How amazing is it that we have access to these testimonies that were recorded so early in history? On page 88 Tony Cooke highlights the story of a professor who experienced the transforming power of God the very moment he heard Romans 13:13-14, “Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkeness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lusts”
Professor Augustine wrote,
“For instantly, as the sentence ended, there was infused in my heart something like the light of full certainty and all the gloom of doubt vanished away.”
What a miracle! A man described as “sensual” and who had no knowledge of the Word of God instantly was transformed. With the reading of the Word, His spiritual eyes were opened to truth and he no longer had any doubt. Much later in his life, He shared that he had witnessed so many miracles that they were too many to record.
As we near the return of the Lord I believe that we will witness an even greater manifestation of the supernatural. Eyes being opened and hearts being turned to serve God in spirit and in truth. We have a job to do! The church must get prepared.
“In the second half of the second century a change was coming over the church. The days of enthusiasm were passing and the days of ecclesiasticism were arriving. The church was no longer a place where the Spirit of prophecy could be heard. More and more people were joining the churches, but the distinction between church and world was fading. The church was becoming secularized.” -page 95
Sound familiar? Even then the enemy was attempting to keep the move of the Holy Spirit out of churches. In reference to the Montanists who were experiencing a move of God, John Wesley wrote that the reason the “miraculous gifts were so soon withdrawn, was not only that faith and holiness were well-nigh lost; but that dry, formal, orthodox men began even then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves, and to decry them all as either madness or imposture.”
Not here! We are a church that lives by faith and walks in holiness. We welcome the gifts of the holy spirit and as a result will continue to witness great and mighty works! We will also continue to pray for the church as a whole to wake up to the supernatural and that many will turn to God in these last days.
There is so much to cover in these chapters, what stuck out to you? Make sure to share with me on our facebook group. I’m excited to continue this book with you! Be expectant for the supernatural in your life!