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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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  • A Silent Servant // Little People Used by a Big God, Part 4

    A Silent Servant // Little People Used by a Big God, Part 4
    Oct 23 2025
    Every now and then you meet someone who just has this knack of serving you in the most incredible way. They’re not some great superstar but this wonderful, silent, servant. We all, absolutely love that quiet achiever. Every now and then in life you meet a person, someone who has a particular gift to serve you. You can probably think of just a handful of people in your life, who, you know, just serve you. They’re the sort of person who if you put them in a customer service role, in a large department store, or in a call centre, well, they’d stand out head and shoulders to the customers, above everybody else. Their gift is to serve. These people are not only rare but are worth their weight in gold. And as much as we value them, we don’t recognise them in society. They are not superstars, in terms of our superstar syndrome mentality, but we value them in our hearts. Silent servants! I met one on the 22nd June 1997, and I married her. On the 21st June 1997, I was a very sick little puppy dog. I had a temperature of around forty degrees Celsius, which makes you really sick. It was a Saturday and I was scheduled to preach and lead worship at my Church on the following morning. Now that means about an hour and a half on your feet, singing and speaking. Well, I have to tell you, I was in no shape at all to be able to do that. On the Saturday, I wrote the sermon, about a minute or two at a time, because that’s all I could sit up. The next morning, I woke up and I was still so sick. I still had a high temperature, but I just felt that God wanted me to get up and go to the Church and lead the worship and preach. And so I had a shower and hopped in the car and very slowly I drove the mile and a bit up to the Church. I went inside and I just knew that couldn’t stand up in this state, so we went into the Pastor’s office and a few friends laid their hands on me and prayed for me. Nothing happened … nothing happened. Then all of a sudden, one of the women, her name was Kim, she’s English, laid her hand on me, and she prayed for me and I felt the temperature drain out of my body, from my head to my feet. Now, I wasn’t perfectly well, I still had a cough, but I felt I could stand up and do what I needed to do. I did, I led worship. I began to preach and about half way through the message, in the middle of a sentence, I looked out and there was this beautiful woman and I just felt God say to me, ‘That’s her! She is going to be your wife‘, and unbeknown to me, she was having exactly the same God experience from the other side, saying, ‘He is the guy that you are going to marry.’ Well, one thing led to another. It’s all history now. In six months we became engaged, and about a year and a bit later, we were married. And before we were married, someone said to me, a wonderful Christian woman, she said, ‘This woman, Jacqui, whom you are about to marry, will be able to help you in your ministry, in ways you can never imagine.’ Now, I wasn’t even involved in full time ministry then. I had no idea what God had before me. Jacqui’s worked in all sorts of different rolls. She’s worked as a personal carer in aged care. Now those people have a tough job and they get paid peanuts. You know, there’s heavy lifting, it's messy, it's smelly, people with dementia who try to take a swipe at them, and hit them. It is a really tough job. And when she left her job, all the elderly people in the home were so sad to see her go, because she just has a gift for working for the elderly, loving them and caring for them and being gentle with them. She went on to a role as a rehabilitation assistant, where she was again dealing with older people, who had hip replacements and were doing rehab. And it was the same, she was dealing with people in pain, and she just had this ability to love them and care for them and walk them from their bed up to the rehabilitation unit and back again. When she left that job they were so sad to see her go. From there she moved on to a large department store, where she ran the bridal register. You know, when people get married they have a bridal register at a store and then you can buy the gifts from that store. Now it all looks really wonderful and romantic, but the truth of the jobs is, it’s a tough job. It’s complex administratively, it’s about bringing gifts together from right around the country, and getting them there on the day. It’s a tough job and she had this real client focus, of looking after the couple that was getting married. Making sure that everything went well on the bride’s special day. There is a pattern emerging here – this gift. Here is a little person. Now, you will never see Jacqui up on a platform speaking. You will never hear Jacqui behind a microphone speaking. That is not her gift. Wild horses could not get her to do what I do, and I have to tell you, wild horses could not get me to do what she does. And here we are in this great ministry,...
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  • A Gifted Knob Twiddler // Little People Used by a Big God, Part 3

    A Gifted Knob Twiddler // Little People Used by a Big God, Part 3
    Oct 22 2025
    We’re all different, aren’t we? Each of us with different strengths and weaknesses. The problem is though, that we can spend so much of our time comparing ourselves with the next guy that we lose perspective on our own gifts and abilities. One of the things we tend to do a lot is to compare ourselves with other people. We live in an age of superstar syndrome. It’s sweeping the globe and frankly, it’s more insidious than bird flu. And that’s a dangerous thing. We look at the people around us and we see how clever they are, how talented they are. So and so is so good at that, I wish I was that good. So and so seems so confident and poised, I wish I was like that. You know what I’m talking about. When we’re in that sort of a mood, and that sort of a frame of mind, we kind of see their strengths but we ignore their weaknesses. Somehow we hold them up as paragons of virtue, and forget that they have failings. They make mistakes. I’d like to introduce you today to a good friend of mine, Max, who seems to have this part of his life pretty well sorted out. Max is a knob twiddler extraordinaire. He is the producer of all the radio programs I am involved in. Every time I’m sitting here in the studio, behind the mike, Max is sitting on the other side of the soundproof glass panels, doing what he does. You hear the intro music to the program, well, that’s because Max put it there. You hear the ending music of the program, well, he put that there too. You think, man, that Berni could talk under water, he never stumbles. I’ll let you in on a secret, that’s because Max takes out all my stumbles. You will probably never see or hear Max but he makes me sound good. Listening to radio, we never think about production quality, but we sure would if it wasn’t there. Well, that’s Max’s job. Put it simply, no Max, no Berni! Every now a then I get in behind the mike to voice something. And you know something, he doesn’t like doing it, but he does have an ear. He knows what it sounds like. I can be sitting in the studio and he’ll come on in my headphones and say, come on, Berni, you can do much better than that, try that again. Max is, well, he’s fifty something, he’s a lanky Australian, he has chooks in his back yard and he farms bees. So every now and then I get some eggs and some honey. He’s got a grey ponytail, he’s sort of an arty-farty, trendy sort of a guy, a gifted musician, a worship leader and there are any number of things that Max could be doing with his life. He could be doing more commercial work, which would certainly bring in more dollars than the work that we do together. He could do more up front muso worship type stuff and he’d get a lot more recognition. He could do more work with the ministry that he’s involved in, LL, which is involved in healing. And he would get much more one on one relationship and recognition and maybe satisfaction. Yet he chooses to twiddle knobs for me on this program. In fact, he loves it. I’m the only one who ever notices he’s hidden. He unrecognised, he unsung, yet he still does it. Max, why do you do it? “Gee, Berni, I guess because it’s the sort of thing the Lord asks me to do. I was working in the commercial area, over twenty years ago now, working in theatre – working in live theatre, getting lots of kudos, working with lots of very big name people. And I just felt as though God was saying to me, I want you out of all of that and I want you to build a little studio under your house and I want you to do work for Me. Now my ticket out of that situation was a regular job with a fairly large client, doing educational work. They were employing me six months of the year, so in a way it was pretty easy for me to give up a full time job and go freelance, but they dwindled. Work kept coming from different quarters and what was twenty years ago, work on to cassettes, now I work on to CDROM, and all those sorts of things. I still find myself sitting in the control room thinking, I actually enjoy doing this. There are some moments of it, like every job, ninety percent of it is just hard work, but there are moments, particularly with you, Berni, that I think, this is what God wants me to do. There are other things in my life. I am involved, as you said, in music, and worship leading, with LL Ministries, with praying with people. We’re doing all sorts of things, but there’s something about this job that I really enjoy doing and I know it’s making a difference to thousands of people around the planet.” Thanks for that Max. But it is great. You know Max and I spend a lot of time together in the studio and not only does he do the technical things brilliantly, but he has got such an ear, such an intuition for sound, and how we put things together. Again, they’re not things that you would normally notice when you are listening to radio but they are really, really important. Now, on the days when I come in, and maybe I’m not ...
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  • A Faithful Facilitator // Little People Used by a Big God, Part 2

    A Faithful Facilitator // Little People Used by a Big God, Part 2
    Oct 21 2025
    Now just imagine that you’re a refugee from a war-ravaged African nation, your country is a mess, people are dying and you’re on the run in a jungle from rebel fighters and from forced conscription as a teenager. What could you ever make out of your life under those circumstances? Superstar syndrome is something that touches just about every corner of the globe. You know larger than life media personalities that somehow, well, so many people secretly aspire to that sort of recognition and status. And when we look in the mirror at our faces, we discover not only aren’t we like that, but we will never be like that. So is there any hope for little people like you and me? I was talking to a dear friend of mine the other day, Joseph. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa. He is 28 years old, and he has had the most incredibly destructive start to his life. His story begins in Liberia and in 1989, at age 12. He was faced with the ravages of war. Now Joseph is no superstar in the world’s eyes. He is one of the little people, but to me, to me he’s a giant! Have a listen to Joseph’s story Joseph’s father is a pastor in Liberia. In most parts of the world, pastors don’t earn a lot of money. Well, that’s especially true in Liberia. At age 12, civil war hits and Joseph became a refugee. Now I remember my parents, who were in Europe during World War 2, talking about what it was like being refugees during wartime. I can’t imagine it, I’ve never experienced it, and I pray to God that I never will experience it. But Joseph did. In the West, we so often see images of African refugees, starving African children. Most of the people who watch those images on the news day after day, week after week, sadly become desensitized. Joseph is one of those. He fled to different countries, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Guyana, Togo, I gather not with his parents. And at one stage in the Ivory Coast, he lived in a car for almost a year with some other kids. Today, fifteen or sixteen years on, he still talks about those days with some difficulty. When he was in Guinea, he spent days and nights in the forest, hiding, escaping from forced recruitment as a rebel fighter. Remember, he’s twelve or thirteen years old. He was hunted like an animal. He recalls living on a riverbank with lots of other kids his age and then fleeing on to yet another country. I, for one, cannot imagine the trauma of that, can you? I first met Joseph in June last year at a broadcasting conference in the UK, Stoke on Trent. It was a ‘chance meeting’ and the thing that struck me about Joseph when I first met him, was the sparkle in his eyes. I guess it is accentuated by the deep black skin. When we got talking, I had no idea about his background, or even his current situation. He heads up a Radio Broadcasting School at a Christian Media Training College in South Africa. He was so excited to meet me. He interviewed me for a radio program. He was excited with what I was doing. He listened to radio programs that I was producing and listened to what we were doing on the internet, and had a look at one of our internet sites, www.whosjesus.com. He’s just an overwhelmingly delightful, enthusiastic young man. And so the conference finishes, and we head back to our respective homes, he to South Africa, me to Australia. Now don’t know if you have ever done conferences. But how it normally works is, people make all sorts of promises – I’ll keep in touch with you, we’ll catch up, we’ll do this, we’ll do that, at conferences, and ninety nine percent of them never do. So Joseph went back to South Africa, and I thought, ‘Oh well, I might hear from him and I might not’. Well, Joseph really made a point of connecting with me. Joseph made a point of not only connecting with me but trying to connect me with people of influence that he knew in Africa, with his boss, at the Media Village, where he works, with thirty or forty radio stations right across the continent. And still I had no idea of the circumstances in his life right at that time. It was only much later, in fact, only just recently that the life story of this bright eyed, well-dressed, enthusiastic connector of people, came to light. Today, as I said, Joseph is connecting us with dozens of radio stations around Africa. So that this program right now is being heard by tens of thousands of people right across Africa. Here’s this little person, a person that most of us will never ever meet, Joseph, having an influence in the lives of tens of thousands of people. Isn’t that exciting? Well, what’s the point? Joseph is one of the little people. He looks like Tiger Woods, the American golfer. But, I tell you he doesn’t get paid US$130 million a year to wear a certain brand of sports clothes! He’s a little person with a tragic background, and right now, his current circumstances are that he’s not particularly well off at all. I didn’t find that out until somebody else, from Ireland ...
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