Monthly Archives: November 2011

Where is the Father?

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“Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going; so how can we know the way to get there?”"

‘Jesus, You think we know where You are going to and You think we know the way there, but we actually don’t. You talk about going to our Father, but where is that? You want us to make interpretations that go beyond what we see with our physical eyes. You want us to look deeper, but You need to show us how to look deeper. We haven’t been taught the depths of looking deeper. You want us to look deeper and that makes me aware that I am only looking at what I see on the ‘surface’.

Jesus, I only know God as God, the higher Being, the One to be feared and revered and you are talking to me of a God that is family, a Father and not just a God. You know Jesus, I haven’t actually thought of God as a  Father. That doesn’t fit what I have been taught. Growing up in a religion and not in a relationship I have never thought of God as a Father, but only as a supreme, high, holy and untouchable God. So, no, I don’t know to whom You are going and how on earth am I going to get there?

Is there a road that leads to God, our Father? If there is, where is it?’

You know the Way!

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You know the Way that leads to the place where I am going.”

As I said, ‘don’t worry how you are going to get to our Father’. You already know the Way to Him. You never have to think that you don’t know where to go. You will always know where to go or what to do, because you know the Way. Actually you know the Way better than most people who haven’t been with Me. You also know Him, our Father, the One I am going to. You don’t only know Him, you also know the Way to Him. Look deeper. Look beyond the mere observations of what your physical eyes see. See with your physical eyes, but look also with the eyes of your spirit. When you look at Me, see beyond Me. The Father and I are one, so when you look at Me see Him too.

This way of looking is also true for seeing the Way to our Father. See Me as your Friend, as your Teacher, as your Christ, but see Me also as the only Way to our Father. I would love for you to see the spiritual truths hidden in physical realities. People get caught up in the one or the other. Some are very spiritual and misinterpret physical realities. Others are very natural and oversee spiritual realities. I want you, My friends, to see both the physical realities and the underlying spiritual realities. I want you to see Me and at the same time see our Father.

I want you to know your Way. Know Me.’

You will be with Me

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And after I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to myself, so that you will be where I am.

‘I will be away for a while to go and prepare a place for you. I desire for you to be with me. I won’t be away for too long, then I will return and tell you that your place in our Father is ready. A mysterious time is awaiting you. I will die, enter darkness and then go to our Father. Through my death I will reconcile you to our Father – I am the One that will cause all of us – Me, you, our Father and my Spirit to become one. I will become the sacrifice demanded by our Father to place you back into Him. Through Me. In Me you will become hidden in Him.

My death, as mysterious as it sounds, opens up a place for us all in our Father. I want us to be one. As a matter of fact I want us all to be one. I want us to be forever at the same place. There is no better place for us all to be one. I want us to be together – forever. I cannot live without you. You are my most precious possession, you are my bride and no man can live without his bride. My utmost desire is to be where you are and for you to be where I am.’

(To be continued…)

There is room for you!

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“There are many rooms in my Father’s house, and I am going to prepare a place for you. I would not tell you this if it were not so.”

‘In my Father’s house there are many places for you to stay. My desire for you is to be where I am – in our Father. I want to be with you and desire for you to be with me. I want us to be always at the same place at the same time. I am in our Father and I also want you to be in our Father. I wouldn’t lie to you, would I? I am going to prepare a place for you in my Father. I am the One that prepares a place, the best place, for you. That place is in our Father. There is no other place I would like for you to be, but in our Father. I want you to be inseparable from our Father. I am going to our Father and I want you there too. My Father has as many rooms as He needs to accommodate all His children that want to enter Him.

There is no limit. There will always be room for another one.’

(To be continued…)

Don’t worry or be upset

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I have written a little book called, ‘The last conversation‘. It is about the last deep conversation Jesus had with His friends before He was arrested and eventually murdered. What I have done was to take John 14, 15 and 16 and write what I understand Jesus was saying to His friends in that last conversation He had with them.

(If you can, read this as if Jesus was personally talking to you)

“Do not be worried and upset,” Jesus told them. “Believe in God and believe also in me.

‘Don’t worry, trust in God. Trust in Me too. There is nothing, no one, bigger than Us. What can be so overwhelming that you fall further than Our arms? What challenges can be so great that they separate you from Us?

Your trust in Me will grow as you get to know Me. It is not possible to trust Me completely, unless you know Me. Know Me and it is easy to trust Me. The secret is to build a relationship with Me and to see who I am. It won’t be an impossibility. I am in it with you. As much as I have the desire that you know Me, I have the desire to know you. I will show you who I am and then you will trust Me. It is one thing for Me to tell you who I am. It is a different thing when you see for yourself who I am. When you see who I am you will realise I am so completely for you and not against you.

You will eventually believe more and more that I am the Christ, the Son of God. Spontaneous trust will be birthed in you the more I am revealed to you. You won’t only trust Me to provide for things you need in your daily lives, you will also believe that I am, who I say I am. It is better to believe who I am than to only trust me for the everyday things you need. Having need of earthly things is temporal. Having need of Me is eternal.

When you truly get to know Me your worries and burdens will take on another form. You may even have the same burdens, but when you really know who I am and what I am capable of – for Your sake – your burdens will change. Actually, you will change inside and then the outside will look different. Seeing Me will give you new eyes. When you see Me in your burdens, they look different. When you realise I am in the midst of everything You are, even in the midst of your burdens and trials, you will lose your life and embrace Mine.

When My life becomes your Life you will shake off your worries and burdens, because no man can maintain My life, except God, My Father. You won’t have to worry to maintain your life, because you don’t need to live your life any longer. You will live My life. You will live Me. I am your Life and I will maintain your Life. I have maintained My life for all eternity past. I will continue to do so – also in you for all eternals to come.

Many time in your lives I will allow circumstances to form you. I won’t necessary change those circumstances, but I will change you in those circumstances. They are meant to form Me in you and make Me more visible to the world and yourself. The less you become, the more I will become. The less you become, the more you are taken up into Me. The more you disappear, the more I appear. You don’t know it yet, My friends, but this is the last time I will talk so intimately with you about things on My heart.’

(To be continued…)

Personality at work

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Nico Liebenberg (MA Psychology), CEO and owner of Dust consulting in conjunction with BBD, one of the largest privately owned IT companies in South Africa, developed a Personality app for the iPhone.

The personality app, ‘Personality at work‘ measures three major dimensions of a person’s personality, i.e.

  1. Life Orientation
  2. Thinking Process, and
  3. Preferred Lifestyle

The app works on scales of opposites and gives an indication of the following sub-elements of a person’s personality:

1. Life orientation

  • Introvert vs Extrovert
  • Things Focused vs People Focused
  • Deliberate vs Expressive
  • Team Player vs Independent

2. Thinking Process

  • Whole vs Parts
  • Theoretical vs Practical
  • Abstract vs Concrete
  • Spiritual vs Natural

3. Preferred Lifestyle

  • Open-ended vs Decisive
  • Punctual vs Non-punctual
  • Relaxed vs Driven
  • Structured vs Flexible

Download the app from the iPhone App Store by clicking the link below

Download from the App Store now

If you need any support with the app from BBD, please send an e-mail to MobileSupp@bbd.co.za

For a very interesting video clip on BBD’s history click their logo (below)