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[Lyrics] Joe Praize – Jesus Everywhere

Lyrics: Jesus Everywhere By Joe Praize

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I see the future Everyone talking about my Jesus I see the future Everyone singing about my Jesus I see musicians playing Playing for my Jesus I see the people dancing Dancing for my Jesus Jesus in every place Jesus in every house I see there is jubilation Celebration…

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Joe Praize Set To Drop New Single Titled ‘Jesus Everywhere’

Award Wining Gospel Art, Joe Praize, has announced he would be releasing a new song soon titled ‘Jesus Everywhere’, the song is sure to take over the waves once out

The singer wrote on his Instagram page:

“There is a new Discussion in town … There is a future that I see… I see people in America , Australia, all across Africa , U.K. Europe , Asia , middle-east and EVERYWHERE talking about JESUS……

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Doubting Faith in a digital age.

Before I get into thoughts that have been on my heart lately some things you should know about me. I am 35 years old, college educated, raised in a great home, I am divorced, I remarried, I am a step-parent, I am successful in my career, I love Jesus, I love People, I love music, I love technology, and last but not least I am a total broken mess just like everyone else. I’ve noticed lately that the older I get and the more of the world I see the more brokenness and hurt I see. I mean it sounds harsh to say that out loud but honestly, that’s how I feel. Many times I wish I could go back to being a kid, thinking that the world is this amazing, fair, honest, and good place. But it’s hard to feel that way anymore when I see so many people hurting in the world. I think that part of the issue we have as a society is that we are so numb to one another, me included. I look around today and people are supposed to be “Connected” in the digital age…..from smart phones, twitter, Facebook, etc. But in all of that connection we’ve become disconnected from each other. I’m the worst offender by far on this topic. Not only do I happen to work for Medical Management Software Company but I also manage several different businesses social media sites so I get to see and witness much of the disconnect first hand. As a Christian it makes me wonder the timeless question what would Jesus say about Facebook, twitter, selfies, or hashtags? Truly in this day and age what would the King of Kings think of our connected social media world. In the end I could only imagine that like all things Jesus would have used these sites to glorify God. I can’t really see it going any other way considering that everything He did was with that in mind. My struggle of late has been is Social media as a whole doing more damage to our world than it does good. Is it helping people on any level at all? Or are more people disconnected from real face to face contact than ever before? To be clear I love Facebook my wife hates the fact that I spend as much time on it as I do each week and it’s something I need to work on so we will preface the rest of this lovely read with that in mind……….

Doing Church Social Media-

3 Weeks ago I was asked to help start managing the Facebook page for my local church. I was actually excited about the idea of doing this. It does come with a lot of moral responsibility insuring that posts are good in nature that I am being consistent with what is on our webpage. But at the same time trying to build up more followers as well as engage our church members and help brand our local church is a challenge. So far so good I really am enjoying managing this page more than any other page I’ve had the opportunity to manage up to this point. It has been really a lot of fun to see people communicating within our posts. Sharing our posts as well as commenting again it’s been such a blessing to see this happening at the local church level and seeing the hearts of people in our church come to life in social media world. It made me rethink that maybe social media is not all the bad. Maybe like most things it’s good in moderation. I was still struggling with the thoughts of face to face disconnect that I see in the world. I kept doubting it and at one point questioned why do I even post stuff anymore….so I can fit in? So I can be cool? Am I really doing any good. Am I spending too much time on these sites? Is the world to wrapped up in social media and for all the wrong reasons?

An Old Friend-

So out of the blue I get a personal instant message through Facebook Messenger from an old high school friend. This Friend and I have not spoken in almost 10 years face to face. We were very close for a period of time at the end of high school and into my early twenties. I moved out of my home town where I grew up…..got wrapped up in my career, partying, drinking, a toxic marriage, divorce, living in the world didn’t have any type of relationship with Jesus at all, basically lost touch with a lot of people over the years. This dear friend happened to be one of those I lost touch with during that time. My friend had posted a scripture the day before on her Facebook page and I had commented on her post how awesome it was to see my friend posting scripture. I get the following message in my inbox from her:

“Seeing all of your Facebook posts and how church has changed your life and seeing all the amazing things you are doing with Jesus Christ in your life, made me look further into my life and my family’s life. We have been attending a local church since April. I am still learning and still working on giving my life to Him, this is all new to me and I still have to work on trusting Him with my life. I am willing and I am wanting.”

Reality Check-

See I had been really struggling with the entire concept of living in a digital world and how would God use this when all I see was disconnect and people pulling further and further away from each other and God. Even at times when I would use social media as place to express my love and gratitude for God, I would think man people online that I’m friends with know the old me….am I even worthy enough to be posting this stuff about Jesus let alone managing my churches page?…..This again was God telling me “Yes Aaron even in all of your jacked up brokenness you are renewed in me!” “I am going to use you in every way I can to glorify my name.” So I sat there on the couch staring at this message. I read it at least 5 times tears coming down my face. Because in my posts and status updates about my life and what Jesus is doing to shape and mold my heart, it impacted and changed someone else’s life in a way that I never ever thought about, let alone thought possible. Not only my Friend who’s life is now on the road to being renewed in Jesus, but her Family’s life will now begin their story in Jesus. All of this stemming from her seeing and reading my posts on Facebook, a place where I struggled to see any real connection in people anymore. I didn’t write or include any scripture in this blog and I don’t intend to. I just wanted people to see what God can do in your life even when all you see is a messy, disconnected digital world. God will take that mess and transform it for His amazing works. Last reminder in all of this from God……is that we are Royalty to Him. What He did on the cross for us, that we are completely and totally renewed in Him. I got baptized at 29 years old. Until this message from a dear friend whom I hadn't spoken to in almost a decade face to face sent this message to me, I really was insecure with what my old friends thought of my new found faith. I am currently 35. 6 years of doubting and feeling insecure is a long time to doubt what God is capable of.

The Wrap up-

For those who made it this far into my first attempt at blogging (yes my first attempt), I would encourage you to dive and dive boldly into your faith. Don't worry about what your old friends may think of your relationship with Jesus. Because in the darkness that is this broken world, each of us can be a light. The light each of us a believers is called to be. This is not limited to our daily face to face connections with our friends, family, or in the workplace. None of us me included will ever be perfect at it some of us will be better at it than others. I know for me it's a daily struggle to be that light whether it's at work or even at home as a husband and a step father. The wrap up for me on this it don't let your insecurities and your doubt stand in the way of God using you and your story, to bring people to Him. Don't worry about writing the perfect story for your life. God is the author of your faith and our lives, He already knows what the story is and how it's going to play out. Hope you enjoyed this I welcome comments and feedback.

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