God Thinking LV - Life Is Like A Soufflé 2

"Today, we have a lot of Christians with their cupboards full of all the right ingredients, but without instruction in baking,  (a recipe in righteous living), they cannot make a soufflé, (a fulfilled life). 

A soufflé takes a good recipe and so does a fulfilled life.

God created a recipe for life that when all the ingredients are gathered up and mixed together, create a beautiful fulfilled life. 

If you follow God’s recipe for living, you will live a fulfilled life.

I hope you are hearing me.  A fulfilled life is God’s plan for anyone who will use His recipe for life.

For just a moment, I want you to think about one of those times when you were trying to make a soufflé (to make something out of life for your self, a plan, or a business, or a relationship), but you didn’t have or didn’t use the right recipe, (God’s recipe for life).  You threw the ingredients together without careful thought and you ended up with a ?????? 

You know what.  It would please me to tell you that only once in your life, will you make the mistake of carelessly throwing together the ingredients that you were given to work with, and only once will you make a mess of it, but it wouldn’t be true. 

More than once, you have taken what God gave you (the ingredients you have to work with) and made far less than a fulfilled life."

Excerpt from God thinking LIV - Life Is Like A Souffle by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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"Life is like a soufflé.  Just because you have all the right ingredients to work with doesn’t mean that when you put them together and bake them, they will turn out to be an edible soufflé.

Without a good recipe, it doesn’t matter if you have all the right ingredients.  It’s what you do with the ingredients that determines what the finished product is going to be.

Somebody is going to get this in their soul.  The Lord specifically said to me to speak these words.  Quit making your own way.  Settle it.  God has spoken to you in times past, even when you were a child and offered you the recipe for a fulfilled life.  

But I don’t need to tell you, that you and I have tried many other recipes.  None of them make a soufflé (God’s recipe for life), except God’s recipe. 

Ten people can take the same ingredients, but how they mix them and how they use them (the recipe), determines what is made.

Without the right recipe, it doesn’t matter how many ingredients you have or how good the ingredients are, what you are making may not even be able to be recognized.

Let me give you a good example:

Let’s say that all of us were given all the ingredients to make a beautiful, light and fluffy soufflé. 

After you mixed the ingredients and put them in a pan and baked them, would all end up with a soufflé?  No way.  Why not?!  We all have the same ingredients !!!

I venture to say that only a few of us could make a soufflé, because only a few of us know the recipe.

Even though everyone has the same ingredients, not everyone ends up with a soufflé. That's life."

 

 Excerpt from God thinking LIV - Life Is Like A Souffle by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

God Thinking LIV - Did You Create Your Own Religion? 9

"Please hear God’s Word and let God impart to you Himself.

Word.

 

Psalms 119:28

 28.  “My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according to thy Word.”

 

Psalms 119:100-101

 100.  “I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Thy precepts.

 101.  I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep Thy Word.”

 

Psalms 119:103-105

 103.  “How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

 104.  Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

 105.  Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”

 

Psalms 119:114

114.  “Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.”

  

Psalms 119:130

130.  “The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.”

 

Psalms 119:154

154.  “Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.”

 

Psalms 127:1

 1.  “Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”

 

Colossians 3:16

 16.  “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”

 

Romans 8:31

31.  “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?”

 

You could not be sure of anything if it were not that God has written down for you, the book of life that reveals exacting truths that reveal and impart the heart of God in you.

 

God reveals in His Word:

• The history of the creation of the world and everything in it.
• The history of mankind and everything necessary to fully understand the motives, intents, character, personality and temperament of mankind.
• God reveals everything in His Word necessary to secure unrestricted access to God Himself.

I wonder sometimes, what else could you possibly want from God?  Could it be that God's way is better than your way? Have you allowed thousands of years of religion to persuade you to follow a religion belief system and not follow the leading of the Holy Spirit of God within you?  Did you create your own religion?"

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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"2 Corinthians 10:4-5, “(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

 5.  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”

 

That’s God-thinking - To bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ you need to read the Word of God in the Spirit of the Word, not the letter of the Word.

 

Too many Christians are trying to live out a spiritual life under the letter of the Word and not the Spirit of the Word.  Just try to talk to someone who thinks they know more than God Himself and you can see what happens when the reader tries to apply the living Word under the letter of the Word.

 

To bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ should be your hearts’ goal.

 

When it is your goal, the way you think, what you think about and what you think into being, is being transformed from -  the way you used to think (before you learned to rely on God to lead you and guide you) into the way you think now, which is to allow God to participate in your thinking, i.e., "to bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ."

 

I want to plant a tiny seed today into your mind.  If you could agree to allow God to have access to your mind for a few minutes, I believe God will impart into you:

His life changing Word

His mind transforming Word

His body healing Word

His attitude changing Word

His habit breaking Word

His love building Word

His miracle working Word

 

Can you imagine what it would be like if you didn’t have the Word of God and the promises contained within the Word of God?  If you never heard , “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.  Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest for your souls.”  Matthew 11:28-29

or

If God had never said, “by whose stripes ye were healed” 1 Peter 4:24

or

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  John 3:16

or
“If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.” John 7:37
Can you imagine...?

 

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

 

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"God never received and was never impressed with how the religious or the irreligious have adulterated His Word, His truths, His plans and His way.

The reason for dealing with this subject, is not to talk down denominational organizations or to elevate non-denominations, it is to let you know that the truth is not found in organizations of any kind, it is found in the Word of God.

 

The truth is found in those who love God and seek Him with their whole heart, in spite of their religious affiliation.

 

God wants a people that love Him and seek Him and adore Him and understand Him and follow Him.  And the more you seek God through simple faith and the more you turn from specialized belief systems, the better off you will be.

 

As much as I would like to believe that (my church - your church) represents God’s truths with honor and integrity, you can make the same mistake as others if you take your eyes off of Jesus.

 

To make sure that you honor God, and that you don’t make the mistakes of the past and to make sure you don’t start to worship the organization, or trust in your heritage, you need to read the Word of God (on your own). 

 

As you read the Word of God, seeking the truths of God (without any motive other than to please God and to be built up in the faith), the importance of insignificant doctrines and special rules that apply only to a certain select few and only apply if you are a member will become inconsequential. 

 

When you seek God through His Word, looking deep within for the purpose of being changed, the Word comes alive and brings light into whatever darkness still resides in your life.  And given enough time, God will replace every thought to His glory."

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

 

 

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"God’s children are all borne of faith - from Abraham to you and I, God chooses His elect by their faith in His Son. 

According to the scriptures there are two groups of people, not 1500 groups.  The two groups are Jews and Christians by faith (The Church), and Gentiles outside of the faith.

Today, there are still only two groups of people.  When Christ came He did not come to establish a third and separate sect or group of people called Christians.  He came to graft believing Gentiles with believing Jews to make one new body of believers called the Church and the other group is still the unbelieving gentiles.

Colossians 3:9-11, Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

 10.  And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

 11.  Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. 

One body called the Church, made up of believing Jews and believing Gentiles.  And one unbelieving body, the unbelieving Jews and the unbelieving Gentiles.

I want you to see how important it is to know this truth.

God in His infinite wisdom has not swayed with the masses or gone along with the brilliant religious minds who have created complicated doctrines of men.  There are two camps, one in Christ and one outside of Christ.  One accepted in the beloved and one rejected because of unbelief. 

 

Why go there and discuss this sensitive subject?

Listen carefully.

The days of relying on your religious affiliation or your Christian or Jewish heritage in lieu of a personal and active relationship with God is over. 
You will no longer be blessed for sidestepping - evading - denying - bypassing - dodging or  skirting God’s ordained will.  

You will only be blessed when you fall under the leadership and guidance of the Holy Spirit of God."

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

 

 

 

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"Have you ever wondered why there are so many denominations when Christ calls us to be of the same mind?

There was never supposed to be multiple denominations - catholic, protestant, reformed, primitive, Apostolic, Charismatic, traditional, five fold ministry, Pentecostal, full gospel, ½ gospel, no gospel, intra-denominational, non-denominational, et al.

I say there was never supposed to be so many denominations because the scriptures call for unity, not separation and it is separation that most denominations practice and celebrate.

don’t get me wrong, they are already created and we need to look for the good in them, but there is no scriptural evidence of any religious order being created, ordained or institutionalized by God, except one.

According to the scriptures there has always been only one group accepted and that is His children, by faith.  

 

According to the scriptures found in Ephesians 4:4-6, "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;  5.  One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

6.  One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”

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