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We are “heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His spiritual blessing and inheritance].”

I dedicate this book to the memory of my grandparents Harry A. Mushegan and Myrtle Olene Mushegan. I am thankful for their legacy of love and faith and for the spiritual inheritance that they have passed down to their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. I love you, MiMi and Phobbie!

To my wife Jenny and my daughters Olivia and Sadie: I am thankful to God each day that each of you are in my life. You are each an answer to prayer and a true gift from God. Jenny, you know I could not do this without you. Thank you for being my biggest cheerleader and greatest support. I love you all forever.

To my team and family: Each of you are uniquely gifted and it is an honor to be able to do life with each one of you. Thank you for all that you add to my life and this ministry.

To my Full Turn Church family: You are an inspiration! I love watching God work through you. You are the greatest group of people on this planet as far as I am concerned. It is the joy of my life to see people awakened to their purpose in Christ, and I can’t wait to see what God has in store for us next at Full Turn! Remember always, we are a team and we are a family!

To Our Father, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit: Thank You for all that You have done for us, for giving us the right to be called the sons and daughters of God, for making us heirs, and for giving us such a powerful inheritance. You are God alone!

There are no words great enough to express just how thankful I am for Your love. To God be all the glory forever and ever! Amen!

In August 2015 our church, Full Turn Church, began a 21-day corporate fast at the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Prayer and fasting are the platform for empowerment, setting the stage for powerful moves of God to occur.

I have fasted many times, but something was different about this one. I set my heart towards encountering God in a greater way than ever before, determined to fast and pray like a man on a mission to touch God and capture His heart for revival. It was during this time that the Lord revealed to me the truths contained in this book.

This book came from intimate moments spent in the presence of the Lord in the early morning hours—revelations given to me as a result of prayer and seeking. Many of these revelations were expressed in a five-part series, LIMITLESS, that I preached in the fasting period, during which the Holy Spirit spoke to our church in a profound way.

Our God is like an ocean. All that He possesses has never been fully explored, and His supply for us knows no limit. If you fill a glass full of water from the ocean, the ocean will continue to have so much more to give. If you fill a swimming pool with water from the ocean, it will still have so much more to give. If you fill a lake with water from the ocean, the ocean will still be as if nothing was ever drawn from it. That is how great God is. What He has to offer us in every way is greater than the deep, vast ocean that His Word created.

Whatever vessel we offer to God, He can fill. The more we expand, the more He gives until we overflow and have to stretch again. Think of it like this. A fish can only grow to the size of its tank. Small tank; small fish. Big tank; big fish.

The environment that we create is vital to our spiritual growth and development. We must continue to stretch ourselves and continue to offer God an ever-bigger faith tank for us to grow in. Why? Because God will only work within the parameters of our faith.

We have limited ourselves because we have little faith. But, the God we serve is unlimited and He wants to give us all things that pertain to life and Godliness.

There are ways to expand and grow in God. We will explore these truths for spiritual growth because God is a God of increase and He wants you to grow.

Do you want to do the works of Christ? You can! Do you want to walk into a greater power and anointing? You can! Having a revelation that there is more to your walk with God than the work of salvation is the first step towards empowerment.

Revelation is so vital if we want to live a powerful life. One of the things that the Father revealed to me during my fast was that every truth in His word is a deep, deep, limitless well. There is no bottom.

Who can fathom just how deep God is? What if I told you that there are levels of revelation in every truth? There are also levels of faith, glory, and power. The levels that we attain are directly linked to the revelation we possess.

In the natural the more you drink, the less thirsty you become. The more you eat, the less you hunger. But, when it comes to things of the Spirit, the opposite is true. The more you drink, the thirstier you become. The more you feed on the Word of God, the hungrier you should be. The more time you spend in His presence, the more you want to know Him and display His nature.

That is the way I feel when I am in His presence. The more He reveals to me, the more I desire to see.

His power is limitless! His riches are immeasurable! His love knows no bounds!

Once you realize that God wants you to diligently seek Him, and that He wants you to know Him and to press into the vast depths of His glory and grace, you will never, ever want to settle for a normal life again.

When you spend time with God, He satisfies you in a way that nothing else can satisfy. At the same time He draws you into the deep and gives you an insatiable desire for more of His presence. There is more and God wants to give it to you! He wants you to know the depths of his truth, love, and power. He wants you to seek after Him like you would the most precious, priceless treasure.

When you do so, He will reveal the purpose for your life and all that He has “prepared for those who love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). You will never be the same when you comprehend this simple revelation: God is a good Father. You are His child. He loves you and He wants to give you an incredible inheritance.

As you embark on this journey towards empowerment and seek to study the truths found within these pages, my prayer for you is the same prayer that Paul prayed over the Ephesians church—

For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened,

that you may know what is the hope to which He has called you, what are the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power toward us who believe,

according to the working of His great might that He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

And He put all things under His feet and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Ephesians 1:15-23 ESV

I pray and believe that this book will be a game-changer for your life as you partner with God and realize that you have inherited His greatness—you are an heir to the limitless power of God!

You know it when it happens. Everything is just going along normally when, BAM! Out of the blue something so momentous happens that it changes the entire landscape of everything that you have ever known. Your entire universe is rocked! Everything changes.

The dictionary defines game-changer as a “newly-introduced element or factor that changes an existing situation or activity in a significant way.”

I have experienced some real game-changers: The moment I was called into the ministry; the day I first met my wife Jenny; our wedding day; and, the moment Olivia and Sadie were born. Each of these significant events changed my life in a monumental way at the very instant they occurred.

None was more startling, however, than the moment that God asked me to do something I never thought I would hear Him ask.

It was the beginning of 2010 and I was working for my father at his church— the church that I had grown up in. My grandfather, Harry Ararat Mushegan, established the church after moving from Phoenix, Arizona, to Atlanta, Georgia, in the 1960’s. My father, H. Alan Mushegan, Sr. assumed the leadership of the church in 1982 and moved it to Marietta in 1984. It rapidly grew even stronger, becoming an influential church in the area.

All of my life I just knew that it was my birthright to pastor the church that they had worked so hard to build. As the eldest son and first grandson, it was my destiny to take the reins and, by and through God’s grace, to pilot the church to its next level of growth and influence in the community. This was my father’s plan. This was my plan. It was a great plan! And, it made sense.

So there I was, working very hard to help my father build the church, knowing that at some point the Holy Spirit would give him the go-ahead and he would tell me my time had come—the moment that I had lived and worked for had finally arrived.

God had already done some incredible things in my life. The youth ministry I had pastored for eight and a half years was running hundreds of teens every week. When my time in youth ministry ended, I became the associate pastor of the church. The next logical step was to step into my father’s shoes—the same shoes that my grandfather had worn before him. My life was mapped out and everything was going according to plan. Then God changed everything!

As the year 2010 began the Lord directed me to fast, and several of my leaders decided to fast with me. I felt a sense of longing and searching that I couldn’t quite put my finger on, but I knew I needed to put myself in a position to hear from God. I didn’t know I was going to hear from Him so quickly, and I certainly never dreamed He would say what He did!

The Bible is full of stories of God changing people’s lives instantly—the “suddenlies.” One person who had an abrupt life-changing experience was the apostle Paul. Before he was known as Paul, he was Saul of Tarsus, a Pharisee who devoted himself to upholding the letter of the Law of Moses without mercy. He was so fervent in his defense of the Law that he went around killing Christians—he saw them as heretics.

But…suddenly! Acts 9 records how Saul was on his way into Damascus to chase down some followers of Christ, when the Lord appeared as a bright light and knocked him off his high horse—literally! In an instant, the biggest persecutor of the Christians became the most devout believer. Later Paul visited Heaven, spread the Gospel throughout the Mediterranean nations, established churches, and wrote many books of the New Testament.

On just the second day of the new year fast my own “suddenly” arrived. While I wasn’t struck off my horse, it was nevertheless earth-shaking.

The Holy Spirit said, “I am calling you out of your father’s house to start your own church in an area almost an hour away.”

I can’t explain the feeling, and it is even strange to think back on it now. The second I heard God’s voice my spirit responded, “This is what I am supposed to do.”

On one hand I was excited to hear God’s voice so clearly. On the other the bottom had just fallen out of my life’s plan. I grew nervous as I thought of leaving everything I knew and the people I had worked with for so long—and had assumed I would work with forever. Instead, I would be launching out into something I had never done before in an unfamiliar place.

Thoughts ran through my mind: “What is Dad going to think when I tell him what God said? We have a plan. And, Jenny? What is she going to think when I tell her that God is calling us to move to a new city and start a church in a place we know nothing about?”

We were both so comfortable with our current circumstance. I don’t know who I was more apprehensive about talking to—Dad or Jenny! For that matter, what would everyone think?

The next day I broached the subject with my father. “Hey, Dad, I’ve been thinking. I would really like to go out to Rockmart and start holding some meetings during the week and begin to reach out to that area. I can take the band, do some stuff at the high school and maybe rent someplace to hold some meetings.”

My jaw dropped at his reply: “Son, I really think you should start a church in that area. I was sitting on my couch the other day and the Lord spoke to me about you. I know this isn’t what we have planned, but I know it’s what you need to do.”

Wow! Two game-changing moments within 48 hours. This was January. By February 23 we were holding meetings in Rockmart. In September of the same year we launched Full Turn Church. Since then God has taken us on an amazing journey.

Five years later my wife and I and our two gorgeous daughters are living in our dream house in a new city, with two church campuses in Hiram and Dallas, Georgia, and a plan to start more. We are doing life with some of the greatest people on the planet. None of these things had crossed our minds when we took the first step of faith that God asked us to take in 2010.

It’s just like God to let us believe we have everything under control, and then to swoop in and replace it all with His plan! And, I believe by the end of this book He is going to change or broaden yours! I believe He is going to give you a picture of your future that will shatter any plans that are too small for the vision He wants to place within your heart.

What if I told you that every moment you spend with God can be a game-changing moment?

Your heavenly Father does not want you to settle for what you think is best because what He has planned for you is so much greater. He wants to interrupt your mundane routine and your thoughts, and do something awesome in your life. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been a Christian for one day or for most of your life, there is more that God wants to do in and with your life.

God has not called us to be settlers, but pioneers. Remember, you serve a God who can do anything! God is awesome! It’s just who He is, and everything He does is awesome. He wants to do something awesome in your life.

Time and time again I’ve seen the Holy Spirit challenge His people to grow—to go where they have never gone before. If we are going to accomplish what God has planned and purposed for us to accomplish, then we must be willing to press into it.

Nothing good comes without faith, and the Bible teaches us that faith without works is dead. We have to put legs to our faith. When we are challenged by the Lord to move, we need to move even if it seems a little frightening. As a matter of fact, if what God has for you is not so big that it doesn’t scare you, then it’s probably not Him at all. He challenges you to get you in position for the more He wants to bring into your life.

An empty pitcher is designed to hold water. However, if you place it on the counter instead of under the faucet, it’s not going to receive the water. If you don’t place it under the spout, no water will fill it—even though it is designed to receive and hold the water.

In the same way so many of us are not receiving from our Father simply because we are out of position. Faith and obedience to the Lord and His Word position us for the blessing, provision, and power that He wants to pour into our lives.

It amazes me how we seem to be so eager to settle for just getting by. How quickly we give up on our dreams! Hit the first road block and we stop striving, content to settle for average.

I call this way of living the “Survival Mode.” Doing just enough to get by. Never stepping beyond the confines of our comfort zone.

Please hear my heart: This is no way to live the life that God has purposed for you to live. And, yes, you can have more.

You may say, “Well, if God wanted me to have more, He would give me more. He is sovereign, and I can only have what He allows.”

This sounds good—religious and even rational. The problem is we never give God anything to work with.

If you want more, you are going to have to start seeing more and believing for the more you see!!

Own this thing. Each of us is where we are today because of the level of faith we have exhibited in the God we serve. The reason that we do not have more is because we have not believed Him for more, nor have we given Him anything that He can use to give us more.

Is the reason we haven’t, because we don’t know who we really are and what belongs to us? Think about that.

God wants to give you a revelation of self and the power that you possess to change your existing situation and obliterate the box that the world system has confined you to live in. This book has the potential to ignite you and propel you into the powerful future that God has prepared for you. Will you leave mediocrity behind and become powerful?

I have always been enthralled by the stories of people who have gone beyond the norm and walked in divine power. I am not just talking about Bible stories, either. I am talking about people who lived within the past 150 years—men like John Alexander Dowie, John G. Lake, Smith Wigglesworth, Oral Roberts, Jack Coe, and the list goes on. Women like Maria Woodworth Etter, Amiee Semple McPherson, Kathryn Kuhlman, and others. These remarkable men and women walked in the power of the Spirit and God worked miraculous wonders through them.

In his book, GOD’S GENERALS, Roberts Liardon tells their stories. The dead were raised, blinded eyes were opened, deaf ears began to hear, missing limbs grew back on people’s bodies, and many more incredible miracles were performed through their hands. Yet, these were ordinary people just like me and you. What was their secret? They tapped into something.

This book will help you tap into that same thing. God desires each and every one of us to be used by Him to produce marvels for His Kingdom. I believe God wants to do even greater things through us than He did through them, and take us to levels in Him that few have discovered—not just to see miracles, signs and wonders, but to live like Jesus lived in the earth, to walk with God, and to be power-filled and power-full in every area of our lives.

If you are a Christian, a supernatural life is your heritage. This thing is bigger than you can even imagine!

Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.

What does it mean to be a Christian? If we were to poll a group of people with this question, we would receive a variety of responses. In Matthew 16:13, Jesus asked His followers, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” (NKJV). He, too, received an assortment of answers—and they were all guesses! Only one person answered with a revelation from the Father when He asked, “But who do you say that I am?” (v. 15).

What was that revelation? “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” (v. 16).

Jesus responded with this statement to Simon, the one who answered with heavenly insight:“Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven” (v. 18).

Then He gave Simon a new name—Peter, and declared, “On this rock [meaning the revelation that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God] I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it” (v. 18).

Now, anytime I think about keys I remember when my dad gave me the keys to his kingdom, and by his kingdom, I mean his 1978 Trans AM. I will never forget this car. It was white with the signature firebird on the front hood, 6.6 liter engine, and bad to the bone! If you don’t know about the 1978 Trans AM, it is a serious muscle car. You know what I mean if you ever watched the first SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT movie.

I had been waiting for this car to be mine from the moment that Dad bought it on our way home from a family vacation in Florida. I was 12-years-old at the time, and we shared a love for this type of car. When he spotted the Trans AM as we drove by a small, used-car lot, he knew right then and there we had to have it.

When I say “we,” I mean of course he bought the car for himself to enjoy for a few years before giving it to me on my 16th birthday. I was so excited when he bought it because I knew