When The Devil Sends A Counterfeit | Discernment | (Part 1) | Issac Curry

everybody what's going on this is isaac curry tag teaming again with my brother jerry flowers for a moment really quickly let's show some love to our pastors tanisha and jerry flowers let's show them how we feel about them on today yes it's it it's isaac curry once again but i'm so excited to be able to be here with my brother and my sister and my family you are a part of the family you invited me back one more time and guess what that means we're family i'm excited about tonight i'm excited about this series my brother my sister we're in a new series called discernment we're entering into this i don't know i don't know what you're expecting but you need to expect great things because i promise you some transformation is going to happen tonight transformation is going to happen throughout this series i have my oil because this is an oily word if you have some oil i need you to pause and i need you to go ahead and pour it out pour it on your ears pour it on your eyes because i promise you god has a word for you on today listen i'm just going to give you the title already this is the title of today's message when the devil sends a counterfeit when the devil sends a counterfeit a counterfeit opportunity a counterfeit job a counterfeit business venture a counterfeit relationship i said a relationship a counterfeit friend what do you do when you're face to face with something that god did not sin somebody type it god didn't send that god did not sin that god did not send that and i want to help provide you some principles that will help you in your life when it comes to discernment because discernment is one of the critical features one of the critical weapons that you have in your arsenal and i want to make sure that you're operating as a believer with healthy discernment but in order to do that i have to call your attention to the book of nehemiah the word is oily so i don't want you to don't disengage because what god has for you i need you to tune in as a matter of fact i need you to lean in on today because we're looking at the book of nehemiah nehemiah chapter 6 chapter 6 verses 10 11 12 13 and 14. i'm just going to throw in verse 15 and 16. nehemiah chapter 6 verse 10 when the devil sends a counterfeit foundational principles for discernment somebody type again god didn't send that read with me it says afterward now this is nehemiah talking i came to the house of shamaya the son of deliah the son of mahetta bell and it says who was a secret informer somebody said he was a secret informer he was a secret informant here's here's the thing let me let me just pause because i'm excited he says he's in a secret informer which means nobody gave nehemiah this information because nehemiah is able to discern the way he's able to discern he is now unraveling spiritual conspiracies because his level of discernment is so high unpaused it says and he said let us meet together in the house of god this is what the secret informer is saying to nehemiah and he says within the temple and let us close the doors to the temple for they are coming to kill you nehemiah indeed at night they're going to come and kill you but i replied nehemiah says i replied should someone in my position run from danger he says should someone in my position enter into the temple to save his own life he says no this is what nehemiah says to the secret informer what you don't know is a former friend it's a friend right now he's saying to his friend now i'm not going to do that and then it says in verse 12 this is what this is where it gets thick he says i perceive nehemiah says i perceive somebody say discern somebody say discern somebody type discern he says i discerned that god had not spoken to him but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because tobiah somebody say the adversary tobiah and sandballot had hired my friend my friend came to me and said let's go to the church because the people want to get you and we'll be protected in the church and let's lock the doors and he said no you may be my friend you may be familiar you i may have met you in church i'm trying to help somebody already and he says not now i perceived i discerned that god wasn't in that that god did not send him to me somebody say god didn't send that and it says in verse 13 for this reason he was hired that i should be afraid and act in a a fearful way and sin so that they might have calls for an evil report that they may bring against me he is understanding nehemiah the purpose in which the people who had come to him and are pretending to be on his side and pretending to be god's sins but he understands that they're counterfeits i'm trying to i'm trying to preach out i wish you all right here right now it says in verse 14. my god now he's beginning to pray on behalf of those adversaries on behalf of those people who said that they were coming on on on behalf of god he says my god remember buy and sign ballot according to their works and the prophetess and the prophetess noah daya and the rest of the prophets who would have me afraid if i've lost you just know that you got a whole lot of people in the church who are counterfeits i'm looking at the text a whole lot of people in the temple the prophetess nordia and the rest of the prophets who would have me to be afraid you didn't send them god and they they are counterfeits he has the courage nehemiah has the level of discernment where he's able to determine i know it looks good i know it sounds good but god didn't sin that somebody said god didn't send that so on october the 2nd the wall was finished just 52 days after we begun when our enemies and the surrounding nations heard about it they were frightened and humiliated they realized that the work that had been done had been because god had helped us somebody type amen when the devil sends you a counterfeit god didn't send that nehemiah said we're entering into this brand new series i'm just the forerunner for next week what jerry has to share with you but but but i want to talk to you about some principles of discernment right it's important that i i talk to you about this but let me just pause let me verify and validate some things with you at the end of 2020 where most people don't know some of you do know i got married to my beautiful wife amen somebody at the in the pandemic 2020 i get married to my beautiful wife we're now about six months into this thing but i know you're giving me congratulations we appreciate it i appreciate it definitely but i want to slow you down i want to slow you down before you give me the kudos just know it took eight long years back and forth break up get back together trying to make this thing work eight long years before we finally arrived to a place in which i had the awareness and the the courage the confidence to be able to propose and say i want you to be i i want you to be my wife hold the reason why this is important because one of the the most one of the most difficult things you will be able to do or try to do in your life is to try to to discern god's will for you when it comes to marriage and and to make matters a little more you know thick see my wife knew when she tells the story she'll tell you god told me that you were my my my husband let's see for me because we're talking about discernment i just wanna for me god told her that i was her husband but for me i i was trying to discern because i i didn't quite hear god and i and i need to know for sure for sure for sure for sure before i make that decision and and i sent i spent so much time and indecision trying to discover is this guy's voice should i do this should i not do it i don't know what's going to happen and i'm i'm i'm i'm asking people for help what do you think what do you think and for eight years back and forth i don't know i don't know i'm trying to indecision trying to deal what does discernment look like but see every level you enter into discernment becomes far more difficult because you have more things at stake you have more things at risk and you have a higher impact to to impact other people it's a higher probability that you would impact other people but for eight years went back and forth until 2019 i spent 12 months fasting and praying trying my best to hear and understand and see god because nobody was teaching me about discernment and i need to know about discernment and so for 12 months and then i i even thought that i was supposed to go somewhere else and and pursue someone else but discernment kept me somebody say discernment will keep you the sermon will keep you low and behold after 12 months of fasting and praying when god spoke then i knew yes i proposed but it was a long painful journey because i had to learn about discernment that's why i want to help you i wouldn't help you on the day but yes i got married six months ago right but but in addition to that i'm on a job after i get married a job that i've been on for 10 years a job uh that pays the bill the job that is lucrative the job that has a 401k a job that allows me to be comfortable i want a job that pays well but i discerned that the season was expiring or had already expired and so because i discerned that the season had expired i walked away from a job a job that was lucrative a job that had 401k a job that had retirement and people called me and my wife crazy walked away from a job only to not have a job somebody said discernment did that i walked away because i was i realized i was in an expired season and i'm talking to somebody right now you're sitting comfortable in a season that has been expired but you don't want to step out but i'm going to help you on today right and so i walk out on the job and people call this crazy because you don't know where you're going to get your your next paycheck from and then today to make matters worse what i do is i turn down an opportunity for three hundred thousand dollars i said hunted i didn't say hundred i said hunted three hundred thousand dollars an opportunity and the reason why i turned down that job offer that ultimately would accrue three hundred thousand dollars is because i discerned that just because a door is open doesn't mean you need to walk through it i'm trying to help somebody i i am trying i need you to lean in because we're going to get into this text and this text gets pretty oily but i need you to understand and so i turn down a good job a good opportunity and then what my wife and i do we launch a ministry called relationships without walls right and it's designed to help believers to help christians to do relationships better don't have any money don't bring any money in but i'm functioning off of discernment somebody said you keep saying this sermon but what is discernment let me help you discernment is your ability to see the thing behind the thing did did manny say it again what you need to understand is that discernment is your ability to see the thing that is behind that thing right but what you also need to understand that in the life of every single believer discernment is absolutely critical it is an essential weapon that should be in your arsenal healthy discernment but that's not the only thing healthy discernment also needs good decision making every single believer everyone who is listening right now i'm getting into it i'm getting into it just just just follow me you need healthy discernment and discernment is your ability to see the thing that is behind the thing and decision making is your ability to have sound judgment despite the circumstances see some of us are saying well give me good discernment no you need good discernment and you need good decision making because your discernment is your ability to see but decision making is your ability to do with what you have seen i see it now what are you going to do with what you're able to see somebody say i need to see i need to see but you also need good decision making we're looking at a text that is absolutely important but in order for us to understand and appreciate what nehemiah does we must understand that discernment is a gift that god gives us and decision making is a skill that we accrue but both your discernment and your decision-making are things that need to be developed your discernment and your decision-making are things that must be developed everything you do in your life is going to be based upon the decisions that you make the quality of your life is going to be based upon the quality of your discernment and some of us have very poor discernment some of us have very poor decision making but here is a truth you can be anointed and still be poor at making decisions poor decision making you can have the power of god over your life and still be unable to make sound decisions you can just ask samson samson was anointed but samson didn't make he couldn't discern will he had very poor discernment he he had the anointed you you have the anointing on your life but your discernment is extremely poor you can look at the disciples in luke chapter 9 they have the power of god over their life they were walking with jesus i'm walking with jesus but the moment somebody stepped on your toes the moment somebody made you upset the moment that someone made you angry now i want to ring fire down from heaven i want to burn everybody up you can have the power of god on your life and still not make sound decisions i'm trying to help i'm trying to help somebody in here today somebody say god didn't send that god didn't send that god didn't send that god didn't send that why are we talking about nehemiah and how we're going to look at nehemiah and make it make sense when we begin to look at discernment i need you to increase your discernment i need your discernment to be healthy because you're about to enter into a season of your life where you need to be able to lean into your ability to see that that wasn't a god sin he was not a god sin i know he sounded well i know you met him in church but god did not sit in him i know she looks good she has everything you thought you wanted but let me tell you something god didn't god didn't i didn't sin god didn't send her nehemiah nehemiah is in the castle he is in he he is a part of the king's leadership nehemiah is a cup bearer nehemiah is closest to the king when we find him in chapter one of nehemiah he is the cup bearer he drinks from the cup that the king will drink from as a matter of fact he has a 401k the money that he needs he has because everything is secure his life is secure his retirement is secure but he got word that his family and extended family and friends were in jerusalem and the walls of jerusalem had not been built why is that important why why are we talking about the walls of jerusalem the walls of jerusalem protected the entire city and more importantly they protected the temple and if the walls were not protecting and guarding the city from intruders and people on the outside then you could not rebuild the temple and in rebuilding the temple you could not have a place of worship and so it vexed his spirit in nehemiah chapter one and when he heard about this can you believe he does something crazy he hears that his family is in trouble he begins to pray to god and the bible even teaches that he begins to fast to god and then he quits his job he shifts careers i'm talking about nehemiah's getting paid money and then he walks away from a lucrative job the reason why i'm talking about this you think i'm just talking about a relationship no i'm talking about your career i'm talking about the ministry i'm talking about every decision you need to make decision making is an absolute critical skill that you must understand that needs development i'm trying to help you on today he leaves his job he shifts careers not because he wanted a promotion he shipped careers and now he's just going to become a kingdom builder somebody said i need to be a kingdom builder i need to be a kingdom builder before i am anything else he becomes a kingdom builder and he has no promise for income but he understood it was time to shift because his ex his season expired and then he prayed to god and after praying to god he made a critical decision it's time for me to leave this job i discern it's time for me to leave this job because it's somewhere else god is calling me and now he enters into a new career but what's most powerful is that he ends up finding the right people to surround himself but when you look at nehemiah chapter 6 what we discover is the wall to jerusalem is not only rebuilt but it's rebuilt in record timing somebody say supernatural miracles supernatural miracles occur at the hands of nehemiah because it was the result of his discernment and his decision-making but although he had good discernment and although he made some good decisions he also had some adversaries and his situation his context his circumstances were not necessarily favorable yes it's easy to make good decisions when you have nothing to risk it's easy to make sound decisions and to walk in discernment when ain't nobody gonna be mad at you as a result of the decision that you make but he leaves his job he goes to jerusalem and as a result we fast forward he rebuilds the entire temple or the rein the entire walls around jerusalem somebody say i need a miracle i need a miracle think about this he's able to rebuild these walls all around jerusalem he's able to experience god move in a way that he had not experienced god to move before somebody here needs a miracle somebody wants to hear god's voice i know you're praying at night lord should i make this decision is this the man i need to get married to should i say yes i know it's a man saying god look we've been dating i don't know he's god's probably already giving you the answer but you keep answering ask him because you want god to change his answer i'm going to keep on preaching i'm not going to focus on that right some of us many of us are asking god we what do i do how do i ship should i move to a new city should i stop what i'm doing god what should i do you're waiting you don't hear any answers you want god to speak to you audibly god i see how you spoke to pastor isaac i see how you spoke to my friend down the street god i want you to speak to me the way you spoke to everybody else i know we're praying god what should i should i take this job should i stay at this job i don't like this job or should i come over here oh god what should i do somebody say i need discernment i need discernment when the devil sins a counterfeit what do you mean because now that nehemiah is just about to finish building the walls then the same people who was on his squad the same people who was on his team some of the adversaries sam balor and tobias they had convinced them we need to kill nehemiah see here's the thing the devil does not want you to have a healthy discernment the devil does not want you to make healthy decisions so the devil will do whatever he can do just so you can be confused and so what he does send ballot and to buy what they do is they hire they convince these people who were once rolling with me of my hey we'll give you this if you can just lure nehemiah into the temple because if he gets into the temple then we can take care we can kill them nehemiah they come to nehemiah because what they already been doing they'd already been sending got they've been gossiping and spreading rumors and nehemiah was not coming down from the wall he said i'm not coming down i'm not going to address your rumors god will fight my battles i get something two more it's too much it's two i got too many things to do that are two they're much more important then what i need to do is keep focusing on what god has called me to do they come and he says no this one prophet comes to nehemiah and this is where it gets good hey nehemiah um i heard some people going to come and kill you so let's go to the temple so we can be protected nehemiah looks and here's my question how does nehemiah know that god didn't sin him how does nehemiah know that this was a fraud this was a counterfeit this was an impostor let me give you a few things that you need to apply to your life to make sure you're able to discern whether or not that's a counterfeit or whether or not this is a god sin number one somebody type word level word level word level if you want to make sure just like nehemiah that you're operating with good discernment look at your word level your word level your word bank because you cannot have good discernment with the low word level what do you mean the word level i can't if you look at nehemiah chapter 1 verse 7 when nehemiah discovered that his family and friends were in jerusalem and things were falling apart you know the first thing he did he started praying no no listen listen listen he didn't just start praying lord help me god i need you to help i need you to open the door god what should i do he said no he started praying say god according to your word you said that if we if we turn away from you then you will scatter us but god according to your word in deuteronomy chapter 30 you also said that if we return to you you will bring us back unto yourself god we want to come back to you god this is what your word said i'm trying to help you can't have good discernment if you don't know god's word you can't know which decisions to make if you're avoiding reading what god already said i i just want to throw my computer at you listen somebody say lower level lower level in order to make sure that your discernment is on fleek in order to make sure that your discernment is what it needs to be you need to increase the word of god in your life but no don't don't let me miss you what we desire is to ask god a question and we want god to answer us audibly god we want an encounter with you give us a vision let me hear your voice what do you have to say about this decision in my life let me help you god speaks two ways his word two ways audible and written god speaks to us audibly and through his written word audible word written word we see god often in the bible in the old testament in which he responds to daniel he responds to abraham he responds to many people audibly and we say we want that but don't don't miss something god has given us a written word his written word is the word of god don't don't miss you when you put god in a box and say god i need you to respond to me because i hadn't i hadn't heard your voice god is saying well why is it that you make my audible voice more important than my written word because both of them are my word so i've spoken in a word and if you don't read my word but yet you want me to speak to you audibly then why would i trust you with my audible word if you if i can't trust you with my written word some of us are asking god some questions and the answers are already written god said go back to my word the problem is your word bank is deficient the problem is your word bank is too low insufficient funds and what i need i need you to make a commitment on today um i'm going to spend some time in god's word because there's something in god's word that will speak to me god what nehemiah did we can look at the wall but what i need you to understand he looked at the word and he was able to say god this is what your word said and so i am bringing your word back into you because your word will not return to you void that's what your bible says and so what i want to encourage you today is to make sure that your word level isn't too low but the second thing is not only when you're thinking about discernment because much of our discernment can be satisfied by the word that's in us the second thing is your atmosphere somebody say your atmosphere your atmosphere i'm gonna try to do this quick cause i gotta get out of your way your atmosphere your atmosphere not only is it your word level but it's also your atmosphere not in chapter one but in chapter two let me tell you something that happens that's so profound around about verse 12 after he nehemiah got permission from god to leave where he was to now go to jerusalem the bible teaches us in chapter 2 that he goes to jerusalem and he tells no one what god had told him he was silent for a season in which he didn't talk to people and he didn't allow people to talk and enter into his ears and to confuse them with their opinions there's a season in his life in which it was just him and god i don't need too many people in my atmosphere that will distort what god is saying what god is trying to do so i'm going to be quiet and the bible emphasizes to us in chapter 2 that i didn't say a word he didn't say a word he went to jerusalem and he looked over everything he took a step back and he assessed everything before he made decisions he was slow to make decisions and why he was slow because god could speak again and i want to make sure that i don't allow too many people's opinions to take what god might speak to me i remember when when jerry jerry said something about when you're laying foundation of concrete you want to make sure that you don't allow too many people access to you because if too many people have access to you when you're laying the foundation of concrete when the concrete dries and everybody leaves you're still left with their impressions oh that'll preach act like that just came from me that just came from me yeah that's just powerful nehemiah doesn't say anything he's responsible for his atmosphere some of us are asking too many more people for their opinions when you haven't even sat in god's presence lord what do you have to say and if i don't hear it let me read it let me read your word and and perhaps you may not speak to me audibly but i somewhere in your word not just your your your word level but it's your atmosphere right you have to be responsible for your atmosphere and here's the third here's the third one here's the third one i need somebody to type your emotional hygiene emotional hygiene when we're thinking about discernment it is absolutely critical that you're mindful of your word level it's absolutely essential that you are responsible for your atmosphere what's around you who's around you right but you also must be responsible must be responsible for your emotional hygiene the bible teaches us in chapter 6 verse 13 what we read is that nehemiah said no i'm not going to respond to the enemy because what the enemy wants to do is make me afraid and if i become afraid i'm going to make fearful decisions and some of us the problem with your discernment is that your discernment is hijacked by your emotions and so nehemiah knew enough i need to approach the word of god and god's throne with emotional sobriety and so what he says is i have to be responsible for my emotions the reason why you can't hear the reason why you don't know what to do is because your emotions are all out of whack and that's why they teach you whether it's anger whether it's whatever the emotion is you must be responsible for your emotions if i ask you right now i said hey describe to me the moment in time where you made a horrible decision i can wait and you know what happened most of us would describe a moment in time where we made a decision and it was accompanied by fear guilt shame anger impatience and you can keep on going because here's the thing when you're not emotionally sober your emotional your emotions hijack the decision-making part of your brain which is the prefrontal cortex the prefrontal cortex in your mind in your brain where it makes the decisions what happens is when you are emotional and you're high on your emotions it causes everything to paralyze paralysis now forces you to make dumb decisions you can research it when you are emotional when you are upset when you are angry you literally lose iq points so this is why when you're trying to function in discernment i can't i can't see straight when i'm upset i can't think straight when i when i have an attitude i need to take a step back nehemiah in the text say you know what i'm not gonna listen to y'all because if i listen to the gossip the gossip's gonna make me angry and then i'm gonna get petty you can't be petty and have great discernment he says you know what i'm gonna take a step back because you want me to be afraid and if i become afraid that's why he said he says then i'm going to sin nehemiah knew that if you if you if i get upset it's gonna get ugly and so he knew he had to be responsible for his emotion somebody you cannot have bad emotional hygiene and good discernment i'm i'm gonna say it one more time and i need you to type this put this in your notes i cannot have bad emotional hygiene and expect to also have good discernment you need to be more responsible with your emotions and that's what they the devil knows this very well that's why he wanted nehemiah to get upset and be afraid because if he's upset then he won't hear god straight and then he's going to make a mistake take a step back understand what you're thinking understand what you're feeling there is a perceived lie that you're telling yourself a perceived loss and and so you have to know the difference between the perceived loss and the real loss what's actually going to be lost because many times you're not losing what you think you're going to lose and it's not what you see happen is not really happening but but but you're looking through a wounded lens you're looking through an angry lens take a step back expose the lie apply the truth let me help you let me hear all right so not just bad emotional hygiene i'm almost finished somebody type your access points your access points your access points what do you mean access points in order to truly be able to embrace what god did in the life of nehemiah and everybody in jerusalem rebuilt the walls in 52 days how is that possible how is it possible he guarded his access points because when you look at chapter four somebody said nehemiah chapter four what ends up happening is the walls were almost to its half half habit size and then when sand valley and all the people realized that the gaps were beginning to close what they decided to do was to send people through the gaps and through the crevices into jerusalem so that they can filter in and infiltrate right people were now entering into jerusalem who didn't belong there people in your life that don't belong there people in your situation that don't belong there and so what nehemiah said hold on if i'm going to do what god has called me to do if i'm going to see straight if i'm going to history i have to strategically put people in my life right next to the access points because i i have to make sure that i control the flow of things and people in and out of my life and so you have to be responsible you have to guard your access points because you are absolutely responsible for everything that comes in and out your life and so the bible says in chapter in chapter 4 that then he he got some people he got all kinds of people and he said i need you to guard this this breach in the wall this gap in the wall i need you to guard this access point because the thing about an access point is an access point is a portal through which something or someone can engage you or influence you and so nehemiah knew enough i can't fully make great decisions i can't fully operate in discernment i can't see well if i allow people to infiltrate and enter into my life and begin to access me the problem with you is too many have too many people have access to you too much information can access your ears too much sound and too much visuals can access your eyes too many things are too close for you to touch too many things have access to you and as a result of what has access to your ears it begins to influence your heart because you have too many things that can reach and touch you the misinformation the gossip because of this you can't see straight i can't think straight i what is god you've been asking god the same question for 10 years the problem isn't that god isn't speaking the problem is too many things and too many people have access to you nehemiah understood i must guard the most sensitive areas of my life because what the word that god is trying to give to me is precious and what god is trying to do in my life i have to make sure that i have trusted people in my life guarding areas that need to be guarded because there's some seasons where you let people have access to you but in sowing seasons and in harvest seasons you got to be careful of the things and the people that act somebody said god didn't sin that nehemiah knew knew enough and i'm gonna leave you with this one i'm gonna leave you with this one nehemiah knew enough to know that god didn't send that how do you know god didn't send that look i'm i'm responsible with my emotions i'm in god's word i don't just allow anybody around me i don't care how good you look i don't care how much money you're trying to give me if god didn't send it i don't want it which leads me to my last point what can help you in your discernment is god's presence did you did you think i was gonna forget about god's presence did you think that i was gonna forget about god's presence oh you think it's a give me um you don't wanna substitute just because i read god's word doesn't mean that i bask in god's presence when you look at the text nehemiah chapter one and i bid you a good day when nehemiah discovered that his family was in trouble he had to make a critical decision oh listen he started praying and the bible says he started fasting but the bible also teaches us that he started fasting in the month of kislev the month of kislev is november december but when you look at chapter 2 when he goes to the king and the king says what's wrong with you he's speaking he begins to tell him everything that's wrong and he begins to reveal that he'd been fasting but this is now the month of nisan which is now march in april my brother my sister nehemiah had been fasting for four months he had been fasting and in god's presence for four long months see we want the beauty we want the glory but we don't know the whole story before he ever went to to jerusalem before he ever fought with the adversary he had been in god's presence and because he was in god's presence and god's word was in god's in him and god's presence he was in god's presence because of this he was able to discern when god was moving and when god wasn't moving what are you saying because he was in god's presence don't miss this don't do not miss this when someone came to him i don't care because you're talking about church i don't care where i met you i don't care what you're saying when you're in god's presence like nehemiah he was he was able to discern wasn't what wasn't of god's presence what are you saying if you are not in god's presence you won't be able to determine what's not of god's presence listen he spent time in god's presence if you want to know if it's a counterfeit the easiest way to discover whether or not i need is god in it nehemiah said if god ain't there i ain't going if god's not in it i don't want it if god isn't breathing on it i can do without it hey nehemiah let's go into the temple i don't care where you tell me to go is god there and if god isn't breathing there guess what i ain't going there if god isn't breathing on him i'm sorry sweetheart you need to let him go if god is not if god is not there bro you can't force god's presence on the situation if god is not there then you might not need to be there yourself nehemiah looks shamaya the prophet and says i discern that god did not speak to him yeah although he was prophesying to me he was prophesying and uttering words that tobias and sand ballad had gave him are y'all listening to me if you want to know if god is speaking and god is moving the easiest way is to rest in god's presence because if you're in god's presence you will be able to determine if he or she or it is of god's presence but if you don't want if you don't have time to be in god's presence and to just bask in god's presence how do you possibly expect to be able to discern if god is in it there is no hack to god's presence there is no easy one two three to a miracle your obedience will activate every answer you ever wanted let me pray with you god we bless you we bless you today for this word god we thank you for nehemiah god this isn't a fancy word this is a word that requires us to be sober because god there's things we're asking you for and all you're asking in return is us you just want us you'll give us whatever we desire if we can just give you ourselves today god every single person who is under the sound of my voice whether life or replay it is my prayer that we stop that we pause and that god we recognize your holiness and that god would whether it's a relationship whether it's marriage god whether it's a job opportunity whether it's moving and transporting to a new city god whatever it is answer it if we give you us i pray god today not only for good ears to hear your word but help us to be obedient because although we know what to do we don't have the wherewithal to be obedient with what we know so help us today it's in jesus name we pray and all of god's people everywhere typed amen exclamation point exclamation point god didn't send that getting god's presence talk to you soon peace

Channel: REDEFINED TV

Views: 40,976

Rating: 4.9532347 out of 5

Keywords: redefinedtv, redefined tv, discernment series, Pastor Jerry Flowers, Jerry Flowers, Issac curry, When the devil sends a counterfeit

Id: BBf9-jJX49M

Length: 48min 25sec (2905 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 20 2021