Most of us are knee deep or waste deep in the glory of God. There are some who are only ankle deep, and they've just been introduced to it. We are now finding that God wants to do healings on a regular basis. We are even seeing more resurrections from the dead lately. They've been reported by people at the Lakeland, Florida outpouring and have even made the news in some places (I've posted one here on the Holy Uprisings blog recently).
But God wants us to go in this deep. We need to get to a point where we're swimming in the glory, where it goes over our heads.
When I first started swimming, I was afraid of the deep end of the pool. I was not confident in my ability to swim, and was afraid that if I made one mistake, I would drown. But over time, I would find I could swim just fine in the deep end. Quite frankly, I do prefer to be in the place where it's not over my head, maybe about neck-deep.
But when it comes to the glory of God, we need it to go over our heads. Jesus said in the Bible that we would do greater things than he did. The healings and resurrections from the dead are nothing that Jesus didn't do. We haven't even begun to see, on a regular basis, other people walk through walls, be supernaturally transported, etc etc on a regular basis. Jesus did those things too. And greater things we would do.
We're afraid, I think. We're afraid to take that risk. But that's what faith is, a risk. And it's impossible to please God without faith.
What's there to be afraid of? Probably rejection from others, both in the world and the church, because the church has taught that a lot of this stuff isn't for today or isn't biblical, or we're just plain crazy because we believe in the impossible.
OK, now I've got something to say about some things not being biblical. If something is happening that goes against what scripture says, it's not biblical. But there's a lot of stuff out there that some claim is not biblical, but the fact is it doesn't go against the Bible. Also, I've heard it said by some that the Bible comes first, and the holy spirit comes second. The problem I have with that statement is it's the holy spirit who authored the Bible in the first place, through people. It's the holy spirit, that part of the trinity (God) who defined the Bible. The Bible doesn't define God. And in the Bible it even says Jesus did so many works that it couldn't be contained in books; the world couldn't handle it. I do believe the Bible is the written word of God, and it's inerrant. I won't argue against that. The holy spirit is not going to contradict his word, which he wrote. He may, however, contradict your understanding of it. But it doesn't mean that certain things that come up that don't show up in the Bible are wrong. Otherwise, all Christians should be against automobiles, computers, etc etc and I shouldn't even be blogging, because those things are not biblical. A lot of people have a problem with Todd Bentley talking about portals, certain angels (like an angel of finance, for example), etc etc. There's nothing in the Bible, however, that speaks against that. Now I wouldn't make any doctrines out of this stuff, but I don't have a problem believing that there may be an angel of finance and that portals exist. None of the stuff Todd has taught, from the understanding I have of the word (which isn't perfect, but neither is your understanding of the word) and the personal relationship I have with God, contradicts the scriptures.
Anyway, what Todd Bentley is doing in Lakeland, Florida is just scratching the surface of where God wants to take us. You're going to see greater things than this, and we're going to be swimming in the glory.
Just one last note, everything must be birthed out of love. OK, what's walking through walls, being supernaturally transported, etc etc have to do with love? When you get a gift from someone, if you love them, you're probably going to receive it. The father wants to give us the capability to do these things. We receive this because we love God. And these gifts are very useful to love others was well. If someone is trapped inside a building, and there's no way in, to save that person, you're going to have to walk through walls. If a disaster happens somewhere, and you want to help and would help but don't have the means to get there, but God wants you to be there, that's a good case for a supernatural transportation, and it's birthed in love. So don't think I'm saying this just so Christians can wow people. There are practical uses for this kind of stuff.
I may post some more stuff on this later. I also want to get into some controversial stuff here, that I'm sure not everyone will agree with, but I want to do some more studying on it first.
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