Listen To Christian Music

Take Action

Do you already listen to Christian music?

If so great! 

If not, I want you to do the same experiment I did.

Choose to find some good Christian songs (I like Newsboys, Crowder, Casting Crowns, Jamie Grace, Mercy Me, just to name a few) and listen to them for 30 minutes.

Then after you get done, take a self-evaluation to see if you feel any difference.

I want you to do this for 1 week.

Another thing to do is increase the amount of time you listen to Christian music every day for that week.

Who knows, you might replace more of your time listening to music with Christian music.

Prayer

Lord, I would like to take a lyric from a song to start this prayer. Give me faith like Daniel in the lion’s den. Give me hope like Moses in the wilderness. Give me a heart like David, Lord be my defense So, I can face my giants with confidence.  Sanctus Real did a great job giving us advice and wisdom with the song Confidence. God, we know that there are many different ways to worship you. One of those is through music. Another is through reading the Bible. And another is through praying. Today lord, I would like to pray for your strength in sharing your word with the world.  I pray that you help us to never stop sharing your words.  Help us to always talk about you. Help us to surround ourselves with other STRONG Christians so we can become better Christian ourselves. Lord, I also want to thank you for everything you have done for us. I want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to serve you and our tribe. One last thing God, I pray that you continue to bless us with guidance and wisdom to move forward in the direction you need us to for you.

We ask all these things in your precious Son’s name.

Amen.

A Little More

If you follow me at all you probably know that I grew up in the Grange.

The Grange is an amazing organization that was created back in the civil war era to help farmers from the north and south trade crops.

Now it has transformed into a family and community organization that has helped bring many things to life on a local, state, and national level.

As a kid, we would always go to the monthly meetings that happened locally. My parents are also very involved at the county level. So we would go to the county meeting every other month. They are also very involved at the state level. So a couple of times a year we would do things with the Grange on a state level.

And you guessed it, they are also very involved at the national level. So we would go to the National convention as much as possible.

As kids, my parents would try their best to get to the national convention every other year.

When I was young, probably in the third grade. We made the trek to the national convention in Peoria, IL.

We didn’t fly, we drove!

So in November we loaded up in our Crown Victoria (Ford) and started heading toward Illinois.

We had just bought this car and it was LOADED!  I mean it had AC, cruise control, power seats for both the driver and the passenger, and best of all it had a cassette player! We were traveling in luxury.

The day before we left mom, surprised dad with the NEW Allen Jackson tape that was just released.

Allen Jackson was dad’s FAVORITE singer.

We were all so excited!  I mean, new music, a new car, going on a trip.  This is just awesome.

As we started the trip we listened to the radio until we’d driven so far that we lost the radio station.

Then dad popped in that Allen Jackson tap. The first time through the tap we all listened with fascination to the songs.

After the side of the cassette tape was finished this car was so fancy that it automatically started paying the other side! WHAT KIND OF MAGIC IS THIS!!!!!!

I still remember that dad was about to eject the tape and flip it over, but he didn’t have to and was in awe of just how cool our new car really was.

Little did we know that this “magic” of not having to flip the tape over would soon be detrimental to everyone in the car except for dad.  Lol.

Usually, we would listen to one side of an album then we would pop out the tape, and as we turned it over mom would search the radio stations looking for another country station we could tune into.

Well, guess what?

Now that the tape automatically switched over there was no need to search for radio stations for the rest of the trip. 

It took us 3 days to get to Illinois and that one Allan Jackson tape was all we listened to the entire way.

By the end of the trip, everyone in the car was SICK of Allan Jackson! 

It literally took me over a year before I would want to listen to Allan Jackson again. Lol

I have to laugh, because about ½ way through writing this I thought it would help me to find a few of those songs and listen to them.

I started the station for Allan Jackson and couldn’t even make it through one whole song before I turned it back to Christian music.  Lol

Dad, I love you but I think you tainted my ears.  Just Kidding! Kind of. Lol