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Cultivate
God’s presence in your life.
The glory is the source of all miracles. A. The more you can cultivate an environment
that is conducive to the Holy Spirit, the more of God’s presence you will
carry.
B. The more of His presence you carry,
the more power you will have. You achieve this by spending time doing whatever it
takes to have the tangible Person and presence of the Holy Spirit hanging out
with you.
C. Quickly confess and repent of the
slightest leaning toward sin or spiritual darkness.
D. Pray in tongues often.
E. Cover yourself under the blood of
Jesus.
F. Meditate in the word.
G. Express worship to the Lord through
song and prayer.
H. Constantly invite the Holy Spirit to
be with you in a tangible way as often as possible.
I. Avoid anything that would grieve Him.
J. You’ll find that as your life is
filled with the atmosphere of the Holy Spirit, miracles, signs and wonders will
be a natural overflow.
A. Faith defies logic and natural reality
for a higher spiritual reality.
B. It causes the natural to line up with
what God has already accomplished in the spirit.
C. We must live in the word and
constantly renew our minds.
D. Faith is born out of heart revelation.
When truth is revealed to your mind and heart by the Holy Spirit through the
word, faith comes alive on the inside of you. John 8:32 says “And you
will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Soak your mind and
spirit in God’s word by constantly setting your mind on it and revelation of
truth will produce supernatural faith in your heart. Heart faith produced by
revelation of truth is the ultimate key to operating in God’s power. Heb
12:2 “Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the
Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief]
and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection].” (Amp)
Isa
61:1 says “The Spirit
of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me
to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those
who are bound.”
A. The power anointing for healing and
miracles will only manifest if you are praying for sick people to be healed.
B. We must be intentional in looking for
opportunities where the power anointing will be needed.
C. Faith without works is dead (James
2:20).
D. The power anointing is given to help
other people in a supernatural way and in the process reveal God’s heart and
nature to them.
E. Don’t allow yourself to get
discouraged. You must stay focused and tenacious. No matter what you see in the
natural,
F. set your vision higher, know and
understand God’s will and truth and allow His faith to move you to action.
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4. Passionately
pursue spiritual gifts. 1Cor 14:1 tells us to earnestly desire spiritual
gifts.
A. Ask the Holy Spirit to stir up and
manifest the gifts of the Spirit within you.
B. Spiritual gifts of healing, working of
miracles, the word of knowledge and the gift of faith are all invaluable
manifestations for the ministry of the miraculous.
C.As you ask God to stir them up, He
will. The gifts of the Spirit are called in Greek “charisma” and are defined as
“gifts of grace; a favor with which one receives without any merit of his own.”
D.(Strong’s Concordance) They are a
manifestation of God’s grace.
E. You can not work for or earn them.
F. They are given freely by the Holy
Spirit just like salvation is.
G.The more you pursue them, the more you
will have them. And you can have all of them!
5. Practice
prayer and fasting. There was an instance in the Bible where the disciples
could not cure an epileptic boy in Mt 17:16. When Jesus was questioned
about this He said the reason was because of the disciples’ little faith. It
wasn’t a question of God’s will. Nor did Jesus focus on the boy’s faith. It was
the level of faith in the disciples’ heart.
A. But also factoring in was the element
of prayer and fasting.
B. There is a place in prayer and fasting
where your flesh and natural mind become so subject to the heart and mind of
God that His faith replaces your doubt.
C. Prayer and fasting help release God’s
faith within us.
D. It’s His faith within us that produces
the miracle, not the fasting. Fasting and prayer in this instance serves as the
passageway into the fullness of faith that exists in God’s heart.
E. Again, it is not by our works, but by
His faith and grace extended towards us.
6. Learn
to hear God’s voice.
A.To operate in the supernatural we must
develop a keen sensitivity to the Person of the Holy Spirit.
B. God
does not work in cookie cutter formulas and He doesn’t work the same way all the
time! This can be frustrating, but it’s true. We see this even in the life of
Jesus. He saw signs and wonders on a consistent basis in His daily life.
C. But
He rarely prayed the same way for each person.
D.
Sometimes He laid hands on people,
F. sometimes He instructed them to take a
specific action,
G. sometimes He even did some very
unusual things, like spit in mud and put it into people’s eyes.
H. He was very unconventional and very
Spirit led. The key here is He did only what He saw His Father doing. (John
5:19)
I. This ability to hear and see the
actions of His heavenly Father came out of the time He spent with Him in prayer
and communion.
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J. If we are to sensitize our spiritual
eyes and ears, we must put ourselves in a place where we can see and hear God.
K. This will often require you to pull
away into a “deserted place” so you can place all your heart and mind on Him.
When you exercise your spiritual senses by learning to listen and not just
talk, you will be led by the Spirit to see wonderful manifestations of His
power.
7. Associate
with the anointing.
A. Don’t be afraid to go where God is
moving and get touched,
B. Some people believe “Well, if God
wants to give me something He can come right here into my room. I don’t need to
go anywhere.” Of course God can meet us in our own room and many times He does.
C.However, that does not negate the fact
that you can literally “catch” the anointing by putting yourself in a place
where God is moving.
D.Find people and ministries that are
carrying God and get around them.
E. We learn from each other and receive
impartation of power through association.
F. These corporate encounters with God do
not replace our hidden devotion expressed in the place of private prayer.
G.They simply add to and enhance our
relationship with God.
H.LIKE IRON SHARPENS IRON. PROV. 27:17,
AS IRON SHARPENS IRON, SO ONE MAN SHARPENS ANOTHER.”
8. Be
motivated by love.
A. A factor I believe to be the most crucial
one of all and maybe the greatest missing ingredient is love.
B. Jesus was moved with compassion and
healed their sick. (Mt 14:14)
C.We are powerless without the love of
God shed abroad in our hearts.
D.Love must be the foundation for
everything we do.
E. It must be the foundation for our
desire for spiritual power.
F. With out love power can lead to pride
and self inflation.
G.Really with out the love of God in our
hearts for people, the power is empty. (1 Cor 13:2)
H.Love is actually the greatest
manifestation of God’s power. It was because of love that Jesus walked in total
obedience. It was because of love that the power of sin and satan was defeated.
I. It is by love that we lay our lives
down for each other.
J. Love is what motivates our faith (Gal
5:6).
K. Love is what causes us to live in the
Spirit.
L. Love is the greatest virtue of all.
M. Without faith you can’t please God.
But without love you can’t know Him at all.
N.Love filled with truth is the ultimate
spiritual weapon against sin, temptation, offense, disunity, sickness,
oppression and spiritual corruption and death.
O.Love conquers all.
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