Thought for the Day II

"Now, if you are settled, that where you have come from or what you have gone through, what you have done or what you didn’t do, has become your testimony, maybe, from now on, you could understand that God reveals to others, what God has done in you and through you, by your testimony, for their benefit.

From now on, now that you have this understanding, yoy should have a better and more godlike perspective when stuff happens.



If you are going through something right now, the question should be, "Am I going through it alone or am I going through it with God?"


• Are you trying to go around what you are going through with your spouse, or your friend or are you going to go through it for a testimony?


Hold on now.


• Are you going to skirt the issue with your sister, or are you going to go through it and deal with it, with God, for a testimony?


• Are you going to try to hide from the issues you have with your children and/or teens or are you going to face it and bring God right in the middle for a testimony?


• Are you going to rationalize what God has put on your heart and go around it, or are you going to go through it for a testimony?"

Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking II by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012

Thought for the Day II

"Some things in your life that are messed up were caused by your own foolish endeavors. You may think that because you did it knowingly, that God will hold it to your account for life. If that thought has crossed your mind, then you need to know - God said He has removed your sin from you as far as the East is from the West, that He has paid the price for your sin and made you whole, in Him.



Whether it was done to you or you did it to someone else or you did it to yourself, if it is the past and you didn’t go through it with God, it's time to let it go. God went through it with you. You can count on that. But did you consciously go through it with God? "What did you do with what God allowed to happen?" It really doesn’t matter. Whatever you have been through, (despite who caused it or whose fault it was), without you knowing it, it has developed into your testimony. Whatever you have been through - whether you did it alone or with the guidance and grace of God - good or bad, for Christ or against Him - it has become your testimony; your story, your revealing of How life is without God and your revealing of how life is with God."

Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking II by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012

Thought for the Day II

"If you responded in anger, to what God allowed to happen in your life, you might be struggling with guilt about being mad at God. And you might feel that you can't ever be made whole again, because you messed up so bad that God won't receive us now. If that thought has crossed your mind, then you need to know:

• You can't get so mad at God that God can't forgive you.
• God loves you so much that He sent His Son to die for you, knowing that you would fail Him, miserably.
• Some things that have happened in your life were caused by others, and you may have handled the situation poorly, and you think that God is so disappointed with you, that you can't receive His blessings or power or anointing now.

If that thought has crossed your mind, then you need to know - God is not holding anything against you. You are to gleam the wheat from the chaff and move on. God is only disappointed if you do not trust the atoning sacrifice of His Son for your sins and indiscretions."

Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking II by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012

Thought for the Day II

"Now let's take this whole concept a little further. Let's settle some things. These are the things that God thinking is made of.

• God is not the author of sickness - But, God will see you through your sickness.
• God is not the author of pain - But, God will be with you through your pain.
• God is not the author of manipulation - But, God in due time God will expose the manipulator.
• God is not the author of hatred - But, God will break the cords of hatred.
• God is not the author of prejudice - But, God will take away prejudice.
• God is not the author of hard feelings - But, God will reconcile hard feelings.
• God is not the author of lost years - But, but God will go with you through the rest of your years, hand in hand.
• God is not the author of racism - But, God will unite His people together, in Him.
• God is not the author of meanness - But, God can soften even the hardest heart.
• God is not the author of adultery - But, God is the author of marriage.
• God is not the author of loose living - But, God is the author of holy living.
• God is not the author of the storms in your life, but He will calm the storm.

Let's look at the question again. "What are you going to do with what God allows to happen? But first, for the sake of learning from past experiences, let's look at the question, "what did you do with what God allowed to happen?" Because, what you did with what God allowed to happen, sometimes steers you to believe erroneous things about God."

Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking II by Keith C. Powell copyright 2012

Thought for the Day II

"Sometimes you go through things that aren’t fair.

• Have you ever had anyone lie to you?
• Have you ever had anyone take advantage of you?
• Has anyone ever abused you or manipulated you?
• Have you ever done anything that brought about unexpected negative circumstances?
• Have you ever been the cause of pain or suffering for someone else?
• Have you ever brought trouble on yourself?

No one escapes life without trials, tribulations and tests, but the way that you go through these experiences determine your testimony.

• Has anyone ever tried to sneak in and take your portion of what you have worked for the last twenty years?
• Have you ever loved someone that you found out was using you?
• Has an employer ever let you down?

Where is God in all of this?
Do you think that God was taking a sabbatical from being God?
Was God sleeping?
Maybe God just can't be everywhere at the same time.
Maybe your problem is too big for God.
Maybe God just let's you do it on your own so He can laugh at you when you fall.
Maybe God just isn’t there at all.


Sounds almost sacrilegious doesn’t it? But that's the way we live it out sometimes.


Hear this truth:  You live in a fallen world. Stuff happens, people get sick, people lie, people steal, people murder and terrorize. Cars crash, boats sink, accidents happen that takes lives, good people die. You are always asking the question, "Why does God let these things happen?”

Let=s take a real step of faith here and learn some serious truth.  Instead off asking the question, AWhy does God let these things happen? The question should be, AWhat are you going to do with what God allows to happen? 

When you think this way, AWhat are you going to do with what God allows to happen?, it gives God something to work with, because God can take you through anything that you give over to Him.

Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking II by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012

Thought for the Day II

"Going through it with God and in conjunction with His Word, by faith, is of far more value to us and than receiving the end without having gone through the process. God is seeking a people who are willing to follow Him, through it, not around it. God is seeking such to worship Him. God is seeking those who would go through the fire for a season; Those who would humble themselves for a season - Those who are not seeking short cuts – Those who are willing to go the long haul with God.



God allows you to go through some stuff as a proving ground for your faith. God does not bring the evil, the pain, the sickness, the powerlessness, the sin, the temptation; but in it God carries you through it.

• Who taughtyou that you wouldn’t have to go through the fire once and a while?
• Who taught you that you don't have to work hard to accomplish the tasks at hand, your life's goals, and to fulfill your calling in Christ Jesus?
• Who taught you that you would never experience sickness, tragedy, pain, old age, or death?

You might have gone through something that was totally unbearable or maybe you are going through something right now.


You ask God:
Why would you let this happen?
Where are you?
Why did you let me go through that sickness for ten years?
Why didn't you let me have what I wanted?
Why did you let me have what I wanted, you knew it wouldn’t be good for me?
Why don't you stop this situation, right now, LORD?


You and I are going to go through things for the rest of your lives, some great things and some things that hurt.

You are going to be blessed and lifted up - and you are going to be pushed down or lose your footing occasionally also.


You are also going to soar like eagles - and there will be days that you won't even want to get up."

Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking II by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012

Thought for the Day II

"God Thinking recognizes that; going through it with God is far better than going around it without God. God uses the circumstances and situations of your life to build in you a testimony. "For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen." Romans 11:36.



I want to talk a little about the spirit of the short-cut. People today want everything and they want it fast:

• They want a four year education in two years.
• They want their business to make money the first month.
• They want a lifetime of training in a weekend seminar.
• They want the anointing of the faithful for coming to church three weeks in a row.
• They are looking for fast food - fast fixes - fast answers - fast processes.

Many people today don't want to go through anything, they want to go around it.
Many people today don't want to experience anything that is'nt; fast, easy, effortless, comfortable & profitable.


Many people today want to bypass the process to get to the end, as if the end was the thing, but the end is not the thing, it is the going through it with God that is the thing.

Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking II by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012