By Mallory Mattingly
One Christian worship band CAIN’s newest releases, “I Made It,” celebrates the victory we have in Jesus.
“You may be in the middle of a hard season upon hard season and feel like a failure because you’re not enjoying life or being grateful enough,” Madison Cain Johnson, one third of the sibling trio behind CAIN, shared with The Christian Beat. “We want to encourage you that the joy and the victory may just be that you are surviving. You are still here living your life, meaning God has a purpose and a plan for you. There is a purpose in this life, even if it isn’t how you imagine it, and it doesn’t mean that God is not receiving the glory and the victory right now. I’m proud of us because we submitted to it instead of trying to fight the season we were in. We found out that surviving can be where the victory is.”
Taylor Cain added, “In 2024, a word was spoken over us; that word was survival. We were surprised at the heaviness of that word because, up until that point, our lives had been pretty seamless. Shortly after, things got hard for us, not just one of us but all of us, including our families and spouses. And I can see how that year was surviving. And this season brought us to our knees.”
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“We have always tried to be the embodiment of victory in Jesus, and we’ve always tried to be the personification of outward joy. During the last year, I was waiting for victory to show up. I was waiting for the outward expression of the joy of the Lord to show up at my door, and yet it just didn’t seem to come,” Logan Cain explained.
For Logan, his “I Made It” story came after he and his wife, Emily, endured a miscarriage.
“God really has been so kind…What I was praying for in the middle of that chaos was peace. And what I got was joy. And the sensation of the joy of the Lord being my strength felt like a like a calm, still quietness,” he told Annie F. Downs on her podcast of that season.
The band decided to celebrate the track by sharing testimonies of different people on their YouTube channel.
One person, Samuel Miles Luzier, shared his story of “overcoming hardships through faith and trust in The Lord.”
“I first got arrested when I was 19 or 20. I’m going to lay it out right here. You know, I used to be a thief. I used to be a wretched person, a wicked person,” he explained.
But then he found Jesus.
“I met Jesus when I needed him the most. My life’s been changed ever since,” he declared.
“I love Jesus so much,” Luzier shared through tears in his eyes, before adding, “because He knew all the things that we would do in this life, and He still calls you. He can only truly change a person, so for me to go through a transformation like I have, it’s not been by my own strength, not anything that I’ve done. Jesus has literally dragged me down this road so far; there’s no turning back, like I can’t. I can’t turn back even if I wanted to.”
For anyone feeling discouraged today, “I Made It” expresses the victory that we have in Jesus, even as we persevere through trials and challenges.
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