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"I don’t want you to miss the revelation of God that is about to be unwrapped

The devil doesn’t mind if you read the Word, as long as you don’t believe it or practice it, as long as you don’t allow God to work in you and through you. 

As long as you don’t trust in Jesus Christ and do what Jesus says, the devil isn’t even concerned. 

All around the world people believe that Jesus was a real man, some even believe he was a prophet, some even that he was a good man, but the Jesus of the Koran cannot save you.

The Jesus of the Baghivad Ghida cannot save you.  

The Jesus that may have walked the earth and died can’t save anybody. 

The devil isn’t concerned about any of it - but the Jesus that saves souls.

• The Jesus that fills.
• The Jesus that provides.
• The Jesus that heals.
• The Jesus that delivers. 
• The Jesus that forgives.
• The Jesus that reveals.
• The Jesus that gives what you did not earn.
• The Jesus that takes you from where you were to where you are.
• The Jesus that takes you from where you are to your next Jesus stop.
• The Jesus that makes something out of nothing
• The Jesus that gives hope where there is not hope
• The Jesus that let’s you see God through Him
• The Jesus that meets you here.
• The Jesus that sets us free from every worry and every burden we give Him.
• The Jesus of the scriptures

Now, the devil is concerned about this Jesus.

Do you know why?

Because, when the revelation of what God wants from you hits you

• When you get what God is trying to get to you
• When you get the revelation, that God already spoke in His Word to you
• When you decide to believe God and let Him give to you what is rightfully yours 
• When you decide to turn back and take up where your faith left off
• When you make a commitment to quit listening to your arch enemy
• When you start believing that you must obey your Father in heaven and that nothing else will do.

Hear me:

People today want to jump from one glory to another, when God is calling you to be seasoned in preparation for a mighty outpouring of His Holy Spirit."

Excerpt from God thinking XL - Nothing Less Will Do - Nothing Else Will Work by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

 

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"God has spoken to you.  You may not have been listening, but God has spoken to you and communicated that He wants you to build up the kingdom of God, right here, in this place, serving Him where you are with what you have.  You have heard the Word of the Lord along the way.  Do you have the revelation?

 

What is God speaking to your spirit?

 

Matthew 13:44  “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.”

 

Let the truth of this Word change your way of thinking.

 

John 7:37 - 38

“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

V38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”

  

Matthew 13:12

“For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.”

 

Ephesians 3:20

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

 

What does this have to do with money? - Everything. 

 

There is nothing spiritual about always being without.

What?.  Do you think that God is holding back to punish you?

That is a message from the devil.

 

What?.  God is not interested in your ability to supply your wife or your husband or your children a descent place to live?

 

What?. God is not interested in you providing good food and the necessary provisions to live a healthy life? 

 

Were you thinking that it is God, keeping you from having the very best food and supplies to meet your needs?  That message is not from God.

What?  Do you think it is God keeping your church from growing as some kind of lesson or punishment because of what someone did or said?  Is it God that is keeping you from reaching out to a lost and dying world with the gospel of Jesus Christ?

No, it is not God.  But satan has convinced many people that it doesn’t matter what you do, somebody will take care of it, if it is the will of God. 

Somebody will give in my place. 

Somebody will provide. 

But the truth is: 
God has a plan for you.
A plan to provide God’s very best, to build you up; not so that it will stop at your door and fill your barns to the top, but what God does in you, He does so it will flow through you.  What God gives to you was never meant to fill you up to the top, but over the top to overflowing, so that it will flow out from you upon others, whether in seemingly small quantities or in large over the top quantities.".  

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"If you and I aren’t praising God for the many blessing that you are receiving from Him, then you are living in disobedience.

 

If you aren’t receiving the overflow of the Most High God, you are not believing God. 

 

If you aren’t receiving the overflow of the Most High God, you are not trusting in a fill your bucket, past the edge, over abundance, cattle on a thousand hills, exceedingly abundant, beyond belief, past understanding, blessed beyond who you are, kind of God.

 

Hear the Word of the Lord:  Quit believing the devil.  he is a liar.  The devil has spoken against you, and sometimes, you believe him. 

 

satan has a plan, that includes, you wallowing in the mire of life, waddling through life as if it were made of mud, being behind the eight ball at every turn, burdened by being in debt, feeling helpless, tied to the old things that you used to trust.

 

I hope you don’t believe that it is God who wants you poor and it is satan who wants you to be blessed with plenty.  That’s completely backwards.

Don’t trust the message of the enemy. 

 

he wants you to be without and think it is all that God has to offer.  he wants you to think you can’t finish your classes, your poems, your screenplay, your plans, your writings, your songs or your dreams.

The devil wants you to believe that it doesn’t make any difference what you do, your lot in life is already established. 

The devil has told some of you that you don’t deserve to have anything. 

The devil says you can’t pay your bills. 

The devil says you won’t get that Visa. 

The devil says your marriage isn’t worth saving. 

The devil says you can’t follow your dream.
The devil says your son won’t come back.

The devil says you have to stay sick.

The devil says give up, your wasting your time.

The devil says you can’t earn income.

The devil says you don’t need to be in a Church fellowship.

The devil says you don’t need to monitor your kids video games.

The devil says your kids don’t need to be in Sunday School.

The devil says you don’t need to give.

My God, why have you allowed the words of the devil to have any place in your life?"

 

Excerpt from God thinking XL - Nothing Less Will Do - Nothing Else Will Work by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

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"Revelation makes the Word of God, become the experience of man, where there is faith to receive it.

As a people:

• After you and I are done messing with His Word.
• After you and I are done tickling our own ears.
• After you have watered the Word down to be comfortable.
• After you have tweaked the Word of God to meet our denominational dogma.
• After you have turned our back on His promises.
• After you have tried the Word of God on our own terms, making it say what we want it to for a while.
• After you measure the Word by the ways of man.
• After you have had it our way for long enough.

And you are ready to:

• Quit messing with His Word.
• And quit tickling your own ears.
• And quit sipping on a watered down Word.
• Once you quit thinking comfortable means faithful.
• Once you believe the Word of God every time it is read or it is spoken.
• Once you believe His promises.
• Once you stop thinking we know a better way.
• Once you decide to do life on God’s terms.
• Once you measure the Word by the Word.      
• Once you say, that’s enough - Lord, I don’t want it my way any more.
• Once this happens: You won’t care one iota what the devil says about money or anything else. 

You won’t believe another lie about God’s ways.

See, once you have revelation from God - what you do is by faith and faith pleases God.

Once you receive revelation from God - It doesn’t matter how you have been doing it.

Once you believe the revelation we receive from God - then what God says cannot be robbed from us, cannot be changed, cannot be thwarted, cannot be altered.

Once we believe the revelation you received from God:

• What doesn’t seem to work for others, works for you.
• What used to look like an impossibility has just become an opportunity.     
• What you didn’t have faith to believe, you now not only believe, but receive.
• What once looked like a burden, has been transformed into a blessing.
• Obstacles look like opportunities.
• Barriers look like stepping stones.

The Word of God has been released on your behalf, but many people today don’t believe it - And even more don’t receive it.  You can’t receive what you can’t believe God for, and satan has convinced many of us to have a very, very low expectation of God’s ability to bring about good things in our life."  

Excerpt from God thinking XL - Nothing Less Will Do - Nothing Else Will Work by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

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"Are you ready to receive something from God that you can’t get from preaching?

Are you ready to receive something from God that you can’t get from teaching?

What I am going to talk about, you can only get from revelation.

I am here to tell you, tell forth, (prophesy), that you are already receiving consistent and plentiful blessing from God.

It is because of the truth that you have received already, (truth that has been transformed from words on a page), (into truths that perform), that you and I receive anything from God.  This transformation is due to revelation. 

If you are saved, it was revealed to you (by God Himself) that you were saved.  Until it was revealed to you, (by God Himself), it was just talk, but after it was revealed, nothing could convince you otherwise.  That’s how God does it.  God reveals His truth, and you get it.  That’s revelation.

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"The way many people read the Word is to hold rigid to what they believe, then read the Word to see if the Word agrees with what they already believe.  This is the way to study if we want a static relationship with God.  

God didn’t give you His Word to confirm what you believe, He gave you His Word to reveal what to believe. 

The Word of God prophesies to you the truth about how God operates in you and through you. 

The Word tells you what you are to do with what God gives.  God also tells you what is just heresy. 

I am going to be obedient to God and faithful to you to deliver a truth to you about money that will change the way you look at your (God’s) money, forever.  

I know that you have been deceived before on this subject, because every time that God gives a Word to you, satan comes along and tries to steal the truth of it, from you.

Remember what God said in Luke 8:12-13

“V12 Those by the wayside are those that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the Word out of their hearts, lest (for fear that) they should believe and be saved.

V13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the Word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.“

 

satan has been stealing revelation from those who don’t hold fast to the Word and believe it, (since the beginning), not just to take away the hope of salvation; no way - satan will twist and turn every truth that God speaks to you if you let him.   If you are thinking, that only applies to those without Christ - don’t believe it.  satan can and will steal every truth of God that you and I do not practice; that's right even if you are a blood washed, sanctified, double dipped, born again, justified believer."

Excerpt from God Thinking XL - Nothing Less Will Do - Nothing Else Will Work by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013 

 

 

 

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"God wants you and I to decide to live our life according to God’s plan for our lives, and God wants you and I to be a good steward of the things of God according to God’s design for our lives. 

Nothing less will do and nothing else will work.

Once you decide to do life the way God says to, then you will receive all the blessing from God’s great storehouse according to God’s way of disbursement, provided to you by God Himself, using God’s math. 

The increase and prosperity that God reveals in His Word is not the kind that stops and resides on the recipient. 

• It is the kind that flows through you to bless those without
• It is the kind that fills you as the overflow pours out from you.
• It is the kind that, by increasing you, the kingdom is expanded.
• It is the kind that feeds the poor, (not after you are filled with great wealth, but while you are being filled).
• It is the kind of increase that empowers the powerless.
• It is the God kind of increase that requires faith.

If you are going to be a receiver of God’s intent, you will have to allow the Word of God to minister to you - You will have to believe what God says - and then you evaluate what you previously believed based on what you just learned, in order to more perfectly serve God and receive all the blessing afforded you in God's economy."

 

Excerpt from God Thinking XL - Nothing Less Will Do - Nothing Else Will Work by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013 

 

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"Once you decide to do life the way God says to, then you will receive all the blessing from God’s great storehouse according to God’s way of disbursement, provided to you by God Himself, using God’s math.  

God decided, before He even made mankind, that He would increase whatever you do by faith, using the principle of sowing and reaping.  

Don’t fight the unction of the Holy Spirit, if the Spirit of God is prompting you to receive this profound truth. 

The increase and prosperity that God reveals in His Word is not the kind that stops and resides on the recipient. 

• It is the kind that flows through you to bless those without
• It is the kind that fills you as the overflow pours out from you.
• It is the kind that, by increasing you, the kingdom is expanded.
• It is the kind that feeds the poor, (not after you are filled with great wealth, but while you are in the struggle, being filled).
• It is the kind of increase that empowers the powerless.
• It is the God kind of increase that requires faith.

God Thinking demands that you deal with every facet of truth that God lays before you, and to recognize that God is about to do something great through you. 

God wants you to be prepared to receive all that He has for you, because soon, you will need Him more than you ever did before.

 

"God told me He wants to make us stewards of the holy.

God also said to me, “Are you ready to go into the land of the unknown?”
I said, “As long as You go with me LORD.”

Excerpt from God Thinking XXXIX - Have you had enough of you yet? by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

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"God expects you to determine the way you handle your life by believing what He says.  

God’s Word frees up the adherent and paralyzes the discontent.  

God’s Word proposes the path to a righteous life and godly stewardship - And God’s Word also reveals the path of the disobedient and the rebellious.  

God’s Word imparts wisdom to the faithful and chastisement to the careless.  

God’s Word produces wheat and burns the chaff.  

God wants you to decide to live your life according to God’s plan for your life, and God wants you to be a good steward of the things of God according to God’s design for your life. 

Nothing less will do and nothing else will work."

Excerpt from God Thinking XXXIX - Have you had enough of you yet? by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

 

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"You can believe anything you want to, but God isn’t going to conform  to your belief system.   

God will wait you out, but He isn’t going to change the way He operates to make you feel good about doing life on your terms. 

2 Timothy 4:1-4

“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom;

V2 Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

V3 For the time will come when they (those who live by their own doctrine), will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

V4 And they shall turn away theirs ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”

This is happening today. 

Christianity was never meant to be privatized.

God tells the whole world the same truth. 

God is no respecter of persons. 

God gave you His Word in writing to be believed and obeyed and the Word of God is a discerner ofy our thoughts, whether you are serving God or self.

Hebrews 4:12

“For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

Catch this deep-end truth.

As a discerner of thoughts, the Word of God, either credentializes what you believe, and releases the power and authority of God’s Word - or - the Word of God stands against what you believe and does not provide any power, authority or efficacy.

When God stands against an individual of his or her private interpretation or an ideology of it’s false tenets of faith, God simply strips it of it’s ability to make change.  It might look good, feel good & sound good, but without the blessing of God, it is void of the power and authority of God, to change you.

• The Word of God is the high prize.
• The Word is the final authority.
• The Word of God either canonizes your personal experiences or strips them from power.

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"God has called you unto Himself.

He has empowered you to come unto Him and receive the fullness of blessing, by putting on the mind of Christ. 

All that God does, He does for you , so that all that you do, you will do for Him.  This is where the rubber meets the road - Is this the way you see God operating in your life?  All that God does, He does for you , so that all that you do, you will do for Him. 

Now let’s let this truth take hold in our life.

 

The reason there is such slow spiritual growth in the lives of so many is that they think they can go higher and higher with God:

• Without applying God’s ancient and permanent principles.
• Without keeping their vows.
• Without living under the authority of the written Word of God.

Many Christians have even bought into the new age philosophy of being a free-spirit - roaming about looking for what feels good and suits our wants - A kind of free-spirit to believe what they want, so they can do what they want. 

And that’s fine for the world, but not the believer.  It is foolish to believe that God is in what you are doing if you are not in what God is doing." 

Excerpt from God Thinking XXXIX - Have you had enough of you yet? by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

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"Draw nigh unto God.  Do you remember when God called Moses up into mount Sinai?  God said, in Exodus 34:2 & 4 “And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to Me in the top of the mount.” and in verse 4 “...and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him...”

Aren’t you glad that Moses went up as God directed him?

Now, for some revelation:

For all those who are saved, God called you to come up unto Him.  God has already drawn you to Himself.  Now, just like with Moses, you need to draw close to Him.

 

The Holy Spirit indwells you by the quickening of your Spirit?  The Holy Spirit brings with Him the power for your mind and body to abide in Christ, just like your spirit abides in Christ. 

When your spirit unites with the Spirit of Christ - Your eternal destiny is initiated.  Your adoption into the kingdom of God is transferred from here to the heavenlies.  You become heirs of God and joint heirs of Christ, but the salvation experience does not bring your body and your mind into subjection to the principles of God for living a godly life and being a good steward of God’s creation.

Because you were made in the image and likeness of God, you have to will your mind and your body to be in unity with the will of God.  That’s why God wants you to draw near, because if you do, you fulfill God’s will, and God can now fulfill your will."

Excerpt from God Thinking XXXIX - Have you had enough of you yet? by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

 

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"God Thinking will always point you to reach out to God and get what’s yours. 

God Thinking speaks about a sweet Savior, one not to be forgotten day to day, but praised and worshiped. 

God Thinking sees the Word of God, (not only as the final authority for godly living and righteous stewardship), but the only authority for godly living and righteous stewardship.  

God Thinking yields to the leading of the Holy Spirit and resigns all to the Word of God.  

God Thinking sees the throne of God as the place of acceptance, where in God’s presence, God’s people are most comfortable. 

Can you pray this prayer?

Holy Father, help me to worship you in Spirit and truth.

Help me to seek your face.

Help me to accept the changes you make in me.

Help me to believe you and to be able to distinguish your voice from that of religion.

Help me to trust your Word.

Amen.

Are you ready to draw closer to God today?

James exhorts us to “Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh unto you...”  James 4:8

The Word of God says draw nigh to God.  If you were already as close as you could get, then drawing nigh wouldn’t be an option.  But God calls you to draw nigh, because He knows that every time you draw nigh, you will get closer, and no matter how close you get, you can draw nigh and get closer still. 

Drawing nigh to God - being in the presence of God, is by choice. 

God willed that you would have to will to receive Christ - Even though God draws you to Himself, by Christ, you don’t have to come." 

You don’t have to receive the free gift of salvation.  Neither do you have to draw closer to God.   

When you draw close to God, you get closer:

• Not because you are pure - but to be purified.
• Not because you are holy, but to be made holy.
• Not because you are righteous, but to receive righteousness.
• Not because you are complete, but to be made complete.
• Not because you have it all together, but so that God can put it all together."

Excerpt from God Thinking XXXIX - Have you had enough of you yet? by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013