Discerning What is Best!

Song of Solomon 5; Song of Solomon 6; Song of Solomon 7; Song of Solomon 8; Philippians 1
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Scripture

Philippians 1

9 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.

Observation

How do you pray for others? Paul’s prayers in Philippians and in Ephesians are great examples for us and we can pray those scriptures back to God for those we care about. Discerning what is best rather than just what is good is very important; God wants us to choose what is best over what is good and people need the spiritual discernment to make the choice. So it is a great prayer for us as well as for others!


Application

What decision do you need to make that involves something that would be good over against something that would be “best”?


Prayer

Heavenly Father, give me spiritual discernment today. Help me choose “the best” over “the good” and I pray for my staff today that you would help them make wise decisions. Give them discernment. Help my children make wise decisions. Give them all spiritual discernment to say yes to “the best”.



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