As we near the end of our week-long series on renewal, today we're going to invite God to bring a renewal of conscience to our hearts and minds, that our perspectives and beliefs about ourselves would be washed clean in

God's mercy and grace. May God empower us to see ourselves the way He does as we spend meaningful

time in His presence today. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Hebrews 10, verse 22.

Scripture says,

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith

with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience

and our bodies washed with pure water

our conscience is a window

revealing how we view ourselves and and most importantly, our relationship with God.

One of the worst effects sin has is distorting our view of ourselves in relation to God.

The devil's plan with sin was always to separate us from God.

So Jesus came to the earth to destroy the power of sin in our lives.

He came so that we might have restored relationship with our Heavenly Father.

But sin still persists. Even though the power of sin was broken, its effects destroyed,

we often still live with an unclean conscience. We feel that God is angry with us, that He

doesn't want to be with us, or that we can't come before him and sit at his feet.

Your conscience affects your relationship with God either negatively or positively.

It will either lead you to God's throne room or away from his presence.

Your Heavenly Father's desire today is that you would come to

see yourself as He does, that your conscience would be wiped clean, and that sin and lies would

separate you from Him no longer. Hebrews 10 verses 19 through 23 contains an important truth for us today.

Scripture says, therefore brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,

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