LIVING BEYOND THE NATURAL REALM

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:

HOW TO USE YOUR FAITH

HOW TO USE YOUR FAITH

Most people, even believers, are trying to use their faith to get it done. God says you’re not going to use your faith to get it done.

Your supposed to be using your faith to get what has already been done.

We keep responding in the most likely manner based on the natural situation. God wants to change your response.

I don’t know what God has prophesied over your life, and it may seem to you like it will never come to pass. I am here to assure you, if Jesus can, and He can, it will happen in your life.


Philemon 6   ⁶ That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

Faith has to be involved, your faith is going to start working as soon as you start acknowledging and admitting that, I’ve already got it… I am already healed, delivered, prosperous.

When you say it, your faith becomes effective, by acknowledging every good thing in you, in Christ Jesus.

You are even to say it in hard times, it’s about understanding how to give an unusual response in the midst of natural situations.


Hebrews 11:1    Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

You cannot get what grace has provided without faith. Everything “the substance” that has been provided by grace will need faith to receive it.

The part that is most important about this verse is, that faith is not just a word. Faith is a tangible supernatural tool, used to purchase the spiritual things of God. money is a natural tool used to purchase natural things.

Faith is the supernatural substance which reaches out and grabs what grace has provided: grace makes, faith takes; money can’t buy grace, because grace is a spiritual thing.

Ephesians 2: 8-9    ⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Grace has made everything available, but, how do we get it? Even though grace has made everything available, you cannot take possession of it without faith.

Everything is in your spirit now. But it is going to take faith to take possession of it. Whatever you need, Jesus has already deposited it in you.

 If it’s going to take faith to take possession of it, we need to understand precisely what faith is.

It cannot be a religious understanding; it cannot be a church misunderstanding. You have to know with precision what faith is.

Most people you ask will say it’s believing, but, that’s just part of it.

You need to know what it is and how it operates, and our part in it; In order to take possession of what grace has already made available.

This is not a case of us trying to get God to do it. God has already done it. Now all we have to do is possess it.

I believe you are about to possess everything the devil stole from you. Today is your breakthrough day. I am speaking that into your life today.

What are we hoping for?  I know what I just told you, but I feel now that we need proof of what was said. If faith is the substance of things hoped for, what are we hoping for?

                                                                                      

1 Peter 1:13   ¹³ Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

They were waiting on Jesus to come same as we are waiting on the rapture. This is called the blessed hope.

Question? Has Jesus come? Has he been revealed for the hope to the end? For the grace that is to be brought to us? Now, everything that grace has made available through Christ Jesus, is what we hope for.

Grace has made healing available, soundness of mind, freedom from condemnation, deliverance and prosperity, all available: everything for this life and godliness He has made available.

Faith and grace is the substance of all those things. Love is very important, but one of the most important things in live is faith in what Jesus has made available when he said, it is finished.

Because without faith, you cannot get the hope of what grace has made available. Faith works also by love, but while you’re on planet earth, you’re going to need faith working in your life. Grace makes, faith takes.

Seven points as to what faith is and what faith is not, you must know what faith is in order to take possession of what grace has made available to us.

11.   If through grace He has made healing available to us, then our response needs to be in line with the healing that is already in us through grace.

So, when the doctor says, you’re sick, your response should be no, because of faith in this grace you are the healed.

22.   Faith is not something you do to get God to respond. Most people try to do something to get God to respond. Like, I’m going too fast and pray and do whatever else….

That’s doing things under the Law. Trying to get God to respond; that’s not faith. God has already responded to every need you have.



Faith is our response to what has already been done. So how do we respond when it’s already been done?

33.   Faith does not move God; our faith moves us into position to receive what God has already provided by grace.

Faith is not Gods response; faith is our response. Faith move us, God has already moved through His beloved Son, Christ Jesus.

44.   Faith does not cause a positive response to move God, why? Because faith is a positive response from us, not from God. God has already responded positively.

You say, I’m healed, I am prosperous, delivered. God says Amen. He has already responded. Faith is not God responding positively… it is us responding positively. 

55.   Faith is our positive response to what is already provided. The question is, how are we responding?

66.   Faith only takes possession of what grace has already made available. That is what faith does. It takes possession of what already been done. Grace makes… faith takes.

77.   If God had not already provided it independent of your effort and prior to your need then your faith can’t make it happen.

God has already done it. Your faith is about possessing what has already been done. Not about God manufacturing it when you have a need.


What most people are calling living by faith is doubting everything that God has already done.

You must remember, everything in faith that we are speaking is of the God kind of faith, not just believing something in your mind, or trying to con God by telling Him you will do good if he will do this or that for you.

The God kind of faith is believing and saying. The word has been given to us to be a helper in our thinking. In the word you must believe those things which you say will come to pass. Your faith will not work above the level of your knowledge and confession.

Proverbs 18:21   ²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

This is why it will not work above the level of confession.

The highest form of faith is faith in Gods word and its authority. The lowest form of faith “or no faith at all” is in Gods sight is a covenant man or woman desiring a physical sign or manifestation, before they will believe.


Mark 11:22   ²² And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.

Most people believe what Gods word says in the natural thinking, however the reason we don’t get the manifestation of what we ask for is not that we disbelieve the word, its because we have doubt in the heart. We hope it will work.

We reach over in the natural belief to receive and it doesn’t work. Gods word works through the heart not the natural mind. That is why Jesus said don’t doubt in your heart.

Matthew 6:32-33   ³² (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

³³ But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

We are asking God to do something by faith after God has already done it. It is pure evidence that most don’t believe that through Christ Jesus He has already done it.

The last words Jesus spoke on the cross was it is finished.  We keep thinking, I am going to use my faith to get it done.

God says you’re not going to use your faith to get it done. Our faith is to be used to get what has already been done.

Your response is your faith. Your response is your key; your response has to be an unlikely response, unlike someone who would respond in the natural.

To get every situation to every circumstance to every need, if you can respond based on what Jesus has already done, it will be an un-natural response.

Every time you respond un-natural (not in the worlds way), God is going to release a supernatural response.

You will turn on a supernatural response based on how you respond to a situation.

What if you lost your job, had car repairs? How would you respond? Would you say, oh what ever will I do, you won’t receive a supernatural response from God with that natural worldly response to your problem.

You can’t receive from the supernatural by responding in the natural.

Mark 6: 45-50   ⁴⁵ And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.

⁴⁶ And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.

⁴⁷ And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land.

⁴⁸ And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.

⁴⁹ But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out:

⁵⁰ For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.

Straightway means now or suddenly in this context. Constrained means forced.

You don’t want to be in trouble and have Jesus pass you by. Seems like even Christians stay in trouble and it seems like Jesus is passing them by.

If you don’t want Jesus to pass you by you had better cry out. Jesus told them to be of good cheer, not to be afraid. This was a natural response. However, in the supernatural all things are possible.


Psalms 37:4   ⁴ Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Faith will not work in an unforgiving heart. Faith works by love; love must be the dominating force behind all operations of faith. Faith is released through the mouth with words.

If you want to cast out demons, heal the sick and raise the dead, you must speak it into reality with your words of faith and with no doubt in your heart.

ARE YOU DOMINATED BY DECEPTION

ARE YOU DOMINATED BY DECEPTION

We have been taught the doctrine of death until it is so ingrained in us and in our spirits, that on a certain day we just turn over and die.


Romans 8:2, 8:6   8: 2   ² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

When Paul wrote this, he was teaching that we are no longer under the law but are under grace. Even though Jesus fulfilled the law, this is Satan’s deception. He is trying to convince people, even believers, that what Jesus did at the cross was not sufficient for our salvation.


8:6   ⁶ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

To be carnally minded is using your natural mind, also known as the five senses. Living outside of Gods prescribed order will result in sin and separation from God.

2 Corinthians 1:9-10    ⁹ But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

¹⁰ Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

When you operate in the natural or human mind you can create whatever illusion you want. An illusion is a false idea or opinion not always in accord with the facts.

It will reproduce a thought and put that thought into the real world, the world where you live. The way you think will change your life.

The thieves, the killers and the destroyers have not been Satan alone: but we as believers have handed our power over to the  devil by listening to and believing misinformed teachers and incorrect teachings on this particular scripture.

Here is the fact:

If you believe Satan can kill you, he will.

If you believe Satan can rob you, he will.

If you believe Satan can destroy your means of life, he will.

Don’t feed your mind, thoughts with incorrect teachings


3 John 2   ² Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

This is a three-part blessing. First it refers to financial prosperity and should be for every believer. To be in health speaks of physical prosperity… even as your soul prospers, speaks of spiritual prosperity. So, what we have here is the whole gospel for the whole man or woman.


Hebrews 2:14-15   ¹⁴ Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
¹⁵ And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

This is referring to the fact that this creation has a human, not an angelic nature. Since the wages of sin is death “which is separation from God”. Jesus atoned for all sin at the cross, for all who believe: John 3:16

It has been well said Christ can deliver people from guilt of sin and fear of death.

2 Timothy 1:7   ⁷ For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

The power of death has been taken from Satan, unless we give him the power and authority to do so.

When we the children of God, rise up in the knowledge of who we are and who the devil is, and what he is not, the devil will forever be under your feet.

Paul was telling believers not to fear, because fear is an evil spirit, but to believe in the power of God. This power comes from the Holy spirit, and Love and of a sound mind. A spirit of self-control all made possible by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 6:14   ¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

We must take dominion over this world, over death.

Over our environment and over the very circumstances, our circumstances.

If we are going to rule in the name of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

Do you think that Jesus is coming to this earth to reign with a group of Satan dominated, fearful, defeated saints? Remember, he is coming to rule with us not for us.

John 10:10   ¹⁰ The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

This means full of goodness and truth.

The only thing Satan can steal from you in is his own power is the word of God.  He does this by deception and lies.

It is true, that if he can steal the word of God from you, he can steal your power over him.

Your strength over Satan does not rest in what the world says… it rests in what the word says.

If you live in the word, you live in power.

If you live in the word, you rule Satan serves.

If you live in the world, you live in defeat.

If you live in the world you serve, Satan rules.

Satan can steal the word, so in that respect, he is indeed a thief.

Christians need to be careful about the biblical concept of thieves.

The bible even teaches, Jesus will come as a thief in the night.

That does not make Jesus a thief.

Be very careful about any power you attribute to Satan.

He has the power to steal from us, only if we give him the authority to do it. By himself he has no power.

The truth of the matter is, the battle we go through is in our mind. Which is the thinking part of our soul.

As long as we think that Satan is mighty and powerful, he can and will hurt you.

It is time for Christians to let God take you from a mentally defeated human, to mentally being an over coming god like Christian.

These concepts about Satan cannot enter your mind, when you are walking in the greater dimension of our God-like mental abilities and the mind of Christ.



One of the first things we need to learn is when you give something attention, you give it strength in your life.

You give Satan power when you constantly acknowledge his presence…. Quit letting him run your life.

1 John 3:7-9   ⁷ Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

⁸ He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

⁹ Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Whoever is born of God does not live a life of habitual sinning. Neither does he or she practice sin because he or she is born of God refers to the unwillingness to sin. This is the true heart of the true Christian. 

Jesus destroyed the devil’s power.

The power of death that he once had has been destroyed.

It has been wiped out.

However.

Matthew 7:15-20   ¹⁵ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

¹⁶ Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

¹⁷ Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

¹⁸ A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

¹⁹ Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

²⁰ Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

These false prophets, which come in sheep’s clothing speak just enough truth to make his lies sound convincing.

You can detect these false prophets by the way they act. Just as you can identify a tree by its fruits. A healthy tree produces good fruit, and an unhealthy tree produces bad fruit.

Each person’s actions will tell if they are Christ minded or world minded.

You can see the fruit in the lives of people. It will help you identify them. Is their fruit good or bad, or non-existent?

Verse 16 says, you shall know them by their fruits. In their every day life, the words they say.

1 John 4:1-4   Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

² Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

³ And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

⁴ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.


Don’t believe everything or every one. There are many false prophets in the world. A false prophet will tell you just enough truth so you won’t know they are deceiving you with lies.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15    ¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

¹⁴ And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

¹⁵ Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Verse 14 says, but I am not surprised, even Satan can disguise himself as an angel of light.

It is time for us to hold on to the truth of the word.

The saints must come into the truth of who they are in Christ Jesus. Before it is too late.

It is time to start walking in belief, not unbelief and doubt.