The Open Door to the Extraordinary

Luke 1:34-35
34 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”

35 And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.

Extraordinary is NOT about what things happen around us but what is happening inside of us.

It’s the nature God has given us.  When a prophetic word goes out, it is NOT about an event.

God is revealing His nature to us so we can move closer to Him.  The extraordinary, the supernatural is for us.  We must align ourselves with the supernatural.

Mary was ordinary but the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit came upon her.

Luke 1:41
And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Look at Jesus; He came out of the wilderness in the power of the Spirit.

What about the 120 in the upper room? The extraordinary power of the Holy Spirit came upon them.

It IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE to walk in the supernatural.  The Holy Spirit will take over our lives.  And when He does, extraordinary things happen.

Eph. 3:16-17
16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,

17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

The purpose of the Holy Spirit is to reveal Christ.

I think we need to stretch our faith and enlarge our thinking.

Let’s think about the Universe, it spans a diameter of over 150 billion light years and is still expanding.

There are over 16 billion trillion stars in the universe and 1 million earths could fit into the Sun.

The Milky Way galaxy in which we live is only 1 out of 100 billion galaxies in space.

Each galaxy with 100 billion stars.  Our human eye can only see 3,000.

He’s a big, extraordinary, supernatural God.
By The Way, a light year is 9.5 trillion KM.

We are ordinary, He IS NOT.  But if the Christ in us can be brought out, we will become extraordinary.

When we read the Word it is not to put the Word in us but to bring Christ out of us.

When we bring Christ forth, ordinary will become extraordinary.
He who is in us is greater than He that is in the world.

Matthew 4:1
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

We must allow the Holy Spirit to take us through the doors to places we don’t want to go.

Moses had to go where he did not want to go.
Gideon had to go where he did not want to go.

We must allow the Holy Spirit to lead us.  It’s time to allow God to break us out of our routines and cycles.

If we allow the Holy Spirit to lead us, He will always lead us to the extraordinary.


Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong