John 1:17 (Amplified) says, "For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
John 4:24 (Amplified) says, "God is a Spirit, a Spiritual Being, and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (reality)."
In John 6:63 (Amplified), Jesus tells His followers, "It is the Spirit Who gives Life, He is the Life Giver; the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
I'm reluctant to speak about the Super-natural things of God, because satan and the world have programmed us to think of the super-natural in terms of the boogieman, ghosts, and goblins. We've been taught that most all the super-natural, is either fake or demonic, so that those who believe in the super-natural must be "unbalanced or strange."
God's realm is the Super-natural realm, which is a Higher realm that man could ever reach or even imagine before. Most think otherwise though and believe it includes witches, fortune tellers, ghosts, even entities and hauntings. So, when we talk about the Spirit or Super-natural things of God, it brings the age old dread of things we don't wish to think about. The Super-natural is anything that is above the natural way of thinking. Fear has left us in a place, where many are even afraid to receive the Holy Spirit, His Gifts or His language. We've tried walking with a Spiritual, Super-natural Father, by our own intellect. This limits God and leaves us to our own means.
We acknowledge that God is a Spirit Being, but we don't trust the Spirit realm which He abides in. We continue trying to accept the Truth of the Spirit realm, by limiting it to sense knowledge. Jesus was speaking to His followers in John 6:28-29 (Amplified), "Then they said, What are we to do, that we may habitually be working the works of God? What are we to do to carry out what God requires? Jesus replied; This is the work (service) that God asks of you, that you believe in the One Whom He has sent (that you cleave to, trust in, rely on and have faith in His Messenger)."
We can seemingly believe that Jesus did the Super-natural, but we've never carried them into this natural realm and making it possible for anyone to do now." The Super-natural or Spirit realm is where we must contact our Heavenly Father, hear His Voice and do what He has called us to do. Many have accepted the Super-natural as being for salvation, but have left the rest of the Spirit realm untouched. Jesus stated more than once that, "It is the Father in Me, Who does the works." We've lost sight of the Truth that the Same Spirit Who indwell ed Jesus, now lives in the beleiver.
1Corinthians 7:19 (Amplified) says, "Do you not know that your body is the Temple, the very Sanctuary of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received as a Gift from God? You are not your own." The Super-natural being you've now become through Jesus, is no different from the Natural Body Jesus lived in, while He was on earth. You might say, "Yes, but Jesus was sinless and that's why God lived in Him." Have you forgotten what Jesus told Paul in his revelation?
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore if any person is ingrafted in Christ (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come." We don't think about our being a spirit being, except for when it applies to our leaving this natural realm. Then we believe, "we will become a spirit being." The Truth is, you are NOW a spirit being like God, who is now living in a body that God declared "dead." The only Life a Christian has in him today, is the Life Jesus spoke about in John 6:63 (Amplified) where He said, "It is the Spirit Who gives Life, He is the Life-Giver, the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) I speak to you are Spirit and Life."
It's been difficult for us to see ourselves as being a Spirit, like our Father. Only the spirit realm can contact and rule over another spirit realm or class of being. This is why the Church has been relatively unsuccessful over an enemy. He has kept us intimidated by spooky thoughts and stories about the Super-natural realm. When the Church understands that all these "spooky things" are satan's way of intimidating the flesh and senses.
Satan moves around in people's homes, making strange things appear as real, in order to intimidate the senses. This has put fear in the people's hearts, causing Christians to stay away from the things they don't understand in the sense realm. You don't contact God by your senses and feelings, but by the Spirit and the Word (which is Spirit). I've heard people say, "Speaking in tongues is of the devil." They say this, because we've been taught that super-natural things all come from satan. We fear the super-natural, because of this.
God's will has always been to communicate with His children, by and through their spirit. Your spirit is supposed to be in charge of the natural body and direct your body in this natural realm of creation. Everything in this natural realm was created by the Spirit of God and still responds to the Spirit. Jesus proved this in His ministry, when He spoke to storms, trees, gravity, sickness and even death. The spirit realm is where we were to live, with our Father.
We've heard reports of people's long dead relatives "coming back to haunt them." These are spooky things that have found a place, in our natural man's senses. Satan has used these things to bring fear of the unknown realm of the spirit, into people's lives. It has always seemed strange to me, that even Christians believe in some of these weird things, while they deny the Super-natural moves of the Spirit of God.
Today, we're returned to following a Spiritual Father, by the natural confines of the senses. God wants to be revealed through His children (the Church), by and through His Spirit and Power. Ephesians 3:10 (Amplified) says, "The purpose is, that through the Church, the complicated, many sided Wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known to the angelic rulers and authorities, principalities and powers in the Heavenly sphere."
This can only be done in the Super-natural realm and by His Spirit. Satan isn't impress by large, lavish buildings and denominations, but only by the Might and Power of God, in the Spirit realm. Even the world isn't impressed by large church building. We've many religions raise up their grand places of worship. They've done this, in order to impress their gods (whoever they might be), but I never thought their god was real because of these buildings.
Most of the world's religions were based on some super-natural display in the spirit realm. This was usually some terrible and fearful things, cooked up by evil spirits, in order to intimidate and frighten the people to the point where they would even make human sacrifice to appease their god. These evil spirits needed to make themselves seen by human senses, in order to bring fear. This isn't the Spirit of our Father, Who draws us by Love and peace, with Him. Do not fear the Spirit realm, if you're born-again by the Holy Spirit. You've been given authority over them and power to rule over them by the Holy Spirit. We must allow the Holy Spirit to reveal the Super-natural Presence in our lives. We must all the Super-natural Holy Spirit to fulfill Ephesians 3:10, through our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.
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