SPIRITUAL GIFTS CLASS - Healing of the Spirit Ministries

DEFINITION
DISCERNINGS OF SPIRITS
(Incorrectly – “Discernment”)
The special ability to know with assurance whether certain behavior purported to be of God is in reality
divine, human or satanic.
CLASSSES OF SPIRITS:
1. The Holy Spirit John 1:32-33, Acts 2:3
2. Good Angels Luke 22:43, John 20:11-13, Acts 27:23-24
3. Human Spirits John 1:47, Acts 8:20-24, Acts 14:8-10
4. Demons or Evil Spirits Matt. 9:32-34, Mark 9:7-17, Luke 13:11-17, Acts 16:16-18
5. Fallen Angels Acts 16:16-18
CHARACTERISTICS
1. Keen sense for recognizing inconsistencies
3. Tendency to always be figuring out what is wrong with something or how it can be improved.
4. Good grasp of scriptural truth in general.
5. Deep underlying spirit of conviction which will not allow you to rest when you know people are
being given half-truth, misapplied truth, or false teaching, and are asked to act upon it.
6. Impatient with insincerity.
7. Able to judge between right and wrong causes of action.
8. Can discern the validity and divinity of the manifestations of other gifts.
9. Some measure given to elders, those who preside and bishops
Levels of the Gift
1. levels of gifting (1) ID behavior (2) know motives (3) tell truth from error (4) know names of
spirits involved.
2. To know that purportedly good behavior is from the human spirit or Satan's work. .
3. Discerning whether something a Christian brother or sister does emerges from Godly motives or
carnal motives.
4. Supernatural ability to discern truth from error, although motives may be proper.
5. The ability to know the names of evil spirits influencing a person.
6. To be able to know when places, houses or objects have evil influences associated.
7. To see cities, towns and neighborhoods as they are really are spiritually, not as they appear to be,
“spiritual mapping”.
SCRIPTURES
I Cor. 12:10 Acts 5:1-11 I John 4:1-6 Acts 16-18
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