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"Another goal killer is perfection analysis.  'I can’t get started with my goal because all the conditions aren’t perfect.' If you are looking for the perfect scenario before you get started, you will put it off forever.  And if you put off forever what you were inspired by God to do, does that glorify God?

If perfection paralysis has stopped you from moving forward, you need to change the way you think.  

Waiting until all the conditions surrounding your life’s goals are perfect is not sensible and responsible, it is vain and foolish.  It is just one more excuse that keeps you from moving forward with your life’s plans. 

Perfection is not an option. , but having a:

Realistic - measurable - specific - action oriented - time bound goal, is an option.

It’s all about perspective.  God thinking doesn’t listen to the world.  God thinking listens to God.

If you are thinking, that God has not called you to anything, you are mistaken.  It’s easy to think that you just can’t; it doesn’t take any faith to just can’t. 

But it takes faith, to start right where you are, with what you have, at whatever age you are, with whatever resources you have at hand, with all that is against you, to believe what God says.

Excerpt from God Thinking XX - It's Not Time That's The Problem by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

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"Maybe you have a huge goal that takes millions of dollars, years of time and hundreds of educated people to fulfill; Don’t be afraid to get on with it.  With God all things are possible. 

Maybe you just want to move.  It’s your most important  goal right now.  Have you prayed about it?  I mean, have you prayed about it!!!?  Are you thinking that God isn’t interested in where you live, how you get there, or who lives there?  God will assist you in finding just the right place, for just the right money, at just the right time; but you have got to have the goal and include God in your plans.  It’s that simple.

"But you don’t understand, I don’t have enough money to make my dreams come true!!." There are thousands of people who would love to invest in your idea, your dream or your goal.  How many people have you asked?  Have you asked the right people?  Have you prayed about it and asked God, “Father, what would you have me to do?  You know I don’t have enough money to make this thing happen.  Would you lead me Lord.  Would you guide me and help me?"

Maybe your argument might be, “I don’t have enough time.”

Really?  Listen to the Word of God.

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:" Ecclesiastes 3:1
 

You might be cramped for time now, but when you determine the relevancy of how you spend your time and redeem the time wisely in relation to your goal/goals, then you can re-allocate the time needed to advantage ourselves under God’s direction.

Maybe you feel you are not educated enough to reach your desired goal or you feel you are just too old to get started.  “After all, if I were to get the five years of education I need to do what I want, I would be 70.”

Let me ask you something, “How old will you be in five years if you don’t get the education you always wanted?”

 

Excerpt from God Thinking XX - It's Not Time That's The Problem by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

 

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"Maybe you have a huge goal that takes millions of dollars, years of time and hundreds of educated people to fulfill; Don’t be afraid to get on with it.  With God all things are possible.

Maybe you just want to move.  It’s your most important  goal right now.  Have you prayed about it?  I mean, have you prayed about it!!!?  Are you thinking that God isn’t interested in where you live, how you get there, or who lives there?  God will assist you in finding just the right place, for just the right money, at just the right time; but you have got to have the goal and include God in your plans.  It’s that simple.

But you don’t understand, I don’t have enough money to make my dreams come true!!. There are thousands of people who would love to invest in your idea, your dream or your goal.  How many people have you asked?  Have you asked the right people?  Have you prayed about it and asked God, “Father, what would you have me to do?  You know I don’t have enough money to make this thing happen.  Would you lead me Lord.  Would you guide me and help me?

Maybe your argument might be, “I don’t have enough time.”

Really, listen to the Word of God.

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:1

We might be cramped for time now, but when we determine the relevancy of how we spend our time and redeem the time wisely in relation to our goal/goals, then we can re-allocate the time needed to advantage ourselves under God’s direction. 
 

Maybe you feel you are not educated enough to reach your desired goal or you feel you are just too old to get started.  “After all, if I were to get the five years of education I need to do what I want, I would be 70.”

Let me ask you something, “How old will you be in five years if you don’t get the education you always wanted?”

 

Excerpt from God thinking XX - It's Not Time That's The Problem by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

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"You know, some people can’t live without having everything. And the resources that they could be using to help bring to success their goal or dream, is expended on unrelated and quite often insignificant things.

If you want God to assist you in reaching your life’s goal, long term, short term or right now, you have to give God something to work with.  It has to be more than an idea, more than frivolous talk, more than a silly notion. 

The LORD says, “commit thy way”. 

There is a lesson we can learn from the pelican.  God feeds the pelican well, but seldom will you see a fish jump into a pelican’s mouth while the pelican is perched on a pole.

It is time to go to the LORD and pray.

It’s time to make a decision.

God wills for you to want or desire something more than just existence.

If you go to God in prayer and make a decision to move forward, God has something to work with.

Dedicate some time to it.

     Budget some funds toward it.

          Pray over it again and again.

Stop the futile struggle in the, “I wish this or that was different" game or “If only I had more money”, or “if only I had more time” or “If only I were more educated.”

If you have an honest goal and you have applied the threefold foundation of God thinking to it, and you have confirmation from the Holy Spirit to get on with it, there isn’t anybody or any time better suited than you, right now for the task." 

Excerpt from God Thinking XX - It's Not Time That's The Problem by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

 

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"When we do this, (pray) we open the windows of heaven to receive what cannot be obtained by just working hard. 

• Some things just cannot be obtained by writing a good plan.
• Some things just cannot be obtained with a PhD.
• Some things just cannot be bought with money.
• Some things just cannot be arranged by your family.
• Some things just cannot be accomplished with the intellect.
• Some things can only be accomplished by God. 

I pray to God that each of you will find yourself in the center of God’s will.

 

The next aspect of goal setting that we are going to discover is relevancy.

 

If you want your goals and dreams to be blessed by God, you need to ask yourself,

“What is relevant in assisting me to accomplish the goal at hand?, and seek more of it.

And,
“What is irrelevant or inconsequential in assisting me in reaching my goal, dream or task at hand?, and seek less of it.

You also need to ask yourself,

“What is it that I cannot live without while I am working my plan?  And get it.

And you need to ask yourself,

“What is it that I can live without while I am working my plan?  And ditch it."

 

Excerpt from God Thinking XX - It's Not Time That's The Problem by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

 

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"God Thinking demands that you live by faith.

Faith that believes God, and God says, “commit thy way, (thy goal, thy path, thy desires, your course of life, your life’s goals) and I will bring it to pass”. 

Do you believe that you should operate in faith with the wisdom of God?

Why do you attempt to manage so much of your lives on your own?

Why do you wait until things go wrong to get God involved in the matter?

Why do you make plans without going to God on your knees and seeking His wisdom in the matter?
 

You must learn to use the threefold foundation of God Thinking in every goal, dream, desire or task at hand.

Does anyone remember the threefold foundation of God Thinking?

1     Choosing a goal that can be sanctioned by God.

2     Acknowledging what we are able to do towards creating our goal and acknowledging 
what is impossible for us to do and will require the hand of God.

3     Talking and listening to God while on the journey.

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"If your goal or dream doesn’t require the hand of God, then it’s not all it could be.  It doesn’t meet the criteria of a goal or dream of a child of God. 

Everything you do is to be by faith with the expectation of God completing you and bringing to pass the impossible, the miraculous.

God blesses what He endorses and God endorses His Word.  God reveals what He endorses by His Word and by revelation. 
 

Can you just say Amen.
 

Can you say, 'I need to expand my dream and include the mighty hand of God in it.'
 

Can you say with me, ‘Enlarge my borders Lord and take away any doubt that would keep my dream from being all it can be.'

Can you agree with me to seek the high ground - to go after the impossible - to step out in faith and trust God to bridge the gap between the natural and the supernatural?"

 

Excerpt from God Thinking XX - It's Not Time That's The Problem by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013