What is the difference between discernment and discretion

DEU ; We can conclude that a God-demanded diet or celibacy is from a seducing spirit. We can conclude that the doctrine of sinner-earned salvation is of the spirit of the world since such salvation is not free. The Thessalonian saints could, in those days of the spirit of prophecy, determine by apostolic measure that the spirit which troubled men with false concerns about the coming of Christ was not to be heeded 2TH , whether that spirit was just the natural spirit of man 1CO floating some idea ignorantly, or a false spirit of prophecy pretending divine revelation.

The Ephesian saints could discern by apostolic revelation that there were false apostles come unto them. REV They could recall the God-given qualifications for the apostolate, especially that one had to be a personal witness of the resurrected Son of God Paul being a unique case. ACT ; 1CO ACT This is a power of discernment that we can also use without any special gift from the Spirit of God other than the new birth.

July 5, by Searcher Seeker. Both have the same Latin root: discretio. Discernment has to do with perception, with discovering how one thing differs from another. The process of discernment engages our subtle senses and intuition and involves a sorting-out process that lies beneath our everyday awareness — yet, in order to discern we must be awake and aware.

Discretion is a process by which we ponder choices of action — or perhaps more frequently non-action. Discretion helps us determine how we decide to use or not use what we have discerned.

What's the difference between discernment and discretion? Discernment Definition: n. The act of discerning. You can have the answer, and know what to do, but if no one is asking the question or wants to change, then discretion must be consulted.

This week lift up your eyes toward heaven, ask and receive wisdom, discernment and discretion. Thank God for these graces is your life, search the scriptures for their promises, and enter into His rest which is the fruit of all these. You are invited into the new season of learning the ways of God on the earth and then practicing together what we are seeing and hearing. The invasion of heaven into our realities.

This is a time of discovering the Greater One who lives inside. We are in a divine atmospheric shift from warfare to rest. Come and discover how great is His love toward you, and how vast is His reach.