God’s greatest gift to the world was His Son Jesus. The Lord Jesus’ greatest gift to His Church is the Helper, the Holy Spirit. Thank God for the Holy Spirit!

One of the main results of the baptism in the Holy Spirit is to lift us onto a totally supernatural plane of living.

In Hebrews 6:4,5 we read;

“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come..”

From this passage we discover five things that should be standard for every New Testament believer:

(1) They have been enlightened,

(2) They have tasted the heavenly gift—the gift of eternal life,

(3) They have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit ministry,

(4) They have tasted the goodness of the Word of God—the Bible has become living and real to them, and

(5) They have tasted the powers of the coming age.

It is a given that all Christians believe that in the next age, we will function in a totally different way. We will be set free from the many limitations of our physical bodies. We will have a totally different kind of lifestyle. What many Christians don’t realize is that, through the Holy Spirit, we can taste a little of that lifestyle right now in this life. That means that we can come to know a little bit of what the next life is going to be like even in this life. If we read the New Testament with an open mind, we cannot help but be compelled to admit that the whole life and experiences of the early Christians were, in every part, permeated by the supernatural. Supernatural experiences were not something incidental or additional. They were an integral part of basic Christianity. Their praying was supernatural, their preaching was supernatural.

They were supernaturally guided, supernaturally empowered, supernaturally transported, and supernaturally protected. Remove the supernatural from the book of Acts and you are left with something that has no meaning or coherence. From the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2 onwards, it is scarcely possible to find a single chapter in which the record of the supernatural does not play an essential part.

In Acts 19:11, the Scripture records that “God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul.” Notice that phrase “unusual miracles.” The Greek phrase here could be translated as “miracles of the kind that does not happen every day.” Miracles were in occurrence every day in the Early Church. Normally it would cause no special surprise or commotion but the miracles God had here in Ephesus were such that even the early Christians found them worthy of special record. In how many churches today would we find the occasion to use the phrase “miracles of the kind that does not happen every day?” In how many churches today do miracles happen, let alone happen every day! Make a decision today to yield yourself more to the power of the Spirit. You are created for the supernatural!

“As You have sent Me into the world, I have sent them into the world.” John 17:18 NKJV