I wrote this song through a season where God really had instilled in me, the choice of dying to our own flesh (our own wants, desires, will, and emotions); and living for Him. Had to make some really, really difficult choices. The only TRUE one that can deliver those transparent desires of our hearts, in ABUNDANCE, exceedingly more than we could ever ask for or hope for! Sometimes in the life we have to understand what God asks us to surrender (sometimes our lives in essence) is actually for OUR benefit. He never takes something away or asks you to give it up without replacing it for something better. Now, if you do it out of His will that's another story...but in terms of walking and being led by the Holy Spirit...He's going to do greater things than these through you; if you just give him the pieces...He meets us where we are at. Ultimately, you will see the reasons why He tells us to renew the spirit of our minds (Rom. 12:2) and to give up our carnal desires which lead us no where. So we daily beat our flesh for the GREATER GLORY that is and will be REVEALED in US THROUGH HIM. 

Love you and remember...He will do exceedingly, abundantly, above ALLLLL you could ask for, hope for, or imagine ACCORDING to the power (Holy Spirit) that's at work WITHIN YOU! (Eph. 3:20)

oxooxoxox

Sweet Surrender

I wrote this song a while back actually. It was written from a chapter in my life where I had actually walked away from God to chase after a man which of whom I thought was "the one". Little did I know that God would have something so much better for me. I was literally high off the lies of the enemy...and it took me coming to the end of myself and allowing God back in my life to realize that it was all a facade. That God is the ONLY THING, THE ONLY ONE, THE ONE AND ONLY. Sometimes we don't know we are being deceived by a replication but never a duplication of what's true and real. The enemy only tries and attempts at replicating what God does ORIGINALLY. There is no substitute for the ways of Christ and the one true God. This was merely a chapter in my life and I'm so grateful that God showed me the truth. I'm so grateful for the deliverance from this place. Literally "He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a ROCK, and established my steps." (Psalm 40:2). Don't settle for the man that GOD has not chosen for you ladies. I can attest...that when we try to find "that man" on our own...or don't listen to our Father...we end up in "that pit" and the "miry clay". Let God write your love story, Trust Him. He's got your husband. The man that will lead you closer to God, not farther away. A man that will care for you as Boaz did for Ruth. A man that loves you as Christ loves His church..a man that will cover you with the Word and pursue you as God has pursued you. A man that's so much after God's heart that it leads him to yours. Don't settle for a man that will leave you, forsake you, lie to you, deceive you, a man led by his emotions and flesh rather than his spirit and what he knows is right. Keep your eyes on Jesus beloved and fall in love with the Savior of your soul. Everything else from that point on will fall into perfect placement. Don't be anxious or worry. God is ALWAYS on time. :) oxoxooxox LOVE you! 

*NEW* (Never released) Sober Now

LOL...wow. Listening back to this diary excerpt from a season in my life I have to literally giggle. I was 18 and it amazes me to hear the difference in my voice. I wrote this song during such a season of confusion (which is NOT of God by the way. God is not the author of confusion, the enemy is). I just recall being so new in my faith and having fallen in love with a man and seeking God on if this man was my husband or not. All I can say is that God is faithful to His Word. Single ladies, when you are seeking God on your husband let peace be your guide. You will know him by the fruit he bears in his life. You will know him when you seek God first and allow God to choose. You will know him when his actions and lifestyle reflect Christ. You will know him when you receive confirmation from your heavenly Father.  God is faithful. God lives by the way of His promises. First fall in love with Jesus...so in love with Jesus that your husband literally has to get to the heart of God to get to yours. Wow. Crazy to think almost a DECADE has passed by since I recorded this diary piece. God is still so faithful through it all. Trust Him. He's got the very best for you. He has a man that will love you as Christ loves the church. What did Christ do for her? He laid His life down...that's real love. The kind of love that covers a multitude of sins. The kind of love that doesn't give up when it gets hard. The kind of love that lasts through eternity. The kind of love that changes you. Transforms you. Washes over you. Restores you. Refreshes you. Challenges you. The kind of love you've been waiting for your entire life. Fall in love with Jesus and then fall in love with a man who draws you nearer to the heart of Him who loved you first. #realtalk 

Should I Stay

Older song that I did. Reflects a time of indecision and confusion. But even still, God is a God of clarity. He re-aligns those He calls.  

Choices

***NEW SONG***

Psalm 17:8 "Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings."

Psalm 103:19 "The Lord has established His throne in the heavens; And His sovereignty rules over all."

Only Love Remains

Flawless

Beat: Kid Flash
Producer: Randy Ross
Featuring: Ryan Adrean

"Eyez On You" - Haleh Aleysha Feat. Ryan Adrean

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church [q]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she [r]respects her husband. - (Ephesians 5:25-33)

Pink & Blue (Love & Respect) Feat. Haleh Aleysha

23 And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. 24 For whoever wishes to save his [n]life will lose it, but whoever loses his [o]life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. 25 For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself? 26 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory, and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. 27 But I say to you truthfully, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.”

(Luke 9:23-27)

Closer To Your Goodness Feat. Haleh Aleysha Prod. By Epistra Randy Ross Of Undercaste Studios (1)

"Yet those who wait for the Lord Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary." - (Isaiah 40:31)

Ryan & Haleh