Me testing the Spirit: About 15 (or so) years ago, I was driving to work and was having a rough morning. ((My mom had past in late July 2005, this was about 3 months later.)) I don’t normally talk to myself out loud in a car but that morning on the verge of tears and missing my mom, I said, “I feel so alone.” And in what sounded like an audible voice I heard, “but you aren’t alone...” I began to weep. I knew the Holy Spirit was speaking b/c we are told that in Scripture. “...For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 NKJV When I got to work, I took out my Bible (I carry one in my vehicle.) I began to pray and asked the Lord to speak to me through His Word and I opened to Bible. My eyes fell on these words: “28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30 NKJV The dam broke and the tears fell. The God of the Universe was speaking directly to me. He knew at that very moment what I needed and it was the Lord’s Spirit within me. Let me give praise to the Lord and His Word. His Words were a balm to my broken heart. 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; Luke 4:18 NKJV Glory to God♥️🙏🏼♥️

Good stuff. I teach the bible in jail. Knowing the scriptures and having a solid discernment is an unbeatable combination. Thanks for teaching this. Blessings.

Thank God I came across you and Doreen channel. I am in the process of coming out of Word of Faith. I always knew something wasn’t right. This is nothing but God because I haven’t been feeling going back to church. Please keep my children and I in your prayer that we found the church for us. God bless you and your ministry. ❤️🙏

I once heard someone who claims to be spiritual say, why worship the creator when you can worship creation. I told them that is idolatry. They got angry. Not very spiritual.

Many people are lonely and lost. When you aren’t equipped with the Biblical knowledge provided in the Bible many are preyed upon by cults and false prophets. Thank you for sharing dear one.

It means don't just trust every spirit that you hear, the Holy Spirit will not contradict His word but a demon always will.

Girrrrllll you ain’t said nothing BUT the TRUTH.

I just want to sincerely thank God for your life. I just spent about an hour studying the word and watching this video. You truly inspire me as a believer. Thank you. Glory to God for what you are doing for his kingdom🤍✨

I am absolutely dumbfounded. Her knowledge is DIRECTLY from the Holy Spirit. I’m literally so happy that I found her. It’s time that us (as the Christian community) get on our knees and pray against these spirits. Too many churches welcome these spirits with open arms, we need to pray church. The only one that can help us now is Jesus.

Look for the fruits of the Holy Spirit 🙌🏻❤️

This sister has done her research and studied! Great job my sister I encourage you to continue spreading the word of GOD.

Took me a while to get to the video I don’t know why I kept holding back but I like your video thanks for the message.

Wow, I happened to click this on the day I start to figure out that my gift of the spirit is discernment. Nice

I went to a Toronto blessing meeting that came here to Northern NY in the 90s. I'm pretty sure I received a Kundalini spirit. I felt strange about how it msnifested, but tried to reason it with scripture. Satan is very deceptive, even the elect will be deceived. But God revealed the truth!

It's such a blessing to have your videos as a reference. Thanks 🙏📖💦🔥

Thank u Melissa! Wonderful video!

Like Kathy I watched Doreen’s channel a week or so ago and then found you. I really enjoyed this teaching. Great job! It’s like when you come out from under these “experiences” you feel like you’re in a daze! Like just how far back do I have to go to get it right....Just what all that I thought was “right “ is actually wrong?... really mind blowing. Thank you for what you are doing in helping God’s people. ❤️

Thank you 🙏 God bless you and Doreen. Love you both x

Great explanation!!!! I have a friend who was asking about this and I appreciate how you covered the scriptures and the time period. God bless you and may He continue to be glorified through your videos!

Excellent explanation! Thank you for this and for all that you and Doreen do on your channels! God bless you!♥️🙏🏻

I’m so happy I found your channel ❤️❤️

This was SO very well taught! Thank you so much for this!!

I just came across this on my home screen and yes, I felt led to watch it. Needless to say, you were spitting some hot fire, okaaaaaay 🔥 🔥 🔥 !!! Just so you know, you've confirmed a lot of things for me so praise the Lord for this video.

Thank you for this video, dear Sister In Christ🙏🏻

Thank you for your videos. I am so grateful for this content!

This a great video! Definitely sharing and rewatching!

Love this. Thank you!

Thank you for this teaching. I was trying to explain this to my daughter but I don't think I was able to get her to understand. I am now sharing this with her and also others who may be wondering how to test the Spirits. God bless

I’m so thankful your channel popped up in my recommendations! Awesome video ...I love how you explain things

Amen Melissa well done, well said, God bless you and your family ,love your video's God is so good

Thank you for breaking this down clinically, really learned a lot from this and all of your videos, God bless you and everyone involved in your ministry 😊

Excellent expository teaching, Melissa, as usual. Thank you.

I thank God I came across your channel Melissa along with Pastor Chris and Doreen. I have learned so much truth!!! May God Bless you and allow you to continue to speak the truth of Gods’ Word.🙏

I love how you explain things in a simple way i can understand.

Great teaching sister 🙌🏾

Thank you for explaining this! I never understood testing the spirits fully until you explained it! God bless you! THANK YOU! 💕

Learning a lot on how to defend my faith from you. Thank you for the simple talk, you make things very clear. Keep the videos coming!

Thank you for your teachings

Wonderful study!! Thank you!

I have been blessed with a strong gift of discernment as I have prayed for it often. I recently found your channel and have watched a number of your videos over the last couple of days. I have not found a SINGLE thing that my discernment has had an issue with, in watching your content. If you are someone simply reading this comment, Melissa has a true gift and speaks the truth.

Amen sister! Blessings to you and your family ✝️ Mrs Theresa ❤

Melissa very good teaching! Always encouraged to hear one give good exegesis. Hoping to get my daughters to listen to you someday.

This was on my watch list for like forever Melissa ! I have a large watch list 😀needed this though . God bless ! 😊🙏

An FYI: If you study 5 chapters per day, it will take you 182 days to get thru the whole bible. I highly recommend it, if you want to seek the will of God. Solid, solid, solid teaching ma'am. Well done.

Wow. I never thought this. This is so important.

This is a great message Melissa! I've been feeling like my eye's are re-opening thanks to some of the videos you've released as well as my decision to start going deeper into scripture in my own time which was something that I had been sadly lacking with. It's amazing how much false teaching is out there but there's lots of hope too. A solid foundation is so important. Bless you and all the good teachers out there sharing the truth of the gospel.

Your teachings are amazing. Strong and backed with the bible & you are so kind. I hope that makes sense.

Awesome explanation sister gonna share with my wife...AMEN GLORY TO GOD HALLELUJAH THANK YOU JESUS

Amen 🙏 and thanks for some good sound teaching on the Word of God

Thank you, Melissa. Your content has greatly helped me after my own rebirth from new age to Christianity.

Excellent video. I’m looking forward to rewatching it with my bible in front of me :)

Excellent! I did a session teaching at church last Sunday evening about apologetics and the need to exercise discernment within the church as well as in our daily walk. Then this morning at church the guest speaker (who I had NOT spoken with) preached his message out of this very passage in 1 John. THEN, to top it all off, I found this video! It always amazes me (though I know it shouldn't!) when things fall together in such a way to confirm what is being taught! Thank you!

Thank you for sharing this🙏It is so important to test the spirits and stop when there is a 'check' on the inside and ask God what's wrong. The Spirit of God will lead you into all truth.❤

This was awesome. Thank you!

Great video, lots of scripture, thank you Melissa 😊

You hit it out of the ballpark. 1000% agree

I love your teaching. Very well done

And let me say. Your spirit comes thru with great truth and knowledge. I don’t just read. But I study the Bible also. And every video I’ve seen of you. Is spot on. Keep it up. I learn a little something new every time I watch you. May God bless you. And keep it up.

Your videos are so helpful, Melissa! Growing up hyper charismatic (even being a part of IHOP for 5 years) it’s straightforward videos like this that help unwind some of the bad theology I’ve learned throughout the years. I appreciate your work.

Thank you Melissa! Your hair looks great😁🌹🙏💞

You are very good, The truth is the only accurate description against the enemy. I learned the hard way... Keep It Up

Thank you. I've learned much of this through a long journey, with many mistakes along the way. Spending time in God's word, learning to study His word in context, having a relationship and walk with Him through Jesus is vital! I'm really thankful for this resource @Melissa

Thank you so much for sharing this, your conviction and ability to hold fast to the true gospel and teach us is so valuable and well received.

Love this study. Thank you for being obedient to God and teaching this. I think so many fall away because they don't know how to test the spirit or was taught in a way that is not scriptural.

I'm new to your channel, and fairly new converting from new age lies, and I'm learning so much. I really like the topics you cover and how you stay Biblical.

That was so helpful. Thank you.

So well put!

Thank you so much for this.

Great video! Thank you for this!

Loved listening to this. Thank you. I grew up in a "Baptist Church" but it was heavily influenced with the New Age and I only realized that when I was in my later 20s and some of the "prophecies" or " Words from the Lord" did not come true in my life and I realized that those "words" were just meant to puff me or the speaker up and not to glorify God. I also remember people being hyper focused on dreams or signs given from God or Angels. People were showing pictures of "Angels" they had seen in the sky in the clouds or stars or in a pool of water and they believed that it was super special and made them super special to see that.

AMEN!!! Let's keep READING OUR BIBLES

Kenneth Copland, Benny Hinn , Jesse Duplantis, Sid Roth, et al, kept me AWAY from anything Christian. I was a New Ager in the upper echelons of Hollywood entertainment industry. Christ saved me in spite of myself. Amen! While driving to Hollywood just after being saved, I listened to the radio 2 1/2 hours each day. My radio stuck on a station that broadcast John MacArthur, R.C. sproul, Jay Vernon McGee (I thought he was still alive :-) and many other solid Bible teachers. . Melissa, YOU ARE FANTASTIC, and give me hope for your generation . Great work dear lady! One author to add to you knowledge base might be the book "When Skeptics Ask" by Norman Geisler. He is not bullet proof, but has addition perspectives you might be able to cherry pick from. Again, from a baby boomer, I am so very proud of you.

Thank you so much for this straight forward and rational break down! I stumbled upon Doreen's channel a few months ago and found your channel that way...lately the Lord has been leading me to so many awesome channels where believers are speaking the Truth of the Bible.

Awesome video * Thank you so much for making this very clear * it is something me & my friend been wondering about * 📖🙏🏼📖

Thank you Melissa!

This is amazing, i never understood .. Thank you Melissa! Thank You Lord Jesus Christ for leading us out of this terrible deception! Thank You for setting us free indeed. All glory to God our heavenly Father 🥰

Very well put!

I just started seriously reading the Bible and following Christ. I have always believed, but never understood "following"...BIG difference. But I love the way you teach from it, it makes me even more determined to dig in and "eat". Thank you 🙏

Very well articulated and explained.. I honestly think your calling is to be a teacher not everyone can, but you sister have the goods...

Amen n Amen!!!❤🎉 Thank You ❤🎉 MuchLove

Please keep all demonic spirits away from me Abba Father, binding 1 john 4:1-6, 2 corinthians 6:14, matthew 6:24 in agreement with this whole message while not being unequally yoked with an unbeliever serving satan, loosening all false spirits and every spirit of error upon no return in my life, in the name and blood of Jesus Christ, amen and hallelujah!

So good !!!

This is a great video thank you so much

Great video!

Very informative!

This is right, and this is why it is SO important to understand how to properly interpret scripture. I can test a spirit almost immediately.

Sometimes I think the tech difficulties that you have are actually attacks. Glad that you just keep pressing forward. You go girl.

Thank you !!

Melissa it’s Melissa again! I got so excited I had to pause the video and comment before you were finished!😂 This is sooo good and I wish I could force my sister to listen to it!😉 I loved how you mentioned the concept of bearing good fruit as important but not sufficient for testing truth. My sis along with many Mormons are some of the kindest service oriented people I know. But because of this I’ve observed some Christians making light of their false religion. They truly worship a different Jesus than the biblical one but this statement is highly offensive to many Mormons including my dear sister.

Yeah, thanks for clarifying this. I've been a Christian for a long time, and often have wondered the extent of this. Great job and thanks for this. For example, mormons are typical of these things. They have similar Christian lingo and I often ask mormons when im witnessing, did Joseph Smith test the 'angels' that shared new revelation to him? They usually just look at me with a blank stare lol. Bless you!

I stumbled on your law of attraction video 2 weeks ago, then the passion Bible interview. It lead me to AG1 and AG2. I'm soo glad to meet you. I'm not a new believer but I'm increasingly noticing a lot of issues in our churches. My own theology in certain topics has been corrected over the years. The deception is real. But I have found that if you really love the Lord and desire his ways, no matter how uncomfortable that may be to you, he leads you to truth and sound doctrine. Keep up the good work. PS. What's your understanding on praying in tongues?

I so wish i could be as intelligent and articulate as you.I can only remember small amounts of information. I have a very limited ability to decern the spirits. I rely on teachers like you to decern

This was very helpful

Wowww. I am really enjoying this. I would love to do bible study with you. I know it's highly unlikely but the idea of thoroughly studying the bible excites me.

Thank you!

Very good!!!

Guys, Satan is playing tricks on my mind trying to convince me another spirit is from God himself. Please pray that I won't be deceived. God bless you all, brothers and sisters.

Spot On Sister!!!!

Well done

Amen Amen 🙏 the best way to test what we believe is to read the Holy Bible, the Bible can speak for itself