Is there any Kingdom of God Music?

Listening to the lyrics of a lot of these gospel songs while I'm helping to create a playlist...sigh. 😮‍💨

I understand meeting people where they are sells (we've all had low moments), but...there doesn't seem to be enough variety between simply acknowledging the lows to redirecting us to focus on the highs (God's provision) and moving us to our next. 🫤

I've spent years singing, dancing, worshipping, and praising to much of this music. It wasn't until a few short years ago that I was like...hold up. ✋🏾🙅🏾‍♀️

🚨Ain't got no money...

🚨I'm broken, depressed, and sad...

🚨Never any relief and I have to keep begging for something that I inherited the day I said yes to Jesus... 🤷🏾‍♀️

Don't get me wrong, there are some out there (maybe plenty) AND biblical. Yet, truthfully how much leads us to kingdom principled thinking? ☺️

It's easier for me to find slower tempos because it's my go-to but going through faster-paced songs? 

Sheesh. I like some good bass, too. (Kirk, Tye) 😆 

I said all that to say, regardless of our opinions...please, HELP a sister out. Help me recall some good songs. 🤗

A friend helped me out yesterday with some ideas but what's on your playlist? 🤔

I'm looking for faster-paced songs that can lead people closer to him and at the same time assist them to stay focused while on this journey. 🌳

Written July 29, 2022, in search of the kingdom of God-driven music 

Obedience to God is Success

2/20/17 8:19 a.m.

When people deem what you've done as a flop, a washout, an unsuccessful nonattended failure...God deems it a success. Why? You heard his voice, his instruction and you've purposed in your heart to obey. It is your job to hear, obey, and commit to action of fulfilling the task. It is God's job to make it a success and to bring expansion to it. 

In the meanwhile, he is building your character through the seeming "failure" that when you obey the 2nd time and so on, the private building of the task and character will then be a public success. 

The Catalyst of the Dark Days

In the darkest days of my life when I was not just seeking the hand of God, but when I was seeking the face of God, that's when I was the closest to him. That was when I had the most Revelation from him. That's when I was able to see dreams and hear people's thoughts as if they were speaking to me. That was when I was the closest to him. Sometimes we want to escape our darkness. We want to escape the turmoil. The tribulation and the sorrow that we're living in. That is the time you got when you can see him and he will just open up his arms to you. 

He hears the brokenhearted and the contrite spirit. There is such sincerity in the dark place but if you choose not to choose him while you're in your dark place then calamity will come upon you and it will overtake you. The enemy will have his way with you because it's the mind that has us most trapped. Not the adversity itself.  

1/26/17

Despite of...LIVE

12:04 a.m.12/26/22 

The adversary wants us to break rank from our divine identity. Stop us from knowing who we are and what to produce on the earth. 

There are many ways he does this:

One of the main ones is to insert experiences of pain as early as possible. So that you live your life in constant distraction from being reintroduced to the truth. The truth of who you are. God knew you before birth. You existed with him. There is greatness in the divine design of YOU. 

An era in the time needed what he put in you. Some felt it from an early age and never allowed anything to get in their way. Not even themselves. Even with limited understanding.

Some, no matter what took place in their life found themselves in similar situations/types of jobs & public engagement that later revealed these things were directly tied to what we're supposed to be doing. Or at least one of the things. Some, we're assigned more than one thing. 

If there is a time in your life that you are tied to by pain and trauma, find the best ways to face them, deal and heal from them. Acknowledge, yes but do your best to no longer allow that time to keep you arrested and locked up in that pain. 

The adversary comes to steal, kill, and destroy.  Your God-given identity and destined future for you and your lineage. 

Jesus came that you have LIFE, and have it more ABUNDANTLY. John 10:10