How To Walk In The Supernatural

Walking the supernatural life is God’s will for you every single day.

May we be so bold as to make this declaration over you today?

God wants heaven to invade your little slice of earth 24/7. He wants to take your reality and straight up osmosize it with Heaven’s reality. His will is to create a very literal heaven-on-earth, just for you.

He loves you so much and desires to dwell, His Spirit in the heart of man. So today, let’s dig a little deeper into how you can walk in the supernatural daily.

There is a depth in the heart of God that no man or angel can ever fully fathom.  But the awesome, humbling fact-of-the-matter is that God desires to reveal His secrets to men.  Secrets that even the angels long to look into.

“It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.” — Proverbs 25: 2

And God is searching for men and women He can fully trust with His heart + presence.

He is searching for faithful + obedient people to be trustworthy carriers of the treasures of God.

Walking in the supernatural is firstly by the grace of God (we cannot go to Him unless He first calls us), but there is also a process that requires faithfulness + obedience on our part.

“I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the groundand dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.”

— John 12: 24

1. Falling to the Ground:  Changing of Wrong Mindsets

This could also be called the “Infant stage” in a believers’ journey.  Much like caring for an infant or a budding flower, this is a stage that is full of the Father’s grace and protectiveness.  The believer’s spirit is not yet mature and strong enough to take rigorous disciplines, and therefore it is mostly nurtured, fed and nourished at this point.  It is a season where the believer’s heart, mind, and spirit are being prepared and made ready for the journey ahead.  God does this by revealing 1) who He is, and 2) who they are.

At this stage, there is a very strong emphasis on the unconditional love of God for the person.  This is not self-centeredness, but a vital part to the healing of the heart.  Restoration work is done in the heart and mind. God will begin to surface issues of self-rejection, shame, unforgiveness, pride, etc., and bring healing + restoration in those areas.  While for natural healing and the restoration of the body using methods like basic cell morphology can be great for this.

This healing and restoration process is necessary because it would be impossible for anyone to submit to a God they cannot trust. And in order to trust God, we must know who He is and who we are in Him.

To put it succinctly, the key word at this stage is “Identity”.  When we begin to understand His identity and therefore begin to discover our identity, the desire to walk close to Him will burst forth in our hearts!  That is the power of the love of God.  This is exactly how Jesus taught His disciples too!  Jesus repeatedly assured His disciples of their value to God, then He would urge them to do the two things crucial to walking in the supernatural — have absolute faith in God (now that you know your identity in Him) + seek first His Kingdom (now that you know you can trust your life to God).

When our identity and relationship with God is built on the right foundation, we are ready to move to the next level.

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2. Dying:  Surrendering Our Will to His Will

Growing into our identity as God’s Beloved goes hand-in-hand with submitting our will to the will of God.  It’s a package deal, so to speak, because that is the picture of a beloved.

Song of Solomon 8:5 says, “Who is this coming up from the desert leaning on her lover?”

This is the picture of true lovers — the Lover who offers the strength of His arm, and the beloved who rests in her Lover’s strength.  When we understand our Beloved-ness, surrendering to God is no longer a chore but a joy and a delight!

This submitting of our will to God’s will can also be called “voluntary helplessness”. The above-mentioned scripture takes place as the lovers are coming out of the desert — that is often the place that God takes us so we learn to lean on Him.  In the desert, there are no resources, status, people, etc., only God.  It is there that God teaches us how to let go of human reasoning, wisdom, and agenda; in short, dying to self.  This is just like in Hosea 2, where God pursues His beloved till she has nowhere else to turn to except Him.

The fire and desert are part of God’s beautiful mercy + deep love for us.  He loves us too much to let us go.

However, this stage of fire and/or desert will not make sense if we do not understand that it happens because we are so beloved. Most who did not press through stage 1 will not last long in this stage, because they might fall under confusion/condemnation thinking that God is a religious deity with a huge cane in His hand, ready to smack them every time they make a mistake.  Or they might think that God has abandoned them.  Both ways lead to a religious mindset.  Religiosity is the work of man and the flesh, which is man relating to God according to man’s plans, instead of man living by God’s plans.

A few years back, the Spirit of God stopped me in the middle of prayer, and He said, “My people ask for My Glory to come; they ask for revival and the outpouring of My Holy Spirit.  But do not ask for this so flippantly as you might ask for a toy – the Glory of God is not something that comes lightly.”

The double meaning to “the Glory of God is not something that comes lightly” is that 1) the Glory of God is not subject to man’s whim and fancy – He is not an ATM machine! And 2) the Glory of God is not a fluffy, flighty thing – when it comes, it also brings with it judgment of all that is unholy, for our God is a consuming fire.

There is a cost to host the glory of God. But what great reward awaits for those who willingly pay the price to lay hold of His Kingdom!

3. Bearing Much Fruit:  The Fruit of A Surrendered Life

We can only bear fruit when we abide in Christ, becoming empty + taking on His fullness. The fruit we bear will be nourishment for a dying world.  In these days more than ever, the world desperately needs the Church to bring heaven to earth.

God’s presence and the supernatural go hand-in-hand.  We cannot find God without finding also the powers of heaven invading our life and the lives of others through us.

In our pursuit of the supernatural life, it is important to note that the supernatural should point to the God of miracles, not to the miracle itself.  God’s works should never replace God.

Another important reminder is that the fruit of the Spirit must grow alongside the gifts of the Spirit.  Character sustains the anointing.  This can be seen in the life of Joseph, who had tremendous calling but did not have the maturity and wisdom to handle it in his youth. We are disciplined by God in the area of character because He wants us to succeed!  He wants us to be able to sustain the anointing, and to finish the race well.

Let a new breed arise in our generation and the one to come – a people on fire for God, touching heaven + changing earth.  Greater things are coming which the earth has not yet seen!  Let the Body of Jesus get trained + prepared!

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My Confession

Today I make a public confession. I want to be authentic in my weakness so that His strength shines through to you, can I do that?

A few days ago, the Lion of Judah walked into my room. He walked in – a majestic lion – perfect in form, a beautiful golden-brown, so noble in His bearing.

Without words He said to my heart, “Come away with Me for awhile.” He asked me to walk with Him because He wanted to show me something important, as He often does whenever He appears to me as the Lion.

He stood there watching me, patient, waiting. And without skipping a beat this headstrong wilful “godly woman” (hah!) said, “No. I’m too busy right now.”

He stood there looking at me for a long while, His expression so gentle yet sad and grave. Then He silently turned and walked away.

I felt His sadness – it was weighty but unimposing. He was gentle and wouldn’t force me where I didn’t want to go. It seemed so easy to turn away from Him.

I was so caught up in my busyness that I only realized my wrong when Alex, upon hearing about my day, asked with the most incredulous look on his face, “You said NO to the Lion of Judah?! GOD appeared to you, gave you a PERSONAL INVITATION, and you said NO?!!”

Whump whump. If ever there was a right moment to use OMG, that would’ve been it.

I had rejected His heart, yet He didn’t devour me. He had chosen to share His secret with me, and I had said “no thank you” with the petulance of a self-absorbed child.

I’d taken what other warriors had fought so hard to win, and tossed it aside with the flippant indifference of a child.

And I am so sorry.

I had been taking Him for granted for a really long time and thought it was spiritual piety.

I had been living like these ones Jesus spoke about — “These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” (Matthew 15:8)

I’d just launched the abide + thrive collection, but obviously had so much more to learn about abiding + thriving.

I am humbled once more.

I woke up yesterday to His clear, gentle, powerful voice: “Don’t be so busy doing things for Me your whole life, only to wake up one morning to find that we’ve become strangers. Don’t let what was started in the Spirit to end in the flesh (Galatians 3).”

And I think? We need to speak about this a little more.

We the Bride of Christ have gotten so accustomed to doing that we forget the being. We are program/process-driven, and not enough presence/purpose-driven.

A.W.Tozer puts it this way — “If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.”

I don’t have the answers + solutions to this age-old struggle between the flesh and the spirit. There’s fasting, praying, reading the Bible. But I think we need Holy Spirit to breathe Life into all these things for them to bear fruit.

So today, I just want to say a prayer. Feel free to join me in it.

“Forgive me Lord. I don’t want to work my whole life for You, only to wake up one morning to find that we’ve become strangers. I don’t want what was started in the Spirit to end in the flesh. I’m so sorry Lord. Help my heart to shake off its shackles and draw closer to You. Help me abide in Your presence even as I run after Your vision. Show me how Jesus did it. Amen.”

Do you struggle with making time for God in the midst of ministry + life? How do you make room for Him? Share your words in the comments so we can pray along + encourage each other!

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Daring To Ask God The Hard Questions

Our hearts have some fundamental questions about our Abba.

Is He real? // Does He like me? // Am I worth it to Him? // Can I trust Him completely? // Does He really have good stored up for me? // If He really knew me, would He like me? // Has He forgotten me? // Does He care? // If God loves me, why am I suffering? // If God is good, why did He allow that to happen?

There are different expressions + levels, but they can be traced back to Eve’s cardinal question: Is He for me?

These are questions we work our lives to find the answer to – through the pursuit of wealth, success, approval, perfection, religion, etc – and the futile desperation of the search is further exacerbated by the almost-universal unspoken agreement in the Church that good Christians don’t challenge the system.

For real? Good Christians don’t question the system, don’t rock the boat, don’t step outta line. Hogwash.

There is often a deep-seated shame attached to our core questions because of this deception. Shame for doubting, shame for not knowing, shame for wondering why…. and as a result? Shame for who we fundamentally are.

Because the answers we get to “Is God for me?” become the very root from which all other fruit of our lives flow.

And I think: Maybe we need to pull on the brakes, stop and think this through for a bit. Perhaps it’s time we stopped drinking the Kool-Aid of religiosity, and instead sat by the streams of Living Water to hear what the Lord’s heart is in all this.

God is not insecure.

Can we start by saying this? God is not afraid of our questions. Neither is He an angry, ungenerous dictator who is ready to pounce on us when we mess up.

God is a good, good Father with a heart as wide as the universe, and He can take your questions. In fact, He planted those questions in you.

The purpose of questions are meant to draw you deeper into His heart. Misty Edwards puts it this way: Hunger is the escort into the deeper things of You.

The book of Proverbs says, “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; and the honor of kings to seek it out.”

There is a biblical mandate to know God + study His Word by asking questions and seeking answers, and it’s seen in examples all through the Bible:

  • Abraham received one of the greatest pictures of God’s covenant of grace when he asked God the impertinent question, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall posses it?”
  • Job got a response, and subsequently a revelation of God’s nature + power, because he dared to ask the hard questions that offended his religious friends.
  • Moses went into a deeper relationship with God when he asked bold questions like “What is your name?”, “Show me your ways” and ” Show me your glory”.
  • David, who lived close to God’s heart, was full of (oftentimes angsty) questions.
  • The whole prophetic book of Habakkuk was built around a dialog between God and the prophet Habbakuk as he asked God a series of questions.
  • Peter’s letters to the Romans + Corinthians were built around questions being asked and answered.

But the One who seemed to love questions the most was Jesus.

Jesus spoke in parables so He could clearly define those in the inner circle and those on the outside.

The mark of distinction? The inner circle (His disciples) came to Him with many questions; the outer circle (the religious people) did not.

Jesus commended His disciples for asking Him about the meaning of His parables, saying that the questioners had found the secret of the Kingdom of God (Mark 4:10.11). He got angry at the Pharisees when they stopped asking questions and were silent (Mark 3:5).

Jesus told us to ask, seek, and knock.

In essence, God’s heart has always been this — “Press in closer to Me. Seek Me. Seek Me and you will find Me. Ask Me all the things you don’t understand, come to Me with your questions — I put those questions there so that you’d come running to Me. Then I will answer and show You wonderful things you don’t yet know. Let your questions drive you closer to My heart. Dare to ask, boldly seek. I don’t rebuke questions, I welcome them. Your questions are not a sign of unbelief, only a need for understanding which I am only too willing to give to you. Stubborn refusal to acknowledge the doubts and questions is what angers Me, for it is religious pride to think that you have it all. Come to Me, beloved, just as you are. Bare your heart, lay down the religious armor that keeps weighing you down. Sit with Me, speak with Me, ASK. I will answer you, and even more than that, I will reveal Myself to you. That’s a promise.”

So maybe I think that we need to humble ourselves a little.

Find that humility to say that we don’t have to know everything, because we belong to an all-knowing God.

To be humble like a child so we have courage to try, seek, fall, and keep trying again without ever feeling like we’ve lost our dignity.

To get that special brand of humble-pie that isn’t caught up with “What will they think of me?” and is all absorbed with following after our father.

Oh that we would find the humility to finally admit “Oh God, I need You!” so our souls can finally breathe in relief from that tireless religious strife that leads us nowhere.

Jesus’ parables were deliberately told to confound the holy/wise (in their own eyes) and to edify the humble/those who sought Jesus with a pure heart.

And I really believe that it’s in the losing of ourselves that we find who we really are. Because like I said before, the answers we get to “Is God for me?” become the very root from which all other fruit of our lives flow.

So beloved one, today can I release you to go to Him with your questions?

Enter in behind the veil, bare-faced, no holds barred. Ask Him honestly, then wait.

God will answer you. Promise.
 
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Idream of Eden. We were made for the Garden and the full pleasure of paradise. We got separated at Eden and we spend our whole lives searching for a way back into that secret paradise. All of life's pursuit + pain + questioning can be traced back to man's search for home. Our deepest instincts tell us that we are not home outside of this reality, and our souls will never stop searching until we return. Only there will we find rest and our true being. There, we begin to dream again the dreams that have laid asleep in our hearts all along.

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