Maintain A Good Conscience

Devotions by Jason Hale

TOPIC: Maintain A Good Conscience

FOUNDATION SCRIPTUREs: Acts 24:16 (KJV) And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men.

Hebrews 13:18 (KJV) Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Maintaining A Good Conscience

The best way to maintain a good conscience is to live free of offense toward God and men, and to live honestly. We can't have a good conscience and be dishonest. The motive for lying doesn't matter. Having a good conscience means that we will be truthful.

One of the things that happens when we confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead, is He purges our conscience from dead works (works that lead to death). 

Hebrews 9:13-14  (NIV), 13. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14. How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

Hebrews 10:1-2, 22 (NIV), 1. The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2. Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 22. Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

In verse 22, when he says, "having our bodies washed with pure water," he is talking about our "flesh," also known as our "sinful thinking" being washed with the water of the word. 

Look at Ephesians 5:26-27, 26. To make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27. and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

Now, since we have no more conscience of sins when we are saved, it is now up to us to grow and maintain a good conscience by renewing our mind with God's Word, then choosing to follow His Word over our own will. 

Counsel: Let us keep a good conscience by not violating our internal sense of right and wrong. 

Remember this: Let us not violate our conscience. For our conscience is our internal mechanism that the Holy Spirit uses to guide us. It is how we judge right and wrong. 

Receive the grace and desire to maintain a good conscience by choosing to do what is right before God according to His Word. 

PRAYER: Lord, thank You for Your Word to me today. I ask for the desire and the grace to read the Bible every day, and to choose to follow Your Word over my own will, In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, WATCH THE MESSAGE: SETTING YOUR LOVE UPON GOD by Jason Hale
LINKS:
PART 1: https://youtu.be/JDaCSW5zsmE
PART 2: https://youtu.be/UbqxjxW7GcE
PART 3: https://youtu.be/ciGss3u4zA0

QUOTE: "Faith is something that controls your attitude and your actions as you allow the Word you have encountered to direct and control you.” - Bishop David Oyedepo.

DAILY BIBLE READING: 1 Samuel 13, 1 Chronicles 2-3, 2 Corinthians 12.

PROPHETIC WORD/DECLARATION: In this season, you shall experience the peace and favor that is for all those that maintain a good conscience before God.

Today’s devotional was written by Jason Hale of Jason Hale Ministries.

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