The Power of a Clear Conscience: How the Condition of Your Soul Determines What You Receive from God

The Power of a Clear Conscience: How the Condition of Your Soul Determines What You Receive from God

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Teaching by Prophet Lovy L. Elias · Watch on YouTube · 1 December 2019

A corrupted conscience blocks God's love from being received — and a renewed mind is the pathway to spiritual clarity, freedom, and the fullness of grace.

A clear, pure conscience is not optional for the believer — it is the foundation upon which faith operates, blessing is received, and God's voice is heard. The condition of your soul shapes your perception, and your perception becomes your reality. What is blocking most believers is not a lack of prayer — it is a conscience that has not been aligned with the truth of God's Word.


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Teaching Overview

  1. A corrupted conscience prevents believers from receiving God's love, blessing, and grace — even when those things have already been given.
  2. True repentance is a change of mind, not an expression of sorrow — and the condition of the mind determines whether a believer can work with and receive from God.
  3. A clear conscience is formed by anchoring every opinion, belief, and self-perception in what God's Word says — not in what others say, what feelings dictate, or what the flesh produces.
  4. Spiritual maturity is evidenced by a soul that is still, settled, and no longer scattered — able to come boldly before the throne of grace without condemnation.
  5. As a man thinks, so he is — not as a man prays — which means renewing the mind through the Word of God is the highest form of transformation available to the believer.

Key Distinctions

PrayerThinking
What it isCommunicating with God verbally or in the spiritThe internal alignment of the mind and conscience with truth
Its limitationPrayer alone does not change who you areThinking shapes identity, perception, and what you receive
Relationship to the otherPrayer is a result and expression of how you thinkRight thinking empowers and supplements prayer
Scriptural anchor"Pray without ceasing""As a man thinketh, so is he"
Fleshly WisdomGrace
What it isSelf-reliance; trusting in your own works, effort, and understandingComplete dependence on what God has done through Christ
Effect on conscienceCorrupts and clouds the consciencePurifies and clears the conscience
What it producesInability to overcome sin; spiritual blindnessFreedom from sin; access to God's blessing
Spiritual EyesFleshly Eyes
What they seeReality as God sees it — clarity, light, truthOnly the physical and the shameful; distorted perception
Example in ScriptureAdam and Eve before the Fall — naked and unashamedAdam and Eve after the Fall — shame, hiding, covering
What governs themA clear conscience aligned with GodA conscience corrupted by sin and self-consciousness
MotivationChange of Mind
What it isAn emotional impulse toward a desired outcomeA deep, settled reprogramming of thought patterns
How long it lastsTemporary — fades when feelings fadePermanent — produces lasting behavioral change
ExampleNew Year's gym resolutions — packed in January, empty by FebruaryMeditating on the Word until the mind is genuinely renewed
Throne of GraceThrone of Judgment
What God sits onThe throne of graceGod does not sit on a throne of judgment toward the believer
What it means for prayerBelievers can come boldly, at any moment, without shameA corrupted conscience wrongly perceives God as a judge to be appeased
Scriptural anchorHebrews 4:16
RepentanceBeing Sorry
What it meansChange your mind — a transformation of how you thinkAn expression of remorse, often without genuine transformation
What God requiresA changed mind that aligns with His truthGod is not primarily interested in sorrow if the mind remains unchanged
ResultEternal life and ongoing sanctification by the SpiritThe same behaviour repeated the next day
Receiving God's LoveGod's Love Being Given
When it occursConditional on the conscience being clear and openAlready given — commanded toward all humanity before we believed
What blocks itSin and an impure conscienceNothing — God's love is already pushed toward every person on earth
Practical implicationThe believer must align their conscience to receive what is already availableThe blessing, the anointing, and the love of God are already provided
Sin Entering ConsciousnessA Clear Conscience
What it producesShame, self-awareness of nakedness, hiding from God, distorted perceptionBoldness before God, clarity of thought, ability to receive and operate in the Spirit
Biblical exampleAdam and Eve after eating the fruit — shame, covering, fearAdam and Eve before the Fall — naked and unashamed, walking with God
Effect on spiritual sightCloses spiritual eyes; only fleshly perception remainsKeeps spiritual eyes open; sees as God sees

The Condition of the Conscience Determines Everything

  • If your conscience is not clear, your faith will be affected — you will see life the wrong way, see God the wrong way, and pray the wrong way.
  • You will not receive anything from God when your conscience is clouded, because God examines the hearts of men and the way you see things determines how you receive and use what He provides.
  • What is destroying people is not the absence of prayer — the issue is that the conscience of people is not in the right place.

"Your perspective and your perception becomes your reality."

The Vision: Sin Prevents Receiving God's Love

  • The love of God has already been given — commanded toward every person on earth — but sin and an impure conscience prevent it from being received.
  • The blessing of God is already provided; the obstacle is never on God's side but on the side of the believer's conscience.
  • God's love reaching you and God's love being received by you are two different things — a corrupted conscience blocks the reception.

"Sin and a conscious that is not pure prevents my people from receiving my love."

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How Sin Corrupts the Conscience

  • When sin enters a person's life, the first thing it does is corrupt the conscience.
  • A corrupted conscience causes you to see yourself as someone who cannot stand before God or ask anything of God — because you believe your mistake is greater than God.
  • This distortion severs the believer's ability to communicate with God freely and boldly.

"You do not see yourself as somebody that can stand before God or ask of God anything, because you think your mistake is greater than God."

True Repentance: A Change of Mind

  • Repentance does not mean asking for forgiveness — it means changing your mind.
  • God is not primarily interested in "I am sorry," because sorrow without a changed mind produces the same behaviour tomorrow.
  • The condition of the mind determines whether you will be able to work with God, receive from God, or not.

"Repent does not say ask for forgiveness. Repent means change your mind. So the condition of my mind determines whether I am going to be able to work with God."

A Clear Conscience: Complete Reliance on Grace

  • A clear conscience makes you a candidate for everything God has already provided — anointing, healing, blessing — without the need to qualify through prayer, fasting, or religious performance.
  • The conscience cannot be clean unless you are completely dependent on the grace of God — on what He has done, not on what you can do.
  • You never come out of sin through your own effort; sin can only be overcome by the grace of God.

"The strength of a believer is complete reliance on the grace of God."

Spiritual Eyes vs. Fleshly Eyes: The Example of Adam and Eve

  • Before the Fall, Adam and Eve saw everything through the Spirit — their conscience was clear, and they were naked without shame.
  • When they ate the fruit, their spiritual eyes closed and they began to see entirely through the flesh — shame, hiding, and the distortion of good things followed.
  • When you rely on the flesh, you shut your spiritual eyes and lose the ability to see things through the eyes of God.

"When you rely on the flesh, you shut your spiritual eyes, you shut the ability to see things through the eyes of God."

The Eye of the Mind: Matthew 6:23

  • The eye of the mind — the spiritual faculty of the soul — determines whether the whole body is full of light or full of darkness.
  • If the conscience begins to allow darkness to reign within it, every part of the person — body, soul, and spirit — is affected.
  • A single eye produces a whole body full of light; an evil eye produces total darkness, leaving the believer unable to discern God's voice or direction.

"If my conscience is starting to allow darkness to reign in my conscience, if my conscience begins to be corrupted — if then thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness."

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The Sign of Spiritual Maturity

  • The sign of a mature Christian is when the soul is no longer scattered — when stillness, observation, and settled peace characterise the inner life.
  • When the conscience is not pure, there is no stillness — because you cannot have peace unless you know definitively where you stand before God.
  • A believer with a clear conscience can come boldly before the throne of grace at any moment, without needing to first perform a ritual of cleansing.

"The sign of a mature Christian is talking less, the ability to observe and look and — stillness. Be still and know that I am God."

How to Change Your Conscience

  • Your opinion concerning everything must be the opinion of what God's Word says — not what you feel, not what others have declared over you.
  • What is in your heart is what you act on — bitterness, anger, and disappointment all produce actions rooted in those conditions until the heart is reset by the Word.
  • Let go of what others have said about you and anchor your identity entirely in what God has said; let every opinion rooted in your mind be rooted in His truth.

"Your opinion concerning everything should be the opinion of what God's word says."

As a Man Thinketh — Not As a Man Prayeth

  • Prayer means nothing if the thinking behind it is not aligned — thinking supplements and empowers prayer, not the other way around.
  • If the conscience is corrupted, the thinking will be corrupted, and prayer will be corrupted; if the conscience is clear, everything flows from clarity.
  • The highest level of deliverance is not casting out a demon — it is confronting ignorance through the renewing of the mind.

"As a man thinketh so is he, not as a man prayeth. My prayer means nothing if I don't think the way I am praying."

Renewing the Mind Through the Word

  • Everything you give time to influences your thoughts — and the Word of God, when consumed consistently, reprograms both the conscious and the subconscious mind.
  • Taking the Word of God like a prescription — reading it, meditating on it, and acting on it until old patterns leave — is the method of conscience renewal.
  • People pay hundreds of dollars in psychology to remove things from the subconscious, but the Holy Spirit does it for free.

"The highest level of deliverance is confronting ignorance."


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Key Definitions

Conscience — The inner record and witness of everything a person thinks, believes, and does in life; the spiritual faculty that either clears or condemns, and that will be called as a witness before God on the last day.

Repentance — A change of mind; not merely an expression of sorrow for sin, but a deep transformation in how a person thinks, which then produces lasting change in behaviour.

Grace — The provision of God made available through Christ, on which a believer must be completely dependent; the only force through which sin can be overcome and the conscience can be made clean.

Fleshly Wisdom — Self-reliance; navigating life based on personal effort, human effort, and natural reasoning rather than dependence on what God has done and said.

The Eye of the Mind — The spiritual faculty of the soul through which a person perceives reality; when single and clear, it fills the whole body with light; when evil and corrupted, it produces total darkness in every dimension of life.

Receiving God's Love — The active appropriation of what God has already given; distinct from God's love being given, which is unconditional and already commanded toward all — receiving it requires a conscience that is clear and open.


Key Takeaways

  • A corrupted conscience is the primary barrier between a believer and God's blessing — It is not the absence of prayer that limits God's people, but the condition of the conscience that determines whether what God has provided can actually be received.
  • True repentance is a change of mind, not an expression of remorse — Sorrow without a transformed mind produces the same patterns tomorrow; the mind must genuinely change for the believer to walk in freedom and receive from God.
  • Your identity must be anchored in what God says, not in what others say or what you feel — What you think of yourself in alignment with God's Word is what produces real results; every other opinion is a distraction from the truth.
  • A clear conscience is built on total dependence on grace, not religious performance — The strength of the believer is complete reliance on what Christ has done, which frees the conscience from the weight of works and opens the believer to receive fully.
  • Renewing the mind through the Word is the highest form of transformation — As a man thinks, so he is; consistently saturating the mind with God's Word reprograms both the conscious and the subconscious, making the Holy Spirit's work of purification possible.

Reflection Questions

  1. When you approach God in prayer, are you coming from a place of genuine confidence in His grace, or are you still performing rituals of cleansing because you do not truly believe your conscience is clear?
  2. What opinions are you currently holding — about yourself, about others, about your future — that are rooted in what someone else said, rather than in what God's Word says?
  3. If motivation fades but a changed mind endures, what areas of your life have you been relying on motivation rather than genuine renewal of mind?
  4. Where in your life are you still depending on your own effort, your own works, or your own wisdom instead of resting completely in the grace of God?
  5. What specific portion of God's Word do you need to begin taking like a prescription this week — reading it, meditating on it, and acting on it until the old pattern is replaced?

Prayers and Declarations

Closing Prayer

"Father in the name of Jesus, I pray for everybody that is watching. I pray that wherever they are, whatsoever they are doing, I pray all Lord in the name of Jesus. Help their conscious mind, help their subconscious mind. Remove everything in them that was bothering them since they were child, they abused or how they were let down what they went through. I prayed that Lord you transform them and switch them and change them. I prayed that they will be a complete change in them this day."

"Lord, I prayed that Your Spirit will purify their conscious, will sanctify their conscious that they will become a different person. Father, I thank you that this is done in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus."


Scripture References

  • Matthew 6:23 — "But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" (KJV)
  • Matthew 18:2
  • 2 Corinthians 1:12 — "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." (KJV)
  • Hebrews 4:16 — "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." (KJV)
  • Revelation 13:8
  • John 14:6 — "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (KJV)
  • Psalm 46:10 — "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." (KJV)

Golden Nuggets

"Sin and a conscious that is not pure prevents my people from receiving my love."

"Your perspective and your perception becomes your reality."

"Repent means change your mind. So the condition of my mind determines whether I am going to be able to work with God."

"The strength of a believer is complete reliance on the grace of God."

"When you rely on the flesh, you shut your spiritual eyes, you shut the ability to see things through the eyes of God."

"As a man thinketh so is he, not as a man prayeth."

"The highest level of deliverance is confronting ignorance."

"Your opinion concerning everything should be the opinion of what God's word says."

"Don't expect anything from anybody. The only one you can expect something from is God."

"When your conscious is full of light, even the thoughts that come to me is the word of God."


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GraceIdentityWisdomSpiritual GrowthHoliness

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