Renounce and Denounce: How a Clear Conscience Positions You to Receive God's Blessing
Your conscience determines how you present yourself before God — and God responds to your thoughts, not just your words.
A clear conscience is not optional for the believer — it is the very foundation upon which prayer is received, blessing flows, and God moves. Before God can answer what you ask, He is already responding to what you think, what you believe, and what your awareness carries into His presence. This teaching confronts the hidden barriers of a distorted conscience and calls every believer to the work of renouncing and denouncing every mindset, spirit, and false belief that stands between them and what God has already released.
Teaching Overview
- A clear conscience is foundational to receiving from God — He responds to your awareness, not your words.
- Every thought is influenced by a spirit — either God, angels, demons, or men — and must be examined and brought into alignment.
- Renouncing and denouncing are the spiritual tools that repair a distorted conscience, break family covenants with darkness, and restore your ability to stand rightly before God.
- God's blessing flows when your mind has been sanctified, purified, and restored — not merely through hard work or religious performance.
- Adversity is not a disqualification but an opportunity to identify what is inside you, hear the voice of God, and move into greater clarity.
Key Distinctions
| Clear Conscience | Distorted Conscience | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A purified awareness that presents you rightly before God | An affected awareness that contradicts your own prayer |
| How it operates | Trusts God's promise and carries the manifestation into prayer | Doubts, second-guesses, and opposes itself internally |
| What God can do | God sees Himself and releases His blessing | God cannot deal with something that does not look like Him |
| Effect on prayer | Prayer is aligned with faith and received | Words are spoken but the mind contradicts them |
| How it is formed | Through renouncing and denouncing, sanctification, and the Word | Through demonic influence, family covenants, trauma, and programming |
| Renouncing | Denouncing | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A personal rejection and severance from what you once held or participated in | A public, authoritative declaration that something has no right or power over you |
| Who initiates | The individual believer | The believer speaking with spiritual authority |
| What it breaks | Personal agreements with darkness | Family covenants and generational spirits that have legal rights |
| When needed | When something is personally tied to your soul | When a spirit has entered through a family line or covenant |
| Confession / Profession / Declaration | Renouncing and Denouncing | |
|---|---|---|
| What it addresses | What you say outwardly | What your conscience carries inwardly |
| Its limitation | Cannot fix a distorted conscience | Repairs the conscience at its root |
| Spiritual function | Affirms the promise | Removes the legal right of the opposing spirit |
| When it fails | When the mind contradicts what the mouth is saying | Only fails when not applied |
| Believing | Confessing | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Trusting what God has said with nothing visible to confirm it | Speaking aloud what faith has already produced |
| Which comes first | Believing precedes confessing | Confession is the fruit of believing |
| Where it lives | In the conscience and the heart | In the mouth |
| Its function | Counted by God as righteousness | Releases what is already believed |
| Spirit-Influenced Thoughts | God-Influenced Thoughts | Demonic-Influenced Thoughts | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source | Spirits of men — social, cultural, relational pressure | The Holy Spirit, the Word of God | Demonic spirits operating through legal rights or covenants |
| What they produce | Conformity to human expectations and systems | A pure mind that sees opportunity in difficulty | Contradiction, self-doubt, self-destruction, limitation |
| How to identify | Thoughts that align with culture over covenant | Thoughts that align with Scripture and eternal perspective | Recurring patterns in a family — fear, suicide, failure, poverty |
| How to respond | Discernment and renewal of the mind | Receive and walk in it | Renounce and denounce |
| Prayer According to Programming | Prayer According to Relationship | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Praying formulas learned from religious conditioning | Praying authentically out of your real state before God |
| Its character | Performative, detached from the conscience | Real, direct, honest conversation with God |
| Its limitation | Operating with someone else's conscience | None — it is the pattern of Scripture |
| Biblical example | Using religious language while internally in crisis | "Lord, I love You, but I am tired. Father, intervene." |
| Hard Work | God's Blessing | |
|---|---|---|
| What it produces | Effort and activity | Supernatural increase and provision |
| Its sufficiency | Not sufficient alone | Sufficient — it is what causes true prosperity |
| Who controls it | The individual | God |
| Condition for receiving | None required spiritually | A clear, sanctified, purified conscience |
The Foundation: Trust in God, Not Men
- Disappointment enters when eyes shift from the living Savior onto men, and it is the nature of the flesh to fail.
- God Himself does not trust men — He loves unconditionally, but He knows the ways of the flesh.
- Medicine, brothers, sisters, friends, health, and money may all fail — but Jesus Christ the Lord will never fail.
"Everything around us may fail, but Jesus Christ the Lord will never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, fail."
The Conscience: Your Presentation Before God
- A Christian's life is not only centered in prayer and worship — a clear conscience is a very, very, very important thing in the sight of God, because the conscience determines how you present yourself before God.
- God does not measure you physically — He measures you by your heart, and the condition of your conscience is your awareness of who you are before Him.
- What you are aware of when you approach God determines what you receive from Him.
"God does not answer your prayer when you pray. He answers you before you pray. God is not dealing with your words. He's dealing with your conscious."
The Covenant Child and the Manifestation of Faith
- Every believer in the Lord is a covenant child — purposed before the foundations of the earth, and no devil can snatch them from the hands of God.
- When you come to God in prayer, you do not come waiting for the promise — you are the promise.
- The moment you second-guess your presentation before God, you have already corrupted how you came before Him.
"When the others come, they are not waiting for the promise they are the promise."
Five Spiritual Tools Every Believer Must Operate In
- Christians operate on confession, profession, declaration, renouncing, and denouncing — and if these five things are not worked, the conscience will have problems.
- The spirits most dangerous to a person are not those that attack externally but those that have the power to influence the mind.
- Spirits that have entered a family via covenant cannot simply be bound — they have a legal right to be there, and they must be denounced and renounced.
"The spirits that are the most dangerous to man are the ones that have the power to influence your mind. The only way they leave your life is you have to denounce them. Not only denounce them, but you have to renounce them."
The Spiritual World Operates on Legalities
- The spiritual world does not operate on emotion or how you felt on a given day — it operates on legalities, like a court system.
- Every thought a person has ever had is impossible to have without the influence of a spirit — either the Spirit of God, angelic spirits, demonic spirits, or the spirit of men.
- When recurring patterns appear in a family line — suicide, failure, poverty, fear — the entry point is a spirit, and it must be examined through the lens of generational thought patterns, not only events.
"The spiritual world operates of legalities. Every thought you have ever had in your mind, it is impossible for you to think or have a thought that is not influenced by a spirit."
A Distorted Conscience Cancels Prayer
- Most unanswered prayers are the result of an affected conscience — the mind contradicts the prayer even as it is being spoken.
- When you say "Father, bless me to be successful" and the mind replies "you are going to fail again," you do not mean what you pray because there is already opposition within you.
- This internal opposition does not get fixed by binding — it only gets repaired by renouncing and denouncing.
"Some of you think you are fighting devils, but you are fighting your own conscience. The devil is simply taking advantage of what is already planted within your mind."
God Responds to Your Thoughts
- Thoughts are silent to human ears, but in the spirit they are loud — and God is responding to your thoughts.
- Jesus perceived the thoughts of the Pharisee at the dinner table and answered him without a word being spoken — demonstrating that God engages the conscience, not the words.
- Praying without ceasing is primarily about the state of your consciousness — because when your mind is pure, you see difficulty and you see God's opportunity.
"Every thought you have ever had — that's what God is responding to. When your mind is pure, you see negative things, you see God's opportunity."
God's Standards Versus Human Standards
- A distorted conscience tries to box God into human qualifications — tattoos, appearance, background — while God is already working through people that religious standards would disqualify.
- Spiritual men and women look at what God is producing and what God is doing, not at whether someone conforms to their expectations.
- A clear conscience presents you rightly before God; a distorted conscience produces you distorted before God, and God cannot deal with something that does not look like Him.
"You are trying to box God yet God has stepped out of that box."
The Mind of Christ Is Observed, Not Declared
- God only deals with His own image — and that image is primarily your mental state, the mind being renewed as it was in Christ Jesus.
- You cannot declare the mind of Christ — you must observe how Jesus looked at things, how He moved among people, and allow the full counsel of the Word of God to be your map.
- Conformity to the image of Christ is not a confessional formula — it is the result of a conscience shaped and governed by the Word.
"You have to observe the full council of the Word of God and allow that to be your map."
Adversity Opens You to See Who You Really Are
- God gives bread of adversity and waters of affliction not to destroy but to draw out what is hidden within, so it can be identified, renounced, and removed.
- Some have not known they carried temper, fear, or a quitter's spirit until adversity revealed it — and now that they know, they must denounce it and renounce it.
- Difficulty is not a disqualification — it is an opportunity to hear God, because God is attracted to impossible situations where a good man is standing in the middle of them.
"The waters of affliction open you up to see who you really are. Now denounce it and renounce it."
The Voice That Comes From Behind
- The voice of the Holy Spirit is the first teacher received when the conscience is clear — and it does not come from ahead but from behind.
- Some are waiting for a voice to show them where to go, but the voice comes behind you saying: "This is the way, walk ye in it."
- There is a voice saying wait, hold on, push, don't stop, don't give up — and this voice only ministers to those whose conscience is clear enough to hear Him.
"There is a voice that is behind you that will begin to minister to your conscience. But this only happens when your conscience is clear."
Believing Is the Gateway to Righteousness
- Believing is centered on something that has no visible reality or means of verification — and faith requires belief for things that are immaterial and unseen.
- God came to Abraham and said "trust Me" when there was nothing natural to confirm it — and Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.
- Confession comes because of faith, but believing is the prior act of simply trusting — and no one enters faith without first passing through believing.
"God loved Abraham because Abraham believed God. Abraham believed God and it was counted for him righteousness."
The Past Must Be Released
- If the mind has not moved on from a past loss or wound, the body ages while the soul remains in the past — and in the spirit, there is no day or night, so God sees the soul as still in that moment.
- Holding on to what was lost keeps a person from receiving what God has already released — and what was lost has no comparison to what God has already prepared.
- The call to complete sanctification and complete restoration of the mind is a call to release the past, demolish false mindsets, and step into what God has already made available.
"What you lost has no compared to what God has already released unto you."
The Blessing of God Requires a Sanctified Mind
- Work ethic is important, but hard work alone does not produce — what is needed is the blessing of God, and people who work hard are still poor without it.
- False mindsets such as "I will never make it," "I will not live long," and "no one makes it in my family" must be pulled down, torn down, and destroyed.
- The blessing of God comes when the mind has been sanctified, purified, and restored — because then God can see Himself in you, and He releases what He has already prepared.
"Work ethic is important. But hard work does not produce. What you need is the blessing of God."
Key Definitions
Conscience — The awareness you carry into God's presence; not merely moral sensitivity, but the totality of what you are aware of when you approach God — what you believe about yourself, about God, and about what He can do for you.
Renouncing — The personal act of severing yourself from a belief, agreement, or spiritual tie you once held or participated in; it addresses what is personally bound to your soul.
Denouncing — The authoritative declaration that a spirit, mindset, or curse has no right or power over you; it addresses spirits that have entered through family covenants and generational lines.
Spiritual Legality — The operating principle of the spiritual world; spirits do not respond to emotion or spiritual effort alone but to legal rights — covenants made, sins unrenounced, and agreements not broken give spirits a rightful claim.
Believing — Trusting what God has said with nothing visible, material, or verifiable to confirm it; it precedes confession and is the foundation of righteousness before God, as demonstrated in Abraham.
Distorted Conscience — A conscience that has been affected by demonic influence, generational programming, or unrenounced mindsets, causing a person to contradict their own prayer and present themselves before God in opposition to what they are asking.
Key Takeaways
- A clear conscience is the prerequisite for answered prayer — God does not respond to your words; He responds to what your awareness carries into His presence, making the state of the conscience more important than the eloquence of the prayer.
- Every thought is spiritually influenced and must be examined — Because thoughts are never independent of a spirit, the believer must scrutinize recurring thought patterns — especially those inherited through the family line — as potential evidence of demonic legal rights that must be renounced.
- Renouncing and denouncing are the only repair for a distorted conscience — Binding and casting out cannot fix what is rooted in the conscience through covenant or programming; only the deliberate acts of renouncing and denouncing address the legal entry point and restore the mind.
- God's blessing flows through a sanctified mind, not through hard work alone — Hard work without God's blessing is insufficient, and the blessing is directly connected to the condition of the conscience; when the mind is purified, God sees Himself and releases what He has prepared.
- Adversity is a tool of revelation, not a sign of rejection — Difficulty reveals hidden weaknesses, amplifies the voice of the Holy Spirit, and positions the believer to encounter God in ways that are impossible in comfort — making every crisis an invitation to deeper clarity.
Reflection Questions
- When you approach God in prayer, what is your conscience actually carrying — genuine trust in what He has promised, or a mind that quietly contradicts what your mouth is saying?
- Are there recurring thought patterns in your family line — fear, poverty, failure, self-destruction — that you have never formally renounced and denounced, treating them as personality rather than as spiritual influence?
- Where in your life have you been fighting what you believe is a devil, when in truth you are fighting your own conscience — and what mindset needs to be pulled down?
- What past loss, wound, or season are you still attached to in your soul, even though your body has moved forward in time — and what would it look like to truly release it?
- Are you praying according to a religious program you inherited, or according to the real relationship God has established with you personally — and what would it look like to pray with full honesty before Him this week?
Prayers and Declarations
"There is a change in your mind that is coming. I will receive. There is a shift in your mind that is coming."
"If you can hear me now understand this and understand me by the spirit of God, your difficulty is an opportunity to hear God. It is not a disqualification. You are troubles understand this about God. God does not come into good situations. God is invited by bad situations with a good man in the midst of it. God is provoked. God is provoked and is attracted to impossible situations. God loves when your strength fails you because it is an opportunity for him to show how strong and mighty he is through you. But will you allow your situation to form your reality? Or will you allow the Holy Spirit to deposit the truth of what your tomorrow will be like."
"The Lord is calling you today to a place of complete sanctification and complete restoration of the mind."
Scripture References
- Hebrews 10:22-24 — "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith; having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:" (KJV)
- Isaiah 30:19 — "For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee." (KJV)
- Isaiah 30:20 — "And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:" (KJV)
- Isaiah 30:21 — "And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left." (KJV)
- Isaiah 30:22-23
- Romans 10:9
- Mark 7:15
Golden Nuggets
"Everything around us may fail, but Jesus Christ the Lord will never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, fail."
"God does not answer your prayer when you pray. He answers you before you pray. God is not dealing with your words. He's dealing with your conscious."
"The spirits that are the most dangerous to man are the ones that have the power to influence your mind."
"Every thought you have ever had in your mind, it is impossible for you to think or have a thought that is not influenced by a spirit."
"Some of you think you are fighting devils, but you are fighting your own conscience. The devil is simply taking advantage of what is already planted within your mind."
"When your mind is pure, you see negative things, you see God's opportunity."
"A clear conscience presents you right before God. A distorted conscience produces you distorted before God and God cannot deal with something that does not look like him."
"The waters of affliction open you up to see who you really are."
"What you lost has no compared to what God has already released unto you."
"Work ethic is important. But hard work does not produce. What you need is the blessing of God."
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