We would not have done right without including the testimony of a sister.

“NAME: Sister Sherry
COUNTRY: Ghana
She Wrote and Said…✍🏻

Before I gave my life to Christ 3 years ago, I used to listen to secular (worldly) music. I had all kinds of secular music on my phone. To the extent of buying lyrical books to learn those songs. I listened to a lot of secular music and did not necessarily think it was wrong as long as there are no explicit, evil or corrupt lyrics contained in the particular song. Now, I can attest to the fact that listening to secular music has done me more harm than good. These songs made me lust, always having sexual thoughts, especially when I am listening to Cools and R&B. They made me have sexual thoughts and feel like being with a man.

But when I gave my life to Christ, Holy Spirit ministered to me that if I want to be completely delivered then I should burn the bridge 🔥 by deleting all these worldly songs from my phone and start listening to Gospel music, and I thank God I did. I can boldly say that listening to Gospel music has really helped me with my walk with God and I thank God for that.

My dear, listen to this✍🏻 most of these secular songs you’re listening to are backed by evil spirits because most of these artists have sold their souls to the devil. Can’t you see you always have immoral thoughts and end up masturbating when you’re listening to these songs? Is it not time for you to delete these secular songs from your phone and start listening to gospel music if you really want to be delivered from masturbation.  May God help us all 👏 “—Taken from Girls for Christ Sexual Purity Movement

We close this part of 1 Corinthians 10:8 with another life story of Obim, and end it by asking questions you must answer for yourself.

“Few months after my second heart break 💔. I found myself lonely in the room, mind occupied like wire plugged in sockets of high voltage. Thinking randomly, smiling, frowning and moody. I could hear the abundance of rain splash on the roof and my mind was taken back to the romantic days of life while in a relationship… with smiles, I shake my head and hiss… Friends, we all had past nightmares and skeletons hidden in the cupboard but any attempt to awaken those memories of the past will definitely ignite an open wound……and that is exactly what I enacted…🤦‍♂

Suddenly, I switched on my Phone’s music player and the next is the favourite rhythm song of my Ex😢… “A Thousand Years” By Christina Perri. It was her favourite song which had built chemistry socket to my vein. I remember vividly how she told me that, she has been admiring me for many years and prayed to have me someday as her king and the song was her favourite because she has been loving me since a thousand years!

She said and I quote, ‘Obim, when God opened your eyes to behold me and eventually convinced and brought you to me, I couldn’t believe it. Although it was God’s answer to my prayers and this song is lifetime memories of how I have waited for years for this dream to come to pass.’ For this reason, even after the heart break, I refused to delete the song even after erasing all her pictures and happy moments from my heart ♥ Now I found myself playing the song repeatedly, over and all over, again and again! I was silently drawing back the mind to past feelings and secretly luring myself to emotional pains.

Suddenly, the song started awakening the hidden shadows in the cupboard of the past, yet I couldn’t stop playing it. It was like being stuck in past prison of life. Silently and unknowingly, I began to sentence my heart 💓, my peace, joy and entire soul to the highland of destruction and with silent drops of draining tears 😢

Suddenly, a sister called asking after my welfare. I practically echoed “My Dear I’m Not Happy 😰”

She paused, then continued “Sir, what is wrong? “My mind is taken back to imprisonment of the past,” I responded!  Immediately, she understood because she had been a great comforter, and she followed up with encouragement to strengthen me. I began to smile again and echoed “SO THIS IS WHAT SONGS DO TO THE MIND”

The mind is wired with thousands of neurons that ponder in the direction you lead them. You cannot ponder or reflect on spiritual things while trying to conjure past memories or fantasy. The mind is divinely programmed to ponder in one direction……and I now understood the reason why I found it difficult to break the clutches of masturbation and pornography in the past. Whenever the sexual thoughts are activated……you do not just start jerking off without a driving source of inspiration (porn).

I might fight to resist for hours but the mind will keep reminding, that there is something missing in your life today” At this moment, the mind is already cooked up…frozen and ready to satisfy its imagination. I do not get myself until the imagination has been realized and boom…pornography, followed by jerking off and in the next few minutes after I become saturated by guilt, regrets and a sense of dirtiness will overshadow… what a terrible experience 😢

Whatever you feed your mind, such as… ✍🏻

• Pornography.
• Secular songs.
• Godly songs
• Romantic novels
• Godly movies, or
• Worldly movies.

will definitely produce a specific result…

Whatever you allow to penetrate the mind such as

• Looking at and admiring ladies’ hips and breast.
• Looking at and admiring handsome men.
• Giving attention to romantic words or affirmations from men.

will definitely produce a specific result.

Whatever you permit others to conjure into your mind such as… ✍

• Acceptance of failure because of what others said about you.
• Acceptance of rejection because of your feelings towards others.
• Reflecting on past mistakes.
• Reflecting on past struggles.

will definitely produce specific result.
 
Christianity isn’t foolishness, be careful of your activities because whatever you allow others to conjured into your mind… either spiritually or physically will definitely produce a specific result. Everything we enact is a product of our thoughts and our thoughts originate from our 5 sensory organs.

• What We See 👀 (Job 31:1; Psalm 101:3)
• What We Hear 👂
• What we Touch 👋
• What We Taste 👅
• What We Smell 👃

These determine what comes to our minds and what we think about.

Our thoughts produce feelings. Once the thoughts come to our mind, our feelings are reflections of what we have thought about. Unchecked and unrestrained thoughts generate a corresponding feeling. Feelings then lead us to act accordingly. When those actions are repeated over time, they become our habits and you can see why you are still in the clutches of masturbation and pornography.

So, always go for Christian collections or spiritual songs that will ignite your spiritual life and likewise also movies because whatever you feed your mind is what you become. Stay away from people, places or songs that will conjure past unpleasant memories into your mind. Years ago, without listening to Rhythm & Blue songs, I would hardly fall asleep.

The day I burnt 🔥 the whole seasonal films in my collections, (they were so numerous, as if I was a movie vendor) was the day I set up the new standard as a serious Christian for myself unlike many in our midst who are not yet serious to cut it off.

Friend, stop playing with the devil because he is not playing with you. From my story on emotional musical drives and the feelings that followed while listening to the favourite song of my Ex, I have come to understand that songs have power and you must be careful —Taken from Girls for Christ Sexual Purity Movement

Would you examine yourself and take the steps to break the hold of sexual immorality? Shalom.



Pastor Afolabi Oladele