945. Discerning False Prophets — 1 John 4:1-6

945.

Discerning False Prophets

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Today's Passage: 1 John 4:1-6  

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Thank You for meeting me, LORD.
I welcome you into this place.
Please prepare my heart Jehovah.
Thank you for insight.
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18th strategy.
Praising and Thanking God.
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• Stop and enter into God's presence by praying.
• Ask God to open your heart to hear His words to you.
• Read through the passage.
• Re-read the passage looking for acts of praise and/or thankfulness.
• Is your heart drawn to a particular verse.
• Re-read that verse at least 4 times.
• Ask God to reveal to you how to be filled with that kind of experience of praise and/or that gratitude.
• As you leave the page ask God to remind you of this moment throughout your day.
• Remember to thank God for His revelation to your heart.

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1. Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world. 
2. This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God.
3. But if someone claims to be a prophet and does not acknowledge the truth about Jesus, that person is not from God. Such a person has the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard is coming into the world and indeed is already here.

4. But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world. 
5. Those people belong to this world, so they speak from the world's viewpoint, and the world listens to them.
6. But we belong to God, and those who know God listen to us. If they do not belong to God, they do not listen to us. That is how we know if someone has the Spirit of truth or the spirit of deception.
1 John 4:1-6 NLT

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