Don’t Waste Your Life Video – Lecrae

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Apr 212009

I love this song, what do you think of the video?


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Lecrae ft. Dwayne Tryumf – Don’t Waste Your Life

Hook: (Cam)
Don’t wanna waste my life.

Verse 1: (Lecrae)
I know a lot of people that scared they gone die
couple of em thinking they’ll be livin in the sky
while Im here livin man I gotta ask why, what am here fo I gotta figure out
waste my life no I gotta make it count
if Christ is real then what am I gone do about
everything in Luke 12:15 down to 21
you really gotta go and check it out
Paul said if Christ aint resurrect then we wasted our lives
well that implies that our life’s built around Jesus being alive
everyday I’m living tryna show the world why
Christ is more than everything you’ll ever try
better than pretty women and sinning and living to get a minute of any women and men that you admire
it aint no lie
We created for Him
outta the dust he made us for Him
Elects us and he saves us for Him
Jesus comes and he raises for Him
Magnify the Father why bother with something lesser
he made us so we could bless Him and to the world we confess him
resurrects him
so I know I got life
matter fact better than I know I got Christ
if you don’t’ see His ways in my days and nights
you can hit my brakes you can stop my lights
man I lost my rights
lost my life
forget the money cars and toss that ice
the cost is Christ
and they could never offer me anything on the planet that’ll cost that price.

Verse 2: (Dwayne Tryumph) (Audio version only)
Armed and dangerous
So the devil jus can’t hang wid us
Christian youth them a stand wid us
Livin’ n driven/ given a vision/ fullfillin the commission he handed us
London to Los Angeles
Da rap evangelist
Ma daddy wouldn’t abandon us
“I gotta back pack fulla tracts plus I keep a Johnny Mac”
So are you ready to jam with us
So lets go, gimme the word an lets go
Persecution lets go
Tribulation lets go
Across the nation lets go
Procrastination lets go
Hung on the cross in the cold
Died for da young and the old
Can’t say you never know
Heaven knows
How many souls are going to hell or to heaven so we gotta go in and get em
Whaaaaat!

Verse 3: (Lecrae)
Suffer
Yeah do it for Christ if you trying to figure what to do with your life
if you make a lot of money hope you doing it right because the money is Gods you better steward it right
stay focused if you aint got no ride
your life aint wrapped up in what you drive
the clothes you wear the job you work
the color your skin naw you Christian first
people living life for a job/ make a lil money start living for a car
get em a house a wife kids and a dog
when they retire they living high on the hog
but guess what they didn’t ever really live at all
to live is Christ yeah and that’s Paul I recall
to die is gain so for Christ we give it all
he’s the treasure you’ll never find in the mall
See your money your singleness marriage talent yo time
they were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is Divine
that’s why it’s Christ in my rhymes
That’s why it’s Christ all the time/
see my whole world is built around him He’s the life in our lives
I refused to waste my life
he’s too true ta chase that ice
heres my gifts and time cause I’m constantly trying to be used to praise the Christ
If he’s truly raised to life
then this news should change your life
and by his grace you can put your faith in place that rules the days and nights.

I previously did a blog post on this song here.

Posted by Matt Lane at 8:04 am Tagged with: , , ,

Where is grace…

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Apr 142009

I have been bothered a lot lately about the lack of grace in my own life and in people I come in contact with. Lack of grace leads to being dogmatic about issues that many times are preferences.  It also also leads people to being judgmental towards others instead of showing them love.  Lack of grace produces pride and self-righteousness and results in being a cancer to people and churches.

So read the below and see how many you either identify with or maybe that you once would.  These are some of the ones I have found myself in over the years.  Some of these are church related and others are more individual.

Where is grace…

if you cringe or have any condescending thoughts about certain “types” of songs being sung in church.

if you have condescending thoughts towards people who don’t go to a certain number of church services each week (or at all).

if you think people can’t come to church in jeans…or in a suit or a dress.

if you look down on people that go to movies or rent movies.

Where is grace…

if you think condemning thoughts towards people who smoke or drink.

if you eagerly speak out against homosexuality but never on gluttony or pride.

if you cringe or have condescending thoughts at the NIV being read from the pulpit.

if you think that every church should have drums…or an organ.

if would not want to associate yourself with anyone from a different denomination.

Where is grace…

when you think SINNER! when you see someone mowing the grass on Sunday.

when your first reaction to people is to think negatively about what they are doing or how they look.

when you think poorly of people who work on Sundays.

when you think more highly of yourself because you don’t do things that others might do.

when you think you are never wrong and everyone else is.

when you are more concerned about the words that come out of someone’s mouth instead of the hurt coming out of their heart.

I really don’t think God is impressed with how good I think I can be. I mean, let’s be real.  There are not good people and bad people in this world but rather all of us sinners and then Jesus.  Is God impressed that I only go 5 miles over the speed limit compared to you who does 8?  Ridiculous.  Instead, let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Outdo each other?  Really?  Seriously?

I honestly fear many are conformed to a pattern of religion but are never transformed.  Let’s be filled with amazing grace and not self-righteousness.

Ephesians 2:4-10

4 But [1] God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (ESV)

Footnotes

[1] 2:4 Or And

Posted by Matt Lane at 8:14 pm

Reasons (why people don’t come to church)

Blurbs 1 Response »
Apr 032009

So I totally ripped this off from DeadlyViper but I really dig it.  Let me know if you like it too.

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