Don't Lose Heart

Album: Still (2022)
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Songfacts®:

  • Here, Steven Curtis Chapman is encouraging someone who is facing a hard time. He urges them to persevere and not lose heart. He tells them instead to firmly grasp onto all the promises God has made and to look up towards their Heavenly Father's face.

    Chapman empathizes with this troubled person, having experienced similar challenges. He assures them they are not alone, and they will find their way back home.
  • Chapman has experienced his share of tragedy, including the loss of his 5-year-old daughter Maria in an accident that occurred in their driveway. "I talk about feeling like you've lost the fight, and fear screaming out Your name. I've been there. Don't feel ashamed," Chapman told Billboard regarding this song. "People have told me, 'When you sing those words, knowing your journey, knowing your history, it's a whole different thing. There is power in those words coming from you.'"
  • Chapman wrote "Don't Lose Heart" with the song's producers, regular TobyMac collaborator Brian Fowler and Hawk Nelson guitarist Micah Kuiper.
  • "Heart" climbed to #1 on Billboard's Christian Airplay chart. It was Chapman's third chart-topper, following "Do Everything" and "Christmas Time Again."

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