It's Supernatural

MICHAEL BROWN: It’s all a true story. I was 16 years old. I had taken enough hallucinogenic drugs for 30 people. And I thought I was losing my mind. It was one in the morning. I was in the neighborhood where I grew up. I was sitting by the side of the road then I said, “I’m burning in hell!” I thought this is just terrible! I felt like I was thought I was losing my mind, all these drugs in my system. Way too much for a human being to take. And I decided I’m going to end it all. I’m going to do like they do in the movies. I’m going to jump out in the road and I’m going to throw myself in front of a car. And I’m going to end it. So I saw a car coming around the corner. I jumped out in front of the car, threw my hands in the air. The car came to a screeching halt! It was my parents. Someone had seen me on the road. They got worried. They went and told my parents what was going on. My parents were looking for me. If not for them being the ones coming around that corner I wouldn’t be here telling you my story more than 46 years later.

You say, “But, weren’t you a good Jewish kid?” Yeah! My dad was the senior lawyer in the New York Supreme Court, Bar Mitzvah’d 13 years old. I was basically a good normal kid, playing sports with my friends, going to school, but, you know the big event for me when I was 13? It wasn’t my Bar Mitzvah, I gotta be honest. The big event for me, I saw Jimi Hendrix in concert! Yeah, I went to the rock concerts. I was playing drums in a rock band. I had long hair. I was a hippie kid and it was the whole culture of the 60s and break all the rules. And I wanted to be like these rock stars so I started smoking pot, one thing lead to another before you knew it, I was doing heavy drugs. Before you knew it I was doing so many drugs that became my nickname: drug bear, iron man. Because I could do more drugs than anybody. Well this night I took too many. But, you know, the next day I thought look at me. I did it. I survived. Look at how much drugs I can take and live to talk about it. But I had friends who were praying for me. They’d had a new spiritual experience. They had come to know God personally. This one called Jesus, Yayshu, Yeshua. He had radically changed their lives and they started praying for me and God started to work in my life. I didn’t want to change. I liked the lifestyle I was leading. I wanted to be a rockstar, I wanted to be a drummer. I wanted to get high. But God showed me I was sinning against Him. And God showed me that Jesus died to take my place. And when I cried out to Yeshua, when I asked God to forgive me, he set me free. December 17^th, 1971. I said I will never put a needle in my arm again and from that day on I’ve been free. Oh, not just that, my whole life is changed, filled with joy, filled with love. I know God personally. I live 24/7 without guilt, without shame. That’s what Jesus, Yeshua, did in my life. He wants to do the same for you. If you’ll ask God to change you. He’ll meet you. He’ll have mercy on you. He’ll give you a new heart.

Can you say that with me?  Accomplish His will on the earth.  Amen.  So important, not your will; His will be done.  Well, what I want to do is let’s look at what is the will of God because it’s, I think significant to recognize, I think it was brother Hagan that taught me this; but faith begins where the will of God is known.  So for you to get out of the tank, the limited atmosphere, the environment that you’ve lived in and go into the bigness of God’s sea with unlimited ability, no boundaries; you have to have again, the foundation.  What is God’s will?  So if you know God’s will then again, you can operate in faith and that’s what we want to do.  Again, laying the foundation here for the operation of the gifts of the Spirit.  So what I’ve done here and we’re going to look at this in a bit more detail, but I’ve listed here, five “I will’s” and I thought, “Oh no” because that was Satan’s downfall, his five “I will’s” in Isaiah 14 and then God came back with His five “I will’s”, but these are five, what I see, “I will’s”.  This is God’s will for you and I.  That when we know the will of God, again, faith can operate.  So, what is His will?  Well, number one, to do what Jesus did and greater.  To have a life and have it more abundant.  I’m going to look at that in a minute here.  We’ll go through each one of these individually, but that’s what Jesus said, “I come that you might have life and have it more abundant” and that His will be done on earth.  Remember that, the Lord’s Prayer, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”?  And then to have dominion on the earth, and then to reign in life.  Again, as I was putting this PowerPoint together, I don’t usually do this, but this morning as I was ministering I recognized I forgot one of the most important of all of the “I will’s”.  God’s will for your life.  Again, when you know His will, then you can begin to operate at a higher level because you know His will.  Well, I left out in my list here, one of the most important “I will’s” and that is from Timothy, and Paul writing to Timothy, and Paul said to Timothy, “God’s will is no man perish”.  He will’s for all men to get saved, amen?  I’m not sure how I missed that in my list here, but that is probably the number one will.  That’s why Jesus came as the Messiah.  John 3:16, “…whoever believes in Him would have everlasting life”, amen?  So, His will is that people don’t die.  His will is that people go to heaven and one of the ways that you’re going to rescue people out of the New Age and out of the occult and out of different cults and groups is by the demonstration of the gifts of the Spirit.

My personal belief is, we have yet to see the greater works.  As great as all the signs and wonders and miracles did, I honestly believe that as I have prayed, in particularly over these last four months as I have really said OK God what are we doing here?  Where are we going?  And what I know that I know is God wants you to know how to walk in the supernatural.  And I honestly believe with all of my heart, we haven’t scratched the surface of our potential; of the reality of what God wants to accomplish here on planet earth in these closing pages of history.  But I do believe this, I believe that the way that God is orchestrating, the way He’s had me put this together in kind of a different format as opposed to teaching the basic, you know, get saved, get baptized with the Holy Ghost and understand the gifts of the Spirit.  I’m approaching here from a whole different paradigm and that is helping you to understand the principles and precepts with faith, the will of God and understanding how God works.  So that then, with that as a foundation, we can now bring in the gifts of the Holy Spirit and you’re going to operate at a much higher level.  Praise God.  And I’ll tell you this, just as kind of a peek into the future, the gifts of the Spirit are just the beginning of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.  Glory to God.  Now I want to show you something from the Word of God in terms of the miracles that Jesus did.  We have in the Bible, as recorded in the Bible, approximately thirty-five miracles, depending on how you count miracles.  If you count the miracle of the miraculous birth, we account the ascension; some say upwards of forty miracles.  Actually there’s some miracles, we’re going to get back to this in a few minutes here, but there are some miracles that aren’t even accounted that in my opinion are some of the most significant miracles, and again, we’ll come back to that.  But, when we look at the miracles that we have, we need to look at them categorically.  As an example, the very first miracle that Jesus did was turning the water to wine.  Well, people might say, “Well that’s not a miracle that we need much today because I don’t drink” or “Who needs wine?”   Well, the greater miracle is what happened in the miracle and what we see in this miracle is molecular change.  Glory to God.  Jesus turned the water into wine.  Now what’s interesting about this, as again, as we dig into this and a little bit in this study, but we’re going to be looking at the science of the miraculous, the science of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.  Because again, if you can understand the simplicity from a scientific perspective and understand that God works within the laws of creation; which I’ll come back to, I’m getting a little ahead of myself here.  But God works within the laws of creation to accomplish His will.

You’re also going to find this: as you begin to incorporate the gifts of the Spirit, it is the greatest joy you are ever going to have.  There is nothing in my opinion more rewarding than to know you made a difference in somebody’s life.  And again, through this teaching and so often when we think about teaching on the gifts of the Spirit, we think about jumping right into the various elements of the gifts of the Spirit, the specific gifts, and we are going to be doing that.  But most importantly here, my desire is that over the course of the study, multiple sessions here, tentatively eight of them; you are going to learn how to incorporate this into your life.  And as you do, as you’re at the mall, as you’re at work, as you’re cutting your grass, meeting a neighbor, sitting next to a fellow student; you are going to have opportunity to demonstrate.  People need to see the reality of a miracle working God.  And as you allow God to do this through you, and as you again learn how to do it naturally, you are going to have person after person tell you thank you, thank you, thank you.  And I’ll tell you this, only the halls of eternity are truly going to reflect all that you did every day as you are walking in the supernatural with the gifts of the Holy Spirit.  Learning this, learning the gifts of the Holy Spirit makes doing what Jesus did a reality.  Now we are going to be digging into this verse in John 14:12 where Jesus says, “we are going to do what he did and greater”, but for most people it’s just kind of out there; it’s kind of like “yeah that sounds good”.  But what you are going to discover is that it is God’s desire for you to do what Jesus did.  Through this course, through this study you are going to recognize it’s real.  Actually, one of the things you are going to find out is God’s reality is your reality.  And just as God operates in the supernatural, we are going to teach you through this course how to live and operate in the supernatural, that God’s reality is your reality.  Your whole paradigm, your shift of thinking is going to be that of the miraculous, the supernatural, looking for an opportunity every moment of every day to allow the Holy Spirit to work through you, just as He did through Jesus.  Amen.  Literally, I believe this:  the operation of the Holy Spirit, and that’s what we’re really looking at here, is the foundation to the church.  We look at the early church and we look at the book of Acts; it’s amazing.  When you go through the book of Acts, one of the things you will discover is you begin to look for the operation of the gifts of the Spirit.  The operation of the Spirit, the operation of the supernatural.

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LaDONNA:    And so Kadimoo he got up and took off the car tire pads that he had on his knees. And he ran and he ran from way at the back all the way around this massive crowd and came up on the platform to give testimony. I mean the man was wild. The people all knew him. And when they saw him of course they went wild too. But here’s what he did. He had on these dirty shorts and a dirty shirt and his eyes were just… imagine, you can imagine! He came over to where my father was and he grabbed the microphone and, and, he went right to the edge. I remember this platform where they had a bannister and he leaned over that bannister and he began to shake that microphone and he says: It’s true! It’s true! It’s true! He’s alive! He’s alive! He’s alive. If he were not alive, how can he heal me? Believe it! He’s alive! Believe it! He’s alive! The greatest sermon that could ever be preached! Jesus is alive and here is the proof! Hallelujah!

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LaDONNA:    But you see that was God’s love. That was just God’s love. Be encouraged by that. Because so often we’re, we’re told the formulas to receive healing. We have to, you know, be so perfect. Be sure you went to church last Sunday and be sure you’ve paid your tithes, and be sure you went to the last prayer meeting and be sure you’ve memorized all the healing scriptures and, and be sure you say the prayer just right, I mean pray to the right one, and, and be sure and say it in the right name and, and do it in the right posture. And I don’t know if you need to sing a little first or whatever, but be sure and get it right. No, no, no, no! God is love. And He wants to heal. He wants to help. He wants to provide. He wants to reverse. He wants to comfort. He wants to bring solution. He wants to meet our needs. God’s love is His greatest power. Well, what is Satan’s greatest power? Now here’s it gets interesting. Satan’s greatest power is “the lie.” That’s his power. Look at, look at this. I’m reading to you from John, chapter 8. See from the very beginning in the garden when Satan the… symbolizes the serpent crept into that garden where he did not belong, he began to discuss with Eve, and you know the story, the first thing Satan said was “did God really say that?” Now there’s an important clue. Because he will come questioning God’s word. When you hear that breath of questioning God’s word you can know immediately who he is and you know what to do about him. So that has been his tactic. The next thing he said was “um, um, you won’t lie.” So in that conversation his questioning God’s word went directly to contradicting God’s word and that’s the way it is with us. You see Satan has no power over our lives when we’ve given our lives to Jesus. Do you believe that?