God Thinking LXX - Have You Caught The Vision? 6

"God speaks to me through James when He says, “Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.”  James 4:8a

It is so true.  God wants us to draw close to Him, and when we are close, it’s easier to hear what God is saying and to see what God is doing.  It’s easier to cath the vision of what God is doing right now..

• God isn’t impressed with religious rhetoric.
• God isn’t moved by what we know.
• God isn’t moved by what we have accumulated.
• God isn’t fooled by our acting like something that we are not.
• God isn’t forced by our much speaking.
• God isn’t moved by our making claims that are not true.
• God isn’t impressed by our ability.
• God isn’t moved by lip service - you know, saying one thing and doing another.
• God isn’t moved by our title, position, level of local or national recognition. 

But:

• God is moved when you and I believe God.
• God is moved when you and I trust in His way.
• God is moved when we give up something temporal for something eternal.
• God is moved when we set aside our timeline to wait on the LORD.
• God is moved when we receive His revelation.
• God is moved when we talk about His Son with reverence and adoration.
• God is moved when we live by faith.
• God is moved when we worship Him.
• God is moved when we praise Him.
• god is moved when we bow the knee to Him.

Just as in the first two thousand years the sins of man were destroyed by the flood. In the second two thousand years the sin of religion was destroyed by the blood.

Jesus established a new covenant with His people, so that at the next two thousand years....

When is the end of the next two thousand years from when

Christ was on earth?

Right Now."

Note: If you are thinking 'Oh this is another end of the world synopsis,' it is not.  I am simply trying to establish that a pattern that mankind has adopted since the beginning, is still prevalent, i. e., (religion is not the same as relationship).  This has nothing to do with end time philosophy.

  Excerpt from God Thinking LXX - Have You Caught The Vision? by                                      Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"According to the scriptures, it was never expected that unbelievers would recognize the Son of God when the Son of God would come and live among us, but it was expected that God’s own people would recognize Him.

Why am bringing this up?

It has been two thousand years since the apostasy of Israel.

It has been 2,000 years since Jesus set up the Church.

If Jesus were to return today, would He find faith on earth?

Luke 18:8b

“...Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on earth?” 

God knows what He is talking about, because everything that God says, is.

The first two thousand years man sought fulfillment through self indulgence.  They had not caught the vision that God had for them, because they did not believe the Word God gave to them. 

The second two thousand years man sought fulfillment through religion.  They had not caught the vision that God had for them, because they did not believe the Word God gave to them. 

You would think that at the end of 6,000 years of human history, we would not only catch the vision, but we would also have learned to believe in and trust what God has to say.

God is about relationship.

God created us and the entire universe to provide:

A place to commune with God

All the provision necessary to keep that relationship healthy

All the inspiration necessary for full revelation for our short stay here on this side of heaven.

All the enlightenment necessary to stimulate even the radical seeker.

All the revelation necessary to provide the believer with continuous growth and spiritual nourishment.

All the impartation necessary for God Thinking.

I have found that my closest moments with God are moments when I lay aside who I am for who He is in me. Do you have some closet time for God?

    Excerpt from God Thinking LXX - Have You Caught The Vision? by                                      Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"The bible says, “He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.”  John 1:11.

But Jesus, unlike other men, took the reproach of the religious leaders and world leaders and laid down His life for them and for us.

Jesus let them bring upon Him their own unrighteous laws and rules.  The religious leaders used their own laws and rules to accuse and condemn the Son of God.

Over time they had taken:

God’s Holy Word

God’s Holy prophets

God’s Holy place

And God’s Holy Son

First they changed God’s holy Word

2^nd they killed God’s holy prophets

3^rd they defiled God’s holy sanctuary

4^th they killed God’s holy Son      

Mankind had 2,000 years of God as their Shepherd - Jehovah Ra-ah

Mankind had 2,000 years of God as their Healer - Jehovah Rapha

Mankind had 2,000 years of God as their Righteousness - Jehovah Tsidkenu

Mankind had 2,000 years of God as their protection - Jehovah Nissi

Mankind had 2,000 years of God as their provision - Jehovah Jireh

Mankind had 2,000 years of God’s presence - Jehovah Shammah

Mankind had 2,000 years of God’s sacrificial provision - Jehovah Mekoddishkem

Even with all that revelation mankind developed a system where the form of God substituted for God Himself.

“He came unto His own but His own received Him not.” Unfortunately this is what much of religion looks like today."

   Excerpt from God Thinking LXX - Have You Caught The Vision? by                                      Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"God laid the foundation and prepared His people for the coming Messiah, so that when Jesus would come as a little baby - to be born in Bethlehem - His people would come and bow down and show recognition.

There should have been 10,000,000 people ready and prepared for the coming Messiah, and this would have happened if they had believed what God had told them.

But what happened?

God’s people weren’t there.

Just Joseph, Mary, Simeon, Anna the prophetess, Elizabeth and a few sages from afar recognized and celebrated the birth of the Savior.  I know that the shepherds were there, but they were notified by the angels of the birth of Jesus.

In the first two thousand years man had become so far from God that God destroyed them.

Then in the second, two-thousand years - even with perpetual revelation - mankind chose for themselves religion over relationship.

God’s chosen people had devised a system that would sustain them and meet their spiritual needs - apart from the truth (of and in) God’s Word.  They built a religious system that sustained their need for self preservation apart from God’s impartation.

When Jesus, the Son of God, came unto His own - did they receive Him as the Savior of the world? No, they chose religion over relationship. Does that sound familiar? 

 Excerpt from God thinking LXX - Have You Caught The Vision? by Keith                                   C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"Noah’s call to build an ark was unusual and definitely went against mainstream thought at the time.  But as silly as it seemed, Noah built an ark and eight souls were saved. 

300 hundred years later God makes a covenant with Abraham.  During this time God also provides man with revelation of His law’s for mankind.  God also provided His people with universal laws concerning how to live, what to eat, how to give, and how to be in the presence of God.

God set up the outer court, the inner court and the holy of holies.

God called out His people and established Israel.  God sent His prophets and they cried out truth upon truth, year after year for more than 1,000 years. 

God revealed in His prophetic Word the outcome of nations, Kings, cities and individuals.

God reveals the big picture, and the little picture.  God walks with His children with fire by night and clouds by day.

And a few caught the vision.  A few caught the vision, not because God did not adequately reveal Himself, but as John said in John 3:19..., that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”

  Excerpt from God Thinking LXX - Have You Caught The Vision? by                                      Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"God Thinking is a series of discussions on how to put on the mind of Christ.  And in so studying the Word of God, you are learning and unlearning, learning truths new to you and unlearning old, stale and unbiblical precepts that have been handed down by religious doctrines of men.

Religion has taken its toll on believing men and women.

Religion has robbed many of a personal relationship with God.  It’s religion that has placed trappings in your way - unhealthy rules and laws of faith that pertain to the perpetuation of the denomination more than of the impartation of revelation.

Why am I bringing this up? 

From creation to Abraham was about two thousand years.  After 1,700 years of God striving with man and their independence and segregation from God, God destroyed all living souls, except for a few that had caught the vision of what God was doing in their time.  Try to hold that thought, a few had caught the vision of what God was trying to do in their time

According to the scriptures, “Where there is no vision, the people perish...”  Proverbs 29:18"

Excerpt from God thinking LXX - Have You Caught The Vision? by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

God Thinking LXII - You Will Make A Decision 11

You are not self-sustaining.

Psalms 55:22

2.  Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Nehemiah 9:21

21.  Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

I know that the atheist, the agnostic and cult followers all believe that they are self-sustaining, but those who have been purchased with a price - those who have put their hope in Christ - those who have died to self, they trust in God and God alone for their sustenance.

I think all of us have trusted in our self and others for far too long.  It’s time we trust in God and in Him alone.

Does that mean we stop working and sit at home expecting God to meet our needs? 

No.  Everything that God does for us, (by His will) is also by agreement of (our free will.)

The decisions that God is speaking to your heart.

Are you going to:

Remain unchanged - unmoved by God’s Word for you. Holding firm in your resolve to hear the Word of God without having it change you? 

Or are you going to turn away and not let what God said become true in you, even though you hear the voice of God - even though you know it is right - even though you know that God is dealing with you for your own benefit - even though you know the consequences of not adhering to what God is saying to you is devastating - will you still turn away? 

Or are you going to:

Draw closer to God?  And allow God to positively affect  your decisions.  

Will you make up our mind to allow God to weed out every thing that is not of God, by God or for God?

Will you allow God’s Word to give you the answer you have been looking for?

  Will you make a decision for the moment, the day, for your career, your ministry, your direction, your life based on what God is doing in your spirit right now?  will you?

  Excerpt from God Thinking LXII - You Will Make A Decision Today by                                      Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"Those who have been born again by the Spirit of God are not broken beyond repair.

 2 Corinthians 5:17

 17.  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

See, Jesus knew that if He was to do it any other way than to make us into a new creature, we would use the excuse that, (God only changed us a little here and a little there, but we still have enough of our old nature to keep us from serving God and living a victorious life in Christ.)

No, no one will stand before God and say that they just couldn’t serve Him - they just couldn’t overcome the world - they just couldn’t break away from the pull of the world. 

No, no one will be able to blame God for their disobedience, because God didn’t just change us just enough to feel a little bit better about our self - God made us into a new creature buy quickening our spirit and indwelling us with the Holy spirit.

No one is broken beyond repair.  It’s just another lie of the enemy.  You are either born again and a new creature or you can be.  But, no one is broken beyond repair."

   Excerpt from God Thinking LXII - You Will Make A Decision Today by                                      Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"God is not genie-like and performs no magic, but God is all powerful and performs magnificent miracles.

Revelation 19:6

6.  And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

Deuteronomy 29:2-3

 2.  And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

 3.  The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

Acts 2:22

22.  Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:

Note: Are you OK with miracles? Many Christians today have grown weary of waiting on God and since so many things didn't go the way they thought it should they have abandoned their own faith (which is in direct relation with rejecting the faith of their own parents) in some cases.  But the problem isn't in God not performing well, but the perception of what God should or shouldn't have done in specific circumstances. Back to the question of whether you are OK with miracles; Miracles require faith, so if you have thrown your faith out with your unfulfilled expectations, don't expect to see any miracles.  They will happen and your prayers will be answered but you will not see/perceive them.

   Excerpt from God Thinking LXII - You Will Make A Decision Today by                                      Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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The power of God is available

Acts 1:8

"8.  But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

John 1:10-13

10.  He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

 11.  He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

 12.  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

 13.  Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."

Note: What I have found is that when things have gone awry between yourself and God, you have missed something. that's the problem with the finite co-creating with the infinite.  It's might not be that you have fallen out of grace or that God is mad at you or that you even did the wrong thing necessarily.  But rest assured that whether you can see it or not, feel it or not, understand it or not, like it or not, God is available.  I find myself wanting God to dispose the day for me according to my will and it would be really nice if also on my timeline. It's just not the way it is. I must find a way to exchange my aspirations for what conspires during the day and learn to trust God in it and through it."

   Excerpt from God thinking LXII - You Will Make A Decision Today by                                      Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"Jehovah God, El Eloheim, El Adonai, El Shaddai, the Holy Spirit, Jesus the Christ is not to be mocked by man’s feeble and inferior attempt to explain God outside of holy scripture.

God is not powerless (just because in the lives of the disobedient, it appears that God is impotent), nor does God perform magic to a jeering crowd of spectators, (at the whim of the prophets sceptre). 

God’s supernatural intervention in the lives of men and women is not to be likened to the scheming  manipulations of men.

So let’s set the record straight.

Let’s replace any and every erroneous thought that we have had or have about God with thoughts that produce sound doctrine. Here are a few:

1.  The power of God is available and operating in the lives of men and women, teens, children and even the unborn.  All to the glory of God, for the purpose of empowering His saints to overcome the world and serve God with a holy life.

2.  God is not genie-like and performs no magic, but God is all powerful and performs magnificent miracles at His discretion, (all for the glory of God and to benefit God’s finest and foremost creation, you.)

3.  You, those who have been born again by the Spirit of God are not broken beyond repair, but you are empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit within you, not only for the sake of receiving the gift of eternal life, but also to make you able to withstand the firey darts of the wicked one and to be able to stand firm in the faith against all odds.

4.  You are not self-sustaining, but ever in need of substance created for you by God.  You are ever in need of God and God’s creation to sustain your life and spirit.

Not one of us are self-sustaining." 

   Excerpt from God thinking LXII - You Will Make A Decision Today by                                      Keith C. Powell copyright 2014

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"If you want to know why so many people are messed up, think about all the untruths that have been spoken about God the Father, the Holy Spirit and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. 

And if you want to know why so many Christians are living out their lives without evidence of the presence of God in their life, just think about all the untruths they have been taught about themselves.

It’s no wonder our society is so messed up.  They believe in a God that is either powerless or genie-like and they believe in themselves as either broken beyond repair or self-sustaining. 

Erroneous thinking produces powerless results."

    Excerpt from God thinking LXII - You Will Make A Decision Today by                                      Keith C. Powell copyright 2014

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"If living an empowered life is something new to you, there is no need to be ashamed.  “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”.

• Religion has taught believers that they cannot win over temptation.
• Religion has taught believers for centuries that the move of the Spirit of God was only for a short time.
• Religion has taught believers that they must go through a mediator to apprehend God.
• Religion has taught believers that they cannot understand what they read.
• Priest’s and pastors, ministers and teachers have been teaching a powerless gospel to a faithless people for centuries.

And now we have self-proclaimed Apostles and prophets, ascended masters and spiritual guru’s teaching a magical genie kind of God. 

It’s not true that the power of God has been removed from us and neither is it true that God performs silly magical feats for the ignorant and unlearned to reveal Himself.

God is self-disclosed and cannot be hidden.  God’s power is evident in all power and God’s creation is evident in itself.  God’s supernatural intervention is also evident by God's ever present ability to change the hearts of men."

   Excerpt from God thinking LXII - You Will Make A Decision Today by                                    Keith C. Powell copyright 2014

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"Too many Christians are willing to ignore the lure of the world.

Too many Christians are willing to ignore the signs of the times.

They paint their own picture of the way things are and the way things should be:

without consultation from wise counsel

without instruction from scripture

without prayerfully considering the results of their actions

without recognition of God’s Sovereignty.

See, to say that we believe that God is sovereign, and live like He is distant and unconcerned, is hypocrisy.

Jesus didn’t think much of hypocrisy during His earthly ministry and He doesn’t think much of hypocrisy right now.

You need to kick out that old kind of thinking, that says, just because you cannot live a sinless life, like Jesus Christ did, that somehow that equates to your having no ability or power at all; That since you have fallen short in times past, you must constantly, and without refrain, continue to fall prey to the ploys of your enemy.  Stop it.

You have been empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit to overcome the world, not succumb to the world.

You are to be in the world, not of the world.

Your success isn't achieved in living a sinless life without a Savior, it is living your life, empowered, by a sinless Savior."

Excerpt from God thinking LXII - You Will Make A Decision Today by Keith C. Powell copyright 2014

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God thinking is for those who want to give up more of the temporal

short lived

ever changing

thrown together

not well planned out

I’ll worry about the consequences        later, mind-set

 

And replace it with things:

Eternal

Long lived

Stable

Well planned

Thoughts developed through prayer

                       And communion with God

You mustn't deny God entrance into the affairs of your life. 

And you do deny God entrance into the affairs of your life when you are outside of the will of God. 

Jesus Christ came into this world and lived, died and rose again to empower you to live above the fray.

Too many Christians are willing to ignore the warning of the pastor/teacher/minister/friend.

              Excerpt from God Thinking LXI - You Will Make A Decision Today

                                 by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"Do you want to be positively affected down in your soul?

Can you make up your mind to allow God to weed out every thing that is not of God, by God or for God and allow God’s Word to give you the answers of the moment, the day, for your career, your ministry, your direction, your life?

Will you make a way for God to have His way?

When God speaks to your heart you are drawn closer. 

That’s why I can say, you will make an important decision today.

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The trappings of the seen, (the visible world) have all but blinded us of the unseen, (the invisible world).

The pleasure of the moment has caused a thick fog to pass over our good sense.

The desire for immediate gratification has all but eradicated our vision for the long haul.

A wise man or woman will enjoy the moment without compromising the future.

God thinking is for those who have decided to seek out those things that bring peace and comfort,  financial security, joy and happiness - without filling their tomorrows with unpredictable troubles and problems, without compromising their future."

Excerpt from God Thinking LXI - You Will Make A Decision Today
                              by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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Psalms 63:1

1.  O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

Lamentations 3:24-25

24.  The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25.  The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

1 Chronicles 28:9

9.  And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee;

To seek after God and not find Him, not only in the quiet of meditation, but also in the noise of the day, is proof of how distanced we have become from a pure and holy life.

God has a more difficult task in finding you that you do of finding God.

In your busied life, you manage to be unavailable.  God is always available, but you make yourself unavailable by your actions.

You have managed to disassociate with the never changing Spirit world, for a moment of attention from the ever changing material world.

I am going to help you make some crucial decisions in your life today, because the teaching of the truth always weeds out the heart.

In your heart, you will make a decision today.

When God speaks to your heart, one of three things happen:

         1              You remain unchanged - unmoved by God’s Word for

you, not at all stirred up, encouraged or empowered - the true sign of cultural or carnal Christianity.        

Or when God speaks to your heart:

2      You turn away and do not let what God said to become true in you, even though you hear the voice of God - even though you know it is right - even though you know that God is dealing with you for our own benefit - even though you know the consequences of not adhering to what God is saying is devastating - you turn away.

Or when God speaks to your heart:

3     You are drawn closer. 

          Excerpt from God Thinking LXI - You Will Make A Decision                        Today by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

God Thinking LXI - Good Theology 10

"Good theology and God Thinking are synonymous.

Hear the Words of scripture as you read what God says is theology to live by.

Today I have a Word from God for you.  A Word that you need to add to what you believe to build up your internal theology.

As you read the Word, you will hear a Word that will move your spirit.  That Word is for you.
Note: You can fight me and not listen at all, but please don't fight God. Abandon every word I have written, but don't abandon the simple truths that can really make a difference in your life.  

The Holy Spirit will confirm in your spirit, that, (the Word of God is for you as it is written.)

When this happens - at the very moment, I want you to standup and speak:

Speak to your need

Speak to your circumstance

Speak to your situation

Speak to your business

Speak to your family

Speak to your ministry

Speak to your body

Whatever it is that God puts on your heart to speak into being or to speak out of your life, you need to do it when God gives you the unction.

Don’t let this moment slip into eternity and the blessing that is for you, passes by.

Let the power of good theology be released in your life today. 

You might want to save this list.

John 12:46-48

46.  I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.

47.  And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

48.  He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

Mark 9:23

23.  Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. 

Isn’t there anyone up against impossible odds???

Psalms 46:1-3

1.  God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

2.  Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

3.  Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

Nahum 1:7

7.  The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and He knoweth them that trust in Him.

Psalms 31:24

24.  Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

James 1:5-8

5.  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

6.  But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

7.  For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

8.  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Isaiah 25:1

1.  O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

Philippians 1:9-11

9.  And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

10.  That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;

11.  Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Proverbs 3:5-10

5.  Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

6.  In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and he shall direct thy paths.

7.  Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

8.  It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

9.  Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

10.  So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

Psalms 32:8

8.  I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

John 15:11

11.  These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full."

Excerpt from God Thinking LXI - Good Theology by Keith C. Powell                                                    Copyright 2014