This conference is WHOA!!! OMG! Ok I think I'm going to do a video blog tonight to hit the high points. Paul Balouche just spoke made us RUN TO JESUS! And OMG CHRIS TOMLIN!! THAT MAN ROCKS!!! He's like my new big brother. I sat in a writing session with him that was amazing. He talked about how he wrote all of his songs and where he found the inspiration. He wrote songs like "How Great Is Our God", "God of this City", and My favorite song right now "Our God"! He wrote many many songs that we sing in the body of Christ these days. Oh YEA "Indescribable", "We Cry Holy", "Holy Is The Lord" I should stop now before I have to pay royalties for all of the songs he has written.
Right now I'm out with the other artist and we're are waiting on the concert to start tonight FEATURING who???? Chris Tomlin!

I'm gonna go now. This may be the shortest Post I have written but I'm to CRUNK! I feel like I have died an went to Worship Leader Heaven. Just cue "How great is our God" and wheel me in..

Peace.
Brother J

A New Song - NWLC10

You know that some prayer, fasting and hardwork has went into planning a conference when after night one you can say..."well I can go home. It can't get no better than that". That's how Monday Night felt. So it was opening night and WORSHIP was phenomenal! I would guess tonight there were about 3,000 artist, worship leaders, songwriters, and musicians in attendance. I'm so glad to have been invited. My first time being invited was last year and this year I had another opportunity to come..

So yea, we're here at the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Ks. Leawood is "bourgeois", or how do we pronounce it? "Booggie" part of town. No walmart for MILES!!! Lol I needed an iron bad.. I had to go to another city.. so you get my drift. Here's a pic of the church



I snapped a few pictures. Some were too blurry but I'll share what I have.

I have to hip ya'll on to some awesome worship artist that had me crying as if The LORD was visible in front of me. When I tell you that they took me to the THRONE of MUHCY! (mercy) lol I mean it. And then the Pastor tonight, Pastor Steve Berger of Grace Chapel; Let me pause for a second and share this. Last year Pastor Berger was at the conference and two weeks later his son was killed in a car wreck. Tonight he shared his story and cried every time he brought it up. You can tell that he really loved his son like a father should.. I cried because I can't even begin to imagine the pain.. and his son was about to go to college that fall. Pastor Berger's wife is here this year also.. I mean he's a powerful man of God but he shared about how some stuff can really rock you however his message for tonight was A New Song Birth Out Of Pain And Suffering. WOW! He took us to Psalms 40 and wiped us out!! I can't share it all right now but a few points he made were how the tough times we experience allow us to be conformed into the image of Jesus. One thing that stuck out was how he talked about how we say "I want to be like Christ" well don't be surprised when you get a glimpse of what Christ had to go through. Christ was nailed to a cross and we can't stand to be lied on? He said Nothing resurrects until it dies! And he talked about us being in the pit. The dark, muddy, lonesome, dreadful pit. He paralleled the pit to his experience with his child's death as an example.. (I cried again) But he said get ready because more than likely there is a "pit stop" in all of our futures (not always death, just hard times) and he walked us through Psalm 40 on how to handle it.. Then his praise team came up there and tore that stage to pieces during an altar call. (we don't normally have altar calls at these type events but he explained how us as leaders of the body of Christ need prayer too especially when we have to constantly give out. You wouldn't believe how many hurting worship leaders were in the room.

I'm going to wrap it up by saying that this week will be a week of learning, opportunity, networking, resume' building, opportunity to sing and fellowship but most of all a week for healing. I know I have some scars and I expect to experience healing this week so I can return home better than I left and really pour out on this record I'm working on now.

So tonight was GREAT! We have a morning session tomorrow. (Tuesday) Other artist are arriving and it's awesome to meet them and mingle. Oh yea when I was walking in today an older guy asked was I a bass player and did I play with Israel Houghton.. :/ He said I look like a bass player. (Must have been the v-neck lol) but Israel Houghton? I took that as a sign. SPEAK LORD!
Two artist I enjoyed tonight and were really humble and anointed were:
#1 Phil Wickham!! AWESOME,, Vocals that gives you chills and vocal runs that make "you" tired..AND he's really cool!










#2 Keith&Kristyn Getty
from Ireland- LOVED their accent and Kristyn has the most purest voice I've ever heard. She sang I know at least 11 songs... But I could have listened to her all day. Keith (her husband) is the pianist and they have a full band. Pipes and violinist..the whole nine yard! one word: Amazing!!
Greatest sound I've heard in a while.. Sounded like heaven's music.(I have to get better pics of them) (Google them though)














Also some pics of the sanctuary before the crowd came in.. Thanks for reading. More post..everyday this week.. It's going to get better and better. (The pic of the seats is a shot before the stage was transformed to the first pic with the white backdrop-cool huh?).. Peace

NWLC.....Day before

Ok. So I always get amped up before participating in events like these. I am really expecting the miraculous. I mean imagine thousands of people coming from all over the world for "1" purpose and that's to WORSHIP God! Amazing huh?
Well this is the day before. I'm sitting in the the airport because I have a late flight. I don't board until 9:10pm to be exact. However it's amazing to see all of the different people to board one plane but we are all boarding for different reasons. (Nothing deep about that statement although it could preach..
I'm expecting so much from spending time in Kansas.. I get a chance to network with other artist and worship leaders and learn at the same time....Well... just wanted to do a written blog before I get on the plane. For the rest of the time I'm planning on committing to doing VLOGs. (video blogs for my slow saints) I want you to hear the excitement in my voice. Last year so many of my favorite artist shared the stage. I don't know everyone who's going to be this year yet. I haven't received my full itinerary but I'm STOKED that my bro ISRAEL HOUGHTON will be in the BUILDING>>. I'm going slap in when his foot hits the steps. That man drags me straight into the presence of God like NO ONE and I me NO-ONE else can..
Well I could continue to babble but I can't concentrate cause Granny beside me is talking extra loud on her bluetooth about NOTHING!

PEACE

BROJ :)

The Anointing...

I remember growing up we used to sing this song every Sunday, and I do mean EVERY Sunday, called "Anointing Fall On Me". Well, when I was younger I couldn't grasp the concept of what the anointing was and until today I don't claim to have the monopoly or full knowledge on it but I can say that I believe I received some sort of revelation on it to day. So I decided to share this blog. I KNOW that this year God is going to change my life and so in the process I decided to prepare everything and everyone around me for the occurrence. I know God will do that but He instructed me on somethings to do as well, I just did extra lol oops. (God's way is easier btw) Well.... I'm about to begin my extensive travels for the year and begin burning the midnight oil as I start working on my next project. But in doing all that I started to train people to do what I do and I thought I could train them to do it how I do it, I found out that I can't... Bummer for me. You see today I realized how gifted I am of GOD. Sometimes as singers I think we sometimes forget no matter how long we have been singing that we didn't give our gift to ourselves. Yes we can polish our skills and seek training methods to care for our gift.....BUT I know for me my gift came from God. I have never been "PROFESSIONALLY" vocally trained accept for singing in school choirs and church choirs. Neither of my parents are singers. My dad can hold a tune but doesn't sing regularly. With all those seeming to be odds, the gift of God and the ANOINTING has enabled me to "hang" with the best of them. Give me a moment and I'll sing for that moment. So... I'm sitting here trying to get people to do what I do and how I do it and it's impossible for me to train someone to be just like me because I'm ANOINTED to do what I do! I can't give "anointing" that comes from God. I can show you my practice techniques but I can't duplicate on my own what God gave to me. I mean... I didn't give it to myself. So yea I'm slow on catching things like that. I mean I know the cliche' that "every good and perfect gift comes from the Lord"(mostly used as a phrase pertaining to ugly babies lol J/k) but when you've been doing a certain thing for a period of time, like I explained above, you sort of lose perspective that you didn't gift yourself. And that's anybody. (Even the deepies) GOD has gifted us all and has entrusted us to grow and cultivate our gift but when it all boils down it is HIM that gave us our gift, it is HIM that gives us the grace to grow in our gift and HIM that gives us the ANOINTING to function in our gift. I can say with HOLY RECOGNITION of God (Awesome church phrase huh? lol ) I can say that I am gifted from God and no one is anointed to do what I do. I can't teach nobody the anointing on my life and I sure can't duplicate it...guess there will only be one Brother J.. as we can see there will never be another MJ (Michael Jackson nor Jordan)
signed-
Brother J

PS. Some things take longer to fully grasp than others. Some of you reading this might be saying "I KNEW THAT " concerning the anointing. Well don't judge. PLEASE AND THANK YOU.. I'm getting deeper in HIS word and really listening to my DAD / PASTOR these days and I see that many in the body of Christ are deceived and confused. So we can FLOUNCE that word ANOINTING around but get your own revelation of the anointing on your life. I can transparently say that I'm still learning about mine..