June 7 - Spiritual Freedom in the Arts and Entertainment
Saturday: Arts and Entertainment
Week 1: Spiritual Freedom
Desired outcome of today's prayer: In Jesus' name, bind Satan's masterful entwining of unbiblical and immoral concepts into the fiber of the Arts and Entertainment and wage warfare against Satan's scheme to use this medium to advance his attack against the crown of God's creation: people. I Peter 5:8 "Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour."
Entities and activities in mind while we pray: Television, radio, video games, music, books, magazines, pornography, YouTube, Streaming Media, Museum of Texas Tech University, First Friday Arts Trail, Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts, Lubbock Community Theater, CATS Playhouse, Cactus theater, Rodeo, Sports, Game Rooms, Clubs, Modern Worship Music, Classical Christian Music, Christ in the Arts, Lubbock Chorale, Lubbock Orchestra, Lubbock Youth Orchestra, School choirs, school concert bands/orchestras, school Marching Bands, Texas Tech School of Music, Country Music, Buddy Holly, Mac Davis, Joe Ely, Don Caldwell, Cactus Cuties, Caldwell Kids Entertainment, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Municipal Garden and Arts Center, East Lubbock Art House, Art Canyon, Glassy Alley Art, Grey Edges Studio and Art Gallery, Lubbock Arts Alliance, Music Studios, Buddy Holly Center, Moonlight Musicals Amphitheater, Ranching Heritage Center, Texas Tech School of Art, Science Spectrum and Omni Theater, Adventure Park, Main Event, Night Clubs, Game Rooms, Stars and Stripes Drive-In, Blazing Bouncers/ARCAVE, Escape Rooms, Cinemark Tinseltown, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Grab Axes, Panhandle South Plains Fair, Santa Land, FiberMax Center for Discovery, Mackenzie Park, Silent Wings Museum, American Windmill Museum, South Plains Fair Park Coliseum, Cooks Garage, Texas Tech University Theater, Mae Simmins Community and Adult activity Center, Caldwell Entertainment, Reality TV, Crime TV, Sitcoms, Game Shows, Soap Operas, Talk Shows,
Pray for the binding of every evil opportunity to steal, kill and destroy that lurks around the arts and entertainment in opposition to God’s plan, such as:
• When pornography captivates a person and destroys innocence, purity and then demoralizes with guilt
• When sexual experiences (outside of God’s revealed perfect plan for us) are glorified and exhibited and over time and with repetition, become the norm and weaken society’s desire for God’s best
• When entertainment becomes an addiction (binge watching, gambling, sexual activity) and replaces real-life opportunities to interact with others in healthy ways
• When the stress upon those producing the entertainment drives the artist to self-medicate with alcohol, drugs, affairs, eating disorders, and other self-destructive behavior
• When music glorifies infidelity, lustful thinking/actions, bullying, vulgar language/expressions, disrespect for God, slandering those of opposite points of view, and becomes a tool of propaganda misleading susceptible individuals
• When the (professional or amateur) artist’s self-concept becomes solely based on the performance or production of the art and the self-worth is determined by the consumer’s valuation of the art which results in blinding the artist from seeing God’s redemption
• When worldly praise and renown provides a false sense of wellbeing to the artist and dulls the sense of need for God
• When the mere beauty of the visual and auditory art captivates the consumer to the point of being mesmerized, not only by the art, but also to the message within the art, and when that message is not in alignment with God’s Word, powerful ungodly influence abounds, turning the masses away from God
• When the finished artwork, itself, becomes an idol
I John 4:4 “You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.”