Prophet Joshua Holmes
Discerning Of Spirits

Bible Study: Discerning Of Spirits
Bible Study: Discerning Of Spirits
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Discerning Of Spirits
The discerning of spirits which is a gift of the Holy Ghost. The discerning of spirits is an assistance so that deception would not thrive concerning you. And in the discerning of spirits there are many different outlets in which the the Lord uses so that your eyes could see what’s really like unseen. So that you could know what many are ignorant of about a person. Remember, what is the purpose of spirits that are not of God? Is to occupy man so that man would not be of God. So the purpose of spirits is so that uh man would operate apart from being of God. So spirits they don’t want to more so occupy animals and birds and turtles and creeping things they want to occupy humans because that’s the highest level of occupation in this earth realm. Once you occupy human, now you have the ability to go forth in this earth and accomplish things. So what is spirits after? The soul of men. Because once they could occupy the soul of men that means that now they have access to create decisions, choices and establish the kingdom of hell on earth through that vessel of that person. Meaning like there’s a, there’s a schedule that’s from the gates of hell that’s being done through that person.
What is folly?
So think about this when the Holy Spirit gives you this gift of the discerning of spirits is because He wants you to know who this person is that is talking to you? Who is this person that’s pursuing your attention? Who is this person that is pursuing your time? Who are they? What spirit is ruling them? Because whatever spirit is ruling them is going to expose what is their true contribution to your life, destruction, development of God. What is their part to play in your life? Is it freedom or folly? You know what folly is? It is the learning of things that are foolish. The doing of things that are foolish. Folly is where the mind starts to enjoy what destroys it. Imagine if the Bible said that you’ll lose your own soul at the end of your life. It meant that your soul was actually enjoying doing things that was going to cause it to be lost. So losing your soul is in gaining the world and gaining the world is in gaining spirits that are not of God. As you’re joining in, I want you to share this broadcast. Share this broadcast. Isn’t that powerful? Gaining the world is gaining spirits that are not of God. So in the satanic kingdom when you gain, you lose the soul. So satanic gain is loss but satanic gain is not placed as loss it’s placed as gain. So deception is where you progress with the devil but you’re at a deficit with God. It’s the poverty of the mind. It’s the poverty of the mind. The discerning of spirits is where God will show you what entity, what principality is ruling a person and even a region, and even a business, and even a door.
It matters who favors you
It matters who favors you. Have you ever wanted somebody to favor you and then after some time happen you like, “I’m glad that they did not favor me! I’m glad that they didn’t take a liking to me!” Because as time goes on you recognize, “I’m not compatible for this person. I don’t even agree with this person. I actually think that they weird. Now but I didn’t think that they was weird before.” You don’t always see the spirit behind people or opportunities that they present. Because Satan will trap you through something that you think that you need in the hour that you’re in and the hour you’re in often times could be the hour of temptation. Imagine if you’re in the hour of temptation and in that hour you’re looking for something. Remember, that’s the hour of temptation. So even your appetites are off. You ever thought about that? If your appetite is off in an hour of temptation and in that hour you’re pursuing favor from somebody that also could be in deception. Potiphar’s wife was seeking the favor of Joseph in an hour of temptation. She is being tempted. She is being wanting. She is being aggressive. And she’s in the hour of temptation. And who she seeks favor from is the wrong person. She’s supposed to be seeking favor from Potiphar. But she’s seeking favor. Man wisdom and understanding will take you degrees boy and, and you know what’s uh profound to me like because I, I, I have that mantle of wisdom and understanding sitting on me. When I start teaching there’s things that come to my brain that wasn’t in my brain before I started. And that’s what it caused by being led by the Holy Spirit. When you’re led by the Holy Spirit, there’s things that He don’t have to talk to you beforehand about it. Because He has complete jurisdiction over your soul. He could just flow at His own timing. Everybody should seek to get to that dimension. Because there’s a dimension where it’s like you saying, “God show me beforehand.” But there’s a dimension where God will show you at hand because He got your hands. Your hands are not resisting Him or fighting against Him. So He could just do it at the spur of the moment and there’s no part of you that’s in the flesh. So you’re not going to be blocking Him. Sometimes when God has to prepare you and prepare you it’s not really a good sign of your growth. Because if He got to prepare you and prepare you. There is a sign that you actually will resist Him. If He don’t go to the extreme in preparing you. So preparing, preparing, preparing because you very well may miss this moment. Because there’s a stubbornness about you. Do you know that everybody that is walking with God is not walking with God at the same development of heart? Not everybody is walking at the same development of heart. Let’s deal with the discerning of spirits. So in the discerning of spirits when this gift is given to you your eyes open up to see angels angels that are fallen away from God. Angels that have the path of destruction in them. Angels that want to destroy you. Because they already have a future of destruction that they themselves chose. God didn’t choose it. They chose it. They wanted to defy God. They wanted the thrill of going against their creator. They wanted the thrill of going against the one that built them, made them for His own purpose. And they liked the thrill of dysfunction. Do you know that there’s people on earth right now that like dysfunction? They like drama. If they don’t have drama, they feel like life is not fun no more. Because they’re demon possessed. If they don’t see drama, they’ll create it. If they don’t see drama, they’ll, they’ll initiate it. Because that’s the spirit that they have. The spirit of strife, spirit of division. In the discerning of spirits, you will see father calling angels in different forms. The discerning of spirits is a prophetic ability given to a person so that they can protect themselves with what God is showing them. In the discerning of spirits, even if you see the spirits that a person contains it doesn’t always mean to disconnect from them. Although there may be a time frame of disconnection. If there is a time frame of disconnection you know that I already saw the spirits that this person has. Saints, let me tell you this 100% of the time, marriages don’t work. It’s not because 2 people have the Holy Spirit. There’s other spirits involved. Listen to me. When there’s other spirits involved, the marriage cannot continue if those other spirits remain involved it cannot continue the way that God wanted it. And there’s a solution that He’ll pick. If he pick for the 2 people to stay together. Fine. If He pick for the 2 people to separate. Fine. But there’s a solution and it’s up to Him. Every situation is different. But even that marriage will not be fruitful and it will not multiply according to God’s will. Because other spirits are involved. And what do spirits come to do? They come to stop the production of the Holy Ghost. They don’t want the Holy Ghost to produce. And that’s why even when you have spirits you’ll notice you can’t produce the fruit of the spirit love, joy, peace. Why don’t you have joy? Their spirits stopping the joy. And Isaiah it said that um “There’s a spirit of heaviness.” So even the spirit of heaviness comes to stop you from praising God, being joyful and celebrating the Lord properly. If you want to be free from spirits, start to praise the Lord spontaneously and rejoice before Him. Even though you didn’t currently hear some type of good news or some type of stimulating report. Stir yourself up to rejoice before the Lord! You know the Holy Spirit He’s so profound. He been, He been, He been talking to me. He talked to me about this like briefly. He said, “Son the people that you see sometimes like when they have wrinkles over their face and and stuff like that.” He said, “Sometimes it’s from the facial expressions that they make.” He said, “But they didn’t recognize it when they was younger.” And here’s what the Holy Spirit told me He said, “When you talk, try not to squint your eyes.” Man you, you! He said, “When you talk, try not to squint your eyes, because He said, it’ll create wrinkles when you’re way older.” He said, “Try to talk only with the lower section of your mouth below your nose.” Because if, if you, if look, look, look, look at this, look at this here, look at all of that moving right there I, I’m, I’m using this. I’m, I’m, I’m pressing my skin up like this. God I’m about to… You see? It’s things that you use but you don’t recognize it. Like for instance. Do you know that there’s some people right now their bodily structure is always bad when they sit down? They sit down like this. So when they get old, watch how they walk but they didn’t see that when they, when they. Even when you sit down you got to sit down with, with, with, with your, with your your back has to be straight. Now watch this here. You even got to master this in your sleep. Some of you all you don’t recognize like you’re bending yourself when you sleep. So by the time you get old, you going to be deformed. But you could stop that is in your control. But it’s like you have to get a hold of habits that you can’t see are developing you into a path. They’re developing you. But you don’t see the development, often times, until it’s too late. And you don’t want that. Because by the time you try to fix it, it’s done established. Right? The same way however you do your mouth. That’s how your mouth going to be doing when you older. Have you ever seen them people like they, they can’t. Why they doing that? They doing that it’s through habits. You know uh Victoria I just saw an angel last night came to you around midnight, twelve midnight. But you attached that angel to you because of your sacrificial seed that you sowed into me. It was around twelve midnight. I was just siphoning right here whether to talk about it. Because I heard the Holy Spirit talking to me about it. I was just waiting to see if I was supposed to say it like on the line or it was just something that He was just sharing with me to share with me. But He told me to tell you that Victoria, that’s Denise’s daughter. And um Victoria, you know what’s so wild there’s somebody that I know uh in my in my state that look just like you. And I don’t know them like talk to them know them. But like they, they, they are somewhere. And when I see the person the Holy Spirit said, “When you see them it’s because I’m thinking about her.” Well what you got to understand is uh the various temptations that you have and the various uh people that come before you are demon possessed. So you have to start to enjoy the pattern of life of sanctification. Because though you may want to be in the company of people. Every person that I see that you pick the company of have a lot of demons. Especially those females. You know that they’re worldly. I’m just talking to you prophetically. Um the street girls. You got to get far away from that. Because what Satan has scheduled for you, in the future, is that like you’ll go to jail getting in some type of drama in a female fight. And I saw your shoes was off, the other girl shoes was off and people were recording on their phone. You want to, you want to flee from the people that you know. There’ll be times where you crave their attention or they may talk with you. But they’re not for you. They are destroyers. I see you getting into a fight with a girl, your shoes are off, her shoes are off and there’s people recording on their phone. You get taken to Jail. The other girl get taken to jail. But see all this stuff could be stopped through sanctification. You, you got to enjoy being by yourself. Staying away from people. These girls are ghetto. They don’t have no anointing on them. They’re street girls. They listen to GloRilla. They listen, they listen to, they listen to world, world they, they in the world. I mean they’re not saved. When you have knowledge in you given that’s of sound wisdom from God, all the more you have to recognize when people that have not been privileged to have that level of light enter them you got to know that the devil is using them to draw you into a trap! Victoria everybody that you know other than Denise are trappers, right now. Everybody that you have in your knowledge right now, other than Denise, are trappers. When you’re young, you got to flee from people because you can’t see everything when you’re a young person. There’s a lot of cravings, a lot of desires. But as you get older you’re recognizes it’s all vanity. I’m thirty-two years old, right now. And it’s like my mind is like so advanced! And even the wisdom that I’m entrusted with by the Holy Spirit that’s different than when I was twenty-three or twenty-four or twenty-five. I noticed there was like a switch in my mind when I got to like twenty-seven and twenty-eighth like it was a new candlestick given to me. When I got to thirty there’s a new Candlestick. But when I turn thirty-three, I know something going to happen. I’m walking in like a new candlestick at this age of thirty-two. Every year of your life there’s new new wine scheduled for you. So you get intoxicated with a new um zeal and passion and purity towards the Lord. So it’s like um you become more of a a genius, as your age get older.
Walking in the discerning of spirits
Right now, like you’re going to look back at certain things that you do at your younger age and you going to say uh, “I am my own enemy. I am my own destroyer.” When you young, you going to have a lot of people that you want to flock to and you going to have people that’s going to seem like they’re flocking to you. They don’t mean you no good. And you got to, you have to walk in the discerning of spirits to know that. When the discerning of spirits happened to Apostle Paul, this girl who had the spirit of divination looked like she was praising Apostle Paul, saluting Apostle Paul. But she was demon-possessed, she had the spirit of divination. But how could Apostle Paul catch that? It was through the gift of the discerning of spirit. So Apostle Paul understood this. That’s why he could even talk about the 9 gifts of the Spirit. He understood that this girl was talking to him from a spirit from the gates of hell. But she wasn’t saying things that sounded disrespectful. So you understand that the discerning of spirits are also in your life for people that they are charming with their words. They’re very charming. They, they, they compliment you. They’ll compliment you. They’ll tell you things that seemeth so nice. It seems like they are nice to you but they’re not. They have a interior motive of destruction. And you won’t know that unless you have the discerning of spirits. You won’t know that unless you have the discerning of spirits. Because the discerning of spirits will take you to a degree where you could x-ray a person beyond their words, you could x-ray them beyond their kindness, you could x-ray them beyond their appearance of loyalty. The discerning of spirits works when you have people in your life that seem dedicated to you and they’re not. God will show you the spirits they have. Now there’s people even in my ministry, there’s people even in my life when I see the spirits that they battle with I don’t utterly throw them away. I preach the gospel to them. So they can throw those demons away. And I enjoy my job. But I’m supposed to always be aware and knowledgeable about the spirits that people have. So that I can know what I’m dealing with and deal with people appropriately. Let me show you something about King Ahasuerus. And before I get to King Ahasuerus. When I see spirits that people battle with, I don’t always tell them. I don’t always go to them and confront them and be like, “Hey you battling with this.” I give time for recovery, repentance. I give time. There’s a space that the Holy Spirit shows me. So the word is the ingredient for deliverance in that specific place. You see out of nowhere. Why do I start teaching about talking to the dead? It’s a spontaneous doctrine. Right? Like how do we go there? It’s the discerning of spirits. I can see the familiar spirits that people activate through talking to people that died. I could see how the rituals that people are doing. My eyes open up. And then the Holy Spirit said, “Teach on this.” My eyes could see people doing activity. So that’s why it, it’s, it’s such a privilege to sit underneath a Prophet of God. Because you literally get to hear what God is thinking about, what He sees you doing. And then He’s giving you a oil supply so that you could stop doing it. When you are underneath a prophetic ministry, like you have the highest advantage of anybody in the earth to be perfect. That’s why the Prophet is sent for the perfecting of the saints. I mean what, what beautiful initiative when the Prophet of God comes because now you spontaneously are targeted wherever your witchcraft practice is and God is showing you. I see you. I don’t like it. But I’mma give you power to free yourself from this, get out of this. I’m not going to let you just go to hell. I’mma work with you, right now, to help you get out of it. It’s like somebody in prison they can get the death sentence the, the chair but somehow they, they work with the person, work with the person to give the person a chance to change from the mentality they have of harming people and violence. And even though the death sentence be set for you to go to hell, according to your crimes that you commit in your body, the judge say, “I’mma place them on spiritual parole, and I’mma test them by my Spirit. And if they pass the parole, I take them out parole, take them, wave the, the death sentence, the, the the jail sentence.” And see often times people break parole. They end up in jail, in slavery to on the path to hell and in their old life. The discerning of spirits was operating in Apostle Paul to see the girl with divination. But King Ahasuerus, remember this, for the lack of discerning of spirits, he didn’t discern Haman was of the devil. Remember, he exalted Haman. This so profound y’all, this so profound! Ain’t it? This so profound! How many of y’all enjoying this teaching? I want you to share me, as you’re listening. King Ahasuerus did not have the discerning of the spirits that Haman had. He didn’t discern. So King Ahasuerus puts Haman in a position that is not supposed to be given. He’s not supposed to be given this position. But he puts him in the position because he lacks discernment and his discernment is off. So he decides, “I want to promote Haman. He’s a good person.” And is not so. Haman is evil. Who had the ability to discern the spirit that Haman had? Mordecai. It wasn’t even Esther. Remember, Mordecai had to even open up Esther’s eyes. So he imparted the discerning of the spirits that Haman had to her through conversation. The discerning of spirits this gift could be given through transference. You can enlighten someone of the working of the devil. You can enlighten your children. That’s why when you raise up a child prophetically and you make them aware of spirits, you allow them to know how to deal with strangers when strangers come up to them. You imparted the discerning of spirits to them.
Imparting the gift of the discerning of spirits to you
Every Pastor is supposed to impart the discerning of spirits to their congregation, the people they pastor. So I’ve I pastored you all for years. I’ve been pastoring you for decade, over a decade now. Some of you. Just think about that, over a decade I’ve been pastoring you. So through pastoring you, it’s my job description to give you discernment of spirits. How people will come to you, they’ll tell you a scripture from Jeremiah, they tell you a scripture from Ezekiel, the gospels but yet they are a spirit sent by the devil to destroy you. But yet they’re using the word like Satan did, the devil did in uh the wilderness against Jesus. And you got to recognize, “Oh this is the devil.” But the devil not coming to you with Ouija, Ouija board words and information and letters coming to you with the Bible because that’s where your region of credibility is, your region of studying is. And so, “I need to deceive you. So I need to deal with what you deal with so that you don’t think that I came to harm you. So Pastors release it to their sheep. Shepherds release it to their sheep. Husbands release it to their wives. Since the beginning of time woman have the potentiality to be gullible. It’s a potential. It doesn’t mean that she has to be gullible. But you look at the Bible saying that it was the woman that was deceived. So deception is in the operation of a woman that’s in the flesh. So woman become deceived while they’re in the flesh. They become discerning, when they’re in the Spirit. So King Ahasuerus could not see the spirits that Haman had. The discerning of spirits was not operating in King Ahasuerus evaluation of Haman. He only saw good things about Haman that he was worthy for promotion. When Mordecai was before Haman the Bible said everybody bowed and and Mordecai refused to bow to Haman. You see the discerning of spirit show you who you’re not supposed to honor, who you’re not supposed to promote in your life as a friend, who you’re not supposed to exalt in your ministry as commendable. So the discerning of spirits it, it this gift protects you from giving someone elevation that doesn’t deserve it. But you may think that they deserve it because of what you’re observing. The discerning of spirits will show you what you should be observing. It’s from His point of view. And then you’ll know, “Okay. So got it, got it, got it, got it.” Often times people could please your flesh but they’re not pleasing God’s Spirit. Because your flesh wanted that from them. Oh my goodness that’s powerful man just to think about that! Your flesh wanted that from them but God’s Spirit didn’t. The the Spirit of God is looking for a different quota. Let me give you an example. So you get in a shootout and you say, “Man my boy he pulled out his gun and started shooting with me!!” You may say, “Man that’s my real friend!” Because you’re looking at the quota of violence. You’re looking at the quota of he got aggressive too. But God may be looking at this person may be sleeping with your woman. You want to exalt them as your friend because you saw them pull out a gun. But God see that they pulled out another gun. You see? So you want to exalt them according to your observation. God looking at another observation. And if you knew the observe God knew. You wouldn’t be saying. You see? So it’s so many things. People often elevate other people according to what they are seeing. But the discerning of spirits is God showing you what He sees. Hallelujah!! Hallelujah!! Hallelujah!! He’s showing you what He sees. The discerning of spirits is God showing you what He’s looking at concerning the person. It’s way higher than what you see. It’s way higher than what you feel. It’s way higher than what you perceive. It’s way higher than what you’re looking at. You’re looking at them from the angle of, “Man they’ve been, they’ve been talking to me right.” But you’re not looking at them from the angle that they also been talking to your enemy about you. So they’re talking to you right. And and in your eyes you’re saying, “This person they so genuine. They so respectful.” But God is looking at they’re talking to someone that hates you like they hate you. And they are plotting against you. So now the discerning of spirits is needed because if not you’re going to exalt this person to have more access to you not knowing that the access is not going to be beneficial to your protection. So as you could see without the discerning of spirits, you will promote someone because they were a blessing to your flesh. Not recognizing that they are cursing to your future and your spirit and your soul. Whoa!! They bless your flesh but they come to curse your soul. The discerning of spirits will show you, “I have only been looking at one part of the spectrum.”
Using the gift of the discerning of spirits for accuracy in your life with God
You know there’s been many times in my life where people are not utterly like disrespecting me. They’re not doing something bad towards me. But then the Holy Spirit is showing me what they’re doing in secret. So the person, in their mind, they like, “Why you won’t praise me for what you see me doing?” Because I’m also looking at what you’re doing that’s not being presented. You’re not talking to me. And see I’m so, I’m so engrafted in the observation of the Spirit. That it won’t let my flesh be fake. So, so in your mind you’re like, “Come on why, why, why?” No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I, I’m in the Spirit so heavy on what the Spirit showing me. I can’t be fake and be up there, “Hey man you’re doing a great job!” No you’re not. You’re doing a great job in presenting what you want to present to me. You’re not doing a great job in the presentation, as a whole. Because I’m looking at things that’s being presented. But that fruit is underneath the graveyard. That fruit is in the burial site. That fruit It’s in the, it’s in the cemetery. It’s dead works! And, and see what the Spirit He wants to take over man to the degree that you’re so engrafted and in the depths of His observation. That now your whole life is accurate. It’s accurate in who you praise, it’s accurate in who you give elevation, to it’s accurate in who you give uh access to, it’s accurate in who you give your phone number to, your email, your address, your, your, your personal space. Everything is accurate. But you can’t get there until there is a discerning of spirits.
Receive the gift of the discerning of spirits
Father, I receive the discerning of spirits. I receive the discerning of spirits in my life, Father. I need You! But I receive this gift of the discerning of spirits. Lord, I need Your discernment. I need your help and your protection with everybody that I meet, everybody that I know, everybody that I, I have a desire in my heart to pursue them but help me where I need the help to see! Help me to see what I’m not seeing! Help me to know what I’m not knowing! Help me! Help me! Right now, I give the discerning of spirits to you as you’re watching me as you’re praying that. Right now, I give it to you in the authority invested into me by the voice of the Father in heaven, right now. I give you the discerning of spirits. From this moment forward, I activate you. I activate this gift inside of you and I impart it to you. Your eyes be open up for the discerning of spirits. Spirits that are not of God, familiar spirits, spirits that are unclean spirits, devils, principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this age, spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places, snakes, serpents and scorpions. All the powers of the enemy be revealed to you, now. I give it to you by the authority invested in me by the Father in heaven. In the name of Jesus!! You now be activated. Let there be an activation of the gift of the discerning of spirits inside of their being, now. May your belly be filled with discernment, your heart be filled with knowledge of God’s will and God’s perspective and opinion concerning people around you. I give you and I activate this gift of the discerning of spirits, now. I release it. I release it. I release it. I release it. I release it. Lord thank you for this time in your Holy Word and presence. Let everyone that has heard this gospel be sealed from darkness, witchcraft in all dimensions of deception. Lord let there be a liberty and a freedom from this moment forward.
Bible Study: Discerning Of Spirits