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Satan has a way of trapping you into sinning, by convincing you that it’s fun, pleasureable and good for you, no matter what anyone may think. But my God is greater, for in His presence is fullness of joy and on His right hand are pleasures forevermore. Pray, that when Satan’s lies come would always be replaced with the Word of Almighty God. Amen.

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Rapper Andy Mineo Wants to Make You Uncomfortable

To explore more of Andy’s story, check out @andymineo and @uncomfortable_album on Instagram. For more music stories, head to @music.

“Comfort be the thing that’ll make a king fall.” In the Bible, that king was David, a great warrior who opted to stay home and let others fight in one of his battles, which lead to David getting a married woman pregnant and having her husband killed. Though rapper Andy Mineo’s (@andymineo) new album Uncomfortable isn’t quite the life-or-death scenario of biblical times, his tale has a similar message: Comfort leads to complacency, which leads to downfall.

“I was on tour and the name came to me,” says the Syracuse, New York-bred Christian rapper, about the title of his forthcoming record. “I started realizing comfort can rob you of your ambition and deep hunger. So as I was trying to manage the success of being a successful artist, I felt myself slipping away or falling into the traps of comfort that make you more of a selfish person.”

Andy’s new record hits discomfort from all angles. First, there’s the subject matter, like the track, “Hear My Heart,” where he apologizes and confronts the fact that he never took the time to learn sign language for his older sister, Grace, who was born deaf. (The song has been in the making for a couple years now, and Andy has since started taking lessons.) Then there’s the actual album cover, which features the emcee’s faced pressed up against a piece of glass. That idea came during a stopover in California with his record label’s art director, who happened to have a small photo scanner with him at the time.

“He had some concepts that he had been working, so we put the scanner out and jumped off the bed and I started smushing my face in there,” says Andy. “We were like, there’s too much light. So we ripped off the back, went under the covers and were just taking hundreds of pictures.” The picture they ended up choosing was one of the first ones they snapped. “We looked at each other like, ‘That’s it!’” says Andy. “We had just one of those, ahhhh. Because it’s almost so simple that it was like, nah this can’t be it. But it was it.”

The cover itself has inspired fans to share their own versions of it (see: #thiscomfort). Overall, it fits in nicely with the narrative Andy has been presenting through @uncomfortable_album, an account dedicated specifically to the making and, most importantly, message of his record.

“There is all this discomfort,” says Andy, once again reflecting on the moment the album’s title came to him. “I was like, I can either dismiss it with bravado and act like it’s not there, or embrace it, and see what that can result in. And it’s created this journey on this album for me to invite people into discomfort and say if we embrace it maybe there is something we can get from it.”

—Instagram @music

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I think my goal as a Christian is to open my arms as big as I can and say, “Look, I got faults, I got issues, but Jesus loves you and your life matters.”

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In darkness, He rolls the stone away. At your darkest, He loves you anyway.

J.S. (via jspark3000)

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yes 👑

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perfect 💜

In Heaven, there will only be one person with scars. You’ll have none because he’ll have taken yours. — J

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we are the light of the world.

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I found my life when I laid it down💜

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Take a breath, smile and say 'Right here, right now, I'm okay because the cross was enough.'

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God used words to create this planet so be careful with them.

Andy Mineo (Still bleeding)

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In Heaven, there will only be one person with scars. You’ll have none because he’ll have taken yours. — J

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love my hometown. ❤️

Selma, Lord, Selma. ❤️

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