Spiritual gift of discernment

[Guest]

Let me disclose something about myself, I have a brain injury,

 

and sometimes I do not get my words right.

 

It is a blessing and a miracle to me that

 

since becoming a Christian,

 

I'm able to now read

 

the bible,

 

 

 

Hallelujah~!

 

Your word I have treasured in my heart, That I may not sin against You. Psalms 119:11 (NASB)

 

Step By

 

For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. Romans 1:17

 

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So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Romans 10:17

[Raven]

...The bible says to "test the spirits" to see if they are from God, but does not say specifically how to do this. What is your suggestion to "test" the spirits?...

Hello FlamingSword.

Discernment, as far as I know, is the ability to know the truth.

It is a knowing that cannot be explained in terms of normal/general knowledge. It is a spirit-mind knowing based on faith, not a body-mind knowing based on logic.

The more truth, a person lives by, the more truth becomes known (discernment).

 

In regards to knowing if something is from God, one's discernment of what is True, Faithful, and Loving will make the knowing clear in one's spirit-mind..

[WilliamL]

...  To me it seems that it could be more destructive than anything if I start opening my mouth about what I sense/see, so I don't really talk about it to anyone, and my pastor is not really open to this kind of thing, even though recently he put on a small course about spiritual gifts. ...

 

A wise precaution. Don't cast your pearls before swine, and all that. The Holy Spirit will provide the discernment about when to speak, and when to zip it. And these days, it will be mostly zip it, because the times are evil. However, when you are led by the Spirit to speak, do it -- but always with humility, so that you don't overreach.

 

Because you are a new believer, much of what you are being shown is for your own education and training, so that you will become confident in what your gift is able to provide. What Starsman said is right on: "If you want to grow in this gift, you use it. It's like a muscle, the more exercise you do with it the better it will become."

 

FlamingSword Posted 18 April 2015 - 01:53 PM

...I guess what I'm wondering is if the "discerning" of the spirits will only ever manifest in a feeling, or in some other way.

 

Do I always have to ask, or will I just receive. Will it always be correct?

 

If it's from God, it should always be correct, right?

 

Last question first: yes, it will always be correct. But that doesn't necessarily mean that you will always fully understand what you are perceiving. That takes maturity and experience, which is an eternal quest.

 

As for the first three questions -- who knows? Each gift, and even each circumstance of a gift, is unique.