Hi.
1: My name is Helene. I (don't know) ...have an idea.. why the devil has not successfully crossed swords with me yet. At least not in a way I could see, hear, feel etc...
2: My mother has appropriated God's promises to herself and her kids. As we should all do, because it is our promises to claim. Since I could talk, speak, see, I have been in God's extra large care and protection.
I have felt his angels around me and I have seen them at work. (Background: I am a court and crime journalist in South Africa. I have seen blood, ties with the enemy, I have entered violent scenes and been too close to interracial conflict of the highest degree and in the name of Yahweh we have survived. I have seen the effects of drugs, you name it...)
I happen to be a lazy person with knock knees i.e. I NEED heavy metal/rock to gym (gym meaning:walk, jog...move in general, really). Sometimes, I need it to psych me up for a period of intense focus.
WHY?! I am an intellectually fired person. That means that I looooove being physically lethargic, but I ALWAYS have room for intense, postgraduate mental activity. In South Africa, freedom of expression is a loaded gun. Whities (privileged by apartheid, but screwed after '94) have a lot to say, as do everyone else (finally acknowleged as human post 1994)..
The academics behind it all are fascinating. But the world needs more than that. Sometimes, I listen to hard rock and heavy metal 1) when I attempt to jog and 2) when I try to understand the frustration of this world and compile academic problems and solutions. I also listen to Eckart Tolle.
Some people say that these things are from satan, but I disagree. Here's why: satan is not all powerful. he may try to lead me astray, but he is not God.
This is where my mom's prayer came in: she asked God and the Holy Spirit and Jesus to keep bringing us back to Him if we falter. I do not believe that listening to music from Meat Loaf, ACDC or Queen or Metallica bring us to satan. WHY? Because Jesus' blood has exempted me. Why on earth, then, would I believe that?!
I listened to Rob Zombie in 2014 and was in a car accident. The car was written off. I was not.That guy called satan may have been the angel or demon or whatever of music, but I do not believe that he can do anything to me through his music, nor can his armies (up his sleevies?)
In the middle of Marilyn Manson's rendition of "sweet dreams," I can pause and speak to God. Earthly music - although it is greatly helpful to me when I need to focus physically or mentally - does not remotely threaten God's territory. God made it. God has made every scale on the musical alphabet and every semi-tone in it. WHY do people argue that we must be scared of man-made music???? Because the satan will use it in an earthly dual off?? REALLY?!
I do not get it. Please explain.
and you say your holiness hasnt been affected by listening to satanic music, but that in and of itself tells me it has. if you cant see the fact that youre making excuses to engage in something that blatantly doesnt glorify God, thats definitely an effect on your holiness. pray about that.
Even though I am lazy, I have goals. I want to work hardl learn loads and make a difference. That would have been SO CUTE, had I not been someone with such a terrible temper,