Supernatural Power for Everyday People Quotes

“Your time in the Bible is the primary means by which the Holy Spirit empowers you to live your life. If you don’t want this power, by all means, don’t go to your Bible. Go to Twitter or Facebook or YouTube. Go to cable news or satellite sports. Go to the movies or a self-help seminar. Go anywhere else if it’s not power you’re interested in. But if you want to dwell daily in the supernatural realm of God’s kingdom and hear the very words of God, your Bible is where it’s at. The”
― Jared C. Wilson, Supernatural Power for Everyday People: Experiencing God’s Extraordinary Spirit in Your Ordinary Life

“In John 3:3 Jesus blew the mind of a Pharisee named Nicodemus by saying, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” The whole concept of being “born again” speaks to the resurrection-quality life Jesus brings in and through himself. Basically Jesus is saying that to experience the kingdom, we have to be made alive for the first time—again! The whole notion of being born again speaks to new life, new identity, new status, new everything. Included in this everything is a new citizenship and its accompanying new allegiance.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Supernatural Power for Everyday People: Experiencing God’s Extraordinary Spirit in Your Ordinary Life

“Is prayer powerful? Yes, definitely, but specifically because the one being prayed to is powerful. The one doing the praying is, by her praying, demonstrating that she has no power in and of herself. That is functionally what prayer is—an expression of helplessness. If we were powerful, we wouldn’t need to pray.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Supernatural Power for Everyday People: Experiencing God’s Extraordinary Spirit in Your Ordinary Life

“Jesus said that if anyone wishes to follow him, he must deny himself and take up his cross (Luke 9:23). When we leap to application first, we immediately diminish the powerful relevance of this teaching. When we apply first, we end up seeing taking up crosses as being about dealing with annoying coworkers or enduring a nagging spouse. But these applications skip the primary meaning: taking up one’s cross is about death. This doesn’t mean the passage can’t apply to annoying coworkers or nagging spouses, but interpreting Luke 9:23 as dying to our own desires helps us apply it to situations”
― Jared C. Wilson, Supernatural Power for Everyday People: Experiencing God’s Extraordinary Spirit in Your Ordinary Life