Daily Deprogramming

When God doesn’t answer prayer in a way that you see and know it is Him,  month after month, and year after year there is a problem.  Cult leaders like to make excuses why God doesn’t answer their prayers by explaining it away. For instance in Ardith Keef’s Daily Devotional today she says, speaking of her elite group, “Those soldiers of the Cross will assume that He is having His way, because they have appropriated the promises.  They have told Him this in prayer.” 

This is what God said through Isaiah about it:  “For day after day they seek me out;  They seem eager to know My ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of God. They ask Me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.  If you will loose the chains of injustice,  untie the cords of the yoke, feed the hungry, clothe the naked-and DO NOT TURN AWAY YOUR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD ,  then your light will break forth like the dawn and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you and the Glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and He will say,  “Here Am I.” ISA 58:1-9 NIV

He says “Do not turn away your own flesh and blood.”  Do you realize that your mate becomes your own flesh (”the two become one flesh”) when God puts you together in  marriage?   Without having  Biblical reasons for a divorce it is wrong and sin  to divorce your mate in God’s eyes.  It is also wrong and sin to turn away from your mate and cause them to get a divorce which both Ardith and Bill Keef have done. One called her mate “reprobate” and the other “possessed.”  It is  sin to dishonor ones  parents or to usurp the rights of the true parents, becoming surrogates as Bill and Ardith Keef have done.  These are  blatant sins that stand in the way of answered prayer for the Anchor Church. These  sins have been repeated time and time again in a pattern, without repentence by Church leaders, and they lead others in the same sins! 

Ardith’s approach of “Simply agreeing with God” falls flat when He refuses to hear because there is sin in the camp that hasn’t been addressed.  This is just taking whatever comes as if it is from Him!  In other words, fate. If it happens, it’s God’s answer to prayer. If it doesn’t happen it’s God’s answer to prayer. This is dangerous thinking!   You go wherever the enemy takes you.  You can be led in any direction at all if you follow this kind of thinking. There are steps that have to be taken to make things right with those who have been abused, especially those in ones own family, before He will listen.   There are also those in God’s family, His Own who have been slandered and shunned by self appointed leaders.  Take care of the sin, then He will listen and there will truly be healing and answered prayer.  His Word says so.