God Thinking Pre-empt 9

"Because of past teaching, many of us have come to believe that we are on a journey to find God in this life, in hopes of getting to God on the other side, in that life.

These precepts are false.

First of all, God is not, nor has God been lost that He would need to be found. 

Secondly, there is no finding God or knowing God apart from God drawing us near to Him and calling us.  John 6:44, "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day."

John 14:6, "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

Thirdly, you are on a journey with God, not trying to find God but to find what God wants you to be. 

Fourthly, No one goes to be with God on the other side that is not already with God on this side. 

Our pastors and our teachers are most to blame for our ignorance of God's way for our life.

You can get closer, much closer to God simply by unlearning some things, without having to learn or do anything new.

If we were to unlearn enough, you could walk with God in the cool of the day." 

Excerpt from God thinking Pre-empt by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012

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"Let your conscience be your guide" is but a line in a fairy tale.  You can override your conscience.  But, "let your inner man be your guide" and you will see profound and positive results in every area of your life. 

There's one more issue I want to deal with before we press in and open our hearts and in-fill our mind and heart with God's Word.  You will have got to change the way you think."

Excerpt from God Thinking Pre-empt by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012

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"If you are thinking you can get serious, long term results over the continuing problems in your life, without unlearning some things... well you decide.  Does your inner man agree?

I'm not talking about your conscience when I say inner man.  You and I both know if we want something bad enough we can sear our conscience - convince our conscience.

You can rationalize anything where the drive is greater than the discipline to tame it.

But the inner man is not so easily moved.  The inner man is where the Holy Spirit of God resides in you.  Your inner man will not lie to you nor agree with you on anything that is destructive, selfish, damaging or divisive.

The inner man never goes along with folly, pretense, indiscretion, prejudice or sin. 

The inner man always holds fast to its divine intent.  You can trust the inner man.

If you want to grow and mature in mind and body, spirit and soul, you will have to learn new ways of life and unlearn some old ways.

Ouch!  For those of you who don't care much for change, your flesh is going to rebel at this kind of teaching.

Excerpt from God Thinking Pre-empt by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012

God Thinking Pre-empt 6

"You wonder why you keep getting into the same old circumstances:

• the same old financial trouble
• the same old sickness
• the same old problems
• the same old situations

These are vicious cycles and quite often it takes a calamity to get you out.  Sometimes you think the calamity is the problem, when it is the calamity that moves you from that stagnant place of not having control over oyur situation to a place where you have to deal with it.

For most of us we can't seem to break away on our own because we are practically gorging on unfit input, so we don't break away until some great external force slays our problem.

• You don't stop cheating until you are caught.
• You don't stop eating trash until you get a heart attack.
• You don't stop smoking until you get cancer.
• You don't stop avoiding your children until there messed up.
• You don't stop spending until you are deep in debt.

You can't stop anything until you unlearn the behavior that is manifesting itself as the problem.  And to stop is not enough.  It won't be long and you will find yourself right back in the same mess.

         

The only way to succeed at unlearning is to eradicate the link that started the whole process in the first place.  The link that took a simple erroneous thought and turned it into an experience.  That link must be removed."

Excerpt from God Thinking Pre-empt by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012

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"I know it is a lot easier to blame shift than to recognize your own indiscretions and take responsibility for them. 

It's not easy to unlearn or undo, because it might require becoming undone.  

This is what happened to Isaiah.  Isaiah 6:5, "Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts."

What I am about to present to you cannot be received until (what is holding you back - what is not of God) is removed.   You must unlearn or remove altogether those things that are keeping you from the center of God's will in order to receive new light.  Before you can receive what God freely gives - an equivalent of what is about to come in, must first be removed from its current pedestal and removed.

 

Think of it this way: If you had a glass of water and someone put one drop of poison in the glass, how much clear, pure water would you have to pour into the glass until you were sure you could drink from the glass? 

Would you feel comfortable drinking from that glass if all you did to clean it was to pour clean water in it?  No.  But if you poured it out and cleaned the glass before you put clear, clean water in it...

It is the same with much that you have learned and ingested into your inner man over the years.  You think that by pouring new knowledge or new truth or new concepts (in your inner man) that what you believe will be purified.  But it is not true.  Unless you remove the poison and clean the glass, your container will never be pure enough to drink from. 

Remember the scriptures: Matthew 9:16, 17 "No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.  17.  Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. 

Can you see why I used the term unlearn, and undo.  It's not enough to keep piling new on the old and somehow have it come out OK."

Excerpt from God Thinking Pre-empt by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012 

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"Listen carefully. There's only one way to remove from your mind andy our inner man thoughts that might be starving you from receiving God's truth.  Keep in mind that if you continue to learn new, but you don't do something to eradicate the old, the new becomes skewed. 

To overcome this syndrome, you must unlearn what is erroneous.  It is just as important to unlearn what doesn't work:

unlearn what does not have power

unlearn whatever causes doubt

unlearn whatever distracts you

unlearn everything that is not sanctioned by God for use in your inner man to create in you the ability to operate with the mind of Christ. 

 

1 Corinthians 2:11-16, "For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

 12.  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

 13.  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

 14.  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

 15.  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

 16.  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ."

Unlearning is not as easy as it sounds.  You feel safe with your current barriers.  You hold pretty tight to what you have already accumulated, even if what you have accumulated is of little or no value

even if what you have accumulated was gathered by false pretense

even if what you have accumulated is not good for your family

even if what you have accumulated has not been good for you

even if what you have accumulated is killing you. 

If what you have learned - what you have accumulated is not working for you, it's time to let it go, to unlearn it. 

Excerpt from God Thinking Pre-empt by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012

God Thinking Pre-empt 3

What happens to you when you have been taught things that are not from God? 

What happens when you pass that information on to others?

One of this world's great maladies is to recycle bad information.  It comes to us warped and we hold onto it like it is truth.  In many cases we don't even verify it before we act upon it. 

What do you think has happened to the body of Christ, over the centuries, if those who have not confirmed, taught what was not been confirmed as if it were the very Word of God?  

Let me ask you, what happens when you mix some truth with some falsity?  The good information is skewed, lessened, reduced from its intended efficacy. 

The truth that I am about to expose demands that you make a place in your mind and in your inner man for the Mind of Christ; God demands that you give up something old for something new. 

God demands that you make room for Him, that you create (a cleaned out) space, not cluttered or full of junk before God pours in His anything. 

Youwill have to throw out some trash, some junk and some unused things.  In your inner man you will have to throw out some bad information:

• You will have to throw out - unsubstantiated beliefs
• You will have to throw out  - unsubstantiated fears
• You will have to throw out - skewed views
• You will have to throw out - false precepts
• You will have to throw out  - all doubt
• You will have to throw out  - all uncertainty
• You will have to throw out - anything that takes up space that was designed for God

And make room for something far better."

Excerpt from God Thinking Pre-empt by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012