“OUR CHILDREN UNDER ATTACKS…”

DRAMA MINISTERS “YEAR OF GREAT THINGS"
DRAMA MINISTERS 40 DAYS PRAYERS AND FASTING - DAY 32

“OUR CHILDREN UNDER ATTACKS…”

PROVERBS 22:6
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

EPHESIANS 6:4
“And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.”

When I was in Form One and Two in the secondary school, I was influenced by my friends to be sneaking out of school after morning registration. We would attend the first lesson and sneaked out of the class, crawled out of under the wire-fence and hurried off to Rainbow Cinema, Idi-Oro, Mushin, in the rowdy part of Lagos City. Every day, between 10am and 12pm was Chinese films at that time. Then, we would sneaked back into the school and mingled with the students during the long-break time.

I was so much engrossed in this that I knew so many of the names of the Chinese fighters. Consequently, therefore, my character was adversely affected. I was easily irritated. One afternoon, in the school, after coming back from the film show, I picked up a quarrel with a boy and instantly, I began to kick my legs and fling my arms in a Kung-Fu fighting display before a large number of the students. I wanted to fight. I wanted to experiment all what I had been watching in the Chinese films. I was in Form Two (JSS II) at that time.

That is always the problems with electronic media; there is always the tendency for children to attempt to experiment what they watch in movies. I once heard of a young boy who, after watching a hard-core pornographic movie, pounced on his younger sister and raped her.
Sometimes in the early 1980s, to be precise, around 1984-85, in the Western Region part of Nigeria, there was a demonically-inspired Yoruba local language tele-drama running on all the major television channels of the region at that time. The tele-drama invoked a temporary curfew upon the streets of all towns and cities of the region at that time. Whenever the drama was about to begin, people would literally desert the streets to watch the drama and the streets would be flooded again with noisy people after the one hour tele-drama. It was so captivating. Both young and old were usually glued to the TV set to watch the drama.

One of the negative effects of the drama was the desire of many people to be as powerful as “Fadeyi Oloro” the powerful diabolic man in the Yoruba drama. During the time the tele-drama was making waves, a newspaper carried the bad news of two young boys who were playing in their parent’s house after school. The two of them had decided to re-enact the powerful man in the tele-drama; so one of them went to carry his father’s gun the way “Fadeyi Oloro” used to carry a local gun about. And in the process of playing, he shot the gun at his brother, the same way the bad man always shot at people. The gun sounded and the boy fell down, rolling in the pool of his blood. He killed his brother, while trying to experiment what they had watched in the TV drama.

Do you know of children animated TV series called: “Courage, the Cowardly Dog”? My daughter and my second boy liked to watch that one too when they were very young. My daughter was so attracted to it, till we patiently began to notice what the tele-drama always portray. An evil spirit would come troubling the house of his master, the terrible looking dog would be the first to wake up shaking all over, and at times, he trembles so badly as the evil figure approaches, that all its teeth would begin to fall off.

At times, the evil invaders were usually portrayed as a terrible looking python, or a shadowy shapeless phantom, that would look frightening to even the adult. On many occasions, my daughter would wake up in the morning with a load of nightmares and her mother and I would have to spend sometimes to pray for her and assure her from the Word of God that she now belonged to Christ and that the Spirit of Christ lives in our house.

We did not initially perceived that those children movies might have been having some negative effects on her. It took sometime before we knew.
The movies and cartoons for the youth of today are the most terrible. Many of those movies and cartoons for the teenagers and the youths are laced with apparent witchcrafts, sorcery and magic. And many of the movies display outright sexual suggestions, corrupting the minds of our youths and breaking down their walls of moral virtue. Some cartoons and movies are supposed to be meant for adults, but they are deliberately targeted towards innocent and simple-hearted children.

A man or woman who desires to fulfill God’s divine mandate in life would, therefore, determine to take charge of his or her children and bring them to live their lives under the supervision of the Lord Jesus Christ. A minister of God must, in addition to other qualities, be able to rule his house well and must have his children in submission with all reverence. A person who wants the plans and purpose of God to be established in his life would be very concerned with the spiritual conditions of his children.

Are you concerned about the programs your children watch on the television? Do you care about the movies they watch in their bedrooms? Do you take time out of your busy schedules to sit down with them and watch those cartoons that have captivated them so much? Have you taken time to know what those cartoons and children movies are teaching your children? Do you check what they have on their phones?

Those video games you bought for them, have you considered what lessons they have been learning from it? You will be amazed how some video games teach a lot of violence, stubborn and senseless adventures. Most video games are embedded with bloody violence and high-level brutality, yet many Christian parents allow their children to sit down with this and play the brutal and violent games.

When you understand that the covenant of the Lord for your life may not fully be fulfilled without the full spiritual co-operation of your children, then, you will do all you can to protect them from the evil influence and impacts of the present day children movies, television dramas and video games.

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Remain Blessed,

- MIKE BAMILOYE