Discern

If you're famous in the world, your 
name will be written in newspapers, 
magazines, books, and perhaps even 
on trophies and awards. If you encounter 
a spirit, your name is not famous, not 
important, and carries no weight in the 
spiritual realm, UNLESS, your name is 
written in the Lambs book of Life. 
Every name in that book is famous in the 
spirit realm and is revered by every demon
 and every angel. When the rich man died, 
he was probably known to the whole city, 
but in the Bible, he is nameless. 
A poor man who wasn't famous named
Lazarus is named however, because in 
God's Kingdom, he was a "somebody". 
Sceva was the high priest, his sons were 
sons of a highly exalted man, but when 
they encountered the demon's, the 
demon's said, "Paul we know, and Jesus 
we know, but WHO ARE YOU?" To society,
 they had a prominent name, in the spirit 
realm, they were "nobodies". 
Do you want to be famous on earth, or in 
Heaven? I will choose Heaven
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Pray for discernment, the Lord will give it to 
those who truly love Him and love His Word. 
Discernment is the greatest lack in the 
church today. There are basically two types 
of churches; the ones that are lifeless and 
do not give room for the gifts of the Holy Spirit 
to operate, and those who are open to 
everything supernatural. 
The supernatural thrill-seekers are afraid to 
judge anything supernatural because they 
fear that they might be quenching a move 
of the Holy Spirit. 
The lifeless churches are afraid of anything 
supernatural because they are afraid it may 
be demonic. Discernment...you can go into 
the forest and collect mushrooms and make 
a stew and if you are not trained to identify 
which mushrooms are edible and which are
 poisonous, you might kill yourself and others.
 Discernment is important. It is not unbelief 
to question supernatural things, it is wisdom 
and it is important. 
The Word says "Test the spirits, whether they 
be of God."... or not. 
The devil is operating without hinderance 
in many charismatic churches.
Why? because people don't have discernment. 
The magicians of Egypt performed several 
miracles that looked just like the ones that 
Moses performed, but Moses did them 
through God's power and they, through Satan's 
power. How are these evil spirits operating in 
God's church? Lack of discernment from the 
leadership. Many people operating in these 
"gifts" aren't necessarily attempting to deceive 
God's people, some of them are fooled 
themselves, why? Lack of discernment. 
The Bible tells us, that not "few" but "many" 
false prophets shall arise in the last days;" 
"And many false prophets shall rise, and 
shall deceive many . . . ... 
"For false Christs and false prophets shall 
rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, 
to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect."
 Mark 13:22, KJV. "For such are false 
apostles, deceitful workers, transforming 
themselves into the apostles of Christ." 
Does that bother you? Get over it, it's the 
Word of God! So I will tell you, I keep it to 
myself usually, but as a pastor, I sometimes 
need to step in and warn people, warn them
 that some of the so-called, self-proclaimed 
"prophets" of our day, are actually deceived 
and false prophets. Don't be surprised, the 
Word says "many", not "few". 
How can you know the difference?
 "Discernment". Don't hate that word, it could 
save your life! 
So what does a false prophets look like? 
Well, if they're not a very good one, they won't
 get very far and won't amass many followers 
and won't be able to lead many astray, but 
what would a really good one look like?
 They will exhibit convincing "gifts". 
Some gifts are easier to counterfeit than others. 
For example, accurate prediction of future events 
is extremely hard for the devil to pull off. 
He is mostly just guessing when it comes to 
the future. Another gift however, is quite easy 
for him to counterfeit and make it to appear 
that it is from God, namely, 
the "Word of Knowledge". 
Why is this gift so easy to counterfeit? 
It is because the Word of Knowledge deals with
 things that are already known, and already 
in the past. 
The devil can speak through a false prophet 
and tell you your name, your address, your 
favorite color, and what you did in secret 
a year ago; how? 
Through "familiar spirits". 
Familiar spirits in one person can communicate 
to familiar spirits present with another 
person and implant the information into 
their mind. 
Without discernment, these miracles can 
fool most anybody. False prophets are 
sometimes simply manipulative people 
who are scamming others for glory, 
power and money, their secret lives are 
usually full of ungodly sin. 
Then there are those who are sincere, 
and are simply deceived.
 The devil is using them, but they believe they 
are doing the work of God; how do you know 
the difference? "Discernment". 
Pray for discernment for yourself, and for your 
church. Test the spirits, all of them. 
One thing that is absolutely certain, 
if it's of God, even if you lack discernment,
 it will NEVER go contrary to His written Word. 
Not knowing His Word is one of the worst things 
for you to allow in your life. His Word is the 
measuring stick for all truth. If you don't know 
His Word, you won't recognize the lie when it 
enters the room. A lot of people today minimize 
the Word and exalt their supernatural 
experiences, that's just like eating mushrooms 
collected by someone who can't tell the 
difference between the good and the deadly. 
Don't be a fool. Be wise. Know the Word. 
Pray for discernment.
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This will be controversial to some, but worth 
a little thought. Suppose you are married to a 
very high official. Suppose a man was 
married to the Queen of England, or a woman 
was married to the president of the United States. 
Now suppose that you are seated with your 
spouse at a dining table. You are seated 
very closely and you are intimately connected 
to each other by sincere love. 
Now imagine your very important spouse 
wanting to talk to you. Imagine they call over 
a servant and whisper in the servants ear 
and then the servant announces to you, 
"Your spouse would like you to know that 
they have a plan for you, and here it is..." 
Why would your spouse do that? 
Why wouldn't they speak to you themselves? 
Here's my point, there is much false doctrine 
swirling around these days; there is much 
false prophesy being spoken. 
There are many people placing themselves in 
an exalted position of prophet or apostle and 
telling people that they have a direction from 
God to tell you what you need to do right now. 
They say that they talk to angels. 
They say that they have many personal 
encounters with angels that tell them all kinds 
of messages from God. Why do I need a 
message through an angel when God and I 
can talk directly? My point is this, angels 
exist, but I would be very careful getting 
direction from an angel, receiving a doctrine 
from an angel, or having theological conversations 
with an angel, because demons like to pose 
as angels and can even appear as angels of light. 
Many false doctrines of today have their 
roots in someones "angelic" encounters. 
Just give me Jesus, Thank you!