Keys to Moving in the Supernatural of God

We are the Body of Christ

Our God is a living God, and He longs to get involved in people's lives. For some reason, God has chosen to use us, His people, to be the agents through whom He will reach out and touch the world. Everything was provided for us all to come back to God, overcome satanic oppression and enjoy God's favor - be it in forgiveness, healing, provision or relationships. But in the delivery of this blessing God is wanting us to have a role. In fact, we are the Body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:27) through whom God wants to reveal Himself. After all, that is what a body is for - to reveal and express a person. The reason God's blessings have not been brought within everyone's reach is because of ignorance and disobedience in the Body of Christ. These things ought not to be, and God desires to do a healing, as each part learns to submit to the Head, Jesus Christ. After all, how far would you get if your legs did not do what your brain told them to do?

The Need

The world is crying out for something more. People seek satisfaction for their souls through many things, but ultimately its only God the Creator who can give it. People need the Lord. But people need to see that the Lord is real. We are called by God to be living testimonies of God's reality. Jesus said, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe" (John 4:48). We ought to be able to see from this just how important the manifestation of signs and wonders before unbelievers is. There are some people who will never believe in Jesus until they see and/or experience God's signs and wonders for themselves. But God will do these signs through people of faith.

Paul said his message and preaching were not with the persuasive words of human wisdom, but with the demonstration of the Spirit and power, that our faith may not rest in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God (1 Corinthians 2:1-4). The modern evangelical church has adopted the opposite strategy for the most part in the last several hundred years, encouraging people to rest their faith in the wisdom of learned scholars, who may or may not believe in the integrity of the Scripture, and in any case, rarely if ever manifest the power of God promised by the Scriptures. This strategy has led in many cases to a very intellectual and cerebral approach to faith, often quite irrelevant to the felt needs of the world. I do believe that the facts are on our side as Christians, but our major strategy is to simply demonstrate the power and authority of the Lord as Peter, Paul and the early apostles did, rather than to attempt to provide a philosophical proof to satisfy skeptics whose root problem is spiritual and not intellectual, in any case.

To truly represent the Lord as He is we must move in the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus expected it when he said, "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to my Father." (John 14:12). The physical departure of Jesus was not supposed to signal the end of God's miracles on earth, but rather, the multiplication of them.

In the last hundred years especially, the church has begun to realise this and some have even dared to proclaim it openly. We could be disappointed if we survey what Christendom has revealed by and large until the present time. But it is a new day in God, and even a new century of opportunity stands before us. Until now there have been signs of God's power to a limited extent. What we will witness in the 21st century is far beyong all that has been known until now, especially in the magnitude of its extent. Truly, "the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea". This will happen, I believe, in our generation, in an unprecedented way.

Preparing for the Outpouring of God's Glory

There are certain keys to moving in the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit. I myself have had occasion to put these into practice and I can assure you that they do work.

1. Pursue intimacy with God.

The apostle John was a man who loved to be close to Jesus and experience the anointing of God. John was referred to as "the disciple whom Jesus loved" and was one of the inner ring within Jesus' 12 main disciples. John was involved at the Gate Beautiful when he and Peter ministered to the crippled man, and that man began to "walk and leap and praise God" (see Acts 3).

If we are going to move in the supernatural of God, we must pursue intimacy with God. This means being close to God, letting God touch our hearts, and learning to touch the heart of God. It means listening to the promptings of the Spirit of God and obeying them. The Bible is full of

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