Your Love Awakens Me

Album: Children of God (2016)
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  • The lead single from Children of God, this song finds Phil Wickham filled with his personal adoration of God. However the track and the rest of the album was birthed out of a difficult time for the singer after risky surgery to repair his vocal cords. He explained to NewReleaseToday:

    "I had to cancel five months of concerts, and with that and healing and vocal therapy, and the risk of possibly needing a new job, I was stressed and depressed. The strongest emotion I felt was a feeling that I was lost and losing my identity. I had been singing for years, since I was thirteen, and that was taken from me for several months and possibly forever. I remember crying out to God, 'What are You doing?; right while 'This is Amazing Grace' was connecting with people.

    During the difficulty of that season I prayed God would speak to me. There's been just a few times I've felt God has spoken direct words right to my soul. God spoke the simple yet massive truth into my heart that He is my Father, I am His child, and He loves me. That He loves us. That we are first and foremost His children. That whatever may come our way, we are His children. That whatever we may be faced with, we are His. That hit me like a ton of bricks. Many of these songs were written out of this newfound sense of identity.

    God reawakened my heart with His love and what He says about me. That's where a lot of these songs came from. This song is a direct response to that fresh revelation of God's love for me. He has pulled me out of the grave and given me life, pulled me out of darkness and given me the light of His gospel and love inside of me. He has allowed me to live my life the way He created it to be, which is shameless and victorious and one with Him. This song celebrates that."

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