Keep Your Conscience Clear: Recognize It

Step 10: A Clear Conscience

Recognize It

Step 10: We continue to take personal inventory. When we are wrong, we promptly admit it and make amends.

^{1 Timothy 1:19} Cling to your faith in Christ and keep your conscience clear.

• Principle: Reveal Answer with today’s wrongs Reveal Answer .

Sometimes we see what we want to see, rather than what is really happening.

Peter said to Jesus,

^{Matthew 26:33} Even if everyone else deserts you, I will never desert you.

Jesus said to Peter,

^{Matthew 26:34} “I tell you the truth, Peter—this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny three times that you even know me.”

5 Reasons for a Daily Inventory

A daily inventory helps me Reveal Answer what I may be Reveal Answer .

^{Psalm 139:23}Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. ²⁴Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

A daily inventory requires me to Reveal Answer to Reveal Answer .

^{Romans 8:1} So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

A daily inventory helps me stop Reveal Answer what God Reveal Answer .

^{Proverbs 28:13} People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.

A daily inventory helps me Reveal Answer with things before they Reveal Answer .

^{Ephesian 4:26} And “don’t sin by letting anger control you.” Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry, ²⁷ for anger gives a foothold to the devil.

A daily inventory helps me Reveal Answer Reveal Answer Reveal Answer for tomorrow.

^{Proverbs 4:26} Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path.

^{1 Timothy 1:19} Cling to your faith in Christ and keep your conscience clear.

Five Minutes With God

• “Lord, what happened in me today?”
• “Where was I wrong?”
• “Is there anything I need to confess?”
• “Is there anything I need to make right?”
• “What do You want me to do differently tomorrow?”
• Then pray... “Lord, help me see what I need to see today, so that I don’t have to carry it into tomorrow. In Jesus’ name, I pray, Amen

Leader’s Questions:

• What is one thing God has shown me about myself recently that Ineed to pay attention to?
• When I realize I am wrong, what is my first reaction? Own it, justify it, blame someone else, or avoid it? Why?
• What is one thing from today that I do not want to carry into tomorrow?