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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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  • Be Filled With The Spirit // The Holy Spirit and Me, Part 5

    Be Filled With The Spirit // The Holy Spirit and Me, Part 5
    Nov 7 2025
    We chug, chug, chug through life – and pretty soon, we're running on empty. And then we try filling up with all sorts of different things. But running on the wrong fuel can have disastrous consequences. In a world that's hungry for some sort of authentic spiritual reality. It just blows me away that God has a plan. He's always had a plan, that plan is to pour His Spirit out on us, His Holy Spirit, a flood tide of His life, His love, His presence, rivers of living water, an overflow of abundance. You think I'm going a bit over the top? Well they're God's words not mine. Sometimes in our day-to-day desert existence we get a puny view of God and His plan, but that doesn't change the fact that God is a god of overflowing abundance. And the biggest blessing of all is to be so immersed in Him and His Holy Spirit that we can't wipe the smile off our face and adulation out of our hearts. That's why He urges us, "Go on, go on being filled with the Holy Spirit." We all go through times in our lives when God seems a long way off and the further away He seems the smaller He looks. The day-to-day reality crowds our vision, God ends up being a small speck somewhere in the landscape, you know what I'm talking about? Recently I had a large job to do, it was a huge job, now I'm involved full-time in this ministry of Christianityworks but I still do some IT consulting work because it helps us to cover the costs of producing these radio programs. And for four months I worked 12 hours a day and had literally only about 3 days off that whole time. Now don't try this at home, it is not a balanced existence, it's not to be recommended and you can't sustain that sort of thing but it was a season, it was something that I had to travel through. Fatigue and exhaustion really knock you around physically, emotionally and spiritually. I have to tell you some days, God felt like He was a long, long way away. So what does it mean, "go on being filled with the Holy Spirit". It's easy to say but when life's not easy you don't feel very spiritual, some days maybe we even despair, where is God? But what does it mean to be filled with the Holy Spirit when life's tough? Because that's exactly the time that we do need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. There's an interesting story of Jesus when He's ministering and Jairus the leader of the synagogue, whose daughter is dying comes to Him and there are crowds everywhere and he presses through and says, "My daughter's dying, quick I need you to come." But there's this other person, this woman, this woman who'd been bleeding for 12 years, she's unclean, she's an outcast, she's spent all her money on Doctors, she's in absolute despair and she hears that Jesus is in town and this is what she does. When Jesus crossed back over by the boat from the other side of the lake a large crowd gathered around Him while He was at the lake then one of the synagogue rulers named Jairus came there, he saw Jesus and fell at His feet and pleaded earnestly with Him, "My little girl is dying, please come and put your hands on her so that she'll be healed and live." So Jesus went with him and this large crowd followed and pressed around Him and a woman was there who'd been bleeding for twelve years. She'd suffered so much under the care of so many Doctors and she'd spent all she had and instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus she came up behind Him in the crowd and just touched His cloak because she thought, ' if I just touch His clothes I'll be healed.' Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering and at once Jesus realised that power had gone out from Him. He turned around to the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?" His disciples went, "Come on, there's a whole crowd pressing in against you and you ask who touched me?" But Jesus kept looking around to see who'd done it and then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at His feet trembling with fear. She told Him the whole story. He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go on, go in peace and be freed from your suffering. That power that flowed out of Jesus when she touched Him in faith was the power of the Holy Spirit and a small desperate seed of faith is all it took. It was an act of sheer desperation, just a single touch and a desperate faith. "Go on being filled with the Holy Spirit." Paul writes that, the Apostle, in Ephesians chapter 5, verse 18. He says: Don't get drunk on wine it leads to debauchery, instead go on being filled with the Holy Spirit. Speak to one another in psalms and hymns and sing spiritual songs and sing and make music in your heart to God, always giving thanks to the Father for everything in the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ. We can try and fill ourselves with all sorts of stuff. Here Paul says, don't try and fill up with wine, that's not where it's at. Shopping doesn't soothe your soul. Winning at work doesn't make...
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  • There Is No Condemnation // The Holy Spirit and Me, Part 4

    There Is No Condemnation // The Holy Spirit and Me, Part 4
    Nov 6 2025
    The biggest thing that keeps us from drawing close to God is the fear of condemnation. He's perfect and I'm not - so I'm in trouble. Makes sense. But fortunately, God's grace isn't logical. The biggest fear I ever had of getting close to God was the fear of judgement and condemnation. I didn't understand what Holy meant but I understood that if God was God then He was holy and He was good and He was perfect and I wasn't. And so the only logical thing for God to do if I let Him get close to me was to judge me. I could just hear Him, "Well now let's have a look at your ledger, hmm, no you're not worthy. No you're not good enough, no go over there and sit in the corner." That would be logical, it would be fair too, but fortunately, fortunately God's grace isn't logical and His mercy isn't fair, maybe that's why they call it the Good News. It's a bit of a dilemma isn't it? Because when we look in the mirror we know that there are things that we're doing wrong and when we talk about the Holy Spirit and Holy God, holiness means that God is perfect that's why this week we're having a look at the Holy Spirit and me. Who or what is the Holy Spirit? And if I'm meant to get close to God, which I am and you are, how do we do that? When God and His Spirit is holy, perfect and I'm not and you're not. The Holy Spirit is the most misunderstood of the three persons who are God. Father, Son and Holy Spirit and I guess that's because we can understand Dad, we can understand Jesus the Son but we don't have a picture in our heads about this Holy Spirit. Earlier on this week we saw that it was an amazing part of Gods plan for us to have a really close intimacy with God, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit and Gods desire to take our life, which is sometimes a desert and to bring it to life, to put rivers of living water through it. To fill it with peace and joy and life, that's what Gods plan, is and it comes to life in us and through us, through His spirit, His holy spirit but me, I look at God and I'm just not up to it. Now some people these days would laugh at that, "Come on Berni. We're all good enough, if it feels good – do it. We eat and drink for tomorrow we die so let's just get on with it." But get those people in a quiet honest moment and that sense of deep inadequacy, of failure, of emptiness, of uncertainty, it's out there in plague proportions. And that very need is so often the thing that keeps us from drawing close to God, from seeking Him out and having an intimate real relationship with Him through the Holy Spirit who, over the last couple of days on the program we've seen that God promises us, if we believe in Jesus, if we give our lives over to Him, if we love Him and obey Him, He wants to fill us with the Holy Spirit. He wants to come and make His home in us through the Holy Spirit. This problem of us being imperfect and God being perfect, is something the Apostle Paul writes about. If you have a Bible you can check it out later in Romans, chapters 7 and 8. He writes something along these lines, he says: "You know what my problem is, I know what's good and I know what's bad and I want to do what's good but the problem is that I can want to do what's good but I just cant do it, in fact this is how it works for me, whenever I want to do good, evil is right here with me. There's nothing good in me," says Paul, "Nothing, I'm so wretched and pitiful. Who'll save me?" Thank God Jesus will. In fact," he writes, "there's no condemnation for those who believe in Jesus. None because in Jesus God did something that rules and regulations can't do. He did away with sin because Jesus paid the price with His own body on the cross and now that struggle between good and evil isn't my problem anymore because Jesus set me free from that. So here's the choice that I have, if I set my heart and my mind on things that are wrong, that's where I'll end up, an enemy of God but if I set my heart and mind on the things of God, on the things of His spirit, that's where I'll end up, with abundant life. It's not a self-help program anymore, if I draw close to the Holy Spirit, He's the one that changes me, He's the one that brings life to my otherwise dead body, He's the one that makes the freedom that Jesus bought for me on the cross a reality here and now in my life today." Isn't that great, Paul's coming to a realisation. I mean, here's a man, God gets him to write almost half the books in the New Testament, he has the same problem that you and I do. He knows what's good, he'd love to do it, he just can't and that's our problem. The self-help program doesn't work. We can pedal and struggle and try but ultimately we can't change ourselves. Paul is saying here, "You know something; I've finally figured it out. Even though I've made mistakes, even though I continue to make mistakes, I believe in Jesus and Jesus is my salvation and Jesus is the one through whom God forgives me and because of Jesus dying on the ...
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  • Experiencing God // The Holy Spirit and Me, Part 3

    Experiencing God // The Holy Spirit and Me, Part 3
    Nov 5 2025
    The only way we really get to know someone is to live with them. Problem is that today, that can just mean shacking up. But God has a plan to make His home in us – and it's so much more than what the world has to offer. The only way really to know someone is to live with them in the same house, day after day, year after year. Boy meets girl and they get engaged, they get married and on their honeymoon they think they already know each other but the reality is they don't really and they're going to spend the rest of their lives trying to figure one another out. That's the wonderful mystery of marriage. When I signed up with Jesus, when I made that decision to give my life to Him, to follow Him, I thought, "I just don't want some Sunday religion thing, I want to know Him and the only way to know someone is to live with them." Nowadays living together, couples just moving in, is an accepted part of life in our society. Many people decide never to get married at all. In any case the whole marriage thing, well it ain't what it used to be, somewhere between a third and a half of all marriages end in divorce. The idea is that you move in on your own terms without any permanent commitment and if you want you can leave, it's the way of the world, it's a lifestyle choice. Sounds good until you talk to someone who's been through divorce or been through a separation, when a man and a woman share each others homes and lives and souls and bodies and when they sleep in the same bed they become one flesh, that's Gods plan. The two become one and when you tear that apart it hurts something terrible, it's an unbelievable pain. So what about God? If we want to know Him we have to live with Him and that's the way it goes but what does that plan look like? What if it ends up in divorce? How do we live with God? Jesus has a plan, it's a beautiful, eternal, wonderful plan for you and me to get to know Him. And it's not like the worlds plan that says, "Stay as long as you feel like it." It's a perfect plan, it's a plan made on God's terms and not ours. Have a look at this, this is what Jesus said. We looked at this yesterday and I'd like to look at it again today. He says, "If you love me you'll obey what I command and I'll ask the Father and He will give you another counsellor to be with you forever, the Spirit of truth. The world can't accept this spirit because it doesn't see Him or know Him but you know Him because He lives with you and He will be in you. I won't leave you as orphans, I'll come to you, before long the world won't see me anymore but you will because I live you'll live too and on that day you will realise that I am in my Father and you're in me and I'm in you. Whoever has my commands and obeys them that one loves me and the one who loves me will be loved by my Dad and I too will love Him and show myself to Him and we will come and make a home with them." A promise of Jesus to be with us, in us, make His home with us through the Holy Spirit forever and ever and ever, but it's not for everyone. Let me say that very clearly, I was talking to a man a little while ago who wanted God but wanted to live his life on his own terms. He wanted the relationship but he didn't want to live it God's way. Look at what Jesus said again: If you love me you will obey my commandments and I will ask the Father and He will give you another counsellor to be with you forever, the Spirit of truth. In other words this is on Jesus terms. If you love me, you'll obey me. Jesus isn't some cuddly lap dog, some fluffy soft toy, not some buddy to perform tricks when we want Him to and to get us out of a pickle. God is God, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Not a bunch of rules, not saying you've got to do all these things in order for me to love you but if we want to be in a relationship with Him we have to be in that relationship on Gods terms. He is looking for someone with a heart that's open to learn from Him: If you love me, if you really love me you will want to obey my commands and I'll send another comforter just like me. I love that second bit. I'll send you the Holy Spirit to be with you forever. Not shacking up, not a try before you buy arrangement, I mean I accepted God as a teenager but as I grew up into adulthood I turned my back on Him, I wandered so far away I didn't even know if He still existed but He was still there in my hour of need because the promise of Jesus was: I'll be with you forever. And I'd accepted Him and for eighteen years I wandered in this wilderness and forgot all about Him but He didn't forget about me. And the third part of His promise, firstly that God will send us another counsellor, Holy Spirit who's just like Jesus. The second part is that He will be with us forever; the third part is a promise of intimacy. Jesus says, "I won't leave you as orphans, I'll come to you. The world won't see me but you will and I'll be in Dad and you'll be in me and we'll be together and I'll come and ...
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