By India McCarty
For King & Country’s Joel Smallbone encourages his followers to embrace their God-given gifts and reject fear.
“A thought for you today: God gives us all great gifts, gifts to edify, gifts to create,” he said in an Instagram video.
Smallbone explained that the enemy can “distort [your gifts] just enough so that they create fear and doubt and literally undo the gift itself.”
“I’m just here to say to myself and to you — call it out,” he continued. “Look for it, put language to it, and by the grace of God, stop it in its tracks. Stop the flip into fear and into doubt…go aggressively at it…claim the goodness of God.”
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In the caption of the video, Smallbone wrote, “Guard the gifts God gives you 💪🏽 They matter. Not just because they’re beautiful, but because they’re purposeful. What God places in your life…your calling, your relationships, your time, your heart…was never meant to be taken lightly or left unprotected.”
“It’s easy to grow comfortable, to stop paying attention, to slowly drift from what once felt sacred. But these gifts are worth tending to, worth fighting for, and worth stewarding well,” he continued. “Stay awake to what you’ve been given…it was entrusted to you for a reason.”
Smallbone and his brother and bandmate Luke have been hard at work promoting this latest project, a documentary titled FOR KING + COUNTRY: NO TURNING BACK.
“The origins of the documentary started around the same time [as family biopic UNSUNG HERO],” Smallbone told The Collision. “In some ways, the documentary indicated a lot of the film. If you watch the first act of the documentary, it’s UNSUNG HERO. The documentary is kind of the sequel. [The documentary] was kind of an opportunity to peek behind the curtain at the struggle and the visceral bits, the illness and the ego and the issues we faced as a family and then the grace of God literally weaving the narrative together.”
Smallbone is also set to star in Wonder Project and Angel Studios’ YOUNG WASHINGTON, a biopic about the future president, directed by Jon Erwin. Smallbone will play William Fairfax, a friend and romantic rival to Washington.
“I’ve dreamed of telling the powerful origin story of George Washington for nearly a decade. It’s a story of a true pioneer, which makes it the perfect project to partner on with the pioneers at Angel and their world-class distribution network,” Erwin said in a press release. “YOUNG WASHINGTON isn’t just a film — it’s a celebration of the American spirit and the miracle of the forging of our nation.”
Whether it’s performing onstage or appearing onscreen, Smallbone is embracing his gifts and using them to glorify God.
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