One of the Most Important Messages You Will Ever Listen To
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Hello. My name is Dick Wulf and I am 75 years old in year 2018, and headed for heaven. I hope you are too!
I want to get you more interested in heaven. Please let me tell you a little about how wonderful heaven is. I want to tell you how to prepare and enhance your forever experience in heaven once you get there.
I have been a psychotherapist for over 52 years, am a Christian author, have been in church leadership positions for well over 40 years, and have been a conference speaker and consultant for churches and parachurch organizations.
I am battling 2 kinds of cancer, so I speak to you with a real sense of urgency. I have just finished writing a 900 page manuscript on how faith together as Christians is the way to prepare for a higher quality of life in heaven.
Unfortunately, the Bible gives us only a little glimpse of the physical aspects of heaven crystal clear river, streets of gold, a city with 12 gates, and a few other things. However, we know quite a lot about the society of heaven and its relationships. That is because all of our relationships in heaven will be as they are instructed in the Bible to be now. For example, certainly, if we are to love others now, we will love them in heaven.
There won’t be any problems with people in heaven. Won’t that be nice?! No misunderstandings, nothing said to hurt us, no competition for advantage over us, nothing disagreeable at all! How will it feel to never be misunderstood or to say anything hurtful ever again?
Imagine a life that goes on forever, is never boring, and everyone gets along, everyone sees our good qualities and all our bad characteristics are gone forever.
Imagine a life where nothing gets in the way of our relationship with God. Not only will we be with Jesus, we will be constantly aware of His presence to the maximum of our capabilities. And we will each be full of joy, again to the level we have gained through Christlikeness.
The wonder of God’s grace will surround us. Before coming to heaven we will each have grown to appreciate to some level how much we do not deserve to go to heaven and how marvelous God is to love us so much as to invite us to live with Him in His kingdom forever. I hope you will let me show you how to enter heaven with higher appreciation for being there than you now have.
Another thing about heaven: there will be unlimited adventures and opportunities. We do not have any idea what these might be, but think of climbing a challenging mountain or learning a new skill. And, there will be other citizens in heaven ready to encourage us to step into those adventures and opportunities – with no one to discourage us.
By now, I hope you very much want to go to heaven. Most likely you already know what is required to live in heaven forever. However, let’s review it, just in case you wrongly think that you have to be good enough. No one is good enough for a personal relationship with God who is absolutely holy. No one is good enough to live forever in His home.
The good news is that God took care of that problem for us. History shows that out of His love God opened the door to heaven for those who do not trust in their own goodness but do trust in the perfect goodness of Jesus Christ. Jesus was and is God and came from heaven and took on human form. Jesus then lived a perfect human life, did no evil, and then took our sins onto Himself and died to pay the penalty for them. If we believe this, we are covered by His righteousness, belong to God, and have inherited eternal life, beginning now and continuing forever in heaven. We can never be good enough; we just have to believe in faith.
If you already believe that Jesus Christ died to take away your sins, or if you will believe now, then you have eternal life and can look forward to living in heaven for all eternity.
If you are going to heaven, there are some things you might want to do now, before you die and go there. Heaven will have a higher quality of life for those who prepare before they get there. This is just like going on a dream vacation where you prepare for the trip long before you go so that you can enjoy more when you actually get there.
It is really appealing to think that everyone’s experience in heaven will be the same. According to the Bible, that is wrong. Thinking that it does not much matter how we live now because heaven will make it all better – is not correct.
Actually, heaven will make it all better in that we will all have only joy and no disappointment, be totally happy and hopeful without any discouragement, and love without hatred or betrayal. But, we must understand that we will have different levels of capacity for these things depending on how we have prepared ourselves for heaven by becoming more like Jesus.
Building on the example of preparing for a dream vacation, all who go on that vacation will enjoy themselves and be completely happy and satisfied. But, those who prepared more will enjoy more. They will be able to participate in more because they prepared more.
Jesus told a parable about heaven that shows we will not all have the same quality of life in heaven. He told about a master who gave three servants different amounts of money to invest and create profit for him. The servants who put in diligent effort and increased the master’s investment were given rule of cities in proportion to their effort. But the servant who did nothing with what he was given was not rewarded at all.
We will all be content with our place in heaven once we get there because there is no sorrow or pain in heaven. However, there will be different levels that we are happy with. Consider something that you really like to do. When you did that activity in the past, you were completely happy. However, there were people who liked that same activity more than you. Both of you were completely happy. But each of you enjoyed that activity to a different extent.
In the same way, we will each enter heaven with different capacities in various spiritual talents that will affect our quality of life with God in His heaven – forever. This should not be surprising, since even now we know other Christians with a closer relationship with God than we have as well as believers completely satisfied with less relationship with Him.
Let’s consider joy in heaven as an example. There are many ways to prepare for heaven so that our joy will be a higher “complete joy” than a lower “complete joy”. And those ways are all to become more like Jesus in one way or another. Romans 8:29 in the Bible makes it clear that becoming increasingly like Jesus is God’s purpose for our lives. There is still time, even if you are confined to bed, to work on changing your spirit to be more like Jesus. You can still change your thoughts, feelings and actions and change who you are deep down inside.
We are spiritual beings with bodies. At death we will leave our bodies behind, but we will be very much alive in our spirits. But consider this: only what is like Jesus in our spirits will enter heaven. If that is the case, don’t we want to spend our last weeks, months and years becoming more like Jesus?
In the Bible, 1 Tim 4:7-8, says, “Train yourself for godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.” (Notice it says, “for the life to come” – that’s heaven!) Godliness and Christlikeness are the same thing and something that we train for now for this life – and for life in heaven.
It is in the more regular and honest relationships with your closest Christian friends and Christian family members that you can obey God and make changes in your spirit to become more like Jesus. When you face life and its difficulties biblically with the help of your Christian friends and Christian relatives, you will grow to think, feel, and act more like Jesus. As a result, deep changes in your spirit will blossom.
The Getting Ready to Go Home to Heaven Audio Curriculum is designed to help you prepare for heaven with your Christian Inner Circle of friends and relatives who believe God and His Bible. In four instructional courses, I will help you go through all of the Togethers of Scripture, 65 things God tells us in the Bible that we are to do with other believers. Each of these 65 aspects of relationship with other Christians and with God change you to be more like Jesus – and they have great benefits in heaven. But, these benefits only come from doing these things, not just knowing about them, all of them instructed in the Bible.
Listening to my explanations and encouragements and mental exercises can help you have a fuller life in heaven, even if your health only allows you to think. We will all be completely happy in heaven. But, your life in heaven will be fuller in the sense that what you are completely happy about will be more than if you did not prepare for heaven.
Most Christians still have a lot of time left to change a lot of their ways of thinking to God’s ways of thinking, their feelings to be more like God’s emotions, and their actions to be more consistent with the way Jesus would behave. And, the longer a Christian has, the more he or she can prepare for heaven. There is no reason to put this off – we do not know if we will go to heaven prematurely because of an unfortunate illness or accident that will cut our preparation short.
The Getting Ready to Go Home to Heaven Audio Curriculum can be listened to free by streaming it from this web site. Downloads for your phone and tablet will hopefully be available soon for an inexpensive cost. So, why not get started preparing for heaven right now? There is no purchase necessary and the Getting Ready to Go Home to Heaven audio curriculum is just waiting for you to begin. And you can begin to hear it free from this web site.
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I want to get you more interested in heaven. Please let me tell you a little about how wonderful heaven is. I want to tell you how to prepare and enhance your forever experience in heaven once you get there.
I have been a psychotherapist for over 52 years, am a Christian author, have been in church leadership positions for well over 40 years, and have been a conference speaker and consultant for churches and parachurch organizations.
I am battling 2 kinds of cancer, so I speak to you with a real sense of urgency. I have just finished writing a 900 page manuscript on how faith together as Christians is the way to prepare for a higher quality of life in heaven.
Unfortunately, the Bible gives us only a little glimpse of the physical aspects of heaven crystal clear river, streets of gold, a city with 12 gates, and a few other things. However, we know quite a lot about the society of heaven and its relationships. That is because all of our relationships in heaven will be as they are instructed in the Bible to be now. For example, certainly, if we are to love others now, we will love them in heaven.
There won’t be any problems with people in heaven. Won’t that be nice?! No misunderstandings, nothing said to hurt us, no competition for advantage over us, nothing disagreeable at all! How will it feel to never be misunderstood or to say anything hurtful ever again?
Imagine a life that goes on forever, is never boring, and everyone gets along, everyone sees our good qualities and all our bad characteristics are gone forever.
Imagine a life where nothing gets in the way of our relationship with God. Not only will we be with Jesus, we will be constantly aware of His presence to the maximum of our capabilities. And we will each be full of joy, again to the level we have gained through Christlikeness.
The wonder of God’s grace will surround us. Before coming to heaven we will each have grown to appreciate to some level how much we do not deserve to go to heaven and how marvelous God is to love us so much as to invite us to live with Him in His kingdom forever. I hope you will let me show you how to enter heaven with higher appreciation for being there than you now have.
Another thing about heaven: there will be unlimited adventures and opportunities. We do not have any idea what these might be, but think of climbing a challenging mountain or learning a new skill. And, there will be other citizens in heaven ready to encourage us to step into those adventures and opportunities – with no one to discourage us.
By now, I hope you very much want to go to heaven. Most likely you already know what is required to live in heaven forever. However, let’s review it, just in case you wrongly think that you have to be good enough. No one is good enough for a personal relationship with God who is absolutely holy. No one is good enough to live forever in His home.
The good news is that God took care of that problem for us. History shows that out of His love God opened the door to heaven for those who do not trust in their own goodness but do trust in the perfect goodness of Jesus Christ. Jesus was and is God and came from heaven and took on human form. Jesus then lived a perfect human life, did no evil, and then took our sins onto Himself and died to pay the penalty for them. If we believe this, we are covered by His righteousness, belong to God, and have inherited eternal life, beginning now and continuing forever in heaven. We can never be good enough; we just have to believe in faith.
If you already believe that Jesus Christ died to take away your sins, or if you will believe now, then you have eternal life and can look forward to living in heaven for all eternity.
If you are going to heaven, there are some things you might want to do now, before you die and go there. Heaven will have a higher quality of life for those who prepare before they get there. This is just like going on a dream vacation where you prepare for the trip long before you go so that you can enjoy more when you actually get there.
It is really appealing to think that everyone’s experience in heaven will be the same. According to the Bible, that is wrong. Thinking that it does not much matter how we live now because heaven will make it all better – is not correct.
Actually, heaven will make it all better in that we will all have only joy and no disappointment, be totally happy and hopeful without any discouragement, and love without hatred or betrayal. But, we must understand that we will have different levels of capacity for these things depending on how we have prepared ourselves for heaven by becoming more like Jesus.
Building on the example of preparing for a dream vacation, all who go on that vacation will enjoy themselves and be completely happy and satisfied. But, those who prepared more will enjoy more. They will be able to participate in more because they prepared more.
Jesus told a parable about heaven that shows we will not all have the same quality of life in heaven. He told about a master who gave three servants different amounts of money to invest and create profit for him. The servants who put in diligent effort and increased the master’s investment were given rule of cities in proportion to their effort. But the servant who did nothing with what he was given was not rewarded at all.
We will all be content with our place in heaven once we get there because there is no sorrow or pain in heaven. However, there will be different levels that we are happy with. Consider something that you really like to do. When you did that activity in the past, you were completely happy. However, there were people who liked that same activity more than you. Both of you were completely happy. But each of you enjoyed that activity to a different extent.
In the same way, we will each enter heaven with different capacities in various spiritual talents that will affect our quality of life with God in His heaven – forever. This should not be surprising, since even now we know other Christians with a closer relationship with God than we have as well as believers completely satisfied with less relationship with Him.
Let’s consider joy in heaven as an example. There are many ways to prepare for heaven so that our joy will be a higher “complete joy” than a lower “complete joy”. And those ways are all to become more like Jesus in one way or another. Romans 8:29 in the Bible makes it clear that becoming increasingly like Jesus is God’s purpose for our lives. There is still time, even if you are confined to bed, to work on changing your spirit to be more like Jesus. You can still change your thoughts, feelings and actions and change who you are deep down inside.
We are spiritual beings with bodies. At death we will leave our bodies behind, but we will be very much alive in our spirits. But consider this: only what is like Jesus in our spirits will enter heaven. If that is the case, don’t we want to spend our last weeks, months and years becoming more like Jesus?
In the Bible, 1 Tim 4:7-8, says, “Train yourself for godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.” (Notice it says, “for the life to come” – that’s heaven!) Godliness and Christlikeness are the same thing and something that we train for now for this life – and for life in heaven.
It is in the more regular and honest relationships with your closest Christian friends and Christian family members that you can obey God and make changes in your spirit to become more like Jesus. When you face life and its difficulties biblically with the help of your Christian friends and Christian relatives, you will grow to think, feel, and act more like Jesus. As a result, deep changes in your spirit will blossom.
The Getting Ready to Go Home to Heaven Audio Curriculum is designed to help you prepare for heaven with your Christian Inner Circle of friends and relatives who believe God and His Bible. In four instructional courses, I will help you go through all of the Togethers of Scripture, 65 things God tells us in the Bible that we are to do with other believers. Each of these 65 aspects of relationship with other Christians and with God change you to be more like Jesus – and they have great benefits in heaven. But, these benefits only come from doing these things, not just knowing about them, all of them instructed in the Bible.
Listening to my explanations and encouragements and mental exercises can help you have a fuller life in heaven, even if your health only allows you to think. We will all be completely happy in heaven. But, your life in heaven will be fuller in the sense that what you are completely happy about will be more than if you did not prepare for heaven.
Most Christians still have a lot of time left to change a lot of their ways of thinking to God’s ways of thinking, their feelings to be more like God’s emotions, and their actions to be more consistent with the way Jesus would behave. And, the longer a Christian has, the more he or she can prepare for heaven. There is no reason to put this off – we do not know if we will go to heaven prematurely because of an unfortunate illness or accident that will cut our preparation short.
The Getting Ready to Go Home to Heaven Audio Curriculum can be listened to free by streaming it from this web site. Downloads for your phone and tablet will hopefully be available soon for an inexpensive cost. So, why not get started preparing for heaven right now? There is no purchase necessary and the Getting Ready to Go Home to Heaven audio curriculum is just waiting for you to begin. And you can begin to hear it free from this web site.
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