What Is Powering Our Discernment

Just because we “feel off” about something or someone, doesn’t mean that what we are feeling came from the Holy Spirit. The gifts of false accusation and suspicion are not gifts of the Holy Spirit, yet these two things are quite freely exercised in the church today under the guise of discernment. We must understand that when the gift of discernment is powered by the soul, eventually we will end up in suspicion and accusation. Suspicion is directly rooted in fear and often stems out of pride or jealousy, and its fruit is always division.

Wisdom from Heaven is first off pure, then it is peaceable, even in the midst of our “feelings”. Don’t let your soul rule you, submit everything to the Holy Spirit and don’t open your mouth until He says to.

Remember that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers ....... our warfare isn’t against people. This means that the warfare we wage is a supernatural one and fought with supernatural weapons, not with our tongues partnering with the accuser of the brethren.

Oftentimes not saying something immediately and instead of going to the Lord in prayer, will be what allows your voice to be heard when the time comes. If there indeed is something happening that the enemy has a hand in, you can be sure that God isn’t taken by surprise and has a strategy to take it out, this requires self-control and patience on our part and a willingness to press in for the strategy to see whatever spirit that is operation fully dealt with.

It is imperative that we make sure when picking up “off feelings” that we submit our feelings to the Holy Spirit before acting on them, we allow the Holy Spirit to be the one powering our gift of discernment not our souls and seek His counsel for our next steps of action.

“But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.”‬‬ James‬ ‭3:17‬ ‭NASB