Chase The Glory Of God With Your Friends – Cody Carnes

October 14, 2022232 views0

Chase The Glory Of God With Your Friends – Cody Carnes

2022-10-14T12:29:51+01:00

By Church News

Gospel singer and songwriter Cody Carnes during an episode of the Whoa That’s Good Podcast has recently said the goal of writing Christian music is to “chase the glory of God with your friends.”Carnes while speaking about his chart-topping hit ‘The Blessing’ and how it was birthed during a late-night songwriting session that nearly didn’t happen stated that The Blessing went viral during the pandemic without the assistance of tours or live concerts. All the credit for the song’s popularity, Carnes said, goes to God.“God does what He does. It’s only Him. And it’s unbelievable to watch,” Carnes added. “… We were literally so removed from any part of that song going around the world because we were in lockdown. We wrote the song a week and a half before the country shut down. And we released it like a week before the country shut down on YouTube. And so we didn’t write it in lockdown. It was not a result of, ‘Here’s where we are.’ It was literally this moment where God just chose to drop a song in a room. And we had no idea what was coming. … You really just feel like you get to be a part of something that God is doing.”He said he has sung and spoken the words from The Blessing over his own family.“I would have moments where I’m like, ‘I can’t believe I got to be a part of writing this because this song is ministering to our family in this moment.’ Like, we’re trying to get through these waves of fear and uncertainty, and we’re singing this over our kids at night, and we’re clinging to the promises of God,” Carnes said.The Blessing was released just before the pandemic in March 2020 and quickly climbed to No. 1 on Billboard’s Christian digital song sales chart, staying there for 11 weeks and on the chart for more than 100 weeks. A music video that launched on YouTube that same month has tallied 78 million views. It features Carnes, his wife Kari Jobe and Elevation Worship performing it live.It was written by Carnes, Jobe, Chris Brown and Steven Furtick and is based on Numbers 6:22-26, the so-called “priestly blessing.”ALSO READ Limoblaze Breaks Into US Billboard Afrobeat Chart