match a God-shaped need out there somewhere. And people who are in need generally aren’t beautiful people by the world’s standards. People in need are hurting. And hurting people often hurt others. When God called Moses out of the desert to go and lead Israel out of Egypt where they were in slavery into the Promised Land, what he found was several hundred thousand grumbling Israelites that he spent forty years with in the desert. When God called the apostle Paul to go and minister to churches in Corinth and in Ephesus and a lot of the books of the New Testament are letters from ...
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