Supernatural: we are going put it out there, test it out, and see what happens.

This blog is on another recent email I sent to the leadership team of our church.  We just celebrated our one-year anniversary as church plant.  While we are still a toddler, learning to crawl and walk, we will celebrate what God has done this past year and anticipate to what's ahead.

"In this next year/season we feel inspired to lead in such an audacious way where we exercise our authority in the supernatural.  After all God is spirit and his worshipers must worship him in spirit and truth.  Guess what else, Satan is also spirit.  The sacred scriptures remind us that we are not fighting against humans, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits (Ephesians 6:12).  So why do we work so hard to defeat Satan in the natural?  We are reminded in 2 Corinthians 10:4 that the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 

It's about time we believe we have supernatural authority and power to defeat the enemy.  Yes I am talking about the power and gifts of prophecy, words of wisdom, words of knowledge, faith, healing, and prayer.   If Jesus did it and the guys and girls who founded the church in A.D. 33 practiced it in such a way they experienced the dramatic move of God in their lives, maybe we can see God move in a similar way in our lives and in our city.  After all we serve a God who is unchanging. (“I the LORD do not change" Malachi 3:6).  I am talking marriages restored, broken relationship healed, physical healing, emotional healing, evil spirits being cast out, etc. 

No we will not go crazy with these things, nor hold the gifts over the fruits of the spirits etc.  Our desire is to embrace all of Christ and not just part of him.  If God is indeed supernatural and we are imago Dei as well as heirs of his Kingdom, maybe Jesus is on to something when he claimed that we will even do greater things than he did (John 14:12).  The prerequisite to these supernatural works as He stated in John 14:12 was faith, audacious faith.  As a local expression of the body of Christ, we are going put it out there, test it out, and see what happens.  Thanks as always for your faithfulness and commitment to the cause of Christ"