Mystery or Mastery 3

"You must - Quit trying to do it in your own strength!

You must - Quit trying to solve your problems with your own mind!

You must - Quit trying to figure it all out in your own wisdom!!

You must - Quit believing the lies of the enemy!

You must - Quit relying on the lottery to pay your bills!

If you communed with God as much as you commune with the world...................

You  must learn to trust God.  I wish you could really get this; Trusting God. 

I know the frustrations of this life can be tortuous, and many times unbearable, but you must learn to trust God. I mean trust God in this way:

You really don’t know what is best, but God does.

You must choose to operate under the direct guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Once you really find your place, it will all come together.

Tell me, do you really want to receive all that God has for you?  Some of you would say you do, but you forfeit what God has in His time/timing for what you want in your time/timing. 

Well I am going to say something that can change the way you operate - the way you give yourself to God and the way you receive from God.

  

Get this down in your spirit and hold onto it with all your heart:

With all your might

With all your strength

With all your confidence

With all you hope

I hope you aren’t relying on your skills, talents, abilities to find your way.  You can’t do what God can do."

       Excerpt from Mystery or Mastery by Keith C. Powell                                          Copyright 2016

Mystery or Mastery 2

Do you believe that you have the Spirit of God in you?  How often did the Holy Spirit lead and guide you and you would not? But when you do yield to the leading of the Holy Spirit.........

And you will find out if you have not found out already - when you ask God and wait for the answer, your decision can be ordained by the Holy Spirit. 

And what you do under the direct guidance of the Holy Spirit has within it more than just a touch of the purity of God.  It has within it all the components to become God ordained, sanctioned by God and as the scripture declares. “Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:” Philippians 1:6

*Did you notice that the Word doesn’t say, ‘He who began good works in you?’  Can you see the difference?  The Word is talking about what you put your heart to.  If what you put our heart to is ordained by the indwelling Holy Spirit, God will do it."

Excerpt from Mystery or Mastery by Keith C. Powell copyright 2016

Mystery or Mastery 1

Can you to promise to receive what God has prepared for you.  If you cannot, you must agree to not continue with this treatise.

 

That’s right.  Listen to the Holy Spirit in your inner man.  Get your pen and paper out and write down what God says to you.  I’m serious.  God has a Word for you.  Write it down and so it.

“Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:” Philippians 1:6

There is a mystery as to all that is available, by faith, through grace.  And there is also a mastery of what is available, by faith through grace. 

There is an effectual inner working that is revealed by your own relationship with the indwelling Holy Spirit.  There is a showing (so to speak) that the Holy Spirit resides within you.  In other words the Holy Spirit reveals Himself, that God is in you working through you, by you.    

Whatever you are in yourself, you are more with the indwelling Holy Spirit, Christ in you the hope of glory.

Whatever you think we can do, you can do more with Christ in you working His will.

Whatever you can overcome, you can overcome more with Christ in you.  And it’s not just more, it’s that the quality of the more is better.

Whatever you have made of this life or what you think you might make of it, it can and will be better when the Holy Spirit is in it with you.  And the Holy Spirit is in it if you (the body of Christ) are in it."

Excerpt from Mystery or Mastery by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2016  

God Thinking XCVII - Crossroads 12

"When you are at the crossroad of decisions, before you even consider making a decision:

7. You must make the right choice

Joshua 24:15

“...but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.”

At the crossroad of decision, the prepared person has a far better chance of making a wise decision, that fits God’s plan for your life more than the unprepared.

  

These are the attributes that must be present in your everyday life if you are to be prepared to make wise decisions.

1. You must already possess adequate information to

     make a well-informed decision

2. You must already operate under established parameters that you will not compromise on

3. You must know the Word

4. You must think on the things of God

5. You must exercise your faith (Not your spouses faith; this is something you have to find and believe for yourself.) 

6. You must bath it in prayer

7. You must make a choice

Prior to crossroad decisions, the direction you will take is not based on the decision you make at the moment.

In other words, the decisions that you are going to make are actually made prior to being in the position to make the decision.

When you are at the crossroad of decision and you have the truths of God’s Word embedded in your heart, making  decisions becomes a blessing in itself. 

The difficulty of being torn between the lesser of two evils is over with.  When you practice doing life God’s way, you no longer choose between the lessor of two evils, you choose the greater of many blessings."

  Excerpt from God Thinking XCVII - Crossroads - by Keith C. Powell                                                       Copyright 2015

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"When you are at the crossroad of decisions, before you even consider making a decision:

4. You must think on the things of God

Philippians 4:8

 8.  Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever

things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, 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.

  

When you are at the crossroad of decisions, before you even consider making a decision:

5. You must exercise your faith

Matthew 9:29

29.  Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your

faith be it unto you.

Hebrews 10:23

 23.  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

When you are at the crossroad of decisions, before you even consider making a decision:

6. You must bath it in prayer

Philippians 4:6

 6.  In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God."

    Excerpt from God Thinking XCVII - Crossroads - by Keith C. Powell                                                       Copyright 2015

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"When you are at the crossroad of decisions, before you even consider making a decision:

1. You must already possess adequate information to make a well-informed decision.

Proverbs 10:14

14.  Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

Proverbs 18:15

15.  The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

How can we make a wise decision if you don’t have the knowledge to make a prudent decision.

2. You must already operate under established parameters that you will not compromise on.

Philippians 3:15-16

15.  Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

 16.  Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

If you are to make the right decision, sometimes on short notice, you had better be making use of every bit of wisdom that you have already received.

When you are at the crossroad of decisions, before you even consider making a decision:

3. You must know the Word

Matthew 13:23

 23.  But he that received seed into the good ground is he

that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

2 Timothy 2:15

15.  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."

    Excerpt from God Thinking XCVII - Crossroads - by Keith C. Powell                                                       Copyright 2015

God Thinking XCVII - Crossroads 9

"You are listening.  Even when you don’t know it, like when you were very young, or when your passions seemed to be making the decisions - you were receiving a message from your heavenly Father and you were receiving a message from your enemy.

You know it is true, and I am uncovering some of the tactics of the enemy that will keep you from God’s very best. 

God has been speaking to you about your situation and the decisions that you are about to make. 

If you have already made some decisions and you are not sure if they are God’s perfect will for your life - stop right there. 

There’s no reason for anyone to continue supporting the wrong decisions that were made in the past. 

There’s no reason to throw time and money at them, under the pretense that they might go away someday. 

The consequences of poor decisions in the past might plague you, and you know from experience that there are consequences and ramifications associated with your past poor decisions, but you can pull away from repeating them.

That’s what the crossroads are for - it’s time to make a change that will draw you closer to following God’s perfect plan for your life.

There are thousands of wonderful benefits for making a positive decision toward the things of God and all of them are alone worth any thing you might be giving up - but as I said earlier, I want to take you beyond what you are currently seeking."

    Excerpt from God Thinking XCVII - Crossroads - by Keith C. Powell                                                       Copyright 2015