Thought for the day

"If you don't believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and that there is no other name by which you must be saved, you haven't been saved. You do not believe the testimony of God of His Son.

You might wonder, "why is this so important?"  Because there is no life apart from Jesus Christ. The whole world is worshiping somebody: Buddha, Allah, the goddess Dianna, (Jesus the brother of satan), satan, themselves, the human consciousness, cucumbers and on and on.  God-thinking thinks like Christ and Christ thinks like God.

Now get a hold of this and you will receive power from on high. Let's look at to John 5:19. Jesus was talking to unbelievers/Jews in this case. They wanted to kill Him because He had been healing on the Sabbath day. Hear what Jesus says. John 5:19 "Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise."

Let me ask you something, During Jesus's ministry, was Jesus being Himself?  Could Jesus be anything but Himself? And who He is, is the Son of God.  Neither can we be something that we are not. 

As born again believers we are by design a child of God, and heir with Christ, now and forever.  God did not make us a child of the living God, just so we can go to heaven.  God makes us a child of God so we can be like His Son.  Eternal life doesn=t start after we die, when this life is over.  Eternal life starts the moment we receive Christ, and doesn=t end.  God gives us eternal life at the moment of salvation.  John 10:27-28  AMy sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:  V28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.@ 

God-thinking believes what God says above what man says."

Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010