Engines of Heaven: Secrets of the Supernatural Life

By Evan Wiggs

I am an ordinary man, used very powerfully by an extraordinary God. If you are an ordinary believer and you desire to be used by God in such a way, then this book will help you walk in the supernatural realms that are your natural abode.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 15, 2013
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Evan Wiggs

Evan Wiggs, Pastor, Evangelist, Revivalist. Evan has since 2005 traveled the world, done massive crusades, pastor and leader training and spoken in thousands of churches. He has seen many miracles that only God can perform. Over 20,000 healed of many diseases, hundreds of demons cast out, blind eyes opened, lame walk, deaf mutes healed, lepers cleansed and the dead raised is what God has done through this ordinary man who is also a beloved child of the Living God. Evan Wiggs can be contacted at His web site www.evanwiggs.com or can be called at 360 606 7412

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Contents

Engines of Heaven

The Secret of Walking in the Supernatural

Introduction

Chapter I

You Were Created for His Glory

Chapter II

Our Kingly Authority and Power

Chapter III

The Power Gifts

Chapter IV

The Transitional Power Gift of Love

Chapter V

The Fruit of the Spirit

Chapter VI

The Fivefold Ministry of the Church

Chapter VII

Faith that Moves Mountains

Chapter VIII

Prayer and Intercession: The Breath of Heaven

Chapter IX

The Bible: The Living Word

Chapter X

Covering, Authority, and Accountability

in the Church - Do We Have It Right?

Chapter XI

Cessationism: An Arid Theology

Chapter XII

Revival: What Is It?

Chapter XIII

Supernatural Points I :

Asking God for Big Things, Prophetic Acts

Chapter XIV

Supernatural Points II:

The Integrated Man, Getting Out of the Boat

Chapter XV

Supernatural Points III: All thing Do Work Together, True Ministry, The Burning Place

Appendix I

Sozo Verses

Appendix II

The Sin of Jeroboam

Engines of Heaven

The Secret of Walking in the Supernatural

By Evan Wiggs

This book is about you. If you are reading this book, it will tell you about yourself and what you can be. I know that God has made you to be a glorious being, a being who bridges heaven and earth and brings heaven to earth in astounding ways. Do you believe this about yourself? I hope you do. If you are struggling with that idea, read on and learn the supernatural ways of the Living God.

But first, I want to tell you that God is moving today in an unprecedented way. I am reading a book called The Century of the Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal by Vinson Synan. This is a very insightful book full of stories of God’s glory. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in God’s story in this century.

In this book, a story unfolds that shows the Azusa Street revival was an incredible move of God. Much rejected and derided by the mainstream church and the world, the fire of God moved out into the world and did incredible things. Remember that the Azusa Street Revival was from 1906 until about 1913. In the nineteenth century, all the great missionary moves began. The China inland mission, the India inland mission, the Africa inland mission,, and many others rippled out into the world, pushed by many brave and wonderful and Godly people. This outthrust into the world netted about 3.6 million people. Praise God for His sending! But look at the twentieth century after Azusa Street. You see the Pentecostal move of God flowed out into the world. It was rejected by many and moved across the tracks to the disenfranchised there and really didn’t even come into the mainstream church until the 1960s in the Charismatic renewal. By the end of the century, more than 500 million had been added to the church, mostly in the third world countries. In 2010, there were over 65 million new believers who came into the Kingdom of God, and that number is growing at 8 to 10 percent every year. If you take that back ten years to 2000, then there have been almost another five hundred million added in those ten years. Isn’t that remarkable? My ministry is a tiny part of this vast move of God, and God desires His church to rise up and become what she was created to be: a glory in all the earth!

I need to say one more thing before we go on. I don’t even pretend I know everything about how God works; this is not a book claiming that at all. It is merely a guidebook from someone who has been there and back and knows the way. It is not a theological book about deep doctrines or any of that either. I do bring in verses and talk about what the Bible is saying, but I am not a theologian and will not present any real theological views.

Introduction

An engine is a device to take a fuel of some kind and convert that fuel to power that moves. I won’t go into all the details of this yet because I need to explain some other ideas before we come back to this engine idea.

Heaven is the place where the Heavenly King rules in authority and power. Many think Heaven is somewhere far away. It is somewhere we go when we die, and it will be our eternal home. Heaven is a supernatural Kingdom and a place of vast supernatural power, and it is for here and now. We will explore this concept more in the book later.

You need to understand that Christianity in the West has lost much of what God wants the Church to understand and walk in. In America and Canada and Europe, there are very few Churches that truly move in the supernatural power of the Living God. These vast numbers of new Christians are coming from the second and third world countries around the globe. They are experiencing the miracles of the Living God and seeing His supernatural hand and entering into His Kingdom. This is not happening in our country yet, but it will happen for you if you want to be a part of it.

We will talk about how you have been created for the glory of God, perfectly designed to move and live in a supernatural way. We will talk about the Kingdom of Heaven and the supernatural life that Kingdom will give you.

We will then discuss how to enter into that supernatural life, and how that life works out in your life. I will teach you all the principles that I have learned in the years I have walked in the supernatural planes, and I will spend significant time talking about encountering the Living God and who this Living God is. Great is His love and so powerful is the love we can encounter.

Dear reader, if this is what you want, then read on to experience all the Living God has for you, and may He reveal His glory to you!

Chapter I

You Were Created for His Glory

Ephesians 2:1–3 (ESV)

1And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

2in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

3among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body£ and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Ephesians 2:4–10 (ESV)

4But£ God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

5even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

6and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

7so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

8For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

9not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

You see, before you became a Christian, you were dead in your trespasses and sins. You were not alive to the Lord of glory. You were a body and a soul. You had no functioning spirit. Your soul is your mind, will, and emotion; your spirit is the place where God dwells, and it is your new control center. When you accepted Christ, He made your spirit alive again and filled you with Himself. You are now His child, being made ready to bring the glory of heaven down to earth.

Engines are made to many specifications in the world. Some are for lawn mowers and some are race car engines. They are made out of different kinds of metal and to different tolerances. If you looked at the verses above, you can see that they are speaking of how we are like engines who were created to race in the heavenly places, but through the fall, we lost that and became lawn mower engines. We lost the very idea of the incredible power that we were created to handle and were doing so much less than what we could. But now, let us look into the ways of the supernatural and learn to walk in those high places.

You Were Created for Intimacy with the Lord

Two Levels of Relationship and Two Levels of Intimacy

What an amazing and wonderful God we serve! He ardently desires his children to come to Him and receive all He has for us. He wants us to experience His supernatural, miraculous power in this world. He wants us to experience His supernatural love, joy, and peace and to express them to all men. He longs to show His glory to all the earth through His church, which is us.

Most people in the Western church have little idea of the glory and wonder God has in store for us. We are caught up in a vicious cycle of sin that blocks us from obtaining all we need. Many are caught in the false view that they are not worthy to experience the wonders of God and that it might be for someone else but not us. We are caught in a misery cycle where we think that God is just generally ticked off at us and is more ready to clobber us than to bless us.

Genesis 2:15–17 (ESV)

15The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

16And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,

17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat£ of it you shall surely die."

Look at the verses above. God created man to have an intimate relationship with Him. He created man to be the keeper of the Garden of Eden and to love Him and all His works. We were created to rule over the earth with a full and wonderful relationship with the creator, the Lord. But man chose to become his own god and chose to cease the intimacy with the Living God. This was the sin that blocked the glory of God from moving in us. We were so wounded we could not have face to face relationship as before; we had to now pray. The Lord says in these verses that if man chooses this sinful path, man would die. But Adam and Eve didn’t die, did they? They had children and later lived for hundreds of years. But the principle of death came into them. The life God placed in man was so vital and real that even with the very darkness of sin, that physical vitality of the God life prevailed for many years and man lived for many years after death was pronounced to be the result of sin. We see the effect of sin all through the world and even into the church, and sin is so all pervasive that we are much like the frog in the pot being boiled alive and not even aware of it.

Romans 7:24 (ESV)

²⁴ Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

This verse is very interesting as it comes from the last of Romans 6 and 7, which are the chapters of the vast battle between the spirit and the flesh. It also points to a thing that typifies what sin is like in a very graphic way so we may understand how God looks at sin. And God does look at sin very differently than we do.

The phrase body of death is from the Roman judicial code, and it was a form of punishment for prisoners who had murdered a fellow prisoner. The murderer would have the body of the murdered person chained to his body so that the murderer would die with the putrification of the dead man as he rotted away on the living man’s back. Now, this is very bad, I know, but it is put here for our instruction. You can imagine the smell, can’t you? But did you know that your smell is phasic? That means that a strong smell will eventually go away and be unnoticed by you, and you cannot smell it anymore even though it is all around you. So the person with the dead body on him would soon not be able to smell it any longer. Isn’t that like sin? The person in sin may not realize that everyone else can smell it a mile away, but they can’t. But the body is slowly killing the person, and so is sin slowly killing the person. You see, God is very passionate about sin because sin is killing a people He is passionately in love with!

It is true; sin blocks the work of the Holy Spirit in us. God desires a clean vessel through which His power would flow. But God’s blessings are because He is good and not because of our piety or inherent goodness. What God desires is that we quit our striving and learn to rest and trust in Him. That is the true secret for accepting our Kingly authority.

What God desires above all is that we become truly intimate with Him. He longs for us to know Him as He knows us. He craves our presence in His arms of love, and for us to sit on His lap and look adoringly into His lovely face. There is a way into this realm.

Two Levels of Relationship

Level 1. Beginning the Fear of God

The children of Israel had been released from over four hundred years of slavery in Egypt through God’s miraculous intervention personified in Moses. Through the ten plagues and subsequent flight from Egypt, they now were approaching Sinai, the mountain of God, to receive the law. Egypt, with the longed for leeks and garlic and fleshpots, was a type of the world; and the children spent an inordinate amount of time looking over their shoulders at those lusts. They were on a journey they were not too sure of, especially when they came to Sinai.

Exodus 19:

10The LORD also said to Moses, Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments; 11and let them be ready for the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. 12You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, ‘Beware that you do not go up on the mountain or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death. 13’No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain. 14So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people, and they washed their garments. 15He said to the people, Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.

16So it came about on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunder and lightning flashes and a thick cloud upon the mountain and a very loud trumpet sound, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

The LORD Visits Sinai

18Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently. 19When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him with thunder. 20The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. 21Then the LORD spoke to Moses, Go down, warn the people, so that they do not break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.22 Also let the priests who come near to the LORD consecrate themselves, or else the LORD will break out against them. 23Moses said to the LORD, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for You warned us, saying, ‘Set bounds about the mountain and consecrate it.’ 24Then the LORD said to him, Go down and come up again, you and Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, or He will break forth upon them." 25So Moses went down to the people and told them.

Exodus 24

17And to the eyes of the sons of Israel the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop.

The children of Israel arrived at Sinai and the welcome from God was a little overboard, or so they thought. You get the picture: the fire descending to the top of the mountain, trumpets blaring louder and louder, a barrier set up so that no one would come across lest they die. This God, this consuming fire on top of the mountain, generated a real fear in the people of God. Just the beginning of the fear of God that brings wisdom, not full grown, but it is a good start. They weren’t too sure about this God of fire and noise. They were glad He stayed on top of the mountain and were more than happy to stay their distance. In fact, the gods of Egypt were looking better and better.

This level of relationship occurs sometime after one is converted, and they encounter the holy nature of God. Our popular enthusiastic teachings on God’s love and such don’t really mention this most holy God. Our first encounter with Him causes us to wonder what we got ourselves in for. But this is a necessary step to intimacy. You’ve got to get past some of the baby Christian ideas and come to the mountain of God and get the perspective realigned. God hates with a capital H sin in all its guises. He will not tolerate our carnal soulishness and comes with fire to rid us of it. We run and hide at the base of the mountain and try to avoid Him at all costs. We even toy with the old gods of Egypt, and that only makes Him angrier. What are we to do with this consuming fire anyway?

Didn’t Jesus forgive us all our sins? Didn’t we become a free moral agent? Why is this God hounding us so?

Romans 6:17–18

17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, 18and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

You see we were never free moral agents. We are either slaves to sin or slaves to righteousness; there is no moral middle ground. There never was, and there never will be. But the soul thinks there is a middle moral ground. We must digress a bit here to explain a common misconception in Christianity. This misconception can make it very hard to walk the journey to intimacy unless it is cleared up.

The misconception is this: you are a tripart being—body, soul, and spirit—but many do not know the vast difference between the soul and the spirit. You might say, Well, I already knew that we were three parts, but what do you mean? But in talking with many people, all agree on that statement but still confuse the soul with the spirit and hamper their understanding of God’s very work within. Most people think that the words soul, spirit, heart, inner man, and innermost man are synonymous. But they are not, and they all function very differently. This has caused many people to flounder around and not understand salvation, sanctification, and baptism(s) in the Spirit.

Well, let’s look at the beginning. Before we were saved, our spirit was essentially dead to God. It may have been alive to occult things, but the Bible calls it dead.

Colossians 2:13

13When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions.

God told Adam and Eve that if they ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge that they would die. Satan told Eve that she would not die. When they ate, they didn’t immediately die physically nor did they die in their minds, will, or emotions. Where they died is in the area where God would communicate, the spirit of man. When we are made alive again, our spirits are opened up and made alive with the presence of God again! Something stupendous happens, and we suddenly become acquainted with the Living Lord. But it is only in our spirits, not our souls or bodies yet.

I Corinthians 6:17, 19–20

17But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him… 19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

Here is an interesting comment. He who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. This is powerful; you see your spirit not only comes alive but is filled up to all the fullness of God. There is no more room, so to speak, for God in your spirit because you have become one spirit with Him!

You might say, Well, if that is true how come I don’t always feel that way? Look at Romans 7: 14–24, which says,

14For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. 15For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

21I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, 23but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. 24Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?

This is not the agonizing cry of the unsaved. The unsaved don’t want to fight with the flesh; they want to cooperate with it! They want to do the things the soul and the body want to do, and they don’t want to do anything the Spirit wants to do. They don’t even have a communication path to the Spirit yet. This is a believer who has been saved, but the soul and the body (the flesh) hasn’t figured out there is a new sheriff in town. They are operating just as they always have, but there is interference now. Something else has come in, and there is now war! Paul so clearly states it that this sin principle is what the flesh wants, but there is a different principle that is calling the soul and body to come into alignment with it. Look at I Corinthians 7:19 above: Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

The temple was divided into three parts, the outer courts, the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies. Each of these corresponds to a part of us—the body is the outer courts, the soul the Holy Place, and the spirit the Holy of Holies. In the temple in Israel, the glory of God only dwelt in the Holy of Holies.

Paul is saying that when God came into His new temple, us, He intended to take everything over. New management was in place. But the soul (mind, will, and emotions) and the body had different ideas. But God always wins, doesn’t He?

He brings death to the flesh.

Paul says,

I Corinthians 6:

5For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7for he who has died is freed from sin.

Galatians 2:20

20"I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Philippians 3:10

10That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; 11in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Yes, in confronting this sin that is killing us, we must allow our flesh (the old cooperation between soul and sin nature) to be crucified and cut out like a cancer.

That is why in the journey to intimacy, there is death in every level. In the first level, there is a barrier set around the mountain that meant death to anyone going past it. But to get to the top of the mountain, you must pass the barrier, and you must die.

2. Level 2 – Static Theology

Many of the people stay at the bottom of the mountain, but some venture past the barriers and up the mountain a ways. But first, Moses tells all the people of God’s plans and makes an offering to the Lord by sacrificing young bulls as a peace offering to the Lord. He used the blood to sprinkle on the altar and upon the people. I believe the elders were those sprinkled, and they had to go through this death to get to the next level of relationship.

Exodus 24:3–11

3Then Moses came and recounted to the people all the words of the LORD and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which the LORD has spoken we will do! 4Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Then he arose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. 5he sent young men of the sons of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD. 6Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half of the blood he