It's Supernatural

I have just spent four days at a healing conference where I witnessed many miracles and many tangible experiences of God’s presence. I also heard hundreds of eye witness testimonies of miracles happening around the world including the United States. God is undeniably pouring out His love upon people across the world. He is working through His followers just as He did in the early disciples of Jesus. Biblical miracles are being experienced today. They never stopped being experienced. There are so many historical records of the power of God in all the great revivals of history around the world.

I speak so much on cerebral defenses of the truth of Jesus Christ. However, if all I ever did is present an intellectual belief system I would never paint the full picture of the reality of heaven available to us today. God is not merely a matter of the mind to answer the big philosophical questions of life. If that was all there was to it, what would be the point.

The Kingdom of God is at hand. He is actively moving in the world today. I’ve seen His work. I’ve experienced His presence. I saw a three year old praying for the sick and them getting healed. I saw her pray for someone and the power of God flow over them. I saw children prophesying the things of God over people with great accuracy bringing life and healing to them. I had a woman I had never met prophesy over me so specifically exactly what I needed to hear from God about concerning an area of ministry. About 60-80 people were healed each night. Some had injuries for as long as 10 years and were healed miraculously.

One young man, a musician I know personally, was 50% deaf in one ear and his hearing was completely restored so much so that the noises around him was hurting his now sensitive hearing. Another man had partial paralysis on the left side of his body due to a stroke. Strength returned to him and his limp arm was restored and he could grip a man’s hand in a hand shake where before he could not. This man shared his testimony and demonstrated his returned mobility and strength before the church that knew him well and was jubilant at his healing.

God is restoring the gift of healing and the supernatural to the Church. If you have not seen such demonstrations of the reality of Jesus I believe you will one day soon. This is quickly changing from something common overseas and not so common in the States, to something common throughout the church at large. Don’t you think if most of the Christians you encountered loved like Jesus did and healed the sick and set people free from bondages and such that you would know that the Gospel we share is true? Would not that be proof? The day is fast approaching where this will be what the ministry of Christians will look like. The Bible says that the power of God must accompany the preaching of the Kingdom of God. It confirms the truth of the Kingdom when it is preached accompanied by the demonstration of the supernatural. This is normal Christianity. Normalcy is being restored.

I am reminded of the phrase in The Chronicles of Narnia when the spring was breaking forth through the winter and all the Narnians knew, “Aslan is on the move.” The Kingdom of God is breaking into the Kingdom of this world and we are seeing the God is on the move through His people.

Revival Is Here And Is Coming

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” wrote Charles Dickens. We live in perilous times and in marvelous times simultaneously. The massive loss of life in Berma is reaching incredible numbers of 100,000 people. A number of lives I cannot conceive. I hear of constant volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods and fires all throughout the world. However, at the same time I hear of God working in amazing power throughout the world. Right now in Lakeland, Florida hundreds of people are being healed every night. Angels are showing up. Children are having dreams and visions of Jesus and of ministering angels. People are experiences the tangible presence of the living God being poured out. It is prophesied that from here this revival will sweep America from the east coast to the west coast like a tsunami wave bringing winds of change. People who travel to Florida are bringing back this power and releasing it to their own communities. This is happening in Morningstar in Fort Mill, South Carolina and at Bethel Church in Redding, California. And some sparks are starting to ignite in my home city. All is building toward the revealing of the King to the entire earth. It may take years yet, but all of creation is groaning awaiting the coming King. We cannot ignore the signs of the times. These may just be the beginnings of the birthing pains as written about in Matthew 24. But something is stirring.

C.S. Lewis writes in The Chronicles of Narnia, “Aslan is on the move.” Aslan is the fantastical representation of Christ. God is on the move. In one book, Lucy ask Aslan when he will return. He responds “soon.” She asks more boldly “when is soon?” Aslan retorts, “I call all times soon.”

Many say people have been saying for years that Christ is returning and they think that means any new talk of His return is useless. However, we’ve been getting closer to His return for 2000 years. He is coming back soon. Even 2000 years ago one could honestly say that He is coming back soon. We don’t know the day or the hour, but we know the King is coming. Will we pay attention to our times? Or will we sleep and slumber as the world cries out around us for the living God? We are to be His vessels in this earth. We are to be His witnesses. We must carry His presence to a hurting broken world. We must understand our call. We must realize we are heirs of the Kingdom of God. We carry the Kingdom of God within us and upon us. If ever there was a time to rise up and seek first the Kingdom of God, it is now. God is on the move.