Discover and Serve pt 17 – Spiritual Gifts 6. Discerning of spirits, Evangelism, Exhortation/ Encouragement, Faith
Continuing to define Spiritual gifts we now look at four more. Discerning of spirits Ability to ‘see' and identify/perceive the motivating spirit behind words, actions, events or thinking, and to judge whether such spirit is divine, human or demonic This is one of the nine gifts Paul writes about to the Corinthians (1 Cor 12:10). It is exemplified in various New Testament passages such as Acts 13:8-10 where Paul confronted the magician, Elymas, who was seeking to turn away the proconsul from following the faith and in Acts 16:16-18 where Paul cast the spirit of divination out of a slave girl who was ‘greatly annoying' him. This gift can serve to protect an individual or a church from deception and/or counterfeits of Satan. It is also used in conjunction with…