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June 21, 2026 - For the Church at the St. John Church of Christ
Spiritual Discipline: Discernment #2
Suggestions for listening to God: Take your time. It is best not to do all these steps at once. The brain gets tired, anxiety takes over, and you can end up trying to force the hand of God. Listening for God’s direction takes time. Not every decision you make will need to incorporate all these steps. Some choices are easier than others.
1. Come into the presence of the holy One - focusing your attention on his love and goodness. Thank God that you have a Guide who is on your side and wants to help you.
2. Consider what it means to be totally attached to God’s agenda and will. Confess any idols of your heart that blocks your trust.
3. Lay your choice before God and examine the matter thoroughly. If it helps to journal the scope of the decision, commit your thoughts to writing.
4. Share your desires with God. What is it you want?
5. Use reason – How does this enable you to live out the fruit of the Spirit? Will this choice be experienced as a life-giving, loving choice for those it affects?
6. Attend to your feelings. What about this choice leads to consulation: life-giving feelings that bring in the Spirit’s fruit of love, joy, faith, and peace? What excites you about this?
7. Listen to God as you read Scripture. Pay attention to where the Word lights up and speaks to you.
8. Seek the counsel of those gifted in discernment who can listen to you and with you.
9. Offer your choice to God. Pray for wisdom and the freedom of the Spirit to blow through you. Wait. Ask God to bring your heart and head and spirit into agreement. Do they all confirm this course of action?
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