(This message from beyond was received through Natalie Wisper.)

(John D. Rockefeller speaking:) I am so busy here in Heaven! So busy, and with so much to do! There are so many changes, plans, productions — so many challenges! I used to think I was busy while on earth in the days of Standard Oil. I was busy then‚ pioneering and planning and looking ahead to the future in the production and the transportation of petroleum. Those were busy days! There was so much to do, so much to think about, places to go and people to meet, so many decisions, major decisions. I was a busy, busy man! But I'm happy to tell you that I'm still busy, still planning, still looking ahead. There's so much to do to prepare for the Millennium, to prepare for the time when Jesus and His faithful children will rule and reign with love, compassion and mercy.

Heaven is a busy place! We're still learning and we're still challenged to think ahead to the future, to plan for the future. Oh, I wouldn't be happy in Heaven if I couldn't stay busy‚ if I couldn't create and use my hands and use my imagination and look ahead. One of the most thrilling things about Heaven and the kingdom of Jesus is that everything you learn on earth is of value. Everything you learn that is positive and good and creative and that benefits others can be used in Heaven. What you learn there on earth will not be wasted nor forgotten, but everything you're learning and the person that you are and that you are becoming will be used in Heaven.

Here in Heaven you continue on very much the same as you were on earth. You look very much the same‚ you have the same gifts, talents and strong points, you know the same languages and you have the same skills, the same knowledge. You will be able to apply all the good you have learned to your life in Heaven, to your new job, your new career, your new profession. Oh yes, things are very much the same here in Heaven. Everybody is busy doing their jobs, preparing for the new arrivals‚ and preparing for the future, for the Millennium, for the days that are to come, the Golden Age. There's so much to do! It's thrilling and challenging!

It's difficult for me to remember or relate all the details of my life on earth, as much of what I did there is insignificant compared to my work here. But I can tell you one thing for sure: I learned that money will never satisfy! No matter how much you have, it will never make you totally happy. No matter how wealthy you are, you can never buy love, you can never buy understanding. I certainly ought to know that money is only a means to an end; money is not the goal. Money is not the answer or the solution to today's problems, or even to your own personal problems. And I certainly know, as the Bible teaches‚ that the love of money is the root of all evil. What crimes, what sins, what wicked deeds are committed because of the love of money!

Why do you think I gave away so much money in my lifetime — so many grants‚ millions and millions given away to different foundations? It's because I realized that since God had given me so much, giving to others was the least I could do! So I gave and I gave and I gave. Now I realize I should have given more. I should have given much, much more! I had so much, and there were so many who had so little. God doesn't look at how much you give, He looks at how much you've got left. In God's eyes, a person who has very little but who gives until it hurts, until it is a sacrifice, will be more blessed than I am, even though I gave my millions!

Here in the heavenly kingdom there is true fairness. Everybody has enough and nobody has too much. While some have received greater rewards than others according to what they did on earth‚ there are no rich with millions they don't need, or poor who are just scraping by. Everybody has what they need. There's a beautiful sense of sharing and helping one another.

It doesn't pay to hoard or hold back from sharing and giving. It doesn't pay to resist the pull on your heart to be generous, or to give that raise to your employees that you know they deserve. It doesn't pay to resist the urge that God has placed on your heart to give a gift to a charity or to your church or to the missionaries; or to give to the local mission or to the homeless people or to the orphanage or to those who suffered some unexpected disaster. It doesn't pay to resist these feelings, these desires, because that is the Spirit of God speaking to your heart, and He knows that it is "more blessed to give than to receive." You think you lose by giving‚ but you never lose, because God more than repays! As you give, He will give and give and give to you, in ways that you don't even expect! He will give to you in blessings of many kinds‚ like good health, protection, well-being, happiness and peace of mind.

I learned the blessing of giving while I lived on earth. I'm so thankful that I yielded to what God told me when I was young, and that I learned to give. I only wish I had given more! You probably laugh and think, "How can someone who gave away over 500 million dollars be lamenting that he didn't give more?" But now I know I should have given all that I could have. I should have given until it was a sacrifice for me, until it cost me something personally. That would have been righteousness in God's eyes. That would have pleased Him, because I still had so much, and there were so many who had so little. But still, God has blessed me for my giving. He blessed me greatly and prepared a place for me in His heavenly kingdom.

All the money in the world could not buy what Jesus has given me! Not only has He blessed me with comfort and beauty and pleasure, but more than that, He has blessed me with love, with peace of mind, and with a future that is as bright as the sun! What more could a person ask for than to be in a paradise of love with Jesus, the One who gave His life for us all? What more could you ask for than to live eternally with all of your loved ones — your wife, your parents, your children?

What more could you ask for than to be challenged with the kind of work that you always loved? Yet this time you work in unity with others and for the good of all, not hurting anyone, not leaving anyone out or putting anyone down, not having to step on anyone or stab anyone in the back to get your way and to make it up the ladder of success. No, in this heavenly kingdom we're all lifting the load of another! We're not pushing and pulling aggressively, but we're walking arm-in-arm and hand-in-hand. We're working together in joy‚ caring for one another‚ knowing that we're building a future and a kingdom of love.

So if you have an abundance, plenty and more than you need, then give to those around you who are needy and hungry and homeless and starving and sick. Give to the weak, to the fatherless, to the sick. Give to those who are cold and lost and who feel no love. Give to these‚ and Jesus will give back to you, not only during your life there on earth‚ but also in the heavenly kingdom.

Let His love come into your life, and He will be your strength and your motivation. He will give you a generous heart. He will give you eyes to see the blessings of giving. As you give to others of your time and your money and your strength and your love, Jesus is remembering it all and writing it down. No deed of kindness and generosity and charity will be forgotten; you will be rewarded many, many times over!

Seek heavenly riches. Set your eyes on things above, the unseen riches of the spirit — love, mercy, tenderness and truth. These are the only things that will bring true happiness to your heart and that will fill the aching void that you feel deep inside. I speak from experience, as one who knows. No matter how much power you have, no matter how wealthy you are, no matter how many people you command‚ all this wealth and power and prestige will not bring you satisfaction of heart. It will not comfort you at night. It will not keep away your fear of death. It will not eliminate the torment of mind and spirit that you feel, the depression that comes over you, the loneliness that haunts you as you are driven day after day after day by your own greed, your own desire.

The more you get, the more you want — more money, more power, more prestige, more honor in the sight of others, more fame‚ more everything. Yet the more you get, the emptier you feel! That is because these things will never satisfy you. And when you get to the point of desperation, where you cry out to Him for His answers, for His outstretched hand, for His mercy, He will be there for you. For He loves you, He cares for you, and He is ready to forgive you.

He is ready to give you what you truly need and want, what you have sought for year after year. Only in Jesus will you find the joy that has escaped you and the love that you are longing for. Only in Jesus will you find the power to be a help to others, to give of your life and your time and your money.

I know I made many mistakes while I was on earth. I did not live entirely as I should have‚ but I did love Jesus. I knew He was the truth. I knew He was my Savior. I knew that the blessings in my life were from Him, and I knew that I had to try to pay Him back in some way. I had to try to do something for Him to show my gratitude and to make it worthwhile, something lasting, something that would affect many people. This is why I gave. I didn't give to make a name for myself, or to go down in history as the rich man who gave away so much money. I did it because I wanted to please Jesus. I wanted to do something for Him.

I had not given my life to Him as a missionary or as a minister or as one of His servants, which is the greatest and highest calling in life. I had not served Him. I had not preached His message. I had not given my life to preach the Gospel, so I felt the least I could do was to give my money to benefit mankind and those who were in need. Because of my giving, Jesus has blessed me, and He honored me in His kingdom. But even more than that, He blessed me and honored me because I loved Him‚ because I received Him and I had faith in Him.

In Heaven we have a much different perspective than on earth. You'll be surprised when you see how differently Jesus looks at things than you do on earth, and how much value He places on things that are unseen, like faith and love; how much He honors His servants and those who preach His Word, those who live for Him, His missionaries and ministers and nuns and priests, those who give their lives for Him.

We rich men may be honored on earth, while the poor missionaries and those who preach the Gospel are often forgotten and even looked down upon. But in the heavenly kingdom, the missionaries and those who preached the Gospel and served Jesus, who gave to the poor and gave love to those who were in need, they are those who are most honored. They are the true greats — the great ones in Jesus' kingdom!

But if you feel you've failed to give enough, don't be dismayed‚ because in the heavenly kingdom you have an opportunity to make up for the time that you lost while on earth. You'll have another chance to do the things that you didn't do, to make the right decisions where you made the wrong decisions. Jesus, in His love, gives an opportunity for restoration‚ to make good in the places where you failed. That's why I'm so happy that I can now use my talents and skills to build a better world in the heavenly kingdom.

I'm so thankful for Jesus' love and His mercy! I'm so thankful that I didn't reject Him as a child, but that I believed and I received and I kept Him close to me and I tried to heed His voice as much as I could. I'm overwhelmed at His love and at how He has showered me with blessings that I will enjoy for all eternity, because I chose to love and receive Him! He will do the same for you if you will just open your heart and receive Him and know that He loves you!

Rockefeller, John Davison (1839 – 1937), U.S. industrialist and philanthropist; founder of the Standard Oil Company, America's first corporate trust and business empire.

Born in New York, Rockefeller started his business career at age 16 as a bookkeeper. In 1859 he began a small commission business near Cleveland, Ohio. Recognizing the potential in the emerging oil market, he soon shifted his efforts to its refining and sale, building his first oil refinery in 1863. Within two years he had the largest refinery in the area.

In 1870 Rockefeller and several associates started the Standard Oil Company. The company quickly expanded, buying out local competitors. Within two years it controlled nearly all the oil refining business in Cleveland.

Standard Oil Company's growing business allowed it to negotiate special rates with the railroad companies it used to ship its oil. This, together with other questionable business practices — criticized as "ruthless" by opponents — forced many smaller oil companies nationwide to sell out to Standard or go bankrupt.

By 1882 Standard had established a virtual monopoly on the oil business. That year Rockefeller established the first U.S. corporate trust. Rising public sentiment against monopolies, of which Standard Oil was the largest, later led to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. Rockefeller managed to keep his company together until 1911, when it was broken up after being ruled illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Rockefeller was a man of strong religious convictions‚ and by the 1890s he had begun to apply his energies to giving away some of his personal wealth, which at its peak reached nearly $1 billion. After 1897 he devoted himself entirely to philanthropy, and became as well known for his generosity as for his tough business sense. Together with his son, John D. Jr., he established four major charitable institutions‚ through which he funneled most of the nearly $550 million that he gave away during his lifetime. His charitable work was continued after his death by his son, who by 1955 had given away nearly $2 billion more of the family fortune.