If we are to grow closer to God, we must learn to come to know what he is really like. We come to know God’s voice by coming to know God. Discernment, then, is getting to know a person. It is as if we receive a telephone call, and the line quality is very bad.
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Discernment is more than just a skill. Discernment is a gift from God before it is anything else. Yet there are clearly skills you can put to use when using your gift, and you can become better at it through training and experience.
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Five general principles of discernment of God's will that apply to all questions about it, and therefore to our question too, are the following: ... Most Christians, including many of the saints, don't, in fact, have the discernment we are asking about, the knowledge of what God wills in every single choice. It's rare.
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This article is based on The Rules for Discernment of Spirits by St Ignatius Loyola. Writing in sixteenth century Spain, St Ignatius was a master on spiritual discernment. His teachings come from his own experiences of temptation and of experiencing the movements of God in his soul. ... Learning to Listen to God...
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What is God calling you to do? How do you interpret whether or not He may be sending you a sign? How do you listen to what God is trying to tell you? In three informative and entertaining lectures, Fr. Pacwa offers guidelines for a deeper understanding of God's will, from vocational discernment to everyday decisions.
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Article calling the Christian back to a lifestyle of discernment while understanding its high cost. ... Discernment is not automatic, it does not come free. It comes with the cost of having to ask, to search, to cry out with your soul to God for discernment.
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The subject of the second conference was discernment. He saw three sources of thought: God (illumination of Holy Spirit), the devil (who makes sin attractive), and ourselves (thoughts of what we have done or heard).
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Vision Forum Ministries is dedicated to the restoration of Christian family culture. ... Most importantly, discernment prepares you to please God by following His threefold command in 1 Thess. 5:21-22: Examine everything carefully; hold fast (retain) that which is good; abstain (reject) every form of evil.
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Ask God in your prayer for discernment, sometimes God will spill out words out of your mouth to a false prophet, before it even reaches your brain, that happened to me once, the guy had fooled thousands of people, then all of a sudden God made words pour out of my mouth to him revealing that he was a phony.
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The experience caused me to reflect on the importance of discernment, and the lack of it in our world. People do not see issues clearly and are easily misled because they do not think biblically. But, sadly, ... He knows something about everything, namely that all things have their common fountain in God.
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