LIST OF DISCERNMENT QUESTIONS

When you hear something, no matter what form it is in, test it.  Here some questions to ask yourself. 

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Know the Bible

Does it agree with the Bible?

DOES IT:

1       Validate Jesus Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords? 

2       Recognize Jesus Christ is the door? 

3       Recognize Biblical sin?

4       Certify the Attributes of God?

5       Synchronize with the Biblical message?

6       Build Jesus’ image?

Know the Holy Spirit

Does it verify the Holy Spirit's purpose?

DOES IT:       

7       Quicken with relevance?

8       Reveal His Truth?

9       Fit the puzzle together?

10     Identify the Holy Spirit is grieved? 

11     Reveal a misunderstanding of God’s purpose?

12     Manifest His Presence? 

13     Refresh your soul, body and spirit?

14     Bring you closer to Him?

15     Identify the Gifts of the Holy Spirit?

16     Make darkness manifest?

17     Give a good and perfect gift? James 1:17

18     Nurture purity?  Philippians 4:8

19     Encourage walking in holiness?

Identify the flesh

Are you separating the difference between flesh and spirit?

DO YOU:

20     Know God’s Word is more faithful than the vessel?

21     Distinguish the personality of the vessel?

22     Make decisions with love and patience about the vessel?

23     Take your own thoughts captive?

24     Understand nurturing thoughts?

25     Feel wary of fleeces?

26     Recognize when your flesh is repulsed?

Identify giants

Do you recognize giants? 

DO YOU:

27     Identify your own giants?

28     Understand your own weakness towards opening the door to giants?

29     Recognize giant decay in yourself and others?

30     Recognize giant patterns in others?

31     Understand giants pervert truth?

32     Distinguish what strokes a giant wound?

33     Separate strong meat spoken from a giant’s influence?

Separate the enemy

Do you recognize enemy tactics?

DOES IT:

34     Hate Jesus Christ?

35     Hate light?

36     Identify occult practices?

37     Bind, hinder, numb and chain the ability and personal will?

38     Lie and deceive?

39     Cover over truth

40     Hide from exposure?

41     Portray a grievous message or heavy feeling?

42     Divide people?

43     Scatter people from God’s source?

44     Oppose God’s character?

45     Display power with control, manipulation, pushiness, force over your personal will, coercion?

46     Warp and pervert the message?

47     Accuse and condemn?

48     Distort the attributes of God?

Know the times

Does it fit with the times?

DO YOU:

49     Define it as the outpouring of the supernatural?

50     Recognize the counter culture, counterfeit and activities of the occult?

51     Perceive the lust for supernatural knowledge and itching ears?

52     Understand the process of overcoming in this time in history?

Understand God’s cycles

Do you allow time? 

DO YOU:

53     Accept discernment is a process, not necessarily an experience?

54     Understand wavering faith?

55     Recognize sifted faith?

56     Pray through sifting?

57     Acknowledge God speaks in circles?

58     Recognize the application of His Word is larger tomorrow than it is today?

59     Wait for 2 or 3 witnesses for confirmation?

60     Wait for understanding?

SUMMARY OF THE LESSONS ON DISCERNMENT

•     Discernment in the Old Testament and the New Testament is the process of separating into 2 piles.

•     We are to discern spiritual food, prophesy, spirits (man, God, angels, demons) and man’s fruits.

•     As a result of what we discern, there are 2 kinds of throne room ministry.  The choice is ours.  We either agree with satan or Jesus.

•     The tendency in discerning is to judge or criticize.  Since we are commanded not to judge, we overcome this by being like Jesus Who was a Priest and King.  He stood in the gap and He pardoned. 

•     In these last days, we will be forced to make decisions about the supernatural.

•     In discerning people we will learn the difference between their gifts, their flesh and their demonic influence.  We will learn to separate the clutter from the good gifts God has placed within each person. 

•     In discerning spirits, we will learn how to discern enemy thoughts, counterfeit spirits, occult doors and enemy dreams and visions.  We learn to rebuke and renounce to close demonic doors.

•     In discerning the message, we will understand the importance of knowing the power of quickening, revelation, the good and perfect gift, Jesus’ likeness, and the nature of His Words.

•     In everything that we discern, we will look for the characteristics and nature of God.

SIMPLICITY IN DISCERNMENT

REVELATION: I was having a conversation about the wrestlings with hearing the Lord and the demonic and how to discern the two. The Lord gave me this scripture as I was thinking about how to discern, and the fact that we should never depart from the simplicity of Jesus Christ.

2 Cor 11:3-4 NKJV

But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted — you may well put up with it!

I read the following scripture as relating to Jesus’ love being the filter. That regardless if it is hard to tell the difference between a life giving or death breeding word, the fact is that no matter how hard the enemy may try to trip us up, Jesus’ love always wins because we can not be separated from His love.

Rom 8:37-39 AMP

Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us. For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers, Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

WORD TO PONDER: THE SIMPLE FACT

How often I see you wrestle and struggle over what you hear, - whether it is My voice or the enemy’s voice! Dear ones, the more you are launched into the supernatural, the greater will be the issues of discernment. You want miraculous signs, but discernment only gets more complicated, not less. My people are growing up past the milk and into strong meat. Greater and greater portions will come your way and you will be exposed to many supernatural things in these last days. If possible, even the elect shall be deceived. Remember this, I gave you one pure role model: Jesus Christ, My Son. And I gave you 2 commandments: love Me and love others. So in the end, how will you know My voice from all others? The fact is you will not be able to separate yourself from My voice, because My voice is love. Discerning the enemy’s voice is easy. Just ask yourself, “Does what I heard reflect love?” It is that simple.

Rom 8:37-39 AMP

Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us. For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers, Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.