Every athlete that is serious about obtaining a medal, knows that carrying any kind of weight at the beginning of the journey is only a preparation to fail.

Hallelujah!!

Athletes are always known for dressing as light as possible because the nature of the journey is such that once you begin to move, you are not given an opportunity to go back and correct yourself again and so it is always required that the athlete takes his time and prepare and they throw away all the suite that they bring and try to be as light as possible because they know that there is a race set before them. And here Paul is using this analogy and he says: seeing then that there is a cloud of witness those that have gone to be with the Lord who are watching and cheering us in glory and he said on account of the fact that the Christian journey is a race, he said there are certain preparations that we need to do.

The bible says, lets us lay aside 2 things

1) Weight

what is weight?

Weight is not necessarily a sin, but its whatever has the capacity to be a hindrance in the journey.
I tell you something, one of the tragedies with the body of Christ and one of the tools that Satan is using to destroy the church is that he is bringing weight upon us.

What a weight does?

Weight does not stop you from moving it only makes you so slow that your progress is of the null effect.
God gave you the power to run but there are certain weights, but we trust God to cut them off so that you can run into the prophetic blessing and destiny.

The bible says, they did not enter the land through unbelief, it said they heard the word as we did but the word did not profit them not being mixed with faith, they limited God in the wilderness. Often believers say why will God give a prophetic word that there will be change but they would not see it?. Paul was speaking to his son Timothy and he said: “war good warfare with the prophecy that has been spoken”.

Something about prophecy: that a word has been spoken does not mean it will... to continue kindly visit https://christground.com/2019/08/02/power-to-runlaying-off-the-weight-part-1-by-apostle-joseph-selman-nimmak/