May, 2012

We are losing our young people at an alarming rate. Many have committed suicide, many have gone missing, many have been murdered, many have been mashed up mentally, many have been taken over by demons and seductive spirits.

The devil is not waiting on young persons to become young adults before he seeks to affect or infect them. It is therefore very important to start praying over pregnant mothers, asking the Lord to protect and bring forth a righteous seed. In other words we must be ahead of the devil.

Sex can be very addictive and does affect persons in varying degrees. The will which God has left in all of us can be used for both good and evil but importantly it can be used to deny the flesh of the sins it desires.

For young persons, relationships usually start with an attraction, a getting to know you, physical contact, a generation of heat and then ignition. The final two stages remind me of spontaneous combusion where things ignite and burn due to pressure and or heat applied.

The sad thing for me is that in a bid to recover the current adult population, we have allowed explicit sexual material to be plastered everywhere. Our two year olds are learning to “pinch leave an inch and roll”. There are advertisements where persons are enquiring if ” the condom did burst”? and there are images across our television screens of a woman rolling on a condom on a man made penis. The end is now justifying the means and because of expediency morality has taken a back seat.

I wonder if persons who occupy the positions of authority in this country and who have changed our education system in order to cram knowledge into every available space of our children’s brains, causing unbearable stress and have so robbed them of their youth, if they themselves were also robbed of their senses?

We have allowed a few persons to take away our God given right to dicipline our children

(bending the tree while it is young) and we are now told to spare the rod and spoil the child!

Mi wooda like fi si di one weh can stop God from chastising fi him oona pickney dem, yes di same ones weh Him love!!! (Translation: “I would like to see the person that can stop God from chitising his own children, the same ones that He loves”)

We as parents must realize that we have to gradually loosen our grips on our children as they enter adulthood and to finally let go but we owe it to our children to provide the finest examples for them to follow. Remember that both blessings and cursings will go down to the third and forth generations. Which do we prefer?

Father we bind every sexual demon affecting our children across Jamaica, every spirit of deception and we cast them back to the dry and desolate places, in Jesus Christ’s name, amen.