My dear friends, don’t believe everything you hear. Carefully weigh and examine what people tell you. Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world. ~ 1 John 4:1 (MSG)
Lord, I appreciate how true and faithful you are. I know that I can trust you. But I also know that I can't trust everyone who says that they are speaking for you. And sometimes I am too lazy to examine and think about what such "preachers" are saying. Please give me wisdom and the desire to understand your word -- from your perspective. Help me to figure out who is twisting your message around and why they might be doing that. I don't want to get suckered into believing false information. Amen.