294. How to Know If It's God's Voice or Your Own Thoughts

About this episode

The episode discusses how to discern whether spiritual promptings received in prayer are from God or one's own thoughts.

How do you know if something you receive in prayer is actually from God? In this episode of the Catholic Coaching Podcast, Matt and Erin continue their discernment series by walking through how to test spiritual promptings, private revelations, interior movements, and words received in prayer. Building on the previous episode about prayer language, they explain how to bring what you receive back into dialogue with God, ask for interpretation, test the spirit, and look at the fruits over tim...

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt Ingold, Erin Ingold

Topics covered

• discernment
• spiritual promptings
• prayer
• interior movements
• testing the spirit

Keywords

• discernment
• God's voice
• prayer
• spiritual promptings
• interior movements
• testing the spirit
• private revelations

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Organizations: Catholic Coaching Podcast

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