Joy Together: Discernment Devo

Joy Together: The Discipline of Discernment 

Galatians 5: 16-26

Devotional

Scriptures Galatians 5: 16-26

Read the scripture daily. Read it slowly. What is God bringing to your attention through this passage? 

Questions to consider: 

• How do you most often make decisions?
• What does discernment look like in your own life?
• What guides the way you make decisions, the heart or the mind?
• How do you most often experience God’s guidance?
• What helps make God’s voice more clear to you? What are the greatest obstacles to hearing God’s voice?
• Who are the people who help you with discernment?

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 4:1

If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.

James 1:5

Spiritual Practice: 

• Write down some large decisions that you have made in your life. Write down how you discerned each decision. 
• Pray to God to reveal to you the desire of God’s heart. Take time to listen to God, especially for the nudging of the Holy Spirit.
• Find an accountability partner to join you in matters of discernment. 

Adapted from Adaele Ahlberg Caljou’s Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices that Transform Us.