An aunt made me feel stupid and I was always treated that way for a while. She told me one day out of annoyance while she was nursing her first child; to ask God for wisdom.
Why I thought I did not have a good singing voice:
I was always treated as different and an outsider growing up at home & within my extended family.
Never felt accepted. I was always compared with my cousins as the status quo and told I wasn’t good enough.
Music moved me unlike any thing and gave me, clarity, hope, rest, peace, a santuary and an identity.
I loved listening to Amy Grant & Maranatha as a child. Later Helen Baylor & Whitney Houston.
Then Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli when I came to England.
Helen Baylor was a defining moment when my cousin gave me her tape – Highly Recommended.
I was transfixed. I told God I want to sing like that when I grow up. It was done and sealed. I also told him I will edify him with my voice. Then I forgot and it nearly went completely wrong for me.
I was 19 then.
My school mother gave me Gospel Songs of Any Grant & Maranatha to learn.
They grew on me. I wanted to sing like these kids on the recordings and wished I was in their company away from my reality. So I sang more.
When I heard the soprano lines; I was facsinated by their wall of sounds.
How I prayed about this and exactly:
So, I asked God to give me a very beautiful voice and make my range wider and higher than all the soprano singers in my youth choir, or that I’ve heard and all the boys singing tennor. And I, got it.
I was removed from tennor to sing soprano in my church youth choir.
I always associated my voice / music as a gift from God and a prayer. It’s spiritual and sacred for me.
How that was answered?
When I started singing very high and making songs up all the time. Also, given Soprano lines to sing and got signed up at 21.
My music is powerful. It heals. I heard testimonies from mothers who say their sons listen to my album ‘Follow Your Dreams’ – songs I wrote and recorded; every night before bed. Especially an autistic boy.
My music topped Jazz charts and got awards internationally with high praises from colleagues and rave reviews.
It got me a lot of frenemies, saboteurs and haters too. It came with the package. It was hard to process at first. Now I’m good.
Nobody hates on a looser. They only do when you are slaying.
How did God give you wisdom:
I started having a sixth sense, revelations, gift of dreams and became very concious; very young.
Then God revealed himself to me and spoke to me about my destiny and purpose to edify him and how he would use me later on as an adult.
Especially as a great writer – the Award winning (MercyfulGrace Blog). Not so much as a great singer; cuz I broke my oath. He did still promise me a very good singing career. I then remembered my oath to him. Our oath. The pact we made.
Every time the world was offered to me; He would tell me to say no.
The first time I disobeyed; I tore my larynx and lost my beautiful voice for almost a decade and could not sing. Then lost my record deal(s).
I went down a depression spiral and became narcoleptic. God is real. Very, very real.
Do I now sing more?
Yes – Everyday. Holistically, professionally and creatively #AnthonyEverestMusic
I am singing at the Hilton this weekend and the Marriott next month.
Life of no self love is empty as a lifeless kite heading up to height for no high; no matter how you #fly ..’ – #In14ways
Stunning #Truths ..’
God is matchless in his #love. He uses fools to confound the wise ..’ I always tell them as this song portrays – Nobody owns God ..’
God is #freewill ..’
So get off your high horses of sanctimony. You are #transparent not opaque. So filled with filthy rags you call #righteousness while you wollow in your own #vomit .
#MercyfulGrace #SoldOutToLove #Realtalk
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Some like the comforts & paradigms of a white lie. I’m sorry mine are black & full of glorious & inglorious truths ..’ – Anthony Everest
With God nothing is impossible and no one is invincible. God said no to all your enemies when you put him first.
He is real as a brand new day !!l I can’t believe how much credit I gave to those demonic mofos going no where. Please !!!
Watch how they’ll fade into oblivion. The holy spirit does not lie. Hard times is nothing; yet ..’ Did you think you could sabotage children of God and get away scot free? Right !!
God said avengeance is mine let me avenge your corner. Every time I tried, I made it worse. So I resigned to God; and now, I’m laughing. Just smiling! Watching him, ruthlessly, deal. Thank you Jesus.
You fill me up like a brand new day, daily. God First*
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. .
John 8 : 7 – 12 [7] So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
[8] And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
[9] And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
[10] When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
[11] She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
[12] Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
If we were to play the pious self righteous card no Xtain or anyone would stand a chance on judgment day. Ditto – #In14Ways
Titus 3:5-7 King James Version (KJV)
5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Amen .
Truth hurts when it fails to manipulate, deflect or darkness fails to take stronghold. The church isn’t the only school of thought to get you morally astute.
On morals, the church would be my last resort for pursuance of a moral compass. I’d rather go to the source. Yeshua. How many of those who go to church, religiously or not, have no sin or aren’t worse?
#SelfRighteousness – #In14Ways .
Last time I checked. Jesus was not stuck up in some 7 star hotel. He was with the poor, sick and destitute; spreading love. He was love. His name is love. He is the epitome of love. He lived for love.
He was laid in a manger and washed his own disciples feet. His Nan was a whore. Best friend of a whore.
Explain to me what prosperity preachers are on about in their multi million pound mansions counting their millions ignoring the poor.
Humble me oh God. We need a new quick awakening. There is nothing above love ..’
It never stops to amaze me how a king can be so humbled, to be laid into a manger. Goes to show that, often, all that glitters, is so not gold.
Most of the show off’s you see around – half, of them, are so indicative of the fact that, they are over compensating for what they don’t have.
I think knowing who are you are is more important than showing people who you are. Ditto. Hey, but what do I know.
Why I #love brokeness and misfits. #They excite me like pieces #of leggo. Let’s goRealTalk ..’ – Anthony Everest
Found my old diary and these points I noted in it intrigued me to share.
#Love is the #truth. Everything else that contradicts this is a lie ..’ Everyone deserves one #chance to prove me wrong #before they are dead to #me ..’
My God is good as a sun shinning day. His name is love. He re fills me like fresh new wine. He sits within ..’ – #MercyfulGrace
A #hypocrite is not your #friend. The one #who wollows in their vommit pointing accusatory fingers is like a house on fire dreaming it away in a slumbered bed – dead. #MercyfulGrace
I guarantee you. You will never find another name that personifies love than Jesus*. #MercyfulGrace
As time is #money, don’t waste #mine.
I’ve business on my mind. Hypocrites intrigue me. Especially the religious ones. When the Holy Spirit breaks it down to me. I cry ..’
I rather be a king in my duplex than be a slave in your mansion ..’ #MercyfulGrace
God shocked me this week. Taking me places I’ve never fathomed in ways I’ve ever forgotten ..’
There is something #sick, #twisted and #pervasive in a #white mans head, for him to attack a #black man (in denial), going about his business to feel #normal (from his paranoia); then blame the black man for lashing out at him in self #defence ..’ – #In14Ways
Some people have come to upset your peace, because they want it (what you have) and they don’t know how (to get it).
Tell them about Jesus. When you accept Jesus; He will gift you with the Holy Spirit. The Prince of Peace.
Amen.
Lord Jesus; if I knew this from day one of Sunday school, when I was 7, my life would have been sweet like a rose.
Don’t think all xtains (faith people) have peace. Some of them are tripping like druggies. The love of Money got to them, and it rooted them with evil, then looted them with twice the evil, they knew, than before.
I met some of the most evil of them, in my own home – first hand, face to face – as a child.
No surprise there anymore how I can read religious b.s. from a mile, and why I know so much.
#MercyfulGrace #Deep
This is why I am pro lgbq+ tbh. People should do what the want to do if it’s lawful.
Religious fanatics, hypocrites and self righteous messiah complexed individuals are doing the same in denial.
Instead of working out your own salvation, why are you pointing fingers in condemnation. Are your sins any pious or who tells you, you have none? Ecclesiastes 7:20.
Who are they to judge. Mathew 7:1 springs to mind ..’ – #In14Ways
Some of the greatest chosen ones for God’s ministry from the Bible were broken, stubborn, radicals, misfits and aethists from Moses to Paul.
