Worship Musician February 2020 | Page 44

or prayers or ideas and play with those and sing to have relationships with people from across [Paul] Of course. The song itself comes from those with a congregation in mind. I can’t help the board and in different generations and a scripture that we’re all familiar with, “Be still but have a congregation in mind even after all denominations around the worship community. and know that I am God.” We’ve all read that of those years, I’ll always be a church guy more Enough relationship where we spend a day or scripture, and I think now more than ever in our than some sort of artist, if you will. I approach two together and have coffee and eat together, culture and this time in history, things move at these projects as I’m just trying to write these and then pray and begin to throw out ideas and such a fast pace, everyone is in such a rush. I songs for the last thirty years, and then about try to write something that we feel would serve live in New York city, and there is such energy every two years it seems like I end up with thirty the church and help others worship the Lord. here, which on one hand is exciting, but it never or forty songs and then we narrow that down to the ones we feel are the strongest. stops being exciting, it never slows down. I just [WM] “Behold Him”, the title song of your hear God through that scripture saying, “No, be new project captures a magnificent 6/8 duo still! Know that I am God, you’re not God, you This album represents a lot of collaboration. performance between yourself and Kim Walker- don’t have to control everything in your life, you I think more than any of my other albums, it Smith. Tell us about the song itself, as well as can loosen your grip, you can trust Me more. represents years of community and friendship the recording with Kim. You don’t have to busy yourself twenty-four and relationships. I’m about to start spouting seven, seven days a week. You can exhale, off names: Brenton Brown, and Jason Ingram; you can loosen your grip, trust me, practice Kim Walker-Smith and Kari Jobe sang on it; Sabbath, and walk in Sabbath.” even the Elevation guys that I had never met, and Chris Brown and pastor Steven Furtick, So that’s the genesis of that song. I wrote this whom I co-wrote a song together. It’s very with Mitch Wong, who is a keyboard player diverse. I step back and that’s where I feel like with Planet Shakers, or has been. He lives in my greatest treasures and blessings in life is 44 Behold Him February 2020 Australia, I’m in New York City, and we wrote Subscribe for Free...