And so often, when I'm worrying, when I'm trying to figure out the way I should go, in my head,

what I'm really doing is I'm going through the motions of prayer, but to myself, as if I can give myself the wisdom I need.

Hi friends and welcome back to Verity Podcast. Today we're going to be talking about how to discern God's voice and his truth from your own thoughts or the temptations of the enemy.

I know that this is something I've struggled with in my own walk with God and if you are new to the

Christian faith or even if you've walked with God for a very long time

you've probably wondered this as well. How do we discern when God is speaking or when it's just

something that we want or that we're thinking.

And how do we discern when it's our own thoughts and our own patterns of behavior

or it's the enemy tempting us or causing spiritual warfare in our lives.

There truly is a spiritual war.

Ephesians 5 and 6 talk about this,

but at the same time not everything we experience is spiritual

warfare and not everything that we hear in our hearts is directly from the

Lord. So how do we discern? That's what we're going to look at today. I have quite a few

Bible verses to share with you on this topic and we're going to start in

Romans 12. You may have heard this verse before, it's one that's often quoted and

memorized and there's a good reason for that. It's an amazing passage and I'm

going to read it to you now. Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice,

holy and pleasing to God.

This is your spiritual worship.

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind

so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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