When
Heaven Invades Earth (Chapters 1-3):
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The
normal Christian experience should be one of miracles and the supernatural
because of a life lived out of desperation and expectation. It isn't that God
does not “will” miracles, signs and wonders in the western world rather it is
that we don’t EXPECT them. We are called to live out the powerful gospel.
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Satan doesn't have any authority the only things he can triumph over are things that
we allow. This is done by agreeing with lies, once we agree with the lies we
give away our power in that area and allow Satan to come in to steal, kill and
destroy.
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Repentance
is much more than being sorry for something you have done, it is transformation
in that area of your life.
Thoughts….What
do I do with this now?
The above points are calls to go
higher. Jesus modeled each of these things throughout His life and overcame. He
has called us to be overcomers. It starts with true repentance that results in
transformation. Some questions to ask yourself are: What struggles or sins in my
life have I wanted to work on and am I seeing the fruit of transformation in
those areas? If not, are there ways that I have been empowering Satan to steal,
kill and destroy? What lies do I need to
break agreement with and live out of a place of powerful knowledge that I am an
heir of the King?
Once we begin to see transformation in
our lives we begin to feel freer and more powerful. It is in this place that we
are called to live, and having experienced the transformational radical freedom
that Jesus bought for us it is easier to begin to expect it as a normal way of
life for us and those around us. If we start here with ourselves it might be
easier to expect the transformation of the manifestation of the supernatural
gifts to play out in our everyday lives. Too often we want to start there (and
there is a place for faith), but Jesus models it the other way around. He was
tempted in the desert by Satan and overcame (did not let him steal what was His
or take the shortcut) before he performed any miracles.
Though I agree that we don’t see as many
miracles in the western world because we don’t expect them to happen I also
think there is more to it than that. We don’t allow ourselves time to process
and walk out our personal relationship with God. If we had a relationship like
God and Jesus did we would have no problems with believing (and seeing) the
supernatural. The challenge in this is to look inward and begin to discover who
we are and who the God we serve is, when we do
that we too will be able to say that we only do what we see the Father doing.
