Saturday, February 19, 2011

Mixture

Not every thought that comes to us while praying  prophetically for people is from God. It may be beautiful, it may be encouraging but it may not be what God wants to say to that person or group of people at the time.  Random thoughts always pass through our minds and we must discern what is from God and what is not.  These thoughts are not necessarily from the enemy.I use James 3:17 as a standard to judge whether something is from God or not. "The wisdom from above is first of all peaceful, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits,without partiality and without hypocrisy." I saw an ad today on Facebook for a Meditative Retreat Centre, held in an ancient Italian monastery that was offering Tai Chi along with prayer.  Watch out for mixture. We want a pure and powerful life that only Jesus offers by the Holy Spirit indwelling and leading us.