Daily Deprogramming

Today Ardith Keef tries to reign in the troops by telling them that one of the “finer things” God says should be at the top of your list is “your decision to ignore public opinion.”  I  have never heard that before!   I never read it in the Word of God either!  It’s not there. It’s a ploy to get someone to comply. A mere cult tactic.

“What is your limit?” she asks.  “If a limit exists, it is indicative of a serious spiritual problem.”   Then as usual she has an “issue.”  (Ardith Keef has a different “issue” every day, it seems.)  She says,  “Here is the issue:  there is nothing but God’s Word.  There is no one but the Lord. I know it and you know it.  If that is true, then we must obey, for there is no other way!!”

Watch out for cult leaders with forked tongues!  They might say on the one hand that it’s “on the top of God’s list” that you should “ignore public opinion”, then from the other side of their mouths they get their followers to lie and pretend to change positions in mid -stream  in order to protect the very same cult leaders, from  being seen as they truly are at a  very “public” court hearing.  In short they tell their followers to “ignore public opinion,”  but they protect themselves publicly at all costs to you.  Jesus hated hypocrites and pretenders!  He called them liars and let them know it in no uncertain terms. He called them offspring of vipers!  After our experience, I can understand why.

Lately some of Anchor Missionary Fellowship’s  best shunners have pretended nothing ever happened when they see someone from our family.  You can almost see their strings!  It is a pathetic example of cult brainwashing, and the searing of a conscience, and even a numbness in the  basic decision making processes, seeming to have no mind of their own.  These followers are now  implicated before God as liars and pretenders , in the image of  their leaders.  Do these leaders not know they might fool a judge, they might fool even some of the public, but they cannot fool God!  He sees the schemes and strategy’s, the manipulations, the pretense,  the lies, the hypocricy!  Who does this resemble?  Certainly not God!

Is there no limit to  the depths  a cult leader will sink to manipulate their poor followers to suit their own purposes?  No, as we have seen with the likes of Jim Jones, David Koresh, and many like them, there are no limits for these kinds of people!   They twist the Word of God as they twist the minds of their followers.  As if in a vise, their “servants” are held, firmly  gripped by  fear,  looking up to their “masters”  for “direction.”  These false leaders get their followers to move in any direction  they choose , by bullying them with such things  as Ardith Keef does today when she asks, ” What is your limit?  If a limit exists, it is indicative of a serious spiritual problem.” This creates passivity and compliance.

These behaviors on the part of cult leaders are frightening!   Cults escalate often to violence in the name of God, while adhering in words to peace, love and obeying the Word of God.  Ardith Keef asks today, “Are you willing to die for Him? This is a question you must consider in prayer.”  This ought to make anyone who cares sit up and take notice!  When a member can be changed  in personality from outright hostility to glib and insincere feigned friendly behavior, to follow the orders of a cult leader theres no telling to what levels that cult will sink.

When a leader  who claims to obey God, to love God, to love His Truth, is driven to manipulate and strategise, and influence others to  lie and pretend, for  the cult leader’s  own  vain ends and base advantage, there is a “serious problem” with both person’s thinking!   When a leader would rather let a whole church suffer, let little children be divided from their family, shun and slander old friends, encourage Christian divorces without Biblical grounds, dishonor parents, take others to court , abuse whole families, rather than sit down and reason together, “this is indicative of a SERIOUS SPIRITUAL PROBLEM!”  When it looks like a cult, smells like a cult, feels like a cult, sounds like a cult, acts like a cult, IT’S A CULT!” 

The Word of God says to “test the spirit”  of anything to find out if it’s source is from God.  Every time we write a rebuttal, we test the spirit ,and find Ardith Keef’s writings are not from a true source. The writings are manipulative, strategic,  self serving , and twist the Word of God for her own ends. We do these rebuttals for the good of unsuspecting souls who are easily carried away into darkness by such writings.  We do it because we care deeply about all involved and their spiritual journey, including their final outcome.  Above all we do it because we love the Lord and He says we are obligated to speak out if we see a brother or sister going in the wrong way.

Ardith Keef begins her Daily Devotional with, “The asking of why must come to an end.” Hopefully someone is still asking, “why?”    

Why would a family who has served and loved their church, some for up to 20 years stand against the wrongs the leadership is committing against people, and has committed for over 14 years now?   Why in the world would a young husband and father speak out against a pastor and his wife who have broken up his family and become surrogate parents to his wife and  “adopted” grandparents to his children?  Why would his wife’s Christian  Missionary parents  and siblings be severed from their daughter, sister, and grandchildren?   The answer is that the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church has lost it’s way and has now become cultish and is far away from the Truth!

Why would normal, loving,  faithful , honest Christians be taken to court by Christian leaders,(against the Word of God)  for standing up for their family?  Why would a pastor and his wife bring false charges against them rather than sit down and discuss the matters at hand?  Why are four small innocent children , brothers ,being kept apart when they are six miles from one another?  Why would a Christian pastor be in favor of a divorce of two Christian people without any grounds?  Why would the leadership shun and slander folks who try to tell them the truth?The answer is that the Anchor Missionary Fellowship has lost it’s way and has become cultish and is far away from the Truth!

Ardith says, “We are not equipped to understand.”  “Is there piercing pressure to do something?” To find a reason?” “ To deal with the issues?”  

To the first question my response is, We are well equipped to understand sin in our lives. We are well equipped to  ask forgiveness for abusing the Lord’s people. We were equipped with the Blood of Jesus if we are converted!  We have a God given conscience that loses it’s sensitivity when we  are merciless, and abuse over and over again.

To the second question, “Is there piercing pressure to do something? ”  Something should have been done long ago!  Listen to people who tell you the truth!   Don’t hide from  your sin of neglecting and abusing His  sheep!  Even His little children!  Perhaps it is the Holy Spirit putting on the pressure with conviction for sin. 

The last questions, “Is there piercing pressure to find a reason?”  “or to deal with the issue?”  When you refuse to own up to  the hurting and dividing of  His sheep, thinking yourself too wise to be deceived ,the Holy Spirit sometimes puts on the pressure to turn you from sin. Those he loves He disciplines and chastises.   When living in sin, and stubborness you  lose your sense of reason and become blinded to the Truth.  You ask, Why?” because you cannot see or hear the Truth. 

Often in Ardith’s writings she calls something “the issue.”  My response to this is, “the issue” before you today is will you repent and turn from your dead works?  so that Jesus can heal your land?  Asking “why” of God  and putting on your listening ears might not be a bad idea!

Ardith knows that a Christians job is  “To love, to obey, to reveal Jesus, to lay down your life for the brethren, to run the race, to love God.”  Before any of this  can truly happen, one must be going in the right direction, or these are just  words, dead works, leading nowhere,  with a false spirit  behind them.  The results are disastrous!

Ardith Keef’s last question today is, “Is there anything else?”   To this I respond,  When you have lost your way,  are going in the wrong direction into deeper darkness, and cult activity,  there is a better way!   The right way!!  The way of Truth, humility, repentence,  where there is Light , Life, and love!  God’s way!  If you  have an “issue” and are asking ,”Why?”  all of the Yes answers are in Jesus Christ!

One of the most conveniently advantageous of cult tactics is that of “distraction.”   If  Cult  and abusive church leaders can keep people very busy and occupied with following their instructions, deeply spiritual false doctrines, and false teachings, their followers will not think about what they are doing and believing, they will be distracted, and they will not even use their God given conscience, or mind for discernment.

Cult leaders will even take the subject of “Distraction” and use it itself , as a distraction, as Ardith Keef does today. These false leaders, themselves deceived and deluded, might even  unwittingly accuse  the Holy Spirit of being  a “distraction”,  when He is only trying to help them and their group get away from the enemy’s false teachings and deceptions.  This is a fearful thing,  but a great boon for the kingdom of darkness!

Be careful of which “supernatural power is released in your life.”  There are only two sources.  You might just find yourself  on the wrong side and fighting against God!  Don’t be distracted from examining the fruit of someones life  by their smooth deceptive teachings, even if they  seem to have a ring of truth to them.  The proof of whether or not their source is in the True God is in the fruit of their lives.  Jesus said so.

If you perceive in the church leadership  a pattern of Christian divorces, divisions, children emotionally and spiritually abused, children divided from fathers or mothers, small children divided from each other, churches disintegrated, Pastors removed  shunned and thrown out of their homes,  no accountability  with money or anything else on the part of church leaders, elders (yes men) without any power , faithful people shunned and slandered, whole families discarded, adult children cut off from their families, church leaders becoming surrogate parents, Missionary parents and grandparents dishonored and abandoned, law suits against faithful Christians by church leaders, false accusations, false witness,  various inappropriate behaviors by leaders, secret annointings with oil, and on and on…..

Beware! These counterfeit leaders have no other choice but to DISTRACT and deceive their victims so they will not be alert or cognizant of wrongdoing , and  in order to keep them from discerning with distinct awareness the true meaning of the unhealthy fruit right before their eyes.  There are many hidden secrets, much disguising and cloaking of events that prevent the truth from being clearly seen. There is NO POWER in Ardith Keef’s words today because there is NO HOLY SPIRIT!  It is only a spurious message with a little truth peppered through it, designed to distract  and prevent God’s people from looking at the Genuine Truth of the Word of God! 

Her writings are a  rediculous sham and a farce, skillfully plotted to ensnare and capture unsuspecting souls, but not for Christ!  Our battle is not with flesh and blood  friends, but with the powers and principalities of darkness!  One who thinks themself to be “very wise” , and too proud of their spiritual prowess to be deceived, is a sitting duck for the enemy. They are themselves “distracted” from the Truth by their own pride and wisdom.  Anyone who will not believe they can be deceived by the enemy ,is ripe for the picking!  Often they lead a whole flock of followers along with them to the same dead end!

This web-site is written with unconditional love for all concerned, both within and outside of the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church.  It is written in the fear of God, both for the leaders as well as the followers, of abusive church/cults  in general , in hopes that some might be “snatched out of the fire”. 

The following article  was written July 27, 2008. It is a rebuttal of that days Daily Devotional by Ardith Keef. Today her DD is more of the same old twisted, controlling, cult tactics about “setting your face like flint.”  Cult  tactics that are canned, dried up and stale. The rebuttal holds true today! ……………….

“For behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. As an adament HARDER THAN FLINT have I made thy forehead:  fear them not neither be dismayed by their looks, though they be a rebellious house.” Ezekiel 3:8,9 KJV

God’s people have often been a stubborn and stiff-necked people. Back in Ezekiel’s day God sent Ezekiel the prophet to them , and they rebelled against God and reviled him for telling them the Truth.  Nothing has changed.  Today in abusive churches and cults who claim to belong to Him, authoritative leaders still tell their followers to “set your face like flint”  , as they practice their false worship, abusing and controlling His people , and bringing God’s hand of chastisement upon themselves.

Today , true to  obvious cultish maneuvers , Ardith changes her methods to suit her message, and chides people for “trying to make it so complicated.” ”The deeper the more simple” she says today.  Usually her writings are rife with do’s and do not’s to the point of exhaustion!

When I left the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1981 and had to face a board of hard-nosed  elders alone , and certain disfellowshipping for standing up for the Truth , at a moment when my knees were trembling at the thought, the Lord gave me the following verses:   ”Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.  Like emery, harder than flint have I made your forehead.  FEAR THEM NOT, nor be dismayed by their looks, for they are a REBELLIOUS HOUSE!”  Ezekiel 3:8,9 Amplified   I trusted Him then and I trust Him now! He has never let me down. Never.

God told Ezekiel not to fear their faces. I can understand what He was saying. The faces of Anchor leaders, and even some followers now look to be hard like flint, sharp, rude, arrogant looking , and even a bit frightening as they resemble the enemy in cruelty and anger, both in their faces and in their actions.  They certainly look nothing like Jesus , humble, kind and loving!  Their looks alone can be alarming, and intimidating! 

Attorney Ardith Keef and Pastor Bill Keef are taking our family to court for speaking out against them, but we have the Truth, and they have the lie.  Who will we fear or dread?  Certainly not man or woman.  We fear God, or else we would not be doing this.  We have great respect for our court system, and whatever the outcome , our faith in God and our trust in Him does not rest on the results of any court case. 

We here at Anchorabuse.org are in the best of company as we are held falsely accountable by devious, self-serving religious leaders, who have long ago left the Truth and the Faith , and are following the enemy.   We  gratefully tread in the footsteps of those who have been ostracised for exposing false teachers and leaders who abuse and corrupt ”churches.”  We count it a privilege to be deemed worthy to stand with the long line of people who have even given their lives to fearlessly confront spiritual abuse and wickedness.

God spoke to Ezekiel , and His  words hold  true today as we (only one tiny family of thousands) speak out against the abuses, the false , hurtful,  destructive , and elitist teachings of the counterfeit and deceitful leaders of so-called churches.  These leaders are pretenders and hypocrites, wolves in sheep’s clothing, who lead the people of God astray for their own glory and advancement!  The Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church is only one of many,  but it’s warped and twisted teachings have caused great harm to the people of God, even to His little children!

Moral:  If you “set your face like flint” be sure you are humbly on the side of Truth and Righteousness!  Be sure you are looking toward and serving the True God.  Your face tells the  whole story, if you look hard, rigid, harsh, stern, mean, rude, and arrogant you’re going in the wrong direction!  Your face is a reflection of the one you are looking at and serving!

Back in the summer of 1994, a month or so after the former pastor/husband of Ardith Keef was told to step down, and was being shunned,  the little group which was left from  our  former church  was gathering in his home  in Gorham, Maine for meetings.   Ardith went away to Ukraine for I think 3 weeks.  Her instructions to me were to “hold onto the land God had given her by prayer.” This meant she didn’t want her former husband to get hold of the house.  It was his home as well.  He lived there.

One evening  while she was away we had a meeting.  The door was locked.  One of us broke into the home through a window. There were probably 10 of us of which I was the oldest. The rest were 18-20 and one was 35 years old.   Most were students from USM where Ardith taught and still does as far as I know.

The little group went in and prayed and shared. I more or less led the group.  (Bill Keef and Ardith were not married until a year later.( Both of their now former  marriages were still in tact.)  The shunned and defrocked pastor asked us quietly to leave and we refused. I dutifully responded , “No, we’re not leaving. “  He called a former member who was a business man and , he and his wife arrived a short time later.  They asked us to leave, I said, “No.” someone said, “Then we’ll have to call the police.”  I said, “do whatever you have to do, we’re not leaving.”  Then I asked the group to sing, “Standing on the Promises.” We stood and sang  and felt quite bold and determined.  

The police came and we left quietly. Someone had called Bill Keef ,but he never arrived to help us until it was all over and we were all outside. He is and has always been a coward ,and can only function with Ardith Keef’s strength.

I am ashamed today of my behavior that night. There are no “Promises” of God that allow a person or group to demand entrance into another mans home, when not admitted entrance.  There are no Promises of God that take a person beyond scripture into a place of “freedom” that inflicts upon the rights of a man being the proprietor of  his  own home and family, except by a court of law.   There are no “Promises” of God  that allow for the  “going beyond scripture” into some obscure place where there are no limits and bounderies.

The Lord gave us His Word of Truth. The Bible says “He has lifted His Word above His Name!”  His Word can be depended upon. However, cult leaders twist it to accomplish their agenda in order to control people.  

Ardith says today, “Until you step out upon His Word, you do not know- you only believe.  Those who have decided to put their weight on Word , albeit circumstances appear to contradict God, those are they who know He can be trusted.  They chose to trust Him when His way appeared to be outside the realm of possibility.”  

To this I respond, How many times does God  lead one away from their mate into divorce ,contradicting Himself , when He says in His Word, “I hate divorce!” and “What God has put together let no man put assunder?”   Is it 3 times  or more as in Ardith’s walk with God?   Perhaps God will lead her away from her present husband on another “stunning adventure” ?   Ardith certainly does have one “stunning adventure” after another just in husbands coming and going!  I don’t think  Almighty God did any of the leading in any sense of the word. 

The sad thing is that she leads others in her own unholy, unfaithful, unscriptural way.   She takes a wonderful  Bible passage  such as “We walk by Faith and not by Sight”,  which is true, and twists it into her false teaching making people think anything goes with God , and He will lead you anywhere even outside of His own Word if you walk by faith.  One  has to say this when the fruit of their life is a series of divorces, abuses, shunning of people , dishonoring and abandoning even their own mother, and whole families divided , the breaking up of churches, false charges against other Christians, spiritually and emotionally abusing of children,  and divisions. 

When one refuses to admit they are wrong the only explanation they can give is that “God led me here, by faith. I walk by faith and not by sight.”   In Truth there are decisions every step of the way where we can’t see and must trust Him and step out  in faith.  But The Holy, Faithful and True,  Dependable , Almighty God does not go against His own Word, neither does He lead His people on a crooked path.   He said, “Here is the good old way, walk in  it”  He is unchangable and so is His Word of Truth. We can truly “Stand on His Promises”  and trust in the good old way!

Ardith Keef  begins todays Daily Devotional  by asking the question;  “When did you last tell the Lord that you loved Him?”   I would like to say that the “lord” that Ardith serves is cruel, without mercy, unkind, and anyone who knows about Gods Love , and who has not been deceived and deluded by cult tactics ,would be repelled by Her “god.”

When I was in the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church run by Ardith and  Bill Keef I knew something was wrong for a long time. True to  form, cult tactics, and seductive spiritual teachings for years held me bound to a false god.  This “god” was so cruel and heartless I began to have an adverse reaction to all the beautiful hymns about the True God, because the teachings I was listening to were  revealing a  cruel god I didn’t have any desire to imitate, or even to love.  This is because I believe the leadership of the church traded the True God for a false demonic power the day they , divorced their mates, divided themselves from Bill’s children and began a life of “unholy matrimony” then  appointed themselves the head of the Anchor Church.

They will say, “Our mates divorced us, not the other way around.”  Though on the surface this may “seem” to be true, God Almighty knows when we plan and stratigize to gain an evil end. Both mates were cut off from the church without remedy. They were slandered and shunned by their “godly” mates and the families broken up. In the case of Ardith’s ex-husband/ ex-pastor , the church kept meeting in his own home, shunning him at Ardiths word, for nine months after he was defrocked, as the church broke up and disintegrated.   I worked there and was told not to speak to him under any circumstances. 

How long would anyone be able to stand up under such abuse? Even if the former pastor did get the divorce, the Bible says when a man divorces his wife except for adultery she becomes an adultress if she remarries. Jesus Christ said this Himself.  If these two impostors really did believe the Bible they would be cut to the heart for sin! If they delighted in the True God they would humbly ask forgiveness.   They only delight themselves in sin and instead of reproducing children, they reproduce after their sin, lies, tricks, hypocricy, and after the  false god they have chosen.  They are prolific in divorces, broken homes, divided churches, false charges, lies, slander, deceit, hypocricy, and  their masked form of child sacrifice to demons.

Yesterday in court we saw an example of Bill and Ardith Keef’s  own sinful behavior  reproducing after itself.  When their false teachings led a young wife (beloved of her husband and children) into a divorce , and the breaking up of another Christian family.   Like their cruel god they sent her in to stand all alone, while the leaders protected themselves, and distanced themselves from her.  God knows just what  and whose they are!  He will not be fooled  by trickery as people are.   They prove  whom they serve and don’t serve  by their lack of love or any genuine concern even for their “own.”   Another young family is broken up by  dispicible cultish illusions, delusions, deception, and manipulation .  Their “god”   ”is becoming more clear and more close”  to the Anchor church members as he pretends to be true.  Be careful who is “leading you with his eyes.”

God said to Judah through the prophet Isaiah,  ” Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel  unto anger, they have gone away backward. When ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; Yea when you make many prayers, I will not hear:  Your hands are full of blood.  Wash you. Make you clean; put away the evil of your doings before mine eyes; cease to do evil. Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord.” Isaiah 1:4, 15-18 

Ardith says today, “Let  the Lord take you beyond. Let Him lead you with His eyes.” Yes friends if you follow her you will go “beyond” the Truth,  you will  follow her  ”lord”  into an abominable  realm,  “beyond” the limits of the Word of God , into a  place where  the “lord” of the kingdom of darkness reigns.   Jesus warned of false prophets! and He warned of false shepherds, He called them, “Wolves in sheeps clothing.”  Ardith Keef used to say to me, “Stick with me sherry , I’ll take you places.”     No thank you!  I’ve had enough of her “places.”   

Praise the Only True  God!  He takes care of His Own!  He rescues His Own , and He takes them to Heaven!  I choose to delight myself in Him alone.  In He who is Love, Mercy, Compassion, Truth, Light, and Hope!

I worked  very closely with Ardith Keef for many years.   The only time I have ever seen her admit she was “wrong” was when a woman at church “corrected” her for somehow hurting the Hymnbook in her hand. It is easy to correct and counsel others from the seat of “the great commander”,  when one thinks themselves too wise and perfect to make a mistake.   

Some of us older women in the church  used to joke in fun and call her a drill sargeant, but it loses it’s humor when  you realize that people , families, and children are torn apart  with divorce, broken homes and broken churches.  When someone thinks they are right all the time ,”there are some serious situations ahead”  for their victims, especially when they are a leader.

This type of leader  is always right in her own opinion.  However , when she is using someone in a higher position than herself to accomplish her ends, she  will reluctantly yield,  but only to usurp their authority, and to  gain whatever it is she needs from them, then they are history. 

For instance, one of the last times we talked, Ardith Keef told me she couldn’t wait to get her professor, lawyer ,mentor off her back because she always corrected her in front of other people even in court. But she sucks up to her ,and turns herself inside out trying to please her in order to get free services and  a quick name for herself at the other woman’s expense.  This is called manipulation and using others for your own personal gain. The Bible condemns it.

There is no need to worry about being right or wrong when one thinks themselves  perfect and always in charge of everyone and everything else.  It is important to this type of Guru / cult leader to keep the others in line so they never “react”, never “defend” themselves, and always stay passive so the cult leader  can control them.  

Cult leaders use a lot of truth to promote their  secret  manipulative agendas. Their agendas  are to  hold power and control over others at any cost.  Of course they will not let their followers know how important it is for them to be right, but they are deceitful and devious in their teaching , for the accomplishment of their own ends.  In some cases as in the Anchor Missionary Fellowship leadership, the lie  is so very  similar to the Truth that the deception is hard to spot at first glance. It took me many years and a lot of heartache to finally see the genuine Truth.  When one is caught in the cultish web, the  only way to “see” through the haze and maze of  foggy  truth/false mixture is by  either experiencing the  demonic abuse for yourself, (which is extremely painful) or by closely examining the fruit of the church/cult. The true fruit  of an abusive church/cult is often covered over with pretty  lies, like a few spray’s  of room deodorant, where a dead body might lay.   Friend, when you uncover  the cloak of falsehood and deception there are fruit flies, maggotts, and a horrible odor!   The stench of death  is unmistakably from the enemy’s camp.

The fruit always tells the whole story.  But if one is so deceived that they refuse to even consider that the cult is wrong, and they are given a lot of Biblical truth, they may never care enough to examine the fruit. Every now and then they get a whiff of the death smell, but strategically directed  sprays of deception keep them deluded.   The cult leaders count on  you being satisfied with their mixture.  That is why they keep their people passive and always in line , by feeding them bits and pieces of truth mixed with lies.  It’s the same  way people get dogs to follow them. Throw down a piece of meat, get them to move ahead, then throw down another piece of meat and they will keep moving along to whatever destination you have for them.  Or if you want an animal to swallow a bitter pill , you mix it into his food.  I swallowed Ardith Keef’s bitter pills for a long time. But God!

I thank the One Who died on the Cross for me for my freedom from cult living, and false doctrines.  I thank Him that He alone is Faithful and True.  He alone is always Right .   I thank Him that there is a “Right and a Wrong.”  I thank Him for a God-Given conscience which when not seared or clouded, is a way to tell the difference.  There is Truth ,and there are lies disguised as truth, as well . 

If you are in a “church” where you are in constant emotional pain, you never know where  you are with God, you can never measure up to the standards of the leader, people are always leaving, people you love are shunned, there are divorces,  divisions, there is confusion , you struggle as you are fed  some “truth” , and you don’t dare make a change thinking God  will punish you:  It is probably an abusive church leadership.  There is nothing in scripture that says you cannot question leaders, or move on to another church.   There is abundant life  in Jesus Christ outside the cultish, abusive, invironment you are in.   Dare to examine the fruit!  Don’t be afraid to ask  the hard questions!  These two  things will expose  false shepherds!

Trust your own instincts. God gave you your conscience for a reason!

 The Apostle Paul said to the Thessalonians, “In everything give thanks, for this is Gods will for you.” 1Thess 5:18

Today Ardith Keef tells us seven or eight times to “Give thanks for the HARD THINGS!”   When false shepherds lead you on their unmerciful, ungodly, path of misery where  there are only always “hard things” for you, they have  no other choice but to make you believe that every hard thing is Jesus’ love and discipline. But you will notice there is no mercy involved in Ardith’s doctrines, there are only the “hard things” without God’s mercy, compassion and love.  Without feelings, emotions, or a healthy conscience, there is no capacity for  true mercy, compassion, or love.  The qualities have to be faked and feigned. 

You are on your own brother or sister in this case, and all you have is the cult leader’s example of being “thankful for the hard things.  “You must “obey” and “be thankful for the hard things” , while they cause you the hard things by preaching another gospel to you ,to keep you  in their little box, looking up to and following them. 

The Cult leader’s  only example of “being thankful for the hard things” is a pretense ,and frankly their hypocritical masquerade is often the outcome of their own lack;  of feelings, emotions , and a conscience.   You my friend,  are perceiving and accepting  their  woeful and unhealthy lack of emotions and feelings exactly the way they want you to, as some kind of  “golden spiritual carrot”  you dream of attaining.   Some kind of peaceful  imaginary uptopia is held out to you,  but  you never can achieve it  in following them ,unless you sell out your soul, your conscience, and your heart. 

The cult leader  would have you believe some kind of sick spiritual utopia is possible , while all that they teach is a  contrived ,cunningly twisted version , and their brand of truth.  How alluring are Ardith Keefs words today, “Experience the freedom and healing that is yours in Christ.  Live in release so that you can reveal Christ to a lost world!”   Yes friend do away with your mind, your conscience and your feelings ,and you will surely experience “freedom” and “healing”…….. and you will be numb to the Truth and the Power of the Holy Spirit as well!  Oh , but there will be another spirit and another Jesus. Wake up!!

They want it all, friend.  Cult leaders  want you to “be thankful for the hard things” they create, as they lead you to desert your family, leave your children, divorce your mate,  dishonor your parents,  then you become their slave , all in the name of Jesus,  all so that they can have total power and authority over you , and control your every thought.  They want your attention and your obedience for themselves, they want your life and your soul.  Who does this sound like to you?  Satan comes to kill, steal, and destroy, not God!  Will you be thankful that the enemy has taken over your life?  Will you thankfully  sell your soul for an elusive  golden carrot?

There truly  is Peace, Freedom, and Healing in Christ Jesus alone.  His Blood, poured out and the  Holy Spirit received  into the heart of  the Christian  is all we need.  Believing , and trusting  the Blood of Jesus , and in His Resurrection from the dead  and receiving  Him as our Savior, we are  Born Again of the Spirit.   Because the Holy Spirit indwells us we can live,  breathe,  move,  and have our being in Him.   This Truth is never enough for the cult leader.  They preach another  more complicated gospel, and another “Jesus”.  One that glorifies and deifies themselves because they have another spirit!

So be thankful in everything, but don’t be duped!   The hardest thing for the cult victim is to muster up the courage to get away from their captors. satan has designed it that way.  Fear holds the victim!  Don’t be their victim any longer.  Forget  your coat, grab your family and run away from the cult leader as fast as you can!   Jesus said, “Get out of her my people, if you do not want to share in her plagues!”   There is life abundant in Christ Jesus outside the cult!   There is nothing inside Ardith Keef’s  counterfeit ”christian” world except for  a maze of glass mirrors, masquerades, and pretenses!  Oh yes! And fear!

A long time ago I heard a brother preach about the subject of  servanthood. In God’s Word of Truth, the Lord refers to only a very few people as His servants.  I remember that God called Nebuchadnezzar a “servant of the Lord.”   Jesus said ,”I no longer call you servants, but I call you friends.”  

So Ardith asks today,  “What does it take to be a servant of the Lord?”  My response to this is, It is the Lord who decides who His servants are ,and it is He who decides who His friends are as well. Jesus said, “You did not choose Me, I chose you.”

There are many who say they are His servants who are in actuality caught in Christian Cults and abusive churches. Many are leaders who say some true things and profess Christ ,but they are  False shepherds of lost sheep and far away from His Kingdom.  They actually serve the devil by leading God’s people in the wrong direction, all the while professing to be “servants of the Lord.”  They are “wolves in sheeps clothing” and devour and maim His little lambs.

Questions such as Ardith Keef proposes today only confuse the issues and muddy the waters, while she and her leadership  continue to pull people away from God and His Kingdom , and lead them to the kingdom of darkness. One might ask the  question of the  The Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church leadership, “Are you His?”  Honestly, the fruit does not prove it to me , or other Christians  who have been abused and divided from their families, children, wives, grandchildren, mothers, fathers, friends , by the leadership of Anchor. The fruit of the church leaders is division, heart-ache,  grief, suffering of children, dishonoring of parents, divorce, broken churches,  and other chronically diseased fruit of their teachings , reproducing over and over again , that only  resemble the enemy of God, certainly not God!

Ardith Keef  asks, “Have you counted the cost?”  I wonder,  What is the cost of following falsehood?  It could be disastrous! 

She asks, “Are you willing to pay the price?”  To this I respond ,Is seperation from God worth it?  Is it worth it to  give up everything and everyone to follow someone into Hell?

She asks, “Is there any reason to make a different choice?”   Yes,  there is every reason when you are  deceived and following something or someone  that only leads to a dead end, pretending it is God! 

She asks, “Are you willing to stand alone?”  Is the enemy worth standing alone for? 

Ardith Keef  ends her Daily Devotional with, “Listen to me Soldier:  Is there anything else? Look up and move on!” This sounds as if someone is “Ardith’s servant.”  She sounds like she wants to keep  control of some poor soul.   She definately doesn’t want them to think there is anything else but her version of “truth.”  A wise person would stop in his tracks and implore of the Lord, “which way to go!”  There is “Wisdom at the crossroad,” dear ones just for the asking.

Be careful friend,  that you are not  duped into presenting yourself every day as a living sacrifice to another master, another gospel, another spirit, another JESUS!   “In the Last Days there will be deluding and deceiving spirits and they will lead many astay from the Truth!”   Whose servant are you anyway?  Who are you following?  Are they really His?  Are you?  How can we know?  In the examining of the fruit is the evidence of who the True leaders are ,and the  imposters are exposed.   In the testing of the spirits is the evidence of where the Holy Spirit Truly lives or doesn’t.  We simply have to be willing to  take an honest look!  We can not fear men or women ,or their self proclaimed , self-aggrandizing philosophies, but we fear only the True God if we are truly His…….. 

I find Ardith Keef’s Daily Devotional very deceptive today and it smacks of cultish elitism!  Here is the first line.  “The life of the Lord flows from those who have decided to follow Him with all they are and all they have.  Apart from that, His Life does not flow through Believers.”

The Bible teaches that every person who receives Christ, and is Born Again has the Holy Spirit, and His Life indwells them. There is nothing  in the Word of God that adds to this.  We become His child  initially at our new birth and unless we fall into sin which is unconfessed and live there, we can be sure His life flows through us.  It does not ever depend on us.  Only the Blood of Jesus  applied to our  heart can make room for us to be filled with His  Spirit  and Love , and allows that Love and Life to flow through us.  There is nothing we can do to add to the Power of the Blood in a believers life. 

We love because He first Loved us.   We have had His Love poured out into our hearts ,and in turn whenever we  as His born Again Children, are “warm, understanding, and supportive”  or loving, merciful, and compassionate, it is His Love that reaches out to those others around us. 

Even if we are deceived , but are His,  He is still Faithful and many times we can still Love others as His Love flows through us.  But when we believe His Love is only for certain people, and can only flow through certain ones who do special things, and we teach this, IT IS A FALSE TEACHING.  It may come from our own lack of honest emotions ,and  our having never experienced  receiving or giving True and Genuine  unconditional Love, but it can cripple those who listen to us, if they believe it to be true.  

Ardith says, “But the Life of the Lord is “raw”  heavenly Love. It is ministered with a sweet burning of the center of the being of the object of that Love.”  Jesus never made things hard to understand or spoke in a heady way to them.  There is nothing I have ever seen in the Bible that talks about “raw heavenly Love.”  

When Jesus talked of love He talked of giving a cup of cold water to a thirsty brother, healing the sick, feeding the hungry,  going in to prisons, taking care of widows and orphans. To Jesus , love was hands on, getting down in the trenches to warm the hearts of  the lowly and hurting, the sick and the dying and bringing them Hope.  When we do these things the Love  and Life of God flows through us, His children!  We are His hands, His feet, His  heart.

When one knows little or nothing of unconditional  Love, they can only mimic others descriptions which they have read in books , adding their own opinions, and then they put laws down for people to obey and work for, in order to somehow earn the Love and the Life  God has freely given them without strings attached.  This keeps their followers  in a place where they are never quite sure of where they are with God.  It keeps them sucking milk instead of finally growing up and into Christ. 

It reminds me  of  an interesting adventure  my husband  had  the other day:  He was uncovering  something out in the garden and when the light shown in, a family of mice scurried away with the a litter of nearly full-grown babies still holding on and sucking milk from their mother.  This is the condition in which cult leaders like to keep their followers;  always their children , never growing up and maturing in Christ.   Then they will stay under the cult leaders authority and control!  Not only is it  very sad that people are kept in such a condition,  but these teachings are deceptive and have  nothing to do  at all with the Truth of God’s Word.    These false doctrines violate the Truth of the Freedom their followers should as Christians have in Jesus Christ, and puts them under a yoke of slavery and keeps them there.