Eight Secrets To Operating In Creative Miracles(Part 1) by Matt Sorger
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By Matt Sorger
Eight Secrets To Operating
In Creative Miracles(Part 1)
by Matt Sorger
I'll never forget the moment that twelve year old girl stepped onto the platform while miracles where happening all over the stadium. The Lord had led me to pray for deaf ears to be opened. As God's presence and glory filled the atmosphere, ears that could not hear suddenly began to pop open. As testimonies came forth my team brought a young girl onto the platform. As they brushed back her long brown hair I was astonished at the sight. She was born with out ears. There were just little holes in the side of her head. As the anointing of God came upon her she could hear a popping in her ears. Suddenly as the Lord released a creative miracle, eardrums were formed on the inside of her head and her hearing was opened for the first time in her life. I knew the miracle had nothing to do with me. My part was simply to lead the people in worship until the glory came and then let God do the rest. That night in Mexico we saw many healed by God's power, even several cripples.
When I Prayed For Someone I Wanted Something to Happen.
I had first witnessed the amazing healing power of God in my mother when I was 14 years old. But over the next several years I couldn't understand why I wasn't seeing more of that same power demonstrated in weekly church life. I was tired of powerless prayers. When I prayed for someone I wanted something to happen, anything! Combined with this sense of frustration was an insatiable thirst and longing in my spirit for deeper relationship with the Holy Spirit. Two things were happening in my life as a young person; God was making me dissatisfied with the status quo and He was placing a spiritual hunger in my heart that began driving me into hours of communion with the Holy Spirit.
Over the past 20 years of learning to walk with God, He has taught me many things about living a life full of spiritual power. God has allowed me to witness the demonstration of His power thousands of times in the lives of countless people. A walk of intimacy with God along with a deep rooting in His word became the foundation from which I saw tremendous power released through my life. You can begin to operate in the Spirit the moment Christ enters your heart. You don't have to be saved 20 years before walking in God's power. I experienced many encounters and many moments of God's power during my early years as a Christian. Those encounters shaped who I am today. God's timing is perfect and His preparations are essential. Preparations don't earn the anointing, they simply enable us to carry it for the long haul.
The Power of God Flows Out of His Grace And Is Activated by Faith.
One thing I have learned about God's power and gifts is that they flow out of His grace and are activated by faith. Personal preparation in the areas of character, integrity and holiness enable you to sustain a constant flow of His power through your life. But we must always remember that He is the source and it is by His grace that we are qualified to be partakers of His heavenly glory. It really has nothing to do with our efforts or works. If it did we could take some of the credit. Since it doesn't, God gets all the glory. It is this deep inner working of character that grounds us so deep in Christ that God is able to pour an immeasurable amount of His power through our lives.
Eight Secrets
Today I want to share with you eight secrets to operating in the creative miracle power of God. If you apply these principles to your life, you can be a person who lives and sees signs and wonders released through you on a daily basis.
1. Cultivate God's presence in your life. The glory is the source of all miracles. The more you can cultivate an environment that is conducive to the Holy Spirit, the more of God's presence you will carry. The more of His presence you carry, the more power you will have. You achieve this by spending time doing whatever it takes to have the tangible Person and presence of the Holy Spirit hanging out with you. Quickly confess and repent of the slightest leaning toward sin or spiritual darkness. Pray in tongues often. Cover yourself under the blood of Jesus. Meditate in the word. Express worship to the Lord through song and prayer. Constantly invite the Holy Spirit to be with you in a tangible way as often as possible. Avoid anything that would grieve Him. You'll find that as your life is filled with the atmosphere of the Holy Spirit, miracles, signs and wonders will be a natural overflow.
2. Cultivate God's faith in your heart. True supernatural faith flows out of the spirit and affects the mind. Not the other way around. Faith defies logic and natural reality for a higher spiritual reality. It causes the natural to line up with what God has already accomplished in the spirit. We must live in the word and constantly renew our minds. Faith is born out of heart revelation. When truth is revealed to your mind and heart by the Holy Spirit through the word, faith comes alive on the inside of you. John 8:32 says "And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." Soak your mind and spirit in God's word by constantly setting your mind on it and revelation of truth will produce supernatural faith in your heart. Heart faith produced by revelation of truth is the ultimate key to operating in God's power. Heb 12:2"Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]." (Amp)
3. Add action to your faith. One thing you must understand about the power anointing is that it comes for a reason and with an intended purpose. Isa 61:1 says"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound." The power anointing for healing and miracles will only manifest if you are praying for sick people to be healed. We must be intentional in looking for opportunities where the power anointing will be needed.Faith without works is dead (James 2:20). The power anointing is given to help other people in a supernatural way and in the process reveal God's heart and nature to them. Don't allow yourself to get discouraged. You must stay focused and tenacious. No matter what you see in the natural, set your vision higher, know and understand God's will and truth and allow His faith to move you to action. This action will release the power of God and produce the miraculous.
Secrets four through eight to be continued .............
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