MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE
DAILY DEVOTIONAL 
FEBRUARY EDITION
Monday, 23rd February 2026.
TOPIC: THE DISCERNING OF SPIRITS
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Deuteronomy 7; Deuteronomy 8: Deuteronomy 9; 2 Corinthians 8; 2 Corinthians 9
MEMORY VERSE: Acts 16:18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE: Discernment is the most powerful tool needed to frustrate satanic contraptions.
PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY: May the gift of discerning of spirits begin to operate in your life in a new way, in Jesus name.
PRAISE & WORSHIP
FIRE SCRIPTURE: 1 Corinthians 12:1-10 (KJV)
THE MESSAGE:
In these last days aptly described as the perilous times, if there is a spiritual gift every Believer should seriously pray to receive, it is the gift of the discerning of spirits. This gift is needed more at this time because of the increase in demonic activities wrapped with vicious heightened subtlety. The intelligence by which satanic agents and wicked demonic survive these evil schemes.
In the encounter of Apostle Paul with the damsel operating with the spirit of divination, otherwise known as python spirit, as recorded in Acts chapter sixteen, it took the operation of the gift of discerning of spirits in the life of Paul to deal with the situation. The damsel, following Apostle Paul and his company, was able to camouflage for some days, proclaiming without any flaw the glorious assignment of Paul and his group. The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying. These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation (Acts 16:17).
The damsel was able to camouflage for some days because the Bible says the devil can also transform as an angel of light and his agents as ministers of righteousness (2 Cor. 11:14-15) until the Holy Spirit let out her real identity. The discerning of spirits is the gift of the Holy Spirit in the life of a Believer that enables him pinpoint the type of spirit that is in operation at a given time or place, so as to be able to determine whether the spirit is of God or of the devil.
Beloved, if you do not want to be deceived, oppressed, tormented, afflicted or exploited in any form by demonic spirits and satanic agents in these last days, you need to ask for the operation of this gift in your life. But you need to accept Jesus Christ and receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit before you can become a beneficiary of this beautiful gift.
PRAYER POINTS
MORNING
1. Holy Spirit, fill my life to overflowing in the name of Jesus.
2. I refuse to be a blind child of God in the name of Jesus.
3. Holy Ghost fire, purge my spiritual antenna in the name of Jesus
EVENING
4. As from today, no demonic activity shall prosper around me in the name of Jesus.
5. O Lord God of Elijah, let Your fire settle upon my household in the name of Jesus.
6. I refuse to be a toy in the hand of my enemy in the name of Jesus.
7. Blood of Jesus barricade my family against satanic operations in the name of Jesus.
𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries Worldwide).