There are so many children, teens singing these songs that are on the radio, that not even we adults know the meaning to. Do you know why we do not really understand some of these songs i the first place? Because there are subliminal messages in some of these songs and videos that are meant for us to think that it is something else so that we can fall into the same thing they are doling, so that we can come together with them, join them basically believe what they believe. I was listening to a song on the radio and this rapper said “Jesus cant save you” and he was one of the people that are representing the devil, someone that says that Jesus cant save them is a prime example.. he is the last person that I would want anyone to listen to. These different songs is really drawing people in and making them believe that this is what they should be like. I do not talk about it mush because it’s like I’m  judging them in a sense and people do not believe you because that person is so successful. In different videos these people are symbolizing the devil they are wearing blaspheme symbols on clothes etc.. and in luke 12:10 it said that anyone who blaspheme the holy ghost will not be forgiven. im not sure if  im spelling it correctly but im sure most of you know what im talking about. Well the point of this is to hopefully open a few people eyes if I can becuase God is way too wonderful and when u meet God u wont have to want for anything and he will protect you as long as you trust in him.

There are many sources explaining subliminal messages in songs and movies. If you would like them just ask me!!

I just really love this song!  Kari Jobe has an amazing voice!  This particular song is Track #11 from her self entitled CD, “Kari Jobe.”  It’s been out for over a year now, but it’s still a great CD.

“She’s pulling at me,
Saying ‘Dad, I need you, There’s a ball at the castle and I’ve been invited and I need to practice my dancing. Oh, please, Daddy, please?’
So I will dance with Cinderella
While she is here in my arms.”
Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman
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I was that princess once. I was 3, and my dad had taught me how to ride a tricycle.
I don’t remember another time of being my dad’s little princess.

My dad left when I was 5.
I was okay with it at the time, as he was never home to begin with.

Now that I’m older, there is that hole left by my dad that I have so much trouble trying to fill.

“I count on the make-up to cover it all
Crying myself to sleep cause I cannot keep their attention
I thought I could be strong
But it’s killing me
Does someone hear my cry?
I’m dying for new life”
Beautiful by Bethany Dillon

Desperate. That’s what it was. That’s what I became.
Desperate for the attention I didn’t have, didn’t know I had.

Any guy that looked my way. Any “hey” or conversation and I was “head over heels” for him. This attracted me to the wrong type of guys. The dangerous type. Soon, I was in a relationship, that was a mistake from the start. I fell “in love” in 2 weeks. 7 months later, I was being accused of cheating because I wanted to hang out with my friends. 2 months and 2 black eyes later, I finally was out of the abusive distress I was in for so long.
Why didn’t I end it sooner? Fear. I was so scared of him, it ate me from the inside out.

I hadn’t been to church in about 5 months because of him, and I finally started going back, and got back involved in 531, and my life group. I was being healed by my accountability partners, and prayer partners. God was really moving in my life. I was finally to this place of, “I don’t need a guy to complete me.”

Around May of 2008, I got into another relationship. A deeper, more serious relationship. He was 2 years older and in college. So, there was a huge time gap between us, and a lot of maturity problems. Parts of that relationship I absolutely will never want to forget, and I still thank him for. But the relationship wasn’t perfect. We fought a lot. We made many mistakes in the relationship. We both said many things we didn’t mean, and we were no where spiritually where we should have been. The ending was a disaster. I was happy and upset that it ended, in that, I really do believe, I loved him. Or what I believed to be love at the time.

More guys I tried to depend on, tried to have accept me, tried to make like me.

Then…something finally…clicked! Seriously almost like a switch in my head went to the ON position.

I didn’t need a guy to make me happy!
I didn’t need a relationship, or someone to text constantly to fill me up!

I needed God. The love of my FATHER! The love of my KING!
God made me the princess I had so longed to be my entire life!
God made me beautiful. God filled that void that I used almost ANYTHING to fill.
God brought me out of a desperate for guys attention phase into a desperate for HIM place!

Every now and then, Satan tries to control my mind and tell me that I do need someone, that I can’t be alone, that I’m not beautiful, that I’m not worth anything.
But, I remember the role God plays in my life, and remember that God is more than enough, and God is ALL I EVER NEED and all those thoughts vanish just as fast as they were brought about.

So, I am that princess after all. I am daddy’s little girl.

“You make me beautiful. You make me stand in awe, You look inside my heart and I am amazed. I love to hear you say, who I am is quite enough, You make me worthy of love and beautiful.”
Beautiful by Bethany Dillon

God is all you need.

Sex, Alcohol, Lust, Drugs, Porn, Gossip, Jealousy, Money, etc. WILL NOT FILL YOU UP!
God is everything and more!

God IS everything and more.

And He will ALWAYS love you. No matter what.
He will Always, always, always love you.

No. Matter. What.

There have been seasons in my life when I would have run away from my God if I could.  I have experienced much hurt; abuse, betrayal…the list is long.  But I fear if I  share in my list, all of my hurts,  I might not include (((your))) hurts, confusion, anger, and you might feel excluded and that this God is not for you.  I so long for you to come to believe that this God wants for you to experience a loving, vibrant, passionate relationship with Himself;  that you might someday believe that it can be…Jesus and you…passionately in love….His and your own personal, beautiful love  story

During those seasons when I try to flee from Him, I see in the dance of Charlie and Meryl something so beautiful.  For as the lovely Meryl  is fleeing from Charlie He is running after her and  He catches her from behind and holds her…oh, so lovingly, gently and tenderly.

And that is what my Jesus does with me.  When I run from Him, He runs after me and catches me from behind lovingly, gently and tenderly.  And I have found that…when everything falls apart, He is yet…holding me.

And This Song is Proven Once More in My Own Journey With Him

It’s a growing problem, youth ministers have difficulties connecting to younger kids, they have the reputation of not staying around. It’s hard to keep their attention, or conflicting. Who’s going to take their youth group to a The Chariot concert? The point being youth groups who go to Creation is seen as quite contemporary.

There’s an entire group missing from this however, the Christian hardcore genre continues to increase while a few kids may know. I’m not talking about well known Christian hardcore bands, the amount would surprise most people.

This is a reason why I couldn’t fit into my church, after-all it is a community. It was not that I was repelled by the message, I just couldn’s situate myself with how everything was taught. ActionChurch (http://actionchurch.com/) was just the right fit. Live bands, a no pressure preacher, a chance to meet people like me. The messages are moving, the music is loud, the attitude is action.

While I consider myself very conservative in my faith, it was an opportunity to be myself.

At Purple Door when we set up a stand, I was asked and heard interesting questions. There’s something that makes most people start questioning, thinking its just for fun. Well, there is a lot of fun, which makes it so much more personal. It’s one thing being told to “relax God will provide,” and a preacher sitting in a lawn chair throwing people ice-cream sandwiches.

It means a lot to me, it means a lot to people who wouldn’t normally go to church, but gave action church a try and just kept coming. It brings people in instead of being intimidating. For every age.

The point of this being that yes I scream, I mosh, I wear black. That doesn’t mean I’m different, it’s a new lifestyle that has its ways of worship just as others.

Tonight at praise team practice for church this weekend, our worship leader thought we should sing a verse not written on our sheet music, the 3rd verse of “Jesus Paid it All”. So we had to go down into the pews and grab hymnals. We rarely use them, and apparently they are used more often for coloring books than an encyclopedia of songs. The hymnal I had chosen looked alright, but just as I turned to the correct page, I saw some child had scribbled in pencil all over the song. The notes and words were covered in a dull silver. Somehow, just looking away and picking a new hymnal seemed wrong. I took a pencil with a full eraser and began the slow process of clearing the page of the scribbles. In a few minutes all the pencil lead was gone, but you could still see where the scribbles had been because of the etches left behind.

I continued to flip through the book checking for more pencil lead to clear away and as I thumbed through I fixed the bent corners and pages. When I was all done, which only took a few minutes, I looked at the book. Not perfect, but clean. I looked the eraser, still full, as though I’d hardly put a dent in it. I probably could have cleaned a few more hymnals actually.

Sometimes I look at life like a hymnal. The years all compiled together into different songs I’d made or people had put in my lives. But what happens when those beautiful songs are suddenly clouded by the scribbles of my sin? When my pages are bent and crumpled at the corners because of harsh use?

Jesus comes along. Though He does not just happen to pick me up, like I did the hymnal. No, Jesus picks me for a reason. He flips through my pages and sees the scribbles. He picks up love’s eraser and begins to clean the pages. He checks for other scribbles and mends the bent corners. Unlike my attempt at fixing, Jesus fixes even the etches until the pages are crisp and clean as if they were right off the press. Clean and perfect in His sight. But I am far from perfect. I will continue to mess up, but the scribbles won’t be there, for God has made me new with love’s eraser.

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Do like rap?  I love it.  I always have.  Unfortunately, most of the Hip-Hop music that I liked was not glorifying God…at all.  A few years ago, I discovered Reach Records.  Reach Records is a Christian record label that is all about glorifying God through music.  They have several outstanding artists who all have a heart for ministry and use Hip-Hop to spread the Gospel.  Trip Lee is one of these artists.

If you like great lyrics and bangin’ beats, you will love 20/20.  This is Trip Lee’s second album.  Not only does the music sound fantastic, but the lyrics really challenge listeners to know and love the God of the Bible.  Every so often I will blog about another great Reach Record album.  In the mean time, listen to a few samples of 20/20 by Trip Lee below.

About four years ago, I was still in college and really getting excited about the things of God.  I remember that I was listening to a Christian internet radio station in the school computer lab.  They played a song called “Indescribable” by a man named Chris Tomlin.

So much of my walk with God back then was all about me…how I could ‘use’ God to get what I wanted out of life.  But this “Indescribable” song hit me hard!  The entire song is about looking around at the splendor of nature and standing in awe of the One who created everything.  And even more amazing than His power, is the fact that this God knows the depths of our hearts but still loves us.

So, I went to Walmart that night and bought this CD with the spare change in my car’s ashtray (I didn’t have any other money).  My spiritual life went to a new level when I decided to stop magnifying all of my little issues and magnify the God of the universe.  And every song on this CD helped me do that.  The first track on the CD in “Indescribable.”  The second track, “Holy is the Lord,” is all about the earth being filled with the glory of our holy God.  ”How Great is Our God,” is a song magnifying God for how amazing He is!

This CD was a part of a huge turning point in my walk with God and to this day, Chris Tomlin: Arriving is one of my favorite albums.