In my last post, I said pastors need power. It’s true, but you also need some wisdom to use that power. I know many people who have operating in the gifts without wisdom and ended up failing. There are satanic counterfeits of the Spirit of God and His gifts.
The only way to avoid being deceived and getting into a mess is to stay in the Word. We need to be full of the Word and full of the Spirit.
Part of the wisdom we need when it comes to the gifts and power of the Spirit. What happens is we are in a meeting, we are the pastor, and someone is operating in the gifts – one of our elders, a worship leader, a guest speaker – and you are thinking like this – “I don’t know what it is, I cannot say what it is, I cannot define what it is, I don’t have words. I know we must not stand against the Lord’s anointing, I know we shouldn’t judge – but this is not right, this is not God, this is not what should be happening in my church right here, right now, or ever” – that is discernment. It really is at that deep a level, it’s a pastor’s intuition and pastors – listen to me – trust your intuition. I have gone against my intuition several times (and sadly I have gone against my wife’s intuition too) and it has never ended well. If it doesn’t feel right to you, and you are walking with God, you are at peace, and you are not envious or foolish or backslidden, it is absolutely what you feel it is. The Holy Spirit is letting you – the pastor of the church – there is something wrong with this situation and you need to do something about it.
Discernment may be the most important supernatural weapon you have as a pastor do not neglect it.
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