This Inpsiring Story Set to ‘Hard-Fought Hallelujah’ Will Bring You To Tears
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One fan’s special connection to “Hard Fought Hallelujah” serves as inspiration for Brandon Lake as he creates music.
“At the Opry, we did this song [and] found out later a whole family drove in to be there just for that song because their 8-year-old son has cancer,” Lake explained in an Instagram video, referring to he and Jelly Roll’s performance of “Hard Fought Hallelujah.”
Lake explained, “They’ve made him, like, the face of the cancer division at their hospital and ‘Hard Fought Hallelujah’ has been his fight track. It’s been his soundtrack of faith for trying to overcome and beat this cancer which, we’re going to believe, he’s going to be healed.”
“There’s this video of him with some boxing gloves on that inspires us to keep writing songs that are going to get people through,” he concluded. “That’s kind of the story of this song — trying to give people a soundtrack to keep going.”
Jelly Roll has spoken about why he wanted to collaborate with Lake on “Hard Fought Hallelujah.”
“This is so hard to talk about, because I’ve been called a ‘lukewarm’, a ‘fence-rider’, I’ve been called a ‘cussing Christian’. You know, I’ve had all these people, and I know that God’s got a lot more to do with me. I know that,” he said in an Instagram video. “I know I got a long way to go, and I know that my heart was only to share the faith that changed my life.”
Jelly Roll continued, “I might wear it a little different than other people, I might say things that other Christians don’t think are right to say, but ultimately, I have a heart for God and I have a heart for Jesus.”
In an interview with the K-LOVE Morning Show, Jelly Roll shared the bond he feels with Lake, saying, “[Lake] said to me on the phone everything that I wish the church would have.
“The way he made me feel is like, man, if I felt this way on Sunday when I went to a couple of churches, God knows where my journey would be at right now,” he continued. “Maybe the thing is that [if people weren’t] still mad at me for not being where they think I should be, maybe I’d already be there.”
Jelly Roll admitted that he’s gotten “so much wrong,” adding, “I can’t tell anybody how to get anything right. We’ll start there, but I think patience [is important]. And that’s what I feel around Brandon, that’s what I feel around his team, that’s what I feel around good Christian people.”
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“The understanding of that it’s not always a Damascus Road experience,” he said. “It’s not always Saul to Paul. Like, I’m in an active relationship here…if you knew how I was talking in interviews five years ago, and it’s all over the internet, go look it up, and then you see how I’m talking today. Imagine what God can do with me in five years?”
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