“ My dear friends, do not believe all who claim to have the spirit, but test and discern them to find out if the spirit they have comes from God ”- 1John 4:1

“So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and distinguish between right and wrong …”- 1Kings 3:9

PRAYER INTENTION

1. Pray for discernment, the ability to discern good and evil, opportunities, helpers, enemies, doors, manipulations.

2. PRAY for your PERSONAL INTENTIONS

🔥THE GIFT OF DISCERNMENT🔥

“ My dear friends, do not believe all who claim to have the spirit, but test and discern them to find out if the spirit they have comes from God ”- 1John 4:1

“ So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and distinguish between right and wrong …”- 1Kings 3:9

Do not joke with this gift of the Spirit. This gift will bail you out of many pains. Discerning of spirits (Perception) ability to perceive spiritual impulses- ability to know origin, source and motivation behind a manifestation.

The ability to know whether the activity is initiated and sustained by God or whether it is an act of man's will or it is demonic. It will take discernment for you to know that which is of God. Ability to make wise and godly decisions. You will be foolish to imagine everything happening in our churches are of God. There are things orchestrated by demons, doctrines that come from demons- “ The spirit says clearly that in the last days people will abandon their faith giving into obeying seductive and lying spirits and following the teaching and doctrine of demons ”-1Timothy 4:1.

Doctrine of demons is an understanding fabricated intentionally from the pits of hell to destroy saints.

Only through discernment that you can judge righteous judgment as to whether something is from God or not. It is impossible for you to perceive accurately if you lack discernment, you will call good evil and evil good- you will call saints devils and call devils saints- it takes discernment.

The realm of the spirit is a spiritual environment and the raw materials we see crystallized here came from the realm of the spirit, anyone who operates from the realm of the spirit has a superior advantage over you who is just limited to this realm without looking for support from Christ. That is why Jesus will say I am the door/gate , it means there are many other entrances, but the only authorized entrance is Jesus, the door, anyone who tries to access the realms any other way is a thief. And there are spiritual thieves that is why you must align yourselves to Christ.

Correctness of results doesn’t mean it is from God. Correctness of result is gauged and backed by the Holy Spirit. Any activity sponsored by the Holy spirt has Gods endorsement. For instance, Mallam can heal, give you money perform a miracle, it doesn’t mean it’s from God.

'One of the standard proof of spiritual maturity is if you have this gift in your life.* Unfortunately we do not understand the promptings of the Holy Spirit, we do not know how to interpret spiritual things, no wonder Hebrews 5:12 will say “.. Yet some of you still need someone to teach you the first lessons of God. Instead of eating spiritual solid food, you are still drinking spiritual milk meant for spiritual babies, anyone who has to drink milk is still a child without any experience ...”

In this world somebody can wear a suit, drive a nice car and be a criminal- stealing from the company or church and you will say -oh there’s is no way that person can steal because you are judging by physical appearances, so you will rather accuse the man who is unkempt and lives in one kiosk because of appearances. You need the spirit of discernment ooh. You can see somebody who may look to you like a thief, but may be the honest person ever. There was a case where money was getting missing in the house, and they all suspected the house girl, meanwhile the one stealing the money was the son of the man who lacked nothing.

The policemen and the justice system especially need this gift, because the number of innocent people who have been whisked away to prisons is unfortunate and pathetic. The kind of profiling they do is pathetic, if you are a criminal in this country and you want to evade them, all you need to do is buy a V8 or a huge vehicle and you will be saluted all the way till you get to your destination. If you drive a small vehicle you will be harrased till you get your destination.

Do you know the number of times we have peddled stories and destroyed innocent people, because of the tendency to believe quickly what we hear. Let me tell you something even if the most honest person tells me something I submit it to the spirit of discernment, because if I don’t I will make a lot of errors. If you don’t have discernment as a leader, leader in your family, church, workplace, you will destroy things, people and relationships.

The world is full of deception, plenty of it, people are almost always having ulterior motives and hidden agendas, and someone can be killing and be smiling to you, while you are dying, while he is piercing you.

Have you wanted to do something, business, discussion or partnership and that night you couldn’t sleep, you felt something was off, but you couldn’t pin point exactly what it was and you went ahead with whatever it was and it backfired? And you tell yourself after, hmm I felt it ooh, that this thing might not work. Or maybe you made up your mind you were going to ask a lady out, you prayed fasted, then your spirit ceased.

You must train your discernment by prayer and the word of God. Both must move together, prayer and the word of God. Most people train their discernment by prayer – they never study the word, you must study the word or else you will get into confusion, if all you do is pray and pray, without studying the word, your eyes will be opened to the realm of the spirit but your capacity to interpret the impulses will be wrong- that’s why you will give false visons, false interpretations.

So you will see someone and think and even call the person a witch, meanwhile the person is not, because even though you are very good at prayer you don’t study the word, so you are opened to the realms of the spirit because of prayer but you lack the ability to interpret events correctly. So you go around calling bad good and good bad. Let me tell you those of you who find it easy to call people witches, it is not easy to be a witch ooh. That is why delivering a witch is no joke, a human cannot just get up and become a witch. The condition to become a witch is the mark of the beast. Let’s be careful, there are some of us, we have labelled everyone we come across as witches.

We have destroyed people’s lives, pastors have destroyed families, marriages, calling everyone a demon because of the lack of discernment. Discernment is needed. May God build us to a level where nothing passes us without us seeing it.

Some of us have the promptings – but we don’t know how to interpret it- so you have a prompting that death is around the corner, but you didn’t know what to do till someone died then you say, aaah I felt it ooh, I knew …what did you do about it? Don’t take the promptings for granted they are from the Holy Spirit, it’s the Holy Spirit attempting to communicate with you.

So for instance, the devil will use destiny helpers to chase you in your dreams, you wake up and because of the lack of discernment you cast and bind your destiny helpers, meanwhile it was a diversion Satan created in your dream. So he presented good as bad in your dream, and you become suspicious of the very person meant to help you and you stay broke for the rest of your life. Satan has used this tactic to destroy people and families. He has made families to fight today by using the faces of mothers, fathers, children, relatives, friends in dreams, I saw you with a knife you want to kill me? And because you lack discernment, you do literal interpretation and you are doomed.

Our only basis for escaping error is the word of God- the study of scripture is important, it gives us insight into how God works. There are many dreams when you get up, just say nonsense, pray and forget aba them.

The lack of this spirit of discernments can make you launch into territories not meant for you. Even when it comes to helping people you need discernment to know who to help, because helping some people will only bring you double trouble.

Discernment to know who to bring into your house to stay with you, it doesn’t matter if the person is your relative. Because people bring in atmospheres, and everyone is connected to an atmosphere, if you do not discern and you bring someone with a negative atmosphere into your home, that atmosphere might crush your home.

Discernment helps you to pick the impulses of people. When you train yourself, you can discern the presence of angels- you might not see them but you can feel their presence and describe them. You will know what kind of angels they are and their operation and direction.

How many things have happened in our lives because we lacked discernment-?

Pray for the gift of discernment to be activated in your life , the ability to discern good and evil, opportunities, helpers, enemies, doors, manipulations etc

TO BE CONTINUED...

Shalom and God bless you

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