Teachability Part 5 When "God Told You" Becomes A Shield Against Correction

God speaks, but our interpretation of what we believe we heard must still remain submitted to Scripture, discernment, wise counsel, and humility. In Part 5 of the Teachability series, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell confronts the danger of using the phrase “God told me” as a way to end necessary conversations, silence accountability, justify personal decisions, or place our conclusions beyond examination. Drawing from John 10:27, 1 Thessalonians 5:19-21, 1 John 4:1, Proverbs 11:14, and other biblical passages, this episode establishes an essential distinction: God is infallible, but our hearing, interpretation, motives, timing, and application are not.Apostle Bardwell examines how desire, fear, offense, ambition, trauma, impatience, personal preference, confirmation bias, and spiritual pride can influence what we interpret as divine direction. This teaching addresses prophetic accountability, communal discernment, the danger of manipulating others with spiritual language, the need to test revelation, and the importance of allowing Scripture to remain the final measuring line for every dream, vision, impression, prophecy, or spiritual experience. Through examples involving David, Samuel, Paul, Acts 15, prophetic ministry, and other biblical accounts, this episode demonstrates that genuine spiritual confidence does not fear examination and that wise counsel can confirm, clarify, restrain, or correct what we believe God has spoken.This episode ultimately challenges believers and leaders to examine whether spiritual language has ever become protection for personal conclusions. Apostle Bardwell calls listeners to become people who can hear God boldly while remaining humble enough to admit when they may have misunderstood Him. The goal is not fear of revelation but greater sobriety in handling it, refusing to attach divine authority to personal preference or ego. As the first week of Teachability concludes, the message is clear: if God truly spoke, His word can withstand Scripture, discernment, testing, counsel, and time, and if we misunderstood, humility must give us permission to adjust. True teachability allows us to know His voice while never ceasing to remain students before Him.