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

BLESSED WITH THE TREASURE INSIDE OF YOU

My Dear Precious Child, Paul, the apostle, wrote to the believers at Corinth, and to you also, that the treasure of the Holy Spirit, the Light of the Gospel that you have in earthen bodies is so that the excellence of My works will be of Me and not of humans. Then he wrote that with My power inside of you that when you are troubled and oppressed in every way that you are not crushed; that when you are perplexed and thinking that there is not a way out of a situation, that you are not driven to despair; that when you are persecuted that you never stand alone, and when you feel like you are struck down to the ground that you are never struck out and destroyed; that your physical body is always exposed to the same death for Jesus sake so that the life of Christ might be evidenced through your flesh. In other words, the Law of sin and death is always at work in your flesh so that My Spirit of Life may also be actively at work in you spiritually. That profession of faith that Jesus spoke is also spoken by you, that you believe in His power and so you speak overcoming faith just like He spoke it. (II Corinthians 4:9-14) That word of faith that He spoke and that you speak is that I, who raised Jesus from the dead, will also raise Him up inside of you and bring you into His Presence. The apostle Paul wrote to the believers in Corinth that the more that you are tempted by the devil to retaliate when harassed, the more grace is extended to you and extended to more and more people from Me. The result is that there is more and more thanksgiving that is spoken which increases My glory in your world. Therefore, he wrote, My children do not get weary, exhausted or discouraged because your inner Power is being renewed day by day. (II Corinthians 4:15-16) His comparison was that the afflictions in the flesh are light and they are preparing you for the everlasting weight of My glory which is the vast and transcendent glory and blessedness that never ceases. Now you look Me and to things that not seen instead of things that are seen by your human eyes. It is the things that you cannot see visually that are glorious, powerful and victorious. We are working for you constantly. (II Corinthians 4:18) What more do you need? You have all of My power of the universe working in your behalf even though your flesh is being harassed by evil. In the midst of a battle you must continue to profess that you have My power working in your behalf and that there is a huge army of angels fighting for your victory. When your faith is being tried by the devil, that is the time to speak your faith loudly into the atmosphere. It is that faith which overcomes all evil. Your Father of Battle Insights

BLESSED BY CONSIDERING EVERY PERSON'S CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, The apostle Paul acknowledged that every person's conscience is unique to himself or herself. He spoke about the Jews who had the Law given to them by Moses in which Moses had to put a veil over his face so that the Israelites would not gaze upon the greatness of the glow on his face after being given the Law by Me. (Exodus 34:29-33) In fact, the Jews from Israel had grown so hard hearted, callous and lacking in understanding that their minds are still so dense in spiritual insight that a veil is still over their minds, the veils not being lifted to reveal that it is only in Christ that the veil can be lifted and done away with in My new covenant of the Holy Spirit with humanity. Because the veil is still over their minds, the Law that is stored in their consciences condemns them. (II Corinthians 3:13-16) Paul, having a burden for the Jews, his writing in his two letters contrasts those Jews with the veil over their minds with the Jews who had turned to belief in Christ in which the veil has been stripped from their minds and hearts. He wrote in his second letter to the Corinthians that to the spiritually enlightened Jews, such as himself, that My Holy Spirit is Lord of their lives instead of the old covenant Law of sin and death still being lord. He assured the readers of the second letter that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty and freedom from the works of the devil and the condemnation of the Law. Paul also confirmed to the believers in Corinth that after the spiritual veil is removed from their minds, those Jews become like him, always beholding the image of Christ as in a mirror, and they were constantly being transfigured into Christ's image by the Lord who is the Spirit. (II Corinthians 3:13-17-18) The Gentiles were enjoying the same degree of liberty as the enlightened Jews, having heard the Gospel as taught by Paul and his fellow ministers. Paul wrote that he and the other ministers, having this truth about the veil being over the minds and hearts of people, they did not get weak with discouragement. Instead, knowing that every person's conscience is unique, he wrote that the ministers had turned from disgraceful ways, from secret thoughts, feelings, desires, underhandedness, and evil methods that men hide in their thoughts through shame. He wrote that they refused to use tricks to deal with people or to handle dishonestly My Words which they stated clearly, knowing the diversity of every person's CONSCIENCE. He confessed that even if their Gospel of Christ was hidden, it was only hidden to the people who were perishing and lost because the devil, who is the god of the world, has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so that they would be prevented from seeing the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is My likeness in every way. Paul professed that it is not themselves of which the ministers teach, but that it is the Lord Jesus Christ. He wrote that it is Christ of whom I spoke that said this, "The Light that shines out of darkness has shown in their hearts illuminating My knowledge, majesty and glory that is in Jesus Christ, the real Messiah." (II Corinthians 4:2-4) Then Paul wrote a powerful profession of faith; that being this, "Believers possess in their human bodies My Holy Spirit, a precious Treasure, so that the magnificent and exceeding greatness of My Power that is resident in them may be shown to be of Me and not of themselves." To those people who have been liberated from the Law of sin and death, the voice of My Holy Spirit in their conscience is the voice of freedom from sin, which is the works of the devil. However, to the people who are still under old covenant Law, the voice in their conscience is the devil who uses the law to condemn and shame them using the law as the judge. (II Corinthians 4:5-7) Paul knew the diversity of the varying conditions of the conscience of every person, so he endeavored to refrain from judging anyone, knowing that My forgiveness is always available through the ministry of Christ Jesus and My Holy Spirit, who is Lord in the earth. (II Corinthians 3:17-18) Your Father of a Pure Conscience

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

BLESSINGS FROM A HOLY SPIRIT LED CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, When the apostle Paul began to teach about a person's conscience, he described CONSCIENCE as being the works of laws which are written in your heart and mind which apear to be truth to you, either being words which come from religious laws which curse and accuse you or being words which come from My Holy Spirit which forgive and excuse you for sins. Since old covenant laws are punitive, requiring punishment, and My new covenant of the Holy Spirit is rehabilitative, offering forgiveness, My children will either inherit curses from the devil who uses the laws of sin and death or My children will inherit blessings from Me who uses the words of the Holy Spirit to brings Life and soul peace to you, depending upon which covenant the people have placed themselves under. (Romans 2:15) When your conscience is filled with punitive laws, you will judge other people, which causes them to judge you in return and you will inherit curses in your life on earth. (Matthew 7:1-6) However, if your conscience is filled with My words of the Holy Spirit of Love, you will forgive a person for sinning against you, your sins will be excused immediately, and you will have invited My kingdom of heaven to flood you with My blessings and rewards for operating in the tenets or words of My kingdom of God. Paul wrote to the Romans who were being tempted by false prophets to return to old covenant laws which Jesus said was impossible to combine with My new covenant of the Holy Spirit of Love. (Matthew 24:24) The church members in Rome had adopted My new covenant of Love when they became born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit. The false prophets among the Jews from Jerusalem had gone to Rome to endeavor to place the newly converted believers in Christ Jesus under Jewish religious laws because the Jews hated the newly found freedom from bondage to religious laws which the believers were experiencing. (Galatians 2:4) To the Roman believers Paul wrote that people can be Jews by observing many laws and they begin to teach other people about the laws, for instance concerning stealing, adultery and eating forbidden food. Yet, the Jews continue to steal, commit adultery and even eat forbidden food. He said that they bragged about the laws, but they broke them themselves, dishonoring Me. He wrote that through their actions My name was blasphemed among the Gentiles by their hypocrisy. (Romans 2:23-24) The very believing people whom the false prophets taught and tried to influence to be circumcised, many of them had been circumcised in their hearts by being born of My Holy Spirit and Baptized in My Holy Spirit. They had already entered into My kingdom of God. There was no need for any old covenant rules, regulations or traditions to try to enhance their life changes made possible through the works of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 2:24-26)They were walking in the blessings of My new covenant of the Holy Spirit. They did not need anything more. They just needed to continue seeking Me and My Holy Spirit, depending upon Him to teach them everything that they were hungry and thirsty to know. Adding bondage to their freedom was the devil's way to rob them of My liberty that they had found in Christ Jesus and My Holy Spirit. The people who were walking in My kingdom of God and listening to My Holy Spirit were blessed with a clear conscience. Influencing them to adopt punitive old covenant laws would create a judgmental conscience within them which would curse their lives. (Romans 2:20-22) Paul's warnings were justified. He had been a good Jew and he was currently at the time of his letter to the Romans a new creature in Christ Jesus, walking in the Holy Spirit of Love. He was grieved that some of the believers in Rome would be deceived and fall under the laws of sin and death after experiencing the words of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. Your Father of Liberty

BLESSED WITH KNOWLEDGE OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY

My Dear Precious Child, When My children possess spiritual knowledge from the Holy Spirit related to spiritual traditions and rituals, they are free from bondage to the old covenant laws of sin and death. However, in the presence of someone who has no knowledge from the Holy Spirit related to being free from those traditions and rituals, believers must not flaunt their freedom in front of the nonspiritual people because if your freedom causes the nonspiritual people to do something against their conscience, then the victorious believers have caused the nonspiritual people to sin, thus sinning themselves. (I Corinthians chapter 8) In the apostle Paul's letter to the believers at Corinth he wrote that Godly love encourages you to only do things that build up and cause someone weak in faith to grow to his full spiritual stature. So your freedom and liberty in considering everything legal for you to do might influence someone to do something against his or her own conscience. You might have the faith to believe that when you bless food, as Christ taught you to do, that it becomes pure and unadulterated by your blessing having chased demons away, but someone else might be weak in faith, thinking that the food is demonic because it was sacrificed to demons. So that person's faith might condemn him if he sees you eating food on the altar which was sacrificed to demons and he is encourged to also eat the food. As long as his conscience condemns him, then it is sin to him and eating the food will cause the person to inherit judgment from the devil because of his beliefs, even though your freedom says that for you it's permissible to eat the food sacrificed to idols because you have been enlightened. Paul went even further by writing that if a believer thinks that he or she has come to know spiritual things but does not have love, then that person does not perceive, understand or recognize spiritual things clearly, nor has that person become intimately acquainted with real Truth. If a person truly loves Me and says that he or she has become acquainted with Me, then he or she is known by Me and I intimately know that person. However, not every believer has that intimate relationship with Me through My Spirit having revealed My love to him or her. (I Corinthians 8:1-4; Ephesians 3: 14-21) He wrote that whether or not you eat food sacrificed to idols does not make you acceptable or unacceptable to Me, but you must be careful not to influence another person to do something against his or her own conscience because doing so will allow the devil to condemn him or her with the heavy weight of guilt which can lead to death if he or she does not know about My forgiveness in wiping the slate clean of offenses. But if someone with weak faith observes you in your freedom and liberty doing something that influences him or her to also do something that is not sinful to you but is still sinful to him or her according to his or her conscience, then your enlightenment about spiritual matters has caused another person's faith to be ruined. So when you sin against a fellow believer in this way, wounding and damaging his or her weak conscience which will condemn the person, then you have sinned against Christ by your freedom and liberty. You have become a stumbling block, a hindrance to his or her weak faith by giving the person an impulse to sin. (I Corinthians 8:7-12) Paul said that he would rather never eat meat again if his eating caused another person to become hindered in his or her own spiritual advancement. Loving other people does not cause anyone to distance himself from Me. Love encourages other people to seek Me so that they will find Me. Don't do anything which will cause another person to distance himself or herself from Me because of what you have done in your freedom and liberty. ( I Corinthians 8:12) Your Father of Mercy and Forgiveness