When I was in high school, I went to a youth group that told me something that shaped the next few years of my life:
“Everything that doesn’t talk about Jesus or God is secular.”
And because I loved God and wanted to please Him, I believed them.
So one day, I grabbed all my CDs — thousands of dollars worth — everything I had collected over the years…rock, R&B, soul, hip-hop, old school classics…and I took a baseball bat into the backyard and smashed every single one of them.
I thought I was being holy.
I thought I was purifying my “influences.”
I thought I was getting rid of “the world.”
But now I realize:
I wasn’t discerning spirits — I was obeying a script.
A script written by people who believed God only lives in religious things.
A script written by people terrified of anything outside their box.
A script written by people who divided the world
into “God’s stuff”
and “the world’s stuff.”
But here’s the truth:
HOW CAN ANYTHING BE SECULAR IF GOD IS OMNIPRESENT?
How can anything be outside of Him
when in Him we live, move, and have our being?
Religion needed a word like “secular”
because it needed something to fear,
something to control,
and something to separate itself from
so it could feel more holy.
But God never made that division.
Only man did.
THE ONES WHO LISTEN EARLY
As I grew older, I learned a truth no one in church ever taught me:
Some of the clearest prophetic people never stepped foot in a pulpit.
Michael Jackson used to jump out of bed at 3 or 4 a.m., telling his manager he had to record a melody before Prince got it.
Prince would do the same thing.
Why?
Because they understood something the Bible said all along:
“Those who seek Me early shall find Me.” (Proverbs 8:17)
The early hours are when the noise is asleep
and the Spirit moves freely.
They weren’t waking up early for religion —
they were waking up because
the Source was speaking,
and they were listening.
Most “secular” musicians are more spiritually sensitive
than the people who accuse them.
They’re not following a script —
they’re flowing with revelation in real time.
And religion can’t comprehend this
because revelation doesn’t sound like their vocabulary,
doesn’t fit their doctrine,
doesn’t match their formula.
So the religious mind rejects what the Spirit inspires
simply because it doesn’t speak Christianese.
THE SPIRIT DOES NOT FOLLOW A SCRIPT
The religious mind needs order.
Needs formulas.
Needs predictable patterns.
Needs rules that don’t move.
But the Spirit is nothing like that.
Jesus said,
“The wind blows wherever it wants… so are those born of the Spirit.”
The wind does not submit to the script.
The wind does not obey the church calendar.
The wind does not move according to man’s expectations.
This is why Spirit-led people look “out of order”
to script-led people.
This is why revelation looks like rebellion
to those trapped in repetition.
This is why freedom looks like danger
to those trained to fear anything unsupervised.
They want God contained in a Bible,
contained in a building,
contained in a doctrine,
contained in their comfort zone.
But an omnipresent God
cannot be copyrighted.
THE REAL DIVISION IS NOT SACRED VS. SECULAR — IT IS AWAKE VS. ASLEEP
There is no secular.
There is only:
Those who listen and those who ignore.
Those who seek early and those who sleep through the whisper.
Those who flow with the wind and those who cling to the script.
God never divided the world —
religion did.
Religion divided what God filled.
Religion separated what God united.
Religion labeled “unholy” the very vessels
the Spirit whispers through.
But the ones who listen —
the ones who rise early,
who hear the melody before the world wakes —
know the truth:
There is no such thing as secular to a God who fills all things.
SPIRIT’S WHISPER 
I speak in every place the heart is open.
I move where the script cannot predict Me.
Those who rise early hear My melody first.
Do not fear what religion labels “secular”—
for I am the breath behind all inspiration.
By Keith Brown