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 of team podcast. Our verse for today comes from Hebrews 10, verse 22, where Scripture says,

Let us draw near with a true heart and 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 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

us from God. So Jesus came to earth to destroy the power of sin in our lives. He came so that we might

have restored relationship with our Heavenly Father. But still, sin 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, 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,

by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is through his flesh,

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith,

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