Yes, I agree. Sometimes, we don't have a choice, because a neighbor may blare their evil music, or someone drives by with it blaring, etc.
God showed me when I was a baby Christian at age 13. I was saved for maybe a couple of months and I fell asleep on my bed with the radio on. Before too long, it was revealed to me. The song by Flaco called "Rock me, Amadeus" came on and when those words "rock me, Amadeus" were sung, I was spiritually attacked by an entity. I immediately woke up and turned it off ...and from that point, I understood and never had an appetite for that music again. And really, I didn't have an appetite for it at that time since I was saved, but hadn't been aware that I needed to be diligent to guard my ears from even hearing it, if possible.
After that experience, I dedicated my own radio/cassette player to the Lord. I wrote "JESUS" across my speaker with a black permanent marker. And I wouldn't allow anything but Christian music to be okayed on my radio or cassette player. (Mostly Southern and Bluegrass Gospel music, and hymns.) I was teased a lot by my family and relatives for that.
But one day, soke.relatives came to visit ...aunts, cousins (who were much older than me). A cousin who was about 9 years my senior thought it was funny to put her rock and roll cassette in my tape player without asking me. Well, it okayed for maybe 2 or 3 seconds when my take player chewed it up! lol
They knew after that not to overstep. It was more about God showing them the power of the name of Jesus, and that He is real. But my cousin remembered that.
A year later, when I was home alone, that same cousin called me on the phone to harass me. They were angry at me over an incident at school with another cousin closer to my age where I had advised her not to give her asthma meds to another student who was suicidal. (That other student ended up rushed to the hospital to have her stomach pumped.)
To get back at me, they paid that cousin who was close to my age, $100 to go to school and spread rumors about me and my dad. It resulted in a lot of other harassment by classmates. (My relatives were just wonderful. lol)
So this day, my little brother was at my relatives' home spending the night with cousins, and she decided to call me with a room full of family ....including my little brother ...and laugh at me because of the s*xual abuse by my father. Then she said ahe was coming to my house to beat me up. Immediately out of my mouth was .... "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus!" She laughed and told everyone in the room, "She rebuked me in the name of Jesus... hahahaha!" Everyone mocked and laughed. And then she hung up.
She never showed up to my house that night. She called a few days later and apologized because she was unable to sleep. God kept her awake for 3 days and nights till she apologized to me.
Anyway ...I got off topic, but hey .... it's my thread! lol
As she got older, God kept drawing her and she came to Christ over the last decade or so (in her late 40's and early 50's).
