We are not human beings having a temporary spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a temporary human experience. We need to wake up to reality. We need to switch perspectives, embrace another paradigm.

Bill Johnson said, "Our hearts know there is much more to life than we perceive with our senses; we are spiritually agitated by our lack of connection with the realm of the supernatural."

Life should be much more supernatural. The normal Christian life should be filled with miracles and a spiritual sense of connection with the abundant life Jesus promised.

The normal Christian life means miracles, spiritual intervention, and revelation. It means peace, joy, love, a sense of well-being and purpose - all traits that elude so many Christians.

Written into the DNA of every believer is an appetite for the impossible that cannot be ignored or wished away.

My friend Caspar McCloud had this experience of waking up six years ago. Ironically, he had to do so by dying and being resuscitated.

Since then, he has prayed for the sick many times and seen healing. Caspar not only was revived, he woke up to the reality of the Kingdom of God and his identity in it.

And that is how I define discipleship: Waking up a person to their identity and role in the Kingdom of God. I've been in the process of waking up for about 18 years now and feel like I'm starting to get it. It's a process that takes a while. It happened for me as it happens for many - a crisis in my life jolted me to declare personal bankruptcy, and I made myself available for God's radical intervention.

More of us need to declare bankruptcy like that so that we may begin to see the Kingdom.