By India McCarty
Mattie Montgomery, former vocalist from the Christian metalcore band For Today, reminded his followers of the power of prayer.
“What if you prayed like God actually listened? Like he actually inclined his ear to hear what you had to say?” he said in a recent Instagram video. “Wouldn’t you pray differently if you realized that God looks at you like you lived the perfect life of Christ?”
Montgomery continued, “Jesus took a sinner’s death so that we could live a son’s life. We have the same access to God, the Father, that Jesus does, and it is an insult to the power of the cross to pretend like we still have to carry our sins when Jesus himself has carried them for us already.”
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His post’s caption reads, “Jesus took a sinner’s death so that you could live a son’s life! Because of the free gift of God, You have the same access to the Father, that Jesus did. You don’t have to come Him with it all figured out. You can just be who He sees you as. A son. A daughter. Beloved by the Father. Pray. He’s listening to you.”
Montgomery is now a pastor at The Altar Fellowship in Tennessee and often shares clips from his sermons.
Another recent video shows Montgomery telling his audience, “God has just given you a gift that you didn’t work for, you didn’t earn, you had no right or claim to. He’s given you something that is not in any way dependent upon your performance…it’s by grace you have been saved.”
“We gain access to the gift of salvation by faith, and that faith is not of ourselves,” he continued. “Our faith is a gift from God.”
While Montgomery is no longer a star in the music world, he still uses his platform to spread his message of faith. In a 2019 interview with the Christian Post, he spoke about the dangers of placing too much value on social media followers.
“We have been taught — especially in our social media generation — that the most important thing you can be is popular,” he explained. “Your value as a person is defined primarily by the number of followers you have on social media, how many likes you get.”
Montgomery added, “There is this misunderstanding that I think has crept into the Church that we would call the ‘fear of the spirit of man’ that has deceived us into believing that God’s will for our lives is that we be popular or influential. The heroes and fathers of our faith, many of them could not have been described as popular or influential. But they were faithful and they feared God above all else.”
Montgomery’s recent comments are a reminder that, no matter how heavy our burden is, Jesus is carrying it along with us.
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