Tag Archive | R.A. Baker
July 26, 2010  

More Quotes From Visions Beyond The Veil

In my last post, I quoted a passage from Visions Beyond The Veil and applied it to our experience of church that we are living in now. Again, we should be part of a supernatural church.  It’s our nature and it’s Jesus’ inheritance. Many times the church backs away from the supernatural realms of God because of fear.  Here, R.A. Baker describes their approach to the powerful and unusual events they experienced:

“From the very beginning the manifestations of the Spirit, the visions, and the revelations carried everything into the supernatural realm so far beyond our own limited knowledge or experience of supernatural matters that Mrs. Baker and I confessed to each other that these things had already passed to the place where the only resource we had was to believe that God was bigger than the devil. We took refuge behind the promise of God that we had before found safe, the promise that those who sought the Father for bread would not get a stone; those who sought a fish would not get a serpent; those who sought an egg would not get a scorpion; those who with pure motives, like these children, sought the Holy Spirit would not get evil things or demons, but would get exactly what they sought, the Holy Spirit (Lu. 11 :13)” (Emphasis Mine).

Has your experience in the supernatural ever pushed you to trust God more? If so what was the outcome?  Tell us a part of your story in the comment section below.

You can get a free copy of Visions Beyond The Veil here.

Photo Credit: Holy Spirit Stained Glass by Hickory Hard Scrabble.

July 23, 2010  

The Supernatural Church

Right now I’m reading Visions Beyond the Veil by R.A. Baker. The book recounts an amazing outpouring of the Holy Spirit that happened among a group of street children in a mission in China during the early part of the 20th century.  Baker was the grandfather of Rolland Baker of IRIS Ministries fame.

As I read through the introduction I watched Mr. Baker defend the legitimacy of the supernatural encounters these children were having.  I’m absolutely certain this was necessary, especially considering it had been a very short time since the things of the Spirit had gained any widespread acceptance.  So when I saw this quote I had to share it.  I think his words are as challenging and relevant today as they were then:

“Our Lord has gone.  Where, oh, where is the Holy Spirit that has come to take His place; to carry on His uncompleted task; to work in the midst of His church in signs and wonders and gifts of the Holy Spirit?  Has God died? If so, when? […] After all, is the Holy Spirit, this great power of Christ, the Christ whose words the wind and waves obeyed, whose words burst tombs, is this Great Substitute just a gentle influence? Where is the Holy Spirit Who shook and filled a whole house of praying disciples and through them shook a world?

These trances, visions, revelations, and supernatural manifestations are normal experiences in the supernaturally founded, supernaturally filled, and supernaturally directed Church of the New Testament, the only church the Bible tells or fortells anything about.” [Emphasis Mine]

What are your thoughts? Have you seen a church that looks like this? Share an experience in the comments below.

Photo Credit: I HOPE THIS DOESN’T MEAN THEIR ARE NO MIRACLES LEFT…! by JOPHIELsmiles