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"There is a teaching - a philosophy of sorts going around that goes like this.  “All paths lead to God”.  Don’t buy it.  Don’t agree with your neighbor and friends when they speak about this broad, all encompassing path.  This path doesn’t lead to God.  It leads to a dead end; a huge pit called “the second death”

There’s only one path that leads to life, and that is, the narrow path.  Don’t be confused by the rhetoric of those on this broad path. 

They are not the experts of God’s creation. 

 

Most people who argue against God the Father, the only begotten Son of God and the Holy Spirit have never met God the Father, Jesus the Son or the Holy Spirit. 

• We don’t blame those who have not met the Master. 
• We don’t hammer them with truths that they cannot comprehend.
• We don’t treat them with malice.
• We don’t judge them.
• We love them and reveal Christ to them by loving them in a way they have not known.
• We carefully minister the truth to them.
• We pray for them.
• We go to God in supplication and get answers.
• We intercede for every person on the broad path. 

But we don’t follow them.  We cannot.  We are not on the same path, nor are we in the same direction."

Excerpt from God Thinking XVII- All Paths Do Not Lead To God by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

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"There was total unity among the vendor stations, except one small station at the very beginning of the path.  There is a tiny little entranceway and a narrow little path right in the middle of the wide road to get there. 

 

Every now and then, the vendors would see someone going the opposite way of the broad, wide road.  That’s what’s different about this one little station, it’s at the opposite end of the broad path.

 

When a vendor would see someone walking down this narrow path, they would jeer at them and mock them, they would hurl things at them. They would holler at them and call them names, like: intolerant, narrow-minded, hypocritical, judgmental and homo-phobic. 

 

They would try to trip those on the narrow path and they would throw their trash into the narrow path as the traveler passed by.  They would set up barricades and obstacles in front of every station. 

 

At some stations they placed guards to shoot anyone they found heading in the direction of the narrow path. 

 

At some stations they blocked the path and if a person continued in that direction they would be arrested or killed.

 

Matthew 7:13-14

Jesus says, “Enter ye in at the straight gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: V14 Because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

 

Excerpt from God Thinking XVII- All Paths Do Not Lead To God by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

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"The stations all offer a great many lessons.  Each lesson is designed to keep you on this path.  In some stations like Islam, they promise a special future for those who will agree to die in battle.  (It is promised to each and everyone who will voluntarily die before they get to the end of the path, (Seven virgins and great wealth).  And of course they will be permitted to continue on this path when they come back, to finish the ascent to the precipice.

 

On this path everything is sold.  You can get anything you want.  It’s a no holds barred, have it your own way, and do it your own way, path. 

 

This path is broad, because there are a lot of people on this path.  It is so wide, you can’t even see from one side to the other.  It is packed with people all headed in the same direction.

 

Each station on this path has a special set of rules that apply to all those who stop at each station on the way.

 

But faithful one to the other, they all point the traveler in the same direction. 

 

All the vendors on this path have agreed, that since all the stations lead the same direction there should be agreement among them as to the name for the path.

 

One by one, they all join a one direction organization.  They decided that this one direction organization should have a name.  It took thousands of years to come to agreement, but at the end of six thousand years they unanimously voted that the official name of the organization for the broad path would be:  “ALL PATHS LEAD TO GOD.”

Excerpt from God Thinking XVII- All Paths Do Not Lead To God by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

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"There is wisdom in God thinking.  One of the truths that God thinking purports is a very important truth about the path of life. 

The whole world is beating a path in the same direction.  This direction ends abruptly at a precipice. 

Along the way there are stations that help those on this path to reach their goal, I. e., the goal is to get to the end of the path.  These stations have names, like: Self-actualization, humanism, Spiritism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Scientology, Mormonism and hundreds of others.

Each station on this path is to help the climber to get to the top or the end of the path.  They call the top names like: acquired knowledge, the celestial city, the Pagoda, Nirvana and clear.

This path leads most to an understanding of life as a circle.  When they die on this path, they are told they will start over again and come back to the path and stop at another station.

They have a name for this circle of life; it is called reincarnation.  Reincarnation becomes the hope of many.  It works like an anesthesia to assist those on this path, because those on this path do not believe in personal responsibility for the life they have."

 

Excerpt from God Thinking XVII- All Paths Do Not Lead To God by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

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"If you want the very best that God has for you, you will have to be just like Him.  You will have to give Him your very best.

The Holy Spirit of God invites you to allow Him to work in you and through you, and because you were made in the image and likeness of Him, you will have to invite Him to work in you and through you.

“If ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?” Luke 11:13

No one comes to God without invitation and God comes to no one without invitation.  It’s how God made you. 

Don't buy into modern rhetoric that sends a message that whatever your vision of God is, is correct.  Everyone can just have God their way, like a smorgasbord.  If your vision of God is not from a personal relationship with God, through Jesus, you are believing in a man made god; one that has no efficacy at all.

 

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

 

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"You who have been born again are the temple of the Holy Spirit.  

God, the Holy Spirit resides in your temple. 

The Holy Spirit did not barge in as an unwanted guest.

The Holy Spirit indwells you by invitation or not at all.

The Holy Spirit must be invited in.

When the Holy Spirit is invited in, He comes to make His abode with you.  When God created mankind, He created you a living soul;

 

He made: Now watch this closely:

The Word says, “...no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” John 14:6b There was an invitation from the Father to you and I or you and I could not have come to Jesus.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  John 3:16 Again there was an invitation to every man, woman and child to come to Jesus.
 

“Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28  Again, by invitation Jesus calls us unto Himself.
 

Let this sink deep down into your soul.
 

If you have a relationship with God, it was by invitation - And because you were made in the image and likeness of God, if God is to have a relationship with you, it will have to be by invitation."

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

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"God Thinking is for those who want a better life than one of hit and miss.  For those who want:

• God’s wisdom
• God’s knowledge
• God’s understanding
• God’s faith
• God’s experience
• God’s mind

At the center of your being is a thought of God.  This thought is a compilation of your view of God.  

 

You were created from the essence of God. 

From the essence of God, you were created. 
 

Psalm 139:17-18, “How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them. “V18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.”

 

When you are awake, God is thinking of you.

When you are asleep, God is thinking of you.
 

God thinking is about understanding what God is thinking of you.

Even when you are asleep, God is keeping your dreams, your hopes, your desires, your purpose, your calling alive.  You cannot do it alone.  You never could.  Those who think they can accomplish anything without Christ at the center of their being have been blinded by the enemy.

Jesus said, ...”for without me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5"

 

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