I understand that to the average person, what I write sounds like I'm stretching the definition of what the Church is about. I the Bible is the true Word of God (and it is), then we aren't just average people who go to church on Sunday. We are a supernatural people who have the ability to function in a much higher realm than we see today. I believe there is a people in the Church today who are looking to enter into a place in a supernatural place in the Holy Spirit. For years we have only functioned in the same place of natural man that we have had for a thousand years.
I read in the Word of God that we have access to the wisdom and ability of the Holy Spirit that we have failed to accept today. We have a relationship with the Father, through Jesus that very few people have dared to believe today. Down through the years we have always had such men of God as John G. Lake, Smith Wigglesworth, A.A.Allen and many others who went the extra mile. I don't believe this power or ability was limited to these few men, but that only these few were willing to pursue the Lord to this degree. I find no place in the Word where Jesus said that we were left without the ability of the Holy Spirit at any time.
You might say that these things aren't for everyone and maybe that's true. I don't think that it's not for everyone, but only for those who pursue it. You and I may not walk where Smith Wigglesworth did, but we can walk in a place higher than we walk now. I believe this is available to all those who seek the deeper things of God. Jesus stated that "All things are possible to he who believes." No matter what you dare to step out in, you can at least step out.
What do you have to lose by simply laying your hands on someone who is sick? Do we have so little faith in the Word that we won't even attempt to do what it says? Jesus said in Mark 16 that "signs would follow those who believe in His name." Do we really believe in His name?
All He has asked us to do is enter into His rest or to simply stop looking to do things in our own way and enter into His way of doing. I don't believe in being foolish and going to the hospitals and empty them out. But I do believe that if we would listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit, then we would get some people healed anywhere. Jesus said that He only did"what He saw the Father do." Have we stopped seeing the Father do anything in these last days? Jesus also said that "When you see Me, You have seen the Father." If we want to know what the Father wants done, then all we have to do is watch Jesus.
I don't want to just stay in the wilderness for 40 more years. I know that God can take care of me there, but I don't think that's where He wants me to stay. I don't want to see the giants like spies did in Numbers 13. I want to see my God as "bigger than the giants." It took another 40 years before Joshua could do what God said to do while he had to waited for the other people. Are we to be just another generation to wait for someone else to enter in or are we going to take the land that's been given to us?
Maybe everyone won't go with you into the "rest" that Hebrews talks about, but that doesn't mean we have to do nothing. Somewhere there are going to have to be those who will dare to believe God meant what He said when He sent us to go. It seems that for most of us, we have limited the power of the Holy Spirit to being for when we get to heaven.
We won't need authority over the devil when we get to heaven because he won't be there. We won't need to lay hands on the sick because there won't be any sickness in heaven. We won't need to comfort the brokenhearted or set the captives free or break the bonds of the enemy because everyone in heaven is already free. The power of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers is for here.
God needs an avenue here to work through. Make yourself available to be used by God. Dare to step out into the realm of the supernatural. Enter into the "rest" and not your own ability.
After all, it's not you, but the Father in you who does the works. We need to start putting our faith once again, in the Father in us and not ourselves.
God has lost none of His ability to minister to His people. Mostly, He just needs us to let Him be God.
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