God Thinking LXXXIV - How To Get From Believing To Receiving 6

"Agreeing - Amos 3:3

 3.  Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Isaiah 1:18

18.  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Can two walk together, except they be agreed?”

Let me ask you plainly.

Are you in agreement with God - with what God has proposed - with what God has said - with what God has done - with what God has promised - with what God has asked of you - with what God has commanded of you?

Plainly, one of the primary reasons why some things have not come to pass in your life is:

You’ve been to God

You’ve heard it preached

You’ve seen it in the Word

You have been instructed in the heart by the indwelling

Holy Spirit

And you don’t agree with God.

God says wait and you don’t wait - you jump ahead.

God says go and you wait - because you don’t want to go.

God says no, and you go ahead anyway - and given enough time and a little support from the world and you can justify just about anything.

If you are getting your confirmation outside of the Word of God - you will be outside of the will of God.

You can look elsewhere - but you will find only things that tantalize and tickle - things that incite and arouse, but the truths that carry on and remain true while you are here and beyond - they are only found in the scriptures and personal communication between you and God."

Excerpt from God Thinking LXXXIV - How To Get From Believing To                         Receiving by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015

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"Lord, I want to get from believing to receiving.

Hearing

Agreeing

Believing

Abiding

Receiving

Hearing - Romans 10:17

17.  So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Let us never say, we have heard enough of God’s Word. 

Let us never find ourselves so entrenched in television of pleasures or anything that keeps us so occupied that the Word comes last.

Let us never say that we don’t want to hear it (the Word of God) anymore.

Let us learn to hear the Word and let it become imbedded in us.

Let us heed these words.

“...faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

Let us learn to hear without comment."

Excerpt from God Thinking LXXXIV - How To Get From Believing To                         Receiving by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015

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"While you are waiting to receive from God in one area of your life:

God wants you to be hearing new truths in another area of your life; allowing those truths to grow into you agreeing with God and in another area of your life you are abiding in what you believe and in another area of our life you are believing for something and in another area of your life we are receiving.

In other words when you are living out God’s will for your life, you will:

• Be hearing or reading the Word of God
• Be learning new truths
• Agreeing with God about previously learned truths
• Believing God and His truths
• Abiding in God and the truths of God
• And receiving the end of your faith, the promise or the blessing or the answered prayer from God

At any point in time, you are:

• Hearing the truth from the Word
• Receiving new revelation from the truth of/in the Word
• Agreeing with that revelation until we are fully convinced
• Believing for what you are fully convinced of
• Abiding in what you believe for a season
• Receiving the end of your faith

Fulfillment of His promise
Answered prayers

Inspired direction

Transformed mind

Heavenly vision

Don’t believe the lies of your enemy:

• That God leaves things undone
• That God takes too long to answer your prayers
• That God has left you helpless and on your own
• That God hasn’t provided for you
• That God doesn’t fulfill His promises
• That God wasn’t there

God is on time every time.

God has forgotten nothing except your sin

Get a hold of this!!!!!!

God doesn’t take too long to answer your prayers

God hasn’t left anyone helpless or hopeless

God has provided everything you need and will continue to throughout your life

God does fulfill His promises

God is always there, with you, in you, and He works by you and through you

There is a process that you must go through, called life, and you are in the center of it right now."

Note: So you aren't feeling it. I get it. But you won't receive it until you believe it and there is no other formula. The results are on you.

Excerpt from God Thinking LXXXIV - How To Get From Believing To                         Receiving by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015

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Isn’t this what prayer is?  You asking God to intervene on this side, and do, what you cannot?

If you want to live with expectation that God will intervene, you should expect that God has already revealed to you what your part must be in bringing this relationship to pass? 

Do you believe that God has already provided the necessary components that you would need to build a proper relationship with God?

Is it possible that during the everyday maintenance of providing for the natural?
Going to school - Preparing meals

Working a job - Doing the chores

Nurturing a relationship - Driving the kids to school

Answering phone calls - Changing careers

Repairing the car - Tinkering with Christmas lights

Is it possible that during the everyday maintenance of providing for the natural - that you haven’t spent enough time developing the supernatural?

This pattern that I am going to reveal today is the plan that God designed, so that you can learn more about God’s supernatural intervention and learn how to operate in agreement with what God is doing, while you are taking care of those things that need attending to in the natural.

Lord, I want to get from believing to receiving.

First an overview:

Hearing

Agreeing

Believing

Abiding

Receiving

God designed you to receive Him and receive from Him by His Word - Reading the Word and hearing God speak through the reading of the Word or hearing the Word (Logo)

preached or spoken.  

In your hearing faith is conceived and when faith is nurtured by the Word, faith provides proof that you can agree with.

When you agree with God, what you heard from God, by faith you agree to believe what God has said.

Once you believe God - believe what God has said, then there is a season of abiding in the belief of what God has said - staying - abiding in agreement with what God has said so that your faith can grow to where you can receive."

    Excerpt from God Thinking LXXXIV - How To Get From Believing To                         Receiving by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015

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"I am going to reveal a pattern (not a hidden pattern that cannot be easily seen or understood) (not some hidden truth that only I or some other student of the Bible could discover). Just a pattern that I have observed to be true.

In the natural, do you count on the law of gravity to work?

In the natural, if you see dark clouds and hear thunder, can you usually expect rain?

In the natural, do you count on the rising and the setting of the sun?  Can you count on the tides? 

In the natural, God designed patterns that work, that you can expect to work, without fail, over and over again. Do you agree with me thus far?

In the supernatural the laws are different - the parameters are different - but God designed you in such a way that in the supernatural, (when what you need requires the hand of God) (when what you are praying for cannot be accomplished in the natural) you can still have expectations of an expected end.

God designed you this way.

In the natural (those who have not been born again) - God and man operate apart from one another.  Man operates without consideration of God or His design and man operates without cooperation with God or His design.  God, always available and always operating on behalf of man, continues to uphold His natural laws for the benefit and protection for man in the natural. 

In the supernatural (those who have been born again) - God and man operate in consideration and cooperation of one another.  Man operates with consideration of God and His design and man operates with cooperation with God and His design.  God, always available and always operating on behalf of man, continues to uphold His natural laws for the benefit and protection for man in the natural, but God extends His hand to those who have the indwelling Holy Spirit and adds to their wholeness, supernatural intervention.

There are natural laws and supernatural laws.  If you have a choice to live under the realm of natural law only, or natural law and God’s supernatural intervention, which one do you want to live under? 

God designed you so that when you operate under the anointing of God’s supernatural intervention, by the indwelling Holy Spirit - you could think/speak some things into existence - co-creating with God as led by the Holy Spirit."

Note: I understand that this is a delicate area to discuss and many people, yes even Christians tend to want to stay away from any subject that might be controversial.  Does that sound like a godly motive?  

• Avoid the difficult questions in life.
• Avoid discussion important about delicate subjects.
• Avoid any discussion about the Holy Spirit because people believe differently about the Holy Spirit.
• Avoid anybody who believes that God intervenes supernaturally.
• Avoid recognizing God's role in your life and your role in God's economy because you might hurt somebodies feelings. 
• Avoid discussion of sensitive topics concerning God the Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit because you are worried about other peoples perception of you.
• Avoid getting any closer to God than your particular denomination allows - leave that personal relationship stuff to the staff, pastors and Sunday School teachers. 
• Avoid believing what you read in the Bible if it is in contradiction to what your denomination teaches so you can maintain the status quo.
• Avoid asking any questions that might reveal you don't know the answer.

I have found that Christians will do just about anything to look religious.  Do you really believe in your heart that that honors God? I would rather have a child pray for me that believes than any adult who is just playing Church.  If you don't believe that God intervenes in our lives today, what makes you think that God ever did?  It is the same Bible that tells the stories of men and women of faith in the past that discusses you and your lifestyle today. If you don;t trust God right now, where you are, in your current condition, with your current challenges, why would you trust God about heaven?  If you can't believe to receive something from God today, why would you stake your eternity on what God has said about heaven?

I think it is time to test your faith.  Not God testing you to see if you are up to the challenge. No, you testing you to see if you believe anything at all. 

    Excerpt from God Thinking LXXXIV - How To Get From Believing To                          Receiving by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015

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"Can I get serious for a season? I want to share with you what I think is instruction from the Lord.  While you are reading this blog during this session "How To Get From Believing To Receiving" whatever applies to you, right it down and move on it.  It’s time the Church gets strong and stays strong.  Has God spoken to you concerning this?  

Do you agree that we (you and I) are sometimes disobedient to the things of God?  I do not solicit God to know the inner working of other peoples lives, but God reveals the deep roots of things and I believe that I have received or even stumbled upon a truth, I will tell it forth. 

See if you agree with me in this.  See if it is not true that recently your spirit has been seeking a deeper understanding of God and a greater supply of supernatural intervention.

See if you agree with me:          

Lord, I want to get from believing to receiving.  

• I want to get past ankle wading.  
• I want to get beyond myself and all the maintenance it takes to look like everything is alright.
• I want to be your man, your woman for the day to do Your will.  
• I am tired of shielding myself from Your truth and Your ways.
• I want to worship You just once without having to worry about what my spouse or my friends think about me. 
• I want to be in Your presence for more than just a moment in time - more than a glimpse - I want my will and Your will to be woven together like a strong cord that cannot be broken.  
• I want to act and react with the wisdom of God.  I want to think and respond the same way Jesus would in the same situation.  Lord, I want to get from believing to receiving."

Excerpt from God Thinking LXXXIV - How To Get From Believing To Receiving by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015

God Thinking LXXXIII - Other Little Ships 9

"Why is God Thinking so important?  Because you want to learn from the Word of God every truth can keep you free from fear and faithlessness, not just for yourself, but for all the other little ships that are counting on your faith at this time.

If you are one of those in the other little ships and you are not sure about your own relationship with God, look over to one of the ships with Jesus in it.  You might be surprised to find that just like you life is complicated and they have troubles and turmoil, sickness and even financial troubles, but they are in the boat with Jesus and it shows.

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"After all, Peter and John and James were great fishermen and they had been out on this sea many times in similar circumstances and they didn’t need the Lord.

And they really didn’t want those in the “other little ships” to see them sweat.

Here they were again, out on the same sea that they thought they had all rapped up. 

Does any of this sound like a similar experience in your own life?

They really didn’t think they needed Jesus, because they had been there before, they thought they could withstand it on their own - they thought they could contend with the storm without any help - they thought they could ride out any storm on their own.

But when the ship was full and they had lost their pride and they knew their was no other way, they became fearful.  They became fearful, not just because they did not trust God, but also because they did not use good judgement and get God involved in their situation early in their dilemma.

Why do so many people wait until they completely mess things up before they ask for help?

Do you know why they were fearful?  They were fearful because they let their arrogance and pride almost take them to the point of death before they would even call on His name.

They were fearful, because they tried to ride out the storm on their own.  They had a reason to fear.  Had it not been for the presence of God, they would have all perished for foolishness.

Isn’t it that way for you too?

How full will you let your ship get before you cry out to God?"

Excerpt from God thinking LXXXIII - Other Little ships by Keith C. Powell                                                Copyright 2015

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"When Jesus calms the storms in your life, He calms the storm in your extended family too.  Your friends and your acquaintances, those in your workplace and those in whom you run into in the grocery store all receive a blessing when you are blessed.

When God moves on your behalf, those in the other little ships receive from your blessing.

Jesus stopped the storm.

He calmed the waters.

All benefitted from the hand of God.

But not without rebuke.  Not without a lesson.

Mark 4:40

 40.  And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?

Did the disciples have faith, because the scriptures says, “how is it that ye have no faith?” 

If the disciples had faith, would there have not been a storm?

I believe there would have still been a storm.

If the disciples had faith, would they have called out for Jesus sooner?

I believe that they would have. 

I believe that if they had faith, they would have awoken Jesus sooner to ride the storm out with them, or to still the waters sooner - but even though they had Jesus (were born again) they were still trying to sail the ship on their own. 

Can you sense the spiritual implication here?

They really didn’t want to wake Jesus up and for Him to find out that they were in a situation that they could not get out of on their own. How many times have you done that?

Excerpt from God thinking LXXXIII - Other Little ships by Keith C. Powell                                                Copyright 2015

  

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"Mark 4:39

 39.  And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

If Jesus calls you to cross over to the other side - If Jesus calls you to go anywhere - If Jesus calls you to anything:

• He is going to get you there. 
• He is going to show Himself mighty on your behalf.
• He is going to put an end to the stress and the turmoil.
• He is going to bring peace to the situation.
• He is going to still the waters that are so stirred up.
• There will be a great calm.

This whole story is about learning to trust God in it and through it, but there’s more.

When did Jesus take care of the storm?

• Was it while the disciples were trying to act like there wasn’t a storm?
• Was it while the disciples were manning the ship and crossing the sea on their own?
• Was it when they first started to get wet?
• Was it when they recognized that things weren’t looking so good?

No, it was when they asked.

Note: They didn’t ask right.

They didn’t trust that it was the will of God that they go through the storm.

They didn’t come to Jesus with all the right words, but they came.

It wasn’t until they asked that Jesus arose up and took over where their faith could not go.

And it is the same with you today.

Don’t ride out the storm without asking Jesus in your own way to come and save you.

I want you to know it wasn’t their faith that saved them in this story, but it was their relationship.  As rough as their faith was and as little of it as they had, they had enough to know where to go when there was nowhere to go.

Jesus stands up and interferes with nature on behalf of those who know who to call - but Jesus didn’t stop the wind and the waves for just those in His direct contact - Jesus stopped the wind and the waves, the storms of life, the stress and the sure loss of life for all those in the other little ships too.

Those in the “other little ships” were also positively affected by those in the ship with the Lord.  When Jesus calmed the storm for those who asked, He also calmed the storm for those surrounding them as well.

I hope your getting this."

Excerpt from God thinking LXXXIII - Other Little ships by Keith C. Powell                                                Copyright 2015

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"Mark 4:38

38.  And He was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake Him, and say unto Him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

“asleep on a pillow.”  I had to talk to God about this. 

“asleep on a pillow.”  You’ve got to be kidding me. 

You call me to give it all up for you. 

You call me knowing that I will face the impossible.

You call me knowing that my ship is going to come just a moments time away from sinking - And all the while, You are in the hinder part of the ship, “asleep on a pillow.” 

Hey, don’t get me wrong, I didn’t mind too much that God was in the hinder part of the ship - but asleep on a pillow!!!

Have you ever been there?

The wind was blowing.

The waves have tossed you to and fro.

Your ship is about to sink.

You think to yourself, “what is God doing?”

”Are You sleeping?”

Surely you can’t see what I’m going through.

“Master, carest thou not that we/I perish?”

For some of us, there’s a season in our walk where we think we know better than God.

For some of us there is a season that we think God is unaware of what we are going through.

For some of us we are going through the stage of, ‘If it was of God it would be easy and everything would come together like a fairy tale.”

They called Him Master, but with the same breath they questioned His authority.

They called Him Master but they don’t trust Him.

You call Him Master, but do you trust Him?

Is the Jesus that is in the "hinder part of your ship," Your Sovereign?

Do you trust that Jesus, the one “asleep on a pillow” is in control?

What happens at that moment when the ship is about to sink? 

Mark 4:39

 39.  And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."

Excerpt from God thinking LXXXIII - Other Little ships by Keith C. Powell                                                Copyright 2015

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"Mark 4:37

37.  And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.

Do you believe that this was a real storm they were in?

You bet!!!  This is not the parable of the storm.  This is real life and Jesus called these faithful followers to go right into the storm. 

If the disciples ship was full of water, what do you think the other ships were full of?

If the disciples were afraid and they had a direct call from Jesus to cross over to the other side - Do you think those on the other little ships were afraid too?

Here’s spiritual growth.  Prior to getting this revelation from God, when you heard this story, did you ever even consider the other little ships as an important contribution to understanding the way of God?

If your ship goes down, so does all the other little ships.

Jesus called the disciples to cross over to the other side, knowing that a great storm would blow knowing that the waves would beat against their ship, knowing that the waters would fill the ship to the place where it would perish.  Jesus called them to go knowing all this.

Shouldn’t you be a concerned about a master that calls you into such a place of peril?

Shouldn’t you be a bit disappointed that He didn’t make their way calm and serene, supplying sugar plums and buttercups while counting the stars as they casually sail to the harbor of peace and tranquility?

What kind of God would call you knowing that you could face discomfort, stress or even death?

The kind that is in the hinder part of the ship."

Excerpt from God thinking LXXXIII - Other Little Ships by Keith C. Powell                                                Copyright 2015

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"Mark 4:36

36.  And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as He was in the ship. And there were also with Him other little ships.

“And there were also with Him other little ships.”  If we miss the meaning of why God put this message here for us, we miss a great truth.

Jesus is the Him that went with the disciples and Jesus is the Him that went with the other little ships also.

• The other little ships were all the people that the disciples were ministering to.
• The other little ships were those ships surrounding the disciples ship.
• The other little ships were filled with people who were being reached by the inner circle of disciples.
• The other little ships are those who are counting on, you and I - those of us who are close to the Master. 
• The other little ships are following the ship with Jesus in it.
• Those in the other little ships were not in the ship with the disciples, but they knew which ship Jesus was in. 

There are so many people counting on your faith and mine to lead them to the other side."

There’s 20 other little ships watching you and I set sail with Jesus, right now in each of our lives.  May all that come behind us find us faithful.

Are you getting this?

Excerpt from God thinking LXXXIII - Other Little ships by Keith C. Powell                                                Copyright 2015

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"In this story, Jesus didn’t call everyone to pass over to the other side with Him, but if He calls you to go to the other side with Him, will you go?

I know from experience that if you don’t make up your mind ahead of time, you will fall short at those crucial moments where the rubber meets the road.

Here in this story you have the foresight of knowing what happened, but even if you do not know what is about to happen, if God called you to go over to the other side with Him, your spirit would accept, because your spirit trusts that whatever God says will come to pass, and hopefully, just like with the disciples, they went and you would go too.

But the disciples didn’t know what was to come and in your life and in your own stories, you don’t know what is to come either. 

• Did Jesus know what was about to happen?
• Does Jesus know what is going to happen in your life?
• Did Jesus know that the ship would be filled with water when He called them to pass over to the other side?
• Did Jesus know that the storm was coming?
• Did Jesus warn the disciples that the storm was coming?

If Jesus calls us to go somewhere or to do something, does that mean that it will always be a cushy/comfortable ride?

Does it mean that there will be no difficulties? - no problems? - no impending peril?

When Jesus call you to something - it’s not about how easy it is or how safe it is or how protected you are - If Jesus call you He is going with you and that is where you need to put your faith."

Excerpt from God thinking LXXXIII - Other Little ships by Keith C. Powell                                                Copyright 2015

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Mark 4:35-41

35.  And the same day, when the even was come, He saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.

 36.  And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.

 37.  And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.

 38.  And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

 39.  And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

 40.  And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?

 41.  And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?

When Jesus says, “Let us pass over unto the other side,” There’s a lot of dynamics to consider.  I hope I present a new twist to the story that you have never considered.

When Jesus speaks to you to do a particular thing - Jesus speaks to your spirit to do what He says.  If you were anything other than a human, you could not resist the spoken Word of God, for all creation obeys His voice.

The stars and the moon, the sand on the beach and every creature cannot withstand the spoken Word of God.

Do you remember what Jesus told the Pharisees when Jesus was entering Jerusalem: Luke 19:39-40, “39.  And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.

 40.  And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”

We are the ones who have the free will to disobey God and go about our own way.  Even the demons must respond to God’s commands, but you and I, we were made different.  We don’t have to obey God. 

When Jesus says, “Let us pass over unto the other side,” Jesus knows that your spirit is able to obey and wants to obey, but our flesh - our mind and our emotions are sometimes powered by another force. 

• Habits have formed themselves into barriers from the call of God.  There’s the pride barrier
• There’s the undisciplined lifestyle barrier
• There’s the traditional barrier for some
• There’s the succumb to temptation barrier
• There’s the sleep deprivation barrier
• There’s the weak willed barrier
• There’s the I will get my needs met first barrier
• There’s the nobody will see me barrier

And a thousand more.  There are habits & mind sets that keep you from doing great things for God, and there are habits that keep you from doing little things for God, too."

Excerpt from God thinking LXXXIII - Other Little ships by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015

God Thinking LXXV - What Happened Along The Way? 6

"Romans 8:28-32

 28.  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.

 29.  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

 30.  Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

 31.  What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

 32.  He that spared not his own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall he not with Him also freely give us all things?

It isn’t that all of what God has for you is held back by God until you receive it, it is that you don’t always want  all that God has for you, because part of what God has for you can only be apprehended through praise and worship, prayer and study of the scriptures, commitment and loyalty, submission and service. 

Until you make time, to be in time, with what God is doing, you shouldn’t expect that what God has freely given to you, can be received.      

Within the four components that make up your whole being:

Physical

Emotional

Mental

Spiritual

There is much discussion about who is able to apprehend the truths of God.  You will find that each and every individual is created to receive all that God has prepared for them.  There are those who cannot, for whatever reason, (physiological or mental), receive and respond to God’s call.  God has provided provenient grace for all those who cannot, of their own volition, move toward God.  But for you, who have been enabled to act upon your own will - you have a duty and a responsibility to God to, not only participate in His plan, but have a deep residing understanding of His plan."

 Excerpt from God Thinking LXXV - What Happened Along The Way? by                                  Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015

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"Everything that you need to be fully restored to be in alignment with God’s plan for your life is available.

You need to know that despite the barriers or obstacles, past mistakes, present circumstances and situations - God still provides the perfect condition to meet every developmental stage of growth

But you need to know that there is a time of reckoning, that if you continue to allow certain things to go too far, you run the risk of not being able to get back to where you need to be.

Proverbs 29:1 says, “He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.”

God also informs us in Proverbs 1:23, “Turn ye at My reproof: behold, I will pour out My Spirit unto you, I will make known My words to you.”

Now is the appropriate time to receive instruction from God and to move forward and allow God to restore you and place you where it is that you need to be, (to be in and stay in) the will of God for your life.

God Thinking is about living in the fullness of God’s blessings while staying within the parameters established by God (for each stage of your development).  That’s God’s perfect plan and purpose for your life."

Note: So many Christians today are wallowing in the mire of despair and disappointment because they have not adopted God's standards for themselves. They feel like they just can't go up.  They feel like they are beaten so they do nothing to make a positive change that might pull them out of their situation. If you are one of those people, please just look to the skies and tell God about your troubles and ask for His assistance. God will not mock you, God will embrace you and all your troubles, whether you brought them on yourself or not. I tell people all the time, if what you have been doing hasn't worked, why not try a different approach, and this is the approach I am referring to.

 Excerpt from God Thinking LXXV - What Happened Along The Way? by                                  Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015

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"But glory be to God, He can turn it around.  God can take all the (out of sync days, months, years or even decades) and bring you back in line with His plan for your life.

God can do for you what no man can do. 

God can restore

God can revive

God can renew

God can rebuild

God can rehabilitate

God can redistribute   

God can wash clean

God can forgive sin

God can unite - God can turn it around

God can take someone who has lived out of sync with God most or all of their life and restore them whole.

God can restore you to excellent health.

Revive dreams

Renew vows

Rebuild relationships

God can rehabilitate the body, the emotions, the mind, and the spirit.

God can redistribute wealth to include you and I this round. (That is not the governments job!)  

There’s no sin that God can’t forgive and absolve.

There’s no relationship that God cannot reunite.

There’s no dream lost that God cannot revive in your heart.

It may be true that you have lost some ground.

It may be true that you have been out of sync with what God was doing.

It may be true that you are still fighting the enemy - that there’s a stronghold that looks too big to fight.

It may be that you don’t feel worthy to receive God’s very best.

But God has provided every tool, every truth, every word, and every provision to turn things around."  

Excerpt from God Thinking LXXV - What Happened Along The Way? by                                  Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015