We live in the natural and so we have a natural life. This is the life where we can see and do in the natural to the degree we are able to naturally. We may be able to train to do more, but it will never be more than the potential of our natural life.
You’d be surprised by what God can do in your life if you’d let Him. “And I pray that he would unveil within you the unlimited riches of his glory and favor until supernatural strength floods your innermost being with his divine might and explosive power. Then, by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released deep inside you…” (Ephesians 3:16-17 TPT).
There is another life we can have, which is a supernatural life. The supernatural can be from the Lord and will be everything good, or it can be from the evil one and so will be corrupt in all it will produce. We need to seek the Lord first and let Him bring us His supernatural.
If you can explain everything that happens in your life, then you are missing out on the supernatural from God. “Even Simon himself believed; and after being baptized, he continued on with Philip, and as he observed signs and great miracles taking place, he was constantly amazed” (Acts 8:13 NASB).
Most Christians fall short of living the supernatural life that God has for them. They either don’t believe that they can, or they don’t want to give up the natural things they hold onto so tightly. They settle for something less that cannot even be compared to all the Lord has for them.
The Lord of the supernatural has no natural limits in the natural He created. “Jesus said to him, ‘If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes’” (Mark 9:23 NKJV).
The Word of God is filled with the supernatural, and it tells us all that God can do for us. But we don’t believe, and so we don’t take hold of the very God who promises to help us. Until we come to trust the Lord, we only sit back and discuss what things might be.
When you can stand on the Word of God, then you are able to reach into the resources of heaven. Your ministry is not limited by what you have, but what you believe. “Then Peter said [to the lame man begging for money], ‘Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.’ And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength” (Acts 3:6-7 NKJV).
The supernatural life is not you changed on the outside but filled with Him on the inside. It is a life of faith that the Holy Spirit is within you and a life that trusts that He will help you. As you believe more, He will do more because your life will be a vessel through which He can flow through.
His supernatural always trumps your natural abilities. “…settle it in your hearts not to meditate beforehand on what you will answer…” (Luke 21:14 NKJV).
The supernatural life is not you doing greater things but Him doing greater things through you. You will find it takes no effort of your own since, supernaturally, it is the work of the Lord that does everything. It is not your ability to stand that matters but your willingness to kneel down.
It’s not what you can do that God’s interested in but what you’ll let Him do through you. “For it is [not your strength, but it is] God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening, energizing, and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose] for His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13 AMP).
The supernatural life has as much to do with your expectations as it does His manifestations. When your expectations are that He is with you and He can help you, then it will be there that you are rightly believing in the truth of all that Holy Scripture has told you.
When you ask in faith, you will expect to receive, even if you have to wait for it. Jesus taught, “I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you’ve received it, it will be yours” (Mark 11:24 NLT).
The supernatural life is where you are living in the presence of God with the assurance of His attention to every detail of your life. It is where you no longer are moved by the antics of man but are held securely in the grip of God in the midst of everything that the world can throw at you.
Those who pray much will be filled much by the presence of God. “And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13 NKJV).
The supernatural life is one in which a supernatural God is leading you in everything that stands before you. It is where you no longer have anxiousness for what might happen but only have a heavenly assurance that the Lord will help you through anything.
You can’t be led by the Spirit of God unless you listen to the Spirit of God. “For all who are allowing themselves to be led by the Spirit of God are sons of God” (Romans 8:14 AMP).
The supernatural life doesn’t mean you will survive every natural calamity that comes against you, but it will mean that you don’t worry because, in the end, you will live forever. You will have your eyes fixed on heaven, not allowing what happens on earth to dismay you.
When your mindset is eternal, the temporal won’t move you. “Therefore if you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, sharing in His resurrection from the dead], keep seeking the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind and keep focused habitually on the things above [the heavenly things], not on things that are on the earth [which have only temporal value]. For you died [to this world], and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.” (Colossians 3:1-3 AMP).
Blessings to you always,
Paul Balius
Indeed, the supernatural resurrection power of Christ is real. One such example is as follows:
In a meeting, I prayed for a retired registered nurse with a ten-year history of Parkinson’s disease. A few days previous, impressed upon my spirit was that if the next time I saw her, I prayed for this lady, she would receive her healing. In a house church meeting, as we were both standing, facing each other, I lightly laid my hands on her shoulders and asked Jesus for her healing. Suddenly, she was catapulted with tremendous force at least several yards across the room and landed on a couch. A few days later, she phoned, telling me she saw her neurologist, who reported that she now tested as having no trace of Parkinson’s disease. She also told me she had been running around the neighbourhood block and that until I prayed for her in the same meeting, arthritis in her knees was severe such that it was too painful for her to kneel.
As I absolutely desire to be perfectly honest, I must, therefore, state that the shaking in her hands did not disappear when I saw her subsequent to the meeting and that the pain in her knees returned. The certain wherefore of it remains a mystery to me. One individual suggested that it was all the work of Satan. I do not have that witness in my spirit. This experience has reinforced my belief in the supernatural realm, especially the resurrection power and ineffably precious glory of our Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, forever fully God, forever fully man, more beautiful than the sons of men.
I wrote about a similar situation I had in my book, If You Can Believe. Instead of with a person it was with a cat. I had prayed for this cat who had died and it came back to life, but then several months later the cat got very ill again, and even with prayer, the cat died. I learned that God can heal, for He can do anything, but it does not mean the healing will be forever. There is a last day on earth for us all, let us have faith in what He can do while we are here, and trust Him even when He chooses not to heal.
Indeed, the supernatural resurrection power of Christ is real. One such example is as follows:
In a meeting, I prayed for a retired registered nurse with a ten-year history of Parkinson’s disease. A few days previous, impressed upon my spirit was that if the next time I saw her, I prayed for this lady, she would receive her healing. In a house church meeting, as we were both standing, facing each other, I lightly laid my hands on her shoulders and asked Jesus for her healing. Suddenly, she was catapulted with tremendous force at least several yards across the room and landed on a couch. A few days later, she phoned, telling me she saw her neurologist, who reported that she now tested as having no trace of Parkinson’s disease. She also told me she had been running around the neighborhood block and that until I prayed for her in the same meeting, arthritis in her knees was severe such that it was too painful for her to kneel.
As I absolutely desire to be perfectly honest, I must, therefore, state that the shaking in her hands did not disappear when I saw her subsequent to the meeting and that the pain in her knees returned. The certain wherefore of it remains a mystery to me. One individual suggested that it was all the work of Satan. I do not have that witness in my spirit. This experience has reinforced my belief in the supernatural realm, especially the resurrection power and ineffably precious glory of our Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, forever fully God, forever fully man, more beautiful than the sons of men.
I wrote about a similar situation I had in my book, If You Can Believe. Instead of with a person it was with a cat. I had prayed for this cat who had died and it came back to life, but then several months later the cat got very ill again, and even with prayer, the cat died. I learned that God can heal, for He can do anything, but it does not mean the healing will be forever. There is a last day on earth for us all, let us have faith in what He can do while we are here, and trust Him even when He chooses not to heal.