Let Your Faith ( & Jesus ) Change You

One thing people frequently get wrong is that when you pray the prayer n ask Jesus to be your Lord & Savior, He does ... and that's the end of it. You go back to your job ... you go back to everyday life ... the

only thing that has changed is now my name is written in The Lamb's Book Of Life, I go to church on Sunday morning, & I pray before I eat dinner & just before I go to sleep. Something is VERY WRONG if that's the only thing that changes as a result of saying the initial prayer. Sometimes it takes time for the changes to come, but they should come. For example ... for the longest time my biggest influence music - wise n favorite recording artist was The Beatles ... n I still am a Beatles fan, but it

has changed. In January 2016 I was attending New Life Tabernacle In Massillon, Ohio. At the time,

Keith Blaylock was the pastor n on January 17 he gave the sermon. One of the things he said in the sermon was " get your house in order! We're living in the last seconds of the last minutes of the last hours."

At the time, my music collection consisted of 300 Lps, 150 CDs, 50 Cassettes, n 25 45" singles. Plus I

had 150 movies on DVD n about 35 on VHS. When I got home from church, I threw out ( as in : tossed in the trash ... threw out ) every secular album, cassette, single, VHS, & DVD I owned

I kept my Christian music ( Amy Grant, DeGarmo & Key, Keith Green, Newsboys ) and movies ( The Passion Of The Christ, PureFlix Movies, The Ten Commandments ). I quit going to the movie house to see secular movies ( not even Walt Disney Pictures releases ). I quit listening to secular music

My mother got kinda bummed out because she wanted to go see Pirates Of The Caribbean : Dead Men Tell No Tales. n I was like, " nope! Not going. It's a secular movie. Not only that ... it's a Disney flick n' Disney's a BIG fan of LGBTQ+, so you' ll have to go all by your lonesome. " This is not to say that I believe that when you become a Christian, it means you're ' better than anyone else ' ... because Christians are not. But your faith ( should ) change some things about you

Does that mean that if you're a Christian n you listen to Tupac you're going to hell? No! Although

The Lord might convict you n let you know He doesn't want you to listen to that kind of music in as gentlemanly a fashion as possible. Does that mean your salvation disappears just because you're not in church every Sunday morning, Sunday night, & Wednesday night? No! But, it would be good if you did. What I am saying is PRAY ABOUT IT! Be open to allowing Jesus n your faith change you

so that when people look at you they see HIM before they see you.