Jimmy On The Go!

“My wife asked me the other day, ‘Why don’t you ever make the bed?’

‘For the same reason I don’t re-tie my shoes after I take them off.’”

- Jim Gaffigan

This is awesome.

Fellow pastor and friend Jaeson Ma has his single “Love” out on iTunes from his upcoming debut album.  Over the last few years, Jaeson has been spreading the Gospel all over the world to thousands of young people.  But, when he was 15 his sister gave him a prophetic word about being used by God to both preach to thousands as well as make music to reach the masses with God’s message.

After I heard about the upcoming release of “Love” I couldn’t wait to hear it.  When I finally got a hold of the single it turned out to be entirely inspiring.  It is totally Jesus, Gospel centered.  Or, like the theologians like to put it: “It is the retelling of the old, old story” but set to a new electrifying sound!

I hope that you can all hear it, download it, be blessed by it, inspired by it and take the time to “spread the Love.” This is more than just about supporting a great brother in the Lord, it’s about spreading the Gospel in every way and with every effort.

You can find the song on iTunes or on YouTube at this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73kZ6wBoqTk&feature=related

Also, here is an excerpt from his blog recounting how God put it all together. It really is an awesome testimony so I hope  you can take the time to read the whole thing and be encouraged.  [You can read the whole story on Jaeson's website by clicking here.]

“In early 2008, when I met Carl Choi (manager of Far East Movement & Jin the MC) he heard my music and saw its potential. When we met, it was a divine encounter. I led him back to God & he led me back into my passion to make music. He then introduced me to Kevnish (Far East Movement) and Jin the MC. By God’s grace, I had the honor to help bring them both to faith in Christ and be baptized in water. I still remember that day when Carl, Kevnish and Jin were baptized at Carl’s apartment, God’s light was shining all around us. We could feel His peace and joy. At the same time, we knew God had called us on a mission to make music that would change the world.

Carl told Kevnish and Jin that he wanted to help produce my next rap album. They all heard a few of my old songs and Jin said, “This is cool. But I feel like rap constricts you bro, your preaching and prayers are so powerful, there’s got to be a way where you can take the same way you preached and prayed over us and put it over beats!” Carl agreed and told me to think about how I could take my best sermons and messages, one-liners and put them into songs made for the radio. I told them this is what I always dreamed of doing, talking or preaching over music, but I didn’t know how to do it. Carl told me to keep working and praying on it…

A few days later, one night at the office, Kevnish from Far East Movement (my producer) and I had a brainstorming meeting on the production and direction of my artistry and music. He asked me, “So what do you want to do? How do you want the public to perceive you? What audience do you want to reach? Cause if you want to reach the urban market you got to become black and change your dress and swagger. If you want to reach the Latin market than you got to dress this way. Or if you want to reach mainstream White America you will have to approach it another certain way!” After hearing all that, I told him I just want to be myself, I want to speak the truth from my heart and do what God has called me to do to preach, but in a new way, not through a pulpit, but through music.

Then something divine happened. Kevnish was a bit stumped on my response, but then he asked, “Hey, do you have any of your sermons on youtube?” I told him of course. He then said, “Why don’t you take that beat your friend sent to you and play one of your youtube sermons over it at the same time?” I did as he asked me to do. When I played the beat and then pressed play on my youtube sermon, something supernatural happened, it was as if heaven touched earth as my preaching landed perfectly over the melodic beat. Somehow the cadence of my preaching would coincide with the music being played perfectly. It was powerful. It was a new kind of sermon. It was the new new. Kevnish was completely shocked. He said, “Oh SH**, that is crazy! I feel goose bumps! Can you see my hairs standing up on my arm right now? This is the craziest thing I’ve ever heard! It’s more than rap it’s beyond rap. You just created a whole new category of music! This will transcend genres, cultures, you don’t need to cater to White, Black, Brown or Yellow you can just be you and preach over beats, over anything. I can see you rocking stadiums with this style, you just preach over the verses and then I’ll create top 40 hooks that the crowds can sing along to. It will be an outer body, spiritual experience…this is going to change the game.”
I was totally amazed myself when Kevnish was saying all this to me. I didn’t believe myself completely. Would people really listen to me preaching over beats? Would this approach really work to reach the masses with the message God had put upon my heart?

Kevnish then asked me if I could freestyle a sermon over the beat on the spot. I told him, “Of course I can, I’ve been preaching for 10 years, I can pull a sermon out whenever, at any given moment and preach from my spirit!” So we played the beat (a special beat which is the music for my first single LOVE given to me by Charles Jones a friend of mine who when making the beat felt from God it was to be given to me to rap over)… as the beat played I asked Kev if there was a topic or theme he wanted me to preach on, he said, “How about love?” …. The rest is history… I started with the first line that came out of my spirit at that very moment saying, “Now Hollywood wants to make you think they know what love is, but I’m going to tell you what true love is…” Kevnish was shocked again. At that moment we knew we had discovered something precious and powerful. This new sound would touch and change the hearts of many around the world… we were about to change histories for eternity.”