GOD DESIRES RELATIONSHIP, NOT JUST INFORMATION
Bible Text: John 10:25–28 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. […]
DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATION: Maturity and Growth in Hearing God
Bible Text: Hebrews 5:14 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATION: Maturity and Growth in Hearing God Memory Verse: 1 Peter 2:2 “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:” Spiritual maturity is […]
DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATION: The Fruit Test
Bible Text: Galatians 5:22–23 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Memory Verse: Matthew 7:16 “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” The fruit test is a key principle for discerning the source […]
DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATION: Testing the Source
Bible Text: 1 John 4:1–3 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every […]
COUNTERFEIT & DESTRUCTIVE CHANNELS: False Prophecy
Bible Text: Jeremiah 23:16–17 16 This is what the Lord Almighty says:“Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes.They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord. 17 They keep saying to those who despise me, ‘The Lord says: You will have peace.’And to all who follow the stubbornness of their hearts they say, ‘No harm will come […]
COUNTERFEIT & DESTRUCTIVE CHANNELS: Familiar Spirits
Text: : Leviticus 19:30-31 30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. 31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God. COUNTERFEIT & DESTRUCTIVE CHANNELS: Familiar Spirits Memory Verse: Isaiah 8:19 “And when they shall say unto […]
COUNTERFEIT & DESTRUCTIVE CHANNELS: Occult & Forbidden Channels
Text: : Deuteronomy 18:10–12 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. […]
COUNTERFEIT & DESTRUCTIVE CHANNELS: Deception Masquerading as Light
Text: : 2 Corinthians 11:14–16 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. 16 I say again, let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, […]
COUNTERFEIT & DESTRUCTIVE CHANNELS: Demonic Communication – Direct Influence
Text: : Mark 1:23–24 23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. 1 Kings 22:22 […]
HUMAN & NEUTRAL CHANNELS; Conscience
Text: : Romans 2:14–16 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing […]