“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God” (Romans 12:2).
It has become normal to hear the sounds
of Heavenly instruments playing wherever I go, all throughout the
day.
I has become normal to hear angels
harmonizing with us while we worship.
It has become normal to see armies of
angels standing in front, behind, and on either side of us when we
pray.
It has become normal to experience
God’s presence EVERYWHERE.
It has become normal to hear God’s
voice audibly.
It has become normal to not just read
the book of Acts, but to LIVE the book of Acts.
It has become normal to see the
manifest presence of the Holy Spirit descending over us when we
worship Him.
It has become normal to have our eyes
so fixed on God, that we become completely unaware of ourselves.
It has become normal to say things we
ourselves did not think to say; to pray things we ourselves did not
think to pray; to sing songs we ourselves did not write.
It has become normal to pray in a
Heavenly language.
It has become normal to weep
uncontrollably over the things that grieve the Holy Spirit.
It has become normal to fall madly in
love with complete strangers.
It has become normal to be the ones
telling the stories of God’s love and power, and not the ones hearing
about them.
It has become normal to break out into
side-splitting laughter with the joy of the Holy Spirit.
It has become normal to believe in AND
TO SEE healing and deliverance.
It has become normal to see the harvest
of our labor.
It has become normal to fight alongside
our brothers and sisters with a fiercely INTENSE love.
It has become normal to be contagious,
and to INFECT TRUTH wherever we go.
It has become normal to live a life of
BOLD FAITH.
It has become normal to walk in our
callings and our giftings.
It has become normal to cry out for
more of God, and then to receive it.
It has become normal to live a life of
expectancy, excitement, and hope.
It has become normal to be Holy Spirit
filled, Holy Spirit led, and Holy Spirit empowered.
It has become normal to live in the
everyday miraculous.
It has become normal to actively pursue
“Your Kingdom Come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in
Heaven.”
It has become normal to break loose
from all chains and bondage and step into a life of COMPLETE FREEDOM!
It has become normal to have
significance, purpose, and destiny.
I have come to realize that the
“normal” Christian life means miracles, spiritual intervention,
and revelation. I have come to realize that the “normal”
Christian life means having an appetite for the impossible that
cannot be ignored, wished away, or satisfied by anything else. I
have come to realize that the “normal” Christian life means
continuous encounters with the incomparable power of Holy Spirit. I
have come to realize that there is SO MUCH MORE than what we can only
see, hear, touch, taste, and smell in the natural realm. I have come
to realize that NOTHING satisfies my heart like seeing so-called
“impossibilities” bow to the name of Jesus.
Anything less than all of these things
is ABNORMAL and unfulfilling.
God has given me fresh Kingdom eyes to
see what “normal” Christian living ought to be.
I can’t ever go back to living a stale,
unsatisfying and hollow Christian life. I can’t ever go back to who
I was. This has become my normal.
“It is unnatural
for a Christian to not have an appetite for the impossible.”
-Bill Johnson
