Developing a Supernatural Lifestyle: A Practical Guide to a Life of Signs, Wonders, and Miracles

by Kris Vallotton

He stood out because of his relentless pursuit of a supernatural lifestyle as a normal part of the everyday Christian experience.

There is more available to anyone who will give themselves completely to displaying an authentic gospel.

Today, all around us, wickedness continues to grow, taking root in the lives of those we love and eroding the very foundation of our country. Satanism is spreading like wildfire. Psychics

Yet the words of our Lord Jesus echo through the halls of history: “These signs will follow those who believe” and “Greater works than these [you] will do, because I go to My Father” (Mark 16:17; John 14:12 NKJV).

Peter says, “It is you who are the sons of the prophets.”

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We are in the midst of the greatest revival in human history. Yet there remains a distance between what should be and what will be.

These reigning saints refuse to have their exploits be a mere reflection of the past, but instead break the gravitational barriers of naysayers and doubters, journeying far beyond the boundaries of reason into places where no one has ever gone before.

Many of us can feel the vacuum of this vortex drawing our hearts into this divine destiny. We find our inner man longing, stirring, and burning for the great adventure. Live or die, we must press through the walls of mediocrity and find the Promised Land of our souls.

If we are going to walk as God’s ruling royalty, it is incumbent upon us to:

Pray unceasingly. Give sacrificially. Dream unreasonably. Serve wholeheartedly. Love unashamedly. Walk innocently. Believe undoubtingly. Live powerfully.

It would be tragic if the most creative people on the

face of the earth allowed themselves to be reduced to rent-a-cops guarding a box (the Ark of the Covenant) that God vacated 2,000 years ago.

The truth is that if we don’t take our rightful place in the earth, we will relegate sinners, void of the mind of Christ, barred from the wisdom of the ages, and wandering in utter darkness, to being the most brilliant minds of our time!

Religion can conform the most righteous, reigning saints into mindless zombies, puppets repeating someone else’s convictions they don’t even understand themselves.

True discipleship is meant to empower people to be transformed into the image of their Creator, but religion redefines the terms, conforming people into replicas of their leaders. Religion takes God’s mighty men and makes them artifacts in a museum.

Religion has reduced the supernatural power of God to a history lesson about serving the dead body of a helpless Christ who, still nailed to the Cross, is incapable of rocking their sacred boat.

The death of Christ paid for our sins, but it was His resurrection that gave life to our mortal bodies.

Religion embraces death sadistically and moves the risen Christ out of the garden and back to the tomb.

We have lost sight of the fact that the Cross was for the old man, not the new man, and that the true Christian life is not about dying for Christ, but living in the life He purchased for us to establish His Kingdom on earth!

We are not supposed to reflect our culture; we are commissioned to transform it.

Discipling nations means submerging them in God—not religion—and “teaching them to observe all that I commanded you” (Matt. 28:20).

Christians must be valued in society to have influence in the world.

This poisonous poverty mind-set reduces the Christian message to a cry for help instead of a call for leadership.

This cultural begging has relegated the Kingdom of God to a subculture.

God never intended Christianity to be a subculture. Subcultures are those cultures that are subservient to a more powerful culture.

We are called to turn the world around and set it back on its feet again. We are to be counter-culture until the mind-set of the nations begins to take on the attitude of the Kingdom.

Christians are not subservient to the world because God has assigned us the highest level of authority that exists on this planet.

When Christians lose their desire and courage to confront the evils of our day honorably, we begin to be influenced by the lying principalities that are also commissioned to disciple the nations, but with an antichrist agenda.

These demonic forces work to dethrone the Prince of Peace, who is the rightful “prince” of the principles that make societies prosper, and instead enthrone the prince of darkness.

However, it is important that we learn how to carry His power and authority.

We are to carry God’s authority into the lives of people and nations through invitation, not through intrusion or invasion. Although we are called to be combative when dealing with the powers of darkness, we are to be honorably confronting with people, demonstrating the benefits and rewards of a superior Kingdom.

TEARING DOWN FORTRESSES

Daniel saw the devil apprehending the “times” or epoch seasons and changing the law.

These epoch seasons or “times” are similar to the time periods we call the agricultural age, the industrial age, and the information age.

Changes in the law are signs of the times and manifestations of the new value systems of mankind in a particular epoch.

Epoch seasons are altered when people begin to think differently and develop structures to sustain their new and emerging attitudes.

Fortresses are systems of firmly held wrong beliefs that squeeze the life of God out of the hearts of people, changing the culture in a way that ultimately hijacks the divine destiny of nations themselves.

Thoughts can be many things, but every thought is an interpretation of reality, and thus is connected to a belief system based either on truth or lies.

Evil spirits are the ultimate body snatchers.

The great news is that God is calling His Church to develop a supernatural lifestyle that equips the saints of the Most High with weapons of warfare that are not of the flesh but that are divinely powerful, supernaturally inspired arsenals of mass destruction!

But Heaven is invading earth, freeing captives and releasing prisoners.

Nebuchadnezzar thought that he had captured four young Jewish lads, but it was the Babylonians who were taken prisoner by the God of Heaven.

TRAINING FOR THE WORLD

God never intended the gifts of the Spirit to be confined to the four walls of the Church.

Thankfully, there is a great transition happening in the Kingdom. We are moving from the ministry to the saints to the ministry of the saints.

But it is important to equip, develop, and train with deployment in mind.

Most Christians are not prepared for the battle that awaits them in the marketplace because they have trained in the user-friendly environment of “Fort Cush.”

the church should be a safe place to practice and grow in the Holy Spirit’s gifts. But if we train only for the Church we will be completely ineffective among those lost in darkness.