Read the following
excerpt from ' The Spiritual Man' - by Watchman Nee
'All the promises
which God grants us in the Bible may be considered conditional. None are
bestowed to gratify one’s fleshly lust. No one shall experience the Holy
Spirit, communion with God, and answered prayer if he does not deal away with
his sin and flesh. How can we claim the promise of God with boldness if our
voice within is accusing us? How can anyone, whose conscience does not bear him
witness that he has lived on earth in holiness and godly sincerity, be a man of
prayer who is able to ask God for unlimited rewards? What is the use of praying
if our inward monitor reproves us when we lift up our hands to God? Sin first
must be forsaken and cleansed before we can pray with faith. We need to possess
a conscience void of offense, not in the sense that it is better than before or
that much evil has been done away but that it is without offense and confident
before God. This ought to be the normal condition of our conscience. If we
prostrate ourselves before it and allow it to reprove us: if we offer ourselves
entirely to the Lord and are willing to perform all His purposes: then our
confidence shall increase until it is possible for us to regard our conscience
as void of offense. We dare to tell God that now we have nothing left which is
concealed from Him. So far as we are concerned we know of nothing between us
and Him. In walking by the spirit we should never permit the tiniest offense to
stir up our conscience. Whatever it condemns must be confessed immediately,
cleansed by the precious blood and forsaken, so that no trace be left behind.
Each day we should seek to have a good conscience, because no matter how short
a time conscience may be offended it renders great harm to the spirit. The
Apostle Paul has set us a good example in always having a good conscience.
Therein alone shall we maintain uninterrupted fellowship with God. '
We will study this
tomorrow by the grace of God.
In truth we MUST
seek to have a good conscience towards God always.
There is this
excerpt we must consider as well-
'Moreover, because
our sinful nature is still within us, we will not be able to recognize many
hidden works of the flesh until we have matured spiritually. What we formerly
considered harmless may now become sinful to us.'
Please, Lord.
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