To truly be a Christian is to invite Jesus to come and dwell with you in your home and in your heart. Dark or evil things such as Pornography, other dirty or nasty books and ‘items’ must go. Certain television programs shouldn't be allowed to play in your home. This also goes for the certain type of music. Music with dark and/or evil lyrics and phrases within it should also be banned from your home and from your lives. This is what it means to have a truly Christian home. A Christian home is open and not hiding any secrets and is always ready for Christ to enter at any moment without any embarrassment or to be ‘caught doing what you shouldn’t’. Holy beings do not enter into evil or evil environments. When you ask protection for your home and family you are asking for Jesus to send His holy angels to keep you safe and from all harm, danger and evil. You can't have allowed evil in the ‘back door’ so to speak, and certainly not to have remained within your home. Otherwise you would be defeating the whole blessing intention. One can not do ‘things’ only half way and in turn expect full benefits.

Now for those of you who are not traditional Catholic or Anglican, or who don't want to put a holy water font up, you can still invoke the protecting power of God and His heavenly hosts by simply hanging or mounting a cross on the front and back doors of your home. As a family fun activity you could make hanging crosses for all the doors of your house from scraps found around the house. The kids would really enjoy it, but more importantly they would get the real or true meaning for doing so. It isn’t the physical piece of wood that has any power. It is the physical action of placing a reminder of the power of our un-seen God. Still one needs to understand that if you are asking to be free from all evil and harm, you defeat the whole purpose by allowing certain unholy or items of darkness within your home.

I truly hope you don't see what I am saying as a bunch of have’s and have not’s, do's and don'ts. It isn't ‘the rule’ to do such and such to be a Christian or to have a Christian home. All I am saying is if you truly want your home and family to be free from danger harm and any evil, don't defeat yourself by allowing a bunch of dark/evil things inside your home environment! It’s kind of like you wouldn’t build a large castle to protect you from your enemies, and then turn around and have a large unlocked backdoor for them to easily enter. Or worst yet you wouldn’t have a couple of rooms within your castle for your enemy to sleep in. The whole purpose of building a castle and keeping your family safe from evil is to not allow it inside in the very first place.

If you move into a new home or have a home that hasn't been blessed before, call your pastor or priest and ask them to come and bless your home. Most often they will be more than willing. Then after this has been done either mount a holy water font or hanging crosses on both front and back doors of your home. Every night when you retire have your family say a simple prayer of protection and bless yourselves with the sign of the cross and then retire. Recently a regular customer of ours wrote the following. "In my family we found an easy way to begin a nightly blessing. After family devotions we as a family go to the front and back doors and say our protection prayer together, cross ourselves, lock up and then put the kids to bed. Our children woke up a lot less and had a lot less night terrors while growing up. Some of our friends think that I was exaggerating a bit, but this is actually how it worked for our family. Our children felt more secure and protected by God and His heavenly hosts/the angels". One of the finest examples I have heard of!

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