“As for God,
His way is perfect; The word of the Lord
is proven; He is a shield to
all who trust in Him.”—Psalm 18:30
Many people are relying on their conscience to discern right
from wrong. Our conscience, from the moment we begin processing instructions
and warnings, is developing a code of conduct by which we will live, “Now the purpose of the commandment is love
from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith” (1 Timothy
1:5).
Scientist’s have discovered that the conscience is a flexible
tool; it can absorb new data and adjust a person's values and perspective. This
is good news for those who begin with poor programming but find valuable
biblical guidance later on. Yet flexibility is potentially bad news for those
who expose themselves repeatedly to falsehood and vain philosophies. If they
ignore wisdom and truth, they will assimilate the deceptive viewpoints of
modern culture.
Through out church history we can see that deceptive
viewpoints have led God’s chosen people into captivity time-after-time. Hosea 12:13 explains the need for the true prophetic word, “The Lord used a prophet to bring Israel up from
Egypt, by a prophet he cared for him.”
The Israelites were given God’s laws to live by, they continually
broke His commands and their conscience was
not a good moral compass for them to live by.
So God sent Moses, His prophet to deliver them from Egypt.
Today, in the New Covenant, being delivered from Egypt applies
in a totally spiritual context. The
people of God, in the Old Covenant, were the children of Abraham. In Galatians 3:7-9, we find that now the Children
of Abraham applies spiritually to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Today the term, “Egypt,” spoken in a
spiritual sense means the “flesh,” and dealing with the carnal appetites of the
flesh.
Many people are failing in dealing with their carnal appetites
of their flesh because their conscience has been seared through repeatedly violating
God’s Word and they cannot get deliverance. “Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having
their own conscience seared with a hot iron” (1Timothy 4:2).
There
are times that we need to have a righteous prophetic
word spoken into our lives to bring us into our promised land
of deliverance. The prophetic
word brings deliverance when the one delivering the message has
the spiritual license, authority and anointing of the Lord Jesus Christ. “And He Himself gave some to be apostles,
some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping
of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ”
(Ephesians 4:11-13).
Prayer—Father I acknowledge that I need
stronger help in my life dealing with________________________. I ask You to send a clear precise divine
message to me and I ask that the person that You choose to use has the
spiritual license, authority and the anointing of the Lord Jesus Christ to effect
the deliverance that I need, in Jesus Name.
Amen.
