I just found a new cult. It has no definite name. It is anyone who controls in the Name of the Lord.

There are those who will conduct "Ministries" and tell you to pray, only to glorify themselves and make themselves look like Godly people. You don't think they are bad, because they say they are for a cause to educate or produce professional Ministers in a particular area, bot look at certain things; how does their ministry function? How do people act and feel towards the leader? Are there any lies being told? The people that have to watch fr these things are exactly the people who come out of controlling groups like cults, for they are looking for nurture, but they won't get it in these groups. I will embellish on this in the future.

I have been many places since I began this post, and I have seen many things. The church that I was in developed a bad spirit, and closed its doors recently. I have watched Christian TV, and there is nothing there that interests me. I accessed the website of one of the programs, and wanted to send a prayer request, and do you know that they would not accept the prayer request until I gave them my credit card number? Do you think I did that? I did not and went to another site and was able to put in my prayer request.

It is clear to me that if I have to pay for God to answer my prayers, it is not God to whom I am praying, for God's Son told His disciples, "You received free, give free." Who gets this money? Does it go up to the Heavens and line the pocket of the Lord Himself? I think not, and it just seems to me to be a lie from the pit of hell that to get your prayers answered you must pay money. I will never do it.

But do you see the destructiveness of controlling people? People who tell us lies, people who say things to make us feel unworthy just to make us do things that we wouldn't ordinarily do. I don't even remember when I started this blog, but I thought at least some groups who claimed to be Christian were on the up and up. Now I attend a denomination which is charismatic in nature, but which utilizes the liturgy, and has helped me identify with my Christian roots before the cult I was in. May you all have the same experience, know that God is on His throne, and Christ is Lord.