DCLM HIGHER EVERYDAY 2 March 2022 — Conscience void of offense
DCLM Higher Everyday 2 March 2022 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Conscience void of offense
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TOPIC: CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENSE
TEXT: ACTS 24:14-18
14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
17 Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
18 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
MEMORY VERSE: “And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men” (ACTS 24:16).
MESSAGE:
Conscience is described as “a person’s moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one’s behaviour.” The subject of pure conscience is very important to a Christian, as it determines the extent of conformity to the word of God. As a commentator puts it, “your conscience recalls what you have accepted as right or wrong.” That means your conscience keeps a record of your behaviour or pattern of life. It is a heavenly witness God has put within every boy or girl to report all that is going on in his or her life. Those who commit sins behind closed doors, thinking that they can cover their sins, are not wise because their sins are recorded in heaven and known to God the owner of our conscience.
The scriptures say, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). You are to depend on the scriptures to determine what is right or wrong. God searches the hearts. To maintain a conscience void of offence, therefore, make your ways right through restitution where necessary.
QUOTE: God searches the hearts.
CHALLENGE: The heart is deceitful, let God rule yours.
PRAYER: Lord, grant me a conscience void of offence always.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
