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By Gavin Boyle
Michael W. Smith recalled how his life was off track, but the Lord saved him after incessant prayers morning and night from his mom and dad.
“I just continued to sort of spiral, spiral, spiral down. And I [was] in this — I fe[lt] like I was in a big pit and there was no ladder to get out,” Smith told TBN. “And then I had a near drug overdose in 1978, and that’s — I almost lost my life. That’s when I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, Lord, do whatever you have to do to get my attention: Car wreck, break my legs, just don’t kill me.’ I’d say those kind of prayers. And I knew my mom and dad were on their knees every single night for me, if not in the morning as well.”
“Then in 1979, November ‘79, I probably had a nervous breakdown,” Michael W. Smith continued. “I never went to the doctor, but I ended up on the linoleum floor in my apartment in Nashville and I wept and shook there for three and a half hours. And at 3:30 in the morning, I just — and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Abba was lying on the floor with His arm around me. And I haven’t been the same since. It all changed. But I’m convinced it was the prayers of my mom and dad.”
This radical encounter with the Lord not only caused Smith to give up his life of partying and drugs but also led to breakthroughs in his career as well. While he was trying to make it in Nashville, he always felt that the Lord had big plans for his life, and these were realized after he turned back towards Christ.
“One thing led to another. Eight months later, I got my first songwriting contract and was getting paid 200 bucks a week to write songs,” Michael W. Smith said. “All of a sudden, I found myself getting a record deal.”
Despite all of his subsequent success, Smith has not forgotten where he came from and who led him out of that unclimbable pit. Rather, Smith continues to point back to the Lord both through his life and his music.
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“I never could have orchestrated any of this. God is faithful,” Smith previously told The Christian Post. “The greatest peace that I have is I know who I am. I’m a son of the high King of the universe. My identity crisis is solved.”
It is amazing just how many lives the Lord has touched since then through Smith’s music. Praise God that his parents fought for his future even when he was content throwing it away.
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