By Shawn Smith
Psalms 92:1-2 speaks about how good it is to sing praises and “to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning,” and that’s how artist Forrest Frank likes to start his day with.
As a Christian singer, that probably comes as no surprise, but fans might not guess which tune is first on his morning playlist (hint: it’s not one of his songs).
The song is “The Lord Will Provide,” by Landon Wolfe and Passion.
“This song is how I start pretty much every morning of mine,” Frank revealed.
Part of the lyrics read:
Look at the flowers in all of their beauty
I don’t have to wonder, You know what You’re doing
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So why would I worry at all when You’re faithful to supply?
Everything I need, everything I need
My Father has it, my Father has it
And every single time the Lord will provide
My Father has it, my Father has it
Look at the sparrow, lacking for nothing
No fear of tomorrow and what it will bring
The Grammy-nominated singer shared the verse that inspired the song.
“I’d love to read part of Matthew 6. The title is, do not worry. Which is a command,” the “UP!” singer said. “It says, ‘Look at the birds of the air, for They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more valuable than they?’”
“‘Which of you, by worrying can add a single cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing,'” he continued. “‘Consider the lilies of the field how they grow. They neither toil nor spin. And yet I say to you that even Solomon, in all of his glory, was not arrayed like one of these.’”
The Texas native put this teaching of Jesus into practice, in particular, when he left the successful secular group Surfaces. Frank ultimately turned down a million dollar tour deal to be with his family.
“I didn’t know there’s anything on the other side, yeah, but looking back with my with my new eyes, I think I was saying, like, there’s a, there’s a greater plan for my life,” the father of two recalled. “Yeah, it’s not success. It’s just honesty.”
Frank admitted while he talked about God in his lyrics while in the band Surfaces, he felt there was some “dishonesty” and that he felt compelled to be more true to what he believed.
“I think maybe Jesus was saying, ‘No, I want the whole thing.’And it didn’t look like I want the whole thing with all the success, I just want the whole thing right here in the present.”
He would still find success with song such as “No Longer Bound” and “Lift My Hands.”
With a recent record breaking 45 weeks on Billboard’s Top Christian charts and an upcoming nearly sold out tour, The Jesus Generation with Tori Kelly, The Figs and Cory Asbury this summer, Frank’s obedience to the Lord seems to demonstrate what Jesus said later in the sermon on the mount: that if you, “seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
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