Restoration Road Ministry is an invitation to anyone desiring to be healed from brokenness through a restored life built on the firm foundation that is only found in Jesus Christ, as our Lord and Savior.
For this reason the content contained within this site is specifically focused on biblical scripture as the sole source in which we will use for God’s instruction to his creation. While rejecting any religious devisions that mankind has formed that do not adhere to the 66-books of the Holy Bible, as God’s inerrant living word.
Furthermore, this site will not entertain religious divisiveness that would seek its own. Rather, it is focused on exposing our enemy, Satan, and the demonic from that of our heavenly Father, Yahweh, and his Son, Jesus Christ.
Many Christians fail to recognize the spiritual warfare we are living through each hour, and have encountered many wounds as a result. Not aware that their own decisions continue to impact their spiritual life as much as their physical. And that their participation with the demonic, whether intentional or not, has devastating consequences in this life and the life to come.
While many believe in their heart that they are saved by God’s grace after accepting Jesus Christ into their life, the fact is, that as sinners, we continue to sin. And Christians far too often remain unchanged in their spiritual condition, lacking evidence of spiritual transformation that sets them apart from those remaining in darkness.
The point is not intended to point fingers and pronounce judgment, but rather, to expose areas in every Christian’s life that have not yet been examined closely. And recognize that Salvation is offered to everyone that seeks to walk the narrow and hard path into God’s kingdom with Jesus Christ as their Shepherd.
Recognize, that when we choose to receive Jesus Christ into our lives we are choosing to surrender our previous life for his. Jesus tells many parables to illustrate this point. And the Sermon on the Mount is conveyed for us to receive and apply instruction into our daily walk on this transformative journey we choose to receive.
Our spiritual life should not remain the same, as unchanged infants in our spiritual understanding and application, since the day we received Jesus Christ as our Savior. But instead, we should be maturing, and preparing ourselves through deeper faith, obedience, and reliance on our heavenly Father, as we continue to let go of our flesh and worldly passions.
As the author, I will admit this was not something that became clear until I was in my middle age years. And because of this I am now called to disclose my own weaknesses and brokenness through a lack of spiritual maturity that set my own life moving in a direction along the wide road that leads to destruction. Not because I hadn’t received Jesus Christ into my heart, and not because I didn’t desire to follow him. But, because I chose not to be a living sacrifice as I was instructed, and thereby chose to remain in a posture of sin without entering into a path of intentional transformation as Jesus Christ instructed.
Why?, because, Satan is clever and deceiving. He knows the frailty of man’s mind and emotions, and how to manipulate patterns of thought and spiritual engagement. This was done with Adam and Eve, and continues to this day. But, our loving God has provided wisdom from his word that helps us mount a proper defense against our enemy, using truth to dispel the lie.
However, this process requires each individual to enter into this journey willingly, and honestly. No one will change your opinion or the direction you choose to walk if you are not invested in uncovering and exposing the dirty areas you continue to carry. But, Jesus tells us that he will separate the sheep from the goats, with the sheep inheriting God’s kingdom and the goats into eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels (Matthew 25:31-46).
If we examine this closely, we are to appreciate that sheep listen too and follow their shepherd, while goats are resistant, obstinate, and defiant. In our own lives, we must examine carefully whether we are walking the life of a sheep or that of a goat. And while doing so, not allow Satan to dismiss our sinfulness as excusable because God would understand our weaknesses towards sinning. That scheme was used in the Garden of Eden and continues into this present hour in which we live. We choose to do things, watch things, agree with things, and partner with things that are contrary to the image of Jesus Christ we are to bear.
So, the question we must ask ourselves is whether we truly believe that we are living according to God’s standard, or are we living outside of it? Satan will tell us that we are safe and there is no concern with living as we are. But, I encourage you to take it to the LORD, and allow him to reveal areas of disobedience, rebellion, wickedness, covetousness, sensuality, sexual immorality, fornication, lust, adultery, pride, arrogance, selfishness, anger, murder, greed, bitterness, slander, obscene talk, hardness of heart, hypocrisy, blasphemy, boastfulness, corruption, and any former manner of life you bore before receiving Jesus Christ into your life.
Many, I assume will challenge this position, as I would have done earlier in my life and according to my own biblical understanding at that time. However, when followers of Jesus Christ take the time to examine scripture for themselves, and let go of their own protective instincts that tell them that they are acceptable just as they are, it becomes quite clear the delineation separating us from the God we are to only serve.
It is my hope and desire that this site will serve the body of Christ as God intends, and that those who are directed to it will engage willingly with the material the Lord impresses on me to convey. And through all of it that each person is built up, not through their own fleshly works, but through a willingness to surrender themselves entirely over to the transformative work of Jesus Christ, into a new creation.
Todays scripture: Psalm 86
Until next time, may “The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace” (Numbers 6:24-26).
In Christ.
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