1 November 2024
Discerning of Spirits
●Discerning of Spirits is one of the three gifts of the spirit classified under the group “Revelation Gifts” .The other two gifts of the Spirit in this group are Word of Wisdom and Word of Knowledge.
●Discernment in general, is the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure—what is not easily seen.
●Descern is actually to perceive by seeing or hearing.
●Discerning of Spirits is not just discerning demons or devils ,discerning of Spirits gives supernatural insight into the spirit world.
●Discerning of spirits is the same as seeing or hearing the realm of the spirits.
●Discerning of Spirits has limited and very specific scope of operation. It only deals with a class of objects called “spirits”
● ●TheWord of Wisdom and the Word of Knowledge on the other hand have a wide range of operations .
●Gift of discerning of Spirits is not limited to the discerning of devils and demons.
●This Gift actually deals with an entire class of spirits ,good,bad and human.
●This Gift of discernment is actually a supernatural insight into the realm of spirits
●Many a times people have considered this gift to be just limited to seeing devils and demons.
●discerning is necessary as evil spirits may not always be behind every problem. It could also be ones own flesh ,or it could be a human spirit that could be in operation.
●This gift helps identify whether the source of something is a demonic spirit or the human spirit .
●One will be able to identify if the work of the flesh is behind something.
● Galatians 5:19-21 says
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like.
● So the primary source of all the evil nature’s and works mentioned above is ones own flesh.
●A person has to learn to mortify his own flesh .
●For example hatred is not just a spirit, it is an issue in a person’s flesh.
●Similarly in outbursts of wrath, more than demons, this issue is related to the person’s flesh.
●Here the person has to learn to crucify his flesh.
●With the gift of discernment of spirit ,one will be able to Descern between demonic spirits, human spirit and flesh of a person.
●You will be either able to see the realm of the Spirit or else you will be able to hear the realm of the spirit.
●Another thing included in this gift is that one would be able to see similitude of God.
●Exodus 33 And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses
●So the gift of discernment of spirit is ,supernatural insight into the spirit realm where there are demonic spirits as well human spirit.
●Discernment of Spirits helps discerning good or evil tendencies of the human spirit.
●Discernment of spirits deals with three kinds or classes of spirits, divine, satanic and human.
●In the book of Revelation in the Bible, John , in the island 🏝 of Patmos, saw many things of the spirit realm.
●We notice that his eyes were open to the spirit realm.
●We read that John saw Jesus, heaven ,the throne of God ,he saw the elders, angels worshipping God ,the lamps and the Lamb of God.
●Here the gift of discernment of spirits was in operation.