A Different Perspective Official Podcast Podcast Por Berni Dymet arte de portada

A Different Perspective Official Podcast

A Different Perspective Official Podcast

De: Berni Dymet
Escúchala gratis

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
Episodios
  • 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 ...
    Más Menos
    10 m
  • The Valley of the Giants // Living Your Dreams, Part 7

    The Valley of the Giants // Living Your Dreams, Part 7
    Sep 23 2025
    Each one of us has some dream for our lives. Maybe you’ve stepped out to follow that dream – but then all these obstacles come out of nowhere. C'mon God, what are you up to? Glad to be with you again today. Everyone who’s ever lived out a big dream for their lives has met at least one giant. In fact most dreamers meet several along their road. With an elite athlete well it might be an injury that sidelines them for several months. They think How can I ever come back from that? With someone who decides to go and work with the poor it might be a lack of funds and they think How can I ever do what God’s called me to do without the money? I was talking with a really successful businessman the other day and he was telling me how his warehouse burned down just a couple of years into his big dream. Here’s a question: If you and I have a dream for our lives, and if we believe that God is in the dream, why does He allow those big giants to get in our road? That’s a good question. Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at this whole subject of living out the dreams that we have for our lives. There’s a great book which I’ve referred to a couple of times called, "The Dream Giver" by Bruce Wilkinson & David Kopp. I’d really encourage you to get a copy of that book. It’s a parable about a nobody from the land of Familiar. His name is Ordinary and he leaves his comfort zone to pursue his big dream. One day he finds himself in the Valley of the Giants. Have a listen: Ordinary hadn’t gone far up the Valley when he met his first giant. It was enormous all right and it completely blocked the path to his dream. When it noticed Ordinary, the giant yawned in his direction. ‘Where do you think you’re going, little nobody?’ Ordinary recognized the giant towering over him. It was Moneyless. ‘I need to get past,' said Ordinary. ‘Sure you do. Everybody does,’ said the giant. Ordinary tried to think of a plan but none came to mind. ‘So I need you to get out of my way,’ he said. ‘I’m not moving,’ said the giant. ‘I guess you’ll have to move me yourself.’ For a moment Ordinary hesitated. Then he cried out, ‘Dreamgiver, help me. Please give me the power to move the giant.’ And the Dreamgiver did. Then He told Ordinary what to do and what to say. Ordinary looked up at this big giant called Moneyless and shouted, ‘I challenge you in the name of the Dreamgiver.’ Then he attacked the giant with all his weapons and armor. At first the giant didn’t move. But Ordinary kept reaching for the truths that he’d learned. He took courage, he believed what the Dreamgiver would provide. He relied on wisdom. He fought on, he endured. And with every advance he felt the Dreamgiver’s pleasure. Finally the day came when Moneyless did retreat. Ordinary’s cry of victory rang out through the Valley. ‘Great and good is the Dreamgiver,’ he cried. After that victory Ordinary was never in doubt again. He was a warrior. How many of us would like to see God do an amazing miracle in our lives. We all would, wouldn’t we? I mean we’d love to see God do a miracle that we can look back on and say, “Look at what God did there.” Well every giant, every massive problem that gets in our road, that sits on the road between us and our dream is an opportunity for an amazing miracle from God. When we see one of these giants, the first thing we feel is fear. We look at this great big giant, in this case it was Moneyless, in this case it was a person who had a dream that needed some money but he didn’t have the money. Well, it’s easy to sit down in the road and say, “Well, I’m out of money. I can’t go any further.” We look at those giants and we see an opportunity for God to do a miracle. Our dreams always start off really exciting and then we walk along and we say, “Yes, I believe that God is my Dreamer. I’ve prayed about it and God is here.” And we walk along and we go, “I think God is here.” And then we walk along a little bit further and we see a big giant in our road and we think God can’t possibly be here. I mean if God was in this dream, that giant wouldn’t be in my road. If God was in this dream, I’d have enough money to get along to my dream. And a lot of people give up. They look at the giant and they say, “I can’t go on. I’m going to give up.” Let’s just follow the logic for a minute. You have a dream for your life. It burns in your heart. It something, no matter what you do, it won’t go away. I was talking to a woman recently and her dream was to be a nurse. She dreamed and she wanted to be a nurse all her life. It seemed impossible and it was something that just wouldn’t go away for her. A dream that’s from God is like that. It just keeps coming back. We misplace it sometimes. We forget it sometimes. But it just burns in us. So we had this dream. But then we go to God and we pray it through and we spend time listening to God ...
    Más Menos
    10 m
  • Time in the Sanctuary // Living Your Dreams, Part 6

    Time in the Sanctuary // Living Your Dreams, Part 6
    Sep 22 2025
    Each of us has some big dream for our lives. The thing that we really want to do or to be. Some sense of destiny. But how do we know whether God is in that dream? Good Question. Just great to be with you again on a Monday. Last week we talked about the dreams that we have for our lives. We all have them. Hopes for the future, something that burns in our hearts, something I want to be or I want to do. So few people ever seem to live out their dreams, to embrace them, to leave their comfort zone, to travel down that hard road to live that dream out. Over the weekend someone asked me, "What do you mean about all this dreaming stuff? Is it some kind of self-help program, is it being an achiever, thinking positive, achieving success"? "No," I said, "that's not what I mean." "Then what do you mean"? How does God fit into the picture? Now that's a good question. That's a very good question. Almost every morning I get up quite early between 4:30 and 5:00 o'clock. Apparently, I have been like that since I was a little kid. My mother tells me that from the first time I could climb out of my cot, I was up at 4:00 to 4:30 out raiding the cookie jar. So it's been a lifelong thing for me; I'm just one of those morning people. As I grew up and became an adult, before I became a Christian, I started getting up early again, and the whole day would begin with work. It would be work from beginning to end. Work! Work! Work! Work! Work! These days I've changed my approach. I still get up really early, but I spend the first hour or so with God. I pray, I read the Bible, and when I do that I hear God speak. I sit and wait on Him. You may think I'm crazy. Come on, Berni, read the Bible, give me a break. But that's what I do. And as I sit and wait on Him, I hear Him speak to me, not in an audible voice. But I get a sense when I read the Bible, I'm reading His Word, and I wait on Him of what God's plans are, not just for that day, but also for my life. It's an awesome time, that time of waiting. It's when I do a lot of my dreaming and planning. Now dreaming and planning are two separate things. Dreaming is a higher order of function. Dreaming is about saying, "Where is life going? Where's the ministry going? Where's my marriage going? What are my plans and hopes and dreams for the future"? Planning for me is something much more nitty gritty and detail. It's a lower order of function. It's about saying, "How am I going to run my day today? How am I going to fit everything in? What's the priority for today"? And it's a habit that I've come into early in the morning when everyone else is asleep, and when all we hear outside through the window is the old bird waking up. Something I do with God. Now I have lots of ideas and plans and hopes and dreams. Lots of them! Not all of them fit with God. In fact, I would say, on average, somewhere between half and a third, in my view, end up being in God's will. The rest were just good ideas that Berni dreamed up sometime because we're creative people. We all are. You are. I am. We dream. We think. We create. And then we go and act on those things. The question is: "When we dream a dream, when we hope a hope, when we look forward into the future, and we visualise what that future should look like for us, is God involved in that process or do we do it on our own? In those quiet hours of the morning, I share my hope and my dreams with my God. And the thing that I love to do is to lay them down at His feet. And say, "Lord, I don't want to live a dream, I don't want to live a hope, I don't want to live a plan that isn't your dream, that isn't your hope, that isn't your plan. I want your guidance. Here is my dream. What do you think of it? And in that quiet time in that sanctuary with Him, a still small voice speaks. During the day I have ideas too, and some build into dreams. But during the day I'm on the phone, I'm in the studio, there's emails, there's people, there's noise, I spend time with my family. It's not always possible to hear God's still small voice. Do I receive guidance during the day? Is that God's plan? Yes, I believe we do. If we're walking closely with Jesus, if we're living our lives for Him that in the middle of the day, in the middle of a stressful situation, we can quickly turn to Him, and He'll give us guidance. But when it comes to the big things, the big dreams, the things that you want to do with your life, do you want God involved? I know I do, but do you? And do you want God involved so much that if the dream isn't part of His plan, you'll lay it down. You say, "Lord, I actually don't want any part of this dream. I don't want to live this dream, because it's not one that's come from you." In one of the Psalms, it says even though the mountains are falling into the sea and the nations are raging around you, be still and know that I am God. The mistake that I've made in the past, I think the mistake that is common to all of us is - sometime we think, "Wow, this is ...
    Más Menos
    10 m
Todavía no hay opiniones