“For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God” (1 John 3:20-21). If you’re a Christian, does the Holy Spirit condemn you if you do wrong? No. It is your...

“And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, ‘Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day'” (Acts 23:1). It is interesting to go through the epistles that Paul wrote to the Church and see what he said about...

While as the first tabernacle was yet standing: Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience…. How much more shall the blood of...

“I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost” (Rom. 9:1). The number one way the Holy Spirit guides us is through the inward witness. The number two way is through the inward voice. The inward man has a...

“Jesus answered and said unto him, ‘If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him'” (John 14:23). As Jesus goes on teaching in John chapter 14, He begins to talk about...

“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come…he will shew you things to come” (John 16:13). A minister friend of mine had three serious automobile accidents in less than ten years. People were killed in these accidents. His wife was almost...

“But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things” (1 John 2:20). Even as a newborn babe in Christ, still bedfast, I would know things by an inward witness. For example, my mother said to me one day, “Son, I hate to bother you, but...

“No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit” (1 John 4:12-13). I was born again as a teenager...

“Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who hath given understanding to the heart?” (Job 38:36) God led us to move to Tulsa, Oklahoma, by an inward witness in the late 1960s. Our home had been in Garland, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, for seventeen...

“I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle….” (Ps. 32:8,9) I knew by the...

“For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness” (Ps. 18:28). Sometimes even though the inward witness is there, people don’t recognize it. For example, I would be praying in tongues about the Sunday morning services in...