BLESSED FROM PRAYING IN GOOD CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, There are times when My children commit themselves to pray for some request from another person that when they leave the presence of the other person the committment is forgotten immediately. In his teachings concerning your CONSCIENCE Paul wrote concerning those types of committments which go away from your conscious mind but your unconscious mind reminds you that you have agreed to pray and have not prayed. The solution to that problem is that you do not agree to pray if you realize that you have on many other occasions said that you would pray for the solution to a friend's problem but you immediately forget to pray. The problem is that you actually lied when you agreed to pray, knowing that it is your habit to forget the committment when you leave the presence of your friend. Paul wrote about this when he wrote his second letter to Timothy relating to the people in the church at Ephesis. He wrote that he thanked Me whom he worshiped with a pure CONSCIENCE in the spirit of his forefathers when, without ceasing, Paul remembered that he had committed to praying for Timothy night and day in his prayers and he wrote that he had fulfilled that promised commitment to pray. The spiritual assurance was that if he had neglected to pray for Timothy after commiting to pray for him day and night, then he had no assurance that Timothy would pray for Paul in his own commitment to pray for Paul which Timothy had also made. In that writing Paul said that in his worship of Me that his CONSCIENCE was pure and it did not convict him of neglecting his commitment to pray for Timothy. Paul even referred to Timothy's tears upon his saying farewell to Paul at their last meeting and how touched he was with the degree of Timothy's love. (II Timothy 1:5. Along that line, Paul remembered Timothy's sincere faith of leaning his entire personality on Me, trusting with absolute confidence of trust in his power, faith and goodness that Paul had first encountered in Timothy's grandmother and mother and that he had also experienced lived in Timothy also. Yet, Paul firmly in his writing encouraged Timothy to allow the flame of My gift of the Holy Spirit to him to keep burning intensely, that being the inner fire of My Spirit that was first evident when people laid hands upon him. Paul emphasized that I did not give to him a spirit of timidity and fear, but instead that I had given to him a Spirit of power, of love and of a sound mind. He told Timothy not to be ashamed to testify for their Lord nor for Paul, a prisoner for Timothy's sake, but he encouraged Timothy to take his share of the suffering to which the preaching of the Gospel exposed him, reminding Timothy that it is done in My power and not his own power. (II Timothy 1:5-8) In the second letter to Timothy, Paul reminded Timothy that it was Christ Jesus who had saved and called them with a holy calling that led to more holiness, that being a life of consecration and holiness, not because of the merits of anyone, but merely to further the purpose of My favor which was given to people in Christ Jesus before the world began. Paul went on in the letter to amplify several times the commitment to praying for Timothy that Paul had made and had kept as being a matter of holiness ( II Timothy 1:9) It is in this letter to Timothy that Paul made his most sound profession of faith when he wrote, "I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for I have believed in Him, being positively persuaded that He is able to keep and to guard everything that I have committed to Him until the day it is fulfilled." (II Timothy 1:12) When people ask you to pray for them in your prayers and you agree, it is the same truth, that person is persuaded that you will do what you said you would do, which is to pray fervently in your prayer closet for the person. Don't agree to pray if you know that you probably will not pray. Then your conscience will not convict you of telling a lie when you committed to pray. I am not the crueldiety who convicts you and then brings judgments into your life for lying. It's the devil who waits to catch you in a lie or a committment you know that you will not keep. His judgments are difficult to bear when he sets up a barrier between My children and Me and blocks the power of My Holy Spirit to intervene. Don't commit to anything that you know you will not be able to do. The prophet James covered this truth when he taught for you not to take an oath. Agreeing to do something is the same thing as taking an oath to do it. (James 5:12) Your Father Who is Loyal and Committed

CURSED BY A SEARED CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, When Paul wrote his first letter to Timothy relating to false teachers and false prophets, he reminded Timothy that prophesies said that during the days of My last covenant with humanity where I come to live inside of people, that My Holy Spirit had warned that the devil would send seducing spirits into believing communities; those being false prophets teaching doctrines taught by demons and doctrines that promote hypocrisy taught by the people having their CONSCIENCES already seared with a hot iron. He wrote that prophesies had predicted that people would be forbidden to marry and that people would be commanded not to eat meats which I had created to be received with thanksgiving by those people who believe and know the truth that every creature created by Me is good and that the meats should not be refused if they are received with thanksgiving and sanctified by My word and with prayer.(I Timothy 4:1-5) In other words, Paul knew that those seducing demons would tempt My children to return to old covenant Law for their salvation as if faith in Jesus Christ was not enough. Paul wrote to Timothy that if he gave those precautionary instructions to the believers that he would be a good minister of Jesus Christ, having been fed and nourished in the words of faith and good doctrine wherein Timothy had already gained knowledge. He warned Timothy to refuse irreverent legends, traditions and old wives tales, and instead to exercise himself in spiritual things by keeping himself spiritually fit. He emphasized that physical exercise is of some value, but spiritual, godly training is useful and of value in everything and in every way because it holds promises for your present life and also the life which is to come. Paul stressed that this warning was reliable and worthy of complete acceptance by everyone in the church. He reiterated the truth that he and Timothy and other ministers were going to continue to toil and strive, fixing their hope on Me, who is the Living God, the Savior of all people, especially to those who believe. (I Timothy 4:8-10) Paul's emphatic instructions to Timothy related to his not neglecting My gift of the Holy Spirit that I had given to him by prophesy, not allowing anyone to disbelieve him because of his young age, but instead for Timothy to continue to be an example for believers in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity. (I Timothy 4: 11-12) He advised Timothy to devote himself to reading the Word and to preaching and teaching sound doctrine. His concern was that Timothy might succumb to the false teachers and prophets that old covenant prophets had warned about who were to come and pollute the Gospel. The apostle Paul's emphasis in his letter was that Timothy would not neglect the gifts of the Holy Spirit which had been given to him with the laying on of hands. He advised his friend and fellow minister to meditate upon his own duties, throwing himself wholeheartedly into the ministry to which he had been called, persevering in all things mentioned in his letter. In so doing, Paul wrote, Timothy would save himself as well as saving those people who heard him preach and teach. (I Timothy 4:15-16) Paul knew that it is in meditating upon My Words through Christ Jesus that I am able to reveal My understanding and My Truths. Do not allow the devil and his demons to sear your conscience with a hot iron, thus blocking the revelation power of My Holy Spirit inside of you. Your Father of Powerful Words

BLESSED WITH A PURE CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, To his fellow minister who was the pastor of the church at Ephesis, Paul wrote to Timothy the qualifications of bishops of the church, and also the men and women who desired to become deacons of the church. There were restrictions in order to only give those ministries to people who would not bring an accusation of hypocrisy onto the entire church. He wrote that first a deacon must be respected in the community so that he or she will not become guilty of deserving slanderous comments and accusations or the person would fall into the devil's trap of one kind or another. Another requirement was that a person who desired to be a deacon must be worthy of respect both inside and outside of the church, not a double talker but the person must be sincere in everything that he says, that he must not be an excessive drinker of wine, not greedy by craving wealth or he will resort to evil means of getting it. Then Paul also wrote a spiritual requirement for being a deacon, writing that a candidate for the office of deacon must possess the mystery of the Gospel of Christ with a CLEAR CONSCIENCE. In other words, there must be nothing in his or her mind or heart that convicts the person of being guilty of some secret, hidden sin. (I Timothy 3:8-10) Paul wrote that women who desire to be deacons must be worthy of respect, be serious, not be gossipers, be temperate with no craving for wine, be led by self-control and trustworthy in all things. He also added another general requirement for men who desire to be a deacon is that they only have been married one time and are able to manage their own children and their own households well. They must have a good standing in the community themselves and also gain the confidence, boldness and faith which is centered in Christ Jesus. (I Timothy 3:11-13) Just in case Paul was detained from visiting the congregation where Timothy had been placed as pastor, Paul wanted to make sure that Timothy knew how officials were to conduct themselves in the church of the Living God and support the Truth. Then in his first letter to Timothy Paul wrote about the faith that must be evident in anyone who serves in a place of authority in the church, writing that what is the most important requirement for a deacon is that the person possess a personal knowledge of the hidden truth, the mystic secret of godliness which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. (Colossians1:27) Earlier Paul had written briefly about it, writing that an office holder must possess the secret of faith of a Christian which is hidden from ungodly people and is only present in a believer. (I Timothy 3:9) In Paul's effort to more fully explain the mystery of the secret of faith, he described the hidden truth of godliness, that being that I had made Christ Jesus visible in human flesh, justified by the Holy Spirit, was seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed-on in the world and then He was taken up in glory. (I Timothy 3:15-16) That profession of faith must be genuine and true in anyone who desired to serve in the office of deacon in the church. Paul wrote the first letter to Timothy in order to assist his friend and ministry associate on how to govern a church that had been justified by Christ Jesus, and also to make sure that the church members were protected from false teachers and false prophets who were invading the churches of Christ. In his office of bishop, Paul had stepped outside of his first calling as minister and he was operating in the gift of administration by writing the letter, making sure that the entire church at Ephesis was operating as efficiently as possible in order to protect My children from an ungodly element that was desiring to overtake My church. Your Father of Order and Peace

BLESSED WITH VICTORIOUS WARFARE OVER EVIL

My Dear Precious Child, Paul wrote to his fellow minister named Timothy that he must commit to the prophetic utterances of the Holy Spirit through other ministers by which he could wage good warfare with the devil and his demons. Then he wrote that Timothy must hold onto faith and a good conscience. Paul knew that when a person's conscience convicts him or her of having bad thoughts, speech or works that his or her path toward righteousness is blocked and faith is diminished. In fact, he wrote that some people had shipwrecked their own faith with evil thinking. Paul even named two men whom he had turned over to the devil so that they would learn not to blaspheme Me and My name. After he contrasted having a good conscience with having a conscience that convicts a person of blaspheme or evil deeds, he continued with good instructions on how to live a peaceful life. He instructed Timothy to, first of all, pray for all people who are in authority over him, praying supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgiving for all people who are in high positions civilly or politically so that the result of your prayers would be that you would live a peaceful, godly and respectful life. He said that those prayers are good and acceptable in My sight because I desire that all people would be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. He professed that there is only one real God, and there is only one mediator between Me and people, that being Jesus Christ. He reminded Timothy that Christ Jesus had given himself up as a ransom for all people, his testimony being borne as truth in its proper time. Paul admitted that he had been called by Me to be a preacher and a teacher of the Truth, a teacher of faith and truth to the Gentiles. He even wrote to Timothy that he desired that in every place people should pray and lift holy hands without anger or quarreling, that women would adorn themselves modestly and sensibly, and that they do good deeds. He continued to further Jewish traditions when he wrote that women should learn in silence and be submissive, declaring that no woman should teach a man or have authority over men. He stressed that since woman was taken out of man, that she is in an inferior position to him in the world. His reasoning behind men continuing to be the heads of all areas of a woman's life was his former dedication to Jewish Law. (I Timothy 2:1-12) However, in some of his later writings, Paul wrote that in Christ there are no males, females, slaves or free men, that everyone is equal in My sight. (Galatians 3:28) His later revelation was insight into My view of no one being in submission to anyone, that all people are free and equal in My estimation. In fact, he wrote that men should also be submissive to women just as women should be submissive to men in areas of family decisions and in society.(Ephesians 5:21-33) Submitting to each other is a way to maintain peace. Submitting to the other partner's gently explained ideas very often allows me to declare who is right in a situation. As I told you before, would you rather be right or would you rather be righteous by your refusing to insist on being right in a conflict? When you have allowed Me to prove you to be right in a decision making situation instead of your insisting on your own way, the outcome was glorious on your part and My proof brought peace to the conflict. Insisting on your always being right leads to anger and resentment from your counterpart. However,the person who humbles himself or herself often turns out to be the person who was right all along in the situation because I provided the evidence that he or she was right. Before Jesus Christ came into the earth it was taught in Jewish Law that women were always wrong, were always guilty, and were always yielding to the deceiver because of a weak character since she influenced Adam to sin. In Christ, though, males and females become equal, with both being willing to humble themselves and allow Me to prove who is right in a tense situation. The way to become righteous is often to refuse to insist on your own way, but instead to yield to the opinions of other people. If you are right, I will prove to the other person that you were right, thus you becoming the righteous one and the person who was right all along. Everything changed when Jesus Christ came to earth. When My covenant of the Holy Spirit came into the earth the old covenant became null and void. My children became new creatures. Males and females became equal in My eyes. Officials in authority must also submit to ideas of his or her workers in order to become a humble official. When a person becomes strictly authoritative, he or she institutes rebellion in others, giving the devil the occasion to create conflict and strife, in which there is every evil demon from hell. (James 3:16) That is why I change the hearts of people in the new birth, so that all people are equal in their own eyes just like they are equal in My eyes. Then the devil is robbed of his ability to create wars, conflicts, divorces, robbery, etc. , if all people will look upon each other as equal according to My new covenant of the Holy Spirit. Your Father of Equality and Love

BLESSED BY THE UMPIRE, THE HOLY SPIRIT

My Dear Precious Child, You have heard it said, "Let your conscience be your guide," which is true. The apostle Paul said it in words more easily understood. He said to let your conscience be your umpire, telling you if you are out of My will in the earth and doing the devil's will in the earth or if you are being guided on the paths of righteousness of which Jesus spoke. (Matthew 7:13-14) Sometimes the voice of your conscience, the Holy Spirit, will come in loud, emphatic thoughts which are not easy to miss and sometimes your conscience will come in that still, small voice that is sometimes easy to miss. It all depends on if you are a small child spiritually who does not recognize My voice or if you are a mature, experienced adult spiritually who is adept at being guided by Me. I am your Good Father and every good father is attentive to the thoughts, words and actions of his children, being good watchers in discerning good and discerning evil and alerting His children to which spiritual entities are ministering to his children, whether it's the devil or whether it's Me. I am attentive to the thoughts of all of My children, being eager to teach you to recognize the voice of evil in your thoughts which tempt you to do the devil's evil will in the earth. I alert you to traps, tricks, sinful circumstances and situations with which the devil endeavors to entice you off of the narrow path that leads to righteousness/Life and onto the wide path that leads to sin and death. Some of My children who do not know Me have been erroneously schooled by false teachers to believe that I tempt you with evil in order to test your faith. That is blaspheme, saying that I am a tempter. I am a Good Father who leads you away from evil, not into evil. The false teachers and false prophets are schooled by the devil in order to teach some of My children to believe that I am both good and bad, righteous and evil. They don't know Me. They are like Job, only knowing Me by the testimonies of teachers who also do not know Me. If those false teachers only knew My words through the disciple/apostle James who wrote that I am good and that I have no shadow of turning, there would be no blaspheme. In other words, I am not good on one side of Me and evil on the other side of Me. I am Love. In Love there is no evil. There is only good. (James 1:13-18) The apostle/prophet James did not mix his words. He wrote truth and he wrote it perfectly when he quoted Jesus Christ. Then James did the same thing, he wrote, "Do not say when you are tempted that you are tempted by Me." Even though I had given the Mosaic Law to point out the works of the devil for the Jews, the devil blinded their minds and caused them to believe that I both kill and save, that I tempt and I also absolve sin, or they believe that I use the devil to keep My children on the straight and narrow path. Those are all lies and are from hell. I cleared up that misinformation for you from false teachers by reminding you that your own earthly father was a kind and giving father, so how could you believe that I, your Heavenly Father, is both evil and good, as you had been taught doctrinally in your church, just as the pastor/teacher had been taught erroneously by his teachers. You began to see that through the life of Jesus Christ that My complete personality was exhibited as being Love. You were like Job in the poem found in your Bible, when you met Me face to face you saw My true nature, that I am Love. (Job 42:1-5) That point is the place where you truly began to see Me as the Father who saves and rehabilitates people, not a father who judges and condemns people. You began to see that My wrath is reserved for the devil and his demons who are the real culprits who tempt, try and harass My children in an effort to entice them to do his will in the earth. The reason that I gave to My children their conscience is so that you would recognize from the inside of you where evil exists and where good exists in the earth. By your hearing the words of the Holy Spirit, who is the UMPIRE from inside of your thoughts, you learn to trust and rely on Me to lead and guide you with My wise Fatherly counsel. You learn to trust My cautions and My instructions and you remain on the narrow path that leads to the abundant Life that I intend for you to have. (Colossians 2:16-18) Don't allow anyone to judge you for what you eat or drink or for not obeying the feast days or the Sabbath. In the Law they were only a shadow of the real liberty that you have when Christ creates a new person inside of you with direct access to My Umpire inside of you who is the real GUIDE. My Holy Spirit is your guide and your wisdom from the inside of you. Let Him decide if you are on the path of righteousness or the path that leads to death when He makes His judgment. He is the EXPERT in your conscience. Your Heavenly Father of Peace and Wisdom

BLESSED WITH A GOOD CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, When Paul wrote to his ministry assistant Timothy in his first letter reiterating to his assistant about false teachers he wrote that he had previously warned Timothy and the other church leaders that they must charge some teachers again to stop teaching other doctrines than Jesus Christ and Him crucified for the sins of the whole world. Paul wrote sternly not to listen to fables and genealogies which bring up questions rather than being godly edifying which is rooted in faith. He reminded Timothy that the object of their instruction was to command believers to love with a pure heart and a good CONSCIENCE and faith, that the Gospel is simply that. Paul pointed out to Timothy that some of the teachers had turned away from truth and had engaged in vain arguments, desiring to become doctors of the Law but they had no understanding of the words or terms that they used or the subjects about which they made dogmatic assertions. Paul had made plain to Timothy in the past that a person's conscience is the thought process which considers both good and bad, commending what is good and condemning what is bad, encouraging believers to choose to do good and to reject what is bad. (I Timothy 1:3-7) Paul reminded Timothy that the Law is good if anyone uses it for the purpose for which it was designed, that being to point out the temptations that the devil uses to encourage people to sin, stressing that the Law is not given for the righteous but it was given for the ungodly and sinful, the profane and the murderers, the impure, the immoral, liars, kidnappers, perjurers and whatever is opposed to sound doctrine and wholesome teaching, as was laid down by the glorious Gospel of Mine, which I had entrusted Paul to preach to the Gentiles. It was in the first letter of Paul to Timothy that Paul thanked Me for making him a minister of the Gospel of Christ Jesus though he had formerly blasphemed and persecuted believers and been aggressively insulting to Christ. Nevertheless, he had gained mercy because he had acted out of ignorance and unbelief. He wrote that My favor was poured out abundantly to him, accompanied by the faith and love of Jesus Christ. (I Timothy 1:13-14) He professed his faith by writing that the saying is sure that Christ Jesus, the Messiah, came into the world to save sinners, of whom he wrote that he was the most guilty sinner. (I Timothy 1:15). Paul wrote that I, in order to show the vastness of My grace, through Jesus Christ I chose Paul, the utmost of all sinners, in order to flood him with My mercy and forgiveness, displaying all of My patience on him as an example to the people who would believe on Him and obtain eternal life. (I Timothy 1:15-16) He acknowledged that Christ is the king of all eternity, incorruptible and immortal, the only God, Amen, so be it. It was to Timothy that Paul was definite in charging and admonishing him to fight the good fight of intercessory prayers, holding onto his sound faith and his good CONSCIENCE. He warned that it was by their refusing to lean their entire personality on Me and keeping a good CONSCIENCE that some people had made shipwreck of their faith. Paul even named two people who were known by Timothy whom Paul wrote that he had turned them over to the devil so that they would learn not to blaspheme. (I Timothy 1:17-20) Your Father of Safe Guidance

BLESSINGS COME WITH DISCERNMENT FROM YOUR CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, When the covering that is your earthly body is finished with its ministry in the earth, then the real you, who is a spirit, will have a spiritual covering not made with human hands but instead one that is eternal in the heavens. The apostle Paul wrote in his second letter to the believers at Corinth that while still in the earthly body you groan inwardly because you desire to be clothed with your spiritual body like a garment, fitted with your spiritual covering. You will not be naked for any time. Yet, while you are still in the human body you experience being weighed down, depressed, oppressed, not desiring to put off the body but rather you want to be clothed so that your mortal body will be swallowed up by your spiritual body after your resurrection. I am the One who has prepared this exchange in covering for your spirit and you have been given the guarantee of that exchange by the Holy Spirit who is waiting for the final fulfillment of My final promise to you. He wrote that you walk by faith and not by the sight of earthly eyes, waiting to be out of the body and at home with Me. (II Corinthians 5:7-9) Even though you are conscious of having great awe and respect for Me, there is still the ministry of winning people over to My kingdom of God. Paul wrote that what type of spiritual beings that you will become is understood thoroughly by Me, as it is in My perfect plan for My children, knowing that the change will be perfectly understood by your CONSCIENCE, discerning already that it will be glorious. Your expectation of the magnificence of the change from your being earthly to your being heavenly might cause the minds of other men to think that you are not in your right mind, but instead My love that was evident in Christ controls, urges and compels you because you are of the mind that One died for all, therefore all died with Him. Christ died for all so that the believers might no longer live for themselves but instead to live in the earth for Him who died and was raised again for your sake. (II Corinthians 5:11-15) The apostle then returned in his writing to entreat you to have the mind that, while in the earthly body, you will not regard anyone from a mere human point of view by judging from the flesh. Even though you even at one point even viewed Christ as a man from the human point of view, now you no longer have knowledge of Him from a fleshly view because when a person is grafted in Christ he or she is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold a new creation he or she has become. Paul described that the new birth is from Me Who, through Jesus Christ, reconciled all of humanity to Myself, having brought humans into harmony with Myself, and even giving to you the ministry of reconciliation so that by word and deed you might bring others into harmony with me. That transformation of you from human to Godly could only take place in the earth with My reconciling the world to favor with Me, not counting your trespasses but instead canceling them,and giving to you the ministry of reconciling the whole world to Me, making you My ambassadors in the earth with a clear conscience. He encouraged all believers to hold on to My divine favor to which you have been reconciled to Me. (II Corinthians 5:16-20) Paul wrote in this letter a synopsis of My works in your behalf. He wrote this, "God made Christ to be sin, Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him you might become examples of My righteousness in the earth, enjoying a right relationship with Christ by My acts of goodness in your behalf." (II Corinthians 5:21) My plan of salvation is encapsulated within that statement. Your Father of a Divine, Workable Plan