The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind 40-Day Devotional and Personal Journal

192 Pages·2006·0.44 MB·English

by  Bill Johnson

Daily Devotional & Journey
FOR INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP USE
The Supernatural
Power of a
Transformed Mind
Access to a Life of Miracles
B I L L J O H N S O N
© Copyright 2006—Bill Johnson
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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Day 1 The Will of God: On Earth as It Is in Heaven . . . . . . 7
Day 2 Our Job: Proving the Will of God. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Day 3 Submission to the Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Day 4 The Mind Is a Gatekeeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Day 5 Repentance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Day 6 Spiritual Senses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Day 7 Seeing the Unseen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Day 8 Seeing the Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Day 9 Called to the Impossible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Day 10 The House of God: His Dwelling Place . . . . . . . . . . 45
Day 11 The House of God: The Gate of Heaven . . . . . . . . . 49
Day 12 Binding and Loosing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Day 13 Revelation: We Perish Without It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Day 14 The Spirit of Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Day 15 Attracting Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Day 16 Broadening the Playing Field of Faith . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Day 17 Living With Mystery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Day 18 Revelation Comes to the Desperate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Day 19 Revelation Is an Invitation to Experience . . . . . . . . 85
Day 20 Falling Short of Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Day 21 The Process of Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Day 22 Establishing Revelation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Day 23 The Fear of Excess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Day 24 Learning From Supernatural Experiences . . . . . . . 111
Day 25 The Leaven of Herod and the Pharisees . . . . . . . . . 115
Day 26 Where Does YourThought Life Begin?. . . . . . . . . . 119
Day 27 You’re Prepared for the Storm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Day 28 The Lie of the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Day 29 Living in Our True Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Day 30 Learning How to Meditate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Day 31 Building Memorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Day 32 Gates of Praise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Day 33 How to Face Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Day 34 Presenting Your Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Day 35 Learning to Be a Co-Laborer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Day 36 He Wants to Give You Your Desires . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Day 37 Releasing Creativity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Day 38 What Is Spiritual Inheritance? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Day 39 Occupy and Advance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Day 40 Inheritance Makes a Greater Anointing Available . . 187
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Introduction
Revelation is not something you can dig out of a theo-
logical book or study guide. It’s not even something
you can unravel in the Bible all by yourself.
The Holy Spirit was sent to earth to be our own personal
“study guide” through life. Jesus told us that “when He, the Spirit
of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13). No
book on earth, even the Bible, can substitute for our relationship
with the Holy Spirit. My book, The Supernatural Power of a Trans-
formed Mind, and this devotional and journal are designed to
point more definitely to the fact that living the “normal Christ-
ian life” flows from a growing intimacy with Him.
With that in mind, I urge you to talk to the Holy Spirit each
day before you use this devotional and journal. Invite His pre-
cious Presence to guide you into truth as you read and meditate.
Have a journal where you can write down prayers and revelations
that come from Him as you study. Ask Him to reveal Christ to
you in greater measure. Ask for the grace and boldness to be not
merely a hearer of His word, but a doer, that you might truly be
wise and build your house upon Christ, the rock (see Matt. 7:24).
One of the primary purposes of The Supernatural Power of a
Transformed Mind is to call believers back up to the wisdom of
hearing and doing God’s Word. There is an insidious and widely
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spread belief that knowing all about God constitutes true faith.
To recognize this fallacy we have only to be reminded of James’
admonition: “You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the
demons believe—and tremble!” (James 2:19). So be vigilant in your
study to take a posture of willingness to hear and obey God.
Scripture tells us that seeking knowledge for its own sake
only leaves us with fat heads (see 1 Cor. 8:1), among other things.
This is not what will renew our minds. But the heart that seeks
to please the Father and treasures the relationship with Him
above all will not only receive revelation that renews the mind,
but will pursue the purpose of that revelation and partner with
God to see His will done.
The main principle behind the process of renewing our
minds is that we become like that which we behold. We are not
renewing our minds to have good thoughts; we are seeking to see
Him as He is so we can become like Him. When we become like
Him, we will do the things He is doing and say what He is saying.
Beholding Jesus is not intellectual; it is spiritual. It does not
inform you; it transforms you. It is not an idea; it is an experi-
ence. It is not something you can have if you only read about it
or study it. We can only behold Jesus by having a living
encounter with Him. It is tragic that many believers understand
that “sharing your testimony” of meeting Jesus merely means
telling the story of how you got saved. Although that is glorious,
our first meeting with Jesus was simply the doorway to a life of
meeting Him, hearing His voice, feeling His love, and becoming
like Him through the working of His indwelling Spirit. We can
have a testimony every day of personally experiencing God’s
supernatural work in and around us.
My prayer for you is that by the end of this study, you will
have as many testimonies of God’s power and work in your life as
the days it took to complete it, if not more. May Habakkuk’s
prayer be birthed in your heart: “Lord, I have heard of Your fame; I
stand in awe of Your deeds, O Lord. Renew them in our day, in our
time make them known…” (Hab. 3:2, NIV).
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K DAY 1 L
The Will of God:
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
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UR FATHER IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE
OYOUR NAME. YOUR KINGDOM COME.
YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN
HEAVEN. (Matthew 6:9-10)
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K TODAY’S DEVO T I O N L
or most of my life I have heard people talk about seeking
the will of God for their church, or their personal life, or
Ftheir career. Many of us have treated the will of God as if
it’s unknown or unknowable…. But the will of God is simpler
and plainer than we have thought…. The will of God is simply
this: “On earth as it is in heaven.” Isn’t that basic? Isn’t that
refreshing? When we pray, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,”
we’re praying for the King’s dominion and will to be realized
right here, right now…. God has not kept His desires secret: He
wants the reality of Heaven to invade this rebel-torn world, to
transform it, to bring it under His headship. What is free to oper-
ate in Heaven—joy, peace, wisdom, health, wholeness, and all the
other good promises we read about in the Bible—should be free
to operate here on this planet…. What is not free to operate
there—sickness, disease, spiritual bondage, and sin—should not
be free to operate here, period.
(Quote from The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind:
Access to a Life of Miracles, Page 32.)
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K QUE S T I O N S L
1. The Lord’s Prayer describes Heaven as the realm where the King’s will is done.
His nature and desires are perfectly expressed and fulfilled there. But on earth,
God’s will is not fully done. Read John 1:12-13.What other “wills” do you see
here? Does the fact that other wills (besides God’s) are at work explain why earth
does not reflect His will?
2. If “on earth as it is in heaven” is the will of God, how do we recognize when Heaven
is coming to earth? Much has been done over the centuries and called “God’s
will,” but how do we know what God’s will really looks like? Read John 6:38.
Where did Jesus come from, and what did He come to do?
3. Jesus is the revelation of God’s will. He showed us what Heaven (where the
Father’s will is perfectly expressed) looks like on earth. Look at a few Scriptures
that support this: John 14:9; Colossians 1:15,19; and Hebrews 1:1-3. Since
Jesus is the revelation of the Father, list some aspects of God’s character that you
see in Jesus.
4. Acts 10:38 summarizes the ministry of Jesus, and First John 3:8 echoes it. Read
these verses and meditate on these questions:
A. Why is it the Father’s will to destroy the works of the devil?
B. Why are those who sin oppressed by the devil?
C. How did Jesus destroy the works of the devil? Besides breaking the curse of
sin through His death on the cross, what specific things did He destroy as
He ministered?
D. With what was Christ anointed, according to Acts 10:38? Why did His min-
istry depend on these things?
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K JOUR N A L/MED I TAT I O N L
Write down some of the “works of the devil”
from which Jesus has freed you or others you know.
Look for areas of breakthrough in your physical health,
your emotional well-being, and spiritual torment
or addiction. Thank God for bringing Heaven
to earth in your life and in those around you, and
pray the Lord’s Prayer today for other areas where
you need more freedom. Ask God for the revelation
of His will to increase in your understanding.
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