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"Now, we have looked at what it takes to get the body, the mind and the spirit in line with God’s will and plan for our life.

So, what then, does it take to get the soul in line with God’s will and plan for our life?

The body - in line with God’s will

The mind - in line with God’s will

and The spirit - in line with God’s will

Bear with me.

Here’s what has happened today.

Many people want to exclude the body from the spiritual realm, but it cannot be done, It was never meant that you would love and serve the LORD with your mind and your spirit, but not your body.   

Can you live on this side of heaven without a body?

Then you cannot serve on this side of heaven without a body either.    

It was never meant that you would serve God with your spirit and your body, but not your mind.

It was never meant that you would serve God with your body and mind but not your spirit.

You were designed a living soul and when God saved you, He didn’t just save the spirit - He didn’t just save the mind - He saved the body also - So much so that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.  By His stripes you are healed.  Yes, God saved your bodies also.

It is not true that you can worship God in the spirit, all the while thinking evil thoughts, while you are indulging your body in indiscretions and sin.

When God speaks to you, He speaks to the whole man, the whole woman (body, mind, spirit) (soul).

When God saved you, He saved the whole man, the whole woman (body, mind, spirit) (soul)..

When God sanctified you, He sanctified the whole man, the whole woman (body, mind, spirit) (soul)..

When God heals you, He heals the whole man, the whole woman (body, mind, spirit) (soul)..

Why is this so important?  Because the Church is steering further and further away from God in us - to God give us.

 

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"I am not taken back too much when the unbelieving world equates Jesus, (the very Son of God - God Himself) with Buddha, Mohammad, Vishnu or Alla, but when Christians are questioning the deity of Christ and when Christians are trying harder to reconcile the truth to the worlds standards instead of holding fast with God...

God is not careful to tell us about hell, sin and wickedness.

God spares no words when He describes the pitfalls of life.

God is a consuming fire and not to be compared to a womanizing, egocentric, self-serving creation like Buddha.

My God, what will it take for God’s people to believe God and stand with Him on the issues.

God says abortion is murder.

God says adultery is sin.

God says that “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, He cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” John 3:5

God says “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go thereat: V14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”  Matthew 7:13-14

Your mind was designed to have faith in God, to trust God, and to believe God.

You have got to quit making excuses for your faith. 

You who have received Christ are to prepare the temple of the living God, (your body) and to prepare to house the truth of God (in your mind).

 

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"Today there are many more people asking the question, ”What has God prepared for me?”  - than are asking “What has God prepared me for?” 

Notice the difference. Our whole society is clamoring for God to give us something.  Sermon after sermon is devoted toward what God can do for you.  Huge deals are struck between believer and God, all the while ministries are merchandising the Givers gifts like costume jewelry at a flea market.

Our society wants to get - so bad, they will bargain their own future, their birthright, their own families basic needs - some will even bargain their own souls to get what they want.

We have an entire population of Christians that were raised on sugar coated, candy-bar Christianity.  Extracting the sugar out of true Christianity like extracting sugar out of a maple tree. 

They want it sweet. 

No bitter herbs for this bunch. 

No sacrifice of praise for them. 

No suffering under the banner of loyalty to the Master.

Have you noticed that the modern day preacher/teacher/prophet is more afraid of the people in His or Her congregation than they are of God. 

Many are afraid to tell the truth. 

Sometimes the truth hurts.

Sometimes the truth isn’t self-fulfilling.

Sometimes the truth reveals who we really are.

Sometimes the truth doesn’t deliver the message we were looking for.

Thus saith the LORD, once meant the will of God for mankind.  God is not careful about what He says to us if He sees us going astray.  He calls us back with a sense of urgency.  God doesn’t call us back with a sugar coated:  

• Say-what-we-want-to-hear
• Have-it-all-our-way
• Please-put-me-on-your-schedule
• Come-at-your-convenience CALL.

Here me:

While the candy-bar Christian is being fed by a vending machine church, (so that whatever they don’t like about what God has said, about who they are supposed to be) God is holding fast.

• God has said what He has said, one time. 
• God doesn’t have to tweak what He says.
• What God has said, works.
• What God has done, is right.
• What God says will be, will be.

God was not careful to point to Jesus and say, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”  2 Peter 1:17

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"You are body, mind and spirit and God wants you to prepare yourself in your mind:

God wants you to prepare your mind.

Your mind was designed to be used to communicate with God - (transmit) by prayer and supplication, and (receive) by revelation.

There’s two ways that every man, woman, teen and child can look at life, (in their mind).

1     What has God prepared for me?

2     What has God prepared me for?

God has certainly prepared for you more than you could ever imagine.  God has given and given and given.  He has saved you and sanctified you and blessed you and placed you.  He has delivered you and helped you, washed you and empowered you.  God has laid up for you a storehouse of blessings.  He is making you a mansion. 

On this side, God has given you everything you need for your mind to be stimulated and intrigued, stretched and filled.  And beyond your capability to comprehend is the vast and incomprehensible universe within an atom and innumerable universes outside of your own galaxy. 

God gave you your mind so you would find the answers to life’s puzzles.  So that you could be intrigued at the awesomeness of a flower, the complexity of a nuclear power plant, the simplicity of a kiss, the strangeness of a dream, the discovery of a truth - But the mind was made for a purpose, like the body was made for a purpose. 

The body was made to be the temple of the Holy Spirit, but the mind was made to hold the truths of God - the mind of Christ. “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:” Philippians 2:5

Just like the ark of the covenant had within it the tablets of stone, you have within your temple the precious truths of God.

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"God wants you to prepare your body to be ready and fit for the tasks at hand.  God wants you healthy, so that you will live a long and productive life, full of good things; things that God can bless.  God wants you to get your sleep and your exercise so that when He calls you, you will be ready; you will be prepared.

Have you prepared a body for God to use as His temple?

“What? Now ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”  1 Corinthians 6:19

 

Rather than wait to see what God is going to do in your life before you start to prepare for it, you should be preparing your body from one glory to another as if God had already given you your marching orders.

If you have been preparing your body or thinking more about how to take care of your body than ever before, be pleased to know that you are fulfilling what God has ordained you would be doing, because God knows that to come into fellowship with Him in fullness, you must present your body “a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”  Romans 12:1

 

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"We are body, mind and spirit and God wants us to prepare ourselves in our physical body:

For becoming a teenager

For becoming an adult
For the stamina we will need to work or pursue a career
For our marriage
For our job or hobby

God wants you to prepare your physical body for old age

God wants your body prepared so that when He calls you, you will be ready. 

God wants you prepared so that you can spend your life building up: Building up your family, our friends, your employer - your Church.  God wants you giving, not taking. 

There are many people today that live such stressful lives because instead of living off of what they prepared for years ago, there living on what they don’t have or won’t even have until the next payday or two paydays or three paydays.

When God is in charge of your life, you spend far less time putting out fires and far more time building something up.  There are many people today that just put out one fire after another.  They are in one jam after another.  They are chasing after their own tail. 

That is not the way of God. 
 

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"God Thinking teaches you that to be more like Christ you have to learn how to prepare for tomorrow. 

By preparing for tomorrow, you are actually preparing yourself to fulfill the prophesy of God for your life.  By preparing for tomorrow, you can be doing what the Holy Spirit  wants you doing today so that you can be dong what the Holy Spirit wants you doing tomorrow. 

If you are doing today what the Holy Spirit is guiding you to do, then your future will be what God foresees it to be.

If your future is what God plans for it to be, it is full of blessing, full of good things, full of God.

By preparing you God can use you to do mighty exploits for the kingdom of God. 

God wants you to prepare yourself:

In the physical (body)

In the intellectual (mind)

In the spiritual (spirit)

So that your soul will prosper. 

 

As the Word says in 3 John 2, “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”

By the way I am starving for comments.  They let me know that you are reading and help me keep up to date with the real actions that drive the day.

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