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The Normal Christian Life Series
Contributed by Willem Nel on May 17, 2014 (message contributor)
Summary: Bill Johnson says: It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.
The Normal Christian Life
Bill Johnson It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.
Scripture:
1 John 4:1-4 (NASB Updated)
"By this you know the Spirit of God:
every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;
and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.”
1 John 4:1-4 (NASB Updated)
"You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. "
John14:15-17,NIV
15 “If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.”
But you will receive power when
the Holy Spirit comes on you; and
you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in
all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of
the earth."
Gal 3:3
How can you be so foolish! You began by God’s Spirit; do you now want to finish by your own power?
1. He PAID THE SAME PRICE for Healing and Salvation
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
GOD DECLARES HE iS OUR HEALER
God is by nature a healing God. Satan, on the other hand, has come to kill, steal, and destroy; but Jesus says, “I have come that you might have life, abundantly.” In Ex. 15:26, God says, “I am the Lord that heals you.”
2. Christ in you
Blind woman
Man with back pain
lady with headache
Gout man with
Lady with Cancer
Col 1:27 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
The Mirror Translation (Kindle)
Thus is the essence and focus of our message; we awaken every man’s mind, instructing every individual by bringing them into full understanding (flawless clarity) in order that we may prove (present) everyone perfect in Christ.
Why we are so passionate about healing
Powerlessness: Unnecessary and Unbalanced
I'm not impressed with anyone's life unless they have integrity. But I'm not happy with their life until they are dangerous.1 As much as I have the ability to do so, I'll not let those around me get away with just being nice people!
I must be willing to fail to succeed - Randy Clark
Many believers have made it their primary goal in life to be well- respected citizens of their communities. Good character enables us to be solid contributors to society, but most of what is recognized as a Christian lifestyle can be accomplished by people who don't even know God. Every believer should be highly respected AND MORE. It's the and more part that we're often lacking.
While character must be at the heart of our ministries, power revolutionizes the world around us. Until the Church returns to Jesus' model for true revolutionaries, we will continue to be recognized by the world merely as nice people—while it is overcome with disease and torment, on its way to hell.
Some Christians actually have considered it to be more noble to choose character over power. But we must not separate the two. It is an unjustifiable, illegitimate choice. Together they bring us to the only real issue—obedience.
Bill Johnson- Heaven invades earth
TESTIMONY
Fed ex man-
ALTAR CALL:
Minister to the sick
“When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn’t demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.”
