A prayer to follow God's Word, not our hearts, by Emily Rose Massey, read by Liam Arden.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that

by testing, you may discern what is the will of God, what is good, and acceptable and

perfect.

Romans 12, 2 through 3.

After lovingly warning a friend of the dangers of a particular false teacher she was going

to see at a conference, she got offended with me and said something along the lines of,

I have the Holy Spirit.

Don't you think I'll be able to discern or sense his conviction of something's not right?

In this instance, my friend was putting an emphasis on what she believed the Holy Spirit

was telling her by how it made her feel at the time.

Friends we can't rely on our feelings to always accurately direct us.

Since we can't fully depend on our feelings to determine if something is simple or not,

we also can't depend on our feelings to determine if something is true or false either.

Knowing the Bible is how our mind is renewed and how we're sanctified as believers.

We must search the scriptures to be able to learn how to walk in God's ways.

Regarding discernment, are you testing what you hear people say about God against what

He says about Himself in the Word?

That's where we gain knowledge to be able to test all things in judge-regiously.

We must make sure everything we're hearing preached in the name of Christ lines up with

His Holy written Word.

Friends, if we're just to depend on feelings, I'd be wrong quite a lot.

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