Love you all, praying for you.
God reminding me recently about the importance of discernment. It’s a gift from God, one of the things He gives – and you can grow in it! Your quality of life depends on it, your fruitfulness in life depends on it, even the length of your life depends on it. The wise see danger and take refuge, the foolish keep going and suffer for it. When you grow with God you always grow in obedience. That’s how God grows you, and your discernment. He speaks, you hear, you respond. It’s what being a Christ – follower is. Have you ever seen wildlife shows on TV or the internet? Lions and gazelles - it’s a natural picture of the spiritual necessity of discernment. Discernment – is a sensing beforehand – an early warning system. Noah Webster’s original definition - Discernment – the power or faculty of the mind, by which it distinguishes one thing from another, as truth from falsehood, virtue from vice, the power of perceiving differences of things or ideas, and their relations and tendencies. The errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment. Young animals just keep munching away – completely oblivious of their predators’ approach. But those with discernment – sense it immediately, early. With discernment, before you hear the footsteps of the predator – you hear the flight of the birds – they aren’t hanging around – they’re gone. They know the Joseph principle of dealing with the attack of temptation, they run. They remove themselves from the situation altogether. But even before the flight of the birds – there’s the unusual silence, the ‘quieter than normal’ that those with discernment perceive – their antenna’s are up. In real life – Spiritual life - Where does discernment come from? How do you get it? The Holy Spirit and the Word of God. The Holy Spirit always points to Jesus – the Word. Just as Jesus was the full representation of God in body form, so Jesus is the full representation of God in Book form. Jesus said to his disciples, do you still not understand, if you’ve seen me you have seen the Father. So it is with God’s Word, if you see the Word – you see the Father. That’s why PiVAT and PRISM, 4C’s and your Daily Call are so important to growing in discernment. Discernment saves you from death. On wildlife shows – it saves from physical death, in real life – it saves you from Spiritual death – those things which separate you from God, the attacks, the pitfalls that dull your hearing, and get you off course from the things that He has planned for you – which are so very good. That’s also why doing PRISM in the atmosphere of worship is so important, and praying in the atmosphere of worship is so important. God inhabits the praises of His people by the Holy Spirit – and He reveals the truth of His WORD – both Logos – the written Word, and Rhema the specific instruction that He has for you - through the Holy Spirit. In the wildlife TV shows – maturity is gained with age, but in Spiritual reality – obedience is what ages you. Obedience accelerates your discernment. It’s the response that activates in your life what God tells you through the Holy Spirit. Hebrews 5:13-14 - For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, unskilled in doing what is right since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to discern good from evil. Walking in the Holy Spirit - obeying - brings discernment. It keeps you from dangers, pitfalls, the traps and delays your enemy wants to entangle you with. The Holy Spirit will lead you in PiVAT for today – your Heavenly Father’s plans for you - even this hour, and in PRISM – the confirmation and understanding of them, and His great love for you. That’s also why your Daily Call is so important – it highlights obedience – both yours and theirs – what God said – so you could do it, and the testimony of what God did when you simply obeyed – that testimony which is your overcoming! In wildlife shows I always find myself rooting for the zebra, the gazelle and the buffalo – and probably my favorites are when the tables are turned and the zebra gets in a good hind kick to the chops of the would-be predator. In wildlife, eventually the gazelles and zebra’s are caught. But not in real life – in Spiritual life. Because the Holy Spirit in you is far more powerful than the enemy that tries to attack, distract or trap you. Praying that your worship is growing, that your Word is growing, and your obedience is growing - every day. Praying that you are so consistent with your time, thoughts money and testimony - those PiVAT, PRISM, 4C’s and Daily Call tools that are discernment-growers. They are gifts that God has given to establish obedience and victory in you! - that help you avoid not just the danger but even the temptation – so that nothing slows you down in the joyful purpose that God has called you to. He promised "No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly." Your obedience gives you discernment, it impacts eternity – and impacts others for generations. You are not fearing God for nothing! As He leads, and you follow – He will grow discernment in you, to see the difference between what is good and what is not, and what is best - His way for you and the other way. His Way is so very good. It’s the way to life – the joy full life and the purpose full life that He has for you. Love you all, dad
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