MAKING PROGRESS WITH THE SPIRIT!
Let’s take a real hard look at ourselves. Are we really looking to the Holy Spirit, leaning on and yielding to Him in order to have supernatural life flowing out of us all day long?
Living in the supernatural all day long?
Yes, God has called us to live in the supernatural - All Day Long!
Lately, that word, “supernatural,” has been lit up in front of me.
When we pray in the Spirit, what are we doing? We’re connecting to the supernatural realm of God!
When we pray in the Spirit, we are opening the door - tongues is the door to all of the Gifts of the Spirit and the workings of the Spirit of God.
We’ve kind of acted like, “Well, we’re praying in the Spirit, and we are just working hard! We’re working hard and waiting to see if God will “suddenly show up!”
I’m telling you, we have got to correct our thinking, because it is way more than praying in tongues and just hoping. The supernatural IS the place of all victory and all authority! God is looking to the Body of Christ to learn how to operate there more proficiently with all that He has provided. The baptism of the Holy Spirit gives us the divine connection to the Kingdom of Heaven and the POWER of the Holy Spirit!
That’s the door! And when we pray in the Spirit, we ARE operating in the supernatural of God. We’ve entered in! Then, as we keep praying, we’re abiding in it, and increasing in it!
And that’s the difference with people like Smith Wigglesworth, John G. Lake, Maria Woodworth-Etter, etc. They chose to live a supernatural life all of the time, by being “in the Spirit.”
As simple as it is, being in the Spirit and living in that realm and following Him, will cause everything else to flow. But, in all of these things we must add the most important ingredient of all: F-A-I-T-H!
We are to have faith as we read and meditate on the written Word of God, and we are also to release faith while we pray in the Spirit, believing that God is working all things together for the good of those who love Him (Rom. 8:28). His plans, His will, His purposes, His miracles, His healings, deliverances, signs and wonders are being performed!
In my life I never looked at prayer the same again - it switched, it changed - like a light went off!
Do you want to live in the supernatural and have everything in your life submit to the supernatural?
Do you want the Spirit, not the soulical realm, to dominate your life - to lead, guide, direct you and have the last word and say-so, all the time?
Then pray in the Spirit - all the time!
This is what prayer does. Praying in the Spirit is receiving the mind of Christ all day long, instead of only natural thinking. We always think of the written Word transforming our minds, which it does. Well, you will hear the Word of God when you invite the Holy Spirit to not only pray through you, but He will also speak to you, giving you answers, direction, wisdom, understanding, and revelation of the Word of God (John 16:13).
We want to live in the supernatural in this natural world by abiding and being full of the Spirit all day long, enabled to live in the overflow of the Spirit, the realm of God where all things are possible!
We can, on purpose, use our faith and prayers, and speak His Word to change things in our lives and in the world around us!
This is what true prayer is. It is not a religious thing. It is living and moving in the supernatural way of life!
-Helen Utegaard
