{"id":5543,"date":"2025-10-25T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2025-10-26T20:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T20:27:46","slug":"discernment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5543","title":{"rendered":"Discernment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Discerning is <em>said of those who are capable of discriminating between good and evil.<\/em> (1)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>No one can be truly discerning apart from the mastery of the Word of God.  All the desire in the world cannot make you discerning if you don\u2019t study Scripture.  Prayer, alone, for discernment is not enough.  Obedience alone will not suffice.  Good role models will not do it either.  Even the Holy Spirit will not give you discernment apart from His Word.  If you really want to be discerning, you must diligently study the Word of God.<\/strong><\/em> <strong>(2)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>\u2026let the word of Christ dwell<\/strong><\/em><strong> (take up its life) <\/strong><em><strong>in you richly\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>(1) <em>W.E. Vines Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;copyright 1984, 1996, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, TN.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>(2) <em>Developing Your Discernment<\/em> by John MacArthur, page 31 &#8211; copyright 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discerning is said of those who are capable of discriminating between good and evil. (1) No one can be truly discerning apart from the mastery of the Word of God. All the desire in the world cannot make you discerning if you don\u2019t study Scripture. Prayer, alone, for discernment is not enough. Obedience alone will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5543\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Discernment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5553,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions\/5553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}