WHO CONTROLS YOUR THOUGHTS?

” . . . and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of
Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5

Satan is waging a battle to control the thought life of America’s teenagers.
The typical teenager listens to an average of 10,500 hours of rock music
from the seventh to the tenth grade.
That’s only 500 hours shy of all the time he/she spends in school
from first through twelfth grade!
Do you have any idea of the fatalism that is bombarding the airwaves
everyday into young people’s heads?
The National Education Association estimates that a percentage of the 5,000 teenage suicides
we have in America every year are caused by the fatalistic music of today’s youth.
Somebody has said,
“You let me write the songs that a nation sings,
and I don’t care who makes its laws.”
And don’t forget about the adults eiter.
Who has control of your thoughts?
If it is not the Holy Spirit, then that only leaves one choice.
James 1:13-15 says,
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”;
for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin,
when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

Is there a teen in your life?
If so, spend some time this week talking with them about the music
they listen to and the healthy choices they need to make to take back
the ground that Satan is trying to conquer with his onslaught of fatalistic music.