Evangelist Joshua Orekhie Ministries

40 Days Fasting & Prayer Announcement

Theme: A Cry for Mercy

Scriptures:

Psalm 51 | Psalm 57 | Mark 10:47 | Psalm 86:3 | Luke 18:13 | Psalm 130:2

⏱ Fasting Schedule:

Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays: Early Morning to 6:00pm

Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays & Sundays: Early Morning to 2:00pm

Let’s come together in prayer and fasting, seeking God’s mercy, grace, and divine breakthrough!

DAY 19: A CRY FOR MERCY TO GUARD MY GOOD CONSCIENCE

Hebrews 9:14

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

John 8:32

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Psalm 51:1-2

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.  Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 119:133

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

1 Timothy 1:19

Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

INTRODUCTION

Do you possess a good conscience today? Do you ever sense deep within that what you’re doing is wrong? How clear is your conscience toward God and toward people? Your conscience is far more than mere feelings, emotions, or mental reasoning, it is the inner witness that God has placed within your spirit.

Your conscience functions as your spiritual alarm system, designed by God to guide you into righteousness and warn you away from danger. When your conscience is alive and active, it becomes your protector and guide. It speaks clearly: “This is right, follow it. This is wrong, avoid it.”

There are people who don’t even feel it when they make mistake; their conscience is already dead. A dead conscience does not see evil as evil anymore. If you want to last in life, never get to a point where your conscience is dead; where you call evil a weakness.

Your conscience is the voice of God echoing in your inner being, bearing witness to truth and convicting you of error. But when your conscience is repeatedly ignored, violated, or suppressed, it becomes dull, confused, and eventually spiritually dead.

When your conscience is clean, you can stand confidently in God’s presence without fear, shame, or condemnation. You are not tormented by guilt or weighed down by hidden sins. Even when false accusations arise against you, a good conscience shields you from their power because you know the truth about your walk with God.

A clear conscience gives you assurance in prayer, boldness in witness, and peace in your daily walk. You can lift your holy hands without wrath or doubt within you because nothing stands between you and God.

A clear conscience preserves your spiritual sensitivity. People who guard their conscience remain tender to the Holy Spirit’s voice. They hear God clearly, recognize warnings early, discern their mistakes quickly, and make amends immediately. Their spiritual radar remains sharp and reliable.

A bad conscience also opens the door to fear and insecurity. When your inner witness is not sound, you begin to fear exposure, correction, or confrontation. You may avoid accountability, spiritual authority, or honest conversations.

Even false accusations can shake you deeply, because inside you are already unsettled. A clean conscience fears no accusation, but a bad one magnifies every threat. A bad conscience does not just affect the present; it changes people perspection about you.

When someone looks at you and say, “How could you do this? And you call yourself a child of God!” Those words will go through you like a hot iron if your conscience is alive. If those words were spoken to you because you truly did err from the faith, you would feel pain in your heart, become miserable and feel ashamed of yourself.

If indeed your conscience is alive, in such a moment, you would see yourself as a wretched sinner and immediately run to the cross of Calvary for mercy and forgiveness. If your conscience is however dead, you may not feel a thing and just move on as if nothing ever happened.

When your conscience is polluted, the flow of God’s blessing into your life becomes restricted. Opportunities you should have received from someone are delayed; Those who promised to help you easily withdraw. Those who promised to visit you refuses to come.

People no longer believe or trust you again. You said yes, but people have to check if it is actually true. Bad conscience can make one a bad person. You show hatred to innocent people. Those who are kind to you, you often see them as evil or threat.  This is not a life of a true Christian.

You pray for people, but you don’t have good mind towards them. You openly smile with people, but inwardly, you are mocking them. The progress of others are a big threat to you. You see the truth but you refuse to say it. This alone can block one heaven except mercy prevails.

Beloved: your good conscience must be guarded; A genuinely good conscience operates on two levels: vertically toward God and horizontally toward people.

A person with an authentic good conscience will not deliberately harm their brother or sister. Consider Cain, who lacked a good conscience toward Abel, his defiled conscience led to murder, divine judgement, and perpetual regret.

Some believers claim their conscience is clear before God while simultaneously hurting others carelessly, cheating in their dealings, manipulating situations for personal advantage, and offending people without remorse. This is not a good conscience, it is a dangerously selective, self-deceived conscience.

Your treatment of others reveals the true condition of your conscience. If you cannot maintain a clear conscience toward people, your claim of having a clear conscience before God becomes questionable. You cannot love God whom you have not seen while hating your brother whom you see daily.

To succeed in life, business, ministry, and relationships, you must cultivate and maintain a good conscience.  Your reputation, your effectiveness, and your destiny are tied to the integrity of your conscience. When your conscience condemns you, it silences your prayers, weakens your authority, and limits your spiritual progress.

One primary reason prayers remain unanswered is the barrier created by a bad conscience toward someone. When you harbour unforgiveness, hold grudges, refuse to make restitution, or maintain broken relationships without attempting reconciliation, your prayers are hindered.

A defiled conscience blocks the flow of divine favour and answers from heaven. But when your conscience is clear before God and men, your prayers become powerful and effective. Nothing hinders your access to heaven’s throne. Your petitions reach God’s ears without obstruction, and answers flow freely.

When your conscience is clear, God entrusts you with greater assignments, deeper revelations, and increased authority. A clean conscience attracts divine confidence and opens doors of unprecedented opportunity. A clean conscience produces divine peace that transcends human understanding.

This supernatural peace guards your heart and mind in Christ Jesus, creating stability in the midst of life’s storms. The Bible warns us: “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life” (Proverbs 4:23). Your thoughts, actions, habits, and character must be carefully guarded because they shape your conscience.

What you tolerate today becomes acceptable tomorrow, and what becomes acceptable eventually silences your conscience entirely. A clean conscience brings divine peace that surpasses understanding. It attracts God’s trust and opens doors of opportunity.

If your conscience has been wounded by past sins, compromises, or failures, take heart, it can be restored back! God’s mercy is sufficient to cleanse even the most defiled conscience. The blood of Jesus Christ will cleanse your conscience from dead works so that you can serve the living God with freedom and joy.

Cry out to God for mercy. Confess your sins specifically and thoroughly. Receive His forgiveness by faith. Make restitution where possible. Forgive those who have hurt you. Release bitterness and resentment. As you do these things, God will heal your conscience, restore your spiritual sensitivity, and answer your pending prayers.

Your conscience is not your enemy, it is your friend. It was not given to condemn you but to preserve you, guide you, and protect you from harm. Honour this precious gift by keeping it tender, clean, and responsive to God’s voice.

This year, commit to walking with a clear conscience before God and before all people. Let integrity be your lifestyle. Let honesty mark your character. Let quick repentance be your habit. As you do this, you will experience the freedom, confidence, and spiritual power that comes from a good conscience.

Guard your conscience as you would guard your life because in truth, your spiritual life depends on it. May God give you grace to finish this year with a clear conscience and a testimony that brings eternal glory to His matchless name.

CONFESSION

Father, I bow before Your throne of grace today, fully aware that without Your mercy, my conscience cannot remain pure and alive before You. I plead the blood of Jesus over my heart and mind, asking You to wash away every dead work, every hidden compromise, and every spiritual insensitivity that has crept into my life.

Holy Spirit, revive my conscience. Make it tender to Your conviction, sensitive to Your leading, and responsive to Your Word. I renounce every attempt to silence the voice of my conscience through excuses, comparison with others, or gradual acceptance of what You call sin. I refuse to accommodate evil or call darkness light.

Lord, this year I declare that my conscience will be protected by Your truth and preserved by Your grace. I will not allow the pressures of this world, the opinions of men, or the deceitfulness of sin to corrupt my spiritual discernment. By Your mighty power, my conscience will remain a faithful guardian, alerting me to danger and guiding me toward righteousness.

I commit to walking in integrity before You and before all people. Let the fear of the Lord govern my decisions, my words, and my actions. Grant me the courage to obey my conscience even when it’s difficult, costly, or unpopular. May I finish this year with a clear conscience, having maintained faith and a good conscience that honours You in all things. In the powerful name of Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen.

PRAISE AND WORSHIP

As you worship, don’t merely sing words, engage your spirit. Let the Holy Spirit search the depths of your heart. Allow God to speak to your inner man about areas that need cleansing, attitudes that need adjustment, and compromises that need to be confronted. Take the hymns below to connect your spirit to the throne of mercy.

HYMN: I’m Pressing On The Upward Way

1 I’m pressing on the upward way,

New heights I’m gaining every day;

Still praying as I onward bound,

“Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.”

Chorus:

Lord, lift me up, and let me stand

By faith on Heaven’s tableland;

Where love, and joy, and light abound,

Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.

2 My heart has no desire to stay

Where doubts arise and fears dismay;

Though some may dwell where these abound,

My constant aim is higher ground.

3 Beyond the mist I fain would rise,

To rest beneath unclouded skies

Above earth’s turmoil peace is found

By those who dwell on higher ground

4 I long to scale the utmost height

Though rough the way, and hard the fight,

My song while climbing, shall resound

“Lord, lead me on to higher ground.”

(DAY 19): A CRY FOR MERCY TO GUARD MY GOOD CONSCIENCE – Prayer Points

1. Father, I cry for mercy, guard my conscience from corruption and compromise, in the name of Jesus.

2. O Lord, by Your mercy, keep my conscience alive, sensitive, and responsive to Your truth, in the name of Jesus.

3. O Lord, do not allow my heart to become hardened while I still call Your name in my secret place, in the name of Jesus.

4. By Your mercy, O Lord, let my conscience never agree with what Your word condemns or hates, in the name of Jesus.

5. Father, deliver me from a conscience that condemns the truth and magnify habits that you prohibit, in the name of Jesus.

6. O God, let my conscience trouble me whenever I am about to step out of Your will, in the name of Jesus.

7. By Your mercy, O Lord, remove every spiritual numbness from my heart and inner man, in the name of Jesus.

8. Father, guard my conscience from being polluted by pride, greed, lust or anger, show me mercy, in the name of Jesus.

9. By Your mercy, O Lord, let conviction come early to me before destruction comes suddenly, in the name of Jesus.

10. Father, do not allow pressure, fear or my love for money silence my conscience and my fear in You, in the name of Jesus.

11. Father, by Your mercy, revive every area where my conscience has gone silent, in the name of Jesus.

12. Father by Your mercy, help me to respond quickly to corrections and convictions, in the name of Jesus.

13. Father, let my conscience cry out whenever I am drifting away from You, in the name of Jesus.

14. O God, let my inner witness remain louder than my emotions, in the name of Jesus.

15. By Your mercy O Lord, guard my heart from hidden compromises in secret places, in the name of Jesus.

16. O Lord, by Your mercy, preserve me from being spiritually alive, but dead inwardly, spiritually hot outside but cold inside, in the name of Jesus.

17. Father, let my conscience warn me before trouble strikes, not after the incident, in the name of Jesus.

18. By Your mercy, silence every voice justifying wrongdoings in my heart, in the name of Jesus.

19. O Lord, guard my conscience from defilement through words, thoughts, and actions, in the name of Jesus.

20. I receive grace to walk in integrity before You and before men, in the name of Jesus.

21. Mercy of God, separate me from influences that pollute my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

22. Father, align my conscience with Your Word and Your Spirit always, in the name of Jesus.

23. Father, I confess every time I have ignored the warnings of my conscience and chosen sin instead, in the name of Jesus.

24. By the blood of Jesus, I renounce every form of self-deception that has corrupted my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

25. Father, expose every hidden compromise in my life that I have grown comfortable with over time, in the name of Jesus.

26. Holy Spirit, reveal any area where I have called evil good and good evil, in the name of Jesus.

27. Holy Spirit, wash away every stain of sin that has dulled my spiritual sensitivity, in the name of Jesus.

28. O Lord, restore the tenderness and sensitivity of my conscience that has been hardened by repeated sin, in the name of Jesus.

29. O Lord, quicken my spirit to discern between right and wrong with godly wisdom, in the name of Jesus.

30. Holy Spirit, give me a conscience that refuses to accommodate sin in any form in my life, in the name of Jesus.

31. O Lord, let my conscience be a lamp that guides me away from darkness and into Your light, in the name of Jesus.

32. Father, grant me the grace to maintain a good conscience even when it costs my life or comfort, in the name of Jesus.

33. Father, I plead the blood of Jesus as a hedge of protection around my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

34. Father, let every attack of the enemy against my spiritual sensitivity, be destroyed by fire, in the name of Jesus.

35. O Lord, give me the courage to obey my conscience even when it’s difficult or unpopular, in the name of Jesus.

36. Holy Spirit, empower me to act immediately when You convict me through my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

37. O Lord, let the fear of grieving my conscience be greater than the fear of men’s opinions, in the name of Jesus.

38. Father, help me to make restitution quickly whenever my conscience convicts me of wrongdoing, in the name of Jesus.

39. O Lord, give me boldness to confess my faults when my conscience testifies against me, in the name of Jesus.

40. Father, grant me wisdom to distinguish between true conviction and false condemnation, in the name of Jesus.

41. Holy Spirit, remind me daily that I will give an account for every deed done in the body, in the name of Jesus.

42. O Lord, give me a healthy fear of sin that prevents me from compromising my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

43. Father, may I live every day with the awareness that You see all and know all, in the name of Jesus.

44. O Lord, give me a conscience that is clear in all my relationships with others, in the name of Jesus.

45. Father, let me walk in integrity toward every person You bring into my life, in the name of Jesus.

46. Holy Spirit, convict me quickly when I have wronged someone or my child did something wrong to others, in the name of Jesus.

47. O Lord, give me the humility to apologize and seek forgiveness when I have hurt someone, in the name of Jesus.

48. Father, let my conscience be sensitive to the impact of my words on others, in the name of Jesus.

49. Holy Spirit, help me to love others genuinely and not just for what they can do for me, in the name of Jesus.

50. O Lord, let me treat every person with dignity and respect as one made in Your own image, in the name of Jesus.

51. Father, guard my conscience from becoming hardened toward the needs and pain of others, in the name of Jesus.

52. Father, let me never adjust Your truth to accommodate my desires or convenience, in the name of Jesus.

53. Lord, give me discernment to recognise false teachings that would corrupt my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

54. Father, let Your Word be the final authority over my conscience, not my feelings or circumstances, in the name of Jesus.

55. Holy Spirit, give me boldness to stand for truth even when my conscience sets me apart, in the name of Jesus.

56. O Lord, I break every pattern of gradual compromise that has weakened my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

57. Holy Spirit, help me to flee from temptation before it overwhelms my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

58. O Lord, give me victory over every besetting sin that troubles my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

59. Father, let me not be conformed to this world but transformed by the renewing of my mind, in the name of Jesus.

60. O Lord, give me a conscience that refuses to cut corners or compromise standards, in the name of Jesus.

61. By Your mercy, Lord, release me from the prison of past mistakes that haunt my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

62. Lord, I cover my conscience with the blood of Jesus against every demonic accusation, in the name of Jesus.

63. By the authority in the name of Jesus, I bind every spirit of confusion attacking my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

64. O Lord, let no demon succeed in making me doubt the genuineness of my repentance, in the name of Jesus.

65. Father, I refuse to become too comfortable with behaviours that once troubled my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

66. O Lord, deliver me from the dangerous place of sinning presumptuously without remorse, in the name of Jesus.

67. O Lord, destroy every monitoring spirit assigned to record my faults and use them against my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

68. Father, I reject the lies of the enemy that tells me my conscience can never be clean again, in the name of Jesus.

69. Father, silence the voice of the accuser who seeks to condemn my conscience day and night, in the name of Jesus.

70. O Lord, help me to be the same person in public and in private, in the name of Jesus.

71. O Lord, give me friends and accountability partners who will speak truth to my conscience without minding my reaction, in the name of Jesus.

72. Holy Spirit, remind me to take inventory of my spiritual condition regularly, in the name of Jesus.

73. O Lord, help me to examine my conscience daily in Your presence, in the name of Jesus.

74. O Lord, help me to pray for those who have hurt me rather than seek revenge, in the name of Jesus.

75. O Lord, let me be quick to forgive as You are quick to forgive me, in the name of Jesus.

76. Father, let my conscience not allow me to harbour bitterness and unforgiveness, in the name of Jesus.

77. O Lord, give me the strength to release those who have wounded me, in the name of Jesus.

78. Father, grant me the grace to turn completely from sin and walk in newness of life this year, in the name of Jesus.

79. Father, give me wisdom to wait for clarity when my conscience is uncertain, in the name of Jesus.

80. Father, give me peace in my conscience when I am walking in Your will, in the name of Jesus.

81. O Lord, let me not be swayed by profit, pleasure, or popularity when my conscience says no, in the name of Jesus,

82. Holy Spirit, illuminate scriptures in my heart that will speak directly to issues troubling my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

83. Father, help me to hide Your Word in my heart that I might not sin against You, in the name of Jesus.

84. Father, I reject every false conviction planted by the enemy to keep me in bondage, in the name of Jesus.

85. O Lord, destroy every monitoring spirit assigned to record my faults and use them against my conscience, in the name of Jesus.

Kindly follow any of our past fasting days: Day 18, Day 17, Day 16, Day 15

PRAYER ASSIGNMENT

Morning Commitment: Begin each day by surrendering your conscience to the Holy Spirit’s leadership. Ask God to make you sensitive to His voice throughout the day and grant you the courage to obey immediately when convicted.

Throughout the Day: Cultivate a lifestyle of instant obedience to your conscience. When the Holy Spirit convicts you through your conscience, respond immediately with humility and repentance. Do not argue, rationalize, or delay. Quick obedience keeps your conscience tender and your fellowship with God unbroken.

Evening Examination: Before you sleep each night, invite God to search your heart thoroughly. Ask Him to reveal any area where you have grieved Him, compromised your integrity, or violated your conscience during the day. Use Psalm 139:23-24 as your prayer: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”

MEMORY VERSES

1 Tim 1:5, 1 Tim 1:19, Heb 9:14, Prov 20:27, Acts 24:16, Ps 51:10, Titus 1:15, 1 Peter 3:16, Rom 9:1, James 4:17, 1 Cor 8:12, 1 Tim 4:2, Job 27:6, 1 John 3:20-21, 1 Peter 3:21, Prov 28:13, 1 John 3:21-22, Acts 24:16, 2 Cor 1:12