My personal testimony...Featuring David Lunbeck and Kurt Lewis Neufer on guitars..
Track mix and production by David Lunbeck
Vocals/Harmonies and final production by Tammy Swindell..additional harmonies by Tony Delecce
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Story behind the song
This song is my testimony, friends and neighbors...
....And here I was seven years old..being told that I'd been "Anointed" and "Chosen" by the Lord... and didn't have a clue
what it meant. I can't say I really knew Jesus back then.
I really didn't understand this man I couldn't see.
When you're a kid, you don't know much of anything.
All I can remember is that I was learning music
at a rapid speed, had a strong vocal, nearly died of pneumonia,
and my childhood was rough.
But yet, the Lord must have thought I was special and poured
many blessings upon me at that young age.
And things DID change after I was grown..as I've said before,
I was raised in the Pentecostal Church growing up, and people believed in the Spirit of the Lord.
I was told at 19 years of age, that it was time to fulfil my
calling, to become what God had chosen for me to become....
I said NO..and ran hard for seven years.
Everything you could imagine happened to me..the Chosen of God
do not run..they may run hard for a time, but you can't hide from Him, as I well found out the hard way.
If I could have gotten out of it, I wouldn't be here, now, and that's a fact.
Hey, I was NOTHING, NADA..and I tried to convince myself and Him of these things as I ran like the dickens.
He never gave up on me, though I fell into disgrace. He couldn't force me to come back..the Lord does NOT force us to do anything.
But He can sure make our lives a living Hell and Torture on earth while we make up our minds. LOL!
He does and will use adversity to turn us around.
And, I promise you, that is EXACTLY what happened to me.
In the end, it broke me, and there was no more running.
Being a chosen vessel has probably got to be the heaviest burden
I've had to bear in my life..I've learned what was required of me over time, and the more I have learned the more that has been required of me.
Many gifts were given to me.....some were dispensed for successfully navigating my trials, others were for total obedience to Him..and I can remember praying, telling Him I didn't know what to ask for, so please give me what He thoughtI could/would use....and the floodgates of Heaven opened wide!
I KNOW what has been set before me, and I'll accomplish it all one way or another with the help of the Lord.
When God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.
He had dealt with me to write my testimony in song..this is as simple as it gets; how I started, and how I keep going. :)
My grateful thanks to David Lunbeck and Kurt Lewis Neufer,
as this track as this was a type of Country Pop music I'd never done before,
and I couldn't do it with my usual style/flair; so I had to ask for help.
Also, many thanks to Tony Delecce for agreeing to sing additional harmonies with me. :D
Enjoy the listen. :)
Lyrics
06/08
Once a little girl raised in church
I was being groomed for His work
And, oh, I didn't understand,
I didn't even KNOW this man,
Whose love and blessings flowed into my life...
I was special,
To Him, I was special
Things began to change after I was grown,
It was time for me to walk a path unknown.
For seven years, I played the fool,
I ran from Him, would not be true;
But God brought me down hard upon my knees...
I was broken,
Yeah, I was broken.
(break)
For seven years, I played the fool,
I ran from Him, would not be true;
But God brought me down hard upon my knees...
I was broken,
Yeah, I was broken.
Rising from the ashes of disgrace,
It's taken me so long to find my place..
His spirit within set me on fire,
Filled my heart with His desire
To do the work that He's charged me to do..
I am chosen.