David Neufeld

(Germany)

Song: Ich wähle dich (I choose You)


"This song is a reminder that nothing in this world can really satisfy you, except for your relationship to God. 

Sometimes it seems that God isn't there with us but when we look back, we see that he was there all along."

 

Tatarinova Vita

(Ukraine)

Song: Ти мій Бог (You Are my God)


The song "You are my God" is a confession of love to the Creator, who once found a seventeen-year-old girl in the world, changed her life, and became her Heavenly Father. It is the song of a grateful heart singing of the greatness of its God.

Psalm 138:1-6 "Lord, You have tested me and You know me. You know when I sit down and when I rise. You know my thoughts beforehand. You have determined my path and my place of residence, and all my ways are known to You. More there is no word on my tongue, but You, Lord, know everything. You have established Your hand on me. It is wonderful for me, and I cannot comprehend it."

Lord, this is from me to You. With love, Your Vita Tatarinova


Leonor Raza

(Spain)

Song: Me Pusiste Nombre (You Named Me)



 

Ljubica Zemunović (Croatia)

 Song: Dolazi Isus (Jesus is Coming)



When I wrote this song ten years ago, I was in a very difficult existential situation. I felt partly

responsible for the situation, and that created a pressure of guilt and helplessness in my mind and

heart. I had the impression that I did not hear the Lord well and that I was not worthy to do

anything in His name... and my calling and service is to praise the Lord in prayer and song. And so

one day, crying, I prayed and asked the Lord to show me where the two of us stand?...And I read

the book of the prophet Isaiah. I somehow found myself in the 12th chapter.

While I was reading, that message somehow became close to me. At the very end of the reading,

the prophet in my spiritual ear began to shout, I proclaim throughout the world because he has

done wonderful works!

At that moment, I instantly experienced comfort, and my gaze returned to the beginning of the

text. And as I started reading again, a song came to my heart....I read the text and sang

what I was reading.

I recorded it and here it is...My strength is the song of Yahweh!!! He is my salvation!!!

I proclaim it!!!


With this comfort in mind, came the solution to my problem and ways to get out of the situation.

The solution took more time than the song, but I am a witness that God is faithful and helps when

I call on him in times of trouble.

Bettina Rose

(Germany)

Song: Dem sei der Dank (To Him be Thanks)


Last year, my 10-week teaching placement was a traumatic experience. I had a mentor who was very strict and coldly distanced with me. It felt like she had put me in the wrong box from the first day on. Her feedback consisted of all the mistakes that I made, but there was almost no recognition for the effort and the little improvement that I made. With every week, grew more afraid of her, and I could not teach well because I was so paralyzed by my anxiety. I cried myself to sleep very often during that time and Sunday afternoons were especially hard because I knew that a new week was coming. I came out of this practicum with a broken self-confidence and a lot of fear of making mistakes and being judged by others. Two weeks after I came back home, I wrote this song. It's a song of praise at the beginning of this journey of healing, a song about the victory in Christ over fear and bad memories. I went to counselling for the last half year, and right now, I am doing another teaching placement at a different school. The Lord is restoring my joy of teaching and helps me to overcome my fear.


 

Rieznikov Ivan Michailovich

(Ukraine)

Song 1: Благословенний Цар (Blessed King)



Song 2: Тримай (Hold On)


Nathan Garrett

(Romania)

Song 1: Te Laud (I Praise You)


Te Laud was the first song I wrote in Romanian. It came at a time when I got pretty hurt on the soccer field and so I had more time to actually sit down and work on something that I had wanted to do for awhile. A lot of writing this song was searching the Scriptures for phrases that rhymed and made sense together! Psalm 16 verse 2 and 11 was the main inspiration for the bridge where the verses were made up of a combination of passages from Psalm 119 and the beautiful story of God giving up His Son for us and the chorus was largely inspired by Psalm 27:8.


Song 2: Te Dorește Sufletul Meu Pe Tine (My Soul Longs for You)


Te Dorește was a song about loving and cherishing God and His Word. The first line translated says, “I can’t even wait to wake up in order to read Your Word.” The title came from Psalm 42:1 when the Psalmist describes his ardent longing for God. I wanted to convey this longing for God to the people in my church. Verses from Psalm 119 are scattered throughout because again, the Psalmist continues to thank God for His commands and plead with Him for the blessing of granting him obedience. Other Psalms were also used such as Psalm 34:8 when David says, “Taste and see that the LORD is good!”


Song 3: Mica 6:8 (Micah 6:8)


As you may have guessed, this song was inspired by Micah 6:8 but I also pulled a lot from Matthew 25:31-46. The song is written in the perspective of Jesus and He is telling someone, “you say that you love me and that you are my follower but why don’t you do what I tell you? Why don’t you listen to My Word?” It’s meant to bring conviction to us but also hope that we don’t have to perform a long list of tasks in order to be saved. But that we must put all of our hope in Christ’s work on the cross and in the resurrection and then simply do what He says! The chorus is a direct quote of Micah 6:8 and I love the last line of that verse, God simply wants us to walk humbly with Him! It’s all about relationship.

 

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