By Michaela Gordoni
Worship artist Anna Golden doesn’t define success by metrics.
“I really do believe how you define success dictates the rest of your life,” she told Relevant. “What have I deemed success, and has culture actually given me the definition of success in my life and not kingdom? For me, it was so much having to do with culture.”
Whether music is a success is culturally determined as a success by metrics — how many people listen to it.
Golden realized that shouldn’t matter so much to her. After she finished her live album, Church, she felt uncertain.
“I had this moment with the Lord,” she said. “What do You want me to do next? I don’t know what this looks like to me.’”
The Lord told her that her focus should be on Him. So her current project is Just Us — just her and God.
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“This really is like an audio scrapbook of just my life with the Lord,” Golden said. “This album was one that pulled a lot on our history” and “all the battles that we fought together.”
She learned that surrender doesn’t just happen every now and then; she has to constantly surrender things like success to God.
“We have the most access to everyone else’s success than we’ve ever had,” Golden said. “…You can start thinking, ‘Man, I’m really behind. And the Lord’s like, ‘No, this is not how we’re measuring success.’”
She decided, “I’m not going to strive out. I’m going to follow Your path. Whoever You’ve called me to lead, that’s where You want me to be.”
She knows that she needs good people around her who have also redefined success.
“I need people at my table who don’t feed that little ambitious beast,” she joked.
Golden’s new album has helped her stay on track.
“This album did so much of that, of checking my eyes,” she said. “Making sure I had the right perspective.”
A few years ago, she shared why she loves music as a medium for spiritual topics.
“I believe that music is a beautiful translator to anything that the Lord wants to say to someone,” she said. “My mission when I’m leading worship is to extend what has been extended to me — the power that’s in worship, the warfare that’s in worship, the peace.”
Golden says God uses music to reach people’s hearts in scripture, too.
“He used it to soften the hearts of kings and to turn nations literally through a harp in David’s hand,” the artist said. “I think that there’s something so spiritual and so emotional about music that it just reaches areas of you that maybe you wouldn’t have opened up before.”
Forget worldly success — musically sharing God’s power and impact is enough for Golden.
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