Wow! Today the Holy Spirit really helped me by speaking things to me about my inner self that sabotage my progress and are the ropes that hold me captive and rob me of my true destiny. Not the devil, not people and what they do to hurt me but my own Conscience which endures scars that then become the ropes that bind me from moving forward and keep me in cycles of repetition which keep me hostage to past pain and sorrow from which there is no life but death.

The Holy Spirit pointed out to me that the scars of the conscience means I keep repeating the sins that continue to overtake me and bring to light or the surface the reality that the scars of the conscience have not been healed and dealt with and hence I will run the path of that sin again, though I hate the pain it causes and what that does to harm me, and wonder what is wrong with me.

Why can I not learn from the last time this occurred and overcome it. What makes me always fall back to this bad habit and have to repent that I missed it again though I promised myself that I have learnt the lesson this time and won’t fall.

Well the good news is that the Holy Spirit pointed out that the scars of the conscience that is the pain, sorrow, hurt, betrayal and bitterness of what happened so impact me that those ropes bind me from moving forward because they keep repeating in me that I am bound by that past experience and cannot move on from it.

It has become the controlling thought of my life and determines how I respond to everything and even how I process truth. That scar of the conscience eclipses all reality and I become a hostage to failure though I am doing everything physically to succeed.

The Holy Spirit reminded me of Hebrews.9:14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? You see the blood of Jesus purges my conscience from every dead work to enable me to serve the Living God.

He also pointed out to me the scripture in Hebrews:12.15: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; This deals with not allowing the root of bitterness to spring up and ruin things in my heart by contamination and causing trouble and we miss out on God’s grace working for us. That is what He was revealing to me that it springs up from within me.

The scars of the conscience, not the devil so it is self sabotaging and the roots are deep within my soul so cannot be dealt with from a shallow perspective which explains why the enemy convinces us so easily that we have made the change and their is nothing to worry about hence preventing us from dealing with the truth of the scars and they just work clockwise and keep tripping us up.

Well today the Holy Spirit has given me the truth on how to deal with the scars and uproot its potency from the conscience and empower us to serve the Lord and not the dead works of sin which produces another cycle of death and loss. He pointed out to me that blessings are what should overtake the disciple of Jesus not sin. So today be open to the Holy Spirit and deal with the hurts and be real with the Lord about how you really feel about those painful things that brought you to that place.

Remember He already knows what you feel but wants you to recognise and acknowledge it yourself and turn from it as you receive forgiveness and a cleansing from those dead works by the blood of Jesus already poured out for you, that position you to serve the Lord which is what Jesus came to enable us to do. Jesus came to deliver us from our enemies and the power of those who hate us so that we could serve Him without fear in holiness and righteousness all the days of our lives. Luke:1.71,74 &75.

Now in reality it is much easier to deal with the outside enemies, but the enemies within us are the ones that trip us up because we don’t want to believe we are capable of evil and what our own heart is capable of, but the truth is our heart is also desperately wicked and deceitful above all things and who can know it except God who reveals it’s intents and purposes.

We really can begin to enjoy full freedom once we know how wicked we are and helpless in ourselves to change it and our total need and dependence on the Lord to free us and lead us out to triumph.

My heartfelt prayer for you today is that you will embrace these truths and allow the Holy Spirit the opportunity to help you uproot the scars and heal you so you stop self sabotaging your life and progress after giving the Lord your time and energy in seeking Him only to miss out on the best He has for you because of this issue.

May the Good Hand of the Lord be with you today in Jesus Name and may the grace to bring your total freedom emerge as all God’s goodness flows towards you in Jesus Name. Amen.