When we don't go along with what's going on, we sometimes find ourselves outside looking in.  My best friend fears I'm losing my faith because I am questioning and re-thinking a lot that we were taught through the years in church.  Aren't we to test the spirits?   Aren't we to measure truth by scripture?  Aren't we to pray for discernment?   Isn't wisdom learning to know what is really of God and what is not? 
   For quite awhile now, I've noticed a lot of stuff that just didn't add up.  I have been seeking and finding some answers to my questions, ultimately leading to more questions.   For instance the "binding and loosing" of demons and even events began to  feel all wrong but I could never put my finger on the why of it.   Yet, in Jude: 9-10 says: "Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, 'The Lord rebuke thee.'  But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves."  How foolish are we to think we can do what the angel Michael feared to do?  I'm reminded of the saying, "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."  
    There's too much going on these days in the Name of Jesus that isn't scriptural.   There are a whole multitude of wolves in sheep's clothing fleecing the sheep!    
   When I was first baptized in the Holy Spirit and on fire for the Lord, I prayed often that I would not receive anything that was not of God.  If it was of the devil, I didn't want anything to do with it.  I believe God has protected me from many things over the years.  I am so thankful!  I still pray that prayer along with praying for God to draw me ever nearer unto Him.  I want to abide in Him continually and always. I long for holiness, purity and righteousness.   I long for fear instead of flippancy, reverance instead of casual interest and foolisness.
   I believe that persecution is soon to bear down hard and heavy on Christians.  It will be the "feel good"  falsely taught crowd who will be the first to fall away.  Only those who truly know who they are in Christ will stand in that day.  I pray that I will stand fast, never deny my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and suffer gladly whatever I have to for His glory and honor, to reject the fake phony-baloney and cling to Jesus Christ, the risen savior who is seated at the right hand of Father God making intercession for us, His children.    amen and amen
   A site I have found that gives a lot of good information concerning the false teaching so rampant these days is:  "Let us Reason Ministries".  I am doing more searching of the scriptures, too, endeavoring to find what is right and what isn't.   I am so grateful to others in the family of God who are diligent to point out these things.  They are faithful watchmen, sometimes misunderstood and unappreciated.   God bless them all!