Paul also tells Titus in 3:5. "You do not live by works of righteousness which you have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost."

This renewing or regenerating attitude that is operating with in us is the Greek word palin: It means us going through a wrestling mind set between two opinions and being persuade that God's ways and wisdom are true and any thing else is a lie from the pit of hell. What we do is oscillate between two points of view or courses of action to take. During this process we are constantly being delivered from a double minded mentality by allowing the Holy Ghost to give us a sure foundation by the supernatural power of persuasion.

Paul the Apostle went through this persuasion process because in his attempt to follow the Lord he at times was persecuted for Jesus sake for standing up for his righteous position in Christ. He states this in 1 Tim. 1:12. "I suffer persecution: never the less I am not ashamed for I know in whom I have believed in and, l have been persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day"

The Greek word for persuaded is peitho: It means to convince by argument of some thing being true or false. This is by an inward revelation by with evidence from the Holy Ghost that convinces us that God does not only love us but; He wants to be our friend. It makes a person stop battling and learn to live at peace with God and with them self.

There is a contending process that is described in Jude 3 where he states. "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to exhort you that you should contend for the faith which was once delivered to you the saints of God."

Paul tells us in 1 Tim.2:3-4 "Endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that goes to war gets entangled with the affairs of this life; because he wants to please the one who has called him to be a soldier. So if a man wants to receive a crown; he must strive lawfully."

The Greek word reference for contend is the word epi: It means a superimposition (of time, place or order etc.) in us becoming a member of a new family and receiving a distribution of the family inheritance. When we became born again; God superimposed the image of Christ as a white robe of righteousness over our being, with the result that both we and Christ Jesus appear simultaneously in God the Father's sight. We have a difficulty time understanding this because; we have not been fully persuaded by Him and we are not able to express and truly confess this out of our mouth.

Our tenacity to do the works that Jesus did when He walked the earth takes place when we walk in obedience to Rev. 12:11 which states. "We overcome the devil by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony."

We were washed clean of the sin nature by the blood that Jesus shed on the cross. If we truly understand this miracle that took place when we became born again; our confession that comes out of our mouth gives us the power to bring life or death into our decision making of life. Our perception of the pure state God the Father sees us in; must be rock solid in our understanding and only by being a tenacious God seeker will this vision and persuasion stay true and make us see our self the same way God the Father sees us in Christ Jesus.

Paul encourages us and proclaims our relationship with God when he says this in 1John 3:2-3. "Beloved now we are the sons of God. And it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he appears, we shall be like Him as he is. And every man that has this hope in him purifies him self, even as he is pure."

Paul tells us that we are already pure in God's sight because of Jesus willingly giving up His life at the cross. We stay pure in our sight as we meditate and seek God to not doubt our purity because; the devil is frantic with his influences trying to make us believe that we did something that causes God to change His mind about how he sees us and what He thinks about us. True Holy Ghost God seekers do not consider them self as a sinner but a saint in progress.

When we have different pulpits of the world proclaiming that God's children are still sinners; their mind set is constantly focused on self and they work at cleaning up their act. This represents a condemnation philosophy that creates a self centered mentality and the strength and true love of God's vision for them as His children is not able to feed their new created man nature they became the day they were born again. In turn; this makes their salvation experience of non effect. True God seekers are able to run their race of faith and not be burdened down with shame and lack of self esteem.

God seekers have a clear vision and motivated purpose totally focused with a hunger on what Paul said in Eph 3:16-19. "That God would grant you according to His glory, to be strengthened with might by His spirit in the inner man. That Christ might live in your heart by faith; so that you may be rooted and grounded in LOVE. So that you may be able to comprehend with all the SAINTS with a wide vision and distance and quality of depth and with the level of greatest intensity, activity of importance to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that is at work in you."

The first two words that stand out to me in these verses are (1) God's Glory and (2) Christ living in our heart by Faith. God's glory represents all that He is. He is not like a man who can not lie and He is the creator of all life with the number one purpose to love and mature His children to rule and reign as kings and priests on the earth. The Holy Ghost wants us to experience the presence of God's glory as His children because; this is what motivates our seeking after him.

This verse also tells us that if Christ is going to reign and live in our heart it must be by faith. Well what is faith and how does it work? Scripture tells us that with out faith operating in our life; it is impossible to please God. Let me make something very clear before I go on. It pleases God when He sees His children prospering, maturing and loving them self. We please God when His children run to Him for help and trust in His loving forgiving grace. As the loving Father that he is, He is never displeased with us. His only concern is to do for us if; we will let Him. When we do not function in faith God is not pleased but grieved because; we are harming our self.

We must truly understand this faith walk or there will be no way to be rooted and grounded in His love. With out being grounded in the love of God; there can be no deeper depth in us dying to self and letting the Holy Ghost live big in us.

Faith is a growing process of casting all of your care on God. Our security in Christ only comes by making the Holy Ghost a personal friend of ours and resting in His care. We talked earlier about a persuasion process that we need to be going through with God. This is us taking on the life style of meditating on the word of God both day and night. When one meditates; they are focused on getting God's thoughts on matters that come into contrast with what our thoughts are commanding us to do. This is a God seeker wanting a higher wisdom to deal with their trials of life.

The Hebrew word for meditate is hagah; it means to murmur in pleasure or anger. It also means to study, feel passion in having a hunger for more of God and let God seriously search your heart to see if you are harming your self in some way. The Greek word is meletao: It means to have something as a primary focus or goal in our life.

Meditating God seekers at times; roar with emotional pain in their growing trials because of the loss they have experienced because of the devil's devices that have put them in bondage to un-god like attitudes and actions due to their ignorance of not knowing the true love of the Lord. They also walk with a reverential fear of the Lord with a mild quit nature of meekness as they submit to God their loving Father's chastisements. Meekness is not a person being a coward. They know that their strength and Godly power comes by letting Christ live again in their physical body. We must be maturing and allow our Master to mold and use us. I am still learning how to let go and let God have His perfect way in my life.

The quality of love from God that we are experiencing is what gives us the assurance that God wants to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think. How can a child of God have this kind of assurance when they feel that; the Holy Ghost is in the fault finding business and that as a child of God; they are guilty of some crime due to sin in their life? The Holy Ghost is in the convincing business and not in the law business of giving out jail sentences.

This condemnation spirit that is running ramped in the body of Christ has to be put under the blood of Christ Jesus and recognized by God's children. It must be exposed to them as a spirit of deception. True God seekers can recognize if this spirit is operating in their life and then according to the strength at work in them which is (God's love for them) can put it back in the grave where it was originally sent by Jesus by dying on the cross. When ever sin consciousness is being preached and people are digesting it back into their thinking processes; that stinking corpse is brought back from the dead and forced upon God's children in believing that they are still sinners after becoming born again saints.

Continued in part 3