"You Are What You ...... HEAR"

So, this past weekend I was in Greensboro/High Point visiting my family and celebrating the 98th bday of my great-great-great aunt (yes, my family has 5 living generations).  So after the party on Saturday, I spent the night with my cousin and spent the WHOLE Sunday with her!  She attends New Jerusalem Cathedral which is pastored by Dr. (Prophet) Kevin Williams.  I witnessed the ministry of Prophet Kevin Williams since I was 16 and I'd name him as a top 3 influential pastor in my life.  His church is WONDERFUL; it caters to ALL age groups and walks of life. (So if you're in the 336 and looking for a church ... go check him out!)

ANYWAY, while there he was preaching from Deut. 30:11-14.  http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deut%2030:%2011-14&version=NIV And he was basically talking about how when God gives us a vision/plan/mission/commandment etc we often don't realize that whatever God has said to us is TAILOR made for us.  And because we don't fully understand this, we question Him (God) and seek other venues to validate what He has already said/confirmed.  Because we seek other places/people to confirm instead of seeking God for ourselves; people/appetites/etc can sometimes throw us off or make us miss the mark.  So Dr. Williams was teaching how to block ourselves from ourselves and to trust in God!

I said all that to say..... While he was preaching he went on a tangent about sin and he said something that has been stuck in my spirit since he said it.  He quoted Romans 10:17, “If FAITH cometh by HEARING.... THEN so does FORNICATION, LIES, MALICE ...SIN, so watch what/who you're listening too"!  For me it was the most prolific thing I had heard in a LONG TIME and I went ahead and took it a step further for myself.  Commercials tell us to watch what it eat b/c it can have lasting effects on our health.... Psychologists tell us to watch what we look at online, TV, etc b/c it can affect our subconscious and lead to nightmares and such.... Surgeon General says don't touch fire b/c it will burn... And we all know what a dirty diaper smells like soooo life teaches us NOT to go sniffing our nose in garbage bins and other people's business.  What don't we get taught often? What NOT listen too!  I'm as guilty as EVERYBODY else... if not MORE smh .... I walk around listening to Silk "let me lick u up and down", H-town "sum body rockin', knockin' the boots" on my itouch and YET I call myself trying to save myself until marriage .... yea.... NOT if I keep listening to that foolishness LOL. I'm not saying listen to Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary, etc all day, because I’m certainly NOT.  But what I am going to do is be more cognizant of what lyrics I’m filling my head up with between classes and riding to work.  The Food Pyramid displays how much of what foods we should eat to be healthy..... develop a music pyramid and balance out some of the "candy rain" with "I need you now" and see how it affects your life .... after all ... YOU ARE WHAT YOU HEAR!