{"id":9396,"date":"2024-02-11T22:58:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T17:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/11\/zach-williams-reveals-how-fellow-christian-artists-song-radically-changed-his-life\/"},"modified":"2024-02-11T22:58:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T17:28:22","slug":"zach-williams-reveals-how-fellow-christian-artists-song-radically-changed-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/11\/zach-williams-reveals-how-fellow-christian-artists-song-radically-changed-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Williams Reveals How Fellow Christian Artist&#8217;s Song Radically Changed His Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-cbn-component-name=\"wysiwyg_editor\">\n<p>It took Zach Williams traveling to Europe, riding in a van, and hearing Big Daddy Weave to realize things needed to change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty incredible story, what God\u2019s done in my life, throughout my life,\u201d reflected Williams during a recent appearance on CBN\u2019s \u201cFaith vs. Culture,\u201d where he talked about his forthcoming memoir, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rescue-Story-Faith-Freedom-Finding\/dp\/0310368464\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2WZQYICC4P45U&amp;keywords=rescue+story+faith%2C+freedom%2C+and+finding+my+way+home&amp;qid=1707236761&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=rescue+story%2Cstripbooks%2C104&amp;sr=1-1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rescue Story: Faith, Freedom, and Finding My Way Home<\/a>,\u201d releasing Feb. 27.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zach Williams on How God Rescued Him From &#039;Dark&#039; Past | Faith vs. Culture - February 5, 2024\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1HjyuY8qjZk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In high school, Williams developed a penchant for drugs \u2014 addictive behaviors he carried into his twenties, when he joined a rock band, stepping into a world of decadence and indulgence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started traveling and touring, which that just led me down an even darker path,\u201d said Williams. \u201cI thought, in order to play music, I needed to live a certain lifestyle. If I was gonna be in a rock band, that meant you did drugs and you use alcohol on a daily basis and you live this reckless lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade, Williams was all in, trapped in a downward spiral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went pretty hard,\u201d he admitted. \u201cI didn\u2019t think about the next day; I just lived for the moment. And I carried it into a marriage, I carried it into being a father and a husband.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to them on the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"482\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?p=CCBNC3640195386\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2012, as he was traveling to Europe with his band, Williams said he came to the realization the way he was living was not sustainable. He was raised in the church and knew \u2014\u00a0unless something changed \u2014\u00a0he was on a path that would cost him everything, including his wife and children.<\/p>\n<p>Sick and tired of being sick and tired, Williams asked God to prove Himself to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was riding in a van one day and the guy driving the bus was scanning radio stations and, out of nowhere, I hear this song called \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VzGAYNKDyIU?feature=shared\">Redeemed<\/a>\u2018 by Big Daddy Weave come across the radio and, man, that song just hit me; it struck a chord,\u201d said Williams. \u201cI listened to the lyrics when I got to the hotel room and I called my wife and I said, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m done. I\u2019m out of here,\u2019 and she couldn\u2019t believe it. But I came home from that tour and quit my band and I cancelled all my shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within a year\u2019s time, Williams and his family were part of a church community and he had been asked to help launch a new campus for his church and work there as a worship leader. That\u2019s when he got the opportunity to start writing Christian music in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>Now as a believer \u2014 and recording artist whose songs testify to how the Lord has redeemed him \u2014\u00a0Williams said his life \u201cis so much better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s conviction on my life that I didn\u2019t have before,\u201d he explained. \u201cSo, for me, I love sharing those stories with the world. I love writing songs from places in my life that I\u2019ve been hurt or I\u2019ve experienced joy. I think, for me, [sharing my story] is a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Growing up, the \u201cOld Church Choir\u201d singer said his parents prayed Jeremiah 29:11 over him and now, he said, he\u2019s seeing the fruit of that \u201cprophetic\u201d prayer from his mom and dad.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until years later \u2014\u00a0after Williams abandoned his childhood faith, fell into drug addiction, and ran from his Christian roots all before returning to the Lord \u2014\u00a0that the recording artist learned his parents were impressed years earlier by the Holy Spirit, when a pastor who prayed over him as a child told Williams\u2019 parents their son would be \u201ca voice for my generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His parents never forgot, though. Year after year, they went to smoky bars and dark venues to support their son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would come to these concerts; they would watch me get drunk on stage; they would watch me use drugs,\u201d Williams said. \u201cBut they were always there, sitting there praying that God was going to take all of this mess and turn it into some message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whenever they saw Williams perform, they made sure he got home safely and would end the night by praying over him and his bandmates \u2014 prayers that have, in the years since, paid off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was 33 years old when I gave my life to the Lord, after growing up in church, with a dad who was a worship leader and a mom who sang at church,\u201d he said. \u201cIt took a long time, but they believed and trusted in God. \u2026 Being faithful and trusting in God is really all we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the rest of our conversation in the video above.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/entertainment\/2024\/february\/zach-williams-reveals-how-fellow-christian-artists-song-radically-changed-his-life\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took Zach Williams traveling to Europe, riding in a van, and hearing Big Daddy Weave to realize things needed to change. \u201cIt\u2019s a pretty incredible story, what God\u2019s done in my life, throughout my life,\u201d reflected Williams during a recent appearance on CBN\u2019s \u201cFaith vs. Culture,\u201d where he talked about his forthcoming memoir, \u201cRescue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}