Unlocking the Heavens by Shane Warren

Author:Shane Warren [Warren Shane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7684-8438-0
Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc.

Chapter 10

THE THRONE ZONE

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father (JOHN 14:12 RSV).

The four books of the Bible that we call the Gospels represent only eighty days of Jesus’ three-and-a-half-year ministry. Eighty days. None of the Gospel writers could include all of His miracles, because there were too many of them.

Then, at the end of the Gospel of John, we read, “There are many other things Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, I suppose the whole world would not be big enough for all the books that would be written” (John 21:25 NCV). If all of the miracles of Jesus could have been written down, all the libraries in the world could not contain the collections of accounts!

Yet we see so many of His mighty works in the pages of the Gospels—everything from changing water into wine to raising the dead—that we are awed by Him. Jesus is so supernatural.

“Of course,” you may say, “He was God’s Son. What do you expect?” But you need to know that when He humbled Himself and became a man, He chose to operate out of His humanity, empowered by the Holy Spirit just as He expected His followers to do. After all, isn’t that what He said? “Whoever believes in me will do the same things that I do. Those who believe will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father” (John 14:12 NCV).

The same Spirit who raised Jesus Christ from the dead dwells in us (see Romans 8:11). So if the Holy Spirit is the source of miracle-working power in the ministry and life of Jesus and I’ve got the same Spirit in me, then why am I not doing the same works that Jesus did and more?

I would love to see a man with a withered hand come into church and be able to tell him, “Stretch forth your hand!” and by the time he took it out of his jacket pocket, it would be totally restored by the power of God. I would love to see miracles—AIDS and cancer eradicated, quadriplegics walking. I know I have the God who does the impossible, and I have a burden to see what He can do.

ORDINARY FOLKS

When you read through the book of Acts, you find out that the apostles were doing such mighty works that people would come and worship them as if they were gods. That’s what happened to Peter when he arrived at Cornelius’s house (see Acts 10:25). These were ordinary men who were living such extraordinary lives that this sort of thing happened more than once, and each time they would have to say, “No, no, no! I am not God. I did not do this miracle!” and they would point the people to Jesus.

When was the last time you had the power of

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