Heb 12:1-3 states. “ Let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us, Looking away from all that will distract to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Just think of Him who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself [reckon up and consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in your minds.”

The revelation of what Paul said here was given to him by the Holy Ghost as he participated in his symbiotic relationship with Him. There are no rules or commandments that we can follow in our own strength that cause us to die to self and let God become our life like this. When God is not our first love with passion; you can not say as Paul “it is no longer I that live but Christ who lives in me.”

The reason being; you are leaning towards your own understanding of how the kingdom of God works and you are substituting your righteous walk in Christ with a fleshly behavior which acts as a substitute for Godly fulfillment. I have come to believe because of the many people that I have met that because of the bruising and hurts of the past; they are in bondage and living deep in denial in areas of their life that unless God works a miracle they will make heaven their home however, they will stay a captive of not being able to walk with a open transparency before the Lord. This is the reason scripture tells us to get rid of the weight that so easily besets you.

In the day in which we are living; I have never seen the things that the devil is using to entice the world as to not putting Jesus Christ first and foremost in their lives. We must stay protected by allowing the Holy Ghost to keep us restored and focused on our heavenly calling as God’s children.

The word restoration means, to be brought back to an original or earlier condition. It also means to bring health and strength and a true understanding of consciousness. When our consciousness is healthy, we are able to think and be mentally aware of our inner thoughts and feelings while being influenced by our outward circumstances meaning social, financial, moral or similar circumstances. This process is common to all mankind. However, not all people are consciously aware of this process. No one can escape these influences in their daily travels in what ever arena they are living in. Scripture tells us that because of events that are taking place in the world today, we are living in the last days before Jesus returns to this earth. Scripture also tells us “will Jesus find anyone still operating in this process of wanting to be restored to their original condition when, He returns.”

This causes us to be brainwashed by an anti-christ spirit and not get in touch with the God of the Universe and know Him on a one to one bases. We have the news media not telling the news, but interpreting it and talk show programming devaluing human beings by exposing depraved behavior and the audiences lapping it up. The constitution is being amended to change it’s meaning as intended and we are slowly driving the consciousness of God and of His directions out of our society and in the born again church in many areas; they are teaching the doctrines of man.

In the Roman days in the arena, they were killing Christian’s physical bodies. In the days that we live in now, our minds are being destroyed and our concept of morality is being changed moment by moment. Jesus tells us that, He came to earth to sacrifice His life so that we would have the power and ability to live with peace and joy if, we would guard our hearts, where the issues of life and death are formed.

Our restoration can only be built on the main foundation of Jesus righteous loving act as being the Son of God who came to die on a cross so that our relationship with God could be restored as God intended from the beginning of time. There is no other name given among men where we can be restored to a healthy relationship with God and be able to enjoy a secure loving relationship with Him. Unless we come to realize our fallen nature due to Adam and Eve’s deception in the Garden of Eden, man will continue to do his own thing and he will live with the philosophy that, anything goes. With all the churches going up and all the aspirations of the gospel being preached to the whole world, there are still people falling between the cracks because a big majority of the born again church is still playing church and are not functioning in the market place with the anointing of God which He gave them the day they became saved. Sunday and Wednesday church services are not where the action is. It services a purpose of empowering one to know their position in Christ if,

When you live like this, the process of having a healthy consciousness and using the new mind we received the day we became born again never comes into play in our understanding of God’s purposes.

Now it is easy to understand people who have never given their life to Jesus Christ and have become born again. Scripture says, “They are sinners and are a slave to their impulses to do their own thing and violate there own selves with sinful behavior.” When you have not had your nature changed and have the Holy Spirit living in your being, you do not belong to the family of God. Since God made people, they were made to live for eternity with Him. Unsaved people also live by this thinking process of their inner thoughts verses them being influenced by there outward environment. Unless they hear the Gospel and dedicate their lives to Jesus Christ, they will spend eternity in hell. There are slews of people that I have met who think this statement is insanity and that God never would allow this to happen. We all need to realize that God does not invade our lives and dictate to us terms of do it or else. Now again I can understand unsaved people believing like this. However, when born again believers think like this, it is a scary staggering thought and wonderment if in their assemblies their righteous position in Christ is really being communicated.

This gospel that God gave to the born again believers which are His children is not even fully being taught in the born again churches of today. It is a serious thing to see born again people being taught denominational doctrines that teach that, there are things that they have to do to keep their salvation and that Jesus death on the cross was not enough. When we teach denomination rules of conduct, our denominations become abominations.

For us to be restored to the original condition that God wants, we have to be led by the Holy Spirit who has the words of life and is the teacher to bring us back to wholeness. So the question is, who are we going through this conscious thought process with, is it the Holy Ghost who is our instructor or are we leaning to our own understanding and having our morality barometer being brainwashed by the changing morality of the world around us. Scripture tells us that God says, “My thoughts are not your thoughts and my ways are not your ways.” If we are going to be restored, we must be searching for a higher wisdom than our own. This is the key to healthy living. This wisdom must be built on God’s word and nothing else. Only the word of God being planted deep with in our being can restore us to a place of safety and quit rest in the chaotic state, which we are experiencing in the world right now.

Now scripture tells us that Jesus saves, however we must also understand that He sanctifies us from an eternity in hell and a life of living in a hell environment here on earth. The word for sanctification in the original Greek is hagiozo: and when we live in our sanctified state; God’s personal presence gives us a mental awareness by the Holy Ghost who tells us of our holy purified state that God sees us in. We are seen by God as being blameless, innocent and perfect in His sight. Now remember we are talking about an inner reasoning of conscious thought that we need to be experiencing daily with a living God in the person of the Holy Ghost that is restoring us so we can have a healthy relationship with God. It is this relationship that delivers us from a shame based guilty conscience nature we inherited at birth from our gggggggg- grandfather Adam.

Scripture tells us that a man should not lean to his own understanding because; his decisions will bring him death and destruction. When he does this, he becomes molded to the environment and the influences around him and he is not able to communicate and fulfill God’s will for his life. A person that understands his or her sanctified state in Jesus Christ truly knows how to wait on the Lord and can understand what Paul the Apostle means when he says in Hebrews 14-15. “We have no permanent city, but we are looking for the one which is to come. Through Him therefore let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruits of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify his name.”

Those that wait on the Lord so enjoy their relationship with Him that; there is a joy and thankfulness for experiencing the pure pleasure of his company. When one waits on Him, they minister to Him with an appreciation that calms the storms of life and keeps us protected from the spirit of fear and disorder that is taking place in the world today. How can anyone not love and worship Him for his goodness and mercy.

The Holy Ghost is not only our teacher and comforter; it is our relation with him that keeps us protected with a hedge around our minds because he is the one who constantly reminds us that we are the sanctified of the Lord. The ones that are blameless, innocent and perfect in his sight. With the influences and the effort that mankind is trying to do in its own endeavors trying to right the wrongs of the day, it is hard to believe that God looks at his children in this manner. If we are really going to believe and follow scripture; we have to come to agreement with the Holy Ghost’s perception of things.

Paul states in 11 Cor 5:17 “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; and behold all things have become new.” Only a person who is waiting on the Lord has the ability to spiritually behold something.

Paul said it very clear and direct when he states in Ephesians 5:25-27 “Christ so loved the church and gave himself for it. that He might sanctify it with washing of the word, that He might present it to himself a glorious church, not having any spot and wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and with out blemish.”

We see here that Paul had to be going through a constant process of being persuaded by the Holy Ghost that God was for him and no matter what ever came against him could prosper and stop him from fulfilling his particular call that God had on his life.

A born again child of God will not be able to sustain their particular call by God and be victorious over the devices of the devil coming against them and fulfill their destiny unless; they become disciplined to wait upon the Lord. The gospel of the good news is not some hocus pocus quick fix emotional hype or self motivating program made up by mankind.