Barbara sent this to me this week. It is so encouraging I wanted to share it. Lovingly beverly
THE SUPERNATURAL YOU By Brenda Kunneman
"What a mess!" my husband and I kept saying again and again as we threw our hands in the air. We spent the entire day going through old boxes of things we had collected over the years. We found countless things we forgot we owned. We found old magazines, yearbooks, pictures and keepsakes. Then we came to the boxes of things we had saved from our early years together of marriage and ministry. After some sorting, I found it. It was a piece of paper from a time in our lives when it seemed that our dreams for the future were crumbling one by one. A prayer list we had made. Some of the items on the list were immediate needs that existed at the time, while others were larger dreams and things we were asking God to do in the years to come, much of which would take an absolute miracle to accomplish. The day we wrote it out we hung that long list of seemingly impossible requests on our refrigerator. Every day we walked by it, and would place our hands on it and pray. We spoke aloud each time, reminding the Lord we were expecting miracles. We quoted the Scriptures we were trusting in regard to it. We declared that each item would come to pass and we would see the hand of God move. We spoke over the list believing for God's intervention, even when it felt like we weren't seeing it.Shortly thereafter, we moved to a different house and packed up that list of prayer requests. A few moves and nearly two decades of marriage later, I read that list again written almost 20 years ago. My eyes filled with tears as I read it. God has not only answered the seemingly small things, but over the years He had also answered every item on the list, way beyond even what we wrote down. He even answered the things that seemed impossible. I was reminded of all the miracles that we had seen during the last several years. We had seen the power of God revealed from heaven again and again. The things we had seen God do were nothing short of miraculous and it was mostly all related to what was on the list! We were not only reminded of God's enduring faithfulness but every time we were putting our hand on the list taped to the fridge we were releasing the power of God to work on our behalf. The supernatural God inside us was releasing miracles; a river was flowing and bringing the answer and it didn't stop flowing until every request was answered, even though we didn't realize it was happening at the time. I have learned from this experience not only that God but the supernatural God lives in us. He wants His supernatural power to flow through us to accomplish the miraculous and do the impossible in our circumstances. Maybe what we have yet to realize is that the power of God is already there. It's in you in the person of the Holy Spirit ready to work and ready to flow (see Acts 1:8). When the fullness of God's Spirit is in you, there is power, and it's the same power that performed the miracle of raising Jesus Christ from the dead (see Rom. 8:11). Tap into that power and watch Him do the miraculous for and through you.
Adapted from The Supernatural You by Brenda Kunneman, copyright 2009, published by Charisma House.
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