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"3     Quit seeking fulfillment outside of the will of God.

2 Chronicles 7:14

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

This third secret for having a fulfilled life seems as if it is not connected to the first two, but look closely and you will see that it can be no other way.

Catch this: If everything that God made was very good, and if everything that God does for you, in you and through you is good  - then if you are following God’s recipe for life, you will live a fulfilled life.

You have got to see beyond yourself to see the true implication of this prophesy. 

Think about this:

You have or have access to every material thing made

You live in the freest country in the world (If you live in America)

You have access to the newest and fastest technology on earth

You have the largest variety of quality foods on earth

You enjoy every comfort known to man

You have uninhibited opportunity

You spend hours and hours relaxing or resting or being entertained

You can come and go as you please

You have freedom to worship God

You have dozens of people every day taking your name to the throne of God, intercessors praying on your behalf

You have access to the best health care in the world

You have all that and more

You have good friends, family, instant travel

You have unrestricted communication

You have theme parks and time shares, some of you have two houses, new cars and boats

You know what?  Even with access to everything at hand, no matter how you mix it up - without God’s recipe for living, there’s just no way to make a soufflé (a fulfilled life). 

That’s why even if you owned the whole world and everything in it, it can’t bring joy and peace in your life, because - Contentment and happiness, a good attitude and genuine love, honor and integrity and self-worth, kindness and tolerance, patience and longsuffering, true joy and peace, all the things of God, aren’t found in things. 

Contentment and happiness, a good attitude and genuine love, honor and integrity and self-worth, kindness and tolerance, patience and longsuffering, true joy and peace is found when you follow God’s recipe for life.

Do you believe:

1     “Every thing that God made, was very good.”

2     Every thing that God does for you, in you and through you is good.

3     Quit seeking fulfillment outside of the will of God.

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

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" 1     “Every thing that God made, was very good.”

2     Every thing that God does for you, in you and through you is good.

You need the recipe of God for a fulfilled life, and this recipe has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with biblical truth:

• Religion teaches suppression, the Bbible teaches freedom.
• Religion teaches strict adherence to the letter of the law
• The Bible teaches freewill adherence to the Spirit of God
• Religion teaches that your eternal security is contingent upon your behavior
• The Bible teaches that your eternal security is contingent upon the blood of Christ.
• Religion teaches that you are ever striving to achieve a spiritual mind 
• The Bible teaches that you have the mind of Christ
• Religion turns its back on the unlovely, the defamed, the non-compliant and the rebellious
• The Bible faces them and calls them out, from darkness into the very light of God

If you have never heard this kind of teaching against religion, you haven’t read your Bible.  Jesus preached the same message. 

The God of the scriptures transcends religion. 

The recipe for a fulfilled life:      

We are looking at just three profound truths about God’s recipe for a fulfilled life.

1     “Every thing that God made, was very good.”

2     Every thing that God does for us, in us and through us is good.

3     Quit seeking fulfillment outside of the will of God."

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

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"If you take what you have and use God’s recipe for life, you will find: Let this speak to your spirit.

Immediate relief from the pressures of this world

Plenty of time to accomplish your goals in life

All the resources you need to get to the desired end

Wait there’s more, you also receive:

• Peace in your life that goes beyond explanation
• Comfort that comes with knowing that God is with you
• Joy in your spirit, because you understand God is for you and not against you like you have been taught for so many years.

If what you think is that the heavy hand of God pressing in on you and holding you down, and keeping you from an enjoying, productive and prosperous life; religion did that to you, not God.  God thinking demands that you believe the right things about God. 

If you have always thought or ever thought that it was God that was crushing you and raking you over the coals, tempting you to see if you will break, bringing trouble your way to see what you were made of - You need to be set free. 

2     Every thing that God does for you, in you and through you is good.

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

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"Of the three components that are necessary to accommodate God's recipe for a fulfilled life the secoond is:  Every thing that God does for you, in you and through you is good. James 1:17, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

Not only was everything that God made good, but everything that God made that was good was made for His children to have and to use to be fulfilled. 

Everything that God has done and is going to do and that God has in mind for you is good and is to bring about a desired end that fulfills you.

Jeremiah 29:11

 11.  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

3 John 1:2

 2.  Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

Hear this powerful truth:

Until you believe that it is the will of God that you are fulfilled you will not seek the will of God to be fulfilled and until you seek the will of God to be fulfilled, you will live (with and in) far less than what God intended for you. 

For if God made every thing good and He only gives good things to His children - then you need to be open to receive from God’s all sufficient storehouse whatever it is that God is giving you, because it is good. 

You open the flow of God’s provision when you exercise faith in His provision, and you close the flow of God’s provision when you do not believe what God has said about His provision. 

Too often you are looking for something other than what you have as the ingredients you think you need to make your soufflé.  But it is not true, you already have them all.  Not one of you will stand before God, and hear these words:

• Son, I just couldn’t find time to help you with your career
• Daughter, I really wanted you to suffer a little more
• Son or daughter, I didn’t have the resources you  needed to accomplish your goal. 
• Son, I couldn’t heal you, it just wouldn’t be fair to others

Please don’t wait until you are standing before God to see this truth.  Right now:

• with what you have
• under your present conditions
• with your circumstances in life
• with your current paycheck
• with your existing family
• at your current job
• with whatever resources you have
• without adding one thing

Youalready have the ingredients to live a fulfilled life.  If you think you need, even one more thing, or one more dollar, or one more anything, it’s because you have not used God’s recipe for 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 a mess without God’s recipe for life.  Can I have an Amen.

“Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it:” Psalm 127:1a

I want you to catch the truth, the vision of God’s plan for you.  God’s recipe for a fulfilled life demands that you see God and what He has done for you from the proper light.  

God thinking is about having the right ingredients and following the right recipe.  Most people have the right ingredients, but they keep mixing them together without God’s recipe, and the results are always - discontent - miserable - depressed - lonely - unhappy - critical - mean spirited - easily irritated - easily disgruntled - unfulfilled - creating their own religion. 

You have the right ingredients for a fulfilled life

If you will use God’s recipe for a fulfilled life you will have a fulfilled life.

I just want to briefly discuss three things that have to do with God’s recipe for a fulfilled life.  These are worth writing down (or remembeing if you have one of hose minds).

11     “Every thing that God made, was very good

Genesis 1:31a “And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good.”

If you are to ever enjoy life and have access to the very best that God would have for you, you will have to get this one, simple truth correct in your thinking.  Every thing that God made was very good.  It is this “was very good” that you must understand.  When God created the worlds and every thing in them, every thing in them was good.  

Over time, and under the influence of the fall of man, by sin against God, every thing became skewed, fallen, full of iniquity, full of rust and decay.  Death, sickness, pain, sin, hate, lying, cheating, drunkenness, addictions, destruction of every kind, terrorism and every sort of evil has all stemmed from and is a direct result of the fall of man.  

What God made, God made good, and Adam and Eve, you and I have taken what God made that was good and made it into something less. 

Until you believe that God made every thing good - in your theology, ( the way you believe about God), you might believe that God made some things that weren’t good and that the things that God made that weren’t good are the reason why some things in your life aren’t good or that God meant for you to wallow in the mire, like pigs in slop.  

satan loves it when you blame God for your trouble - When you attribute to God what satan has done in this world.  

satan loves it when you don’t know a thing about your heavenly Father.  And he will pull out every stop to allure you into thinking wrong thoughts about your gracious and glorious, holy and omnipotent, great and mighty, sovereign and Almighty, just and righteous Abba, Father, God.

Can you remember this profound and unchanging truth:

1     “Every thing that God made, was very good.”

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

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"I understand that many of the problems and troubles, the fires and the valleys in life, came to you without your help, without your participation, without your asking for it. 

But I also understand that far too many of the problems and troubles, fires and valleys were brought on by your own doings. 

Far too many times you took the ingredients you had and used your own recipe for life instead of God’s recipe for life and ended up with a mess.  

But I am here to tell you that despite what you may have been told in the past, you can put an end to the ‘crashing train syndrome.’

Hear this prophetic word for you today:

If you decide to take the ingredients that God gave you to work with and use God’s recipe for fulfillment, you will receive God’s very best."

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

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"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