Heaven is a wonderful thing, perhaps the best of things, but it is not Heaven that we want, but to live and enjoy the presence of God.

1. Imagine
Heaven

2. Heaven is the Fulfillment of FAITH,
It is a prepared place, for prepared people.

3. Heaven is not a
privilege for the pampered!

4. “How is it with your soul?”
John Wesley

5. “If your soul is healthy,
no external circumstance can destroy your life.
If your soul is unhealthy,
no external circumstance can redeem your life.”
― Dallas Willard

6. HEAVEN is not a reward for good behavior, but
the natural result of HUMAN RESTORATION

7. “The more we let God take us over, the more
truly ourselves we become - because He made
us. He invented us. He invented all the different
people that you and I were intended to be. It is
when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to
His personality, that I first begin to have a real
personality of my own.”

8. Everyone ever will born live forever,
the only question is WHERE

9. Do you want Jesus
or just Heaven?

10. Jesus continued: “There was a man who had
two sons. The younger one said to his father,
‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he
divided his property between them.

11. “Not long after that, the younger son got
together all he had, set off for a distant country
and there squandered his wealth in wild living.
After he had spent everything, there was a
severe famine in that whole country, and he
began to be in need.

12. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of
that country, who sent him to his fields to feed
pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the
pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave
him anything.

13. “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How
many of my father’s hired servants have food
to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will
set out and go back to my father and say to
him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and
against you.

14. I am no longer worthy to be called your son;
make me like one of your hired servants.’ So he
got up and went to his father.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father
saw him and was filled with compassion for
him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around
him and kissed him.

15. “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned
against heaven and against you. I am no longer
worthy to be called your son.’
“But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick!
Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a
ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

16. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a
feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was
dead and is alive again; he was lost and is
found.’ So they began to celebrate.

17. “Meanwhile, the older son was in the field.
When he came near the house, he heard music
and dancing. So he called one of the servants
and asked him what was going on.

18. ‘Your brother has come,’ he replied, ‘and your
father has killed the fattened calf because he
has him back safe and sound.’ “The older
brother became angry and refused to go in. So
his father went out and pleaded with him.

19. But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these
years I’ve been slaving for you and never
disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me
even a young goat so I could celebrate with my
friends.

20. But when this son of yours who has squandered
your property with prostitutes comes home,
you kill the fattened calf for him!’
“‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with
me, and everything I have is yours.

21. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because
this brother of yours was dead and is alive
again; he was lost and is found.’”
Luke 15:11-32

22. Hints of Heaven are Everywhere!
“he came to his senses…”

23. “Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

24. “Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you
can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed
with a special longing that will never again let you
linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial
fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are
loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold
you back from striving toward the summit of
fulfillment.” ― John O'Donohue

25. You feel UNWORTHY – self-esteem, courage
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me Phil 3:14
Symptoms of Hell

26. You feel UNLOVED – relationships, alone
Jesus said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be
the very last, and the servant of all.” Mark 9:35

27. You feel ANXIOUS – security, fear, worry
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear,
because fear has to do with punishment. The one
who fears is not made perfect in love. 1 John 4:18

28. Heaven is not the DEFAULT DESTINATION
If you can’t stand DISCIPLESHIP here and now,
you won’t want it THERE AND THEN

29. Heaven must begin TODAY
Live today in light of a greater reality, Heaven – Be INSPIRED

30. Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set
your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits
in the place of honor at God’s right hand. Think about
the things of heaven, not the things of earth. Col 3:1-2

31. Heaven must begin TODAY
Live today in light of what is to come. - Be INTENTIONAL

32. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you
will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—
his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2

33. Heaven must begin TODAY
Live today in light of a greater reality, Heaven – Be INSPIRED
Live today in light of what is to come. - Be INTENTIONAL
Live the life of heaven in community – Make an IMPACT

34. Death is like your car…
It will take you where you want to go.