Why You Must Embrace the Supernatural and Seek the Biblical Jesus

 

The Sound of Snapping Metal and Silent Churches

Imagine you are an eight-year-old boy, sitting alone, just trying to make sense of a world that already feels a bit more "crowded" than adults say it is. I remember sitting there when a voice, clear as a bell, whispered to my mind, "Look at the kickstand on your dad's bike." I turned my head, fixing my eyes on that heavy piece of metal. As I stared, I heard a sharp crack, and that metal kickstand snapped right in half, falling to the pavement. I was stunned. I ran inside, my heart racing, yelling for my family to come see. I told them exactly what happened—that a voice told me to look and then the metal broke.

Do you know what they did? They didn't believe me. They thought I had somehow broken it myself and was making up a wild story to cover my tracks. That is the first pain point so many of us experience: the supernatural is manifesting all around us, but the people we trust most—often including our leaders in the institutional church—tell us we are crazy, lying, or just plain wrong.

This is the great tragedy of the modern religious system. We claim to follow a book filled with wheels within wheels, Chariots of Fire, and a Savior who walked on water, yet when a member of the congregation says, "I'm being attacked by a spirit," or "I had a dream that came true," they are met with blank stares or a recommendation for a psychiatrist. We are living in a supernatural reality, but we have been trained to view the world through a sterile, secular lens. This silence creates a vacuum, and if the church won't provide the answers, people will go where the supernatural is embraced.

That is exactly what happened to me. Because I didn't find answers for my demonic night terrors or my supernatural experiences in the pews, I wandered into the dark, glittering world of the New Age. I was looking for the truth, but I was looking in the wrong domain. In this post, I want to show you why we must stop shunning the supernatural and instead begin to discern it through a deep, personal relationship with the biblical Jesus.

From New Age Shadows to the Light of the Kingdom

When I was living in Los Angeles, I was living what many would call "the dream." I had the penthouse on the beach, the fast cars, the successful company, and the boats. But I was miserable. I was deeply depressed and drowning in a sea of New Age philosophies. You see, the New Age doesn't deny the supernatural; it embraces it, often quoting the very scriptures that Christians ignore. They talk about "remote viewing" and point to Jesus seeing Nathanael under the fig tree. They talk about "astral projection" and point to the "silver cord" mentioned in Ecclesiastes.

I remember sitting in the office of an incredibly expensive psychic—the kind the movie stars and rock stars went to. I had my little Walkman tape recorder tucked away, ready to capture every word. She looked at me and said, "Yeah, that ain't gonna work." I played dumb, but she knew. Later, when I played that tape back, something chilling happened. Every time she mentioned a specific person's name in my life—and she knew names she had no physical way of knowing—the tape would skip or the audio would go "whoa" and distort.

These were familiar spirits. If you look at that word, the word "family" is right there. These are demons assigned to families; they know your history, your dead relatives, and your secrets. They aren't predicting the future so much as they are manipulating it based on what they already know about your "house." I was hook, line, and sinker into that world because the psychics were "reading my mail." They didn't ignore me like the church did.

But here is the catch, and this is the message I need you to catch today: just because you can see in the spirit doesn't mean you've arrived. The New Agers are playing in the demonic realm, a realm of shadows and deception. There is another domain entirely—the Kingdom of God. To see that domain, you cannot simply be "spiritual." You must be born again.

The Bible is a supernatural book from cover to cover. Think about Elisha and his servant in 2 Kings. They were surrounded by the Syrian army, and the servant was terrified. He was looking at the physical reality of horses and chariots ready to destroy them. But Elisha wasn't worried. He prayed a simple prayer: Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. (2 Kings 6:17 KJV). Suddenly, the servant saw the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

The supernatural wasn't "created" in that moment; it was already there. The servant just couldn't see it because his eyes were closed to the domain of the King. When we shun the supernatural in our churches, we are essentially keeping the servant's eyes closed and leaving him in terror of the physical world. We must realize that the biblical Jesus is the King of a literal, supernatural domain, and He wants us to function within it.

Personal Reflections: Reading the Instructions in a Penthouse

For years, I was holding the voice of the Holy Spirit underwater like a basketball. I was intentionally suppressing what I knew to be true because it didn't fit the "worldly" mode of thinking I had adopted. Even though God had saved my life more times than I can count—I should have been dead many times over from the stupid things I did—I still didn't believe. I was blinded by the god of this world.

One night, the weight of my depression and the emptiness of my New Age "success" finally brought me to my knees. I wasn't playing games anymore. I got down on the floor of that penthouse and I said, "Lord, I need to know if you're real, and I need to know right now."

In that moment of absolute surrender, a voice spoke. It didn't sound like a booming thunder from the clouds; it was a clear internal command that vibrated through my whole being. The voice said, "Open your eyes."

I opened my eyes, and they landed directly on a Super Nintendo instruction booklet that happened to be lying on the floor. Then the voice said, "Read the instructions." In that moment, God changed me. He didn't just give me information; He gave me a new heart. He gave me a burning desire to study His Word—the real "instruction manual" for this supernatural life. I became a new creature in Christ.

I realized then that my dad, who was a Christian but had been led by my mom into seances and New Age practices, had accidentally opened a door to a generational curse. He was mixing the holy with the profane, and God hates mixing. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:15 KJV). Because of that mixing, I was attacked from the crib. I had supernatural experiences that I had no framework for, and because the church didn't help me, I sought that framework in the occult.

Jesus corrected my path by showing me that the Word of God is the only safe place to engage with the supernatural. If you are experiencing attacks, if you are seeing things you can't explain, don't run to a psychic and don't let a "cessationist" preacher tell you it's all in your head. Run to the biblical Jesus. He is the one who casts down demons and opens the eyes of the blind.

Biblical References: A Supernatural Book for a Supernatural Life

If we take the supernatural out of the Bible, we are left with a very thin, very boring book of moral platitudes. But that’s not what we have. We have a book where Ezekiel sees wheels within wheels and angels with four faces. As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. (Ezekiel 1:10 KJV). We have a book where Jesus sees Nathanael through "remote viewing" before they ever physically met. Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. (John 1:48 KJV).

We have to understand the difference between the spirits of this world and the Spirit of God. In Acts 16, there was a girl with a spirit of "divination." In the original Greek, that word is python. She was telling the truth on one level—she was shouting that Paul and his companions were servants of the Most High God. But she was doing it through a demonic power. Paul didn't "discern" her based on her words; he discerned her by the Spirit and cast that demon out.

The institutional church often fails because it tries to discern things through carnal logic rather than the Holy Spirit. If we are going to embrace the supernatural, we must do it on God's terms. Jesus said, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3:3 KJV). "See" is the operative word there. You can be surrounded by the demonic realm all day long, but you will never see the Kingdom—the domain of the King—until you are born of the Spirit.

When we are born again, we aren't just forgiven for our sins; we are granted "citizenship" in a supernatural domain. We are given the authority to tread on serpents and scorpions. We are given the "instructions" to navigate a world that is much larger and more complex than our five senses can perceive.

The Importance of Spiritual Discernment

• Familiar Spirits: Be aware that demons know your history. Just because a "medium" or psychic knows a secret doesn't mean they are from God. They are accessing "familiar" data to keep you in bondage.
• The Domain of the King: Seeking the supernatural for the sake of power or "experiences" is dangerous. We seek the King, and the supernatural is simply the nature of His Kingdom.
• Born Again Vision: You cannot navigate the spiritual world safely without the Holy Spirit. He is the one who guides us into all truth and protects us from the "lying signs and wonders" of the enemy.

Key Takeaways

• The Bible is an inherently supernatural book; ignoring this fact leaves believers defenseless and drives seekers toward the New Age.
• The institutional church often shuns supernatural experiences, but the "real" Church must provide biblical answers for spiritual attacks and phenomena.
• Psychics and New Age practitioners often interact with "familiar spirits"—demons that impersonate the dead or use "family" secrets to deceive.
• Engagement with the occult, even "mixing" it with Christianity, can open doors to generational problems and demonic attacks.
• True spiritual vision requires being born again; without the Holy Spirit, one is limited to the demonic or carnal realms.
• The Word of God is the "instruction manual" for navigating the supernatural safely and effectively.

Conclusion and Call to Action

My friends, we are standing on the edge of a world that the secular mind cannot comprehend. Whether I am walking through Pascagoula Beach Park praying with a stranger or writing these words to you, my message remains the same: stop running from the supernatural and start running toward the biblical Jesus.

If you have been told you are crazy for the things you’ve seen or felt, let me tell you—you aren't crazy. You are just seeing a reality that most people are too afraid to acknowledge. But don't go to the psychics. Don't go to the New Age "lightworkers." They are playing with fire in a dark room. Come to the Light of the World. Come to the One who can open your eyes to the chariots of fire that are already standing guard around you.

I've written about my entire journey—from the snapping kickstand to the beach-side penthouse and finally to the feet of Jesus—in my book OPEN YOUR EYES: MY SUPERNATURAL JOURNEY. I keep it cheap because I want you to have the information. If you're struggling with attacks like I did, check out Overcoming Night Terror: Making the Demons Leave.

I want to hear from you. Have you felt the pushback from the "institutional" church when you've shared a spiritual experience? Have you struggled with things you couldn't explain? Leave a comment below or reach out to me at ConradRocks.net. Let's start a conversation that the world is too scared to have.

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Action Items

• Repent of "Mixing": If you have dabbled in the New Age, horoscopes, psychics, or "spiritual" practices outside of the Bible, ask God for forgiveness and close those doors today.
• Study the "Instructions": Commit to reading the Bible daily with the specific prayer, "Lord, open my eyes to see the supernatural truth in your Word."
• Seek the Baptism of the Spirit: If you haven't already, ask Jesus to fill you with the Holy Spirit so that you can begin to discern the spiritual world through His eyes.
• Test the Spirits: When you have an experience or hear a "prophetic" word, check it against the KJV scriptures. If it doesn't align with the Word, it is not from the King.
• Share Your Testimony: Don't let the enemy keep you silent. If God has delivered you or shown you something, share it with someone else who might be struggling in the shadows.

Until we meet again, dig deeper and go higher!