- Attentiveness: To gain the spiritual discernment, our will and attentive ear inclining towards wisdom are essential. Call out to God for allowing the spiritual discernment today!
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
- Continuity: It needs constant practice in distinguishing good from evil in our day-to-day lives.
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
- Not by Sight, But by Faith: Instead of trying to discern by its appearance, it needs the "test of spirit," focusing on inner examinations than the outer.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
- Prayer
In Matthew 7:1-12, Jesus teaches about the practice of prayers toward gaining spiritual discernment.
- Word of God: Through reading the Scripture and making efforts to understand, we will grow sharper and be able to discern better spiritually.
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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