Can you imagine if you ate only hamburgers and fried food for the rest of your life! How do you think you would feel? I’m guessing pretty sluggish and overweight and having all types of health issues. Understanding this, we know that we have to be cautious of what we put into our bodies. Quick science lesson, roughly 70-80% of our immunes system is located in our digestive system so if we aren’t cautious of what we eat, we can end up severely sick. What’s so crazy, is that is exactly what goes on in our spiritual lives. When we choose not to feed our spirit the right things, we can end up spiritually sick.
Whatever you chose to feed your spirit can have a good or bad effect on your spiritual life and we have to be mindful of that. Let me give you an example, I’m sure we can all agree, the year 2020 was pretty interesting and unexpected. If you spent all day and every day listening to the news, listening to people’s opinions on social media, watching conspiracy theories, etc, all that could have been extremely draining on you mentally. It did nothing but have you either in your feelings or living in fear or both. Now, this does not mean, ignore everything that is going on. The bible says “Don’t be ignorant of Satan’s devices (2 Corinthians 2:11). We are not supposed to be running around choosing to be ignorant of what is going on. But more so, don’t allow it to consume your thoughts. This is why having a prayer life is so important.
Same thing with demonic music and movies. Listening to some of these Hollywood music artists and watching these movies they have will open the door for the enemy to come into your life and stir up your feelings and having you living in fear! Watching a scary movie and wondering why you have anxiety all the time or listening to songs like WAP by Cardi B and Megan D Stallion. They are all the same thing! I don’t care how enticing the beat is and if you think “it’s just entertainment, it’s not that serious”. All of that just gives the enemy access to your life. That song doesn’t represent a modest woman which is exactly how the Bible has called us to be. Modest. And those scary movies, all of them grieve the Holy Spirit. “For God did not give us the spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 2:11. Those things are not pleasing to God. There’s no way around that. Matthew 6:22 states that “the eye is the lamp of the body. You draw light into your body through your eyes and light shines out to the world through your eyes.” Your body is a temple for the Holy Spirit and watching and listening to things that are not of the Lord grieves the Holy Spirit. The enemy uses all of that to claim territory over us.
I am not condemning you for watching scary movies because I used to do the same thing. I just know I used to do all of these things; watch scary movies, listening to secular music, all of that. This is not me judging but I’m just calling a spade a spade and being honest. Spend time feeding your spirit the right things and you’ll notice a huge difference in your life!