The decisions we make every day will always come down to two possibilities: the natural solution, or the supernatural solution.

In Mark 4 Jesus had told his disciples, “Go to the other side.” Now when that storm started building while they were in that boat, they didn’t look to Jesus to help them right away, or go to using their faith as they should have. They tried every natural thing they knew to do first, even though Jesus had just spent all day long with them expounding on how the Kingdom of God operates. It never crossed their minds to look to the supernatural for their solution. Not until they were near death. They made the wrong decision.

Jesus got up and took care of the situation, using His faith. But they marveled at him saying, “What manor of man is this, that even the wind and sea obey Him?” Notice the two separate mind sets? The disciples were naturally-minded. And where’d that get them? The same place it’ll get you if you’re naturally-minded. They were of the mind that believed they were subject to whatever this world is subject to. And that can get you killed! Almost did for them! Buy notice Jesus’ mind set: you KNOW He was spiritually-minded! He thought on God’s level. He knew that He had access at all times to the power of God Himself, which is superior to the forces of this natural world!

“But Pastor Mark, that was Jesus! I can’t be expected to do that!” Jesus rebuked His disciples for NOT acting in the way He did. He asked them where is your faith and why did you fear? The Bible tells us in 1 John 5:4 that, "Whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith."

The Word calls the natural mind-set “Carnal,” or to be carnally-minded. It also says to be in this mind-set is death. Now, that tells us something! Death is not reserved for us as children of God. Jesus came that we might have LIFE! Believe it or not, we are to be super-naturally-minded! God told us in His Word that He gave us His Spirit and His Word so we can think and act on His level; a supernatural level.

Now the disciples went through a BIG thing in Mark 4, but this same thing applies to small, every-day things as well!

When I run up against an every-day situation, I still have those two options facing me. I remember once trying to get a task done as quickly as possible. But I started running into problems that made an otherwise easy task a hard one. Well, that led to me feeling like I was wasting time; time that I could be spending on something else. I remember saying, “This stupid thing! Why aren’t you working right?” I got real frustrated, real fast! Then God spoke up on the inside of me and said, “Mark, Faith is not frustrated.” He continued, “Now I’ll take care of this, but you stop trying to fix it yourself. Use your faith and give Me a shot at it!” Even though I was emotional, and admittedly wanted real bad to be mad right then, I relented and prayed. I said, “I’m using my faith right now! In Jesus name I give this over to You, Lord, and I command this thing to work in the Name of Jesus.” And, you know what? It did!

How do we get to the point that we think supernaturally all the time, and about all the things we encounter in life, like God said we could? Well, I’m going to tell you what it’s going to take to be this way. God said to meditate on His Word day and night! He says further that the benefit of doing this is we would prosper and have good success! Clearly the supernatural way is the best way! I’d venture so far as to say that when you’re thinking naturally concerning any situation, that it is the wrong decision to make!

Now, when I found out that the Word of God would work for me and that my faith had the power of God’s faith, I went to getting the Word in me any way I could! I would slip away during lunch breaks at work and go into the stairwell and open my Bible up and read away. I would take CDs and preaching tapes I had, and carry around a walkman with me and listen to it every spare moment I had! I do the same thing now, only with my iPod. I do this in the car, when I get up, when I go to sleep, when I ride my motorcycle...I mean ALL THE TIME!

Eventually you’ll come to the place where anytime you hear something, your mind goes immediately to thinking, What does the Word say about this? Will this help my faith? And the guy next to you never gave what the two of you heard a second thought! But when your mind gets trained on the Word of God, you’ll find that what the Word says looks like the ONLY way to go! That faith looks like the most natural thing to use in a given situation. You’ll wonder how come someone would make a dumb decision and go the other way!

You have to train yourself to think that way, but you can do it! And now you know how! GO FOR IT!