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Carrying on from our explanation of "conscience" ==>

*Sidenote: Isn't it interesting that the word 'conscience' = 'con - science = 'against' - 'known' science... Think about that!!

HERE'S the HOW TO:

What should we do when we are wrong? Cease proceeding to do the incorrect thing if we have not yet done it; repent, confess, and claim the cleansing of the precious blood if we have done it already. It is to be regretted that so many Christians today do not follow these rules. Immediately after the reproof of their inner voice, they lay plans to quench its protest. They usually employ two methods. One is to argue with it, trying to marshal reasons for their action. They suppose that anything reasonable must be God's will and will be condoned by the conscience. What they do not understand is that conscience never argues or reasons. It discerns God's will through intuition and condemns everything which is not according to Him. Conscience speaks for God's will, not for reason. Christians ought not to walk by reason but by God's will as disclosed in their intuition. Whenever they disobey any movement there, conscience raises its voice to condemn. Explanation may satisfy the mind [soul]but never conscience. As long as the issue condemned is not removed it shall not cease condemning.

Can you sense Holy Spirit moving on your heart [spirit]? Allow Him to work...

The other method is to ease conscience with many other works. To solve the dilemma of refusing to obey their inner voice of accusation on the one hand, but continuing to be afraid of its condemnation on the other, believers resort to many good works. They replace God's will with laudable deeds. They have not obeyed God, yet they insist that, what they now do is just as good as what He has revealed - perhaps even better, broader in scope, more profitable, greater in influence. They highly esteem such works; God, however, deems them of no spiritual account whatsoever. He looks neither at the aggregate of fat nor at the number of burnt offerings but solely at the sum of obedience to Him. Nothing, (regardless how commendable the intention) can move God's heart if the revelation in the spirit has been neglected. Doubling the consecration will not silence the accusing monitor; its voice must be followed; that and nothing else can ever please God. Conscience simply demands our obedience; it does not require us to serve God in any spectacular way.

 Editor's note: This where we have to be VERY careful not to come under "condemnation" by satan. IF we lose our focus on the Lord, we could be in danger of falling into deception, lies, etc. Remember, Holy Spirit "convicts" the heart, and "condemns" the sin. Our job is "only obey"! 

Let us therefore not deceive ourselves. In walking according to the spirit we shall hear the directions of conscience. Do not try to escape any inward reproach; rather, be attentive to its voice. By constantly walking in the spirit we are constrained to humble ourselves and to heed the correction of conscience. Humbly and quietly and obediently they should permit their conscience to reprove and convict them of every individual sin. Christians must accept its reproach and be willing, according to the mind of the Spirit, to eliminate everything which is contrary to God.

After one has permitted conscience to begin operating, he should allow it to perfect its work. Sins must be treated progressively one by one until all have been eliminated. If a child of God is faithful in his dealing with sin and faithfully follows his conscience, he shall receive light increasingly from heaven and have his unnoticed sins exposed; Holy Spirit shall enable him to read and to understand more of the law written upon his heart. Thus he is made to know what holiness, righteousness, purity and honesty is, concerning which he had had only vague ideas before. Moreover, his intuition is strengthened greatly in its ability to know the mind of Holy Spirit. Whenever a believer is therefore reproved by his conscience his immediate response should be: "Lord, I am willing to obey." He should let Christ once again be the Lord of his life; he should be teachable and should be taught by Holy Spirit. The Spirit shall surely come and help if a person is honestly minding his conscience.

** This is when/where the scripture in Phillipians 4:7 comes in: "And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts [spirits] and minds through Christ Jesus.

Conscience is like a window to the believer's spirit. Through it the rays of heaven shine into the spirit, flooding the whole being with light. Heavenly light shines in through the conscience to expose fault and to condemn failure whenever we wrongfully think or speak or act in a way not becoming saints. If, by submitting to its voice and eliminating the sin it condemns, we allow it to do its work, then the light from heaven will shine brighter next time; but should we not confess nor exterminate the sin, our conscience will be corrupted by it [Titus 1.15], because we have not walked according to the teaching of God's light. With sin accumulating, conscience as a window becomes increasingly clouded. Light can barely penetrate the spirit. There finally comes a day when that believer can sin without compunction and with no grief at all, since the conscience has long been paralyzed and the intuition dulled by sin. The more spiritual a believer is, the more keenly alert is his inner monitor. No Christian can be so spiritual as to have no further necessity to confess his sin. He must be fallen spiritually if his conscience is dull and insensitive. Excellent knowledge, hard labor, excited feeling and strong will, cannot substitute for a sensitive conscience. He who does not heed it but seeks mental and sensational progress is retrogressing spiritually.

Last caution: [1Pet 5:8] "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour: [v9] Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world."