Our Hope Endures
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We took a medical team into Haiti last week and are planning further trips. I heard this song right before we left for the first time and when we passed through the torn up buildings and broken streets i heard this song in my heart and it gave me hope! I didn’t feel overwhelmed at all I felt like I could make a difference. Thank you!
hola pues que les puedo decir es increible las canciones i de como utiliza DIOS A NATALIE ENVERDAD SON GRANDIOSAS SUS CANCIONES DIOS TE BENDIGA GRANDEMENTE DESDE CALI COLOMBIA
We learned a few months ago that my husband, Craig, has Stage IV colon cancer that has traveled to his liver and lungs. There are so many tumors in his liver that surgical removal is not an option, and the tumors are growing quite rapidly. The oncologist says that chemotherapy may slow the growth of the tumors, but it will not cure him. The doctor has painted a very bleak picture. She says Craig will probably be dead in three years, more likely within the year.
Craig is 55 years old. We have four children. Our two youngest are just 12 and 13 years old.
I cannot tell you how many times I have heard “Our Hope Endures” on the radio since we learned of Craig’s diagnosis. God has used it repeatedly to show me that our only hope is in God Himself. Our hope is not in God’s power to heal, although that of course is our prayer (and the prayer of countless other people around the world). Our hope is in GOD HIMSELF. The song has reassured me that, whatever happens, God is and will be all-sufficient and ever-present as we follow this path to wherever it leads.
Thank you for writing honestly about the challenges we face in this fallen world, and the sufficiency of God Himself as we endure them.
In March of 2008, an 18 year old girl from the church I attended was in a tragic car wreck. She was a beautiful, talented young woman that you couldn’t help but like. Since we are from a small area, it broke the heart of the entire community. I had already heard Natalie’s song, Our Hope Endures, but it took on a different meaning after the accident. Because she was so young, it was hard to understand why this tragic event occured. Her mother lost not only a daughter, but her best friend. Natalie’s lyrics lifted my spirit and helped my heart heal. In spite of the darkness around us, God is always with us and hope does indeed endure.
This helps me so much with issues that I am struggling with at the moment . It is always comforting to know God is in control of EVERYTHING!!
My hope comes from GOD and God alone!
I love you NAtalie thanks for writing this & thanks for being just the same & so humble when i met you at ALC Bradford at Cherish ! Love you XX
In February 2008 I traveled to Leon, Nicaragua to do medical missions. When I came home I heard the song “My hope endures” and felt that it described the people I saw there. Many came to us by foot, with numerous ailments to receive whatever care we could provide. But on their faces were smiles and they were thankful to God. I felt they were relying on God who gives them “hope.”
2 years ago me and my husband and our 2 kids, josie our daughter and corbin our son moved to elizabeth west virginia. It was difficult getting used to not seeing my family everyday. GOD has been so good to me and my family,i found a wonderful relationship with him through this. This is as close to him as i have ever been and it started with our hope endures.One day i was listening to channel 975 on direct tv and heard this song ,and at that moment i realized i had to give my family to GOD, you know what i did and i have helped them and they have helped me. I want to say thank you for allowing GOD to use you so wonderfully.I pray that GOD bless you as much as you have blessed me. love and prayers be with you. SHIRLEY KNOWLES
We have a good friend who just found out after 5 years of remission that she has another spot of cancer on her brain. This makes the third time with brain cancer and she has also had breast and skin cancer. She is only 38 years old. Through everything though she has remained so optimistic and positive. She helps all of us have a better attitude, one more like Christ. She helps anyone she can all with a smile even though she has so much to deal with in her own life. She is such an example for me as a woman and mother but also to everyone else that she comes into contact with because she lets God shine through her to reach others. God is always faithful!
We have a good friend who just found out after 5 years of remission that she has another spot of cancer on her brain. This makes the third time with brain cancer and she has also had breast and skin cancer. She is only 38 years old. Through everything though she has remained so optimistic and positive. It is more than that though…she knows where her hope lies and that is in Christ’s hands. She helps all of us have a better attitude, one more like Christ. She helps anyone she can all with a smile even though she has so much to deal with in her own life. She is such an example for me as a woman and mother but also to everyone else that she comes into contact with because she lets God shine through her to reach others. God is always faithful! Thank you for this song and for letting God use you to speak to others and let them know that He is always right beside us.
Beautiful song Natalie: I actually came here in a deep struggle with health. Thought so much of it was from 30+ years as an alcoholic with a drug problem! Now I am convinced that it is from a little cut I got while working in dirty, standing water; 16 years ago. Can they kill this infection after so long a time, why did God not heal me according to my faith??? So glad He keeps me sober though!
Then, your blog is about drunk drivers, yeah I was one of them and I did the trash (without the vest). Then “Our hope endures” made so much sense because I still know God can! Hope those babies are fine. and I actually came here to try and share something I wrote… before I try another doctor. I wrote it as a pop song for Leslie Phillips, she is now Sam and Holy gave me these words for her…Natalie, maybe sing it as those babies sleep, maybe sing it for me, maybe for Sam
Foundable
not among the great winners
nor the forgotten losers
don’t claim to have been lookin’
He reached down for I was foundable
through a gathering of broken promises
never intended to be lies
lost memories and dusty dreams
still shine in the corners of your eyes
foundable you are
carried by Spirit as wings
dancers on stars
we dare not name
being foundable…found you
nothing tame, nothing lame by shame
tomorrow is for those
desiring to own today
twisting grace into an excuse
creating newer shades of grey
foundable me found you
lost memories and dusty dreams
never intended to be lies
foundable
in the corners of your eyes
a pop song for les
rwb 12-20-09
ps…it did the auto thing and removed my spaces between verses
by lines 4-5-5-9 smile moderator, smile saints, smile Natalie, smile Jesus
ever thought of that? Make Jesus smile today!!!
My life has been storybook all my life until I moved away from my parents at age 18…from there I began a destructive downhill battle with life. I chose the wrong directions… I picked the wrong friends… I moved away from God…. The day I found myself sitting in jail at 31 years of age… I saw my life flash in front of me…I could lose my child, I could never see my family again…when and how did I get myself here…it is a cold, hard life inside a jail cell when you have been handed everything and never took time to learn the real meaning of life and living….That day sitting in jail a lady spoke to me and she had my grandmother eyes, who had just passed away…she was brought to me in jail to save me from this horrible path I had chosen…from that day I chose to put God first… I have now turned my life around. I turn 35 next week and I have my beautiful daughter, an amazing man who saw through all the bad past and loves me for the person I am now, and two beautiful step daughters. Every time I hear any of your songs it reminds me how amazing and strong I am. My life is fantastic all because I chose the Lord!! Our Hope Endures!! You bring such hope to so many lives through your voice!! You truly are a blessing!
I am a teacher at Neptune Middle School coordinating the AVID program ( Advancement Via Individual Determination). We would like to make a video of our students doing a cardobard testimonial for before and after AVID. We chose Natalie Grant’s Song ” What are we waiting for” However, to use this song as a sound clip for the whole song as the music behind the video I have to have permission to use it.
Could you Natalie Grant and or Producer hubby Bernie Hems authorize myself, Sarah Butler at Neptune Middle School Kissimmee, Florida, to use this song for this purpose. We are not selling the video. We are creating it for a school purpose and to recruit new students into AVID. It will be used to show the student body and recuit interested parents. I was planning to have this all completed by March 15, 2010. So I need a quick permission to not break copyright law.
thanks Sarah Butler
Did you watch the MSNbC on sex slaves in America. They did a segment on San Antonio (exclusive downpart area). There is so much human trafficking going on!! And the cops or whoever has power to shut down these so called
“massage pallors” cannot keep up with the pimps. Every time they stop them, the crooks discover new and more “sophisticated” avenues to traffick humans. Do you think it’s a loosing battle ?? The cops admit that they cannot erradicate it. The crooks just get more vigilant and device better methods of staying under the radar as long as they can.
MSNBC addmitted that attacking the demand( the men asking for the services) is the only solution. the reported that human trafficking is a multi billion industry in the us alone.
I know you are involved with this kind of organization to help those who are victimized and enslaved. they also reported that a large number of missing children in the us are being trafficked somewhere in a surburb in each state. I watched this documentary and it was scary to say the least.
Even though it may seem that what you are doing is not making such a difference, just know that even one person rescued is a HUGE difference and God does notice.
I am a young woman who has Narcopelpsy and Fibromyalgia to name a few of my diagnoses. You learn to live with them and not let them dominate your life. But there are those days or even weeks when your body makes it known that it isn’t going to cooperate with you. The first time I heard this song and the part when Natalie sings about walking a mile with a woman whose body is torn I cried. I connected with it on a personal level because I march on and Hope is my guide. God is so good to me and is my lover and sustainer.
My sister has been battling with stage IV colon cancer with multiple metastasis to lungs and abdomin for almost 6 years now. She is only 41 years old and has 2 boys, 12 and 14. She has never been in remission and is on chemotherapy almost continually. This form of colon cancer is hereditary. (I also was treated at the age of 27. Although, I spent over 5 months in the hospital and almost died from mutliple surgeries, on a ventilator, trache, etc., I never had to go through chemo. Praise God!) When I heard your song, I immediately knew I had to sing it in church for my sister. But for some unknown reason to me at the time, I held off. And then, multiple tragedies happened. The same week that I had a miscarriage (19 weeks pregnant), a lady in our church was diagnosed with breast cancer and another lady in our church lost her 45 year old husband after a surgery ( and left behind 4 children). That is when I sang “Our Hope” in church. Thank you for such a beautiful and meaningful song. Our hope is not based on good or bad circumstances but on the power of God and His grace to us through His Son Jesus.
I know for a Fact that Our Hope Endures because I’m a Christian!! And I had alot of surgeries in the past. I knew that God has some hope in me through that time!! My dad died in February of 2003!! That’s when I started going to church and then in a little awhile my mom and I got saved and Baptize on Easter!!! It was so wonderful knowing all my sins are forgiven!! But if we sin we have to ask for frogiveness!!
My wife and I are leaders of a Christian based Support Group, My wife also taught the same program in a local women’s shelter. One week after we took over leadership of our support Group my wife was diagnosed with breast and kidney cancer. Shortly after that We went to your concert at 1st Baptist in Euless, TX. That was the first time she heard “Our Hope Endures”. Since then it has become my wife’s favorite song. She has sang it in a few churches, and given her testimony on how God brought her through the surgeries, chemo, radiation, fear, pain. One of the things the enemy tries to convince us is that we are all alone, and no one understands our suffering. I am so grateful for my wife and that God has used this time in her life to touch so many lives. to show them that we do have hope in an Eternal God that loves us more than we can ever imagine.
I did not know of the struggles God would allow me to experience when I posted my first comment in January of 2009 about how this song has touched my life. I spoke of dealing with family issues and a bi-polar Mother… Since then, my dear mom has experienced many many hard times and has been hospitalized two different times in the summer of 2009 for her illness. In July, right before her two hospitalizations, my parents went through a very unexpected and especially terrible divorce that has torn our family apart piece by piece. Trying to be strong for my younger brother and attending my freshman year of college has definitely been possible only by the strength of Jesus Christ – but Our Hope Endures has always been the extra encouragement I need to push through that especially hard day or week. I can never be reminded enough of the faithfulness of God… Even though our circumstances change, our world is shattered… our hope endures, with all glory to God. Thank you Natalie for sharing your God-given abilities, and this song, with the world.
Hi Natalie,
I love your music …
you could tell me if you will launch
a new cd?
sell it in Brazil!
always continue to bless
people with your music!
thanks!
Lost my job because of budget cuts. Played this song a lot in the wee hours of the morning when I couldn’t sleep because of worries about the future. It helped me refocus on God rather than my situation. God is faithful and I have a new and better job now.
It’s a beautiful song, Natalie, and shares a message that is so important to people when they’re struggling or ill or going through something rough.
I’ve gone through my brother’s murder trial {he was the murderer} and my Mom’s suicide attempt in the recent years and the love of God and the hope that brings got me through it all.
I was lifted up and loved through it all — only He deserves the credit. Only He is the one that got me through it and past it and to the point where I can write about it, talk about it, learn from it.
Keep singing God’s praises. You’re gifted with something special.
Janelle
Your music has meant so much to me over the past year. “Our Hope Endures” is especially important because my 20 year-old sister committed suicide last year on Easter Sunday. Everyone thought of her as a happy, joyful person who loved life. Unfortunately that was far from the truth. This song truly resonates right now as April 12th comes closer, because my grief is that much deeper.
I wish she had heard the song “Perfect People” because in her own mind she had to be perfect.
Keep touching the lives of others through your music.
Janet
TE QUIERO MUCHO NATALIE TE SIGO DESDE MI PAIS VENEZUELA
I have been in some of the darkest days of my 54 years in my life. On August 22 at 10:30 am mst, I discovered that my husband of 20 years had been unfaithful to me and our marriage vows. I am at the end of a very unexpected and unwanted divorce process. Immediately upon finding this information, I turned to the Lord in a very powerful way, seeking His help. In my search for comfort and peace, (my thanks to my family and friends), I began to listen to more and more Christian music. I “discovered” Natalie’s song “Held” first. It went from hearing the song, to seeking the lyrics. What a great comfort that song has been to my life. I, too, have found great solace in “Our Hope Endures”. I am strengthened each time I hear these songs, and I wanted to thank Natalie for the gift of such a beautiful voice and message to those of us who are suffering in so many ways. God Bless!
On my 25th birthday I was informed that, although my boss felt I was a leader on our management team, my position was being eliminated. This was after an unexpected medical bill and an enexpected increase in college loan payments had just come in. I was already feeling the financial crunch and I finally broke down. On my way to work the following day, my iPod was on shuffle and Our Hope Endures started playing. I had heard the song before, but this time I listened. I remember sitting at the stoplight and thinking, “This is God speaking to me.” I had left my house feeling down and was dreading my arrival at work. As soon as I heard the words, “Let the earth quake. Our hope is unchanged,” my mood immediately changed. It gave me such a sense of confidence in Christ. All of a sudden, I decided to stop dwelling on my worldly sorrow and focus my mind, body, and spirit on Christ. I continued to play this song throughout the week. Within days my medical bills and college loans were taken care of. 3 weeks later I was offered a position with my company. I accepted the position with words of praise!
“We never walk alone. This is our hope.”
Nat, please keep giving us some of the most beaufiful songs around…many of us are in a dark place right now and your music brings light to our lifes..GOD BLESS
I was taken back by the lyrics in the song “Held”
“To think that providence would take a child from his mother while she is prays is apalling.”
Job 1:
8 And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.”
9 Then Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
10 “Hast Thou not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
11 “But put forth Thy hand now and touch all that he has; he will surely curse Thee to Thy face.”
12 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power, only do not put forth your hand on him.”
Job 37:
13 “Whether for correction, or for His world, Or for lovingkindness, He causes it to happen.
14 “Listen to this, O Job, Stand and consider the wonders of God.
Job 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
2 “Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge?
3 “Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me!
4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding,
5 Who set its measurements, since you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
6 “On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Ms. Grant, you have a very unbiblical understanding of the sovereignty of God. You may be a popular singer, which will last for a short season, but you need to study God’s Word in order to understand how God works all things, including evil and death, to His glory, because He is God and He is sovereign.
For His glory alone,
Brian McLaughlin
Natalie,
The first time I heard your beautiful voice, I was in a deep depression during my cancer treatment. I had not smiled or laughed for days and was heartbroken to be separated from my new baby and toddler. There was no hope in my heart–just fear. I received your CD and played Awaken while I sat in the bathtub. I smiled and looked up to the sky for the first time in weeks. Your music does that for me. While I am struggling in life at this very moment, your songs always bring me hope and peace. Thank you for all that you do and please know that you are truly a gift to the people. Continue to spread your message of hope and share your light with the world.
This song gave me god-bumps all over when I first heard it. My best friend’s dad was going through a long and relentless battle with illness at the time. I tried for so long to comfort her, but words rarely came, and we spent a lot of time just sitting, crying, and praying. After about 2 months, her father passed away. I had no plan of what to say to her, but then I remembered this song and posted it to her facebook page to listen. It has helped both of us through these last few months, and is an anthem to both of our lives (I am a 3-time cancer survivor). Thank you so much for creating this song, and I can’t wait for your next song. Much love!
I just had to say how much I love your song “Held”. My second daughter was stillborn 2 years ago while I fought for my own life. I survived, she did not. The first thought that goes through your mind is why did God allow this to happen? Why take her and not me? Your song hit home for me and my husband. Although God allowed this tragedy to happen, he did keep me on this earth to be a mommy to my oldest daughter and my now 9 month old son. My faith was definitely put to the test and changed by this loss.
You are a beautiful, meaningful singer. Keep up the great passion you have!! God Bless!!
hi my name is lili francois I live in Panamá and 21 years old and nathalie grant is my favorite singer and old music are inspiration for me. and I belive jesus that you music is inspiration for my family God bless you natalie
Sure would like to hear you and Celine Dion do a duet…WOW…would that be a blessed event or what!!!
Yours in Christ….
Wayne D. Fincke
Edgewood, New Mexico
I AM BRAZILIAN BUT PARTICULARLY MASTER IS SONG SHE SPEAKS A LOT TO ME… NATALIE THAT GOD BLESSES YOU MORE AND MORE…
I love Natalie Grants ministry of music.God speaks to us through her music.She is surely a messenger of God.Her voice and music brightens my darkest days.Each and every song I hear her sing is so inspirational,beautiful,Our Hope Endures is another inspiring message from the heart of Natalie.Thank you God for this Angel
natalie’s new song is such a healing to my soul. I LOVE IT! Her testimony has also been a big help to me. hearing how she struggled with bulimia and the lies of the enemy and how she is now free has been a blessing to my life. I too struggeled with bulimia. Natalie’s testimony gave me the strength i needed to overcome, and with god’s help now i have been set free too. Thank you so much Natilie Grant.
This song affected me in the way of dealing with my moms death. It’s hard to accept gods plans but we all have to! My mom died last year about 1 or 2 months before I turned 14 it was hard still is but I’m going to get through because of ur songs I can relize that
A powerful song.
We lost a daughter — named Hope — two years ago (May 4). Her identical twin sister turns two on Sunday — so it is a bittersweet time for us.
But Hope does endure… literally and figuratively… The grief is real but healing does come…
I am also the son of a mother who has struggled with mental illness for most if not all of my life — I’ll be 40 in November. ( In some ways I think my daughter’s death has helped me to enter into and reckon with this deeper wound that has so defined my life.)
I definitely relate to the lyric:
“Sometimes the sun stays hidden for years… sometimes the sky rains night after night… When will it clear?”
I feel like a “cloud” has hung over my entire life… and I don’t even know if I was aware of it (at least not consciously) for many years… I though it was “normal”.
But the promise is that hope endures… no matter what.
ALAN
Your music has returned me from the greatest depression I ever had. I have been a drummer for 40 years until arthritis made it hard just to hold a fork. And now I cannot walk due to an disclosed ailment but I don’t want to go on but your music puts me in another place with Jesus and your new single worked better than the hydrmorphone for the pain. I got Relentless and it’s on all my ipods and now the physical cd was just ordered. Your music is a blessing and you are my angel. I may not walk but in Christ Alone I’m flying. Thank you for making my life worth living. Robbie
My sweet, sweet Grannie battled Cancer for around 10 years. This past Thursday, I was able to sing this song at her funeral. This song played on the radio as I was driving to be with my family after her death. I knew right then what I needed to sing. I began praying that God would use the song to comfort those who need comfort and convict unto salvation those who do not know the Hope (Jesus) that I know. The second verse was absolutely about my Grannie. She battled cancer and endless “rainy” days that never seemed to let up for her. Yet, she marched on because she KNEW that her Hope endured. She knew that the Lord’s plans are ALWAYS good and perfect. And that gave her a sure Hope and peace. As I was reading through her Bible the day before the funeral, I found where she had written “Emmanuel means God is with us.” Knowing this was in the song, I just smiled thinking of the the hope that had brought her through so many dark days… To know that the Creator of the Universe, the Saviour of the World was with her…What hope that gives! As I sang the line “El Shaddai, All Sufficient,” I made sure I looked at my Pa…to remind him that in the days ahead, our God, our Emmanuel, is still everything that he needs. My Godly Pa echoed “Amen.” I am so thankful for the Hope of knowing that my grannie is with JESUS…to know that she has meet the One who paid for her sins with His life…that she has joined the great cloud of witnesses…oh that the world would know the SURE Hope that salvation brings! Thank you for such a Hopeful song!
I was diagnoised with breast cancer and my sister gave me the CD. I listen every day to “Our Hope Endures”. This is my song and now my 13 year old son says it’s his favorite…Thank you for a wonderfull moving song.
I just wrote a blog post about one of your songs, and how it happened to be played yesterday morning, the anniversary of a hospitalization just weeks after my third child was born last year, and how it ministered to me. It wasn’t this song, but “Held,” but thought I’d tell you that I love your music and especially how this song spoke to me yesterday. http://www.ramblinred.com/2010/05/most-triumphant-tuesday.html
I also just read the 700 Club interview with you (didn’t see a date) and learned of your past struggle with Bulimia. I share that pain and triumph of God’s deliverance from it with you, having been bulimic for a 2 year period when I was in high school.
Bless you, dear sister.
Natalie, My sister sent me your CD when I was having a terrible time trying to get off of pain medications after a five year addiction. I am a mother of 2 and have been sick for about 9 years. I was seriously considering ending my life. After listening to your CD I realized I was not alone and people understood my condition. The Lord has released me from my addictions and I have been better than ever. My family has their sister and daughter back. Thank you for standing in the gap and allowing Christ to minister to us through you.
You have performed at our church in Springfield, MO and my husband helped your team with the sound. He is our sound engineer. He loved working with you. Small world.
Thank you again. God bless
Jodi
I was listening to K-Love a Christian station and your song “Held” came on. I know God delivered that to me at that moment. I had breast cancer 12 years ago and after going through 4 rounds of chemotherapy, and raditation the most unimagineable thing happened….my 14 year old daughter died suddenly from menningococal meningitis. YOUR “Held” is the most accurate and beautiful way to describe how God “Held” me through the past 12 years. It brings me to tears when I listen to it. Thank you for this inspired and beautiful song. May God continue to bring comfort to others through your beautiful voice and music.
With Much appreciation,
Shayla Holtkamp
Over the spring time and when Palm Sunday was coming around our whole family reunited in the keys with the grandparents. They are so full of Jesus! Truly dedicated. It is true, my grandparents both work at a prison in Monroe County, Key West. Their ministry is to serve the Lord and spread the gospel.
I’m seventeen now, and he left us when I was only sixteen. . .
While the whole family was at the keys, and it was Palm Sunday, also my father’s birthday, my grandfather passed away and went to be with the Lord. He suffered a surprise heart attack. It was shocking and sad for the whole family. We all suddenely went into the weekend with grief. It was difficult.
Two weeks later the whole family travelled back to the keys to celebrate his life with a memorial service. It was extremely difficult. I didn’t think I could go on, for he was gone, and the first closest person to my life. He was absolutely wonderful
For a while I was upset, angry, stressed. So I took my ipod and blocked out everything and listened to “Our Hope Endures”. It saved me from pitying myself, grief, anger… Now I can go on. With hope I can go on! Thank you for the inspirational and healing. Day by day I go on, with Jesus holding me.
My grandfather would say,
“It don’t get no better than this.”
Well, if you ever ask me, he’s saying that over and over in Heaven, fishing on the Chrystal Sea and walking on Golden Roads with Jesus!!
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Hi my name is Adeala. I was born with a terminal brain tumor, doctors said I wouldnt leave to be 3. But I have amazing parents and they pulled out all the stops to see what kind of treatment could be done. I had tons of surgeries and basically lived in a hospital until I was 2. My parents trusted God and knew he would take me when it was time. I lived to see my 3rd birthday and what a great birthday it was I lived all the way to today obviously..
I am 17 today, my condition is worse and I have dont have enough strength in my legs to walk on my own and walk with either cans or in my motor scooter its orange I got it for my birthday. Who know that this would be possible to even say that im alive, all of your songs show me how much I have to be thankful for and that our God is so giving and provides with everything. I was saved at the age of 10 and later baptisted my parents and I have been through some rough times like medical bills when my dad lost his job 2 years ago when the economy started to begin its downward turn, or when I was home alone and fell down our stairs and hit my head I was home alone for hours until someone finally came home. Things have came our way but with God we always make it through, I took a turn this past year and now im not allowed to do much but of my internal bleeding. I really didnt know if I would make it through the treatments this time but the Lord opened my eyes again to show me that he provides and when it is time I will look forward to seeing my Savior. Thank you for all of your beautiful music/worship and all the you do!
God Bless and lots of Love,
Adeala
I was just listening to this song a few days ago. It is a very powerful song to hear. Whether you’ve lost a loved one, or just going through hard times, like me, you always know that your hope in God never leaves us. It is unchanged. God is with us each and every day.
I love your song “Our Hope Endures”.
Natalies music has inspired me. I first discovered her just weeks ago. I had a CD of her and never really listened to her before. I am a devoted Christian and I love the Lord with all of my heart. My daughter happened to go in my CD holder and said here play this. I have gone through a lot of trials and tribulations in life. I just recently faced the fact that I was abused sexually by someone who was supposed to love me and protect me. I have been recovering from this in the past 3 weeks. The CD that I put in of her was amazing. It has got me through this ordeal more than you can imagine. The CD is “Awaken” “Bringing it all together”. The parts of the song that touched me were: “Like I can’t go on”. “I can’t understand the reason” why that happened to me. “He is going to make me laugh and be happy again”. “We may not understand the reason”. But I know that his promise will never change. “He will bring it all together for good”. “I know that there will come a day for healing”. “He is going to take your pain and doubt and bring it all together.” And he is doing just that. I can’t stop playing it. It remind me of what I am going through. Thank You Natalie.