God Thinking LXXV - What Happened Along The Way? 3

"In the time of times that we are in, the way that the enemy is working his plan is simply to get you to - not work God’s plan and not operate in God’s timing for your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual development. 

Your enemy will use any and every trick possible to get God’s people to step out of time with God’s plan.

Children have been exposed to things at too early an age.  The natural balance between the body, mind and spirit to receive instruction and preparation for each phase of life - each age, each developmental stage, has been altered by the enemy.  

It’s not just the bad stuff, the violence and gross behaviors that so dominate your television set.  Your children are exposed to adult themes far too early in their development.

They are being subjected to participation without  preparation.

It’s not only children that find themselves out of time with their God ordained developmental growth, It’s teens too.  Teens are exposed to adult materials and adult themes that alter their timely, natural development and accelerate it, and many times their innocence is stolen from them, before they even know what happened.

Adults aren’t exempt from the wiles of the evil one either.

Drugs & alcohol, cigarettes and junk food all speed up the aging process, causing people to age pre-maturely - out of God’s perfect timing.

It’s not just the things that you willingly participate in that can cause you harm or cause you to age prematurely or cause you to be out of sync with God’s plan for your life - There are toxins, pesticides, household poisons, lead-based paints, asbestos, mercury, radon, all of which can play a huge role in your body, emotions, mind and spirit. 

Poor diet over a period of thirty years alters God’s perfect plan for your life and adversely affects your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual growth.

Note: I can hear the clamoring rebellion against such a statement from those who are not yet convinced that their diet plays an important role in their overall development. I've even heard people say it didn't matter at all what they eat, it's all the same.  Wow! under-educated at best, diet plays just as important a role in your spiritual life as going to church.  Would you go to a church that delivered dried up, pre-packaged, slightly tainted, tasteless and sometimes even rotten messages? I hope not, but that is what you are expecting your body to do?  Give it up and get with the program.  You are what you eat.

At each stage of growth there are truths about that stage of growth that pertain to who you are at that time in your development.  Parameters were established by God that accurately reflect God’s will and intention for each stage of growth.

But, the balance of life has been distorted by so many influences.  If it were not for God’s constant intervention in your life, every living soul would live outside of the will of God."

Excerpt from God Thinking LXXV - What Happened Along The Way? by                                  Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015

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"Along with what God ordained for each developmental stage of growth, God has included special provisions for you to receive, that best fits your personality, our character and our temperament.

If at every developmental stage of growth you were in alignment with what God has ordained for you, then you would be more fulfilled and enjoy more of the joy of the Lord.

But something happened along the way, for you and for me and for everyone else who has ever taken breath in this world.

Along with the continuous blessings that are poured out upon us day in and day out.

Along with giving to us of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Along with all the provision of a generous and gracious, merciful and awesome God - There is a cruel and unforgiving, unholy and relentless enemy that has played a role in the lives of every man, woman and child since the beginning of the creation of mankind.

   

You might not like the way things went down with your ancestors, but you are living in the wake of what those behind you, left for you.

You need God, and you need all that God has available for you.  You need to have access to every promise and blessing that God has designed for you, and you need to apprehend every promise and blessing that God has designed for you. This is a spiritual world and you are in a spiritual war.

Excerpt from God Thinking LXXV - What Happened Along The Way? by                                  Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015

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Note: Please take time to read the whole verse.  There is no better description of what God knows about your situation than this.

Psalms 139:1-18

1.  O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.

 2.  Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

 3.  Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

 4.  For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

 5.  Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

 6.  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

 7.  Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

 8.  If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

 9.  If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

 10.  Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

 11.  If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

 12.  Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

 13.  For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

 14.  I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth

right well.

 15.  My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

 16.  Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

 17.  How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

 18.  If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

God knew all about you before you were born, during your stay in the womb, and every stage of development thereafter.

There is a process that all of us go through concerning life’s many developmental stages:

Life’s many facets.

Life’s many periods.

Life’s many seasons.

Life’s many era’s.

At each stage in your physical growth, God is there to take you from one age/stage to another:

From fetus to infant

From infant to toddler

From toddler to child

From child to youth

From youth to preteen

From preteen to teen

From teen to young adult

From young adult to adult

From adult to middle aged

From middle aged to senior

From senior to old aged

God deals with you at each developmental stage of growth.

Then in each developmental stage of growth there is:

Physical growth

Emotional growth

Mental growth

Spiritual growth

  

Just as with physical growth, (emotional growth, mental growth and spiritual growth) has developmental stages.

In each of these developmental stages of growth, God has ordained the perfect plan for your life.  God’s plan includes; supplying all the necessary components for each stage of growth in each area of your life:

In the physical

In the emotional

In the mental

and in the Spiritual      

Note: I know some of you are feeling like this can't be true.  "Why then has everything gone awry? I want to feel good about God. but why should I with all the heartache I have had to endure.  I do not feel like God has supplied all of my needs.  This looks like religious jargon to me."

In order to be in alignment with God’s plan for your life you need to operate within the parameters of what God ordained for each developmental stage of growth in all four areas of your total makeup.  Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual."

Excerpt from God Thinking LXXV - What Happened Along The Way? by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015

God Thinking LXX1 - Catch The Vision 6

"You could believe what God prophesied to you in scripture about the times you are in.

You could receive the fullness of the blessing that God has prepared for you.

You could receive the promises of God and incorporate them into your daily life.

You could trust God implicitly and rest when things seem awry, because you believe and understand that God operates with full revelation, not only of what happened but of what is going to happen as well.

You could believe what God wrote down for you and live by the principles and precepts that God has ordained.

You could follow Christ.

You could read God’s Word and let it become who you are.

You could pray, expecting that God moves on your behalf, because God sees the end from the beginning and He knows that you don’t.

You could put the mind of Christ on top in your mind, and redistribute the lessor things and push them down and them out altogether, ultimately so that what you think will make you more like God. - not so that you can dethrone God like satan tried to do, but so that you can commune with God.

To commune with God is to offer your free-will to God and receive God’s will in you.

If you are to grow to where God can reach you during the week, during the day, you will have to catch the vision that God has for you."

Excerpt from God Thinking LXXI - Catch The Vision by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015

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"The events of the old testament times were a foreshadowing of the new covenant, (but not until Jesus was born, lived a righteous/sinless life, died for our sins and rose again from the dead, ascended into heaven, and sent the Holy Spirit), did God enable the efficacy of the new covenant. 

This new covenant is yours, by accepting the free gift of salvation and the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Unless you accept by faith, what God is doing, in your life, which is; to make you holy, you could find yourself denying God like those before you.

You could deny God like they did at the time of Noah, through sin and godlessness and break fellowship with God altogether.

You could deny God like the Israelites did by practicing their religious philosophy above God’s Holy Word and miss what God was doing right in their midst.

Or you could receive from God His revelation about our purpose and His plan for your life - (God’s role in your life and your role in God’s plan) and enjoy and partake of what God is doing in your midst.

What is God calling you to do that fits perfectly into God’s plan for your life?

What are you doing to insure that your relationship with God is kept Holy and precious?

Are you pro-active in seeking, finding and doing the will of God?

Have you caught the vision of what God is doing today and made your life plan to fit around it?

Excerpt from God thinking LXXI - Catch The Vision by Keith C. Powell

Copyright 2015

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"I have found that my closest moments with God are moments when I lay aside who I am for who He is in me.

God speaks to me through James when He says, “Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.”  James 4:8a

It is so true.  God wants us to draw close to Him, and when we are close, it’s easier to hear what God is saying and to see what God is doing.  It’s easier to catch the vision of what God is doing right now..

God isn’t impressed with religious rhetoric.

God isn’t moved by what you know.

God isn’t moved by what you have accumulated.

God isn’t fooled by your acting like something that you are not.

God isn’t forced by your much speaking.

God isn’t moved by your making claims that are not true.

God isn’t impressed by your ability.

God isn’t moved by lip service - you know, saying one thing and doing another.

God isn’t moved by your title, position, level of local or national recognition.

But:

God is moved when you believe God.

God is moved when you trust in His way.

God is moved when you give up something temporal for something eternal.

God is moved when you set aside your timeline to wait on the LORD.

God is moved when you receive His revelation.

God is moved when you talk about His Son with reverence and adoration.

God is moved when you live by faith.

God is moved when you worship Him.

God is moved when you praise Him.

God is moved when you bow the knee to Him.

Just as in the first two thousand years the sins of man were destroyed by the flood. In the second two thousand years the sin of religion was destroyed by the blood.

Jesus established a new covenant with His people, so that at the end next two thousand years....

When is the end of the next two thousand years from when

Christ was on earth?  Right Now. Are you prepared to do what you are called to do in this most important time? In this crucial time in mankind's history you should be fully involved in what God is doing."

Excerpt from God Thinking LXXI - Catch The Vision by Keith C. Powell                                                   Copyright 2015

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"According to the scriptures, it was never expected that unbelievers would recognize the Son of God when the Son of God would come and live among us, but it was expected that God’s own people would recognize Him.

Why am bringing this up?

It has been two thousand years since the apostasy of Israel.

It has been 2,000 years since Jesus set up the Church.

If Jesus were to return today, would He find faith on earth?

Luke 18:8b

“...Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on earth?” 

God knows what He is talking about, because everything that God says, is.

The first two thousand years man sought fulfillment through self indulgence.  They had not caught the vision that God had for them, because they did not believe the Word God gave to them. 

The second two thousand years man sought fulfillment through religion.  They had not caught the vision that God had for them, because they did not believe the Word God gave to them. 

You would think that at the end of 6,000 of human history, we would not only catch the vision, but we would also have learned to believe in and trust what God has to say.

God is about relationship.

God created us and the entire universe to provide:

A place to commune with God

All the provision necessary to keep that relationship healthy

All the inspiration necessary for full revelation for our short stay here on this side of heaven.

All the enlightenment necessary to stimulate even the radical seeker.

All the revelation necessary to provide the believer with continuous growth and spiritual nourishment.

All the impartation necessary for God Thinking."

      Excerpt from God Thinking LXXI Catch The Vision by 

                   Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015