How can you tell that something has been inspired by God or simply a deception of the enemy?
The safest way to discern whether something is of God or of the enemy is that everything of God would not contradict His character, His nature and the Scripture (His Word)
Deception is a tool of the enemy. The enemy likes to copy and distort God’s ways but if you are in fellowship with God, you can quickly discern if it is from God or not.
I John 4:1-4 1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. 4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.