Quotes About Discernment

Help me, Holy Spirit of God, to pray according to Your will. Speak to me as I read Your Word so that I can grow in understanding. Enable me to pray in power and alignment with what pleases You. Thank You for the times I prayed for something and You didn't give it to me because it would not have been good. I can see that now, and I am grateful.

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." ISAIAH 30:21

But your prayers will have a positive effect on your wife's ability to hear God about what's right for her.

God, help me to hear Your voice speaking to my heart. Give me discernment so I can always distinguish between those who speak Your truth and those who give false prophesies filled either with fear or false hope. Help me to examine what I hear against the teaching of Your Word. Holy Spirit, guide me in all truth just as You have promised. Help me to identify what is from You and what is not.

Lord, I turn to You for all wisdom, direction, and guidance. Where I must seek advice from another person, help me to know when that person speaks from godly knowledge and when this is not the case. Help me to always test the input of others with Your Word. I want You to be my ultimate source for all knowledge.

When you find the church you're supposed to be in, you will recognize the pastor's voice as an important spiritual authority in your life.

perspicaciousness into question. He'd say you wanted to see a .45 Glock in the man's hand

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.

There is a fullness of time for things. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet. When to let things take their course.

A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a new land that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ...so that you can find the wholeness you seek.

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

There's a fullness of time for things, Lily. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a new land that Lord will show. Surely this one of our greatest challenges & capacities - to understand and reorient our lives, aligning ourselves with the God-given rhythms of growth and awakening that vibrate within.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course. That's what I've been trying to do.

There's a fullness of time for things, Lily. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

They don't know what matters and what doesn't I was gonna say, The problem is they know what matters, but they don't choose it

How does one know the voice is God's? I believed the voice bidding me to go north belonged to him, though perhaps what I really heard that day was my own impulse to freedom. Perhaps it was my own voice. Does it matter?

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory;  show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.

To lift an autumn hair is no sign of great strength; to see the sun and moon is no sign of sharp sight; to hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick ear.