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"God thinking teaches you how to make sure that the truths that you receive, no longer slip through your hands.   

God thinking receives the truths from God into the root of your being and imbeds them at the center of your soul.  

The truths of God become who you are.  They steer your actions, your desires, your faith and your belief.

 

How do you get a truth imbedded in your soul?

Well, first let me tell you how not to get a truth of God imbedded in your soul.

• Just be indifferent about it. 
• Just shine it on. 
• Don’t respond to it.
• Don’t share it with others.
• Don’t practice it.

It will go away.  When God speaks to you and tells you what He wants from you and what He sees would be good for you, you can just hear it and let it roll off your back, you won’t have to worry about it sticking with you.  It will just go away.

Indifference is like a disease that causes root rot.  Indifference is the silent killer of your faith.

To those who are indifferent to the Word of God, little by little  everything they learn, everything they touch, ends up mishandled. 

James 1:8 “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”

 

Excerpt from God Thinking XVI - Making Wise Decisions by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

 

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"If the truths that you hear don’t penetrate the inner soul of your being, the root of your faith and then re-create who you are, it doesn’t stick because it was never made part of your root system, your inner most being. 

The truth just lingers on the outside and makes you frustrated, because you can see that you received the answers you were looking for, you received the power you wanted, you could taste the fulfillment of your dreams, you heard the words that heal you, but you just couldn’t hold onto it.

You claim it.  You get it in your hands, but it slips away when you are tested or when you are put through the fire.  Sometimes it slips away on the ride home. 

Why can’t you hold on to all the great teaching that has been brought your way?  Because it did not take root.

“...if the root be holy, so are the branches” Romans 11:16

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"God Thinking is about changing the way you think, by making changes at the very center of your being.  What makes a root truth different than other truths, is that, other truths may affect you outwardly, (like adding a branch or a leaf or a flower), but root truths change you inwardly, at the center of your being, changing the whole person from the root, to the trunk, the branch, the leaf and the flower.  

God designed you to receive, understand and utilize every message - from His (Logos) God’s written Word and His (Ramah) God’s spoken Word.  This written and spoken Word is translated from the page of scripture into acts of love, acts of mercy, acts of peace, acts of forgiveness.

For too long you have been hearing from God, but it is not changing you. 

The best teaching that has ever graced the planet is being poured out onto God’s people: in mega conferences, seminars, in the local church, small store front churches and one on one.  You get excited!!!.  You are sure that you have heard some great truth at these conferences, seminars, the local church, small store front churches and one on one, but it doesn’t stick around for the long haul.  Why is that?"

 

Excerpt from God Thinking XVI - Making Wise Choices by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

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"Let’s say you've a computer system.  It is a 250 gigabyte, 1.9megahertz system with 2 megabytes of RAM.  You go to buy software and you find just the right software package. 
This software has just what you want. 
 

So you turn the box over to read the system requirements, and the program requires 125 megabytes of space (you have that), it requires a 1.5 gigabyte processor, (yours is a 1.9 megahertz), and it requires 4 megs of RAM and you only have 2.  You walk away without purchasing this new software, even though it has everything you want, because it will not operate on your existing operating system. 

 

What would you have to do if you really wanted this new software?  You would have to upgrade your operating system.

God thinking is about upgrading your operating system so that what you need from God, you can receive from God."

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"Everyone has a background - (previous knowledge & previous experiences that makeup your whole self).  When you are exposed to new wisdom or new light, new understanding comes in.  You add this new knowledge to your existing knowledge base like a new branch, leaf or flower. 

 

You may learn a profound truth, but added to your existing knowledge base, it becomes like a branch a leaf or a flower in your experience.  It is kept external and utilized as if it were an entity of its own.

 

Example: Let’s say you learned that the Apostle Paul, after he was blinded on the road to Damascus, had to wait 3 days in blindness before God let him have his sight back.  That truth might make you think about your own personal experiences and it might make you think that maybe you are blind to something and that you must wait for 3 days or 3 weeks or some determined amount of time, waiting for God to open your eyes.

Adding this knowledge to your knowledge base would be like adding a branch or a leaf or a flower, but it would have little or no effect on the center of your being.

Let’s say you read a verse of scripture like, “obey them that have rule over you”.  Let’s say you’ve never quite understood it, but today it comes to life and becomes clear.  This truth is added to your knowledge base like a branch, a leaf or a flower.  But this truth will not effect the center of your being.  The root of the tree will not be effected by adding new truths to your existing knowledge base."

 

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"God Thinking goes deep into the center of our soul.

It affects every aspect of our human condition. 
     The Body - Mind - Spirit - Soul

God Thinking works this way:
Unlike adding knowledge to your existing knowledge base like a branch a leaf or a flower - God Thinking goes to the root.

The root is that place of your being where all else comes out from it.  God Thinking is about getting the root system of your being in agreement with the mind of Christ.  Is thqat something you want?"

 

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• "When you want what God has purposed.
• When you seek what God has blessed.
• When you hope for what God has placed on your path.
• When you go where God has called you to go.
• When you are who God called you to be.

Are you hearing me?

• When your goals are God breathed.
• When you desire what God has foreordained.
• When it’s your dream to do what God is doing.
• When your vision is God’s vision.
• When it becomes natural to think God thoughts, the burden and the weight of this life will grow strangely dim. 

The problems

The financial pressure

The long hours

The heartaches

The past

The stress and strain
The pain - All grows strangely dim and less significant.

I can say without any doubt that God’s design for your life is a beautiful thing. 

God has paved a way for you that is far above and beyond anything you could dream or desire.

God has designed you with a purpose that must apprehended and understood by faith.   

God thinking  - believes that God’s design for you produces God’s purpose in you.      

Are you following God’s design in your life? 

If you are following God’s design, you should rejoice that God has revealed this to you. 

If we are not following God’s design in our lives, we can.  We can start where we left off, or we can start a fresh new life in Christ right now.

God thinking requires we think about God’s design and determine if we are aligned with His design in our lives.

Excerpt from God Thinking XV - By Design by Keith C. Powell copyright 2013