the gift of discernment

I want to share with you a teaching word that I already shared with our brothers this morning. We are, as you know, for our visitors above all, taking a tour through Chapter 12 of the First Letter to the Corinthians.

And we are focusing, particularly on the verses where a series of gifts are listed, gifts that are as we have said, a special provision that God makes for his people for the needs of his people . Gifts are gifts, God's provisions for God's people.

We have been doing a careful study of each gift. We have analyzed, as you know, the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, faith, the gift of faith, the gift of healing, the gift of doing miracles or works of power, last Sunday we analyzed the gift of prophecy the prophetic gift. And today we have to talk about another gift that is the gift of discernment of spirits.

Say the word discernment with me. In the original Greek the word that is translated discernment in Spanish is 'diacrise' and it means to divide, separate, judge, discriminate, balance and weigh, carefully weigh something. It is the idea of discerning between one thing and another and determining the true composition of something. It is the word discernment.

So, the word says here in Chapter 12, verse 10 that “...to others of the body of Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit chooses to provide discerning of spirits....” 'diacrises pneumaton'. Neumaton, the word is spirit in the original Greek.

And the gifts are necessary so that the church can conduct its life in a biblical, balanced, spiritual, profitable way. And each of these gifts is like a nutrient that the body of Christ needs for its growth, for its formation and for its spiritual health.

God gives the gifts so that the church can have everything it needs to carry out the tasks, and to carry out the daily life of the church, to carry out the tasks of evangelism, to carry out the tasks of teaching and maintaining the people of God. And that is why God gives the gifts.

They are, let's say, supernatural provisions from the Holy Spirit so that the children of God can carry out the tasks that God assigns them. And I want to analyze a little this gift of discernment of spirits. Just as we analyzed the gift of prophecy, the Sunday before.

I want to tell you first, brothers, that we cannot say with absolute certainty exactly what was in the mind of the Apostle Paul when he mentioned this gift. There are many efforts to try to define exactly what the Apostle Paul meant by discerning of spirits.

Unfortunately he did not define what that gift consisted of, nor are there other uses in the Book of Acts, for example, or in the Gospels, as there are with the prophetic gift, or with the gift of healing , or with the gift of miracles, that teaches us precisely what the Apostle Paul meant with the discernment of spirits.

But, we can, by a kind of analytical process, go through Scripture and elaborate, what I can call, a theology of the discerning of spirits. And I, with your tolerance and patience and your attention, will be analyzing some biblical texts and I think that in the end we will have a very good idea of what the Apostle Paul was referring to, although I will never say with one hundred percent certainty, that I have the monopoly of what is the discernment of spirits.

I believe that these things must be approached with great humility and with great sobriety about what the word refers to. But I do know something, brothers, when a church like ours opens up to the gifts of the spirit and opens up to the supernatural movement of the Holy Spirit, the gift of discernment of spirits becomes very important. Because? Because we have already said many times that in the movement of the gifts there can also sometimes be an error, there can be carnality at times, there can be excesses at times, there can be falsehood and there can even be demonic intervention on occasions. And that has been seen throughout history.

The history of the gifts has always also been full of certain errors and certain excesses, since primitive times one sees that. That is why the Apostle Paul wrote Chapter 14 of First Corinthians where he tries to correct some excesses and some errors that were in the midst of this Pentecostal church as was the Corinthian church, and tries to calibrate exactly how the gifts should be handled.

When a church opens up to spiritual manifestations, there has to be spiritual authority, there has to be spiritual maturity in the church, there has to be vigilance, and there have to be people who examine the manifestations that are taking place to determine if these manifestations truly come from God or come from the flesh, or come from the enemy. And that is why discerning of spirits is needed.

That is why I believe it is no coincidence that after the mention of gifts of healings, miracles and prophecies, the gift of discernment of spirits is mentioned. Because the gift of discerning of spirits is like the legal court that determines if those manifestations are from God or from some other non-legitimate source. Because? Because many times even healing can come from sources that are not divine.

How many know what I'm talking about? Do you know that Satan is able to heal people who go to healers? All cultures of the world know that the devil invites people to come to him to be healed. There are healers, there are spiritualists, there are shamans, there are different types of characters in all the cultures of the world. In Central American culture there is, in the Caribbean don't even mention it, there is a lot of it; in the Nordic countries there are also; in Africa, in the aborigines of Australia and New Zealand in all parts of the world there are people who claim to do all the things that the gifts of the spirit do: divine, prophesy, speak in tongues, work miracles and do healings.

And that is why it is important that the people of God, when they open themselves to spiritual things, have discernment from God to know when there is a supernatural manifestation, from what origin it emanates. And so we have to ask the Lord, 'Lord, help us and give us discernment as a church to always keep clear.' Because churches have to protect themselves.

I, once I think I used the comparison of, let's say electricity. Electricity is wonderful, it illuminates, it is a great blessing, but electricians know that when they are going to deal with electricity they had better deal very carefully. Yes or no? You see them put on their rubber boots and turn off every switch ever and ever, and make sure they're not going to char themselves with a loose power cord lying around. You have to adopt protection and it also happens with the gifts of the spirit. You must take care.

Churches have to have understanding. When you navigate things of the spirit, you have to stock up on all the protective gear to make sure you navigate well, because the devil is capable of duplicating any type of spiritual manifestation and the flesh can also produce its own manifestations. Emotionally, people can also go into a trance or a kind of hypnosis and do things and sometimes the very emotions of people produce certain manifestations that are not necessarily from God and unless a church is strengthened in discernment it can be lost.

So, I believe in addition to that, brothers, that at all times we are navigating spiritual environments. When we are on the street, when we are at work, even at home, we need discernment from God to be able to make decisions that have to do with things of the spirit. The word that is translated discernment is 'diacrisis', in the New Testament, diacrisis and the verb is diacrine, which means to divide, it means to separate one thing from the other.

And the people of God need the ability, brothers, in ordinary life, the ability to continually discern, is this from God or is it from my flesh. A father needs to discern the spirit of his children. A supervisor at work sometimes needs to discern the environments in which he is moving. The person who is in the world needs, and above all the believer, the child of God, needs spiritual discernment in general.

I do not believe that when the Apostle speaks of discernment of spirits he is referring, as many think, only to being able to discern between a spirit of death or a spirit of lust, or a spirit of greed, or a spirit of hatred, or whatever, some think that is the gift of discerning of spirits. I think it is deeper than that and even more comprehensive than that.

I believe that every believer needs a measure of discernment in their life and I hope to elaborate on this further. Take, for example, King Solomon when he begins his government career, God approaches him and says 'Ask me what you want'. And what does King Solomon ask of him? A young man, inexperienced and with a great government to run and a great crowd of people that he needs to lead. What does King Solomon ask of God?

Look at what it says exactly, verse 9 of First Kings, Chapter 3, says: “...give therefore to your servant an understanding heart to judge your people and to discern between good and bad ...”

That is what Solomon asks of him. God was pleased by the way, that Solomon asked him for discernment to be able to discern between good and bad. You see? You need wisdom and spiritual discernment to be able to discriminate between good and bad. And you know what? Many times the difference between good and bad is going to be minimal and sometimes you are not going to be able to determine simply by eye and you are going to need something, a discernment that comes from the bowels of your spirit that shows you where you are from. You must leave. One needs that tuned ear of the spirit and Solomon understood that he needed that special wisdom.

I am speaking now of spiritual discernment, the discernment of spirits at the level of the life of the people of God. Look in Philippians, Chapter 1. We're going to look at some texts because I want to put together kind of a cumulative presentation on this gift, and I hope you're doing well. Are they awake, are they with me? Amen. Tell me from time to time, remind me that you are there, okay, because otherwise I am going to keep talking and talking and I am going to forget that I have a people here that is listening to me.

Philippians Chapter 1, verses 9 and 10, says here the Apostle Paul praying for the Philippians, says:

“....And this I pray that your love may still abound more and more in science and in all knowledge....”

The words used by the Apostle Paul that translate science and knowledge are 'epignesei' and 'aiestesei', which are rather meaning, knowledge and intelligence, for what?

“....so that you may approve the best so that you may be sincere and reprehensible for the day of Christ....”

Paul asks that the people of Philippi, The Philippian church is endowed by God, not only with love, but also another more subtle quality is added to that love, which is knowledge and intelligence.

I believe there is a balance between love and knowledge. There are many people who love but do not know how to love, yes or no? There are many people who believe that loving means allowing people to do whatever they want, not setting limits, not speaking the truth, not offending. And that is a false conception of love. The wise, mature person knows that love often leads to confrontation, that it requires discipline, that it requires truth, that it requires justice, and that I will also gather study. Because love is just a vain quality, it's more of an emotion, sentimentality, it's cheap, sticky romanticism, but love united with knowledge and wisdom, it's solid, it's like that love then has a rod of steel, a backbone that it shapes it and gives it strength.

And we as Christians have to ask the Lord, 'Father, apart from love for you, apart from passion for your works, apart from love for others, give me wisdom, give me intelligence so that I can discern between good and bad, so that I can understand the mysteries of the spirit, so that I can handle myself maturely in the affairs of the Christian life. How many can say amen to that?

Go now to another passage, look at Hebrews Chapter 5. It is a very deep passage as well and there in verse 11 and we are always talking here, and getting closer and closer to the center of this meditation. We are talking about discernment, the ability to divide moral things, spiritual things, to discern the attitude and the spirit that is in people and also the spirit that is in the world and in the air, all these things. In verse 11, Hebrews 5 says, the writer of Hebrews speaks to his readers:

“.... About this we have much to say and difficult to explain, because you have become slow to hear....”

The writer is not very happy with the Hebrews, they have been slow, they have been slow to understand and listen, he says:

“.... because having to be teachers after so long, you need to be taught again what are the first fundamentals of the words of God..."

Do you know people like that who have spent years and years in the Gospel, but how come they never grow? That they should be left behind, that they should be Apostles, they should be spiritual elders of their congregation, they should be teachers and counselors, they should be being used greatly by God and understand the depths of the word of the Lord, but they have stayed like children there in the surface. And it is necessary, as always, to re-teach them, always re-instruct them because they do not evolve, they do not develop, they are clumsy in things of the spirit, they make the same mistakes, they always say the same words, they are always being beaten by the devil to the right and to the right. sinister and they are always with one bruise or another, because the little devil hit them around the corner. They have no ability to defend themselves and to adequately navigate things of the spirit.

And the writing Apostle says: “.... ye have become such that you need milk and not solid food....”

In other words, we have to teach them the rudimentary things of the Christian life again, when we should already be talking about deeper things like the things we are talking about today. It says:

“... and everyone who partakes of the milk is inexperienced in the word of justice because he is a child...”

Who do you give the milk to? in the bottle? Babies, because their digestive system cannot digest more solid things, so you have to give them very sparse, very simple things, and that is what happens with so many people that the only thing they want to hear in preaching is something that they can say, 'Glory! to God, Hallelujah!' and nod and dance, but they go home without having received solid food and the church has to receive solid teaching.

Develop a taste, brother, for the solid things of the spirit, because that is where one learns. So, look here, here's the key verse, it says:

“...but solid food is for those who have reached maturity, for those who by use....”

That is, from experience, those people who are attending discipleship classes, who are serving the Lord, who are visiting the sick, who are seeking more and more of God, who are reading edifying spiritual books , who are involved in solid spiritual conversations, who by the fact of being continually sword in hand doing spiritual fencing, develop a deeper capacity, develop an understanding of the things of God, can discern between one thing and the other as a soldier can discern between different fields of war, different situations. A musician can discern between a minor and a major key, because use, practice, has made them discerning.

And the Apostle who writes Hebrews says: ".... for those who have their senses exercised in discernment, 'diacrisin', the discernment of good and evil..." < /p>

That is what God wants for our lives, and that is what you have to be asking the Lord continually, 'Father, make me a man, make me a woman who has spiritual discernment, that I can in any situation of the spirit move with divine wisdom, that although I do not have an intellectual understanding, but that my spiritual senses are so sharp and so tuned that I can understand the things of the spirit and know what I have to do in any situation of life' .

That's what the Lord wants. That is why the Apostle James says, "... if anyone lacks wisdom, what must he do? Ask God, who gives abundantly and without reproach, and it will be given to him...."

If you say to me, 'Pastor, pray that the Lord will give me a 2008 Landrover,' I'm not sure if you're going to receive it, but if you say to me, 'pray for May God give me wisdom', and you also pray for God to give you wisdom, I assure you that God is going to give it to you, because the word says, ".... and it will be given to you..."

Because God wants you to have discernment, God wants you to be a wise person. If you ask the Lord and you exercise yourself in that gift, God will give you more and more, and God wants your senses to be exercised in the discernment of good and evil. God wants to give his church spiritual discernment, discernment of spirits.

Another wonderful passage regarding discernment, and I hope you're learning more and more, because we're going to come to the end of this. First Corinthians, Chapter 2, verses 10 to 16, which mounts another piece on this framework. The Apostle Paul says here:

“.... But God –speaking of the hidden wisdom that God gives- Look, let's go to 7 first, he says:

“... .more we speak wisdom of God in mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages for our glory....”

Brother, when you enter the economy of the Gospel you move in a spiritual sphere, you already move between angels and demons, between sublime words and a very deep economy and that divine wisdom, God has bequeathed to his people. You are handling a mathematics and a science for which you need special instruments, and that is what the Bible calls spiritual discernment. And that wisdom God gives it to him.... that's what we handle. Then in verse 10 it says:

“...But God revealed them to us by the spirit because the spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of man that is in him?....”

You see, many times the Bible uses the word spirit to refer to us. How many know that you are a spirit? I am a spirit, what happens is that, you know what? I am a spirit that has a physical container, but what I truly am is a spirit. Do you know that? See a dead body and you are going to see there just a container. As I say, I am always shocked when I see the body of a person who was familiar to me in life and I see something there that is strange, like something is missing, something has been swallowed. That which is missing from that clay doll is called its spirit. That is his true personality. We are spirits and the Bible speaks of the Father of spirits, who is God.

So when he talks about discerning of spirits in First Corinthians, Chapter 12, I think he's referring to divine spirits, demonic spirits, human spirits, and God wants whatever kind of spirit you have with. encounters, you can discern what you are dealing with. And here he speaks of the spirit of man that is in him and the only one who knows what is in the spirit of man is the spirit of man himself. And he says:

"... So no one knows the things of God except the spirit of God and we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit that comes from God...." < /p>

But let's go now to verse 14, it says here:

“...But the natural man....., -who is the natural man? The purely carnal, intellectual, biological man, and that natural man says- ..... does not perceive the things that are from the spirit of God.....”, he cannot understand them.

You can be a professor at Harvard or Yale University and be an expert in nuclear physics, but if you don't believe in God, if you are not a person of the spirit, you will never be able to penetrate the spiritual things. An old Pentecostal woman who has never studied will know much more about the spirit than that person. Because the things of the spirit are discerned with the spirit and you don't have to be an intellectual genius to understand the things of the spirit.

Then natural things are naturally understood but spiritual things are spiritually discerned. He says, “...the things that are from the spirit of God the natural man does not perceive because for him they are madness and he cannot understand them, why? Because they have to be discerned spiritually. On the other hand, the spiritual man judges all things...." – 'anacrine' is the same word to judge here, it is the same word as 'diacrises' which means precisely to discern- "......the spiritual man discerns all things, but he is not judged by anyone....”

You know what? The person of the spirit, the believer in God, the person who moves in the things of the spirit has a double advantage, that he can move in the natural world but he can also move in the spiritual world. The natural man, the man who only thinks about the things of the flesh and the things of the intellect and matter, can only penetrate the physical natural biological world, but he bounces when he tries to enter the spiritual world because he does not have the instruments to do it. You can only navigate in one scope, the natural scope.

But the spiritual person who has the mind of Christ, as the Apostle Paul says, can enter the natural realm and can also dive into the spiritual realm. Say glory to God. The person who has the mind of Christ can be a great thinker, an intellectually gifted person, but he takes off his natural hat, puts on his spiritual hat, and also gets involved in things of the spirit. Glory to God that we don't have to limit ourselves to one area, we can swim in both. We can discern subtle things in the natural world of science, philosophy, politics, economics, anthropology, but we can also enter the world of the spirit and discern with a spiritual radar the things that are happening.

God wants that for you. God wants to endow you with the ability to understand things of the spirit and you do not have to have studied great knowledge, you do not have to be a theologically developed person, God has given these gifts so that his people can be wise in spiritual things.

Brothers, in the name of the Lord I ask you, ask the Lord for gifts of spiritual discernment. Ask the Lord to teach you how to discern things of the spirit so that you are a wise and understanding person in that dimension. Let me stop for a second here.

Lower your head right now and ask the Holy Spirit right now, as the word says, to give you, brothers, some of us are clumsy, let me tell you, we need God to open us up, to uncover our understanding, that it is only given through a spiritual process. I in the name of Jesus right now ask that our minds be open, our understanding be open.

Father, remove the spiritual cover, remove the fog that covers our understanding and I declare over your children discernment of spirits, Father. I destroy every mist, every veil that covers the understanding of your children, Father. We want to be a wise church, we want to be a discerning church, Lord. We want to be able to move cleverly in the zone of the spirit. You are the wise God, the understanding God, the discerning God, Lord, give us the mind of Christ. Give us the logos that governs the universe and that we can move in the things of the spirit, in the name of Jesus. I come against all darkness in the understanding of your people and I unleash the gift of discernment of spirits, the gift of wisdom in the midst of your people, Lord. And may this church be a community understood in the things of the spirit for the glory of your name, in the name of Jesus. Amen and amen.

Just give me a couple more minutes. I have spoken of discerning spirits as something that helps us generically, generally to navigate the subtleties of the spirit world, to discern the spiritual, divine, the human spirit, and the demonic spirit.

Now, guess what? That same discernment is needed within the church to interpret the specifically now supernatural manifestations of the spirit. And go with me to First John, Chapter 4, I am speeding up as much as I can, notice that you and I also need discernment specifically to be able to know who is of God and who is of the devil, what message comes from God and what message comes from the meat.

First John, Chapter 4, verse 1 says: “... Beloved, do not believe every spirit – that is speaking to Christians, it says - .... do not believe every spirit... ”

See, discerning of spirits? He says, do not believe every spirit. He is referring to what takes place in the midst of the life of the church. Brothers, do not be fooled by everything you see and hear and read because the word says that in the last times false prophets and false teachers will arise, it says that there will be desire, there will be an itch in the hearts of people for things spiritual, and says that the devil will amass teachers to give people everything they want to hear, there will even be doctrines of demons that will be ongoing in modern life and I believe that if there is a time in history where that is done real, it is at this time, where you, there is not only one Christian channel, there are dozens of Christian channels. There are not just one or two, or three preachers on the radio or on television, there are hundreds of preachers.

There are a multitude of books available today and you don't know when you left Buddhism and entered Christianity and when you left Christianity and entered Hinduism and when you left Hinduism and entered Spiritualism Because sometimes the barriers between one thing and another are so subtle. And the Bible says, don't believe every spirit, there are still people who will stand in a pulpit or on television or on the radio and say 'I am preaching in the name of Jesus Christ' and perform miracles and those people are not from God and you have to know how to discern if it is God or not from God.

The word says that one day they will come before the Lord Jesus Christ and say 'Lord, we do not prophesy in your name, we do not heal the sick in your name', and the Lord will say to them, 'depart from me, doers evil, I do not know you'.

Brothers, miracles can be done, listen to me, and not necessarily come from God. And there are many people who are being subtly involved by preaching that is not spiritually legitimate and the people of God need to ask the Lord for discernment of spirits to know how to divide that finite line.

I myself need discernment of my own spirit, because many times my flesh will be speaking and I will not realize it and I will think that it is God who is speaking. And I have to ask the Lord, 'Father, help me, take care of me because I talk a lot.'

The word of God says that where there are many words there is also much foolishness, you know? And we preachers who use so many words have statistically many opportunities to spout nonsense and errors and to fall in love with our own rhetoric. We need discernment of spirits to know ourselves. And you need to discern me too, because many times I can be saying something, and based on the word you will understand, 'wait, the pastor sort of crossed his cables a little today. I'm going to leave that there, I'm going to soak it and see what the spirit tells me.'

I give you that right or rather, I admit it, I don't have the right to give you I acknowledge that right, because it is yours, the Lord's. That is a sign of a mature church, rather, a church where one knows that one cannot fool people because their senses have been developed by use and practice. That is very important today.

The Apostle John says, 'do not believe every spirit but test the spirits.' That means that they measure the spirits, put them to the test, subject them to scrutiny. And what is the scrutiny to which we must submit a spirit? The word of God. If it doesn't agree with the word of God, don't dress, it won't work.

The Apostle Paul says, 'If I or even an angel of light preach to you a Gospel different from the one you have received, let me be anathema', because the Gospel once given to the saints, which is this word, it cannot be violated.

And that is why God's people need to have knowledge of the word. This word is his rifle, this word is his weapon and it's like, by the way, I have to put a tape on it, because it's already falling off... from use. But you know, brothers, look, a soldier is taught to use his rifle and to disassemble and assemble it and if he has to disassemble it, disassemble it and put it back because it got dirty, it got wet, whatever, the rifle is his weapon, his guarantee, humanly speaking of security, and you have to know it from a to z. It is also the word of God, that is his sword, that is his rifle. You need to know it to be able to discern.

A person cannot develop spiritual discernment if they do not know the word of God. There are many people who are content to just come to church and go from preacher to preacher, from program to program, from retreat to retreat and from show to show, and they believe that with that they will receive...... Not like that discernment is received, it is received by spiritually fencing with the word of God, studying it, analyzing it, praying over it, fasting and asking the Lord for spiritual discernment. That is what will guarantee you that you will be able to escape.

In recent times, the word says that if God did not shorten the last times, no one would be saved, because these are dangerous times and you need, and I need, the discernment of the spirit.

That's why he says, 'do not believe every spirit but test the spirits to see if they are from God because many false prophets have gone out into the world....'

If that was true two thousand years ago when it was written, it is more true in the 21st century. Many false prophets have come out and we need discernment of spirits to be able to understand between one thing and the other. Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.

Here's something, we don't have time to go into all the details. That has been called the Juanina test, of Juan. There are many spirits that may appear to be from God but ask them, confess that Christ came in the flesh, and they choke, because the confession that Christ came in the flesh is too powerful for a spirit other than God to verbalize.

But I tell you, brothers, that many times even that is not enough. The Bible says to judge by their fruit, it says, by their fruit you will know them. Everything talks about that need to discern, discern, discern from spirit because there are so many ways we can be deceived.

I'm going to ask the musicians to come here, please. I'm not going to overwhelm you with much more. I'm going to leave it there. What I want is, brothers, to emphasize to you and to me and to our entire church the need to be discerning people of the spirit.

Today is a time when knowledge is absolutely necessary. Economics and business experts say that we live in a knowledge-based economy. Today, the person who does not know about computers, who does not know about economics or administration or electronics, or systems, or strategic planning, is at a disadvantage, because everyone today is knowledge.

I went to the Inspections Services Office last week to fill out a building permit, something we need to do here, and until recently you had to do it with a sheet, and they told me 'already there are no sheets, you have to go to the computer right now and fill it out. Thank God I wasn't embarrassed and was able to do it, but I wonder how many contractors can go to a computer and fill out a permit application on a computer there.

We are in a time when knowledge governs humanity. You have to know things and you know what? This is even more true than ever in the realm of the spirit because man has become much more complex, human life has become much more complex and dangerous, and demons are more experienced than ever in the art of deception and seduction. . And God's people need knowledge, discernment, wisdom, the ability to divide even their own spirit, to know when there is psychology and when there is spirit energy, when the devil is saying something and when it is God saying it.

Do you remember the Apostle Peter? At one point he says to Jesus Christ, when Christ says, 'do you know who I am? And Peter says, 'yes, you are the Christ, the Son of God,' and Jesus says, 'blessed Peter, no one told you this, but the Holy Spirit revealed it to you.' And you know what? A little while later that same Peter who at one point says to Christ, 'you are the Son of God,' when the Lord says, 'The Son of man must suffer and be betrayed, be buried and rise again on the third day', that same Peter who just a moment ago positively prophesied to the Lord, now begins to tell the Lord, 'Don't let yourself be crucified. Don't let that happen to you.'

And what does the Lord say to him? He tells him, 'get away from me, Satan, because you always set your sights only on the things of men'.

The Lord was able to discern at that moment that the one who was speaking was not the Holy Spirit, but now it was the demonic spirit wanting to intimidate Jesus so that he would not go to the cross, in one person, in a short time. time, a divine spirit and an evil spirit.

Glory to God that there was someone there who had discernment of spirit, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord wants us to have that same discernment, brothers, because every day there are going to be opportunities for us to use discernment and we need that radar of the spirit to help us.

Brothers, let us be wise in our Christian walk and ask the Lord, 'Father, give me wisdom, give me spiritual discernment in all things.' That is what I want for you, brother, and I want it for my own life.

We are going to stand up and we are going to ask the Lord to help us walk with wisdom, with spiritual discernment, that we be people avid for the wisdom that comes from the mind of God. Deliver us from evil, Lord, keep us in your hand and pour out that discernment, that knowledge, that intelligence, that spiritual wisdom, that discernment of spirits, Lord, that we need for all moments of life.

I declare, Father, that this energy runs in the midst of your people, we want, we need this resource, Father. Send a double portion of your discernment into our lives. We need you, Father. We give you glory and honor. Thank you Lord in Jesus name. And we say, Amen. God bless you my brothers, glory to God.