At cell tonight I will be facilitating a topic on being naturally supernatural, by which I mean that Christians need to live in both the physical, or seen, world and the spiritual, or unseen, world. We must have insight and wisdom in both worlds- not always easy.

Today I had an unusual experience of this.

I started to fill out the form to apply for a visa for my trip to India in August. Normally this is fairly straight forward. However the internet site is badly designed and not fully functional. Despite offering on-line form-filling, this was not available and I had to download the form and fill it in manually. The instructions were poor and even misleading- on the front of the form it states the photo must be two inches square but the square you must paste it is a little over 1 inch square.

As I started the process I noticed that my anger levels were rising. At one stage as I crossed between the church and the house I noticed the water feature needed topping up. As I stood there with the hose I rebuked the spirit of anger and asked God for his peace to fill me. I went back inside and felt much calmer.

A photo was needed to be attached to the form Josh took several for me- it's amazing how hard it is to take a photo sufficiently bad as to qualify as a mug shot. I cropped and sized the photo to the right size then proceeded to try to print it. It took about 8 attempts on two different printers.

I'm by no means a technophobe. Printing a photo onto photographic paper is not a big task.

I began to sense there was some spiritual opposition to my travelling to India. I rebuked the resisting spirits in the name of Jesus and tried again. This time there was no problem and the photo came out fine.

I don't want to over-spiritualise everything, but I think that Christians are too often ignorant of the spiritual battles in which we live our daily lives. We need to ask the Holy Spirit to open our eyes and give us revelation each day.