God Thinking XLVII - Unlearning 1

"God Thinking empowers you by putting you in a position to receive impartations from God.  These impartations are the direct result of the combination of:

• Revelation from the Word of God (derived from self-study and sitting under a ministry, i.e., anointed preaching) - with
• Inspired knowledge received while under the influence of the Holy Spirit (derived from preaching or self-study) - with
• God’s response to worship and praise that is pleasing to God) - God inhabits the praises of His people - with
• Faith spurts (with every leap of faith, you experience what it is like to be drawn closer to God than ever before.  With each faith to faith experience, God imparts more of Himself to you, because with each faith spurt you are better equipped for God to operate in you and through you - with - lastly, these impartations are the direct result of:
• A receptive heart and mind.

But for many, they must go backward before they can go forward. 

Because of poor teaching, (unsubstantiated teaching based on religious polity or religious rhetoric, but not the very Word of God, many Christians must backup a bit before they can go forward. 

 

Backward, in the sense that, information, (so-called facts), input that was erroneous going in - must first be erased from or given a different level of priority in your mind, because when you link false information with true or pure information, the foundation that you build on may be weak or corrupted. 

Now, I know that none of us like to think that what we think might be skewed, confused, or wrong, but the only way you can grow is to review what you once believed and re-evaluate it based upon the light you have today, not the light you had yesterday, last month, last year, or even the last decade.

 

Excerpt from God Thinking XLVII - Unlearning by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"Isaiah 14:24 & 27, “The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.

and verse 27

V27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it?  And His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?”

 

Whatever it is that inspires you to go on and have your being. Whatever it is that makes you happy.

Whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

Whatever goal you want to reach. 

Whatever dream you have about your future

If you could just believe that God understands your dilemma

and if you could just understand that God knows all about it (whatever it is)

Whatever you want in life - God has already made a way.

And it is found in His purpose.

 

As you seek His purpose for your life and alter or change your pursuits to be in line with God’s purpose, you will find immediate remedy, because:

• Nothing can go against God’s purpose.
• Nothing can stand against it.
• Nothing can overcome it.
• Nothing can thwart it.

In Ephesians chapter 1, God speaks to us through Paul, clear truths concerning God’s purpose for you and me. 

This whole message is by revelation.  God spoke to me and I listened.  Now it’s your turn.  Receive the reading of the scripture as revelation to your soul.  Let the Word of God impart to you an understanding that will transform your life.
 

Please read Ephesians 1:1 - 14
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Excerpt from God Thinking XLVI - Understanding Foreordained by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"For all those in Old Testament times who were looking forward to the coming of Christ, they were inspired to stay on God’s path because of the hope ahead of them.

You, on the other hand, who look back to Christ are inspired by His having gone before you.  But whether looking forward or looking back, Christ was the example of a life of communion with God.

If you were to retrain your thinking to believe that you could as much as you believe that you can’t, you could.

God wants you to follow Him in whatever you do.

If you are a carpenter and a husband and a family man, then the purpose of God for your life is that in those pursuits you endeavor to fulfill your dreams and aspirations while communing and associating and listening to God. 

In past times it was thought that to have a relationship with God you had to be religious.  And the really religious would seek the ministry.  

If it that were true, only Apostles and prophets, pastors and ministers could fulfill the purpose they were destined for, but it’s not true.  What God foreordained, He foreordained for each individual.

The purpose of God is for everyone.  In whatever station you are in - in whatever job you have - in whatever career track you choose - in wherever you are living - you can fulfill the purpose of God for your life."

Excerpt from God Thinking XLVI - Understanding Foreordained by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

 

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"Pursuit of things outside the ordained and perfect plan of God is all in vain.

• God cannot sin, nor can God change His spoken Word. 
• God cannot do a better job of being God in our life. 
• God cannot be anything else, except Holy God. 
• God cannot swerve to the right or to the left, neither can God do anything outside of His will.

Now catch this truth and you have caught a gem.

You are not God, but you are God’s highest creation and thoroughly distinct from all other creations in that you are made in the image and likeness of God.  You are so much like God that when we stay within the parameters of God’s purpose for your life, you are fulfilled in your pursuits. 

 

Everything that God created in His foreknowledge is available as you walk in the designed path that God fore-ordained for you. 

 

Christ was unique, in that, not only did He walk in the path that God pre-ordained, He never stepped outside of that path.  He was always in the will of the Father, because He always pursued the things that God had purposed.

 

You, like Christ are unique, in that, you were also created with the same foreknowledge of God, and, like Christ, as you walk in the path that God purposed, you fulfill your mission in life.

Excerpt from God Thinking XLVI - Understanding Foreordained by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

 

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"God knows that you need to get from point “A” to point “B” and from point “B” to point “C” and so on. “For your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him.” Matthew 6: 8b

God knows what you need to fulfill your purpose in life.  God’s purpose and your pursuits should be the same thing.

God created it all and breathed into us the breath of life.  God sees His creation as good.  God sees you I as the one and only, highest form of creation - an image of Himself.

 

How can it be that in a world so perfectly ordered, ordained by God, set in motion to fulfill His will? - How could it be that there is such chaos, destruction, terror and depression?

 

In a world fashioned by God and intrically designed to give and sustain life, all powered by God’s supernatural intervention - Why isn’t there more peace and joy?  Why aren’t we fulfilled and happy?

 

I’ll tell you why.

You were never meant to pursue happiness and wealth, success and fulfillment apart from God’s purpose for your life.

 

You were meant to commune with God in the cool of the day and the quiet of the night. 

You were meant to get answers from God - to seek His face and answer His calling.

You were meant to be fruitful and multiply, develop and apprehend - All while you were in direct communication with God - not apart from God. 

• It was never meant to be that you would pursue your own agenda apart from the express will and direction of God.
• It was never meant that you would seek success apart from God’s plan.  That’s why so many things don’t really work or bring fulfillment.  In and of themselves without the hand of God - at some point they become empty and unfulfilling.

• It was never meant that we would use the temple of God, (our body), as a storehouse for unhealthy and unnatural elements. 
• It was never meant that we would proceed without consulting with God and reasoning together a solution.
• It was never meant that we would even consider to pursue some of the things that we are not only pursuing, but doing.

When God spoke everything into existence, He set it all in motion, knowing the end from the beginning.  And all the peace, prosperity, health, wisdom, success, joy & happiness is found in the pursuit of life while fulfilling the purpose of God.

 

Excerpt from God Thinking XLVI - Understanding Foreordained by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

 

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• "God understands  our pursuit of having our own home.
• God understands your pursuit of financial security. 
• God understands your pursuit to play an instrument or drive a bus or work with wood or manage a business.
• God understands your wanting to ride your motorcycle into the wind on a beautiful sunny day.
• God understands your need to work and enjoy a sense of self worth.
• God understands your selling your home.
• God understands that you want to find someone that loves you, someone to share life with.
• God understands your big goals and your little goals, your big dreams and your little dreams.
• God understands you want a new truck.
• God understands you need private time with your spouse and by yourself.
• God knew about the addition you are going to put on your house, before you even bought the house.
• God understands that you want good health.
• God also understands the trials and tests of life.
• God knows that some of us are not happy with where we are financially.
• God knows that some of us are not happy with ourselves, that we are going through a dry season and it seems like the whole world is crumbling in on us.
• God knows that some of us look back with regrets, wishing that we had done this or that differently.
• God knows that your mind is sometimes ahead of your flesh, you want to do something or stop something and your flesh wins out.

This is not news to God.

• God knows that you want more out of life and that sometimes it seems as if we are all alone.
• God understands, because He created life.
• God set it all in motion.
• God created the whole universe for you and I to dominate.
• God understands what feels good and what hurts.
• God understands what makes us laugh and what makes us cry, because He designed us.

All of creation was put together so that you could fulfill your pursuits, while fulfilling your purpose.

God has gone ahead of you and prepared a path that is satisfying and fulfilling. But it is up to you, to make what God has purposed, your own personal experience. 
 

Excerpt from God Thinking XLVI - Understanding Foreordained by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

 

 

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"Romans 8:28-30,  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.

V 29 For whom He did foreknow, He did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He (Jesus) might be the firstborn among many brethren.

V30 Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified.”
 

If you can clearly see that before God predestined anything for anyone, what He predestinated for them was based on what He foreknew they would do. 
 

God did not predestine that those who choose to do evil would at the same time be performing God’s will.  God did not predestine that those who love to do evil are pursuing the purpose of God.
 

Predestinate comes from the Greek word (proorao) which means {to behold, to see in advance and declare the outcome of.

What God saw in advance of you, He declared the outcome of.
 

When the bible talks about predestination, it is not talking about blindly bringing something to happen, without the foreknowledge of the outcome, despite the circumstances.
 

“For whom He did foreknow, He did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son.”
 

God’s purpose for your life is that you will be conformed to the image of His Son, and if you have accepted the free gift of salvation, you will be conformed to the image of His Son.
 

We all have pursuits, and it is reasonable and sensible to pursue God ordained goals, dreams and tasks at hand.   God knows all about your life’s goals, your dreams and those things that you must do."
 

Excerpt from God Thinking XLVI - Understanding Foreordained by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014