Spiritual Discernment
There are 9 spiritual gifts given to us from God. They are listed in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10. Please take a minute to review what they are. They are gifts from God to use in our daily lives. I know that each spiritual gift is available to us all if we only ask God to manifest them in our lives. Each spiritual gift is important in its own way. But there is one that I feel we all desperately need in our lives today.
That gift is spiritual discernment. This means being able to know something through the power of the Spirit of God. It’s the ability to choose between what is true and right and what is false and wrong. It also includes perceiving the true character of people.
If we look at the world today, we can see where this spiritual gift is so important. We have so much that bombards us each day. If it’s not the TV or internet, it’s the people we’re coming in contact each day. Is what I’m hearing right or wrong? Is that person truly what they say they are? The world today makes what is spiritually right wrong and what is wrong right. Satan has become very bold. 1 John 4:1 reads- “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” We have many decisions that confront us each day and will have many in the upcoming months. I pray that we each seek to have spiritual discernment in our lives. Jesus states in Matthew 7:7- “Ask and it will be given to you, seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.”
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