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LIVING IN THE SUPERNATURAL
Written by:
Evangelist Todd Bentley
Fresh Fire Ministries
LIVING IN THE SUPERNATURAL
The scripture clearly tells us that, as God’s children, we are to be a people
of signs and wonders: “Here am I and the children whom the Lord has given me.
We are for signs and wonders in Israel” (Isaiah 8:18). The Amplified bible
states it even more strongly: “We are signs and wonders in Israel”. Just as
Isaiah’s natural children had names of prophetic significance to Israel (they
were signs and wonders), so God has a name of prophetic significance for each of
us. The Lord has a prophetic name for you and your name has significance in the
spirit realm. This name assigns your nature.
In an early biblical example we see Adam in the garden naming the animals
according to their nature. As an intimate friend, God gave Adam the authority to
name the animals whatever he wanted. Whatever he called the animals is what they
would be called forever.” So Adam began his task: “That’s a dog. That’s
a sheep. You’re a goat and that’s a kitty cat. I’m going to call you a cat
and you’re going to be a lion.” Each name reflected and released each
creature’s nature. Those natures still stand today. He declared that the lion
is the king of the jungle and for all these thousands of years the lion is still
the king of the jungle because that’s what his name was way back in the
garden. And so when the name came, that’s when his nature came. Their names
came with authority and nature.
PROPHETIC NAMES FROM GOD
Now we have a prophetic name and it’s like the white stones in the book of
revelation upon which a name was written that nobody knew. Now I believe the
Lord gives each of us a white stone and on that stone is written our prophetic
name. He wants to release the nature that’s assigned to your prophetic name.
That’s why it’s so important to step into the prophetic because you need to
find out what your name is so you can fully step into your nature. The Lord
names you in the spirit. It may not even be your name in the natural - like
Melanie or Tyler - but the name he has for you in the spirit releases a
dimension of signs and wonders. When the Lord calls out your prophetic name
through a prophetic voice, it actually releases you into your nature and into
the dimension of signs and wonders.
As you continue to read this, I believe the Holy Spirit will begin to release
your prophetic nature. Now, we must realize that we don’t just do signs and
wonders; we are a sign and a wonder. We’re talking about a prophetic life, a
prophetic message. We can see by looking at Isaiah 8 what happens to the church
if we don’t have signs and wonders. In verse 19 God’s people turn to mediums
and wizards and they begin to seek the dead. People are crying out for
revelation: “Give me illumination. I want an experience of the supernatural.
I’m not seeing the signs and wonders in the church today, so I’ll call up
the psychic hotline.” Its what’s happening in the church today. When we
don’t have signs and wonders, the world goes off and looks for it in another
place. They look for it in the new age and the occult and the false expressions
of genuine revelation. God wants us to have it in the church today so the world
can know there’s revelation and understanding in the church. They should be
saying, “I’m not even a Christian, but they knew something about my uncle
and they knew something about the sickness in my body and they knew something
about my younger brother and that tells me there’s a God.” Then you don’t
even need to preach the gospel for now they know there’s a living God in
heaven.
A PROPHETIC PARTY IN KOREA
When we were in South Korea, speaking to about 2000 people in a conference. I
said, “God, I’m going to teach to all these people how to hear God’s voice
and they’re going to all prophesy one by one so they can learn. We’re going
to do this huge prophetic activation party. I’m going to teach on the ways you
speak and how to discern your voice. Everyone’s going to prophesy over
everybody; we’re going to have a prophetic party. It’s going to be a great
time!” That’s what I’ve been brought up in being around Pat Cocking years
ago. She once said to me, “Todd I want you to come up here right now and
you’re going to prophesy over everyone whose last names start from A to D.
Todd, you’ve got ten minutes to prophesy over everybody.” I’m having
coffee. I’m not even awake yet. I’m just following Pat around some place in
B.C., just hanging out. I’m not even moving all that much in the ministry.
I’m hearing God some and having visitations. So she gives me the microphone
and says, “If you have the gift of prophesy according to the book of Romans,
then prophesy in proportion to your faith. Do you have faith you can prophesy
over every one?” I said, “Yup!” Sure enough, I could prophesy over
everyone. Paul said in Romans 14:31, that we can all learn. So there’s a place
to practice and spread your wings.
When we did this in Korea I asked who wants to prophesy and every yells, “Me,
me!” Later I asked, “Who can hear the voice of God? Who gave a prophecy?”
Everyone says, “We did, we did!” So I said, “If it works in here, it works
out there. So who’s ready to take it to the market with me?” People
weren’t quite as excited about that. I said, “We’re going to the mall
tomorrow and we’re going to hang up a sign in the food court that says ‘Free
Spiritual Readings’. We’ll set up eight prophetic tables (two people per
table trained in the prophetic) and we’re going to tell people their
destinies. Then we’ll go throughout the entire mall to bring people in.”
About 500 people put their hands up and agreed to meet me in the mall the next
day. So hundreds of people converged on a mall in downtown Seoul, Korea and I go
into the food court and there they all are. Yeah, hundreds of people ready to
evangelize! We prophesied over 200 unbelievers and after we were done telling
them things about destiny I asked, “Who wants to give your life to Jesus?”
Two hours later 176 people were saved. Saved!
WINNING THE WORLD WITH POWER ENCOUNTERS
This is the dimension of living in the supernatural that is becoming every day
Christianity. We win the world with power encounters! Not just miracles, signs
and wonders but moving in the realm of revelation. That’s why some of you
reading this need to pray about being part of what we’re going to do in Las
Vegas this summer. There’s a cluster of ministries coming together - seven
days to transform an entire city! We’ll hold a school on the extreme
prophetic. And then we’ll launch radical outreaches - into the prisons, maybe
even into nightclubs, casinos, coffee shops and even right out into the street.
People trained in the prophetic ministry will be mobilized and stationed at
dream interpretation booths all over the city. We’ll also be hosting a
television show on the psychic network so we can give the lost a prophetic
encounter right in the midst of the psychic world.
By raising up this radical team of people who want to hear God’s voice and
take it into the market, we believe we’ll see the whole city transformed. And
then we’re going to have an Open Heaven’s conference - John Paul Jackson,
Larry Randolph and myself speaking. Each of the four nights there will be full
blown miracle crusades. We’ll spread the word with billboards and TV
commercials. Seven days to transform a city! Every time I hear about it I say,
“Yes God, this is the gospel! Right in the heart of sin city.”
Yes, God’s children were created for signs and wonders and we are starting to
live in the supernatural. Let’s look at Acts 2:17, a very common passage of
scripture, but one you’ve probably never seen it like this: “And it shall
come to pass in the last days, says the Lord, I will pour out my Spirit on all
flesh. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy. Young men shall see visions and
old men shall dream dreams.” I believe there is coming a day in the church
when all flesh will come into a dimension of not just prophecy - commonplace
prophetic words, still small voice and impressions, words of knowledge and
exhortation or “thus says the Lord” words, but the dimension of visions and
dreams.
DREAMS AND VISIONS FOR ALL
There will be a day in the church when all flesh will have visions and dreams.
Every believer will be having profound, detailed, accurate words of knowledge in
the restaurant. Every believer should be having visions and every Christian
should be having dreams. These experiences are available to all of us now.
That’s how God speaks. If you’re a friend of God, that’s how God speaks to
His friends.
Now look at verse Acts 2:19 - “I will show wonders in the heavens above and
signs in the earth beneath: blood and fire and vapour of smoke.” I believe
that God is releasing a signs and wonders dimension in the church today to
validate the visions and dreams of the prophets. He is bringing authority on the
prophetic word in the midst of all the prophetic fluff. God is going to validate
the dreams and visions that we have in the church today by confirming them with
signs in the heavens above and wonders in the earth beneath. He is going to
validate the prophetic word by bringing a sign in the natural that the vision
and dream is true.
For example, I was recently in a meeting in Seattle, and I asked a woman to
stand up. I said, woman, you’ve got hepatitis C in your body and you’ve got
three brothers. As a sign to you the Lord will heal you tonight, I’m going to
tell you the name of your husband. The name of your husband is Danny.” She
just came undone and the whole crowd screamed. Then I said, “Don’t be
impressed with the detail, receive your healing”. Yes, there’s a whole new
dimension of healing ministry, in which we not only call out a person’s
condition but, as a sign that the Lord is going to heal someone, we may even
tell someone the name of his youngest daughter, the middle name of his wife and
the number of children in his family.
And the signs and wonders ministry will even go beyond this dimension. For
instance, you may hear a word like: “Revival is going to come to your city and
as a confirmation a comet will pass over your house on December 14th and I’m
going to give you the time.” You may still wonder whether that guy who gave
you the prophecy in the parking lot is really from God. Then you’ll go home,
look out your window and go “Aaah- there it is!” The signs and wonders are
to validate the dreams and visions of those who are hearing God - that is going
to start taking place in the church.
HEALING REVIVAL THROUGH SIGNS AND WONDERS
A man called William Branham was a forerunner of this type of signs and wonders
ministry. In 1946 an angel visited him and ignited what we call “The voice of
healing” revival. This revival really took off in the 50s and 60s with Oral
Roberts, Jack Coe, A.A. Allen, R.T. Ritchie, Gordon Lindsay and “Voice of
Healing” newsletter. Tent meetings of tens of thousands of people filled up
all across America. It all started with this poor, uneducated, stuttering man
who had an angelic visitation and received a healing anointing. But it wasn’t
just a healing anointing - they called William Branham a prophet of notable
signs and wonders. He moved in more accurate realms of revelation than almost
anybody else that I know of, other than Jesus. Some say his gifting was 100
percent accurate.
When people would come on the platform to receive healing and Branham entered
that realm, he would go into visions and tell everyone many details of their
life. He did this only as a sign that the Lord would heal them. People would
wait in healing lines for hours. They would have to get a card with a number to
get into the healing line to even get prayer. He would wait for an angel to come
and stand behind him on his left side. He would do nothing until the angel
arrived. Then he would yell out “the angel is here!” People would line up
according to their number and Branham would begin to go into visions.
WILLIAM BRANHAM IN ACTION
To give you an idea of what it commonly looked like at these meetings, here is
Branham speaking at a service: “Now you are here and I see you now. People can
still hear me. The woman is having a sleepless time. She can’t sleep. Is that
right woman? You get very sick. You can hardly eat. You’re getting very sick.
You’re afraid its gallstones. “That’s right, that’s right, exactly,”
she says. He says you get nauseous feelings. There’s also somebody else that
you’re interested in - that’s your husband. Oh, he has a mental illness. And
that’s kind of a real mental nervous problem. Oh, and your husband is bothered
with some kind of a trouble he’s in. He’s trying to get something, a … oh,
a business deal. It’s a pension or something he’s trying to get. That’s
right. Your husband’s trying to get a pension and you’ve got this fear that
you’ve got gallstones and these are all the symptoms. And your husband’s
also got a mental condition. (And then Branham goes on to talk about another
woman who has come for healing.) Oh, I also see a little boy and the boy is
about 12 years old or he’s something like that. He’s a young fella, and
really he’s not your son. He is a son - you’ve raised him and you think that
something went wrong with him. He isn’t, he’s just a little boy. He’ll be
all right. Sure its O.K. Believe the right thing - everything will be all right.
Go on believing that God will heal you.”
Then Branham wouldn’t even pray for these people and they would walk out of
the meeting healed of all of their conditions. When he accurately told them the
things he saw about their lives that was the “vision and the dream” we’ve
been talking about. To validate the vision and the dream, God would bring a sign
of healing in their body. This is the supernatural dimension that the Holy
Spirit is beginning to release in the church today.
A FIERY ANGELIC VISITOR
Now I’m going to share a recent prophetic encounter with you to further
illustrate what God wants to do today. I was recently in Seattle, Washington
participating in a ‘Healing Explosion’ conference. During that conference, I
had a profound visitation. It was about ten o’clock at night and Bill Johnson,
one of the speakers, was speaking. During his message, an angel dropped down in
front of me. Nobody else could see the angel, but I could. The angel’s feet
were like pillars of fire. As this portal opened up in the spirit realm, my
spirit eyes opened and I could see an opening about four foot by four foot which
the angel had opened. This rip, like a black hole, opened up in the sky.
A pillar of smoke and a pillar of fire appeared and I could feel this energy in
the room. I stuck my hand out and it felt like it was going into an electrical
force field. Then I shouted out, “What’s going on!” I started to shake but
I didn’t want anyone to notice I’m having a prophetic encounter. I didn’t
want to interrupt the sermon. Then I ask the Lord, “What do want to do with
this?” He says, ‘Climb in, climb in. Just soak’.”
So that’s what I did. I just lay down at the altar and the Lord took me up
into visions. I first went up into a scene from ancient Roman days with these
seven huge pillars around me. Then God said, “These are the seven pillars of
revelation”. Revelation 10:1 describes the same scene (every prophetic
experience is in the bible): “I saw a mighty angel come down from heaven
clothed with a cloud. His rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun. He
had feet like pillars of fire.” In verse two, the angel comes down with a
little book, which he tells John to eat. He says the book would be sweet to the
prophet’s mouth and bitter to his stomach.
STANDING AMONG PILLARS OF REVELATION
The book of Revelation also talks about seven pillars which, the Lord shows me,
were the seven spirits which rested on Jesus in Revelation 11:2. Here I am
standing in the midst of the seven pillars of Revelation in a prophetic vision
wondering what it is and the Lord says, “Proverbs 9:1”. This is what the
verse says: “Wisdom has built her house. She has cut out her seven pillars.”
I realize these are the seven pillars of wisdom and the Lord tells me
“they’re also the seven pillars of Isaiah 11:2.” This passage reads:
“The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of
the fear of the Lord.” Suddenly I realize that this experience is a sign of a
new dimension of revelation God’s about to release in the Church today.
As I come out of this experience and get up off of the carpet, the Lord says,
“Get back to your hotel room. I’m going to visit you in power for one
hour”. So I grab some guys, one of Randy Clark’s interns and a couple of my
team and we rush back to the hotel room. It’s five minutes to eleven when I
pull my truck into the parking lot. We run into the hotel room at one minute to
eleven. Everybody lays on the carpet at eleven o’clock on the nose. The power
of God falls and every single person in the room starts screaming, shaking and
vibrating. Everyone goes into visions simultaneously at eleven o’clock - five
guys experiencing a simultaneous vision, seeing the same things at the same
time. I had a vision of a fire and I started yelling out “My God is a
consuming fire! My God is a consuming fire!” As I see the fire come down I
scream, “The fire, the fire! Burn up my flesh! I want to feel the fire!”
HOLY SMOKE AND FRAGRANCE
I’m in this prophetic experience about the fire of God and in the natural
realm the whole room fills with smoke and everybody smells it. My dad, who’s
been a Christian for a year and a half says, “Todd, I’m in a room in heaven
right now and there’s filing cabinets everywhere. The Lord opened a filing
cabinet and he brought out a little book.” The moment he spoke that, in my
vision, I was already ripping a scroll from a book and eating it. I know this
sounds wild and you’re probably thinking ‘come on’! The next thing I
scream out, “I’m in a room full of spices”. I see these little jars of
spices - like cinnamon, garlic and oregano. The scene goes on farther than my
eyes can see - wall-to-wall spice jars. Then I yell out, “The spices, the
fragrant spices, the aromas!” and the whole room fills with the fragrance of
the Lord. In that moment, in the natural, everybody smells burning cinnamon.
You may be reading this thinking, “This is too much. I’ve heard of guys
having visions but everybody being caught up into the same vision Todd?” I’m
just sharing a profound, unusual, prophetic encounter that tells us, “God’s
about to visit us in a whole new dimension of revelation and wisdom. He’s
releasing Isaiah 11:2.” Do you know what the difference is between the
ministry of Jesus, Isaiah 11 and the gifts of the Holy Ghost in 1 Corinthians 9?
Jesus didn’t operate in the Gifts of the Spirit. He didn’t operate in the
word of knowledge, the word of wisdom or the gifts of healing. No, listen, Jesus
operated in the Spirit of Wisdom and the Spirit of Knowledge, the ever-flowing,
increasing, constant knowledge of being in the mind of God. That’s just where
He lived. He lived in 1 Corinthians 2 - the mind of God, the mind of Christ, the
deep things of God. First Corinthians 2:10 tells us: “All these things have
been revealed to us by His Spirit.” How would you like the Spirit of the Lord
to rest upon your life with constant flowing knowledge instead of just a little
word of knowledge? There can be such intimacy and friendship between you and God
that His spirit of knowledge of revelation and counsel rests on you. Its not
that the church doesn’t have enough power today, the church doesn’t have
enough revelation.
Now, back in our hotel encounter I’m asking God, “O.K. God, what’s going
on? The fire comes down, the whole room is filled with the smell of smoke and
now the fragrance comes down. What does it mean for the church today?” He
directs me to the Song of Solomon 3:6 where the king asks, “Who is this coming
out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke?” That’s what I’m asking:
“Who is this in my hotel room like pillars of smoke?” It continues:
“(He’s) perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the merchant’s
fragrant powders… He (Solomon the king) made its pillars of silver, its
supports of gold, its seat of purple, its interior paved with love by the
daughters of Jerusalem. Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and see King
Solomon…” This is a description of the bridegroom king coming to the church
in intimacy with all His fragrant aroma. It’s the Lord’s invitation into
this whole new dimension of intimacy.
SIGNS LEAD TO INTIMACY
God is going to release a dimension of signs in the heavens above and wonders on
the earth beneath and it’s all connected to intimacy and friendship with God.
That’s what the Lord is saying in our hotel experience. At twelve o’clock,
everybody comes out of the prophetic encounter. The presence of the Lord lifts
and I look at the clock - it’s just a couple minutes before midnight. Praise
God, I’m speaking in the meeting tomorrow night at the Reality of the
Supernatural conference. But what does all this mean? At eleven o’clock the
next day, the very two hotel rooms above me where the angel stepped down, burned
to the ground. And it burned till twelve o’clock exactly. We get back to the
hotel and the whole hotel is now filled with the smell of smoke.
To validate my vision, the Lord brought a judgment on a principality and
literally burned up the two hotel rooms right above the room where the
visitation took place in the spiritual realm. All the hotel staff start
gathering around and they want to hear about the visitation and what took place.
They are amazed at the story of what took place. And get this - when the fire
started coming down at about 11:20 at night, the lady in the hotel room above
us, called the front desk and said, “I hear crackling in the walls. I think
there’s a fire. I hear it burning.” So they checked it out - it was nothing.
All the power in that area of the hotel went out except for our room. The very
next day, the room is burned down.
Through this experience I believe the Lord is saying He’s going to validate
the prophetic words and the visions and dreams of the prophets by releasing
signs in the heavens above and wonders on the earth beneath. It’s going to
become commonplace in the church today. As you read this, I really believe the
Lord wants to bring you into encounters with a whole new anointing for
revelation as the Spirit of the Lord rests on your life afresh. The Holy Spirit
wants to give you a continual sense of what the Father is doing. He wants to
pull back the curtain and let you see into the heavens.
Revelations Chapter 11, in describing Moses and Elijah, paints for us a picture
of two things - authority and power. This is the same anointing God wants to
bring the church into to do the same kinds of signs and wonders that Moses and
Elijah did. Look at Revelation 11:5, 6: “Fire proceeds from their mouths and
devours their enemies … these have power to shut heaven so no rain falls in
the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to
blood, and to they strike the earth with plagues”. These are awesome signs and
wonders! And “as often as they desire” they do these signs and wonders.
PLAGUES, COMETS AND EARTHQUAKES
I said, “Oh, come on God. You’re going to trust the church with that kind of
power as often as they choose. They’re doing plagues, comets, earthquakes, and
snowstorms and in the midst of a famine they’re saying rain and it rains? We
can’t be trusted with that kind of power just because we desire it. As often
that they choose? There’s corrupt people in the church today; we can’t even
trust them with the power to heal the sick.” The last great healing revival,
there was competition to see who had the world’s biggest tent for his healing
meetings. They got caught up with envy, jealousy and competition. “God,
you’re not going to trust us with power as often as we desire! How’s that
going to work?”
Then the Lord showed me in Psalm 25:14 that the secret of the Lord is with those
who have sweet satisfying companionship with Him. He’s only going to trust His
friends. This signs and wonders ministry is also based on John 15:15: “No
longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is
doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father
I have made known to you.” God came down and visited Moses, who was a human
being. He would speak to Moses as a friend speaks to a friend, in plain speech.
I believe that there will be a place in the church today where men and woman can
have a place in friendship with God where God will begin to speak to them in
trust, face to face.
God often speaks to me about this intimate friendship He wants with us.
Recently, I walked into a place and knew things about people I’d never met. I
knew that a guy there was gay. I looked at the waitress and I could feel she had
some kind of sickness in her belly. I got on the airplane, my spiritual antenna
starts picking up signals and I start hearing everyone’s thoughts. All these
thoughts come to me - I know things about people all over the airplane. I said,
“What do you want me to do with this God? Tell me who this is for and I’ll
just tell everybody on the airplane their destiny and lead them all to Jesus.”
Then the Lord said to me: “No Todd, you’re my friend and I’m telling my
friend. I don’t want you to tell anybody about what I’m showing you. I’m
sharing this with you because you’re my friend. We have sweet satisfying
companionship together and so the secrets of what’s going on in my heart, you
know them. But that doesn’t mean you’re going to tell everybody. Those who
are my real friends, I trust and I give them understanding of what I’m doing
in the earth today. And those are the kind of people I’m going to trust with
end time power in the earth today. It’s going to be based on intimacy and
friendship.”
FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD
God wants us to come into a place of friendship where the Father can just say:
“I’m going to let you in on what I’m doing right now in Texas. I want to
tell you there’s going to be an earthquake there tomorrow because we’re
buddies and I trust you.” It’s all going to be in the realm of friendship.
Its not just signs and wonders; it’s this intimate place that we’re going to
have. Although the visitation in my hotel room was a profound supernatural
encounter, the Father’s greatest message through it was that He wanted to be
my intimate friend. That’s what it was about.
In that intimate place, the Father also wants to release us into our destiny.
Think back to that little book the angel had in his hand - that book from
Revelation 10 is the same book as in Ezekiel 2. In Ezekiel’s case it was a
scroll he was told to eat and it would be as sweet as honey in his mouth and
bitter in his stomach. Then the Lord told him to speak to his people and Ezekiel
was released into his mandate. As he digested that scroll it became an
impartation in his spirit man of the ministry he was being launched into.
In Revelation 10 John had a similar experience. After he ate the scroll, he
received a commission from the Lord to be a prophetic voice to kings, tongues
and nations. It was in that scroll the Lord had the prophetic commission for the
next five to ten years of his ministry. Are you going into the next chapter of
your life and you’re in a place where you need a commission? You need a scroll
of impartation for your life and you need to eat that book and get it down into
your spirit so it can commission you into what God’s about to do tomorrow.
YOUR BOOK OF DESTINY
You know what that little book was? In Daniel Chapter 11:21 the angel came down
with the book called the scripture of truth. This book of truth was written
before the foundation of time and it contains your destiny. Your nature is in
that book; your name that is in that book. That’s the book that came to
Ezekiel to Daniel and to John in Revelation. When they ate it, they didn’t
even know what was written in it, but the Lord just said, “eat it, eat it!”.
It’s got to go beyond the mind; you’ve got to live out of your spirit realm.
There’s an angel that wants to come and put something in your spirit.
When I had this visitation, during part of the vision I saw myself on an
operating table in heaven. Four angels operated on me, cut me wide open and all
my insides were on the table. They started putting these little boxes inside of
me. When I asked the Lord what this was He said: “I desire truth in the inward
parts”. Then I saw names on two of the boxes: one was called ‘Love’ and
one was called ‘Truth’. Then the Lord told me that there are wounded
warriors in the church today that don’t have five years to get fixed. God
needs many in the harvest because the laborers are few and they don’t have
time to go through five years of deliverance before they can do anything. He
said there’s coming such a great revival on the earth that He’s going to
have to call up some of the reserves.
Some people in the church have been severely broken and wounded. But the Lord
will open them up in His sovereignty and put in them everything that they need
in an instant. It’s going to be as if they went through ten years of
deliverance and they’re going to be fixed and ready to go to battle. The Lord
says, “I’m going to open you up and just put inside of you what you need and
I’m going to restore ten years of brokenness and confusion and ten years of
life that you’ve been trying to piece together. I’m just going to do it
sovereignly by the angels and you’re going to be back in the game tomorrow.
I’m going to take the drug addict off the street; one day he’ll be saved and
the next day he’ll have ten years of character on him.”
That’s the acceleration that God’s bringing in the church today. I believe
that as you read this today, God wants to give you an open heaven commission and
hot honey scroll by His angels! God is giving out new mandates and commissions.
Will you receive it by faith? The Lord has told me after various angelic
visitations: “If you can get people to believe in the angel, I can release the
supernatural”. He said that the problem isn’t that people don’t believe in
Jesus; even the demons believe in Jesus (James 2:27). The problem is the church
doesn’t believe in the supernatural.
You know, even as I share different dimensions of the prophetic like this,
there’s people that get into all kinds of unbelief. As in the story of Gehazi
and Elisha, God wants to open our eyes to see into the spiritual realm so we can
see that the mighty forces of heaven that are for us are far greater than those
against us. Just because Gehazi couldn’t see the angels at first, doesn’t
mean that they weren’t there. Just because there’s some things about the
supernatural, maybe some experiences and visions that you don’t understand or
some things that haven’t happened to you or your pastor, doesn’t mean they
don’t happen. Just because it doesn’t go on in your church or you’ve never
heard stuff like this before, doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened to somebody.
GOD IS ANOINTING AN END-TIME ARMY
If these supernatural experiences happened to somebody in the bible and they
were men like us, it can happen to us today. Paul’s dead, Peter’s dead,
Elijah’s dead, William Branham’s dead, John Lake is dead - they’re all
standing with the great cloud of witnesses. But the Peters are here today, the Paul's
are here today, the John Lakes are here today. God’s got his anointing upon a
last day’s army today. Let me tell you, according to Joel 2, the likes of this
generation we have never seen nor the likes of these will ever be for many
successive generations! There’s coming a Joel’s army, the likes of which we
have never seen before and the likes of which we will never see again. They’re
going to step into an anointing, authority and power beyond anything the early
church experienced. The end-time church is going to go out with a greater power
than it came in with. It’s going to be more glorious! According to Isaiah,
deep darkness will cover the earth and there will be wars and rumors of war, but
the glory will rise with blazing light.
Now let me share one last nugget before we close. Do you believe that there is
an end time Elijah anointing? I believe that the same kind of anointing that
came on Elijah to prepare the way of the Lord will come upon the church to
prepare the way of the Lord for the second coming (Revelation 11). Now God
promises, what I call, the Elijah anointing in Malachi 4:2: “To you who fear
my name, the Son of righteousness will arise with healing in His wings (or
garment).”
Psalm 91 follows a similar theme: “He who abides in the secret place of the
most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty.” It’s the shadow,
the wings or the eagle that comes down and hovers over the nest of little
eaglets. Scripture tells us: “God will carry you on the wings of eagles, on
the pinions on an eagle”. This hovering is not just a prophetic healing
anointing on a man or a woman. There’s going to be a dawning of a new day
where the morning star is going to rise in the church and it’s going to bring
a dimension of healing revival in His wings. A healing shadow will fall on whole
cities and the atmosphere will heal people.
This canopy of the Lord will come down on a whole church service and every
person will be healed. Its Acts 5 - sick on beds and couches lying in the
streets of Jerusalem waiting for the shadow of Peter to pass by. But it wasn’t
the shadow of Peter. The same word shadow was used when scripture speaks of the
Holy Spirit coming upon Mary with power from on high - “the Holy Spirit will
overshadow you”. And the shadow is the canopy hovering of the Holy Spirit
which will rest on believer’s lives in such a way that when people even get
around the sphere of God’s people, they get healed because of how much of God
they carry upon their flesh.
YOUR SCROLL OF COMMISSION
I believe that God will release that kind of healing power upon the church today
so we can step into the market and we will carry such a level of God’s intense
manifest presence that everyone around us gets healed. I believe that in this
next season, there’s going to be a great release of healing and signs and
wonders in your life as you walk by faith into the supernatural dimension and
allow the Holy Spirit to hover over your life. I pray that today you will walk
into a greater level of dreams and visions in your life. I’m also believing
that the Holy Spirit will descend on your life and release new scrolls
containing your commissions and destiny in the Spirit. Now by faith, receive
supernatural experiences and encounters will God! |
