Kevin 'On Air'

As some of you may know, God has been presenting me with plenty opportunities to raise money for me to go to Africa. One of them consists of me being  featured on a live internet radio station tomorrow night, November 7th at 6 pm. I am going to be performing 2 singles that I have recorded. They are called 'Chosen One' and 'You Took My Sin'. Tune in to listen. Also, you can send me an email at kevin@kevinmsouthlakeyl.com to get a CD of this radio show with my recordings for $10 after it is produced on air and ready to be distributed.. You can pre order now. All of the money is going to go towards supporting my mission trip to Africa that God has laid in my path to further the Gospel.

To listen live tune into www.live365.com/stations/brotommyp on Sunday, November 7th at 6 pm.

You can also follow my blog which will be updated soon explaining more about the radio show. It will also keep you updated with what is going on in my life and my trip to Africa.

Thank you so much for the prayers and support!!

my first two songs!

Chosen One



You Took My Sin

Copyrighted- "Chosen One" && "You Took My Sin"

- Kevin McCracken

I am Christ's friend

I got my own blog name which means I have a new blog website. The name was changed to kevinmsouthlakeyl to go to the link click here --so, if you can't see my followers you are on the wrong website. Click the one above! Then follow from there! Thanks!

I have a few different topics I'd like to talk about but I am going to throw it all in one post.

In the Bible it says that we are Christ's friend.  John says, "I am Christ's friend. I am chosen by Christ to bear fruit." (John 15:15-16). Which means are called to make disciples. Re-worded in Acts, "I am Christ's personal witness sent out to tell everybody about Him." (Acts 1:8).

Also, this life we are living now is preparation for the life we are going to spend in eternity with God! To be fully prepared we need to find out what our purpose is and to know what your purpose is you need to continually be in prayer and find out what it is. Life on earth is just the dress rehearsal for our life to come. It just depends on where you'll spend it. 

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16) && "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23) So please don't think that you have done too much bad in your life and that God won't love you, because we love a loving, accepting, forgiving God. 

Now that that was said, do you have a relationship with God the Father? Do you accept the gift of His son Jesus dying on the Cross for our sins and for our shame? If so, you'll spend eternity with Him in Heaven.

If not, send an email to kevin@kevinmsouthlakeyl.com and I will tell you how to get one and pray that prayer with you!

You Took My Sin

This song is kind of easy to understand if you listen to the words. “Once was shameless, taking life for granted, just thinking about tomorrow, not living for today, my sin took over my life.” Before we are saved we are all living ways we aren’t supposed to, right? So that’s how I was. This song basically describes my life without Christ then after I had a relationship with Him. This song isn’t too old, I wrote it maybe 6 weeks ago. So it’s kind of where I was with Christ. He died on the Cross for our sins. Because He loves us!  The love He has for me and for all of us I will never be able to grasp. I explain it in the bridge. “My sin was brought to the Cross. Why did you do all this for me, I’m thirsty for your love! You’re holding me in the palm of our hand.” I love that verse because He did die on the Cross for our shame and that just goes to show how much He really love us. Your Spirit became my life- this is probably my favorite line in the entire song because once you’re saved the Holy Spirit enters your heart and you feel it! When I was saved I was at Windy Gap, a Young Life Camp in Ashville North Carolina, I got to lay under the stars in the mountains and the Holy Spirit entered my heart as I felt a rush of cold wind and a star twinkled and I felt a huge burden off my shoulder! Then the closer I got to Christ, His Spirit became more and more of my life. Now, I am living in His Name!

Our Purpose

Let’s talk about our personal purpose. You were made for God, not the other way around, and life is about letting God use you for His purposes and for what He has in store, not you using Him and His glory for your own personal purpose. You can achieve all of your personal and worldly goals and become a huge success by the world’s standard, but you will completely miss the purpose for which God has created you. You were made by God for God- life will never make sense until you understand that.  The Bible is our owner’s manual. It explains why we are alive and how life works.  It also tells us what to avoid and what to expect of the future.  You wouldn’t buy something completely knew and never heard of and try to figure it out on your own, so why should we take life that way. God is out creator and only He knows what we are to do.

God is not just the starting point in life but the source of life.  To discover your purpose in life you must turn to God’s Word. Not the world’s wisdom.  The Bible states that “It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.”

This verse gives us three insights into your purpose.

1)       Discover your identity in Christ through a personal relationship with Him. -If you don’t have one, email me and I will guide you through that process. I will give out my email at the end of the show.

2)     God was thinking of you way before life was created. He created your purpose without your input. You can choose everything you have in life, but never your purpose.

3)     If you mess up your purpose, you are throwing off all of life around you and life to come.

Remember this verse-“Everything started in Him and finds its purpose in Him.” (Colossians 1:16) Ask yourself this everyday- How can I live for God and not myself today.

Chosen One

John talks about the spirit coming down in John 1 and it remains! I take this as God coming into our lives and staying there through thick and thin. The 1^st verse comes from John 1:32 “I saw there spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on Him” That’s John’s testimony, because God was with him and never left Him! He was God’s chosen one. As we are all God’s chosen people. And that ties into our message today.  We are called, as Christians to proclaim that God is in control of our life and our purpose as Christians is to be vulnerable for God and tell as many people as we can about Him and how great He really is! Our purpose is not to save people, but to lead them to Christ because they can only make the decision for them. We don’t have that power! That is between them and God. But we can plant that seed and God will take it from there.

 "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."-Romans 12:12. These are the words of the bridge leading into the last chorus. This is also what we as Christians need to do.
- You need to be joyful in hope- if you’re not then people who aren’t Christian are going to look at you and be like, well, I don’t want to be like that because what’s the point. We want people to see the JOY in Christ in us!
- Patient in affliction- if we let ourselves get mad or stressed we will slowly drift away from Christ. We want to be as close to Christ as we can, Right? Christ doesn’t want us to be angry because if we are angry what does that resemble as a Christian? Christians don’t want to be know as angry then again, what’s the point of being a Christian?
- Faithful in prayer- as Christians we need to pray EVERYDAY more is great! But we need to start and end our day with a conversation with Christ because were else are we going to get our strength and encouragement? Again, if we aren’t in conversation with Him everyday…things will go wrong! And I’m not saying everything is going to go right, because God does test us. But he will never give you more than you can handle!

-Humble King by: Brenton Brown

This song is so good!! Just thought I'd share! :)

You are the God of the broken, The friend of the weak, You wash the feet of the weary, Embrace the ones in need, I want to be like You, Jesus, To have this heart in me, You are the God of the humble, You are the humble King.

-Humble King by: Brenton Brown

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