… It had been a wonderful Sunday evening in the presence of God. When everything was finished—prayer, worship, teaching, and the time spent asking God for miracles—one of my staff members walked out of the sanctuary into the hallway and saw a man jumping up and down, saying, “Oh my God, oh my God!” His pants seemed too big for him, and he was holding them up so they wouldn’t fall around his ankles.

He was confused, but he knew that God must have done something. When we asked around, we learned that the man had been healed that night after receiving prayer. The tumors he had come with had instantly disappeared. He had come from a neighboring state because the doctors had only given him two weeks to live.

In his mind, we were his last stop on the way to heaven or the way to a miracle. He entered the sanctuary, where he kept jumping for joy, completely healed and in desperate need of a new wardrobe. How did this happen? The Kingdom of God had come crashing into his situation and completely overwhelmed him. It was another great night and another great victory over the enemy. That same weekend, a woman drove to our church from two states away because she had difficulty breathing. Doctors had discovered what they believed to be lung cancer. Her family had to help her into the building.

After receiving prayer, she left pain-free, able to breathe without any restriction. Once again, the reality of the Kingdom overcame the earthly affliction.

Is this normal? Absolutely! But is it common in today’s church? Not yet. But God is changing the way Christians think about the so-called impossible. He is teaching us to work hand in hand with the Kingdom so that the reality of heaven crashes into earthly problems and overwhelms them.

The results are astonishing miracles, great victories over the enemy, healing, deliverance, revelation, and more. This isn’t hype; it’s not a baseless hope or theory. It’s a fact.

The two stories I shared above are real situations where affliction was completely defeated by the reality of the Kingdom, and there are many more that I will share throughout this book. Many churches are witnessing the miraculous on a weekly, even daily, basis.

As you can imagine, this is a revolutionary approach to Christian living, a return to authenticity. I wish I could say that I have always lived in the miraculous daily, but I haven’t. I’ve been a pastor for decades, but I didn’t see miracles for most of that time. I believed in healing and deliverance, but neither I nor the people I led prayed for them successfully.

We had the right doctrine but not the right practice. However, a few years ago, God began to take us on a journey, giving us a fresh perspective on the Kingdom to see what a normal Christian life should be like.

Having missed out on much of the Kingdom’s main activity for so long, we were eager to return to God’s original plan on this earth. It has been a wonderful learning experience!

This text is an excerpt from the book “The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind” written by Bill Johnson.

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