Sunday, July 13, 2014

Put Aside Every Weight

As you begin to walk in the way of the Spirit, you will get a sense of some things that are in store for you.
The Spirit of God will create a hunger, a thirst, a desire in your heart for some of these things. 
As you respond, it may well be, that He will put His finger on something in your life that needs to be corrected, 
some unfinished business from the past. You understand what I mean? The Spirit works that way. 
So put aside every weight that might hinder you from going on with God.

Hebrews 12:1 (AMP) 
Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], 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,