A miracle is a dimensional interruption whereby God breaks into our mundane existence and changes our lives from ordinary to extraordinary. It is a thing of wonder, and we can, and should, live in wonder again!
THERE ARE MANY misconceptions about miracles. While this is not the place for an exhaustive explanation of miracles, their existence, their purpose, or their power, it is important that there be an acknowledgement that miracles are. Miracles still happen today, and as important as it is that we acknowledge their existence, we need also to understand how they occur.
HE SPIRIT OF whoredom and the spirit of perversion often work hand in hand. These demons, or strongmen, lead to sexual immorality.
In Jesus's name I bind the spirit of error, and I command you to leave my mind. I refuse and reject all lies and twisted thoughts you have brought to me. I here and now loose in my life the Spirit of truth. I love You, Jesus, and thank You for helping me be free from the lies.
The spirit of the Antichrist is at work in our nation. This spirit denies the deity of Christ and stands against everything we believe in. It breeds lawlessness and the breakdown of society. Secular humanism is the polite name we give to this spirit of error.
We do not receive a plan; we receive a person. We do not receive truth; we receive the One who said, 'I am... the truth' (John 14:6).
Salvation is not something simply admirable; it possesses us and causes us to be a peculiar people. It is not simply understood; it is felt and experienced. When a person acknowledges his sins, confesses them, and trusts the death and resurrection of Christ to save him, he is saved.
To understand this phrase properly, we have to understand that the word wind is, in the Greek, the same word as spirit. What Jesus explained to Nicodemus here is that conversion is simple but also profound. Out of heaven will come a wind of the Spirit, and though you might not be able to tell where it came from or where it is going, you will know it when it hits you, and it will change you forever.