BLESSED BY THE TESTIMONY OF YOUR CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, The thoughts of your heart are the testimonies of your conscience. Often they are condemning thoughts that you are on the wrong track spiritually and doing the devil's will, and often they are confirming thoughts that you are on the right track spiritually according to My will. When your thoughts are judgmental, you are on the wrong track or path and you are being motivated by the devil by his using either judgmental religious laws or fleshly passions to confirm his will in your life. When your thoughts are forgiving and merciful, you are on the right track or path, being motivated by Me by My using the words of Jesus Christ to confirm My will in your life. Your speech and your actions are the result of your thoughts from your conscience. The apostle Paul was very concerned about the consciences of the believers in Jesus Christ, knowing that they can either condemn a person's thoughts or they can affirm a person's thoughts, speech and actions as being righteous or being sinful. The consciences of believers have power over a person to either justify or to condemn the person, depending on whose thoughts are ruling their minds at the time. When Paul was writing his second letter to the believers in Corinth, he was concerned about their own consciences being consistent in believing that My promises are always firm. First he wrote that as far as he and Timothy were concerned, it was with pride and exultation that their own consciences had testified that they, the ministers, had conducted themselves in the world and also toward the believers in Christ in Corinth with pure motives and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but with favor and merciful kindness which had caused them to be more fully secure towards Christ which had increased Christian virtues in them. He wrote that his teachings to them had furthered their acquaintance with spiritual matters so that they would understand virtues more accurately. He wrote that just like the believers had been proud of Paul and Timothy, the ministers would also be proud of the virtues of the believers on the day of the Lord. Paul wrote to the believers that it was with that assurance that he had wanted to visit them in person so that the believers would have a double portion of My grace and favor. He wanted to stop by to see them on the way to and from his ministry trips. (II Corinthians 1:16-17) Paul explained the disruption in his plans to visit them by saying that it was not because of fleshly planning that the told them that yes, he was coming to see them, when he meant no, that he really wasn't coming to see them. He wrote that just like Christ Jesus, the Messiah, had been preached among the Corinthians by Paul and his companions, in their message to the believers Christ's words were not yes when He meant no. He wrote that what Christ preached among them was never yes and no, but was always Yes. Then Paul wrote his confidence in My words, writing that all of My promises find their YES in Christ. He wrote that was the reason that they had uttered Amen, So Be It, to My promises through Him to My glory. His faith was based upon the fact that I make steadfast the establishing in the believers their joint fellowship with Christ, and that I had consecrated and anointed all believers with My Holy Spirit, putting His seal on believers by giving to them My Holy Spirit in their hearts as the guarantee of His promises. Paul's reason for not visiting them was because he didn't want to hurt them. He stressed that he and the other ministers did not have dominion over the believers in the church at Corinth, because they were all equal laborers in order to promote faith and love in the strong conviction or belief that Jesus Christ was the Messiah through whom they all gained entry into their eternal salvation in My kingdom of heaven in which the believers stood firm. (II Corinthians 1:17-23) The reason for Paul's explanation for his plans being changed was that he didn't want the believers to think that just because Paul's plans had changed that My promises would also change. He wanted the believer to be firm in the conviction in their consciences that My promises are always Yes, Amen, So be it. (II Corinthians 1:24) Paul wanted believers to know that just because he had changed his plans, I am trustworthy, that My YES means YES. (II Corinthians 1:18-19) My promises are always Yes, Amen, So be it! Your Father of True Promises