God Thinking LI - Mining The Mind Of God 4

"God knows that only through communion with God in prayer:

Can we glorify God, because God provides, (in the mind) what we cannot obtain on our own.

The bible talks to us allot about the mind and its role in how God communicates with us.  

Have you ever tried to think about something important, and idea or just a passing thought, but you couldn’t get it to come together and materialize, so it just dissipated into fragments?

Or, you are trying to concentrate and pray or just be alone with God, and thoughts are just racing through your head or the distractions start getting louder and louder and your ability to concentrate, again dissipates and your precious time is lessened or becomes fruitless altogether?

I believe that many of us are kept from our mission - purpose - calling - because we cannot or do not take time to fully develop our thoughts, especially when it comes to praying to or talking to God and having the time or the silence, the undivided attention it takes to hear the voice of God. 

The results of not thinking the way that God wants us to is devastating, as to our overall existence.  And the one who suffers the most is our inner man. 

There is no peace and no rest when our inner man is confused of operating with wrong thinking.
 

Excerpt from God Thinking LI -  Mining God's Mind by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

 

 

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"The Word of God gives you insight into the mind of God.  Listen carefully to what God has to say about it. 

“5.  Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

 6.  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

 7.  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 4:5-7

Be careful for nothing simply means: There is nothing that you should carry the burden of, alone.  There is nothing that you can bring to God that will surprise Him.

God knows that only through communion with God in prayer, i. e., (your mind and the mind of Christ uniting in will and purpose):
 

Can you find solace and fulfillment in the pursuit of what ever it is - Sure you can find pleasure, but for lasting and meaningful satisfaction, you had better bring God in on it.
 

God knows that only through communion with God in prayer:

(Operating in a way that you allow your mind to be apprehended by God so that He can fill you with His will).

You can accomplish the tasks at hand with integrity, if you know that you have agreement with God and that you have God's blessing to proceed forward (or go to) (or plan to do this or that) or whatever the task at hand is for the day. 

 

I’ll tell you a truth you already know.  You make far too many decisions without consulting the Father in heaven.

Excerpt from God Thinking LI -  Mining God's Mind by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"You cannot operate in or under its authority (what God speaks into you) until it is yours, and it becomes yours by believing it and receiving it, by faith. 

Paul caught this vision from God when He was writing to the Romans.  Paul wrote:

“5.  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

 6.  For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

 7.  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”  Romans 8:5-7

We need a generation of men and women that will believe what God says. 

There is carnally minded and there is spiritually minded, and there is a war going on in the mind between these two poles.  Spiritually minded is seeking life and everything associated with being a child of the living God.  Carnally minded, is seeking life and everything associated with satisfying your base desires, without including God in the equation. 

God is interested in your mind and what you think, and that is evident in the way that God created you.  Think about it, the written Word was developed for use by your mind and it is your mind that activates the truths within the Word of God.
 

Excerpt from God Thinking LI -  Mining God's Mind by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

 

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"The mind is a terrible thing to waste.  And we need not waste ours. 

God desires that we have a sound mind. 

 

God doesn’t tell us to do something or to be something and then leave us alone to try and ascend to it. 

 

What God does, is tell us how to do something or how to be something and then shows us through example and confirms it by His own Word.

 

God doesn’t expect that you will have a naturally tendency to use your mind for the glory of God.  God knows that your natural tendency is of a lessor sort.  So when God speaks to you through His Word, not only does He speak to you, but God speaks into you, if you receive it.

As you seek after God’s will, (your mind being influenced by the mind of God), when God speaks into you, what God speaks into you becomes part of who you are.  God speaks into your mind the things of God and then you seek after and thrive on the things of God more than ever.  

Your natural or carnal mind changes into a spiritual mind every time you hear and abide in the Word of God.  When God speaks into you, His Word is performed in you and through you, when it becomes true for you.  

When God speaks to you, what God has said is not yet yours.  You cannot operate in or under (what God speaks into you) with authority until it is yours, and it becomes yours by believing it and receiving it, by faith."

 

Excerpt from God Thinking LI -  Mining God's Mind by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"Whatever befalls us, that stretches our faith, we need to hold tight, knowing that God’s grace is sufficient for even the most difficult of times.

 

Whatever comes our way, we need to rest assured that God’s grace already contains the solution.

 

When it looks real dark and there’s just no hope, we need to bring to the very top of our mind, “God’s grace is sufficient.”

 

When it looks like you just can’t overcome the desire for something, when your sure you just can’t handle it, just call on the grace of God, reach out and let God pour out more grace to you, more than you deserve. 

 

God’s grace can overcome anything, any habit, any time, any place, anywhere.

 

Here’s another poem that attempts to unveil just a little of God’s grace.

 

Even when I make mistakes and fail to do my best

I sense that God is urging me, to come to Him and rest

Even when I know that I lost the battle at hand

I sense that God has won the war and the battle was in His plan

Even when I cannot see the forest for the trees

I sense that God has gone before and I’m right where I should be

Even when the times are hard and there’s no rest at all

I sense that God has gone before me, so that I won’t fall

Even when I’ve let God down and knew what I had done

I sense that God looks right at me and sees His only Son

Even the fiercest enemy has no rightful place

Wherever there is present, just a little of God’s grace.

God’s grace has already done what I could never do

And that is give my only Son for the likes of me and you

 

 Say this prayer with me if you agree:

Jesus, You have truly shown me what true spirituality is all about. 
You have shed new light on my heart. 
and given me something to ponder in my mind
It is far above the thoughts of man.
But I accept, the mind of Christ, by Your grace.
May my adoration for Your ways increase day by day.
Thank you for Your grace.  
Amen.

Grace be unto you my friends.

 

Excerpt from God Thinking L - One Word by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

 

 

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"Grace is the unmerited gift of God - the fullness of God’s blessing - bestowed upon the recipient, (you and I) without measure.       

• We can thank God for our health
• We can thank God for our healing
• We can thank God for the gifts of the Spirit
• We can thank God for our abilities
• We can thank God for our heritage
• We can thank God for our love

for friendships, for family, for our jobs, for our houses, for our income, for our church and for every blessing we have ever received and will ever receive:

But someday you and I are going to grow old and we are going to meet our Maker and when we stand before Almighty God, in His splendor and in His glory

• It won’t be what great things we’ve done that move us
• It won’t be what denomination we belonged to that moves us
• It won’t be our ability to heal or prophesy or speak in tongues that makes us worthy to look into the eyes of God
• It won’t be anything, that we ever did, of our own accord, that allows us entrance behind the veil. 
• It will be God’s grace and His grace alone, that we acknowledge as the only reason we can even come before God.

 

Knowing how wonderful God’s grace is; does it make you  thirst for some more of God’s grace?  Because if we can grow in grace, there’s more.

 

Does it put a little light on your current problem to know that God has already poured Himself out on you and that is why you have breath and live?

 

Does it kindle the fire in you to continue on and finish what you started, knowing that you are saturated in God’s grace?

 

Does it strip a bit of the worry from your situation, to know that God has already gone before you and breathed His grace into it?

 

Does it lighten the load a little to know that you might be carrying a heavy load, but God is carrying you? 

 

Does it motivate you to sellout to God, simply because God has already given you His very best?

 

Does it give you confidence to know that “God’s grace is sufficient?”  He says it is and I believe Him.

 

Whatever is on the horizon for you and I, tomorrow and beyond, we need to learn to face it, in the light of God’s grace."

 

Excerpt from God Thinking L - One Word by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"Paul put it this way, “Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.” 2 Corinthians 9:15

The gift Paul was talking about was the gift of God, grace.

 

Paul, of all men, even after years of service to God, after years of intense devotion - An Apostle to the Gentiles - An Hebrew of Hebrews - A man acquainted with the supernatural - One who could speak life into a dead body - One who could take the deadly snake bite and just shake it off - One who could touch a handkerchief or an apron of someone and they would be healed and devils would run - This same Paul had a thorn in the flesh and needed to be reminded, “My grace is sufficient for thee:...” 2 Corinthians 12:9a

 

Sometimes we have a thorn in the flesh and we need to be reminded, “My grace is sufficient for thee:...” 

 

I know now, why Paul starts out, not one of his epistles, but all of his epistles with this salutation:

“Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, (or Thessalonica or Galatia or Collose) and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

V2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.”  Ephesians 1:1-2

 

Each epistle begins a little differently and addresses believers in different regions, but in every epistle, after addressing those in whom he was speaking to, there was one word that Paul used - the first blessing in a succession of blessings that Paul spoke, without exception, was - “GRACE BE UNTO YOU”.
 

There is no greater blessing to bestow on anyone than grace.

Peter ends his 2^nd epistle with these words, “But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  To Him be glory both now and forever.  Amen.”  2 Peter 3:18
 

This sounds like God-thinking to me.  Grow in grace? 

Grow in the richest soil there is? 

To grow in the gift of God? 

To grow (you mean, you can have more of what already is given without measure)? Yes

To grow in the gift of gifts from God, the gift that is already beyond explanation? 

The gift that already supplies all our needs? 

The gift that already mends all our wounds? 

The gift that already heals our diseases? 

The gift that already goes before us and prepares a path?

Can you really grow in something that is already complete?  

Do you sense with me the awesomeness and depth of what grace is?

Excerpt from God Thinking L - One Word by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014