The Well @ Planetshakers // Josh Ham Bass Talk Planetshakers // Bass Solo Come Right Now (Bass Cover) Josh Ham
local church, the international church to be able because God set it up. One hundred percent I I hate when people come and say they’re
to reach young people. There is an amazing am where I am, I am who I am, because of who going to quit, because they’ll never get that
amount of youth in the church, and it’s growing, the Holy Spirit has made me to be. good, because that’s the opposite of what I
but at the same time there is a massive deficit
want. Please keep playing, please keep serving
out in the world of young people who just are Even the way that I came to be playing in the Lord with your best. Keep perusing your
lost and broken and still hurting, and if we Planetshakers as someone who had been going instrument, and keep developing yourself.
can manage to connect them into the church to Planetshakers conferences saying, “Wow, I That’s the message that I want to leave people
through music then that’s phenomenal. That’s wish I could be like that, I wish I could do what with, and I’m trying to figure out how I can best
everything that I want to do with my life. As a they’re doing.” Obviously the Holy Spirit heard portray that and how I can tell people or show
musician, as a producer, all I want to be able me and said, “Alright!” It just blows my mind people that, that’s what I want to do. That’s
to do is just help people who are hurting and how the Holy Spirit got me to be where I am what I want them to be freed up to be able to
broken, say, “Hey, check out this artist, check now. The last thing I want to do is walk around do. Even now I’m still trying to figure out what’s
out this music, and just let it change your life.” telling everybody that I’m awesome, because the best way to do that. That’s something that
Because it will, and it does, it’s been proven deep down I know that it’s not me, not at all, I’m processing at the moment. But that’s the
time and time again. The music is still changing it’s one hundred percent God that got me here message that I want to leave people, just that
people’s lives. and its one hundred percent God that got me you can do it, you can worship, you can praise,
to play the way that I am. you can be the best musician that you can be.
[WM] The Planetshakers’ production level is
But don’t do it for you, don’t do it for the people
pretty high. What are your thoughts on people Like I was saying before, the fact that I grew up around you, do it for God. Do it one hundred
not confusing that with the heart of worship without pedals and without gear forced me to percent for Him. That’s the reason that we do
upon which what you guys were founded, and play the way that I play, and that’s nothing that all of these things, that’s the reason why I serve
continues to be the heartbeat of your ministry? I did, it’s completely the Holy Spirit that set it up at the church and give my whole life to seeing
for me. Then meeting the certain people who people come on a Sunday and get saved, get
[Josh] When we’re on tour and I do a solo, I’ve I met to get to where I am, and all the rest of revelation, get freed and get restored. That’s my
had people afterwards come to me and jokingly it, it’s all one hundred percent the Holy Spirit. heart, that’s my vision, it’s never about me, and
say that they’re quitting bass. And every time I don’t ever want anyone to go, “Josh loves it’s always about redirecting your focus to God.
I’m just heartbroken because that’s not at all himself!” or anything like that. It’s one hundred I almost think of myself as an angled mirror,
what I’m about, that’s not what I want to leave percent a testimony to God and His goodness, where you look at me and see God in me. Don’t
you with. I want to leave you inspired, I want and that’s why I want to be able to play skillfully see me. I’ve played those gigs where it is all
to leave you encouraged. This is what you can unto the Lord. It’s not skillfully for my sake. I about you, and I just hate it. I hate how nerve
do for the Lord, it’s absolutely not performance was always with the mentality of audience of wracking it is for one, and I hate it when people
to me. No way, I don’t ever want to be left, or One, which basically means it doesn’t matter if are looking at me, I hate being the center of
leave someone, going, “Josh Ham is all about we’re playing to ten or two hundred thousand, attention. But I love and would do anything I
himself, he’s a showoff!” or things like that. I my first priority, my first audience, my first can, to get people to focus on God. And if that
want to show people first of all what God has reason that I play, is God, every time. Every time means I have to be the center of attention for a
done in me. My bass playing is a testament to I want to give Him my best, He’s given me this season or for a little while then I’ll do that even
what the Holy Spirit has done in me. I didn’t gift and I want to give it back to him. I want to though I don’t really like to. I’ll stand up there in
get to where I am because of my own skills show him that I love him with what I have, and front of the stage and make a fool of myself if
or my own talent or because of convictions this is what I have to give. that means the people are going to walk away
or anything like that, it’s one hundred percent
going, “Wow, God is amazing!”
February 2019
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