Naturally Supernatural

We are currently in the process of recovering from a four-day conference that happened at our church - Naturally Supernatural. We had some incredible, truth-filled teaching from Christy Wimber and we saw God move in power and might, and mercy and peace. We saw physical healing and a beautiful depth of emotional healing, amid an outpouring of His Spirit and under the glorious weight of His presence. There were tears and there were hearts breaking for the brokenness of the world, and I would rate those four days as being among the best in my life to date. 


I completely love getting my hands on people and seeing God bring healing and anointing - it speaks to me of what church is about. We are there to worship God and have fellowship with one another, and to be made whole through those things. The church needs to be a people of hope, pursuing wholeness and healing, so that those who don't know Jesus yet can see something about us that is different. Yes, we are broken and we mess up, but we know that there is grace for that, and that gives us hope. The gifts of the Spirit are for the church, yes, but they are also for the church to take out into the world. Describing the blessing that a prayer, a word of knowledge, a word of encouragement, a word of Yes, I see you could bring goes beyond my ability. We are called to move in the power of the Spirit inside the walls of the church, and out of them. Maybe it'll take a gust of Holy Spirit to take down those walls once and for all and see the people of God released into the world to bring light there. Light and truth and love. 


The conference was amazing; that I have no qualms in saying. There is something about conferences, though, that gets me a little itchy in my skin. At a conference, faith and expectancy levels are high, and they rise, and Jesus walks in the room, and they rise some more. The moves of the Holy Spirit build and lives are changed, and then the conference ends. So-called real life beckons and we return to the normal of praying-for-a-headache-and-not-expecting-anything-really. The sneaky lies that God does not want to heal come back, despite the fact that I want to see that lie smushed. I want to live out the point of the conference - to live naturally supernaturally, and to know that His heart is always to heal and restore, and to always expect Him to move. This is not about four days. This has to be about life.