We've been faithful to lead people to Christ, but then we teach them what we "think" the Word says. If we don't believe in the Super-natural intervention of the Holy Spirit, then those Christians won't develop into what the new creation man/woman is and will remain as "mere men," like Paul writes about. They are saved or born-again, but don't believe the Super-natural things of God only pertains to when they die and go to Heaven. God doesn't need us to walk in the deliverance or healing power, when we get to Heaven. I assure you that no one in Heaven needs healing or deliverance. We are called to bring the Power of God's Kingdom into this world.
The Power of the Holy Spirit is only needed and necessary here, because there are no blind, sick, bound, or needy persons in Heaven. All that Jesus gave us, by the new creation, is to be used here and now. Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." The natural man/woman can only be sick in this earth. The new creation man/woman is a spirit and is made to be "One Spirit with Christ Jesus."
When we teach the babes in Christ that the Super-natural things of God have "passed away," we are handicapping them from becoming what God intended. If we trained and taught our natural children to believe that, "there's no need for school and education," then we'd be keeping them in an ignorant state and not giving them the tools needed to succeed in life.
Being born-again is the greatest miracle we can ever experience, but if we don't understand what happened when we accepted Christ as our Savior, then we'll remain carnal Christians and miss out in what our Father intended us to be. Jesus prayed about His followers, both then and now, in Gethsemane, saying in John 17:16 (Amp), "They are not of this world (worldly, belonging to the world); just as I am not of the world." The new creation person is of the same Kingdom and part the same Super-natural state of being that Jesus Himself is from. The new creation person isn't limited to the natural ability to deal with this world, but is like Jesus was in His earthly ministry. Our ability is now unlimited, through the knowledge of God's Kingdom.
Jesus never met a need according to the limited things of the natural man, but always drew His needs for people, by the unlimited resources of the Kingdom. We might be able to meet some natural needs by ourselves, but we'll be able to meet the needs of the Spirit and Kingdom on our own. If we continue trying to accomplish Spiritual need by our own ability, then we've decided that we don't need God or His ability. The Church is a Super-natural entity, which was created to walk in the Super-natural realm.
When we overcome the fear of failing when doing what Jesus instructed us to do, then we'll begin seeing God as He really is. If we fear that laying hands on the sick won't work, then we've forgotten that "It's the Father in us Who does the work." Jesus never intended that we lay hands on others in our own ability, but by the ability of the One Who dwells in us. No natural man/woman has the ability to cast our demons, heal the sick, open blind eyes or restore missing limbs. God intended that we'd have confidence in the Holy Spirit Who lives in us, so we could use the Authority of Jesus' Name that He has given us and do what needs to be done.
We believe that there is no God, but our God and that Jesus is truly Lord of all, but the unsaved will think we're just preaching another religion, if they don't see that our God is real. Jesus proved Who and What He was, when He said, "If you can't believe the Words that I am telling you, then at least believe the Works that I do." Jesus backed up what He preached by the signs that followed Him, through the Anointing and the Spirit. We're not Jesus and will never be Jesus, but we've been Anointed and born sons and daughters of God, by the Same Spirit. The "signs and wonders" Jesus spoke about and performed, are just God Being God. God wants every person to be delivered from the enemy's hands and be risen from Spiritual death into Life in Him.
Jesus' entire ministry on earth, was return order back to all the enemy had stolen, killed and destroyed. The restoration of mankind back into what God had intended from the beginning, was the whole order of Jesus' earthly ministry. He commanded us to do the same and gave the new creation people marching orders in Mark 16., telling us to, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel." Jesus then said, "These signs will follow those who believe." Jesus didn't say these would follow only a certain few, but "all who believe."
Do you believe? Jesus said these signs will follow those who believe, saying, "In the authority of My Name, you shall cast out devils, heal and deliver those who are bound." The Super-natural comes when we believe in what Jesus said and what He has already done. This is the very essence of the ability of God to reveal Himself to the world, through us and in a way they've never seen before, in reality.
This is what happened in The Book of Acts. The disciples emerged from the Upper Room and didn't preach laws or rituals, but brought God into reality by the demonstration of His Nature and ability to the people. They could now see and know God for themselves, instead of just hearing about "another god.' God didn't need only the priests and certain people to demonstrate Himself to the world, but could use all men and women who had faith in what he said.
This is what I call, "walking naturally Super-natural." We still have a natural body and are living in this natural world, but we walk Super-natural by the privilege of becoming new creations. We still have natural flesh and blood bodies, like Jesus had on this earth. We have the Super-natural Life and Spirit of God living in these houses of flesh. The Super-natural isn't only available when we "feel" like it, but is continuously present and available, by faith in what Jesus has done.
Our flesh isn't a new creation, but our dead spirit is now alive unto God and God Himself is the Life continuously within us. If we don't develop the new creation to this Truth, then the world will think it's just another religion and isn't real. Every child of God should be taught who they've become when they received Jesus into their hearts or spirits. God says that then, "I will live in them and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."
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