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"A few ways you can do this (change the way you think) is by:

Looking and seeking to create what pleases God.

Recognizing that God is not to be blamed for man’s sin.

Taking responsibility for your own future.

Building it with God thoughts.

Thoughts of success

Thoughts of giving to others

Thoughts of getting understanding and wisdom from God

Thoughts that plan ahead and carefully use the moments at hand.

Thoughts that foresee great things

Thoughts that reach beyond our present circumstances

Thoughts that require God’s help

Thoughts that fit being a child of God

Thoughts that conform to what God has in Mind for you

The scriptures confirm that your thinking is to be in agreement with God, to wit, God thinking. Listen to the words of Paul in Philippians 2:5

Philippians 2:5

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Philippians 4:7-8

“And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.  V8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”  Does it matter how you think?

Romans 8:6-7 & 14

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

V7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.

V14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”

Romans 8:27-30

V27 And He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”

V28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.

V29 For whom He did foreknow, He did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He 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.”

God is working towards your good.  God thinking puts you in line and in the know with what God already foreknew you would accomplish.

Romans 12:1-2

“I beseech you therfore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. V2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable and perfect, will of God.”

God thinking is renewing your mind to think like God.  It is not something to be afraid of or to be set aside as if you were unworthy.  It is to be embraced with all of your being. You are worthy.

1 Corinthians 2:9-16

Ephesians 4:17-24

Hebrews 8:7-10

Hebrews 8:10b

“I will put my laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:”

Do these scriptures sound like God thinks you should practice God thinking?

What God is doing right now is the biggest move of God since creation.  And, you have been called, by His foreknowledge to learn and practice God thinking.

You will have more opportunity this year to accomplish your goals and dreams than ever before.  Learn to work, hand in hand with God - to fulfill His prophesy for you, in you, by you.  Amen"

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       Excerpt from God Thinking - In The Beginning by Keith C. Powell                                                     Copyright 2015

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"God thinking will keep you full of:

passion - desire - ambition - energy - power - authority and most of all - time.

Ask yourself - Are there things you can do, places you can go, books you can read, messages you can hear that will help you to think more like God?

I believe that over the next several weeks you will investigate many ways

to embrace the kind of thinking that God endorses - God thinking. 

It is enough for now, that you begin to rebuild the way you think and divert the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years - that you once spent: nurturing, feeding & perpetuating wrong thinking - into God thinking.

Abundant life is ahead for anyone who will receive it.  How do I know that?  Because God has already created it.  God has already made a way for you and what God creates is always good.

You are to be in the world, not of the world.  The (in part) means that there will still be plenty of people creating and sustaining an ugly and depressing world.  There will still be the effects of the fall of man.  Others will still think earthly thoughts and bring about havoc, turmoil, pain and suffering.  The devil will still be here to challenge your every thought.

But you can transcend it all, if you are willing to change the way you think."

       Excerpt from God Thinking - In The Beginning by Keith C. Powell                                                     Copyright 2015

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"To begin to implement God thinking you need to evaluate three questions.

1. Is there anything you can do to change what you have already done?  

2. Is there anything that you can do to change your current situation?

3. Is there anything that you can do that could change your future?

Too many people spend too much of their time - (in their mind) in the part of their lives that cannot be changed - the past.  Any time that you give the past, in the way of remorse - guilt - hatred - revenge - anger towards God - dragging up old bones - thinking about old flames - fallen preachers - unanswered prayer - unkept promises - unforgiven debt - anything that is taking time away from your now and your future, is not only taking valuable time, it is causing you and to perpetuate the same kind of thinking that has held you back or kept you from reaching that next goal in life, in the first place.  God thinking requires you to live in God’s time.  God is with the program.  He is very contemporary.  He is fully up to date, today and forever.  God is about today and tomorrow.

Nothing with God happens yesterday.  God thinking requires less focus on where you’ve been - what you’ve done - what you have or haven’t accomplished - what you’ve lost - or what could have been:

And more focus on where you are today, where you are going, what you are going to do, what you can accomplish and who you can be.

Everyone complains about not having enough time to do this or that, but this too is not God thinking.  There is time.  If you believe that there is not enough time, you have allowed a kind of mental virus to get into your thinking and slowly eat away at your vitality and your hope.

It is not true that you don’t have time.  It was never true.  God thinking will demand a higher call to the way that you dispose the day."

       Excerpt from God Thinking - In The Beginning by Keith C. Powell                                                     Copyright 2015

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"The mind of God creates and sustains everything in its place - The past, the present and the future - the same.

Your mind has allowed the experience of others, past failures and disappointments, and your own choices to program how you think.

The successes, prosperity, the best moments of your life, your accomplishments and victories - the God things:

They give you what hope - energy - drive & ambition that you have - They are the building blocks to a good life.

The failures, mistakes, false teaching, poverty, emptiness and loneliness, unanswered prayer and unperformed miracles - the worst of moments - They are the building blocks of a miserable life - but they don’t have to be.

In the mind of God - all past things - good or bad - happy or sad - accomplishment orf failure - can build something good.

Genesis 50:19 - 20

“And Joseph said unto them, (his brothers who had sold him into slavery),, fear not: for am I in the place of God? V20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.”

That’s how God thinks.  God thinking takes the same approach.  Whatever has passed, is passed to benefit you to bring you closer to:

your conquest

your goal

your dream

your life’s goal"

       Excerpt from God Thinking - In The Beginning by Keith C. Powell                                                     Copyright 2015

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"I’m going to expose the reason why things aren’t better in your life.

why things are so hard

why there is so much apathy today

why it is so hard to get from point A to point B

why you have such a hard time getting what you are after

Are you ready.

It’s all about the way you think.

We are going to start God thinking by carefully redefining the way we believe.  In order to be successful and to serve God the way He wants you to, you cannot continue wrong thinking:

• wrong thinking about God
• wrong thinking about yourself
• wrong thinking caused by misinterpretation of God’s truth
• misappropriation of your time and energy
• and just plain stubbornness and disobedience

Take a look with me at Proverbs 23:7a., Proverbs 23:7a, “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:...”

This verse has often been used to describe a mind-set, like: If you think you can succeed you can, if you think you are great you can be great, if you think you are no good, you are no good.  In other words, what you think yourself to be, you are.  This is the philosophy of the positive thinking gurus, but not the Word of God.

This verse speaks clearly about the way a man thinks and really has nothing to do with what he thinks himself to be.

This verse would better be understood this way. 

The total sum of man’s thoughts:

both good and evil

right and wrong

thoughtful and discouraging

ugly and beautiful

sinful and righteous - is who he is.

Just the same, who you can be - is determined by how you think now, combined with a new way of thinking, called God thinking. 

It’s all about the way you think."

       Excerpt from God Thinking - In The Beginning by Keith C. Powell                                                     Copyright 2015

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"God has not swerved off the road as some of us have.  God has not forgotten His promises.  God has not missed bringing His prophesies into being.  God has missed nothing. 

Since time began, God has used His creation to bring us about, and bless us.

God’s plan is perfect and it includes you.  You are in it right now.

You are a direct result of God.

You cannot blame God when things go awry, when things go wrong, when sickness, disease, pain, suffering, indiscretions, sin, wickedness and death come your way.

It would be like blaming the potter every time you drop a dish."

The creator has done a perfect job and continues to.  We (humankind) have not stayed true to our creator.

I know that I have belabored the issue, but this is the first step in God thinking.  Without understanding - without wisdom, the next thing I am going to tell you will have no effect."

       Excerpt from God Thinking - In The Beginning by Keith C. Powell                                                     Copyright 2015

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"Let’s look at some of the truths that make up God thinking.

The same freewill that you all enjoy is also the same freewill that breaks God’s laws.  It is in this world of broken laws, that you reside.

It doesn’t matter what has happened: Sickness, disease, pain, suffering, indiscretions, sin (willful or unknowing), wickedness and death can all be traced back to the breaking of God’s law. 

Even if you can’t put your finger on it, and there is no ready answer – Even if you have to trace it back to Adam, you will find that all these things came from, and are caused by, the breaking of God’s law - the fall of man - the spiraling down and away from that perfect state of perfection - where sickness, disease, pain, suffering, indiscretions, sin, wickedness and death, at one time did not exist.

God created perfection and continues to uphold His end, in perfection.  God stills showers you with gifts of love and mercy and all good things. 

The Word says:

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.”

God thinking requires that you get it right.

  

All mankind before you, under the authority of free will has handed down to you what they have created. 

You have created something too. 

Those before you along with God’s intervention make you who you are today.

In and through everything you have experienced, during your life without God and during your life with God, God remained God - unmoved - unsoiled - unchanged - holding the universe together by His Spirit , with His mind, in perfect accord.

It is this mind of God that remains constant that you must learn to trust.  It is this mind of God that you need to emulate if you want to understand God thinking."

       Excerpt from God Thinking - In The Beginning by Keith C. Powell                                                     Copyright 2015