I completely agree, Trip...the Holy Spirit is esssential to our being Christian, though I think very few people (including myself so far) fully grasp who the Holy Spirit is and who he can be in our lives. Jesus said that it was BETTER for himself to leave us because of how incredible was going to be the coming of the Holy Spirit.

If we're going to make REAL change in this world, for people's hearts, and really spread the kingdom of God, and not just speak a lot of theology that we ultimately can't prove and that ultimately may or may not influence others, we MUST live through the Spirit. We have to realize that we are part of a great spiritual battle (2 Corinthians 10:3-5, Ephesians 6:10-20, Luke 22:35-38), and so how can we ever go into battle expecting to win without a source of power? Through the Spirit come spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 12), fruit of the spirit (Galatians 5:22), and power for witnessing (Acts 1:8, Romans 15:13, 19) etc. I just can't stress how essential the Spirit is - he is God with us, right now! The question we should be asking and earnestly seeking the answer to is "what do I have to do to bring into reality in my life the promises of God in regards to his Spirit?"

hint: see John 3:1-8, Romans 8, Galatians 2:20, Romans 12:1

we gotta grow, y'all! It's through the Spirit that we can do just that. God bless and thanks again Reach for the Jesus muzik lol

Just Simple comment we gotta make sure that the Spirit is the Holy Spirit our spirit. Gotta struggle, gotta push though to truth. The spirit will but the flesh is weak. Trip you are right bro we gotta measure it all against scripture. First we have to read the entire bible to get the full picture of Gods plan and then measuer our interpretation against that. Let the spirit move, daily submission of our will to His a moment by moment surrender to the grace and mercy of Christ allowing His spirit to mold transform our understanding of scripture. 116 constantly impresses me with there submission to scripture and the study of Gods word and the fathers of our faith. The men that have gone before and studied scripture and given us some many incredible resources to learn and grow in the word.

We gotta pray, stay submitted and like you said Trip let our minds be renewed daily by his Word and Spirit. Keep pushing into the grace of Christ

This word reminds me of a scripture my Pastor spoke about in his sermon the other day.

In Romans 12:1, Paul said that presenting our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, is a reasonable thing to do. And Romans 12:2 goes on to say that we should not be conformed to the world, but transformed by the renewing of our mind, proving what is good, acceptable, and perfect, the will of God. The scripture that Pastor focused on here was this:

Romans 12:3
"For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."

My pastor mentioned that sometimes we put our opinions, rationale, etc. higher than God's Word. For example, if God asks us to do something, we might not because really we think its unreasonable, and we may think we have a better way of getting around this thing. Or, if we are faced with a complex situation, we might turn to our education or some book written by some psychologist instead of turning to the Word of God.

But God's Word says whatever His requests, commandments, laws, and scriptures say are reasonable things, they're good, they're perfect, and it's His will. We shouldn't be conformed to the things of the world, but transformed by our renewed mind that we received through salvation. In addition, we shouldn't put ourselves or anyone else higher than God, no matter how much education or common sense we have or who we know and what they know. And, like you said, the Word of God tells us that the Holy Spirit leads us into truth, He guides us; yeah that voice you hear telling you "don't do it!" is the holy Spirit, lol. So not only did He lay out how we should live in His scriptures, but He also gave us the Holy Spirit to guide us every step of the way. He loves us just that much!

And I love Him so much. Just like Jesus said, He has lead me to so much truth and kept me out of so much stuff that could have really been bad for me. He just continues to reveal things to me and lift me up everyday. I thank God for the Holy Spirit and for His Word. Thank You Jesus!

that was a powerful realization Trip. I am always enlightened by your words and im constantly learning from you which i know being lead by The Spirit you know lives are being hopefully transformed. I'm getting back into His Word to feel the Spirit and His voice and obeying it no matter what the consequences may be, We gotta get into the Word, that is the only way to really know your growing when we are applying what we read! Grace and peace

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Hello trip lee! I just wanted to voice my appreciation to you and your voice! It is soo important that you shared what you hear from the holy spirit! You although younger than me impress me with your growth! I am a 26 year old woman with 2 beautiful children who fights everyday with my flesh to become a spiritual example! Your words and the CD reflects the word of God! And I have recognized my conversations and the fact that I have used "Well my view is" or "I don't think GOD would do that or say that!" So for you to voice it so others would recognize it too means alot! It actually shows that you are not selfish! It's a fight for me not to be honestly! I fight everymorning @ 5 am to get up just to pray to GOD for others! IT IS HARD! But he's helping me in all areas! I just wanna say thank you for allowing yourself to become sensitive to the holy spirit and opening your ears to hear what he's saying to those who cant quite hear him for themselves! I love you and may GOD's continuous blessings rain upon you!
Sincerely, Jatima Simmons, Sag. MI

Whats up man! i praise God for how faithful he is. Dats tight that he can take someone i dont even kno in use them in jus touch me through what they went through. Im talkin about your song (cryin out) thanks man n God bless u n yo family.

you articulated so well a beautiful truth.

Hey Trip, I keep listening to your song "Cryin out" Cuz i'm going through that, actually for a while now..

And I don't know what to do...

What did YOU do? how did you get out of that problem?
I REALLY need to know... thanks...

Sorry to add on... but
I mean, that song Describes me to a T (Cryin out)
i mean, i was SOOOO close to God and now i feel so distant, (Even started questioning my salvation too)

again, if you can help me out with advice, on how you handled it... i'd GREATLY appreciate it..
May the Lord Bless you!

sorry
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Trip, wus good fam!! Ima big fan of ya music and a firm believer and follower of Christ. I also am in the Gospel Rap ministry here in K.C. Missouri. But what I have is not so much a comment, but a question. I love the Lord with all my heart and I'm just now learning how to truly study His word. But my heart's desire is to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. I yearn for it; fot that fire and power to lead me and guide me and to teach me the wisdom and knowledge and understanding of our God. I pray for it continuously!! What more should I do fam?!!

hey trip, thats some serious stuff u got goin on there an i love every bit of it. Jesus is truly amazing and i already told your brothers thank you for helping save another soul...my soul...i am forever grateful. I just want to keep learning more an more...an save a few people myself, nah mean lol. But wherever you are Trip, I know...actually we all know you are safe an with the Lord.and anyone else involved in this Cross Movement, Red Revolution, ect. just keep the Jesus beats pumpin. Love ya brothers. God Bless

powerful word;

~God Bless~

i definitly agree and admire the content and vitality of your faith. your song crying out hit me hard. its exactly how i feel right now with god.was wondering if you could share how you battled through it and got back closer to the lord.i know that its a struggle to grow in my faith.and i understand that being a urban youth leader i have to maintain a solid relationship with the lord to pour into our kids lives and be a living testament to the truth of jesus christ. god bless

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hey trip,

I just want u to know u and the 116 fam has inspired me in such a way I cant explain. I thank God 4 u guys. And i want u to know that i pray for u, and i wanted to encourage u to keep goin no matter how hard it gets, because the the evil one gets angry when he sees the glory goin to God.

Grace

First of all, I'm glad my church is nondenominational. Secondly, do you guys notice that Trip Lee always uses the word beautiful to describe THE WORD or something pertaining to THE WORD. I think I might cop that. Last but not least, that blog really feeds my soul.:)

Interesting and informative, but would be suffering with something more on this topic?

Wow...Thank you so much for this post. I know I am a tad late reading your post (a year!) But I wasn't really as obsessed over Christ as I should have been. I felt like there was no body out there like me (christian) so I gave up. I stated doing stuff that the world did (insane). I started feeling like something was amiss. Until one day I heard you (trip) and lecrae doin it big with Jesus Muzik. Then the next day I listened to Desprate and that was it. I was done with my ways, I was spirtually sick. Overall I was amazed at the fact that He could use brotha's like you to rep Him (don't know why)And now a fully obsessed believer, I just wanna say thanks for this post and taking time out of your day for us.Scripture still hard to grasp. The triuned Christ, WHOA a lot to take in!(like a math test over 5 chapters) But I am getting there and enjoying it. The exctment to do his will is CRAZY! The buzz doesn't stop! (lol) Wow way off topic.. ANYWAY BACK ON TOPIC.. I am going to share this with fam and friends. This post inspired for me in so many ways!!! Keep RePpIn all at REACH. STAY INSPIRED. ~Romans 1:16~ (lol)

Hey dudes and dudest. I am probably not considered Christian in the more popular definition, however knowing that Christians are to be loving and understanding to gentiles I have something to say concerning the Godhead. Why I am not Christian is because my religon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints) believes that The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are seperate entities, and yet still ONE!

Trip you talked about going back to the word. Recall when Jesus the beloved SON was getting baptized by John the baptist. A voice from Heaven was heard, and the Holy Ghost descended LIKE a dove, while Jesus was in the river getting BAPTIZED! There was 3 different personages in that event. The scripture are filled with Jesus being described as the Son of God, or the Son of Man. In addition Jesus continues to describe a God seperate to himself known as the Father. Our Heavenly Father. Jesus sits in the right hand of The Father.

My point however is not to deny the divinity of Jesus Christ or the Word by which all things where created that was ever created by the Father. In the "Preexistence" or as the Bible says before the foundation of the world existed Heavenly Father (Elohim) and Jehovah (The Spirit of Christ). They and the Holy Ghost were the us that Genesis refers too when the creator says "now we have seen that man has become like us knowing good and evil" and are the team that God created this world and innumerable worlds.

Christ frequently admonished us to be One, even as me and my Father are one. Does this mean we are to become one entity? Or simply one in our goals to become more godly and more like our Oldest spiritual Brother Jesus Christ who existed with the Father from the beginning? We are definitly to be bound by a unity that doesn't mean assimilation into one entity.

To make a long story short there's no arguing that Jesus is God. However the way He is God is as a prince in the Godhead. Who is subjecting Himself to the King, our Father in Heaven. There is another head in this monarchy which it the Spirit who was sent down to be with us because Jesus was to return to His thrown in Heaven and His placement in the right hand of God.

I testify to you all in the Name of Jesus Christ that what I have written is the true nature of the Godhead. Amen.

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