In my last blog I mentioned a prophecy I received from a Canadian pastor, Ron Sawka (Christian International Asia) who has been ministering in Japan for 25 years.

Ron prophesied over all of the Australian delegates that attended the ICCC (International Christian Chamber of Commerce) Conference in Bangkok April 2012. I am on the Board of the Australian chapter so know the Board Members well. Ron’s prophecies to all 14 delegates were “spot on” particularly those given to the Board Members. It was mind blowing that a man who knew none of us could know what he knew about each of us. It could only be GOD. The prophecy I received has proved to be life changing for me.

When Ron said, “I see an open book but the book needs to be closed. God wants to begin a new book but the old book needs to be closed first”. I had been procrastinating about handing over control of Care & Share Products to my sons even though I knew it was God’s succession plan for the company. This word touched a raw nerve but I knew in my heart what I had to do. I have now extricated myself totally from Care & Share Products www.careandshare.com.au. The rest of Ron’s prophecy was about what God wants me to do.

“God is going to use you to train up marketplace Kingdom warriors. So the Lord says you will activate and teach many, many people. Of course this may have to do with ICCC Australia right?” I believe it does have a lot to do with ICCC and their training materials particularly the series Transformed Working Life but also How to Start a (Kingdom) Business and How to Develop a Kingdom Business.

Please help me get the word around that I am available to train business people to develop Kingdom businesses with JESUS at the head (Lord of All).

I am presently producing a video which I will post on YOU TUBE and FACEBOOK to connect with people who want to start or grow a successful Kingdom business. Watch out for it.

Eternal Life is so much more than a theological concept.

It is tangible, it is REAL. You can experience it now. Why would you not want this life?

“And this is the testimony, that GOD gave us Eternal Life and this life is in HIS son JESUS.“ 1 John 5:11

“I write these things to you who believe in the name of the son of GOD, JESUS that you may know you have Eternal Life.“ 1 John 5:13

“I (JESUS) came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” John 10:10

JESUS promises abundant life which begins already in the here and now, a rich, full, joyful life, one overflowing in meaningful activities under the personal favour and blessing of GOD and in continual fellowship with His people.

I started this life at age 47, I am now 76 and just starting “a new book”.

For any unbeliever reading this blog, when I became a Christian in 1982, I was born again, the HOLY SPIRIT (GOD) came to indwell my spirit. It’s His role to be our counsellor, comforter, teacher and even healer. You don’t live the Christian life on your own, without help. A Christian knows GOD is real because of the self authenticating witness of the HOLY SPIRIT. I need to say here, that sadly, though all Christians are indwelt by the spirit not all are filled with the Spirit. The Bible teaches that we can grieve the HOLY SPIRIT by sin and quench the HOLY SPIRIT by repressing His work in our lives. The carnal Christian will have doubts about his faith. When I am walking in the SPIRIT my faith is vital when I am not the opposite is true.

I mentioned above that I am just starting “a new book” or if you like chapter in my life. It all started with a PROPHECY I received in April, 2011 which caused me to close “the old book”. It was wonderful to learn that GOD wants to open (start) a new book with me at age 75.

I will share more on this “new book” in the next blog but let me share here that my doctors and optometrist recently confirmed for me that GOD has maintained my physical health in preparation for what’s ahead. At 75 you need to get a comprehensive health certificate completed by your doctor to renew your driver’s licence. My doctor decided it was time for me to get ALL of the blood tests done seeing I could not remember when I had any done in the past. When I dropped in to pick up the certificate for the RTA, my 50 year old doctor not only said that the blood test results were great but he wished they were his. I also had to see the optometrist. I had prescription glasses for reading but not driving given to me two years previously. The optometrist said that my sight had improved from the previous test and that she has never had to say that to anyone before. She was a young Chinese optometrist who was clearly taken back by the results.

For me these test results from two health practitioners was the confirmation I needed to know that I was obeying GOD by “closing the book” on the company (www.careandshare.com.au) I had founded and managed for over 25 years.

More on “the new book” in the next blog.

If you want to be challenged about how you are living your life then I suggest you read LOVE DOES by Bob Goff. I was given the book for Christmas by my eldest son, Brett and he said as he gave it to me, “you need to read this dad”.
I finished the book yesterday.
Bob Goff doesn’t go to Bible Studies, each week he goes to Bible Doings with a bunch of guys. I like his answer for not calling it a Bible Study. “Wouldn’t it be a horrible thing if we studied the ones we love instead of bonding in deeper ways by doing things with them”.
At their Bible Doing meetings the group study God’s word. “We read what God has to say then focus all of our attention on what we are going to do about it”.
What Bob has achieved with God over his lifetime is mind boggling. Like my son said, “you need to read this”.
It was a New York Times best seller in 2012.

I am a mid life crisis Christian. What does that mean? I lived “my way” for 47 years and did very well thank you. I had a waterfront home with boatshed on Gunamatta Bay – 7 Bell Place, was MD of the largest Surgical/Medical, Dental, Scientific Supply House in Australia – The Ramsay Group (Ramsay Surgical). Married for 24 years with three boys all doing well at school or university. Who needed God?

The big questions came with a mid life crisis.  What is life all about? Is this all there is? In reality, life without God is absurd, without meaning, value or purpose.

At the time of the mid life crisis, my eldest boy was 21 and doing an honours degree at Sydney University in Geophysics. He had become a Christian at the age of 16 and was very active with his church, even holding a bible study in our rumpus room. God used Brett to reach me. Evolution had been a stumbling block for me taking the bible seriously and it was only through Creation Ministries that I came to realise that any rational thinking person who observes everything in the universe including its beauty and the fine tuning of the laws that govern it realises somebody made it. As Dr Dean Kenyon, Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University and author of two evolutionary bichemistry textbooks said after embracing intelligent design, “the discovery of DNA and the electron microscope rang the death knell of evolution”. The information on the DNA is highly complex. Information is neither matter or energy so where did it originate? It, and the design of even a simple cell with its nano machines and transport devices speaks of an intelligence we can’t comprehend.

I embraced Christianity at aged 47 and I know Christianity is true because God’s spirit lives in me and assures me it is true. Once you accept Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord, He sends the Holy Spirit to be your comforter, cousellor and teacher. You are not on your own.

With the years I have left on this planet I would like to introduce as many people to “living eternal” as possible hence the name of this blog http://www.livingeternal.net.