Former Country Star Declares God’s Greatness from a Mountaintop: ‘Nothing Is Too Great for Thee’

Published: October 8, 2025

By Michaela Gordoni

Country singer-turned-pastor Granger Smith shared just how good God is.

“I have this book that my mom got me a while back called the Valley of Vision. It’s old Puritan prayers, and up on top of this mountain in the desert I thought this would be a good place to read it,” Smith began in a social media video.

He shared an excerpt, called “The Great God,” from the book while standing atop a mountain, the sun shining behind him

“‘Nothing exceeds thy power,’” he quoted from the book. “Nothing is too great for thee to do. Nothing too good for thee to give.’”

He continued:

Infinite is thy might. Boundless thy love. Limitless thy grace. Glorious thy saving name. Let angels sing for sinners repenting. Prodigals restored. Backsliders reclaimed Satan’s captives, released blind eyes, opened broken hearts. Bound up and despondent cheered The self-righteous stripped. The formalist driven from a refuge of lies. The ignorant enlightened. The saints build up and their Holy Faith. I ask great things of a great God.

In a sermon in September, Smith preached about who God is: He is the creator of all life with no beginning or end. Though He is the greatest of beings, He still wants a relationship with us. Not only does He want a relationship, but He wants to be our heavenly father and comforter.

Smith captioned a clip of the sermon:

To borrow the lyrics from John Wilbur Chapman in 1910:

Jesus! what a Friend for sinners!
Jesus! Lover of my soul;
friends may fail me, foes assail me;
He, my Saviour, makes me whole.

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Hallelujah! what a Savior!
Hallelujah! what a Friend!
Saving, helping, keeping, loving,
He is with me to the end.

Smith lost his 3-year-old son, River, several years ago. He drew closer to God after River’s death.

“Grief is a gift that expresses the value of the depth of our love for someone and gives us reasons to say, ‘God, thank you for the time I did have,’” he said on an episode of TAKEAWAYS with Kirk Cameron. “My grief is like a physical manifestation of the reality of the love that God has given us.”

“We have a savior, who is intimately familiar with sorrow,” Granger said earlier this year. “One who suffered and died for his people so that through faith we, his people, could be set free from the fallen world once and for all. And that’s why we have hope.”

Smith continues to point others to the greatness of God through encouragement and testimony. His journey is a reminder that even in our deepest valleys, there is hope and healing in Christ.

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