God Thinking LIV - Did You Create Your Own Religion? 4

"Let me make it clear..  If you read the scriptures to gain knowledge - you will gain
knowledge.

If you read the scriptures to prove a point about something you can do that too.

If you read the Word of God to know more than someone else - you can do that too.

If you read the scriptures to find loopholes so you can get around the essence of God’s truth - you can get that out of it.

But, what if you read the Word of God asking God to instruct you in righteousness?

What if you read the Word of God, deciding that you are going to believe every word that you read?

What if every time you saw something in the Word of God that you didn’t particularly like, you decided that you would believe God anyway and learn to like it?

What if, when you read the Word of God, you asked God to change you and transform you by allowing the truth of the Word to operate in you and through you?

Can you see the difference in reading the Word of God and reading the Word of God. 

God’s people are all unique and yet everyone is called to service to God in whatever station, service, job, marital status, they are in.  Despite where you work, what nationality you are, what gender you are, how old or how young you are, despite where you’ve been or what you’ve done - each and every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ has been called to put on the mind of Christ.

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 2:5

 

Excerpt from God thinking LIV - Did You Create Your Own Religion? by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

 

 

 

 

 

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"Romans 6:16, “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”

Whether you are a carpenter or and engineer, housewife or clerk, God wants you to be available for Him to reach the unbelieving world, in you and through you.

All the blessings that God has prophesied unto you are found in His Word.  God wants all His people to become familiar with Him and you become familiar with God when you read His Word. 

The best way to do away with the cults and false religions of the world in this generation is to get people reading the Bible on their own, at home, in their car, at work, while exercising,
wherever you are.

Here’s why?

You don’t read the Word of God so that you can all be pastors.

You don’t read the Word of God so that you can all become theologians or Bible scholars, teachers or experts on biblical exegesis.

You don’t read the Word of God so that you can compete with others, (by knowing more Bible trivia than someone else).

You read the bible because it is the means of communication that God chose for mankind.  God did this so that you, in whatever station, would have all the information necessary to live a life of fulfillment and you would also have all the information necessary to glorify God.

Not only does the Word contain all that is necessary for instruction in righteousness, wisdom, holiness and heart purity, but God also imparts to you, Himself, through the Word of God.

Unlike any other book, God deposits more of Himself into you as you read, if, as you read, you read for the purpose of receiving from God, His timeless truths."

Excerpt from God thinking LIV - Did You Create Your Own Religion? by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

 

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"Life wasn’t meant to be lived to its fullest somewhere down the road, later on in life, when things get better.  Life was meant to be lived to its fullest, today.

Here’s some practical truths, full of wisdom, worth adhering to.

• Live life to the fullest.
• Be content with what you have.
• Dream as big as you can and at the same time work hard toward your goals.
• Enjoy the pursuit of your goals and not just the attaining of the goal.

Too many Christians are not enjoying the path they’re on. 

• They think that if they could be on another path it would be better. 
• If they had just married a different person.
• Oh, if they only had more money.
• If my dad had been there for me.
• If I could just get a raise.

Life is not about what ifs.  Life was meant to be used to the fullest for the glory of God.  Life is about your today’s and tomorrow’s. 

 

What are you going to do with the rest of your life?

What are you going to do with what God has allowed to happen to you?

What are you going to do from now on?

Are you going to allow the flow of God to run through you by yielding to God - or are you going to stop the flow of God by yielding to self."

 

Excerpt from God thinking LIV - Did You Create Your Own Religion? by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

 

 

 

 

 

God Thinking LIV - Did You Create Your Own Religion 1

"1 Corinthians 10:31

31. “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”

God wants you to allow the truths that you know, the wisdom you possess, the skills you attained and the talents you have nurtured - all to be used for the glory of God.

When you do, not only do you find your place in the scheme of things (because God foreordained it) but you also get all the benefits associated with being a recipient of God’s very best.

When you talk about finding your place in God’s foreordained plan, it’s not really about God trying to make preachers or teachers or ministers out of everyone.  God wants you, in your current station, (as an employer or an employee, a student or a teacher, a housewife or single mom, married or  single, young or old), to live out your life in a way that reveals Christ to others, in you and through you.

Once you understand your calling, i . e., (to reveal Christ in you), where you fulfill it and in what capacity becomes secondary.

Too many Christians believe this way:

• When I move, then I am going to have people over.
• When I change jobs, then I’ll help my wife or husband with the household chores.
• After I find the right place, for the right price, and everything is just perfect, with no risk, I will start that business or ministry or whatever.
• When I win the lottery I am going to give a big chunk to the church, feed the poor and help others in need.

God wants you to do things God’s way in your current circumstances, with your current income, at the current place you live at, with your current spouse."

Excerpt from God thinking LIV - Did You Create Your Own Religion? by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

 

God Thinking LIII - Getting Beyond Your Self 9

"Listen as I describe why it is so important to seek God as we have discussed in a new way, a deeper way, a way that reveals your true love, reverence, adoration and fear of God.

 

God is preparing a glorious mansion for you.  In that mansion, everything that God has prepared, (now catch this) on the other side, is already found in abundance on this side - and you miss it because of lack of faith and unbelief.

 

Now, I want to talk about this kind of prayer where you go into God’s presence - not to get, but to get beyond your self.

 

When you go to God to get beyond your self - God will show you how you have managed to grossly exaggerate the significance of the insignificant.

 

When you go to God to get beyond your self - Things that you once thought was paramount to your being fulfilled and happy, take on their true worth; inconsequential.

 

When you go to God to get beyond your self - You aren’t after anything, but you get what is not available to the one-minute prayer warrior.

 

When you go to God to get beyond your self - You become speechless, vacant and need-less.

 

When you go to God to get beyond your self
Your asking turns into awe
Your petitioning turns into reverence
Even your Praise becomes mute in the light of His presence. 

When you go to God to get beyond your self - Your situations become opportunities.

 

When you go to God to get beyond your self - Your circumstances become an agreed place of testing.  You agree with God that going through your circumstances with His presence is better than being free from your circumstances outside of His presence.

 

When you go to God to get beyond your self - Your problems vanish like a vapor.

 

God turns it all around and moments or hours later you don’t think the same as you did.
 

When you go to God to get beyond your self - You come away ready to speak to your situation with boldness, knowing that while the Shekinah glory is glowing the words you speak have power and authority. 

When you go to God to get beyond your self - You walk away with faith made in the heavens, faith that walks above the circumstance or situation or problem - faith that puts things in God’s Light.  Faith that starts to trust God through it all.  And faith that believes God for it all."

 

Excerpt from God Thinking LII - Getting Beyond Your Self by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

 

 

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"Hear Paul’s prayer to the Ephesians.

Ephesians 3:16-20

 16.  That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

 17.  That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

 18.  May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

 19.  And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

 20.  Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,”

 

God thinking keeps you in balance, like the delicate balance between religious and righteous, prudish and holy.

 

The balance that comes through personal experience.

The balance that allows for God to have His way with you.

The balance that comes as you examine the attributes of God as He reveals them to you.

 

God thinking goes deep to build strong roots and yet allows you to be real and imperfect, without condemnation.

 

God thinking teaches you that on the canvas of life there are many layers.  Sometimes the picture doesn’t look at all like what you thought it would be, but God steps in and brushes a few strokes and changes it all.

 

God steps in and verifies you
and encourages you
and empowers you
and enlightens you
and satisfies you

All that God does, He does to prepare you, now and for eternity.

When you pray - among all the other prayers you pray - I want you to consider to add to your prayers - prayer for preparation for eternity.

Note: If you believed that there was an eternity, wouldn't you have to believe that there might be some need for preparation?
 

Excerpt from God Thinking LII - Getting Beyond Your Self by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

God Thinking LIII - Getting Beyond Your Self 7

"It is in God’s intervention into the events of life that we come to recognize how fragile we are and how utterly dependent we are on our heavenly Father.
Who wants to be sick?

Who has never been sick?

Does God allow sickness in His saints?

 

God does not bring sickness.  Sickness is from the fall, but God does allow sickness and through it, whatever it is, God is just as there and just as concerned and just as Holy and just as righteous and just as powerful and just as actively involved as when you are well.

 

God does allow sickness, but in that sickness God is there equipping you and strengthening you in your weakness, revealing an attribute of God, not easily recognized when all is well.

 

It’s time lost if you don’t see God in it.  But if you do see God in it.................

 

You don’t choose the fire.

You don’t choose to be sick.

You don’t choose trouble - But when they come, you must see God in it, so that you won’t have to go through it alone.

 

It is time to take a quantum leap from where you were spiritually to a new level of awareness of God’s Holy presence.

 

You have grown (in the amount of power you are able to activate at any given moment.)  It was a miracle but God showed you favor and lifted you up and in some cases, delivered you.

In some, God built you up and gave you a confidence  to overcome things in your life, that you had not felt for years, or ever.

In some, God revealed His directive for your life, either for the day or the week or the future.

In another Jesus revealed Himself sitting on His throne, looking at you with a smile and favor. 

God is pleased that we gather together to praise Him and worship Him - to adore Him - to talk about Him and to talk to Him.  God Thinking works. 

You have grown tremendously.

Inside you have sensed God’s presence.

You sense that life is not futile, but beautiful.

You sense that you have purpose, at any age. 

You have tasted of the Holiness of God and you like it.
 

God is so ready to make something great happen through you.  This is a prophetic word for you.  Are you ready to believe God to do through you what you never could imagine?"

 

Excerpt from God Thinking LII - Getting Beyond Your Self by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014