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When Heaven Invades Earth Devotional & Journal

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A life-altering book, read at all costs. Sermons put together in book form about stuff you really must put into action in your life if you really want to live!

This is a must read for every Christian. It helped me get off dead center into the world of Heaven which is here now on earth. It is full of references from the Bible.

One of those books that helps you to look at your own life and see how much potential you have in re-establishing God's kingdom not only here on earth but also in your own life.

this is a great devotional for cultivating a true relationship with God and Jesus as well as Holy Spirit

This book is thought-provoking and an excellent tool for those desiring to be equipped in the Kingdom principles. A great resource to get more out of the accompanying book.

Another great book by Bill Johnson! He has so much meat in every devotional, time just slips away while I'm deep in God's Word. This book, as with all of B. Johnson's books, makes me hungry for more of a revelation of God. I've learned so much from Bill Johnson's teachings and it's helped me so much in my spiritual walk with the Lord. This is an awesome devotional!

Incredible book! A must read for anyone who feels their Christian life is boring. For those that are seeking to see if God is real...you will want to read this book. YES God is definitely alive and well...and wants to work in and through our lives....this is how God meant it to be!!

This is very good and will challenge a person to stop living a life of apathy but a life filled with power.

The core of the book is fairly simple: heaven is invading earth as seen through power encounters with the kingdom of darkness. Christians are to step out in faith and expect signs and wonders to follow them.

And to that, I say "Amen." Well, maybe `amen' with a little `a' as there was a lot of stuff in the book that did not sit well with me. As I read the book I kept thinking about mathematical proofs...

In high school geometry, my math teacher stressed the importance of using mathematical proofs to solve an equation. Each proof was to be a convincing demonstration that the mathematical statement shown is necessarily true. The problem was that I hated doing proofs as I could solve the problem in my head quicker then writing out each theorem.

Theology is like this. Sometimes we can skip steps and come out with the correct answer...yet, other times we miss the boat.

Specifically, Johnson seems way too focused on individual faith and anti-intellectualism. While I recognize that faith - or the belief that God can and will heal people today - is important, I see a danger in believing that it is my faith, your faith or anyone faith that heals people.

Having grown up in a Pentecostal/Charismatic family, I know first hand the pain that comes with being told that you are the reason someone did not get healed (i.e. "if you had had enough faith, that person would heal today"). Not only does this theology hurts people, it isn't actually biblical (check out Authority to Heal by Ken Blue or Power Healing by John Wimber for more information on that point).

This leads me to Johnson's anti-intellectualism. Throughout the entire book, Johnson kept slamming people who use their brains to study the Bible or theology (note that theology is simply the study of God - meaning that every time you apply a Bible verse to your life, you are `doing' theology). Yes, Johnson says that Christians should study the Bible, but he does this after spending large chucks of time preaching against intellectual study of the Bible - meaning that the overall feeling one gets from the book is "don't use your head, just use your heart and emotions."

Again, having grown up thinking that "theology" was a cuss word, I know this mindset very well. Johnson (and others like him) is reacting against the removal of the Holy Spirit and the power of God by mainline church theologians in the 19th and 20th centuries. However, in reacting, I think he goes too far the other way, over emphasizing the experiential nature of Christianity.

To me, being a follower of Jesus means using my heart, mind, soul and spirit. It is about being a full human being and not about separating myself into small fragments (i.e. "God can have my heart and spirit, but I get to keep my mind"). We need to return to the days when Spirit-filled, power infused Christians were the top scholars and theologians (yes, there were days like this!)

I believed in miracles, why didn't I see them? This book challenged me. It made me question my values and where I had settled for a weaker Christianity.