Can you just be satisfied with God for a season, trusting in Him and the way He handles the affairs of this world? I think you should. I think I will."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Thought for the day
"The true seeker of God's self-disclosure on the matter of healing will be moved to be in the presence of God, more and more, until he/she learns to trust God. At that moment when you do lean in closely, and you do trust God, faith will become real; the outcome or the circumstance will not prevail over your faith - Your faith will prevail over the outcome or circumstance.
Can you just be satisfied with God for a season, trusting in Him and the way He handles the affairs of this world? I think you should. I think I will."
Can you just be satisfied with God for a season, trusting in Him and the way He handles the affairs of this world? I think you should. I think I will."
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Thought for the day
"The formula for healing or receiving from God is trust in God. You place yourself in God's hands, and with faith you patiently await His touch. Never do you command God to do anything. That is not faith. Faith wrestles not with God, demanding a predictable outcome of choice. If it were so, we could make commands, some good, some not so good. We could heal or pray against healing as it pleases us and we could all become god's like Zeus, Neptune or Apollo.
Here's where people get mixed up. It was God's intended will that we live forever, on earth, in perfect health. But within the bounds of freewill, Adam sinned, thereby altering forever the perfect plan of God for (Adam's) children. If not for the work of Christ on the cross, can I say that none of us would have a prayer. God's grace is sufficient for the faithful.
We must stop craving for God to bail us out every time we foolishly disobey Him. Our desire should be, must be, to know Him, to worship Him, to Praise Him and to trust Him implicitly.
Hebrews 11:1-12 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. V2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. V3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. V4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. V5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. V6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. V7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. V8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. V9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: V10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. V11 Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. V12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. V13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."
You must never tell people or even insinuate that they didn't receive what they desired or that their loved one died from sickness because of a lack of faith. What a mockery that is to God, the Omnipotent One, who is and always will be in charge of giving and healing and life. I am convinced that all your efforts to reveal how God works apart from scriptural revelation is the basis for all false images of God and false theology about God's work among mankind. Man's quest to prove himself right has overthrown his sensibility to pure truth, pure anything for that matter.
Here's where people get mixed up. It was God's intended will that we live forever, on earth, in perfect health. But within the bounds of freewill, Adam sinned, thereby altering forever the perfect plan of God for (Adam's) children. If not for the work of Christ on the cross, can I say that none of us would have a prayer. God's grace is sufficient for the faithful.
We must stop craving for God to bail us out every time we foolishly disobey Him. Our desire should be, must be, to know Him, to worship Him, to Praise Him and to trust Him implicitly.
Hebrews 11:1-12 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. V2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. V3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. V4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. V5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. V6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. V7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. V8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. V9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: V10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. V11 Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. V12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. V13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."
You must never tell people or even insinuate that they didn't receive what they desired or that their loved one died from sickness because of a lack of faith. What a mockery that is to God, the Omnipotent One, who is and always will be in charge of giving and healing and life. I am convinced that all your efforts to reveal how God works apart from scriptural revelation is the basis for all false images of God and false theology about God's work among mankind. Man's quest to prove himself right has overthrown his sensibility to pure truth, pure anything for that matter.
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Monday, August 29, 2011
Thought for the day
"With every breath of faith and with every testimony of joy where God has so graciously dealt with His children and healing was the result, there is the voice of another of disappointment and heartache at the loss of a loved one. God-thinking requires we trust God:
I admire those who have faith to receive healing. I am one. I also admire those who have not received their healing and trust God in their current circumstances. I have friends that say, "never say you are sick." I find nothing in scripture to support denying the reality of your physical condition. After all there could be no healing if there were no sickness. We need to trust the Father when we are sick. Sickness is part of the fall.
God-thinking admits that God has not divulged His All-ness to us, as some proclaim."
- Trust God when all is well.
- Trust God when all is not well.
- Trust God when the answer is yes.
- Trust God when the answer is not yes.
- Trust God when His mysterious ways cannot be unscrambled, to fit what we think should happen.
- Trust God when you receive and trust God when you don't receive.
- Trust God when you are healed.
- And trust God when sickness prevails.
I admire those who have faith to receive healing. I am one. I also admire those who have not received their healing and trust God in their current circumstances. I have friends that say, "never say you are sick." I find nothing in scripture to support denying the reality of your physical condition. After all there could be no healing if there were no sickness. We need to trust the Father when we are sick. Sickness is part of the fall.
God-thinking admits that God has not divulged His All-ness to us, as some proclaim."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Thought for the day
"It is easy to take a short walk with Jesus. After all your first exposure to the supernatural is exciting as you experience the power of Almighty God running through your body and mind. But not many choose the long walk where you get to see the long term goal for your life - the broader picture.
- The long walk reveals to you a better view of how God works among His people. The long walk requires faith, as your witness to the miraculous.
- The long walk makes you wise and trusting of Almighty God.
- The long walk trusts the outcome to the hands of the creator.
- The long walk doesn't need for everything to go your way, it doesn't need constant proof that God can and is doing mighty exploits.
- The long walk trusts God as God and is secure in being a child of God, trusting the Father, despite the outcome, despite the circumstances.
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Thought for the day
"To trust God is to trust God and has nothing to do with the outcome in the physical. God allows all of us to grow old and die, despite our diet, belief system or religious affiliation, because there is more. 2 Corinthians 5:1-7 "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building with God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. V2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven. V3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. V4 for we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. V5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. V6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: V7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Friday, August 26, 2011
Thought for the day
"People today want everything and they want it now. Healing is expected with this same urgency of the moment that seems to push us along, almost as if being too busy or always succumbing to the circumstance were a God thing. The proof of how God works among us is not always found in the bright eyed excitement of the new believer or those who have finally come to believe that God can heal or provide. The God of the scriptures maintains some mystery apart from our intellectual ability to ascertain God=s every move or action or decision. This mystery must become part of our understanding of healing, else we will either be confused and perplexed each time someone is not healed, or we will believe something that is not true. Either way, whether you are confused or you believe a false premise, you have not trusted God unless you have trusted God."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Thought for the day
"In all of us there is a sense of expectancy that God will redeem our spoil with a touch of spiritual healing or financial healing or marital healing. Buit as Christians we should believe in divine healing, not magical healing.
Most of us know without a doubt that God does and can heal at will. We gladly agree in faith with God's Omnipotent decisions. But how reluctant we are to adhere to His plan for our lives when it calls for self-discipline, hard work, patience, perseverance or change.
When we are forced by physical impairment, we cling with hope that God will supernaturally intervene and save us from our current condition, but when all is well, we have a tendency to ignore the things that God placed here to keep us well and healthy."
Most of us know without a doubt that God does and can heal at will. We gladly agree in faith with God's Omnipotent decisions. But how reluctant we are to adhere to His plan for our lives when it calls for self-discipline, hard work, patience, perseverance or change.
When we are forced by physical impairment, we cling with hope that God will supernaturally intervene and save us from our current condition, but when all is well, we have a tendency to ignore the things that God placed here to keep us well and healthy."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Thought for the day
"We have an entire generation of people who do not abide by the basic principles of nature, but they want all the blessings of nature. We abuse our bodies and eat whatever pleases us. We do not practice the natural laws of God concerning the foods we eat, the water we drink , or the air we breathe. We don=t always practice good eating habits that nurture healthy bodies. As the years quickly pass by, and the abuse continues, there comes a time when the flesh cannot keep fighting off the constant aggravation of poor habits. If there is no resolve to fight back and find a better way, a better diet, a more natural medicine or a more disciplined lifestyle, there will come a time when we will reap what we sow.
Galatians 6:7 ABe not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap"
Galatians 6:7 ABe not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap"
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Thought for the day
"God-thinking proposes that true faith is knowing that within the mind of God rests the fullness of understanding and we are OK with that. I know that many claim to have it all figured out and I have no dispute with them, but I have something figured out too. God Almighty is not pleased when we think we know all there is to know about God.
God doesn't want you to trade in your faith, (the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen), for a lordship of sorts, where God is all figured out and there is an answer to every question. Some of us want a Jesus who responds on command, like He is our slave. No, the Jesus of the scriptures is the one who walked on water. He is the one who heals the sick and saves souls. He is the one who loves unconditionally. It is Jesus who gives grace. I am going to put my trust In Jesus, without conditions.
Faith was never meant to force the hand of God. Faith was meant to accept what God allows with thanksgiving. Your understanding is found in your trust in God's Sovereignty."
God doesn't want you to trade in your faith, (the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen), for a lordship of sorts, where God is all figured out and there is an answer to every question. Some of us want a Jesus who responds on command, like He is our slave. No, the Jesus of the scriptures is the one who walked on water. He is the one who heals the sick and saves souls. He is the one who loves unconditionally. It is Jesus who gives grace. I am going to put my trust In Jesus, without conditions.
Faith was never meant to force the hand of God. Faith was meant to accept what God allows with thanksgiving. Your understanding is found in your trust in God's Sovereignty."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Monday, August 22, 2011
Thought for the day
"It is not our God nature that has to see the outcome always come out as we would have it. God-thinking matures us to understand that God will not be contravened, nor will He, nor has He disclosed all of Himself to us at any time. There is no question that there would be a great deal more healing if there were a great deal more faith. But true faith is about trusting God despite the outcome, (it is not in having to always get what we think should be the outcome)."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Thought for the day
"Healing or receiving anything from God must be understood. Some say that they have found a formula for being healed or receiving from God, and if we are not healed or do not receive what we want, it is because we do not have the faith to be healed. Even though it is true that sometimes (healing or receiving) is held back by a lack of faith, even the most faithful of all don't get everything they want, they can get sick, and they will someday grow old and die, (in the flesh).
When it comes to healing or receiving anything from God, God-thinking reminds us that there will always be undiscovered mystery surrounding God's sovereign control. True faith trust's God (Period). Remember the words of Job, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" Job 13:15.
When it comes to healing or receiving anything from God, God-thinking reminds us that there will always be undiscovered mystery surrounding God's sovereign control. True faith trust's God (Period). Remember the words of Job, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" Job 13:15.
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Thought for the day
"God-thinking keeps Aon top@ the things that God blesses. God-thinking believes God. But God-thinking takes you to a dimension that not only believes the impossible, which it does, but to be sound in your understanding also. God-thinking has expectations about God that only God can fill, and rightly so, but God-thinking does not move with the trend or the wind, it is dependent on sound truths, truths that can be understood through your experience and faith."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Friday, August 19, 2011
Thought for the day
"Matthew 20:32 "And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do for you?" If we recognize God in our midst and we reveal our insufficiency, (cry out), Jesus the Christ will answer and say, "What will ye that I should do for you?"
Don't think it unusual that Jesus answers the plea of a contrite heart? Jesus seeks the call of faith to reveal Himself. Listen to the words of scripture.
2 Chronicles 16:9a "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him..."
Matthew 7:7-11 "And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. V8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. V9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? V10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? V11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto you children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?"
Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."
Psalm 37:5 "Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass."
Faced with the question, "What will ye that I should do for you?" What would your request be?
Don't think it unusual that Jesus answers the plea of a contrite heart? Jesus seeks the call of faith to reveal Himself. Listen to the words of scripture.
2 Chronicles 16:9a "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him..."
Matthew 7:7-11 "And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. V8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. V9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? V10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? V11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto you children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?"
Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."
Psalm 37:5 "Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass."
Faced with the question, "What will ye that I should do for you?" What would your request be?
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Thought for the day
"When you pray, you must be careful NOT to pray for what sounds good or what others want to hear.
We do that once and a while, but less is better. Now take a minute and look back and you can see where God was telling you to pray one way about this or that, and you prayed another. Even while you were praying, you could sense that what you were asking for didn't seem right, but it sounded like the right thing to pray for, or it was what you thought you wanted. You need to follow the Spirit's leading. You need to quit trying to please men or say things to be heard. God is looking for you to pray with wisdom."
We do that once and a while, but less is better. Now take a minute and look back and you can see where God was telling you to pray one way about this or that, and you prayed another. Even while you were praying, you could sense that what you were asking for didn't seem right, but it sounded like the right thing to pray for, or it was what you thought you wanted. You need to follow the Spirit's leading. You need to quit trying to please men or say things to be heard. God is looking for you to pray with wisdom."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Thought for the day
"No more teaching during prayer.
You need to quit trying to instruct others while communing with God. Prayer, all prayer is direct communication with God. God is not pleased when you try to persuade others or influence others or to put others down when you are supposed to be in pure reverence before God.
Luke 18:9-14 "And He spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others. V10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a publican. (Of the three sects of prominent societies of Judaism; the Pharisees, Sadducees and the Essenes, the Pharisees were by far the most influential. These were the religious leaders of the time. And a publican was a local tax collector for the Roman government. V11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. V12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. V13 And the publican , standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. V14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted."
God-thinking requires that you think about what you say when you pray to Almighty God. You should be praying with faith directly to God, not trying to teach others or make others feel like they are of a lessor sort.
Matthew 20:33 "They say unto Him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened." Is it spiritual to ask for something for our self? Of course it is. And we should do more of it, according to the will of God.
Matthew 20:34 "So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him." Jesus opened their eyes. I don't believe that crying out is some kind of spiritual formula to get what you want from God, but I do believe that there have been many times in your life when you were in the presence of God and did not cry out because there were people around you or because it might embarrass you, and because of it, you missed a brief and intimate encounter with God. And you missed what could have been yours if you had cried out and asked.
God says ask. God wants you and I to reveal our deepest thoughts and express our most precious goals to Him, (not so that God will then know what He doesn't know), but so that we can show your love and trust and dependency in God. Then God can fill your tomorrow's with today's prayer of faith.
You need to quit trying to instruct others while communing with God. Prayer, all prayer is direct communication with God. God is not pleased when you try to persuade others or influence others or to put others down when you are supposed to be in pure reverence before God.
Luke 18:9-14 "And He spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others. V10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a publican. (Of the three sects of prominent societies of Judaism; the Pharisees, Sadducees and the Essenes, the Pharisees were by far the most influential. These were the religious leaders of the time. And a publican was a local tax collector for the Roman government. V11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. V12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. V13 And the publican , standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. V14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted."
God-thinking requires that you think about what you say when you pray to Almighty God. You should be praying with faith directly to God, not trying to teach others or make others feel like they are of a lessor sort.
Matthew 20:33 "They say unto Him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened." Is it spiritual to ask for something for our self? Of course it is. And we should do more of it, according to the will of God.
Matthew 20:34 "So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him." Jesus opened their eyes. I don't believe that crying out is some kind of spiritual formula to get what you want from God, but I do believe that there have been many times in your life when you were in the presence of God and did not cry out because there were people around you or because it might embarrass you, and because of it, you missed a brief and intimate encounter with God. And you missed what could have been yours if you had cried out and asked.
God says ask. God wants you and I to reveal our deepest thoughts and express our most precious goals to Him, (not so that God will then know what He doesn't know), but so that we can show your love and trust and dependency in God. Then God can fill your tomorrow's with today's prayer of faith.
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Thought for the day
"We need to be careful in our thinking concerning our interpretation of (self-righteous religious). Not everyone who is part of a Christian denomination is self-righteous religious. There are self-righteous religious in every church, denominational and non-denominational, but most people who attend church are not self-righteous. They are genuinely seeking fulfillment in Christ. Most church members are truly unaware of their denomination's agenda. They simply want to worship God and they do so, in spite of the self-righteous religious that are among them.
The self-righteous religious are those who think they are better than others because of what they believe. They wield what God gave them as if they had earned it. They forgot they were saved by grace. It's not just the grumpy, grouchy, stagnant denominationalist that are self righteous. There are many free-spirited, even Pentecostals, who also take on this spirit of superiority. Anyone who thinks themselves better than someone else, because they have something that someone else doesn't have is full of pride and pride is the root of self-righteousness."
The self-righteous religious are those who think they are better than others because of what they believe. They wield what God gave them as if they had earned it. They forgot they were saved by grace. It's not just the grumpy, grouchy, stagnant denominationalist that are self righteous. There are many free-spirited, even Pentecostals, who also take on this spirit of superiority. Anyone who thinks themselves better than someone else, because they have something that someone else doesn't have is full of pride and pride is the root of self-righteousness."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Monday, August 15, 2011
Thought for the day
"Matthew 20:30-31a "And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David. And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace:"
What I've seen is, that when the hungry, the empty, the desperate man or woman see God in their midst, they want to cry out. They cry out from a raw, natural void in themselves, a void that can see that they can be filled with just a touch of the Master's hand. They know that their blindness cannot be healed apart from a touch from God. But there are two groups of people telling the two blind men not to cry out and to hold their peace.
1 The unbelieving, faithless and powerless. Those who see Jesus as a nice man, nothing more, nothing less. They say hold your peace, because they want to keep things the way they are.
2 The self-righteous religious. Those who have made themselves comfortable under the blanket of religion. This group also told the blind to hold their peace. After all, such blatant outbreaks could disrupt their plans. Tell those blind men to shut up Jesus is here. From a modern viewpoint - Keep those kids quiet, Jesus is here. "When , Oh vain man, when will you seek Me apart from man's approval."
What I've seen is, that when the hungry, the empty, the desperate man or woman see God in their midst, they want to cry out. They cry out from a raw, natural void in themselves, a void that can see that they can be filled with just a touch of the Master's hand. They know that their blindness cannot be healed apart from a touch from God. But there are two groups of people telling the two blind men not to cry out and to hold their peace.
1 The unbelieving, faithless and powerless. Those who see Jesus as a nice man, nothing more, nothing less. They say hold your peace, because they want to keep things the way they are.
2 The self-righteous religious. Those who have made themselves comfortable under the blanket of religion. This group also told the blind to hold their peace. After all, such blatant outbreaks could disrupt their plans. Tell those blind men to shut up Jesus is here. From a modern viewpoint - Keep those kids quiet, Jesus is here. "When , Oh vain man, when will you seek Me apart from man's approval."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Friday, August 12, 2011
Thought for the day
"God-thinking doesn't stop thinking God. Despite the negative - Despite the barriers - Despite the naysayers - Despite the dead ends - Despite the doubt - Despite the impatience - Despite the trials and tribulations - Despite the hypocrites - Despite our friends and family who shake their heads at us - Despite our sickness - Despite the impossible.
We will praise & worship and thank God, because faith doesn't give up. God-thinking perseveres in faith until your dream, goal or task at hand is fulfilled.
We will praise & worship and thank God, because faith doesn't give up. God-thinking perseveres in faith until your dream, goal or task at hand is fulfilled.
- Faith doesn't quit, ever.
- Faith doesn't stop believing God when things get tough.
- Faith doesn't stop following God when mankind lets us down.
- Faith sets its eyes on God.
- Faith doesn't look around to see who is looking, when God is present.
- Faith doesn't need to see the answer to know who holds the answer.
- Faith trusts God to work in it and through it until it is accomplished.
- Faith is the fuel that keeps God-thinking aflame.
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Thought for the day
"God-thinking is the renewing of your mind to think like Christ. God-thinking is to be filled with the knowledge of His will to increase in the knowledge of God. God-thinking puts the things of God "on top" and pushes the things of the world, (doubt, negative thinking, worry, stress), down and down and down until they disappear altogether.
God-thinking believes what God says. The foundation of God-thinking is threefold:
God-thinking believes what God says. The foundation of God-thinking is threefold:
- Choosing a goal that can be sanctioned by God
- Acknowledging what we are able to do towards our goals, dreams or desires and acknowledging what is impossible for us to do and will require the hand of God.
- Talking and listening to God along the way.
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Thought for the day
"I cannot explain God, nor can I teach you what God wants to teach You of Himself. God designed the Church to be the one place where we could be moved by His Supernatural presence, without being embarrassed or ill thought of. But over time, our leaders have led us to believe that we all need to worship God the same way, and so man decided how we should look and act when God is present.
Can I tell you that I do not believe I can tell you how to act when God is present. When the Almighty visits you and speaks to you, please let go and let God have His way. God desires such to worship Him. For too long, we have allowed the faithless, the unbelieving and the lukewarm to set the bar by which we reveal our love for Christ. You can start in the privacy of your home or some very special place to let God have His way with you. Let go and let God reveal Himself to you. Ask God to reveal Himself to you and He will, but be ready to fall like the prophets of old."
Can I tell you that I do not believe I can tell you how to act when God is present. When the Almighty visits you and speaks to you, please let go and let God have His way. God desires such to worship Him. For too long, we have allowed the faithless, the unbelieving and the lukewarm to set the bar by which we reveal our love for Christ. You can start in the privacy of your home or some very special place to let God have His way with you. Let go and let God reveal Himself to you. Ask God to reveal Himself to you and He will, but be ready to fall like the prophets of old."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Thought for the day
"God-thinking is looking to see what God is doing, right now, right here, where we are at, today, and starts to do what God is blessing. How would you like to be doing what God is blessing? - to be totally in line with what God planned for this century, this millennium, this day, this hour.
God-thinking puts you in the right place at the right time, because God-thinking teaches you to walk in faith. Faith trust's that God knows what He is doing, and listens carefully to the voice of God and then moves on it without hesitation.
I am convinced that had you responded in faith early on, things would be different today, but even so, tomorrow is prepared to provide what faith believes today. Our tomorrow's are filled with the substance of things hoped for today. What is your faith building?
God-thinking puts you in the right place at the right time, because God-thinking teaches you to walk in faith. Faith trust's that God knows what He is doing, and listens carefully to the voice of God and then moves on it without hesitation.
I am convinced that had you responded in faith early on, things would be different today, but even so, tomorrow is prepared to provide what faith believes today. Our tomorrow's are filled with the substance of things hoped for today. What is your faith building?
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell copyright 2010
Thought for the day
"Our relationship with God is to be solely based on His revelation of Himself to us. Religion has through the centuries and throughout the world, even today, created doctrines of men, that have painstakingly reduced God. It was and is a tragic mistake to see God as anything other than Himself. But this one thing I know, when we do see God as He is, in Christ, by faith and revelation of the Holy Spirit, God-thinking becomes even more important.
- We revel in our relationship with God like never before.
- We cannot help but bow to Him in humble adoration.
- We cannot help but worship Him and Praise Him.
- We cannot help but love His Church.
- We cannot help but want to be like Christ.
- We cannot help but believe His Word.
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Thought for the day
"Just as your view of God must be a high and lofty view, so too your view of Jesus must also be a high and lofty view, and so too your view of the Holy Spirit must be a high and lofty view. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit can only be known and understood by faith. Apart from the revelation of God of Himself, there is no revelation, because man cannot reveal Holy God. Just the same, when God reveals Himself to man, He reveals Himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Thought for the day
"Christ made Himself familiar to us, not that through knowing Him we would continue on the path of waywardness, but that through knowing Him we would choose to follow Him.
God allowed Himself to become familiar to us through Christ, knowing that we could not understand the infinite. But God reveals Himself to us in Christ so that we could know Him. Why would God want us to know Him through Jesus the Christ? The answer to this question is answered solely by our view of God. If God were the god that this world's religions have created, he would be unfair and unjust. He would be unpredictable and uncertain. He would coerce and manipulate. There would be no grace. Man's perception of God through this world's religions is not and cannot be correct. Because, man cannot describe God without the indwelling Spirit of God and the indwelling Spirit of God does not indwell the unbeliever of the Lord Jesus Christ. God can only be known through Christ and Christ can only be known through faith. And faith can only be known through revelation of the Holy Spirit."
God allowed Himself to become familiar to us through Christ, knowing that we could not understand the infinite. But God reveals Himself to us in Christ so that we could know Him. Why would God want us to know Him through Jesus the Christ? The answer to this question is answered solely by our view of God. If God were the god that this world's religions have created, he would be unfair and unjust. He would be unpredictable and uncertain. He would coerce and manipulate. There would be no grace. Man's perception of God through this world's religions is not and cannot be correct. Because, man cannot describe God without the indwelling Spirit of God and the indwelling Spirit of God does not indwell the unbeliever of the Lord Jesus Christ. God can only be known through Christ and Christ can only be known through faith. And faith can only be known through revelation of the Holy Spirit."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Friday, August 5, 2011
Thought for the day
"Why is it so important for us to have a proper image of God? God says so. God decided that we should know Him. God decided how we should get to know Him. God decided, that only through the Son, by faith, shall He be revealed. This world's religions want God without Christ. There is no God without Christ. Yet even when Jesus walked the earth, there were many that brushed against Him and sat with Him, and yet did not recognize the creator. It takes faith to see God. And God decided that Jesus would provide for us the image of God. The true image of God is best revealed through Christ.
Colossians 1:15 & 2:9 "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:" Colossians 2:9 "For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily."
Colossians 1:15 & 2:9 "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:" Colossians 2:9 "For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C, Powell copyright 2010
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Thought for the day
"When you try to imagine what God is like, you must of necessity rely on that which is not God to do so, therefore whatever you visualize God to be, He is not. We have constructed out of creation that which made creation. It=s like this: If you drew a picture of yourself and then looked at it, would that picture look like you? Yes. Now let=s let the picture have a crack at it, what would it look like?
Our intellect falls short of being able to create a true and proper image of God. But by faith, you can receive from God a true and proper image of God. It is not unusual for man to have an image of God. But the image of God that man makes can be quite unusual."
Our intellect falls short of being able to create a true and proper image of God. But by faith, you can receive from God a true and proper image of God. It is not unusual for man to have an image of God. But the image of God that man makes can be quite unusual."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Thought for the day
"None of us can accurately described Holy God, only God Himself, and you receive understanding by faith. And when God reveals Himself to you by faith, you, like the prophets, fall to your knees in reverence of His unlikeness to anyone or anything.
Nothing is like our God and nothing to be compared. That is why the scriptures say to us in 1 Corinthians 2:9-13 "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. V10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. V11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. V12 ANow we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. V13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man=s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
God was not made in your image and likeness, you were made in His image and likeness. If you are going to have a right view of God, it will have to be a faith view. Hebrews 11:1 tells us about this view. Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
If faith is the evidence, then faith alone can provide a right view of God. Every religion in the world has tried to explain God and bring God into subjection to their thinking. It cannot be done. The true test of faith, is your view of God based on God having revealed Himself to you, not once, but often. You and I need more revelation of God, from God.
Nothing is like our God and nothing to be compared. That is why the scriptures say to us in 1 Corinthians 2:9-13 "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. V10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. V11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. V12 ANow we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. V13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man=s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
God was not made in your image and likeness, you were made in His image and likeness. If you are going to have a right view of God, it will have to be a faith view. Hebrews 11:1 tells us about this view. Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
If faith is the evidence, then faith alone can provide a right view of God. Every religion in the world has tried to explain God and bring God into subjection to their thinking. It cannot be done. The true test of faith, is your view of God based on God having revealed Himself to you, not once, but often. You and I need more revelation of God, from God.
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Monday, August 1, 2011
Thought for the day
"In worship and praise, through prayer and supplication, the question of "whom are you worshiping?", must arise. Questions like "who is this God?" and "What does God look like?" must arise out of the desire to know your creator.
Your intellect has created an image of God in your mind and it is this image that reigns over all else. A poor image of God, a false image of God, an undesirable image of God, any image made by mankind apart from the revelation of God Himself, by faith, by the indwelling Spirit - is untrue of God."
Your intellect has created an image of God in your mind and it is this image that reigns over all else. A poor image of God, a false image of God, an undesirable image of God, any image made by mankind apart from the revelation of God Himself, by faith, by the indwelling Spirit - is untrue of God."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
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