I invite the input of anyone who reads this. I seek truth.”) I totally agree.

(”Can Satan intercept a prayer, and replace God’s answer with a counterfeit”) I dont think that is possible at all. no doubt about it.

If we look to God the scripture says we cant be moved. But I do think we can evaluate and make choices on what we feel God is speaking to us without it being condemnation to the speaker or whatever the situation is. I hope you understood that from the other day when we had a little discourse on the subject.
Love you dude. Keep up the fight!

In fact we are encouraged to test the spirits and see if they are of God. We must weigh the evidence, and guard our hearts, seeking Jesus, measuring all things against Him - the Living word, and the written word of the Bible. And you are right, we can draw conclusions from the information we gathered without stepping into condemnation.

I also wanted to clarify what I said above for the benefit of others, after re-reading my post. I am no way implying that one should continue to immerse themselves in an environment they consider to be anti-christ or doctrinally unsound, as such an act I would liken to an aspect of the temptation of Christ. In that Satan used truth to try to get Jesus to step outside the legal bounds on the hope that God would rescue him. The end result would have been catastrophic, and undermined God’s purpose from the foundation of the world, that His Lamb would be slain to redeem mankind.

My point in the post above is largely this: should you go to any place or listen to any sermon truly seeking God, and later discover that place/message you engaged was false, don’t live in the deception that there is no hope, and you are now irreversibly in the hold of Satan. God looks at the heart. Man looks at the appearance. I hear many people focused only on the appearance. Concerning most of the prophets, MOST WERE REJECTED because their message/methods did not conform to the popular interpretation of the Law/word of God at the time. I never want to reject one of God’s true messengers, simply because it does not fit the neat little box I have made to put God in. In that case I have tricked myself into the idolatry of worshipping the box I made for God, instead of worshipping the Creator of all.