God Thinking XXIV - Prepare To Be Prepared 1

"God Thinking is when we take the things of God and put them on top in our thinking, and take the things of the world and pushes them down and then out.  We do this so we can become more like Christ:

Not more like Christ as if we could ever be more righteous before God than the moment we accept the free gift of salvation.

But more like Christ:

In the way we live
In the way we talk
In the way we provide for our family
In the way we raise our children
In the way we worship God
In the way we become submissive to God’s Holy will
In the way we trust.....God
In the way we believe God
In the way we exercise our faith
In the way we respond when under pressure
In the way we act in secret places
 

You don’t become more like Christ so you can earn your way into heaven.  Entrance to heaven is not for sale.  It is by invitation only. 

You don’t become more like Christ so you can become a religious icon, a spectacle of sorts that others can look at as if you were better than someone else.  If you are drawing others to Christ to lift yourself up, or to give yourself recognition, or to elevate your ego, you are not growing up in grace and becoming more like Christ.  You are growing away from the original intent of being a Christian; which is to be endowed with the characteristics and properties of Christ;

• To follow in the footsteps of Jesus. 
• To live out what God created us for.
• To listen to God and then move forward and obey His voice.

Excerpt from God Thinking XXIV - Prepare To Be Prepared by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

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"I want to talk about stepping from one place, one faith, one glory - to another:

Are you ready:  Don't be afraid to receive all that is yours.

The higher things of God have nothing to do with the things on this earth.

Seeking God is a higher calling than seeking something from God.

God is not moved by the people who are constantly testing Him and questioning His plan.

God is moved more by one “Yes”, from anyone, than by all the promises and excuses that others make in their entire lifetime.

God is pouring out His Spirit and He wants to take you from where you are to that next place, but God can only do this with your express permission and cooperation.

 

Excerpt from God Thinking XXIII - Under The Spout by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013

 

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"Now let’s take this prophetic truth and let it revive you in the inner man. 

I want to talk about stepping from one place to another:

Where you are today in your relationship with God, to where you can be in your relationship with God.

What you are able to access from God today, to what is available to access from God.

What you are able to see with your spiritual vision today, to what God is revealing in these last days. 

The extent of your authority over principalities and powers today, to what is available to the consecrated believer.

What you are able to believe without doubting to believing without doubting.

What you have faith to receive from God today, to what your faith is able to receive.

But there’s more - let your spirit receive this:

What you are able to not receive from God and yet have your faith increase.

What you  are able to not see, not have revealed, not understand and yet increase oyur faith.

Here the Word of the Lord:

John 20:26b-29, “...Peace be with you. V27 Then saith He to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into My side: and be not faithless, but believing.

V28 And Thomas answered and said unto Him, My Lord and My God.

V29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen Me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”

 

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" God is:

• increasing your faith by leaps and bounds.
• multiplying the work of the hands of His people.
• advancing His people in wisdom and power and authority.
• escalating your spiritual ability to receive truth and revelation.

I am telling you that there has been no other time in all history where God poured out His Spirit like He is pouring out His Spirit right now.  

If you have the faith to believe to receive, you can receive anything from God in these times.  If you are waiting on a personal ministry, starting a business, getting started in anything, you are probably being disobedient, because God has done more to prepare you in this one year than in all the years of your life put together.

 

You are to wait on the Lord, but it has become a cliche more than an act of obedience for people in these times.  Wait on your healing, Yes, but don’t wait on your faith to be healed. 

Wait on the Lord for direction, Yes, but not twenty years, not ten years, not five years, no, right now.  God has already given you direction for your life.  God has already given you a call to follow Him. 

 

Am I saying to jump ahead of God and start into something without the express agreement of God?  No way.  But hear me closely.  God is pouring out more of His Spirit today than ever before and it is this Spirit that grows you spiritually.  It is this Spirit that increases your faith and causes you to believe what you once only thought might be a possibility.

 

I know this is good stuff.  You really are further along than you think.  Trust it and let God work a mighty miracle through you.  That's right I really mean you.

 

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"Matthew 24:21-22

²¹For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.     ²²And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened." 

The world will become worse and worse, more wicked, ruthless & against God.  Terror will rein over nation upon nation like never before.  Evil will be released against God and God’s people like never before.  Every medium of communication will become more vile and wicked as each day moves forward.  Corruption, deceit, crime, lying, cheating, meanness and terror will increase faster than it can be curtailed and if not for the swift return of Jesus Christ, no flesh would be saved.

But God. 

 

But God has determined when the end of this age will be:

• not based on the evil that is being brought forth
• not because terrorist are standing against God and His people
• not because Islam is growing and God is afraid that Islam will take over the world
• not because the antichrist is coming
• not because Israel is in trouble
• not because much of America has turned its back on God

God has determined the appointed times because He is God. 

All else fits into God’s plan. 
God does not fit into the plans of the terrorist. 
God is not moved by all the efforts of all the evil on the earth. 
The evil upon the earth is moved against God and working its hardest to gain ground before God puts an end to the madness.
God is in control of His plan. 
Nothing can stop it, change it, speed it up or slow it down.  All of life fits into the plan of God. 

I said all that to say this.   God is pouring out His Spirit on His people, and you need to receive what God is doing. 

 

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"God is pouring out His Spirit upon us like never before in all history.  We need to receive this once in all creation blessing.  This is not a once in a lifetime thing, or once in a century, or once in a millennium, this is a once in all creation thing.  If we ignore so great a time as this, we have not seen, nor do we understand what God is doing, not only globally, but in our own lives as well.

 

Have you ever wondered why God would pour out His Spirit in the last days?  It is simple.  God knows, that without an outpouring of His Spirit, at the end of the age, even the very elect themselves would lose faith and tremble at the works

of darkness.  Go with me to 2 Timothy 3:1-13,^“1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

²For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

⁴Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

⁵Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

⁶For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

⁷Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

⁸Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

⁹But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

¹⁰But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,       ¹¹Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

¹²Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

¹³But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

Without the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in these times, we would completely annihilate ourselves."

 

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"Up until the resurrection of Jesus (five) previous dispensations of time passed, covering approximately 4,000 years.

• 1^st    Edenic covenant or dispensation
• 2^nd   Adamic or conscience dispensation
• 3^rd   Noahic or human government dispensation
• 4^th   The Abrahamic covenant
• 5^th   Mosaic or the law covenant

We are in the 6^{th -} Grace.

And the 7^th, where we are headed, is the kingdom age.

The previous 5 covenants took place during around 4,000 years of human history.  We are in the dispensation of grace and its been nearly 2,000 years since the beginning of the dispensation of grace.

The dispensation of grace has taken about 1/3 of recorded time, whereas the previous 5 dispensations took only 2/3's.

We are at the end of the age of grace."

 

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