Can you just be satisfied with God for a season, trusting in Him and the way He handles the affairs of this world? I think you should. I think I will."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Thought for the day
"The true seeker of God's self-disclosure on the matter of healing will be moved to be in the presence of God, more and more, until he/she learns to trust God. At that moment when you do lean in closely, and you do trust God, faith will become real; the outcome or the circumstance will not prevail over your faith - Your faith will prevail over the outcome or circumstance.
Can you just be satisfied with God for a season, trusting in Him and the way He handles the affairs of this world? I think you should. I think I will."
Can you just be satisfied with God for a season, trusting in Him and the way He handles the affairs of this world? I think you should. I think I will."
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Thought for the day
"The formula for healing or receiving from God is trust in God. You place yourself in God's hands, and with faith you patiently await His touch. Never do you command God to do anything. That is not faith. Faith wrestles not with God, demanding a predictable outcome of choice. If it were so, we could make commands, some good, some not so good. We could heal or pray against healing as it pleases us and we could all become god's like Zeus, Neptune or Apollo.
Here's where people get mixed up. It was God's intended will that we live forever, on earth, in perfect health. But within the bounds of freewill, Adam sinned, thereby altering forever the perfect plan of God for (Adam's) children. If not for the work of Christ on the cross, can I say that none of us would have a prayer. God's grace is sufficient for the faithful.
We must stop craving for God to bail us out every time we foolishly disobey Him. Our desire should be, must be, to know Him, to worship Him, to Praise Him and to trust Him implicitly.
Hebrews 11:1-12 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. V2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. V3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. V4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. V5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. V6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. V7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. V8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. V9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: V10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. V11 Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. V12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. V13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."
You must never tell people or even insinuate that they didn't receive what they desired or that their loved one died from sickness because of a lack of faith. What a mockery that is to God, the Omnipotent One, who is and always will be in charge of giving and healing and life. I am convinced that all your efforts to reveal how God works apart from scriptural revelation is the basis for all false images of God and false theology about God's work among mankind. Man's quest to prove himself right has overthrown his sensibility to pure truth, pure anything for that matter.
Here's where people get mixed up. It was God's intended will that we live forever, on earth, in perfect health. But within the bounds of freewill, Adam sinned, thereby altering forever the perfect plan of God for (Adam's) children. If not for the work of Christ on the cross, can I say that none of us would have a prayer. God's grace is sufficient for the faithful.
We must stop craving for God to bail us out every time we foolishly disobey Him. Our desire should be, must be, to know Him, to worship Him, to Praise Him and to trust Him implicitly.
Hebrews 11:1-12 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. V2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. V3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. V4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. V5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. V6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. V7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. V8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. V9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: V10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. V11 Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. V12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. V13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."
You must never tell people or even insinuate that they didn't receive what they desired or that their loved one died from sickness because of a lack of faith. What a mockery that is to God, the Omnipotent One, who is and always will be in charge of giving and healing and life. I am convinced that all your efforts to reveal how God works apart from scriptural revelation is the basis for all false images of God and false theology about God's work among mankind. Man's quest to prove himself right has overthrown his sensibility to pure truth, pure anything for that matter.
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Monday, August 29, 2011
Thought for the day
"With every breath of faith and with every testimony of joy where God has so graciously dealt with His children and healing was the result, there is the voice of another of disappointment and heartache at the loss of a loved one. God-thinking requires we trust God:
I admire those who have faith to receive healing. I am one. I also admire those who have not received their healing and trust God in their current circumstances. I have friends that say, "never say you are sick." I find nothing in scripture to support denying the reality of your physical condition. After all there could be no healing if there were no sickness. We need to trust the Father when we are sick. Sickness is part of the fall.
God-thinking admits that God has not divulged His All-ness to us, as some proclaim."
- Trust God when all is well.
- Trust God when all is not well.
- Trust God when the answer is yes.
- Trust God when the answer is not yes.
- Trust God when His mysterious ways cannot be unscrambled, to fit what we think should happen.
- Trust God when you receive and trust God when you don't receive.
- Trust God when you are healed.
- And trust God when sickness prevails.
I admire those who have faith to receive healing. I am one. I also admire those who have not received their healing and trust God in their current circumstances. I have friends that say, "never say you are sick." I find nothing in scripture to support denying the reality of your physical condition. After all there could be no healing if there were no sickness. We need to trust the Father when we are sick. Sickness is part of the fall.
God-thinking admits that God has not divulged His All-ness to us, as some proclaim."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Thought for the day
"It is easy to take a short walk with Jesus. After all your first exposure to the supernatural is exciting as you experience the power of Almighty God running through your body and mind. But not many choose the long walk where you get to see the long term goal for your life - the broader picture.
- The long walk reveals to you a better view of how God works among His people. The long walk requires faith, as your witness to the miraculous.
- The long walk makes you wise and trusting of Almighty God.
- The long walk trusts the outcome to the hands of the creator.
- The long walk doesn't need for everything to go your way, it doesn't need constant proof that God can and is doing mighty exploits.
- The long walk trusts God as God and is secure in being a child of God, trusting the Father, despite the outcome, despite the circumstances.
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Thought for the day
"To trust God is to trust God and has nothing to do with the outcome in the physical. God allows all of us to grow old and die, despite our diet, belief system or religious affiliation, because there is more. 2 Corinthians 5:1-7 "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building with God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. V2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven. V3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. V4 for we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. V5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. V6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: V7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Friday, August 26, 2011
Thought for the day
"People today want everything and they want it now. Healing is expected with this same urgency of the moment that seems to push us along, almost as if being too busy or always succumbing to the circumstance were a God thing. The proof of how God works among us is not always found in the bright eyed excitement of the new believer or those who have finally come to believe that God can heal or provide. The God of the scriptures maintains some mystery apart from our intellectual ability to ascertain God=s every move or action or decision. This mystery must become part of our understanding of healing, else we will either be confused and perplexed each time someone is not healed, or we will believe something that is not true. Either way, whether you are confused or you believe a false premise, you have not trusted God unless you have trusted God."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Thought for the day
"In all of us there is a sense of expectancy that God will redeem our spoil with a touch of spiritual healing or financial healing or marital healing. Buit as Christians we should believe in divine healing, not magical healing.
Most of us know without a doubt that God does and can heal at will. We gladly agree in faith with God's Omnipotent decisions. But how reluctant we are to adhere to His plan for our lives when it calls for self-discipline, hard work, patience, perseverance or change.
When we are forced by physical impairment, we cling with hope that God will supernaturally intervene and save us from our current condition, but when all is well, we have a tendency to ignore the things that God placed here to keep us well and healthy."
Most of us know without a doubt that God does and can heal at will. We gladly agree in faith with God's Omnipotent decisions. But how reluctant we are to adhere to His plan for our lives when it calls for self-discipline, hard work, patience, perseverance or change.
When we are forced by physical impairment, we cling with hope that God will supernaturally intervene and save us from our current condition, but when all is well, we have a tendency to ignore the things that God placed here to keep us well and healthy."
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
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