Examine Prayer

Reading;-
The movements to which people belong and the literature associated
with them are indicative of their controlling spirit !
What do you read...what do other people read?
We need more than our own thoughts on the matter;
So if we pray about it...and let God assess what we have been reading
we may learn something of His attitude.

Yahweh, You examine me and know me. Psalm 139 verse 1 NJB

 Each of us comes to live principally within one or other of the four dynamics.
We grow slowly into our leading dynamic maturing into it all our lives.
Shop lifting teenagers become shoplifting pensioners without some intervention.
You can see how a person would slowly let the Holy Spirit lead him into
 Christlife,  patiently growing in perspective and ways of seeing life in
desires and habits..
You can see how deadly sin works.  A man chooses one step at a time to live
more and more fully in the dynamic of sarx and then in the dynamic of darkness,
untill he lives the embodyment of the Lie.

We need to ask of each significant action and of every deep and persistant desire;
Does this desire proceed truly out of Christ's life in us, and does its enactment
deepen Christlife.?
We will find out what God hopes for us and in us
not only in the desire, but in the enactment, and in the consequences of the enactment.
Discernment requires attention to all these stages.
Discernment means finding out what I desire and out of what dynamic I desire it,
what I enact and what I intend by my enactment.
These are the spirits that I discern..

but test the spirits to see whether they are from God                      1 John4:1

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