The church has the responsibility of testing their leaders.  This requires collective discernment. False ministers will seek to enter the church, but a healthy prayed for body will weed them out. Pray this prayer for the church with me.  Let the scripture sink into your heart. Remember the context is testing false prophets, share this prayer with a fellow believer and on your social media platforms. 

Prayer

Jesus, raise up ministers, prophets and Bible-teachers who walk in love. We need Your help identifying true leaders for Your church. We need collective discernment because false ministers will always infiltrate the church, but they’re easy to spot if we know what to look for. Give us the wisdom to look for love. If these “so called” servants don’t exhibit love for Your people, then they’re not serving in the right spirit. The true minister will demonstrate Your love. Give Your church the will to test our leaders, and they must pass the test of love (Revelation 2:2). The heart of a minister should love and seek to relate with people.  It’s easy to be deceived by grandiose prophecies, impressive gifts and elaborate vision, but these never validate true godliness. Love is the validator. Instill Your definition of love in our spirit and mind because false ministers will always seek to redefine love based on their terms and preferences. Help us see through their self-deception. They’ll never embrace the cross and the cross is the picture of true love. Collectively give us discernment, that may we walk in greater levels of love in Jesus name, amen.

1 John 4:7-12

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.  This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.  Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

 

Here are some more prayers for discernment. 

A PRAYER FOR DISCERNMENT AND A PROPHETIC VOICE IN THE CHURCH

A PRAYER FOR DISCERNMENT

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