Radical Reformation

Change your mind, change your perspective … funny how the whole process starts with the way we think. The battle really is between our ears. If we could ever seize the reality of this fact and alter the way we think about the Kingdom, we would begin to see through the eyes of heaven (the superior reality) and not through our natural eyes (the inferior reality). This would clearly change our perspective. Once we begin to see from the perspective of heaven … ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven’ (Matthew 6:10) … you will naturally have an appetite for the impossible.  You begin to see with supernatural eyes into the realm of Heaven for the answer.  Heaven has all the resources for us to fulfill the destiny and plan for the Church to preach the gospel to the poor, heal the sick, raise the dead and set the captive free. Only when the Kingdom of God collides with the situation will we see the works of darkness overwhelmed and lives changed. The greatest mystery of this is that Father God has chosen to limit Himself to the Body of Christ. The normal Christian life is poised between what we presently understand and the unfolding revelation that comes from the realm of mystery. God is God; but He has chosen to work through the Church to impact the world.

Kingdom vision is encouraging and energizing. It focuses our faith and is released with the permission of our mind. Our minds must be transformed from the earthly, natural, and reasonable thinking that holds faith back to heavenly thinking that releases us to Kingdom living. The Kingdom is infinite, encompassing and challenges the mind of man to ‘repent because the Kingdom of God is at hand’ (Matthew 3:2). The challenge is a mandate to accept the eternal and infinite rule of God as normal in our everyday life … revival become a lifestyle and the Kingdom goes where we go. Faith becomes an action verb, things happen, darkness is pushed back, lives are changed … aren’t we tired of talking about a Gospel of power and seeing no demonstration of it?

The challenge before us is to give ourselves completely to the full purpose of God by allowing our mind to be transformed … our thinking altered, the way we see things radically repositioned. This shift will grant us access to a supernatural life style that will challenge us to do greater works … do you believe this? If you don’t then you need to change your perspective. This reformation in the way we think will put us in a position where the reality of heaven comes crashing into earthly problems and simply overwhelms them. The results are astonishing miracles, great victories over the power of darkness, healing, deliverance, revelation … just a normal, authentic daily life style for the believer … affliction and darkness are completely vanquished. Kingdom reality annihilates earthly affliction. What a revolutionary way to live or is it just a return to the authentic. We must begin to see through the eyes of heaven to understand that it is God’s intention for His church to be actively involved in the main activity of the Kingdom … defeating the works of darkness. There must be eagerness within the believer to return to the word and believe that we are called to a life of miracles, spiritual intervention, revelation, peace, joy, love and a sense of well-being and purpose. There is an appetite for the impossible that cannot be ignored … it’s just built into our DNA. Our hearts know that there is much more to life than what we perceive with our senses … see, smell, taste, touch, and hear. We are spiritually agitated by the lack of connection with the real of the supernatural. The bottom line for the believer is seeing the impossible bow to the name of Jesus … anything less is abnormal and unfulfilling.

Bad teaching and disappointment have robbed many people of this reality. We must allow the Spirit of wisdom to draw out the deep things of our hearts. Today we live in an unprecedented hour where the church is hungering for and stepping into her destiny to fulfill the purposes of God for mankind on earth. The most amazing part of all this is we get to be part of it. The normal Christian life begins with the fundamental principle that we (the body of Christ) were put here to do the will of God on earth as it is in heaven.