Lakeland "Revival"?

My heart is grieved as I watch and hear the reports coming out of Lakeland and see the deception spreading around the world. What a powerful spirit of delusion has come over the Christian community. Lord, have mercy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K8XjObzfXM&feature=related

This is the man leading this so-called revival. Where is the fruit of the Spirit? How does this line up with the Word of God? How can anyone believe that the Holy Spirit would command someone to kick an older woman in the face with a biker boot as the woman is worshipping God? I have no doubt that a spirit told Todd Bentley to kick the woman, but there is no way I'll believe that it was the Holy Spirit. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control ~ not violence such as this. This type of "ministry" is not of God. We are told in Scripture that we will know them by their fruit. This is rotten fruit.

It amazes me that Christians can be taken in by all this. But the Bible does warn us that "the coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie..." 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 and "false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and miracles to deceive the elect -- if that were possible." Mark 13:22

We need to love the truth. Jesus is The Way, The Truth, and the Life, and God's Word is truth. We need to know the Lord Jesus Christ through prayer and through the Word. We need to be so familiar with the Truth that we can readily spot the counterfeit and reject the lie. We need to be diligent to study the Word, know it, feed on it, obey it, live it, love it. We need to build our own personal relationship with the Lord Jesus through prayer, and we need to meet together with like-minded believers to encourage each other as the Word tells us to in Hebrews 10:25. We need to know and love the truth so that we can spot the counterfeit and reject the lie. This is a wake-up call to the Body of Christ. Get back to your first love.