Gangsta Life
The term has been long associated with criminal elements and those that have plagued our communities with strife and caused despair with loss of hope. It has also been a lifestyle that has been highly esteemed. The status quo has been glorified and many seem to gravitate toward it. Most times people we see promoting this form of living are those in movies, music videos and other public forums. For some time though, ‘Badness outta style’ had taken effect, but was it just something temporal?
Indulging in illegal acts, living in the ghetto, and glorifying no sense of direction or any desire for education, has been done for many centuries. Is it that being good at being bad gains respect? Does it have it have it's additional rewards? Does one really find fulfillment in that life of ‘badness’. Funnily enough not everyone feels that way.
Whenever talking to my friend about a bad situation I encounter I would express the deep longing to get out and she would always make refernce to something interesting. She always spoke about a fly wanting to get out the cake to save its life, when there we so many fighting to get in. I guess that is how Dunamis Reignz felt about the gangsta life.
Real name Greg Everald Grant, described his life as one without a father and surrounded himself with bad company despite the fact that he knew the Lord. It soon lead him to a lifestyle of the deadly four, ganja, girls, guns and gangs. Despite Greg’s repeated attempts to leave behind this dangerous lifestyle, he continued to be embroiled in it; that is, until he was pulled into a shootout with a rival gang.He barely survived, but then found his life threatened by his former companions.
For a time he had to he had to lie low,and try to live a quiet life and it was in that solitude that Christ found him and set him free from his past.The Lord gave Greg a voice and a talent to share that testimony and to minister, and along with it the opportunities to do so.
He won a contest to perform at Recharge 2007, and since then, his area of ministry has continued to grow. Dunamis has performed all over Jamaica: with Xtreme Impact and Jamaica Youth for Christ on their school tours, at various ISCF concerts, and at Marshall Redwood open-air meetings. In Barbados, he has performed at Exodus, a youth convention, and with Koen Duncan; and in St Kitts-Nevis, Dunamis ministered at the Wesleyan Holiness National Congress.
He has been heard on television and radio in the United States, Jamaica and Barbados, being interviewed on RETV, TVJ, 93FM, [radio station], Barbados, and Ventis Radio, Atlanta. I came across this Jamaican artiste through a dear friend of mine, and though then when i first heard the track Gangsta Life..., ‘Aye this thing real bad!!’.
More than two years later the track ‘Gangsta Life’ has a music video. With a direct message of life before Christ, I admonish you to listen to his testimony as he exalts the holy name of Christ.
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Esther James John 8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
When Jesus was on earth, a woman caught in the act of adultery was brought before Him by the scribes and Pharisees, the religious mafia of His day. They tried to trap Him by posing a question that was difficult to answer: "Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?" (John 8:5)
Jesus answered, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." (John 8:7) The scribes and Pharisees began to leave one by one till none of them were left.
The people in the crowd who wanted to condemn the woman could not. But Jesus, the only one in the crowd who truly had the power to condemn her, would not. He then asked her, "Woman... Has no one condemned you?" (John 8:10)
He spoke such words of grace to her because He loved her. Also, by asking her the question, He was giving her a chance to speak words of no condemnation to herself - "No one [condemns me], Lord." (John 8:11)
Jesus not only spoke words of grace to her, He also gave her the gift of no condemnation - "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more". It was when she received the gift of no condemnation that she had the power to "go and sin no more".
Today, you have the gift of no condemnation because the Son of God was condemned for all your sins. (Romans 8:1) Today, God cannot condemn you when you sin because He is faithful and just to what His Son has done.
So if the devil tries to convince you that God is angry with you when you blow it, just say, "God does not condemn me today because He has already condemned Jesus at the cross 2,000 years ago!"
Unfortunately, we still hear people saying, "Go and sin no more first, then I won't condemn you." Maybe you have been saying this to yourself too. But God says, "I don't condemn you. Go and sin no more." He gives you the gift of no con-demnation, so that you have the strength to go and sin no more!
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You have the gift of no condemnation because the Son of God was condemned for all your sins.
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