The Modest Life: October 2014

Hello guys, I decided to feature one of the lovelies in my life; my brother in Christ who is an encouraging part of my walk in Faith. I find it amazing that we have known each other when we were baby Christians/lukewarm Christians. Living how we lived and learning along the way. Now that we are stronger in our Faith we still continue to encourage each other, which I thank God for.

Just to clarify, he is an Artist that makes music but please note, his music and lyrics are of a positive and realistic nature. I must say I bought his album and I am impressed. So feel free to support a brother if you are into clean rap/grime. I just thought I would say that drawing upon my last blog post about secular music. Not ALL music is from the devil, thus we must make sure we are CAREFUL about what we feed our spirits with and what message it is sending. Remember we are weak without Christ so therefore we must guard our hearts. I pray that God gives you the ability to discern what is acceptable for you, while keeping Him first at all times. Amen.

Ope, I wish you every success - keep living for God and he will so come through for you in the end. His love is so powerful that it is often hard to comprehend. I am glad to know you brother!!!

This picture makes me smile and shows me how far we have come! back in our clubbing days full or drinking and short dresses. How I love you Lord!! (My 21st).

I would love to feature anyone that I can, it would be lovely to share testimonies to encourage you all. If you are interested please email rosemarygodwinese@gmail.com. Please include a few pictures and your own story that you feel comfortable sharing. I hope you enjoy and are encouraged by this post. God bless.

My name is Unique Creation, I’m an artist and a performer, music and creative arts is my passion. I just released my Official debut album called “Problem Solution”, which is now available on iTunes, Amazon, Deezer, and Spotify (just to name a few). I also have a music video on YouTube and grime daily titled “Space Rocket”. Getting to where I am now was a long and frustrating journey. I’ve been making music since I was 17 when grime was still called garage and UK music was getting the recondition it deserved. I was madly addicted to MC battles and obsessed with pirate radios stations that constantly banged out songs from Crews such as So Solid, Roll Deep, Heartless, Mo’Fire, and Nasty Crew. It was exciting and new for me to see local faces my age and even younger ripping up the air waves. It was a growing revolution I thought could match major genres like Hip-Hop, RnB and Rock with the right support.

I started writing my own lyrics and joined a crew of 11 other MCs, and naturally we started battling other crews around and it wasn’t long before I saw my future in MUSIC...MUSIC...MUSIC!!

It was around the same time that I felt a tug on my heart to find meaning to my life, life wasn’t great and I didn’t see much to it. I woke up one morning and randomly went to a local church which was weird to me because I wasn’t a Bible reader, the only thing I knew about Christianity was Jesus, heaven and hell, and hell stood out the most but wasn’t very pleasant to me but I wanted to know more.

Knowing what I know now I realise that, what was happening to me was “John 10:27: My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me”, I believe at one time or another everyone feels that tug or pull to find a reason to their life and if you have I’d advise you to listen to that tug, it’s amazing what’s at the end of the rope.

I also learned that God’s timing is perfect because I didn’t realise all the problems that were ahead of me. I fell into excessive drinking amongst other things and it didn’t hit me that I had a problem until it started affecting my family. I remember being at University in Luton and going to a friend’s birthday, long story short my father got a call from the police saying that they found me covered in my own Puke, blood and bile in Central London. I hardly remember what happened. There were many other problems that followed. It wasn’t until I personally decided to take Jesus seriously that my life did a mad 180 degree turn. My music has taken me to Birmingham, Basildon, Leicester, Cambridge, Pitsea, Bedford, Germany and the list goes on. My music is literally a diary of my life and everything that goes on around me and inside my head, along with the problems I’ve faced and the solution I’ve found to it. My company Black Fingerprint Association is also growing and it’s all thanks to putting my trust in the word of God. I’m happier than I’ve ever been before, and I have a growing musical family in the likes of InderPaul Sandhu and R.U.T.S, check them out on the website.

My time learning about Christ has helped me realise that I am more important to a Loving God than I could ever imagine, I still find it strange sometimes when I think about it, but I have no reason to fight that truth. Coming from such as dark place, my walk with Jesus has not just changed my outlook on things, it has also changed the quality of my life. The only proof I need that God exists is me and things all around me. If it is not enough that you are simply alive, breathing, and thinking and feeling then look at your body, if your skin is cut, it heals itself, your eyes are so complex that they turn light to vision for you, two humans can come together and make another living breathing person...this concept alone lets me know that there is a complex mind behind my creation.

Psalms 139:14 says that we are fearfully and wonderfully made; I’m confident that if you really looked at yourself, you would agree with what I’m saying.

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Friday, October 24, 2014 5 comments

[1 John 2:15-17] - Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

This year I have felt convicted about certain things in my life. I must say it has been a year of deep spiritual cleansing and self realisation. It is important to know who you are in Christ, the beautiful King/Queen that deserves the best. I will focus on secular music on this post. It is hard to be a Christian and allow secular music to pollute my mind. See, when you are dealing with matters of the world it is important to guard your heart. How is secular music helping me, at a time where music videos are becoming more and more explicit and immodest dressing is the norm? I had to break free. In order to stay focused, you must be wise with your time - what you watch, your circle of people you keep around, music. Without Christ I am weak, so I choose to serve Him in a way that will will be pleasing to Him...

Let me explain..

I grew up liking Hip-Hop music. I liked other genres too but this was my favourite. Unfortunately, I have a weakness for a good beat and I have to fight my flesh everyday in order to stay focused. Being a Christian does not mean that you are "made". The devil is looking for ANY opportunity for you to fall. But God forbid, we must continue to fight.

As you can see from the images below, I had bought all of "The Game" Albums. I actually was a fan girl. However, I noticed a few things as time went on within my walk in Faith. A great amount of guilt when listening to such music - It got to a point where I could not even sing or dance along, how could I when every other lyric was about sex, drugs, glamorising of rape or any other demonic related topic. Call me judgemental but I am not the one who wrote the Bible. Jesus is the ultimate judge and I aim to live in His will.

A second thing was that the music was constantly re-playing in my head. The thing is, most secular music is awfully catchy with a good sounding beat, but it promotes negativity. I.e. sexualisation of women's bodies, lust etc. Just all the things that go against God's word. "The Game" even came out with an album called "Jesus Piece" and I felt like within that album Jesus was being crucified all over again. I do not know what I stupidly thought when purchasing the album, whether he would genuinely be praising Jesus. The album name itself is degrading and I am tired of the cross being this glamorised jewellery piece worn in vain. Furthermore, I am tired of the whole "Jesus is my homie", "Jesus is so dope", "I cannot help being a slave to sin" attitude because believe me this whole following Jesus thing is nothing to be looking cool about. Often you will be ridiculed and cursed. But blessed is He who is insulted for following Jesus.

[Matthew 5:11] - Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward
in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

[1 Corinthians 13:11] - When I was a child, I talked like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me [NIV Version].

There comes a time where maturity must set in - in no way do I feel as though I am perfect or the "better Christian" as there is no such thing. I just feel that I am at a stage where I have made a serious decision to engage in things that will better my life. I am striving for discipline in my life and secular music had to go. All it does is remind me of my past sins which I have already repented and been forgiven for - so it is all in the past where it shall stay.

[Phillipians 4:8] - Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

I will no longer be that woman that goes to the club to degrade herself for the love of the world, or one who cares about being up to date with the latest music. I do not mind if you think I am lame because all I want to do is read my Bible alone and spend crazy time with Jesus. I cannot serve two masters and can no longer become distracted anymore - It is bad enough that at some points some secular music plays in my mind and I am doing the most to tune it out.

I pretty much broke all my CDs, deleted all my iTunes music including that Beyoncé album that I bought and downloaded last year, because as much as the glitz and glamour is pretty looking, the world is all about lies and deceit. I choose to be anchored in the truth. I cannot support someone who has the devil's sign "666" in her video (see image below) and overly sexual, immodest and lustful mannerisms. Please do not let the world deceive you.

If you look closely, the "666" is spray painted subtly on the woman to the left's shirt.

[Revelation 13:18] - This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast for it is man's number. His number is 666.

I do not dislike the person, but rather the sin/their ways of behaving. So... if I have offended you then perhaps you should consider whether secular music is for you. As a Christian when listening to music you should consider the message (is is a positive one?) and of course that underpins how that will influence you as a person. Because believe me the music industry has people acting all types of crazy out here. Promoting violence, racism, ignorance and all types of negativity. Not for me.

I would rather keep it light and listen to music with a clean positive message; preferably Gospel music. Amen.. Praise Jesus!!