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Get Ready Live At Harvest Bible Chapel Wicker Park from J.Griff Music on Vimeo.

The Fight

I would be lying if I said this Christian walk isn't a fight. Like a professional boxing match, all Christians will have to train themselves for battle. The fight isn't with people though, it's with spirits, and powers of darkness that rule this world. If you have been born again, you understand what I mean. This life is hard, very hard. Hard to keep the standard that Jesus left for us. We sin, and repent. We sin, then repent, its a constant thing through out life. It gets frustrating for myself and all christian's to have this never ending struggle with sin. But we all must remember that Christ's death paid the penalty for all sin. Lord knows I have my own issues and struggles, and sometimes it makes me want to give up. But I know the Lord all to well to quit. He's changed my life and I can't deny that. I write this for all of us who are broken and low in spirit to let you know to keep going! Keep fighting the good fight of faith, I promise you it won't all be for nothing. Christ is at the right hand of the father as I write this, praying for all of us. Let's not forget what he did for us. John 3:16

Peace and Love

J.Griff
Feeling like Psalm 88

How to Know God

STEPS TO PEACE WITH GOD

Step One
God's Purpose: Peace and Life

God loves you and wants you to experience peace and life—abundant and eternal.

The Bible says . . .

"We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Romans 5:1

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
John 3:16

"I came that they may have life and have it abundantly."
John 10:10

Why don't most people have this peace and abundant life that God planned for us to have?

Step Two
The Problem: Our Separation

God created us in His own image to have an abundant life. He did not make us as robots to automatically love and obey Him. God gave us a will and a freedom of choice. We chose to disobey God and go our own willful way. We still make this choice today. This results in separation from God.

The Bible says . . .

"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
Romans 3:23

"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 6:23

Our Attempts to Reach God

People have tried many ways to bridge this gap between themselves and God.

The Bible says...

"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death."
Proverbs 14:12

"But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear."
Isaiah 59:2

No bridge reaches God . . . except one.

Step Three
God's Bridge: The Cross

Jesus Christ died on the Cross and rose from the grave. He paid the penalty for our sin and bridged the gap between God and people.

The Bible says . . .

"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."
1 Timothy 2:5

"For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God."
1 Peter 3:18

"But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
Romans 5:8

God has provided the only way. Each person must make a choice.


Our Response: Receive Christ

We must trust Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and receive Him in repentance and by faith.

The Bible says . . .

"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. "
Revelation 3:20

"But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God."
John 1:12

"Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."
Romans 10:9

Have you believed?

Will you receive Jesus Christ right now?

Here is how you can receive Christ:
1. Admit you are a sinner.
2. Believe Jesus died to pay for your sin.
3. Confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
4. Through prayer, receive Jesus Christ into your life as Lord and Savior.

How to pray:
Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner and need Your forgiveness. I believe that You died for my sins. I want to turn from my sins. I now confess you by faith as my Lord and Savior. In Jesus' name, Amen.


God's Assurance: His Word
If you prayed this prayer, The Bible says . . .

"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Romans 10:13

Did you sincerely ask Jesus Christ to come into your life? What has He given you?

"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast."
Ephesians 2:8-9

When you receive Christ, you are born into God's family through the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit who indwells every believer. This is called regeneration, or the new birth.

This is just the beginning of a wonderful new life in Christ. To deepen this relationship you should:

1. Read your Bible every day to know Christ better.
2. Talk to God in prayer every day.
3. Tell others about Christ.
4. Worship, walk with, and work for Christ with other Christians in a church where Christ is preached.
5. As Christ's representative in a needy world, demonstrate your new life by your love and concern for others.

Harvestbible.org

OHGOD INK=New and Fresh

My lil brother James Sims also known as Justhoughtz, has created in my opinion the best looking blog site ever lol. This site will give us all insight on various subjects and topics related to the christian walk. If you enjoy fellowship, dope blogs and some debates here and there go and visit the site. Here is the state of purpose:


Statement of Purpose.

OHGODINK is what we do, because of what we believe. We are the Voice of those who lack one. We are the liberators of the oppressed. We are the fathers to the fatherless, and the help to the widow. We are the gift to the poor, the comforters of those who mourn, the up lifters of the forgotten.

We have made ourselves servants to all.

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more; and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law; to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law; to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.

We the people OHGODINK are dedicated to seeing the Great Commission fulfilled through abiding by the Great Commandment.

-J.S.I.V
"http://ohgodink.co.cc/

"http://myspace.com/justhoughtz

J.Griff Music Store!!

Yesssssssssss, its offical, your boy has a new music store where you can purchase my albums and whatever else I decide to put on there so if you dont like buying from Itunes or thebus-shop.com You're more then welcome to come to the music store and purchase some my material. Here's the link, http://jgriffmusic.bigcartel.com/, both of my albums are on sell so get them while you can. PEACE AND LOVE

Redd Lettaz-Gotta Grow Up Quixtape

Yesssirrr my big brother Redd Lettaz just dropped his mixtape, oops I meant quix tape lol today called Gotta Grow Up. Its a short mixtape about 12 minutes long, some dope freestyles and even a full song from his upcoming lp The Growth Process. He's been going through alot and decided to release some of that on this quixtape, its available at his new website. http://www.wix.com/reddlettaz/redd-lettaz

Peace and Love

J.Griff

What does it mean to live in habitual sin? - Tim Conway

Something to think about.......

Word & Deed

Yesssirrr my boy and brother in the Lord Teddy P is dropping his first album Word & Deed which features yours truly as well as Young Joshua, Rhema Soul, Braile, Wonder Brown and the list goes on. Make sure you grab this on July 28th. It will be available at 317media.com Oh yea and one more thing, ITS ONLY GOING TO BE SOLD FOR A DOLLAR!!!!! You can afford this one, no excuses make sure you make your way to 317media.com for more info. Peace and Love

J.Griff

Window 2 My Mind Album Review

yO, Dont know why I havent posted this sooner lol but hear you go just in case you havent read it, hears my album review enjoy

Griff




J Griff – Window to My Mind Album Review

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I often find myself getting on MySpace just to look around to see if I can find a Christian rapper that I never heard of that I like. The thing with no label, no name artists, is they have nothing to prove. When you listen to their music all you get is them. (Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of artists out there that come out with music that haven't found themselves and it is evident in their music.) Then you have artists who have it all worked out about who they are on the mic and you can tell by their confidence and style. This is exactly what I found when I listened to J. Griff's album, Window to My Mind. J really knows who he is as an artist and opens himself up on the album with confidence and says "Hey, this is my first album and I'm going to give it ALL to you." He gives us much more than an album filled with Christ loving words. This is an album that shows us struggles, triumphs and live lessons J learned by the power and strength of the Holy Spirit. He gives an album that takes the listener through some hard times and how Christ was the only way to make it through. Let's take a look at the album piece by piece to get a better look.

Let's start off with production. When I say this is J. Griff's album, I mean that literally. J not only wrote the album but also produced half of the songs on it. Usually when I hear that someone produced tracks for there own album I hesitate to get it because there are too many people out there that don't have the gift to do both. But with J it was a different story. I was excited to hear he did both because it was his beats that brought me to find out that he rapped. Teddy P told me about this guy in the Midwest that was making some crazy beats and that I needed to check him out (I'm talking about J if you can't tell.). Just listening to the 3 beats he had on his page I knew he was a great producer. J brings a nice soulful feel to his beats and does a great job using samples. When someone's beat says everything you need to know about the song before you hear someone rapping over it, ladies and gentlemen, that's hip-hop and that's "Window to My Mind". Now J did bring some other great producers to help add to the album, Red Lettaz, Logic and J Served, and they all have great production skills and I look forward to hearing more of there work. But we all know that beats alone make an instrumental album and that is not what "Window to My Mind" is, so let's take a look at the lyrics.

When it comes to lyrics my main focus is on 3 things: Do they talk about Christ?, When they do talk about Christ, is it Biblical? and Does the rest of their lyrics point you back to the first two questions? I know some people don't think you have to say Jesus 100 times in your songs to be Christ focused, and I agree. But on the same side, all of the lyrics on the CD have to point the listener back to the one thing that should be the focus of the album, Christ. "Window to My Mind" answers YES to all 3 of my questions. Right out of the gate on the first track J gives us an overview of his life and brings up an important issue. "I used to think that I was saved from hell but I wasn't, The devil had me tricked but I'm with Christ now cousin." Maybe it is just me but that stood out because I was like that for the greater part of my life. J steps out on "Rejoice" by encouraging the listener to praise and give God the glory now because that is our purpose and that is what he deserves. (This is where I pause to explain again why I like independent artists.) While listening to "Window to my Mind" some lyrics came off as strange. Without hesitation I got on Myspace and wrote J a message asking about the lyrics. J seemed egger and excited to discuss the lyrics with me. He explained the true meaning of the lyrics and now those lyrics are some of my favorite ones on the album. I'm not saying that all independent artists will do that and I'm not saying that all signed artists won't but it was nice that I didn't have to ask other people what they thought J meant because most likely they would have been wrong. (Now back to our regularly scheduled program.) On "He's Here For U" J is joined by HHH new comer Christawn where they talk to the guys that are on the streets about Christ. Christawn's style of rapping is different from J's but to me that is what made the track so great. On "Be Patient" J addresses the issue of patients and how it is directly related to faith. "You ever pray to God asking what He want, He will only answer when its time not when we want. I used to find myself asking and begging for days, then I thought about it and I was like Where's my faith? It's like a light went off inside my brain, you can't please God if you don't have faith." Patients is an issue for many believers and J smacks his listeners with the truth that "If you not trusting in Him your trusting in satin." That line left me with my jaw to the floor because it was so true and it was something I needed to hear. I purposefully left this fact out of my review until now for a reason. J Griff is apart of the group Neo Psalms, made up of Red Lettaz, Jon Content and J Griff. I didn't bring it up until now because of my favorite song on the album, "Midnight Visions", which is the Neo Psalms song. These guys have a really good sound together and this song was a great way to start to bring the album to a close.

Without question, J Griff is an artist that you should watch out for. I know that J's style is not for everyone but "Window to my Mind" is an album that I believe all will appreciate. Now if you're a Christian hip hop head, this album is a must have. J really shows himself to be a great artist, a great producer and a great man of God. J Griff's album "Window to My Mind" was released on January 16, 2008 and you can hear some of his tracks and can purchase his album on J's MySpace page: www.myspace.com/jgriff1983.

Production – 9

Lyrics - 8

Gospel Message – 8

2 Timothy 2:24-26

"And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will."

Victory!!

Amazing night last night 6/30/09 I was in this competition called Battle of the Bands. There was 7 bands and I went on 2nd, It was alot of good music and great performances, I couldn't believe I WON. That goes to show that even though I was the only rapper there, God still can show up and show out. It was great and it was a cash prize as you can see, it wasn't 250 million though lol I WISH. Video Coming soon..........

One Way Jesus ft J.Griff

One Way Rap from Harvest Bible Chapel on Vimeo.

On My Way......

On my way to church once again to minister to God's people with my gift.

Back Stage

After a wonderful worship set at our church, I wanted to give you guys some back stage video to see and meet some of the vocalist and musicians who were apart of Harvest History!!

Depending on God

Earlier this week a good friend of mine from church emailed me, asking if I would rap at church this weekend. Now my church is very diverse in culture and it would be a culture shock for me to rap at the weekend services. I thought to myself.... He's crazy! No Way!! But with fear in my voice I told him I would be down to do it. This week was the most fearful, anxious week I think I've ever had. God put me in a position where I was force to lean on him and trust him. The picture above was took when I walked out on to the stage with my friend Luke and he introduced me. I was praying in my mind that things would work out. I couldn't believe what I was doing! At that moment all eyes were on me and, God had to show up for this to be a success. So........ As Luke walked off of stage and the instrumental to Be Patient came on and instantly I felt like I had authority on stage and the performance came out fantastic. I truly had to depend on God to allow his people to hear a new song with the same message as any other worship song just a different style. So my advice to anyone who is or will be put in a position to depend on God, HE WONT LET YOU DOWN!! Love you all

Griff

The Last Hour..........

All Out Freestyle feedback

About a few weeks ago I added a freestyle joint on my myspace page entitled All Out, it was nothing serious just a beat I did a while back and I wanted to put a verse to. This is what one of the listners had to say about that song......


Dude

Just want to tell you that I am loving that "All Out Freestyle." I especially like when you talk about your boundaries with the internet and cable. As as brother who has had and still has issues with sexual sin, its powerful when other men in the faith can be real and vunerable about this issue. I belive is that inability for men to be vunerable before other men that hinders community. I was nieve to believe that when the Lord gave me a wife that her intimacy would cause me to no longer struggle and fall into sexual sin. Grace and peace!


Good stuff

There is Fruit

Whats good world, I've been thinking and wondering about some things. Can someone tell me why is Christian hiphop so divided and clickish? If we're all doing this for the glory of God and to advance His kingdom, why aren't there more new artist being signed and more collabs? I don't understand it yo, how come when we talk about holy hiphop, the same top 5 come up? I'll tell you why, its because these labels aren't signing guys if they dont agree with an artist theologically. It sucks yall and its sad, sometimes I feel like God has put me in another lane to drive in. I want to see lives changed and people coming to know Christ. The dude on the corner can't rock to nothing he cant relate to.I cant do a super biblical album and expect people who dont read the bible to relate to it. Maybe for the Christian but not for the lost person. My music is for everyone, I thank God im able to say that with confidence. I've had so many people say, yo I love your album dude it got me thinkin man, and this is Christian? I didnt know Christians could spit like that. I write for the Glory of God, THATS IT! When we stop trying to people please and write songs that can touch the heart of the sinner, there is fruit. See you soon

Griff

Hello

Whats good people, Im going to try and make this blog a semi website for now, to add exclusive joints, devotionals, videos and personal reflections on life. I hope you make self at home, see you soon.

Peace and Love J.Griff