By Kayla DeKraker
Gospel artist Jon Reddick passionately shares God’s love and encourages others through his music, recently sharing more about his journey and hit songs in an interview with Matthew West.
“I had a song before that that actually Mandisa did which was called ‘You Keep Hope Alive,’” he told West. “We wrote that for church, actually, and we did it at church. I released it, the church released it, and then Mandisa released it, and she was just, her heart was huge in it.”
This wasn’t Reddick’s only interaction with the late Mandisa, who died in April 2024.
“I played in her band for a while,” he said. “She did the song and then wanted me to also do it with her. So I was every time they played on the radio, I was on there also, so it was cool thing. But then we did, ‘God, Turn it Around.’”
West chimed in, saying, “So, ‘God Turn it Around’ was your first radio single with Gotee Records, which is a powerful, amazing song. And then your new, your latest single is ‘I Believe’ — I believe in the life in the life of Jesus — which is, again, just another incredibly powerful song. And you have this — you’re a worship leader and an artist.”
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Reddick told West, “The funny thing is, I grew up with a gospel background, so I didn’t know any of the way people separate things.”
Later in the discussion, he explained how stepping away from God temporarily when he was younger reminds him today to always turn to God.
“As a teenager, I kind of stepped away,” he told West. “And so, as an adult, what that did is make me have to remember, man, I have to turn this to God and not do it on my own.”
West weighed in on the irony of that story.
“It’s pretty cool that your first song on the radio was a push against self-sufficiency,” he said. “Like that your cry, the cry of your heart in that song was ‘God, turn it around.’ I can’t do this on my own. That’s a pretty cool.”
Reddick released “God Turn It Around” in 2019. Some of the lyrics reads:
I’m praying God come
And turn this thing aroundGod, turn it around
God, turn it around
God, turn it around
I’m calling on the name
That changes everything, yeah…All of my hope is in the name
The name of Jesus
Breakthrough will come, come in the name
The name of Jesus
His message in the song resonates with what Paul says in 2 Corinthians 12:9: “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”
Today Reddick continues to tour and share new worship songs. Currently, he is touring through the southern United States for “A Night of Worship with Jon Reddick.”
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