Album Release: The Ark of God w/ Joseph Taylor Strickland

Kind: captions Language: en [Music] years ago the devil had me down Shackled and changed to the dark side of town safe to sin and all of its form living in bondage to the world woe to me a man of unclean lips in the distance was my Damascus trip so I traveled through the desert sand be troubled in faith I grasped his hands all the time of day in the twinkling of an eye the center of the darkness all the great light born again the Holy Spirit came salvation found through his face sun sets free I'm free indeed and Calvary give the sun sets free oh I am free a new life began released from chains to my Promised Land he cleansed my life and closed all the doors delivered me from the evil stronghold the key updated locked in time now the devil has no legal right the greater is he who lives in us than heal the tips with worldly lost now The Devil Is On The Run he's no match for the beloved Son to and fro he made it wrong but never my way liberators at Calvary I am free thank you foreign Lord here I am come on Destiny John I'm free because of Calvary and I'm free to change all for me and I'm free no longer in captivity well hello everybody I hope everybody's doing well today uh my name is Chadwick Harvey with Faithful Performance I'm with my good friend here Taylor uh Strickland and we'd like to wish everybody a happy last day of the Feast of Tabernacles the great day the great day of salvation as it's called hushana rabban what what no better greater day than to do it on a day like this I tend to release the album that my friend and I we've been working on for uh two years now is called the Ark of God and we have five songs that are included in the album The Ark of God and we're going to go through each and every one of them and kind of give you guys a better understanding of Taylor and I from a personal level but also how these songs originated the inspiration from them and we really appreciate everybody for joining us on on their Sunday I know it's beautiful here where we are in south Georgia and I'm sure it's beautiful where you are and uh again we really appreciate everybody joining us we're doing this outside so you you got to bear with us with the Techno with the technology but that's where Taylor comes in because he's The Tech Guy but I know we really appreciate everybody joining us we hope everybody's had a great weekend and uh again this is really where it all began with the music and we're going to get into that but I'd like to introduce my friend Taylor Strickland and to get to know him a little bit better uh how's it going today man it's going great I'm glad to be here and it is a beautiful day in south Georgia we have been blessed with great weather the past couple days and um I'm just thankful to be here I'm thankful to be on God's team you know in the last days um anybody that has not been paying attention wow I mean it's just things are moving so quickly and uh just so thankful to be part of what God's doing even if it's just a small part you know just thankful to be here and I appreciate you inviting me on absolutely absolutely well Taylor and I we've uh we're from the same Hometown in uh South Georgia we've kind of grew up even though I'm a little bit a little bit older than Taylor uh he's still he's a brother of mine really in the spiritual realm but also in the Earthly realm as well we've been on this journey really longer than two years I know that's what it how long it's taken to write the album uh the album called The Ark of God and I was telling Taylor beforehand I was like I thought the Ark of God was only for one year I thought Noah was in the ARK for one year not two years but uh anyhow he's a very busy guy and uh so am I and he's got a family and I really appreciate him and his family Elisa and the kids for allowing me to borrow Taylor on the weekends and during the times of his busy schedule so that we can uh we can produce the album so that's a little bit of the background of us but first I guess we could go with the origin of Faithful Performance I don't know if many of you out there who've kept up with the teachings of Faithful Performance how the that name originated but actually it began even before I was born again um back in 2003 area we were riding my family and I were riding basically secular songs and my mother is the one who came up with the name Faithful Performance so I have to give credit where credit's due uh with that but uh so I just basically stole it you know and I repented later but uh I basically stole the name Faithful Performance from you know the family uh secular riding business and then we turned it into obviously the ministry of Faithful Performance and then here we go with the books and the videos and now with the music so Faithful Performance originated as a music company to be honest with you and then I guess it's coming back to its truest form uh with Taylor and stuff with Faithful Performance so that's how it's kind of originated is once I was born again in 2014 I just you know took the name Faithful Performance kind of like a Ministry name and I guess for what it means for me is uh basically try to be faithful at our performance to the Lord you know that's kind of where I personally look at it and it always reminds me of trying to be faithful as much as I can you know according to God's will to his Commandments and Etc and doing my part so that's really the personal inspiration from it but really Faithful Performance is really a community you know it's really a community of Believers as we are all trying to be faithful in our performance until the king eating so that's kind of how items in you know I dabbled into music a little bit by myself and I know where my talents they begin and where they end so to speak so uh luck would have it our blessing would have it that Taylor and I reconnected uh basically when was it it was around 2014 area 2015 I think he uh we kind of we grew up together and we knew each other but you know we lived in different towns different cities so obviously you don't keep up with people as much uh that's just you know normal so we reconnected back in around 2014 2015 area when I wrote the first book God's prophetic timeline he reached out to me and we haven't you know seen each other in a few years and then I think that's really where the journey began yeah I we both have a mutual friend Riley o'berry and uh I go to one-on-one discipleship with him which I would highly recommend if you guys have ever heard of that or if there's someone in your uh area where you live I know someone said hello from NC North Carolina that's awesome that's really where God really started really taking me to the next level is that one-on-one discipleship you know walking with a brother that is that has been walking in the faith longer than me and uh you know that's what Jesus did you know what I mean Jesus walked with these guys one-on-one you know during his Earthly Ministry and so I had started going to one-on-one discipleship with Riley and uh you know it's kind of like the more God chose you the more questions you have you know so I called Riley one day I said Riley I got all these questions about end times and Revelation he said I tell you what you need to call Chadwick Harvey you need to call Chadwick Harvey he just put out a book it's amazing I said Chad Harmon really he said yeah I said wow God got a hold of me and Chad how about that and so I called Chad and um man that's what started you know it's it's amazing because Chad said some things in that first phone call that really was I had never heard before you know things that we were never taught uh in the church but things that are right there in plain view for all to see in the scriptures and uh and immediately made me you know anybody that God is really working with they have a way of kind of talking a little different and I want to get into that later when we talk about your lyrics and stuff but so that first phone call really piqued my interest and I really uh wanted to hear more about what God had been showing Chad and so that started back in 2014 yeah a long time ago yeah so yeah 2014 and so I you know you guys who have joined us on all the videos of and I tell some of my personal story like you know eight years ago if you guys knew me or whatever well well he he knew me eight years ago okay so I'm not I'm gonna have to muzzle him a little bit today but uh anyhow just all kidding aside um it's been a beautiful for Journey just like with all of you guys who are born again and you can see your journey and the people that you know God's put in your path as well and using your gifts to impact God's kingdom and and uh fortunately and blessed enough that you know Taylor and I reconnected in 2014 and then I came down I was in Tennessee at the time so I came back to where we're from in south Georgia and then we started communicating even more so even not even about music but just about the biblical eschatology you know some of these things that you know he mentioned as well and then uh it all happened I went back to Tennessee and um in 20 when was it 2020 uh Taylor came up you know on the Feast of Shava oat on Pentecost he came up to visit um on uh up in Tennessee and he produced his own album so his own album is online as well and I'll let him tell you how to get that but uh he recorded his personal album you know during that year during the coveted year and then he came up to visit me in in Tennessee and on Shava oat on the Lord's Divine appointments which we all talk about you know the lord loves to move things you know in Divine appointments and he would have it that Taylor came up on Shava ode and we listened to his album that he did personally which is totally phenomenal and I knew right then and there that uh God was provoking I think both of us but for sure me to kind of inquire of his talents and to see if he would be willing to uh go on this beautiful Journey with me and uh and uh he said yes fortunately so um that's really how the relationship began with this album the five songs is you know on the Lord's Divine appointment he came up and then we started the journey probably about four or five months later about this time two years ago we started the journey with the Ark of God and again Taylor is very busy with his family's occupations Etc and so am I and we live in different uh cities so we have to you know communicate and I have to come back to Georgia so it's been a journey I wouldn't trade it and we also had the help of um Tom Smith over in Dallas Texas he's a wonderful producer um also he owns a studio over there he did all the mixing and kind of kept us all in line so to speak with with the instrumentation Etc so we want to give credit to Tom Smith in Dallas Texas also Nikki she's the background singer of all of the songs she did a phenomenal job uh as well I mean totally phenomenal so Nikki we want to give her a lot of love as well and then one more uh Josh the drummer he really set the groove if you will for all of the songs and uh the drums sound totally phenomenal so we want to give all of those guys a lot of credit and I really bring them to the Forefront as well because we couldn't do it without them yes absolutely and and you know all a lot of that that was all done remotely you know um so my hope and my dream is that one day me and you and Tom and Nikki and Josh can all be in the same room and make some music together live in one you know in some room or or perform somewhere we're all performing together you know God has given us the tools and the technology to be able to do this remotely but one day we're all going to come together and it's going to be amazing so uh yeah it you know my album that I put out during the uh the pandemic that's a whole crazy story um and I could talk about that later but all of those were digital drums and they sound great but there's something different when you go to real live drums and uh so when Tom told us that he knew a couple guys that that could do that uh you know I was like absolutely and Chad was completely cool with trying it and I think it really takes it to a more just a higher level and it just sounds more authentic so I was really really glad that we were able to do that so that that was able to take up the music to a new level and then Nikki of course is just amazing um you know and I just wish we were all on tour together but maybe one day one thing great about working with Taylor and and this is you know I sat on these lyrics for some time now actually you know um you know there's many songs and hopefully more to come you know besides just these five but you know sitting on all these lyrics but I'm one and Taylor could probably say it better than I can I have to have um there's a good flow I'm sure you guys could relate to any project that you're working on as well you gotta be in sync with the other person or other people you know because if you're not looking at it from the same standpoint of music music theory Arrangements style Etc um you know you're going to have a an interesting process so the good news about Taylor knives we've always liked the same kind of music and we're inspired by the same kind of people with the same kind of music so to speak arrangements and instrumentation vocals all of those things do matter so it was just a natural uh process because how uh you know this is probably not a good thing but uh Taylor had to get inside of my head which is pretty scary uh to get inside of but he was probably the only one that I could probably think of that could you know and understood where I was coming from because he's definitely more talented than I am with this music instrumentation workmanship Etc Studio musician so he had to kind of get into get inside of my head and I could relate to Taylor very well you know with themes of the song or kind of relate to music that we both like for the vibe so he did a great job of uh getting inside of my head if you will and uh getting the music exactly the way that I heard it in my head is pretty phenomenal yeah and you know I I could I'll go any direction you want to go but really what the what I'm hearing right now is uh kind of the underlying theme in my mind from everything that we've been through from when we first reconnected to now is humility and that and maybe that's just my from my mindset looking at it but you know um the first phone call that we had and you saying different things that I had never heard before you know if I was a hardened arrogant Pious person that thought I had my theology sewed up tight that might have been the end of our reconnection because some of the things that you said might have been so different that I said no and I just completely stopped up my ear to anything that may be different and then you carry that same theme on to when you know I came up to visit you in Tennessee you know and we talked about Shabba oat and and just being open to what the Lord is trying to teach you and being open to different people at different seasons in your life and different ways of going about things and then we get into our musical relationship and we've got songwriting style being so different than mine um I could have been like oh no I don't you know I don't want to go there I don't want that's too much work or that's too much that's too different but being humble enough to be like no well maybe God is trying to do something maybe he's trying to move me and grow me in a different way so there again I had a chance to to either say yes to the journey God wanted to take me on and you take you on or walk away and then and then all that those millions of little decisions that come in in the process of making each song and and we'll talk about this on some assaults but some of the songs were done and then we tore them all down and started over and having the humility to say you know what yeah I think that's a great idea Chad or I you know what I mean just just the idea of being humble enough and you think about when When God says you know God resists the proud but he gives grace to the humble and humble yourself before the Lord and He will raise you up and none of this would have been possible to work collaborative collaboratively with someone else if we did not have humility and this should be a lesson to me and you and everybody even if it's a small lesson to those listening that if we are a teachable person you know if we will humble ourselves and let God show us something different maybe challenging and and then God opens new doors because we were humble enough to to realize that we may not have it all figured out or we may there may be a different way a better way or do a good different way God wants it like us at that time and at that season and I guess you know being a parent too you know my son and daughter play sports and and that's why Sports is so good a good analogy for faith is because it teaches you to work collaboratively as a team it teaches you to be humble and to receive instruction and to grow and if we ever get to that point in our lives where we can't receive correction and instruction from the Lord then um that's a dangerous place to be amen amen and yeah it was just a natural fit you know because again we look at music so similarly but at the same time we had different opinions on certain things and we were talking earlier that you know when either one of us had a conviction about something the other one just kind of said okay you know you could kind of feel through the spirit that that was where they were being each and every one of us were being led to so it was just a natural fit and I do give Taylor a lot of credit because it is tough and if any of you guys are singers out there uh and Taylor's the one who sang all those songs it is absolutely tough to uh sing someone else's song who had the lyrics and music and things like that so what Taylor and I did and I think it really helped out the process is I had a basic Arrangement again I'm not a studio musician I can play but arrangements and stuff but I'm not a studio musician but I had enough of the arrangement in place and then I would give it to Taylor I wanted Taylor to make it his own because if he didn't then he wasn't going to be fully invested in it so a lot of these songs I might have had a basic Arrangement but then we quit that Arrangement and go to the piano instead and that's where a lot of beautiful things which we will get into uh with uh you know the video once we listen to the songs and talk about the songs but I would encourage anybody you know to understand that with a friendship or another brother or another sister in Christ that uh amazing things can happen when you put your gifts together whether it's music or whether it's books or whether it's whatever we just use the talents that God's given us him music and vocals and mine you know mainly lyrics and uh we see what happens see if it pulls how it sounded when it came out of the gumbo Bowl so to speak but um but I know Taylor's right it's just we all have to be humble enough and I hope that throughout this process that I've been towards him uh it's been a it's been a wonderful process and we hope you guys receive a lot of inspiration from the songs the songs have been uploaded to the major platforms you know I think it'll take a couple weeks maybe for those to be uploaded but they will be on the website uh that you guys can go to go to up faithfulperformance.com and obviously once they get on the major Platforms in two weeks they'll be on Spotify and all these other avenues that I I don't even know about so uh so we'll we'll check those out but uh what do you say we get get going with the songs sounds great and see what happens so we did five of the songs um and Wilco kind of like an order the album is called the Ark of God and uh the reason for that that you guys will find out that some of these songs are really personal songs and again I want to uh give thanks to Taylor for really because sometimes personal songs are just for personal you know but uh hopefully they were written in a way that uh each and every one of us could take inspiration from where we are you know in our life not just Chad's story or whoever story that we can take these songs and we can apply them to our life and they do come from a place of uh transition they do come a place called transformation and Taylor knows these things from the songs and he really just endowed himself in it and they sound beautiful and um I just really appreciate uh his efforts with it but a lot of these songs are really personal songs I'll try to explain them to the best of my ability but with the overall understanding that you or anyone else can apply them to your life as well and uh so I can't wait to go through them and I guess the first song that we will go through is the name of the album is called the Ark of God so we'll listen to The Ark of God real quick and uh then uh it's about a five to six minute song so I hope you guys enjoy it and then we'll be back to discuss the origin of the song the lyrics the arrangements and all of these beautiful things the rain is cause your love is even greater your blood washes me clean you're my great Redeemer fill me with your spirit The Fountains of the deep have opened the waters the mountains [Applause] a way best over the Earth Windows of Heaven closed Angels tears have dry a rainbow a dark pass by the yard with an olive branch of peace his Arc of amazing grace Amazing Grace The Fountains of the deep Lord you rescued me from the flood of my day you're a promise keeper holy in all your ways your book is written of me is finished you will be done so when I see you you'll say well I'm done the waters are prevailing Lord thank you for saving me lost or found move me along the flood waters High Ground Lord got me in your arms forever in your own safe and sound all right everybody well that was the ark of God in its full form and uh yeah it was pretty pretty cool song right that it is a personal song that um I wrote with like I said hopefully uh the inspiration that everybody can get from it uh if you uh could listen to the lyrics closely obviously it's pouring toward the toward the story of Noah Noah's Ark you know the great flood and uh basically the short of it is is when I was born again in November 2nd 2014 you know I went on this journey and like we all talk about uh on the videos as far as purification is concerned that you know once you're born again a lot of these things do change in your life you know they are broken off immediately you know we're filled with the Holy Spirit but then you do go on a good personal Journey with the Lord and some of those harder things that were tempted by some of the things that each and every one of us you know in our own way are tempted by or whatever sometimes that does take a journey you know to uh purify those to refine those to sever those things off so to speak like we've all discussed well in the middle of this journey so to speak I made a bad choice in life and and the Lord really kind of got my attention with some things that I needed to still cleanse you know like I've told you guys before so you know three and a half four years ago whatever it was so that's really where the song originated from and if you listen to the lyrics it's kind of like it goes along with this story of Noah so to speak but also it's about a personal story that he locked me in uh the ark because I grieved his heart even though Noah didn't grieve his art mankind Grieves his heart but Noah found Grace and even though I did you know Grievous heart with the decision I made I still found Grace with the Lord once I repented so it really just goes on the beautiful symbolism of the Ark of God with the dove passing by the ark all of the all of the beautiful symbolism of the wind and the storm Waters The Fountains of the deep and all of the past is washed away so the inspiration of this story is is no matter what you've done in your life no matter how bad the sin may be you know if you come to the Lord and you ask for forgiveness and repentance with a true broken heart and contrite spirit then he's going to forgive you and then he's going to give you the proper convictions to not do that mistake again so to speak and to turn away from it so that's really where the song comes from and then the prayer at the ends really I guess I could probably say is the theme song to Faithful Performance is of the end of it with the prayer you know thanking for saving all of us you know from Lost to found and delete all of us you know in the ark you know above the storm waters you know the higher ground you know we all want to ollie or escalate into Higher Ground so that's kind of where the lyrics came from you know with that um with that background of it with the inspiration of it so to speak it's so good man it's so good I'm just not even the uh the song so much is just the words are just so powerful you know and um you know I've been listening to these songs off and on for two years you know and and uh my wife kind of picks on me sometimes she goes on to bed on the weekends and I just sit out there and stand out on the porch dancing to these songs you know listening to them both for enjoyment and trying to pick them apart and figure out what we need to add add or take away or adjust and um man A lot of times the more you listen to something the less you like it but these the more I listen to them the more I like it and the more it's kind of like I mean it's very because Chad's lyrics are very very much lifted straight out of scripture and then a little bit of artistic license to fit them in the pentameter of the song or whatever uh you know it's it they have a scriptural type feel and read to them that allows a lot of depth and each person can take different pieces from it and God can really speak through them you know a lot of symbolism and so every time I listen something else stands out uh lyrically certainly and then musically to um they just have and you know that goes back to the first time I talked to Chad on the phone you know what I mean Chad just had a different way of talking you know and you really cannot get that unless the Lord is kind of guiding the person and in the Lord has touched the person you know what I mean and um you know our vocabulary matters and having the scriptures in US matters you know what we say and how we speak and what we sing and words have power you know and and these words are so powerful and uh I love the um the intimate nature of the song you know that this is your personal Journey but whenever I hear myself sing Lord thank you for saving me lost the found I mean that I internalize that personally you know what I mean it's powerful to me um moved me along the flood waters to Higher Ground I mean when I hear myself sing that and I feel myself just really connecting with those words I mean it moves me it really does um and I pray that it does that for other people you know and you know you look at my wife's a literature teacher so I guess we're we're kind of artistically minded at our household we don't need to send her the lyrics all right she'll pick them apart but uh you know I don't know I guess I don't want to get too deep and too off the reservation so to speak but I don't know like I my whole life I've always felt different you know what I mean I felt different and I and I uh I guess that's set apart yeah I guess that's a good thing you know but whenever people say things I want to talk about what does it mean and let's dig let's dig deeper let's dig deeper and and I don't know a lot of people in 2022 don't want to go deeper you know and I think there's a lot of reasons for that but but these words really you can go just as deep as you want to on these lyrics and the personal application from these words and they really have they really have the ability to take us to Higher Ground you know what I mean because they are pulled straight out of the scriptures and I don't know they just there's just a lot of meat there you know and I could talk about that for hours but I think um most important thing is that we are trying to go deeper with the Lord amen well I know uh the folks that keep up you know all you folks are out there that are watching it you know that keep up with the videos I know that's where we all are you know going back to the book series and the journey that whether the book or not people are going on a purification Journey you know no matter what and that's the whole point uh the song is really you know yes a personal repentance prayer but it's also that Redemption and that restoration and knowing just like with Noah you know that you're going to be delivered even though because of the blood of the Lamb because of the grace of the Lord Yeshua Jesus that you're going to be forgiven turn away from it and go be lifted up to Higher Ground and just like the scriptures say if you humble yourself like Taylor was talking earlier at the due time the Lord will exalt you and that doesn't mean exalt us to our personal you know what we want what he wants from all of us so I hope that makes sense but the end of the song is really the bridge and what was so amazing amazing about the arrangement of the song with the lyrics is we love the vibe of the song uh going into the arrangement of the song now and we just couldn't fit that in part in anywhere without messing up the flow of it so to speak so Taylor had the idea I forget how it really actually came about but it just so happened one day at the end we just put it at the end as a prayer you know so to speak and it really worked out beautiful with the uh the way that the drummer did the the toms and the creativity of those as well and Taylor can talk more about the musicianship of it but as far as the lyrics it was set up beautiful and then it just so happens that the prayer the best part of it of the song in my personal opinion was at the very end uh closing out so I don't if you want to expound on that yeah just musically speaking there that end part which is my favorite part there's actually a little bit of a key change there um you know I can't and it's been so long since we've started these you know a year ago I probably could have been more specific about it but there is a little bit of a key change there at the end um which helps signify a difference you know what I mean a lot of times you'll do a key change in a song to really try and make people's attention come back to the music hey we're doing something different there's a key change there's obviously kind of a stylistic change and it's more of an intimate moment which matches the fact that it is a personal prayer you know what I mean and one of the things that I I love musically about this song um I guess the older I get and the longer I play music and the longer I listen to recordings you've always heard that uh saying keep it simple stupid you know um and anybody can just throw a bunch of instruments in there and really just you know throw all kinds of stuff at it and we did plenty of that throughout this album but I really wanted to create a lot of space in the music in the verses and if you listen after the intro and the verses come in there's a lot of breathing room in the music you know you gotta um uh what is like a fender Rhodes type keyboard uh and then you've got a little bit of uh acoustic guitar in the background and there's just a lot of space in the music which then when you go into the chorus allows you to really fill it up and it creates a difference between reverse and the chorus and so I really paid attention in this particular song to try to create a lot of space this background yeah go ahead that was just musically speaking that was what I was going for and the verses of this you know I really wanted to create a lot of just space and then at the end we did that key change um and of course Nikki's Parts you know it really um I don't know I'm just I was so thankful that we had when we added Nikki we thought it was good and then we added Nikki yeah wow yeah a lot of these songs were set up just for Taylor to write you know but at the beginning of the project um you know we sat down we started talking about how we understood the music was going to be and I've always enjoyed artists who you know male artists who had background women seniors you know I just thought it just gave another dimension to the music I've always loved that so uh we started talking about that but some of these songs I thought were just for Taylor you know just to sing by himself and we'll get into some of those as well with the songwriting song Texas to Alia but we went through the Journey but then we had Nikki come in on these other songs that you'll hear and then we just uh thought to uh include her on these other songs that we didn't do that we thought just for Taylor and the Ark of God is one of those songs and we just thought that she elevated the song with her harmonies and with some of the background uh little cool tricks that she did with her voice yeah I mean I was just blown away the first time I hired Nikki I think the first one we did with Nikki was the Horizon award and when I heard that I just called Chad and I said mad this is the new level well she and Taylor their voices go beautiful together and um again we kind of used her in the beginning but then some of these other songs and again uh with the one that we just heard the Ark of God that uh she really did a phenomenal job the drummer did a great job of creatively putting the toms where they need to to create that intimate feel you know at the end of the song that worship field that praise feel where you just you just want to lift up your hands and thank God Almighty for what he's done for your life and uh things like that and yeah we thought it came out as good as we could possibly get it yeah right well we'll move on forward to the next song that we have and uh the next song that we'll go through is which one we're going to do the desire of my heart yeah uh we'll listen to that one uh real quick and again if you guys have been with us on some of the broadcasts you probably have heard it but uh we'll hear it again and then we'll discuss uh the desire of my heart uh song that's it yeah you are the desire of my heart forever Jesus I love you desire of my heart in the beginning you knew my name for the womb he saw my frame in the Holy place to fulfill your will you bowing and praising before you're thrown Lord You and Me will never depart Ed desire on my heart you love me my heart outside all right everybody we're back and uh that's the song The Desire of my heart I know it's a kind of a lengthy song an eight-minute song with a lot of different uh Arrangements but um that song I was first I guess I'll speak about it lyrically um I can't actually remember when I did write this song I know it was in the last two to three years that I wrote it uh basically it was after Taylor and I spoke about it because I had him in mind for the song which I did for a lot of the songs but the Ark of God was written I believe about three to four years ago when I was in Tennessee around 2019 I would say but uh this song was written uh after that and it was really one of the last songs that we included in the album I didn't know if we were going to really get it done obviously if you listen to the lyrics it's really a love song to the Lord is really what it is he's the desire of all of our hearts you know I know you guys as well and uh so I just really wanted to it's a really simple song long but that's the way it should be I think for a song like that very simple very to the point and um and then Taylor and I uh we'll get out we'll get you the arrangements in a minute but that's where the uh the song originated from was just a love song to The Lord of just how much you know I really appreciate him and I know you guys do as well just intervening in their life knowing me and you before the foundation of the world I mean that's pretty um that's pretty amazing stuff that he knew us before the foundation of the world he called all of us you know for a certain job to do here for his Kingdom a book that he wants us to fulfill uh so to speak and not the grace of his mercy of his son's blood you know we're all forgiven and we can all do our part in his kingdom so that's really where the inspiration of the lyrics came from is because of uh how much that I love him and I know how much you guys love him as well and we're all just trying to do our part in his kingdom this song musically speaking was probably the hardest um partly because it's a slow song and so there's a lot of focus on the vocal um and you know you you really as a singer which which you know it took all of the building of the music to get to that point just just taking you behind the scenes a little bit the way I do Studio stuff is you know you build enough you do it different every time but you kind of build enough of a foundation for you to do what they call scratch vocal so go in there and just sing it through because sometimes the vocals will cue certain things you might want to do with the music so you don't want to build the music totally without vocals although sometimes I guess you could but you kind of want to know what your what your ear is hearing and what you want to sing and you want to be able to play off of that with the with the instruments so we built a little small Foundation we sang a scratch vocal and it was really tough for me to sing that scratch vocal number one because it's slow and there's a lot of long notes that you kind of have to hold out there's a lot of focus on the vocals and I wanted to make sure that I was really emotionally connected to those words you know because I'm not this amazing you know singer that can just go when all these vocal competitions my my gift is to be emotionally connected to the music you know if I don't feel it I can't see it if I don't feel it I can't play it and uh that's just how I've always been and so there was you know I started that's the reason he turned down about 20 songs and only sing five songs and so I I was really you know I have the The Uncanny ability to psych myself out you know and I was I was really putting a lot of pressure on myself you know to make sure that I didn't sing this song you know kind of half connected to it I really wanted to be I mean I really wanted to be on the verge of tears singing this song and if you could have seen Chad and I and they're working on it you know Chad's in a separate room I mean we're close but there's a door separating us and uh where we sang um there's a window that looks out into this same scene basically and uh I mean we sang cold weather warm weather bright dark rain no snow down here but so there's all these different seasons that I would be get a chance to look out on God's creation while I sing and I just wanted to be walking in the spirit as much as possible in that moment and sometimes when you when your Chad hits the red button the record button and you're like Okay Tyler walk in the spirit walk in the spirit you know sing the song you know and it's and and you know it's kind of like somebody said okay go you know what I mean it's kind of sometimes it's kind of hard if you're singing a secular song that doesn't really matter you might not feel that pressure but I did feel a lot of pressure that I placed on myself Chad didn't place that on me I placed it on myself to sing this song with that emotion to really be able and you know maybe the First Take you really feel it and then but you want to redo it because it wasn't quite right and by the time you get to the seventh or eighth take it can be a little bit challenging to to Really Center yourself and to really feel that I mean not that I struggle to feel a love for the Lord but it's the point that I want that to come through in my voice and my whatever small vocal nuances I wanted people to feel the passion that I have in my heart for the Lord and that's a lot of pressure um well it's uh to his point uh the song is a very tough song to sing I mean it's a very tough song I mean I surely can't sing it you know I just heard the melody in my head you know it's the weirdest thing in the world where I can hear a Melody but I can't sing I can't sing anything so that's where he comes in but it's a very it's a vocal song you know but like I've always said you know even before Taylor and even with Taylor's I would rather have someone have the emotion of the song than a perfect performance okay if that makes any sense I don't care about the perfect performance I care about the emotion because to me that's what it's about is the emotion of the song and the intimacy of the song and I thought what he and Nikki did with the song vocally was just phenomenal you know and then the arrangement that he did actually the song started out on the guitar you know because that's where guitar minded first in our music but you know it's one of those humbly moments that it just didn't really work itself out so then we moved to the piano piece with it and then he came up with that beautiful Melody with the piano that you hear in the song so uh it just worked out from there and then we wanted to uplift the song a little bit with the arrangement because it's just that that lovely intimate love song to the Lord and then Taylor came up with this beautiful piece at the very end because again we didn't want to mess up the vibe of the song throughout because of pushing's such a kind of a worship state if you will there's a lot of beautiful openings in the song when it's in the slower version with in the course Etc and then at the end he added this beautiful piano piece and then we kind of cranked it up a little bit to where uh to give a different vibe with the song yeah and I real quick want to say thank you to Grammy Anan for those compliments I appreciate it and I saw some mentioned in the comments about the mandolin and I wanted to mention that shout out to my mom she bought me that vandolin during the pandemic for my birthday and without throwing out high prices it was a very expensive mandolin that I in no way expected to ever own I had just found it online and I was kind of following it and I think my wife kind of back channeled to my mom hey Taylor's really looking at this mandolin and uh she told me when she when she told me she wanted to buy it I said I can't I can't accept that that's too expensive and she said well Tyler I want you to always think of me when you pick up my mandolin so it's almost like an it's an heirloom it's a way of her giving me something that I can always remember her by so I actually met a guy at the Tennessee Georgia Line in a McDonald's parking lot and he had that he had that mandolin and he I sat on the back of my truck and he sat right there and we played that mandolin and I said yes I'll take it and so so uh the mandolin to me is one of the best parts in the song um and uh the guitar comes in and coordinates with it too but yeah the mandolin is a beautiful beautiful edition of that song it's a beautiful instrument and uh hopefully when we do some more acoustic stuff in the future we can add that in some more but it's a very nice mandolin for those who may be instrument Geeks it's a uh it's a Gibson flat iron Festival is the name is the name of the mandolin and uh I've played mandolins that are three times more expensive than that and they do not sound better than that one yeah it's uh it's a beautiful mandolin they don't make them anymore it's not in America so um thank you for bringing up the mandolin because I did want to mention that and tell my mom thank you and it really set the song up in a great Vibe song with the solo part and then the beautiful guitar that comes in at the end it's just that it sets up and like I said a really worship song is probably the most worshiped song that we personally have I mean obviously you guys if you were with us heard the Ark of God and it's kind of like a bluesy Jazzy kind of you know kind of festive kind of vibe and all of the songs are different that's one of the things I love about the song because every one of them is kind of a different genre if you will except for maybe two of them you know they're kind of in the same genre the rest of them are different and this one is one that uh it's kind of like the most worshiped song that we have throughout the entire song and then it then it kicks it up a little bit at the end for a little festive uh feel for it and I will say just from like a an audio engineering standpoint uh this was the one song of the five that we really uh took Tom's Final Mix and master you know because and I think the reason why this turned out so well in terms of Tom's mix and master is because this is primarily the kind of music that he mixes and Masters every day this is a worship that you would hear this in a worship service it's kind of the slow ambient worship and so Tom whenever Tom sent us because we would let him mix and master and then we would say hey do we like ours better do we like his better we would let him give us adjustments on instruments and stuff like that some of the time we took his but in this particular instance when he sent this I said no this is this is what it needs to be I'm throwing my master away and we're going with Toms just because and I think you know because you do get in everybody has strengths and weaknesses right in like Tom this is Tom's wheelhouse Tom Smith in Dallas Texas we mentioned earlier and I feel like he did an amazing job with everything from the mixing to and if it were me mixing this song I would not have brought Nikki's vocal so high in the mix I just would have never thought to do that but in this setting it's beautiful it's perfect you know and so there again are we humble enough to look at it a different way to let someone else bring their gifts that God's given them and bring them and add to it so that the whole is greater than some of his Parts you know and I I don't ever want to be so proud that I can't be like man that sounds amazing you know because it did it really is mixing his master is what really finished this song off um and I think that's because that's his gift that style of music yeah we'll we'll keep talking about uh Tom here I hope he doesn't mind that if he watches this sometime in the future but uh so yeah we met Tom and we've got a name for Tom called Old Scratch okay so Tom's you know he's he's a little bit older than we are long in the teeth he's longing the teeth a little bit so we call him Old Scratch because he's amazing and I mean that as a compliment because he's amazing at what he does and I know that I learned a lot from Tom during this session I'm sure yes we both did and uh he's been a vital part of it we probably couldn't done it without him and he's the one who introduced this to Nikki the background singer who did a phenomenal job you know with Taylor so we really appreciate them but I had to give him a little bit of love but that's what we call him his old scratch because he's that good in the studio and that sort of thing and he put up with uh definitely me you know bothering him a lot with all of the edits and things like that so uh we want to give Tom you know his his credit with it and also Nikki as well Josh those guys did a phenomenal job and also Taylor did all the music instrumentation of it okay with the guitar with the bass with the keyboards with the organs I mean it was totally phenomenal to be a part of that to witness that so we just all want to give everybody their rightful do with that and uh but yeah I guess that's the desire of my heart and we hope that you guys enjoy that uh the desire of my heart song again all of these songs are free they're on the website at faithfulperformance.com also they'll be on all of them major Outlets here here at about a couple weeks once a tune core uploads them to Spotify and all that they'll be on there but you can get them at the website faithfulperformance.com I will be posting to YouTube as well and again they're all free for your use and for your hopefully you guys get a lot of great inspiration from those so now we'll go to the third song on the docket which uh which will be it's called a rhizo Lord and if you guys have been with us throughout the especially these feast days and things like that this song is really written for this period of time and really in general for the Lord to answer our prayers answer our pleas and we'll talk about it more after the song but uh the arizo Lord song is really plagiarized from the Holy Bible in Psalms 86 that's really where the song comes from is as Psalms 86 so we'll listen to that uh to the song but basically King David wrote Psalms 86 and it's a prayer for it for the Lord to answer his prayers and through supplications his enemies is coming against him etc etc and then he tells the Lord or he asks the Lord to show him a sign for good so that's where that's where the uh song originates from so I basically just plagiarized Psalms 86 so I hope you guys enjoy it and we'll talk more about it once we get finished listening to the song hear my prayer Lord today the Creole verdict my way I'm in a time of me it's into my voice graciously I pray to you to you all day long singing and praising with you songs filled with anger and strife your gracious and mercy and Truth save your servant who trust in you rise all right you are my eternal right forever you are the sovereign show me a sign for good Show Me A Sign for me Lord show me besides everybody so that's the song arousal Lord I hope you guys enjoyed that um like I said before it is a song that was based upon all right then get the background low enough but it's a song that was based upon Psalms 86 and uh if you guys aren't familiar with it like I said it's King David petitioning the Lord to hear his prayers and supplications he says to bow down his ear uh to him so to speak he speaks about repentance also speaks about his enemies that are seeking his life so to speak and then he asked the Lord to show him a sign for good so that's where the inspiration came from if you guys have been keeping up with the videos of the feast days Etc with the books being opened and closed Etc that's really the inspiration of it is to really for all of us to get the righteous rendered verdict in the courts of Heaven for the Lord to show us a sign for good if you will kind of like what King David to overcome what enemy is in your life whatever it may be it could not even be a person so to speak it could be just be spiritual warfare it could basically it's Satan in general overall that we're trying to overcome so that's really where the song was really quite a period of time in my life in a time of need that I wanted really in my life so that's where the inspiration came from was Psalms 86 and again I just basically just plagiarized his scripture so to speak so but that's what we all want to have we all want to have the righteous friend of verdicts in the courts you know he's the one who does who uh ordains all of the verdict so okay so we all wanted to Christian the Lord you know repent and all of these beautiful things that Psalms 86 says in the hopes of the Lord giving us that righteous surrendered verdict which of course he will once we repent uh so to speak so that's where the uh lyrics originated from and then again just like we did with the other ones we started it with a guitar and we formed the song and we didn't like it and then we just totally threw it away and then we started out on the piano piece again yep yep I mean this song as what what did you say this song went from the basement to the penthouse in better words I mean you know the thing is is the first time we made it we made it like we intended but when we listened to it it just was not here this was not there and just to talk in musical terms it had more of a minor type feel the first time we made it it was more a little bit uh the music was a little darker than we had thought it was going to be um and you know it just did not match uh the tone you know of what you had wanted and what Chad was going for with his words and I and I agreed you know it just seemed a little I mean yeah if you took the words out it was a great rock song that we had made but the words just didn't fit its own of the uh the feel of the song and so you know Chad and he played a producer role in all of this you know I have the tendency to overthink these things which to some degree was what I was needing to do to think through all the stuff and make all the instruments work but every now and then Chad would have to say thank you he said listen listen let's put this song on hold let's just set it on the back burner and let's give God a little time to kind of work in it and let's work on other stuff and we'll come back around here and you know constantly Chad was saying the right things at the right time because you know again we're working together and I'm trying to make sure that I'm honoring what Chad wants to try to make sure that I'm honoring the opportunity to work together so I at that moment I felt like I needed to grind this thing out you know what I mean like Taylor you need to figure out how to fix this and Chad could tell that I was beginning to get worn down and I was spinning my wheels and he knew as a producer looking at it as a whole project like Taylor press pause no big deal whereas another you know if you worked in a commercial setting somebody be like hey you need to fix this by this time Chad was never like that it was always open to what the spirit was willing to do and wanting us to do and for whatever reason God wanted us to labor over the song and to go through a process of making something it didn't work and being humble enough and patient enough to tear it down and start over musically and that's what we did and Chad was gracious enough to be patient and let that artistic process come to fruition and so this song has probably gone through the greatest metamorphosis of any of the songs if you heard the earlier versions it's a completely different vibe um and then uh when when we really got that intro with the guitar it really felt like God was a rising you know and and the music really supports the lyrics and when I sent it to Chad and he heard it he was like okay this is what we were going for a while this is it um and I think I maybe just hold myself away in a room one random day and started doing some stuff and rearranging some stuff and I got something I liked and I sent it to Chad and he said yes that's it let's go with that um and then this was the first song that is this the first time we brought Josh in and Nikki so so actually I think what happened was we were on the guitar okay and then you we said okay that's not going to work because it was way too hardcore and it was too rough you know and it really the what I appreciate about Taylor and what we try to do is we try to make the lyrics match the music Vibe and tone that they have to work together to have a a really good song I think we can all agree with that so to speak with any song you listen to so it started out as again a guitar kind of first thing but then Taylor I remember we were sitting over at um we were sitting at the studio at my place and we started on the piano and he just started and he just came up with that Melody uh with a horizon you know I can't sing it but he can't that was pretty good and he started doing the erazo Lord and I'm like okay I like that and he just started keeping on with the piano piece and then like he said uh we separated and then he came back with the guitar piece as the intro and the turnaround in the song after the first after the first chorus and then it all came together but I remember specifically he came we were sitting there and he just started with it with the melody I'm like that is the melody you know so we kind of we wanted people to be able to sing with the song obviously all right you know you can hear kind of like a congregation sing that and that's why uh after the bridge into the extended bridge if you will the arise arise that he and Nikki keep singing It's really the climax of the song and when you hear the culmination of all the music together with their voices it's really uh it's really the Pinnacle so and that's where we wanted the song to get again arise oh Lord we wanted it to have that and Taylor did a great job with the piano and the guitar and he and Nikki did a great job of arousing oh Lord yeah there's just something different about approaching a song from different instruments you know I mean whether it's the physical limitations or the tonal qualities or whatever style you have learned that instrument on when you go to the piano it opens up different ideas and choices and so we had kind of gotten stuck on the guitar and so I said well in my experience if we get stuck let's go to the piano and uh you know and it started to open up you know that's that's a cool story and you know and it was a labor you know it really was and there was a lot of um probably not Chad probably wasn't worried but I got worried I'm like okay Lord how I'm stuck you know and uh I know it worry can definitely cross the line and descend and so I was trying not to worry but I wanted to honor the opportunity I wanted to honor this song and so I was laboring emotionally over this home and I could tell that he was you know and I hope I've been one to know that hey we're both walking in the spirit trying our best to and I knew that uh God would arrange it and um and we walked away from it because again the song really wasn't anywhere close to where we have it today in my opinion personally and uh so then we came and we Revisited another good example is there's a song that we did do it was the first song that we didn't even put on this album because we don't like the way that it overall it sounds so to speak so that's just a good example of it but again um God had his way and if we're patient enough with him to if something seems to be kind of putting a square into a circle so to speak you got to kind of let it lay as we all know and then try something different and it came out to the best of our personal abilities and we hope that you guys enjoy it again the the chorus and the bridge in my mind that goes back into the course is really a special uh point in the song is that and obviously the end of the song which is the basically it's the end of Psalms 86 is show me a sign for good we just wanted to let that kind of marinate if you will and kind of Linger on through the song and Taylor could praise it in different ways to kind of create that worship Vibe and that prayer at the end and then the play out which we don't hear in music today often you know playoffs anymore but uh we just wanted to kind of let that Vibe Linger on you know with the music and Taylor did a wonderful job with that that's my favorite move in the whole song and again real similar ending here to um Park of God they both have that kind of worship ending and uh those are probably the moments that I connect to the music the most those moments um you know and I guess for maybe an outsider when you you know when I when I work with people or when I work with my wife on music and stuff some people have a very hard time hearing themselves singing or talk you know but I've been doing it so long that I can literally get past that and I I can enjoy my own self singing those words and I don't get hung up on that I used to yeah but it's me I just I'm just thankful for the beauty of the music and the lyrics and I internalize that and it becomes a moment of worship for me it may seem strange from other people looking in how can you worship hearing your own self that may I guess I might say that seems arrogant but I don't look at it like that I just look at it like God is speaking through whoever's singing in this moment and I'm just trying to receive what he's trying to do in that moment but I really can worship to those lyrics because man I mean that's what all of us are looking for right now you know because I mean you you can have all the negative signs you want look around you know but but God wants us to see beyond that you know what I mean he wants us to see beyond um I guess you know you think about the roaring lion where he says Satan roams around a roar why is he roaring to scare us to make us fearful but all these signs that we see that are negative will just let God take us a little deeper God's got signs for good and uh that's what he wants us to see he doesn't want us to be afraid and fearful by all of these signs and these things that the world's trying to tell us God is still in control amen you know yeah and it's a song that uh you know basically was written uh basically as part of the journey I know you guys uh some of you guys have on the journeys the cross to the crown book you know that uh that was written at a year Journey on God's calendar well this is really the music's really a part of that Journey as well because the music was written at a time uh where the book Revelation was given at the same time so really they worked together and a lot of these songs that uh we're recording are messages in a Biblical way if you will yes they're personal but also it's biblical you know it's from the scriptures this is a prime example of it and and I'm um I'm not really partial towards any song because they're all five of our babies if you will but uh I would say this that as far as the full everything included with the song the arrangement the vocals the instrumentation everything it is one of my uh it's hard to beat that production of the song I would say I agree uh with everything involved compared to the rest of them but that's just a personal side note someone else could think the other one's another one or none of them so to speak so that's really where we come from with it is the music that we write we try to just plagiarize the Bible Ark of God Arise oh Lord the other one to desire My Heart obviously is biblical as well when you look at the book so all of these songs are kind of like the journey that we're all trying to go in with purification arise oh lord for our benefit give us the righteous being the verdicts if there was a sign for good all of these things that if you've been with us on the videos really is what we talk about anyhow it's just in music form that we're doing it as we hope you guys get a lot of inspiration from that and again all these songs are on the website uh they are for free and you can download those also in a few weeks they'll be on Spotify and all those other uh beautiful things and uh if Taylor's willing after we get through the songs we'll go through a lot of these questions you know or comments as well so not meaning to be rude to you guys but I will get through we have a hard enough time keeping focused as it is so we're going to try to talk about the songs and then we can all Fellowship together like we normally do but uh the next song that we'll go on is a holy a totally different song that we have and it's called Exodus to Alia and to give a quick synopsis of the story before we hear it it's just uh it's been on my heart to to write this in a book actually uh and I have at times but really going through the different exoduses that the children of Israel has had with the full Redemptive plan come into fruition at the end you know and it's really an eschatology song when you look at it you know because people really don't understand the true understanding of the covenants where God's Plan of Salvation and again we talk about it a lot with um the videos that we do the covenants Etc the feast days the calendar and how they all coincide together at the end but uh the covenants are just as important as all of them because it's God's Plan of Salvation for not only the Jewish people but also for the gentile people and uh just like we've all read in Ephesians 1 when you read this that Paul says that yes you are saved by the blood of the Lamb you know forgiven for sins and etc etc but the Redemptive of the purchase possession will totally be done when we were returns you know if on the Feast of Yom Kippur is when you read the scripture uh the way that we read it the other night he's telling you there's Passover to Yom Kippur there's a there's a correlation there with the nation uh Jew and Gentile being redeemed at the end to live in the millennial Kingdom so it really goes through that and it's really towards the Jewish people you know but also for the Gentiles to understand that uh God still has plan a which is the Salvation for Jew and Gentile so we hope that you guys enjoy this and we'll be back with you to discuss it the journey began 3 000 years ago but Exodus from Egypt and Pharaoh Blood Of The Landmark the Passover doors Eagles Wings to capture and enslave the people again Freedom came at the Sea of leaves and God spit the water and set them free community Moses ascended on their behalf the Captivity in Babylon and after 70 years God's promise kept the faith restored accidents free after the ollie on Rebellion Again by projecting tour and the atomic pursue Jesus prophesied destruction their way 40 years later the Romans sealed the faith the city was burned the people exiled throughout the Earth We're In less miles the nation was born again at 48. to Liberty lord said the captives free a day is coming for the final exile to fulfill transgressions and eternal life a piece will rise with a covenant of death deceiving the people even the elect the lion of Judah will promote High saving the people again a cyanide the kings that your minds will be the last Alia placing his feet on the Mount of violence Exodus free Ze blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord free all right everybody well that's the song access to Alia you know there's a lot of words as you could probably have heard but I believe it's very important and like I said the guy the Lord put it on my heart to write about all of the exoduses but also all of the Alias and it is an eschatology song that we have it's a covenant song basically that the Jewish people the Lord is going to fulfill his promise to Abraham Isaac Jacob and David and their descendants and I saw I wanted to go through all of the Exiles which obviously we all know the one from The Exodus in Egypt towards Sinai and then obviously the Aliyah to Zion to Jerusalem after that but then also the Babylonian exile you know that they were exiled for not following the Taurus you know uh in the ways of the Lord and then seven years later you know they made Alia again after the Judgment was completed as it says in Ezra 1 and also Jeremiah 25. and then we have another Exile with the Romans we all know what happened you know they rejected Yeshua as the atonement of sin also reject the Torah well if you're rejecting Messiah you are rejecting Torah okay so then they were exiled again in ad70 and now what are we seeing now we're seeing a huge Alia the greatest ever that's why in the scriptures you find where he says no longer I will recall the God who released you from Egypt I'll be the God I'll be called The God Who released you from the north and from all the areas that you were exiled to so we're starting to see that I mean since 1948 you're talking about three or four million Jewish people who've made Alia to the promised land I mean that is biblical prophecy being fulfilled in front of all of our eyes since 1948. so it goes through all of the different Alias and there's going to be one more Exile as the scripture says with the Antichrist they will make a covenant that will be the Covenant of death and Isaiah 28 but then and then the Antichrist will abominate the temple and then as we know the line at the travachuda he will walk from Ohio on the Feast of trumpets and the full Redemption will be on the Feast of Yom Kippur as he makes the March Isaiah 63 from Mount Sinai up to Jerusalem that's why the prophet Isaiah was looking South in the vision who is this who's coming from Arabia who is this who's coming from Jordan who is this with his mightiness whose greatness and strength blood Oliver's garments and that's when he comes up for the final Alias with the Jewish people and Gentiles whoever is of Mount Sinai that final victory march where he puts his feet on the Mount of Olives so it's really a cool eschatology song it's a lot of words we call it a Bob Dylan song because it's got like a songwriting it's kind of Storytelling song and I believe Taylor did a great job of getting into that songwriting Story toy uh Torah story telling Vibe so to speak like he's sitting on a school you know telling a story to his grandchildren yeah that was that was kind of our useful style of going for was that Bob Dylan type style um and uh I think we did a good job achieving that um there was lyrically speaking it was tough sometimes to get some of the words to fit in the space that we had and so again Chad being the producer type mindset was able to kind of help me tweak what words were emphasized in order to squeeze them in we had to trim some and I think we even had we cut out any verses I think we did yeah I think we had to take out one a verse um I don't remember you know I mean obviously the song didn't suffer from it but it it this was probably the hardest song to get all those words in but I knew that you know sometimes you can change one word and change an entire meaning and so we had to be very careful and I wanted to be very careful to try and sing it as much like Chad had written as possible and because of the story telling type of genre it didn't really matter that it was elaborately song it was more about the message and so there's less pressure to see it amazing style and just trying to get them to um and this carries the song that's the first thing we recorded and we did a live bass guitar on this long whereas on the other songs of the midi bass so this song or anything else it's very clean and it just feels just very natural because you're working in it and it does feel like a father sitting on a street telling the storm of the history and present and the future to his grandchildren and children and that's the vibe we were going through I feel like they did a good job accomplishing that yeah I really do the song lyrically you know you guys who have been with us like again on these videos y'all hear it all the time about the abrahamic the davidic and the New Covenant and how they all work together and that's what's really uh covenant theology is not really taught in the church anymore you know I mean yes the New Covenant and of course the new covenants what it's all about but that's the culmination of the abrahamic and the davidic Covenant which has not been fulfilled yet you know Jesus has not set on David's Everlasting Throne yet so that's still open to be fulfilled with David Covenant that promised land has not been totally given to the Jewish people with the seed that rules over it okay and that seed of the Abraham became the davidic covenants the same seed that's why Matthew said the seed of David the seat of Abraham Abraham in the genology of Jesus is so he wants us to understand that he is the davidic Covenant he is the abrahamic Covenant and of course he's the New Covenant that will fulfill all three of those Covenants on the Feast of Trumpets on the fusion before on the Feast of Tabernacles on God's calendar at his second coming so I know all you guys are familiar with that but that's where the song is really a teaching song just in a music format you know and Taylor did a great job and I wanted to include the Hebrew you know in the bridge the Baruch Denai which means the Lord I know that Taylor wanted to have that in there as well to kind of you know how some of these singers they do that you know with the English and the Hebrew and I've always thought that was really cool the way that uh Joshua air and some of these Messianic singers they do that and I thought it was beautiful the way Taylor did it yes and uh I can speak just from a personal level with us saying that bridge I can feel there is about that now and you know going back to the one-on-one discipleship that I go to is Raleigh o'berry he's really big into Hebrew and I actually turned me home to the Hebrew translation of the Bible it's called the cjb if anybody wants to check that out it's a complete view of Bible so every translation from the original Hebrew uh Aramaic and Greek is all done from Messianic Jewish Scholars who translate the Bible in a spiritual language into English with the Hebrew mindset and that used to be a little bit of a foreign concept to me I think the mystery of the Hebrew language there will always be some things in it that seem far away and we might not over grab it all until we get there to be with the Lord forever but what's so great about the Hebrew language is that depth and singing those words in Hebrew was very special to me maybe because I have such a high esteem for God's original language maybe because I just I've never sang in Hebrew before but I can just tell you that and he was a very special guests it felt so special it felt so real and I don't want to be uh you know an emotional Christian where I'm swung by the by the emotional roller coasters of life but uh maybe the word felt is probably the wrong word it just um Holy Spirit really kind of welled up in me in that moment and it was very very special well now all he wants to do is sing in Hebrew now so I'm gonna start writing in Hebrew as long as you can help me pronounce it I'm just getting to know we just thought it was a very beautiful part of the song again the song had the flow of a songwriting oh it's kind of a worship song because that's what the Jewish people were going to say uh whenever the Messiah returns he's Baruch in the Hebrew uh and what we listen to comes in the name of the Lord that's what they're going to say just like he says you will see me no more until you say Baruch in Matthew 23 39 so they will not see him again until they say that when the sign of the son of man comes so it's a wonderful eschatology song because a lot of people do not realize that um number one that the Jewish people are going to be redeemed unfortunately that's not being taught you know but they will be redeemed on the priest of Yom Kippur as a nation okay on at the second coming and then also to understand God's Plan of Salvation for not only the Jewish people but for all of us all of Israel will be saved just like Paul says in Romans 11 and now obviously that includes the Jewish people and the Gentiles so and then a lot of people especially the Jewish people do not believe that there will be a covenant made that will turn into death okay they're deceived right now just like Messiah said in Matthew 24 don't be deceived so there will be a covenant of this side we all know that in Isaiah 28 that's the set that's when the seven years will begin so hopefully you know somewhere down the line of someone that is Jewish you might not understand the New Testament could read eschatology in the song they were so be it because uh they're not reading Matthew 24 to flee to the mountains okay so whenever that time comes so it's just another way for us to really put out a video or eschatology in a song that maybe uh people like the uh overall understanding of the x is to Alia but uh obviously with the ultimate understanding of there's going to be a covenant of death born in the future that we we need to all really understand and to be the brethren for the warning of the Jewish people just like Matthew 25 says yeah in the Book of Daniel and all of it so really it was just on our hardest toe it's a totally different song than the rest of the songs as you guys have heard and I know we've got one more song to go through but it's totally different uh just like all of them are you know but this was an important song in our opinion to put out just because of the uh just the history and the people need to understand not only the history also why it happened you know the rejection of towards the rejection of Messiah as the atonement of sin and that's something for us to glean in on but also the in the future what's going to occur and we all need to be there praying and obviously doing our part in God's Kingdom well we hope you guys get a lot of inspiration out of the Exodus to Alia song and now we have one more song that we'll go through and then we'll kind of open it up for questions or whatever you guys may have just whatever questions you have we'll try to answer that as much as we can the last song that we have is called I'm free and really it's kind of like the journey again from when I was born again in November 2nd 2014 uh the journey to being completely free like I discussed before of any kind of bondage any kind of strongholds any of those things that really plague all of us for being totally free into living the life that the Lord wants us to be out of bondage out of strongholds and again I hope that everybody could relate to this a song as well because we were all once in bondage and then you know we come to Freedom when we're born again so we'll listen to it and then we'll get more in depth with this song as well but it's called I'm free and this is Last Song of the five songs a Calvary the sun sets free good morning John a new life began released from the chains to my Promised Land he cleansed my life and closed all the doors delivered me from the evil stronghold the Key of David locked in time now the devil has no legal right a great he lives in us that heal temps with worldly lost that Calvary for eternity freedoms will be done every every child road to change all for me and I'm free no longer in captivity I'm free all right everybody well that's the last song of the five songs that we've done called I'm free obviously it's if you listen to the song you know what it's about it's about being free of any kind of bondage any kind of strongholds and obviously it was a song written based upon my personal experience with it about being free just like I said before you know when I was born again in November 2nd 2014 you know a lot of things did drop off and I did not have the desires to do some of the things that I was doing before I was born again but some of those tough things some of those things that were my Temptations so to speak that I had to really go on a purification Journey with the Lord uh those took time to kind of drop off so to speak so and again you guys know what I've mentioned with the song The Ark of God even being born again you know I made a a bad decision that really needed to be purified with why I made that decision so that's really where the song comes from is being free is to being free from any kind of bondage any kind of a stronghold that you know we've all been a part of every one of us have had strongholds in bondage to be to get rid of so to speak so it's really kind of like a song towards that with freedom to give people inspiration that you know what we've all been there and you know there's only one way out and that's through the Lord you know through Yeshua through the blood of the lamb and then the power of the Holy Spirit Will convict you and continue to do a work within you so it's really like a journey you know for my freedom with getting rid of strongholds obviously it mentions the Key of David you know to lock these things away uh once we cleanse them to never return and to live a life of Freedom so that the Lord will give you your quote-unquote Promised Land uh that's written into the book of life and that sort of thing so I hope the main thing of the song is to give inspiration to those out there who have been in bondage and again I was in bondage probably more than anybody all right so I can relate to anybody with that and uh so it's just to give somebody inspiration no matter if you're at the lowest point of your journey the middle or if you're at the highest point of your journey we can always be Freer if you will with whatever the case may be so that's really where the lyrics really originated from and I thought that Nikki and Taylor did a wonderful job of we did a wonderful job with the music but also with the vocals and then Nikki did a great job of with the background vocals and all of the things that uh they did with it yeah I mean this song had a cool origin so Chad mentioned earlier that we had done a song the very first song that we did we may do again later um that we decided to scrap um and so I kind of came into this song with that song in mind and I put together some music just music and I sent it to Chad and I think Chad was traveling at the time he said man he's like I'm gonna write some words for this and I said okay this is going to be good so I sent him the music and then Chad wrote the lyrics which is the only song that we did like that right out of all five yeah sure and so he was like and I think that Brad wrote this I mean he definitely wrote it with me and mine because he said that but also I think that this song became my answer you know what I mean and uh you know what is it it says you have to speak those things that are not as though they were and um I think that like Chad said we all were delivered when we came to know the Lord Jesus but there is a cleansing and purification process and there will there are things that tempt me of the temp Chad and couldn't do that don't temper the people and those things will always be a little bit of our weakness and we have to guard those areas of our lives but proclaiming freedom and blowing the shofar proclaiming freedom speaking those things out loud helps to continue to revive that freedom and continue to solidify it and and back in the enemy up it tries to kind of come up and tempt us here and there so whenever I listen to this song I'll put my hands in the air and I Proclaim it out loud just speaking those things even if you are in a place right now where you feel like you are in some bondage whether it's your fault or not or whether it's just speaking that out loud I think is really really important and I I want this song to be everyone's anthem hey let's let's Proclaim this Freedom uh you've heard I don't know my pastor pastors I've had in the past talk about a lot of times when we get saved you know imagine you're in a cage right and when you get saved Jesus comes and unlocks the door and opens it and we have to get up and walk out you know what I mean and sometimes we're in we build a cage around ourselves and we don't Proclaim and step into the freedom that we've been given and Jesus and the freedom that he's got for our present and our future and this song is really all about claiming and proclaiming the freedom that we have in Jesus and the victory that we have and I remember uh reading in that version of the Bible I mentioned to you earlier the cjb the Jewish translation of the Bible there's a verse I cannot remember what it is but it talks about uh basically thanking God for what we will receive you know what I mean and it's it's that weird juxtaposition when you look in the Old Testament scriptures you know a lot of those prophecies we're talking about the present struggles of of Israel but there are also probably about the future so a lot of times the scripture talks about the present and the future in one verse or in one section of scripture and it's the same way when we pray you know proclaiming Freedom has a way of bringing Freedom you know thanking God for healing has a way of bringing healing amen you know and I think that's so important because when you say that to God Lord thank you for healing me even though the healing is not completely come and it's not come to full fruition what you're telling God is I have faith and it's impossible to please God without faith and faith will always move the hand it to your physical self that's a great point and that's really I do remember when he sent me this song because we were working on and the song was called come Jesus come and uh you know that'll be on the next album that we do you know we just didn't really like where the song was going and I remember this like it was yesterday I was in Dallas Texas and I was at a hotel room and and um this might be a little bit too uh too much information but I was about to take a shower and um he sent me the song and I like to listen to music you know while I'm showering and things like that and I remember I remember like it was yesterday I remember the hotel the shower and everything and I just was floored and I came up with the course you know the the lyric good you know that if the sun sets free you're free indeed that's just it kept coming it kept coming and I was like I'm sure Taylor's gonna really love this when I tell him that uh I don't think this song is for come Jesus come but uh see how he would react to that but uh you know just like any good brother does he said well hey you know just come up with something let's just see what the Holy Spirit does and um I just knew that that if the Lord sets free or if the sun sets free I'm free indeed was definitely the chorus and then you go off of that with bondage and strongholds and things like that and just being familiar with some of the scriptures like that so it really is an Anthem for really the Christian Life if you will and what a great time to release it in the year Jubilee that we just stepped into on Yom Kippur and what I believe what the Lord is going to be doing in all of our Lives you know I'm here this coming year whoever is diving in and praying into him and trying to walk in his ways I mean it's going to be a phenomenal year so that's what I being I'm free is about is to experiences Joy his peace his love His blessings and and it's not all about just being cursed you know it's about being blessed you know for those who do walk in his ways keep his Commandments I mean there's because that's what the Bible says there's so many blessings that go into that which I'm sure all of you guys know about that of course and what we talk about I mean Taylor you know he's a very busy guy so he's not able to be on the broadcast but he's talking the same things that that we that we discuss on the videos is uh those kind of things but when he sent me the music I knew the music was very special and uh you know thank God Almighty that uh he aligned the lyrics that went with the vibe of this with the song and it came out it came out phenomenal and it was a different kind of genre than what maybe Taylor was used to singing in right but uh you know to his credit you know he just kind of I went through it like with with uh no big deal whatsoever and so uh we really hope this song really brings out a lot of freedom with people and we get it's an eight minute song or whatever it is because we gave that uh solo section A little bit more uh for each instrument to really give its freedoms his freedom sound if you will uh with the with the organ piece with the trumpets and obviously with the with the guitar that Taylor did so we wanted to kind of keep that freedom kind of vibe going after the bridge of uh freedom and liberty that he and Nikki did a great job about and she did a wonderful job of with the background vocals with Taylor and the instrumentation that he did the musicianship uh that he did throughout the song uh you know obviously it speaks for itself you know with it but it's a song that uh it's a great song to close with because uh it's it's really the last song of the album and really the last song that we kind of came up with so um it does close out the album and we hope you guys get great inspiration from it uh with the song with the music and uh that sort of thing but yeah that's going to be all the five songs and um yeah it's taking us two hours to get through them and we really appreciate everybody being on if anybody has any questions uh you guys can ask us anything especially Taylor you know you guys asked me all the time stuff so yeah it's really you know on him today so but no in all seriousness um you know feel free to ask us anything that you guys have in mind about any songs about anything you know really that's on your mind and we'll try to we'll try to answer that while we go through uh some of these other comments let's see but uh Shalom to a lot of you guys I see a lot of you guys on here a lot uh David Shalom brother it was good catching up today with you and um I appreciate everything uh David runs a Ministry called soldiers in Christ that uh you know teaches biblical truth so uh check him out on I believe he's on YouTube and probably uh all the other social media platforms but uh social I'm sorry it's soldiers in Christ and uh David chin so thanks for joining us David Alicia Shalom to you again hopefully you've had a great Feast of Tabernacles I hope you guys join us here in a few hours here in about four hours we'll be doing a video on uh shmini at zaret the Eighth Day of the assembly as we close out the Feast of Tabernacles uh God dreamer Shalom Hallelujah to you thank you very much for joining us and as for you David Chen says what's up Taylor good to meet you nice to meet you uh but yeah all of you guys see okay hello from North Carolina shalom shalom all of you that I've been on here for a long time with us sure they said yeah so yeah here's the thing about the shirts okay for you guys is Taylor's got on the shirt that's from the second book you know it's called The Gods fisherman Satan's hunters and that's really the logo of Faithful Performance but then uh you know the new shirt is from the new book called The Cross to the crown a spiritual purification Journey on God's Divine opponents I think someone asked where can you get a shirt from either one of those shirts no just email me at Chad faithfulperformance.com and either one of these shirts if you want it I can get it for you I have them in women's sizes I have them in men's sizes as well there's a few hats left but mainly just shirts left so if you'd like one just email me again at chat faithfulperformance.com thank you David for the uh congrats on the project it was a uh it was a labor of love Yeah and again I want to give Taylor a lot of credit for that you know uh his his wife and his family as well because uh he's a very busy guy and uh to get him on the weekends you know that takes away from his family time and those are really the only times that we could have met so um I really appreciate him and his family so thank you very much for that man thank you uh Wanda Shalom to you good to see you again uh thank you D French we really appreciate it uh with the new project and we hope you get great inspiration from it I wanted to thank you as well Alicia a god dreamer thank you and again this is really for you guys I mean we really do it for you know ourselves in the Lord to be honest with you you know and um to do worship with ourselves but you know if someone else gets inspiration from it then you know that's even that's even better so thank you guys for all of those things uh IR thank you very much uh for the compliments as well and you know as you guys all know we give all the credit and glory honor to the King of Kings and the Lord of lords I mean there's no way that these two clowns could do this you know I promise you that if you guys could be in the studio yeah it's all about the Holy Spirit and we just give it to him and we try our best to follow his lead Steve Melissa Melissa Shalom to you amen yeah God dreamer puts a great God's faithfulness even in judgment cleansing and refinement be so good and full of Amazing Grace yeah absolutely God dreamer thank you and thank you for the the kind remarks yeah uh faith hope and love put Noah is prophetic in uh their Journey as well it's amazing that uh this Noah story this prophetic understanding evidence come up with us so many times even the actual timeline uh is is very interesting and that's another us conversation for another time Pennsylvania yeah PA uh thank you kill cal um with the t-shirt and again if anyone wants to T-shirts they can email at chat faithfulperformance.com and basically you just pay costs for it you know I'm not making any money off of them you know I'm just selling them what I receive them from which is 12 bucks is uh the cost of them yeah yeah Faith open love says a true statement letting God take care of all the complicated stuff that's what we try to do is just give it all to him you know just give it he can handle it and we can't right so I'm really enjoying the behind the scenes info on how y'all brought it together well thank you God dreamer um we try our best to explain it but um if you've been in part of any project then you know you know how the holy spirit moves everybody you know with that it's really totally phenomenal or mandolins uh Wanda uh yes you can uh email me Wanda chat at faithfulperformance.com for the T-shirt uh calc this is for Taylor uh awesome soothing voice music great for prayer and walking time yes amen thank you so much calc for that yeah so Taylor you know um you know Taylor can probably get into this himself while we're looking through these comments about his personal Journey but Taylor used to play live music and record albums with a band that he was in uh back in the younger days and then we've reconnected uh recent you know like we said with that if he wants to kind of go into that well I always tell people that uh you know I used to play music from me and now I try to play music more you um and I struggled when I first got saved because there's a certain amount of I don't know I struggled when I first got saved to play music because I still felt like I was being arrogant just just playing music you know what I mean and I don't want to be that person so sometimes I still struggle with that you know there's a you want to be confident in your own singing and playing ability to be able to do a good job but you don't want to be arrogant so where's that line it's hard to tiptoe that line but I just try to do the very best that I can and and stay humble which I think is the key to everything so I think that God honors it because of I try to stay humble and whatever you know way that it is but um yeah I try to play for the Lord and you know I do still play some secular music um but uh for the most part when I sit down to write a song or when I want to do a project I try to make it about the Lord as much as possible you know and um I've tried to widen my understanding of what that means over the years you know my wife and I write songs together too and we recently wrote a song about our daughter and um you know it's got biblical overtones in the song even though it doesn't necessarily mention God by name in there but it's all I mean you know he is in all things and through all things and the creator of all things and so appreciating the sunset appreciating um you know the innocence of a child all of that in a way is a form of worship you know especially if you know that God is the Creator and sustainer of those things so even those types of songs I still look at those as um you know Christian music you know amen yeah the way that we look at uh music is uh if it's praising the Lord then you know it's great music it's good Christian music it's the way I look at it and as you guys can probably tell you know all these songs are in a kind of a different genre you know except for maybe two I'm free in the rhizo Lord are kind of in the same kind of Christian rock kind of deal and then uh right um I'm sorry the Ark of God is kind of in a jazzy Blues kind of festive kind of New Orleans kind of feel you got the songwriting song with um excess Talia and then you got the desire of my heart which is kind of a worship song so um we've tried to that's kind of how because we love all kinds of music uh Taylor and I do so you know however it comes out with the Lord it comes out uh there was a comment uh by someone that is there any uh future songs in the work and um I'm gonna let Taylor grab that question because I don't want to pressure him or anything so I'll let him answer that Well Chad has written more songs than I have learned and forgotten in my time on Earth I mean uh so Chad is ready and willing anytime that I'm ready and willing but we are trying to organize uh some more songs in the future and we're trying to get more organized about organizing our songs um we're trying to create a more permanent uh Studio space that will make things I think a little more efficient um and bringing in other musicians you know we don't want to bring in other musicians if if we're set up in a way that's kind of tied in spaced and and everything is kind of transitory we want to try to have a more permanent space and that's something that's in the works right now um you know Chad and I are close enough that we don't we don't mind if we gotta you know move this speaker over or set this on a book or whatever but when we bring in other people we want to try to have it you know what I mean a little bit more permanent so we are working on some more stuff and it would be my honor and my privilege to be a part of that yeah uh yeah so um there are more songs out there and we've we've even discussed that the next project and and we will have some downtown downtime after this you know I've been uh work uh Taylor's very busy number one and uh myself as you guys as I've told you guys are you know I'm a real estate guy you know with occupation but also do you know I've written the book which you know you guys know about and then also now the music so I do feel like there'll be a little bit of a down time to you know kind of uh rejuvenate if you will after those two big projects but uh we have discussed about a future project and you know only God knows what time that will be but it'll be kind of like an apocalyptic album if you will and that's not saying that it's going to be just Doom and Gloom and the songs are going to be depressive you know that's not that's not going to be the case what I mean by that is uh eschatology I think uh sometimes we need to really put in our songs you know I'm there's a lot of beautiful songs that we can think of that does speak about the Lord's turn you know the Midnight Cry you know that song that you know I'm not sure people are familiar with uh that the gates are singing and all that good stuff and so many others singing about the Midnight Cry well that's the return of Yeshua uh down so there's going to be some songs of the day of the Lord and again they're not going to be just negative negative you know but it will be scriptural to let people understand about the day of the Lord and uh what's the common uh other songs that I have written you know four or five of those songs already they're ready uh to go so to speak but um I think that'll be here in the future here we'll rejuvenate and we'll kind of circle back around but yeah there will be more songs out uh for sure and uh David yeah absolutely uh pick that base back up again and uh start playing and if that's the inspiration that that David or anyone else gets out there then that's part of it as well is to use the musical talents that we all have you know to work together to bring beautiful music to the Lord you know because there's not enough of it as we all know and even in the church sometimes the songs aren't uh biblical sound if you will so we've got to make sure of that so if we can encourage David or anybody who's got any Talent whatever it may be with lyrics or with music or with singing or whatever it may be we hope to encourage each and every one of you of that because it's not about anything other than just doing your part in God's kingdom and if one other person including your partner gets anything out of it then it's it's well worth it of course because you're fellowshipping with the Lord about it you know and we've had some Beautiful Moments together Taylor and I have which I'm sure you guys have as well if you're communicating with your spiritual gifts with anyone you're talking about very beautiful beautiful times you know very beautiful uh sessions if you will whether it's music whether it's in prayer and intercession whether you know reading the scriptures as a community whatever that that is I mean it's great it's about the assembly coming together so I hope uh I know I certainly have enjoyed you know being with Taylor during these special moments and most of the time it's during the weekend so we hope to encourage everybody uh to use their spiritual gifts knowing that everybody has one not every not anybody has all of the glory okay none of us has that except for Jesus he's the only one who has all the glory so and the spirit gives to us the spiritual gifts on his own will and his own desire so we hope that um you guys have kind of if we can provoke you guys or lay hands on you guys in a spiritual manner right now to open those spiritual gifts back up please do because guess what if we don't use them then he'll give them to somebody else to use you know for his glory so I hope that um we can provoke you guys for that amen and thank you for letting me be a part of the project man welcome a lot to me you know amen man I I I mean this sincerely and I've told Taylor this and I don't mind telling people on live YouTubes that there's no way these songs would sound anywhere near what they sound like without his talents you know because I know where my talents in them again and you guys already heard me try to sing a rise oh Lord so you probably don't want to hear that again okay so we'll have to we'll we'll let Taylor sing that uh but no um I do appreciate you man you got great talents and um I don't know if I know that I couldn't have done that without him I've tried before and uh it didn't sound too well so we'll keep those in the vault for uh Neverland if you will uh so to speak so um but no we wanna we wanted to do this it's a very special day on God's calendar uh hushana Rabbi which is the last great day of the Feast of Tabernacles and we really appreciate you guys taking time out of your day to join us and we hope that you guys have got great inspiration from it and we hope that you'll continue to join us on uh our little journey that we're on and uh we worship thank you all for listening and being interested in what you know God is doing in our lives and I I think that the remnant is uh God is wanting the remnant to be about the father's business in these last days and in whatever way that looks like music um prayer whatever it is like Chad said Mark the gift and uh so that when he comes he doesn't find our talent hidden Soul or hid you know God expects us to cast out bread on the water he expects us to labor and Fields and I just pray that maybe this will you know in some way just reinforce it and you guys we can iron sharpens iron and we'll all just keep laboring for the Lord um regardless of what it looks like um he's he's the one in control of the outcome our job is to do what we've been given to do and we can't control any of the rest of it so I'm thankful that you guys have tuned in and listened to us talk about our uh our you our frail human attempt to honor what God has given to us and uh thank you all and hopefully it'll bless you guys yeah and uh one last thing um tell them how they can find your personal album okay so um whenever this gets this album gets posted I think it'll be connected to mine somehow however they do that um Joseph Taylor Strickland that's my full name and that's on all the artwork and I did that just because I really wanted to have a different name out there and you know sometimes I work with young people and I kind of like fly Incognito sometimes you know so um Joseph Tyler's Strickland if you search that on all of the major platforms it'll pull up the album called breaking through and that's a very timely album in terms of you know God working during the pandemic and what in my opinion was the real reason for the pandemic which was to wake us all out to get our attention you know what I mean we had been lulled to sleep um as a people as a church and that was the point of the pandemic I think was for God to wake us up and make us the return unto him into his work and so the name of the album is called breaking through it's on all of them you can search my full name and whenever this album comes out you can search and play the stripping or Facebook performance and it should pull it up it's also on YouTube my wife and I write songs together and we have a Ministry uh that hasn't been very active because the last couple years when Chad have been working together but um but we we don't ride plot but when we do we publish it under 2r1 the number two the letter R the number one qr1.org and um you can get some old podcasts there um and then YouTube to our one and so we've got some future music in the works as well two R1 and Joseph Taylor's chicken breaking through awesome well I would uh please uh support Taylor uh with his music his wonderful music um Ancient of Days there's break there's a lot of great songs on there the king's table you know there's a beautiful songs it's a little bit different of a Vibe of course than what we do which which is a great thing you know and it's his own personal music and um I know I listen to it and um and I know that you guys will get great inspiration from that as well and again we just want to thank you guys for joining us I know on a Sunday afternoon I know if it's beautiful wherever you may be like it is here in South Georgia then uh you know we really give you an extra thanks for joining us to take away from this beautiful day to join us so remember here at eight o'clock tonight I will be doing a shmini atsaret video to kind of culminate the Lord's feast days and also just basically a q a question uh so to speak um with the closing of the festivals so the teaching will only be probably around 30 minutes or so and then we'll just open it up to Fellowship as we close out these the fall feast days of 2022 so again we want to say thank you to everybody out there we love all you guys thank you for joining us the music if it's not uploaded today on the website it will be up there tomorrow with the new songs the new mix song so go to the website they're free you know for your use and then all obviously on the major platforms they will be as well so again we want to thank you guys for joining us today we'll probably be back doing more videos together with uh songs or teachings or whatever it may be we we love y'all y'all have a great day and may God bless you always y'all stay safe out there we love you bye-bye