LIVING BEYOND THE NATURAL REALM
James 2:20 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
If you want Gods blessings to work in your life you must add actions to your faith. These words James was speaking of was trust, belief and expectation.
Expectation looks forward to the manifestation of Gods word to supply your need, expecting an event like it is about to happen.
God has no problem supplying all of our needs. He does have a problem manifesting them through our doubt and unbelief.
Philippians 4:19 19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
By faith, trust and expectation in Gods word and his promises. He will secure our future. We don’t have to know the future to have faith in God and to be secure about the future.
You must know what the word says and means before God can add all these things to you and the Holy Spirit is the only one that directs you toward the truth of how to receive from God.
John 14:12-13 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
When we believe on Christ Jesus and the works he has done, it changes everything. It builds strength in your faith, it pulls you up from the natural thinking and brings you up to supernatural expectation where the manifestation of God can bless you.
When you ask for something in Jesus’ name, he will do it, so that the Father in heaven may be glorified in the son.
Our natural minds will never move mountains and will never break the chains of oppression. We must think in the supernatural and leave the natural way of thinking to the people of the world.
Start thinking big: we serve a big God. After God has made you righteous, you have the right to be prosperous and have good health. If your thinking doesn’t line up with Gods word and you don’t have any expectation of what your asking, you will never prosper.
Having faith in your faith is having faith in what Jesus has already done for you.
Ephesians 3:15-20 15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
The family of God includes all who have believed in Him: past, present, and future.
We are all a spiritual family; because we have the same Father in union with Christ Jesus and through his empowering spirit, we are complete. We have the fullness of God available to us.
If believers will set their spiritual minds in one accord, and in the wisdom of the Holy Spirit: nothing is impossible. Through faith prayer and expectation we can ask the Holy Spirit to fill every aspect of our lives to the fullest.
Genesis 11:4-6 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
God said, the people are one, they are in one accord (agreement), they have one language and now nothing can hold them back from what they have imagined to do. They were speaking words of agreement on building the tower.
Matthew 18:20 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
This is so important to the body of Christ. When two or three believers are in one accord praying for something or someone and the Holy Spirit is with them, they are endued with power, the Holy Spirits power magnifies their power. People who isolate themselves from Gods family cut themselves off from the fullness of Gods power.
Gods power works best in unity or in one accord. Nimrod and his people had the kind of faith in themselves: they believed they could do this. However, these people were not trusting God to help them build this tower.
Their faith and belief was in agreement that if it could be imagined they could do it. Their faith was in trusting the next step, their words of faith even in themselves made a reality.
How much more faith can we as believers have today! In the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. The will of God is our foundation for faith. We must look beyond the natural realm of our minds, will and emotions to have the God kind of faith and get beyond the realm of our five senses.
We have to get Gods word beyond our head and down into our hearts for it to work.
Matthew 12:34 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
It didn’t say out of the abundance of the five senses, or your head it said out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Faith works for those who so ever will believe. Believers stand on faith; we fall by our unbelief. Prayer does not cause faith to work, faith causes prayer to work faith should never be allowed to stand still. When you pray with earnest intense expectation, expect what you pray to come to pass.
Once you understand how faith works through expectation, then you will understand how to bring things from the unseen heavenly realm to the seen natural realm.
Matthew 8:5-8 5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
The centurion trusted Jesus so much at his word, until he said; I am not worthy that you should come to my house. Just say the word only and my servant will be healed. What do you think could happen if we had this kind of faith?
Jesus reminds us that what we say reveals what is in our heart. You will never be able to solve your heart problem by just cleaning up your speech.
When you believe in your heart that you are the righteousness of God and confess it with your mouth, only then will you have the right to what you say. The power is within us!!!
Ephesians 1: 12-13 12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
The Holy Spirit is Gods guarantee that we belong to him and that he will do what he has promised.
Now that we are under direction, or led by the Holy Spirit, we should be thinking in the supernatural. So, how do we do this? We do this by the divine energy that works within us.
With Gods divine energy, faith rises up so you can believe for the impossible. How? By expecting Gods word to be the truth and standing on it.
For believers the anointing of the Holy Spirit is a physical quickening within and upon the body. It is a life force that makes your mind and spirit alive.
Now that you have the anointing of the Holy Spirit, Gods endued power from the heavenly realm, he will give you the insight to put His word into action.
2 Peter 1:3-4 3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
If the word of God alone holds the answer to every life problem, the divine nature implanted in the inner being of the believing sinner becomes the source of their new life and actions. It comes to everyone at the moment of being born again.
God wants us to lift our expectations higher than ever. He wants us to expect the glory of his presence. If we will do that, we will have the rest.
If believers had a revelation of the truth that the anointed one lives in us, they would act like a different church. The word which is the revelation of Gods will, will take us into His glory.
This won’t work on paper; this has to work inside of you. remember, the glory is the presence of God in you through Christ Jesus.
When Jesus finished his work on earth, God sent the Holy Spirit to empower us with the same anointed power that Jesus had. He gave it to his disciples. We are to be doing the same things the disciples did, we to are disciples of the Lord.
John 14:12 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
We are working under the divine anointed power of the Holy Spirit, just as Jesus and his disciples did. There is only one power.
Colossians 1:26-28 26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
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