Category: Hearing from God

Exploring Your New Normal . . . (Book Release!)

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“I am doing a new thing!” God tells us in Isaiah 43:19! He did on Pentecost (Acts 2), and He’s doing a new thing in so many of you – empowering you by His Spirit for supernatural works! This should be normal. That’s why I WROTE THE BOOK, “Making the Supernatural Normal”.

Here’s the premise:

  • Being empowered by the Spirit of God for supernatural works is remarkably amazing! It also . . .
  • Requires agreement on your part with Holy Spirit’s work in you! It also . . .
  • Can be your new normal way of life with God! And . . .
  • Requires exploring all that God has for you!

The point is – THERE’S MORE! Here is your next step in exploring your new normal and the more that God has for you . . .

I’m OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCING the release of my book “Making the Supernatural Normal”! This is a comprehensive guide showing you how God ruined me in the best way for ever doing church and life boring. I am compelled constantly to see God do what ONLY HE can do in my world! The book will show you next steps in growth in the supernatural.

Making the Supernatural Normal means . . . Normal, as in, not weird . . . Normal, as in, consistent in occurrence . . . and Normal, as in, outside the church. Whatever we do pushing toward the supernatural in the church, needs to look, feel and smell like it would at Walmart or Starbucks. That’s how Jesus did it. This book is an inroads to practicing the supernatural for people who have not done it much.

Purchase the book today in book, kindle or audio format at . . . https://tinyurl.com/SupNormal. I want all of you to read it – I truly believe it’s the upgrade you need! Listen to more info and how it serves small groups and churches here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6bIIQYhDic.

Enjoy your new normal!!!

The Most Important Skill in Developing Discernment with God

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“I’m not crying, you’re crying,” as happy tears run down both our faces. Remember I’m a sympathetic crier – haha. God had given me a picture of a flower (a Jack in the Pulpit, to be exact). Then I described what I felt like God was saying through that picture and it hit so deeply to the heart that water works started and so much long-term fruit as well. 5 years later it’s still bearing fruit. So, how did I know God was speaking to me? Why was I confident that I was sharing something from God and not just my head? The short answer – discernment. Discerning between spirits (1 Cor 12:10) – human spirit, demonic spirits or Holy Spirit.

If you’ve felt like you heard from God before in your life – you’ve used this gift. It may have been direction from God – He led you to your spouse, or to a job, or to our church, but it produced good fruit in your life, therefore, you have reason to believe it was God, not you. It may have been a picture from God that gave you hope when hope seemed lost – fruitful. This may possibly be the most important skill in my journey of developing discernment with God. That skill is . . .

Reverse engineering a fruitful encounter with God. What!?!? Let me explain . . . You feel like you hear from God. You try something based on that. It produces good fruit. Maybe amazing fruit. That means you have reason to believe that this encounter with God was genuine.

How do you reverse engineer a fruitful encounter with God? I would start with a few questions when looking back on the time that you received the word or picture from God that produced good fruit.

  1. How did I feel at the moment I received that communication from God? Take a snapshot in your spirit of that moment, remember the sights and sounds around it.
  2. What, that day, led up to that encounter with God? How was my day going before the encounter? What had I done, said? How had I spent my time?
  3. What, in that season of life, led up to that encounter with God? How was my prayer life, church life, Bible study, etc.? How was my heart? How recently had I repented of sin?

When you see clearly the circumstance that spawned authentic encounters with God in the past in your life, that will give you clues as to how to repeat them. It will also help you to discern ahead of time better when they’re happening again. This speaks to your personal history with God. I cannot pray and impart this to you. You have to forge this in your own prayer life. This is a pursuit I intend to continue growing in the rest of my life personally.

Pray this prayer with me, “Lord, I want to hear and know Your voice. God, that Your voice would be so clear and obvious to me that I would catch it the first time, and act on it, giving Your goodness away to my world. Train me Lord. In Jesus name, Amen.”