God Thinking XLII - 9

"God will not allow those without the Spirit of God to have the peace, the joy or the understanding that He allows those with the Spirit of God.  That is why when you are born again, God sends His Holy Spirit to indwell you, because the Spirit of God can discern spiritual things rightly.

The Holy Spirit transforms the way you used to think into the way you should think, more so as you yield to God.

As you allow God to transform your mind, so it is.

With God thinking you put the things of God ‘on top’ and allow God to push out from you :

Every word

Every place

Every habit

Every stronghold

Every burden

Every worry

Every obstacle

Every bit of baggage

Every lie

Every false image

Every thing that does not conform to the will of God for your life. 

You purposely delight in the things of God and you purposely abandon that which keeps you from enjoying the riches of His glory."

Hear the words of Paul as He pleads with us to get the revelation that transformed his life.

Romans 12:1-2, “I beseech you therefore, 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.”

 

Let me ask you, “If your mind is not being renewed, then what

is it being?”

If you are not growing in Christ, you are growing away.

If you are not moving forward with God you are moving away from God."

     Excerpt from God Thinking XLII by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2016

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"Many people have mistaken something that resembles the truth for the truth itself.  That’s why there are so many philosophies, so many denominations, so many religions, so much wrong thinking.

If it is wrong in the essence it is bound to be wrong in the results.

That’s why many well meaning people are all mixed up about who God is and how to live a life with value and integrity and excellence.

 

In a spiritually created world, created by a spiritual God, they are trying to respond to life without activating spiritual thinking.

Most people sense a need for spiritual awareness, but they want to experience it carnally.  It cannot be done.

  

The Pharisees tried it and it didn’t work for them.  

The spiritist tried it and it doesn’t work for them.  

The Buddhist try it, but it doesn’t work for them.  

The cults try it but it doesn’t work for them.  

The Muslims try it, but it doesn’t work for them either, because there is no true spiritual life without the essence of the Spirit and the essence of the Spirit can only be found in Jesus Christ.

God will not change or condescend His essence to fulfill the desire of those who pretend to be spiritual, those who nurture wrong thinking.  God got enough of that from the Jews, when He came to visit." 

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"Quite often we hear the voice of God, but sometimes we don’t like what we hear and we hide from His essence and choose a lessor way.  Sometimes God is calling you out and you don’t want to go out.  Is God calling you out from where you are to reveal Himself mighty through your weakness?

Sometimes He calls you to sacrifice and you don’t want to sacrifice.

  

Sometimes God calls you to pray and you don’t pray.

Sometimes God call you to worship Him and you choose not to.

It will always be wrong thinking that keeps you from God’s very best for your life.  Wrong thinking operates on false premises, not the truth, not the essence of God.

 

Wrong thinking is warped and doesn’t let you receive what is rightfully yours.

With wrong thinking you could be standing on a diamond mine or an oil field and think it was rock and mud.    

Man keeps trying to measure the spiritual using a carnal balance. 

Man keeps trying to be spiritual without the essence of the spiritual.

People are trying to weigh the Son of man by the sons of men and they get a false reading, because you can’t measure spiritual things against carnal things. 

     Excerpt from God Thinking XLII by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2016

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"God Thinking is concerned about the essence of a thing, not just the thing itself, the essence of a word spoken in due season, the essence of a plan and not just a plan itself.

When you catch the essence of something, you have the very best it has to offer.  

When you see the essence of something, you see the finest it has to offer.

It is like that with Christ. 

He offers you the very essence of God, in Himself. 

When you get this truth;

When the light of this truth shines into your soul;

When you bask in the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ, you receive the essence of all truth.

All truth comes from the essence of God.

Jesus came unto His own and His own received Him not.  It’s no difference today.  Jesus still reveals Himself.  He still shines His glorious light.

He still offers His free gift of His essence to anyone and everyone who will receive it.

Wrong thinking often mistakes something that resembles the truth for the truth itself.

It’s wrong thinking that causes us to get angry at our spouse for things that happen instead of focusing your anger on your real enemy. 

It’s wrong thinking that causes you to see our kids in a lessor light than they deserve, rather than seeing them through the eyes of Christ and taking out our disappointment on the one responsible for behavior problems.

It’s wrong thinking that keeps your creative self stifled, when you should be creating new medicines, new tools, when you should be taking the new ideas that God has given to you and pursue them with your every effort.

It’s wrong thinking that keeps you from stepping out in faith and allowing God to have the pre-eminence, just for a season.

How many times have you let another day go by where you knew what to do, but didn’t do it?  

     Excerpt from God thinking XLII by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2016

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"God has made it clear that there is right thinking and wrong thinking.

It is ‘wrong thinking’ that let’s you believe things about your self that isn’t true. (low self esteem)

It’s ‘wrong thinking’ that keeps you in bondage to habits and strongholds.

It’s ‘wrong thinking’ that causes you to continually to go to the place you know is killing you.

It’s ‘wrong thinking’ that robs you from hope. 

It’s ‘wrong thinking’ that says success is found in having many things.

It’s ‘wrong thinking’ that let’s true joy be confused with getting high or drunk. 

It’s ‘wrong thinking’ that let’s you worry about the things you have no control over.

It’s ‘wrong thinking’ that allows you to revive the baggage of the past.

It’s ‘wrong thinking’ that keeps you from letting go of your self security and stepping out by faith into the unknown, where God can have His way with you.

It’s ‘wrong thinking’ that keeps you poor.

It’s ‘wrong thinking’ that keeps you eating the same things that are making you sick.

It’s ‘wrong thinking ‘ that tells you that you should hold real tight to what you have.

But it is God Thinking that believes every Word that proceeds forth from God.

It is God Thinking that tells you about our true worth.

It’s God Thinking that gives you strength to break away from the things that have kept you in bondage.

It’s God Thinking that gives you strength to break away from habits that keep you from good health.

It’s God Thinking that gives you wisdom to say no, when people are asking you to go with them to this place or that.

It’s God Thinking that revives hope in your life.

It’s God Thinking that says success is found in the way you apprehend things and not in the apprehension itself. 

It’s God Thinking that brings true joy and peace to even the most troubled situation. 

It’s God Thinking that puts worry in its place, now some of you aren’t going to like this at all, because it’s easier to worry and fret than to let God fix your problems in His timing.

It’s God Thinking that doesn’t allow the mistakes of the past rob you from the blessings of the future.

It’s God Thinking that let’s you step out in faith and do what cannot be done, by faith in a God that can.

It’s God Thinking that prospers you and takes you from one faith to another - from one glory to another - from one truth to another - from where you were to where you are and from where you are to where you are going.

It’s God Thinking that teaches you to eat smart and care about your health.

It’s God Thinking that helps you to allow what you have flow through you instead of stopping at you.

God Thinking is the very kind of thinking that God has revealed to you through His Word. 

God Thinking is concerned about the essence of a thing, not just the thing itself, the essence of a word spoken in due season, the essence of a plan and not just a plan itself."

    Excerpt from God thinking XLII by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2016

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"Norman Vincent Peale says, in his book, The Power of Positive Thinking, “If you’re thinking is wrong, it is wrong and not right and can never be right so long as it is wrong.  If it is wrong in the essence it is bound to be wrong in the result.”

It is this very kind of thinking, ‘wrong thinking’ that keeps you from getting what is rightfully yours in Christ.

The Word of God is filled with references to the way we think and the importance it plays in the outcome of our life.  Hear the Word of God:

Proverbs 12:5

“The thoughts of the righteous are right:...”

1 Chronicles 28:9

David speaking to his son Solomon.

“And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all the hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts:...”

Psalm 94:19

“In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.”

Psalm 139:17

Now here we see God thinking in its perfect tense. 

“How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!”

Proverbs 16:3

“Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.”  I pray we would believe God.

God has made it clear that there is right thinking and wrong thinking."

    Excerpt from God Thinking XLII by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2016

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"7.              We learned that it is not true that you don’t have enough time.  God thinking teaches you how to dispose the day wisely.

8.              God thinking causes you to look and seek to create what pleases God.

9.              God thinking requires that you take responsibility for your future.

10.              God thinking requires that you think differently.

• Thoughts of success
• Thoughts of giving to others
• Thoughts of getting understanding that creates wisdom from God.
• Thoughts that plan ahead and carefully use the moments at hand.
• Thoughts that foresee great things
• Thoughts that reach beyond your present circumstances
• Thoughts that require God’s help
• Thoughts that fit a child of God
• Thoughts that conform to what God has in Mind for you.

But, God Thinking is as much about deliberately abandoning wrong thinking as it is about adopting or putting on top the things of God.

     Excerpt from God Thinking XLII by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2016