By Kayla DeKraker
Jon Reddick is a singer and worship leader who is passionate about God, a life that he would not be living today he hadn’t turned back to God as a teenager.
“Growing up in God’s gospel community is like — I remember somebody saying, ‘You don’t realize Jesus is all you have until Jesus is all you want…until Jesus is all you have, until He’s all you’ve got,’” he said on Matthew West’s podcast.
He then referenced Proverbs 22:6, implying that being raised in faith as a child eventually led him back to Christ.
“If you take the scripture that says, ‘Train up a child in the way he will go, he won’t depart from it.’ I grew up in church. Like that was all my house was,” he said.
Unfortunately, Reddick’s parents got divorced, which was tough on him emotionally.
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“I learned that I have to protect myself…at an early age. And I had to protect my little sister. So then that idea of protect yourself as I grew into adulthood, it became asking God to do it,” he recalled.
Reddick shared that his teenage years were extremely difficult, but a hard conversation with his mom helped him realize he needed to change.
“I was a troubled teenager. I had a hard go, you know what I’m saying? I tried a lot of different things as a teenager. And I just remember my mom, who never cried — like I maybe saw her cry once by the time I was 17 — she came to pick me up from a school I was kicked out of the second time, [and] she was like, ‘I just don’t know what I’m going to do.’ She starts crying, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do with you,’” he said.
That moment shifted something for young Reddick.
“Well, first, I’ve never seen her cry. Second, I just felt God saying, ‘What are you going to do with your life?’ And it just kind of like He just hit me in the head,” the “God Turn It Around” singer revealed. “And all the different things that I remember learning as I was growing up, it just started coming back in. And I’m like, ‘I’ve got to turn this — I’ve got to give my life over to God.’”
He continued, “I had walked away, but I was still kind of close…I still talk to God on my own, but I was just rebellious in all the rules. Like, I’m like, I’m not gonna follow the rules. But God had a lot of grace for me.”
Today, Reddick uses his life to bring glory to God and lead others in worship. Recently, he posted the lyrics and video to his 2025 song “Yield.” He sings in the chorus:
I give You full reign
Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit
Whatever You say
I will do it, I will do it
I yield, I yield, I Yield
My life to you
I yield, I yield, I yield
It all to you
The message of “Yield” is one that resonates with Reddick’s story: trusting in and surrendering to God.
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