Basement Psalms Live (Rick Lee James) FULL CONCERT

Rick Lee James and Brandon Hancock perform original musical adaptations of Psalms across five sections, from Psalm 1 through Psalm 150. They weave in teaching, personal stories, and audience participation, moving from warnings against the wicked through laments, confessions, and hero narratives to a final jubilant call for all creation to praise God.
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Welcome to Basement Psalms.
This is Psalm 1.
The wicked give directions down the easy street, blessed are those who do not follow them. The wicked follow the crowd wherever it may lead, blessed are those who do not follow them. Those who keep their minds upon the things of God be like trees planted by the water, growing deep their roots, they will bear good fruit And the leaves will not be withered on the ground. God will watch their paths and they'll learn to watch him back. But beware the roads the wicked send you down. Wicked, like the chaff, the wind will blow away. Blessed are those who do not follow them. The wicked cannot stand stand up on the judgment day. Blessed are those who do not follow them. Those who keep their minds upon the things of God will be like trees planted by the Watcher, growing deep their roots. They will bear good fruit and the leaves will not be withered on the ground. God will watch their paths and they'll learn to watch him back. But beware the roads the wicked send you down. The wicked will not stand. Only a righteous man has a place before a righteous God. There are many ways, so which one will you take? Blessed are those who take the righteous ones. Growing deep their roots, they will bear good fruit, and the leaves will not be withered on the ground. God will watch their paths, and they'll learn to watch him back, but beware the roads the wicked send you down. ¡Gracias!
Thank you. Well, welcome to Basement Psalms. This has been a project of mine that I have been working on for over a year now, and I wanted to write a project where I started at Psalm 1 and I went to Psalm 150 and did them all. Now, don't be scared. I'm not doing 150 songs tonight, I promise. There's actually 5 sections in the psalm. The one you just heard was Psalm number 1. It's a didactic psalm, which is a big word, means it's a teaching song. So it's telling you about all the warnings about following wicked people, and that's where the psalms start. So I'm gonna take you on kind of a journey tonight. There's 5 sections. I'm going to do 2 songs from each section, so 10 songs total this evening. I call this Basement Psalms for 2 reasons. One, because Psalms are 60% laments. They're crying out to God from the very deepest, darkest places, and most of us have deep, dark basements if we have a basement at all. So I thought, well, there's not much more real of an area that we can get to than in the depths. So it's Basement Psalms, but it's also called Basement Psalms because I, I wrote and worked on and crafted most of these in my basement. So two different reasons. So it's Psalms from the basement, and there's no faking it from the Psalms. I'm going to ask my friend Brandon Hancock to come up and join me. This is going to be a sing-along tonight, and there's going to be kind of a little echo part that I want the ladies to sing along with Brandon and he's a very manly guy. It's nothing about his manhood or anything like that. But this is from Psalm number 8. Eugene Peterson has this really great story about a man that came from North Carolina to the mountains of Montana because he'd heard how beautiful and how wonderful and amazing that their mountains were. Just the wonder and beauty captured him. But while he was there, he actually got attacked by a grizzly bear. Which kind of ruins your trip. And from the hospital, he said in an interview, "I'm never coming back here again." He didn't realize, as Eugene Peterson said, how dangerous wonder and beauty can be. And it made me think through about, you know, all the things we say about God and all this beauty and power and might, but sometimes we take him too lightly. And so this is just a song just to say to him, Lord, How majestic is your name in all the earth. It's Psalm 8. I'm going to teach you the chorus, and then I'd like you to sing along with me on the choruses. And, uh, and ladies, sing with Brandon when, when he does the echo part. Here we go, Psalm 8.
Aloha. How majestic is your name. How majestic is your name, oh Lord. Aloha. How majestic is your name. How majestic is your name. How majestic is your name in all the earth.
Okay, try to sing Sing that out with us now.
Oh Lord, Elohim, how majestic is your name, how majestic is your name. Oh Lord, Elohim, how majestic is your name. How majestic is your name, how majestic is your name in all the earth. In all the earth we see your hand in the creatures of the air, the sea and the land, the little babies cry your name, and the enemy is broken by their praise! Oh Lord— Yahweh! Ah Lord—
Yahweh!
How majestic is Your Name? How Majestic Is Your Name?! O Lord— Yahweh! Ah Lord— Yahweh! How majestic is your name, how majestic is your name, how majestic is your name in all the earth. The moon above, the starry skies, you set your glory in the heavens. So Father, who am I that you would dwell your thoughts on me? That you would put the whole world under my feet? Oh Lord, our Lord, Yahweh. How majestic is your name. How majestic is your name, oh Lord. Yahweh, Elohim. Yahweh, how majestic is your name. How majestic is your name. How majestic is your name in all the earth. Oh Lord, Yahweh, Elohim. How majestic is your name. How majestic is Your name alone! Yahweh— how glorious! How majestic is your Name? How majestic is Your Name?! How majestic is Your Name? How majestic is Your Name!? How majestic is Your Name?! In all of earth!
Mr. Brandon Hancock, thank you for Hallelujah! Well, we're already into section 2 of the psalm, which runs from Psalm 42 to 72, for those of you that are taking notes— nerds. Anyway, but Psalm 42 is one of these basement psalms, as we talked about earlier. It's a cry out to God from the deepest, darkest places. We actually sing this song in a lot of churches sometimes, We almost sing it like a lullaby, you know, it's, "As the deer panteth for the water." I hope I don't get in trouble for copyright infringement for singing that on my album. But anyway, as beautiful as that song is, it couldn't be further from the tone of this psalm. Many people believe that the writer of this psalm had actually experienced being kidnapped, and while being a hostage, was being mocked and tormented by his captors, and they were mocking him saying, "Where's your God now? Why won't your God now come and save you?" And it's actually this psalm that Jesus quotes significant parts of, maybe the whole thing, we just don't have it recorded, from the cross. And so that's how deep and dark of a song this really is. And yet there is a resolve in it that says, in spite of all this, I will still praise him. And so that's what I wanted to bring tonight, is Psalm number 42, I Will Still Praise Him.
As the deer pants for water, so my soul, it thirsts for you, the living God, the living God. My tears won't stop falling. In the daytime or the night, and people say, "Where is your God?" I used to go to the house of the Lord with shouts of joy and praise. Those were the days Why are you downcast, oh my soul? Why so disturbed inside? Put your trust in the Lord your God. Even in these times, I will still praise him. Praise him. Clear my name, deliver me. You're the refuge that I seek from these wicked men, all these evil men. Send your light, send your truth. Have you cast me off from you? All these wicked men trying to bring me down. Bring me back to your dwelling place. Let me sing for joy again. For the wicked will not win. Why are you downcast, oh my soul? Why so disturbed inside? Put your trust in the Lord your God. Even in these times, I will still praise him. Praise him. <LYRICS>As the deep calls to deep, as the waves begin to roll over me, I will sing your songs. Enemies have surrounded and they throw their words</LYRICS> to me? Where is your God? Where is your God? Have you forgotten about me, Lord? The thunder drowns your voice, but I still have a choice. Why are you downcast, oh my So why so disturbed inside? Put your trust in the Lord your God. Even in these times, I will still praise him. Praise him. I will still praise him. I will still praise him. Thank you very much.
Well, Psalm number 51 is another of these basement psalms, but this one is not so much crying out from the depths because of something someone else has done to the writer, but this one is actually attributed to David and to his sin with Bathsheba. And it's raw. It doesn't sugarcoat anything. When we come to this psalm, it's not trying to hide anything about, anything about himself at all. Um, King David literally caught with his pants down here. He's guilty of deceit, adultery, He's guilty of murder. Worst of all, worst of all these things, he's guilty of forsaking his God for other loves. And there's a line that didn't make it into the song that I wrote because I couldn't figure out how to rhyme a word with hyssop exactly and make it sound right. But there's this plant called hyssop, and it's actually used for a soap, and it talks about cleansing. You know, it says, Lord, cleanse Cleanse me with hyssop, wash me with hyssop, cleanse me in my inmost places, it said. But hyssop is not only a soap that was used, it was also a laxative. And if you want to think about like the depths David is trying to go to, to be clean before God, saying, I will do absolutely anything to be right with you again, inside, outside, upside down side. I mean, he's literally like I mean, it's not a funny psalm, but when you think about it in that context, David is just stripped so bare and he is so raw before the Lord, he's willing to try anything. And I think for any of us who have been there before, we understand what it means to be caught in the depth of our own sinfulness and to be confronted with that sin. And you have the choice, all of us do in those moments, are we gonna try to hide and cover up and pretend it's Halloween and wear a mask around and act like everything's okay? Or are we just gonna do like David did? And the one good thing he did in that whole narrative was the one right thing that he did was actually turn back to the Lord. And that's where this psalm comes from. It's Psalm 51, Save Me.
Oh, mercy, please have mercy according to your steadfast love, oh God. My sin is before me, and I have sinned against you, Lord my God. I know you're right. When you judge me, I have done evil in your sight. I knew I was wrong when I fell to sin's desire, so I won't I won't even try to justify. Cleanse me, please cleanse me. Only you can wash me white as snow. Teach me your wisdom. Hide your face from all that I am. Have done. Create in me a clean heart. Cast me not away from you. Save me to save others. Open up my mouth to sing your praise. My heart is my offering. I give it back to you for all my days. You've no delight in a sacrifice of show. So I give to you, my God, all my heart and soul. Broken apart is a heart you won't despise. So I give to you this broken life. Lord, I give to you this broken life. Save me, save me, save me. Save me.
And that's a tough psalm to get through, actually. I have prayed it for real a few times myself. For sure. But where else can we go? Who else could we go to with all the wrongs that we've done in our time of greatest distress? Name any situation in life that you couldn't take to the Lord. I, I don't think there is one. I, I can't possibly think of one. And, um, we're right here in the middle. We're in section 3 of the Psalms now, Psalm 73 through 89. For you nerds taking notes, you know, all that stuff. But I've always been interested with heroes, and those of you that know me know that I'm big into comic books. I've got way too many in my basement. And one thing that I've always found interesting about heroes is almost always, almost without exception, the hero always wins in the end. I mean, you can go back to old cowboy movies and, you know, it's white hat white hats and black hats, which sounds very racist now that I think about it. But you have this idea of good versus evil, and good always wins. But if you just come to the middle of the story, which is right where we are in the Psalms— and most people think that these 5 sections correspond with Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. So we find ourselves right in the middle of the story of God's people being told through Psalms. And songs and prayers. And at this point, I have to wonder, like, do the heroes really win?
You know?
And I thought about all the stories that I know, like in "Lord of the Rings," Gandalf, you know, he fights the Balrog on the bridge, and he goes into the fiery pit, and you think, "Well, that's it for him." And yet later on, he comes back more victorious. Luke Skywalker, you know, Luke, I am your father, and he gets his hand cut off, and that doesn't seem like a victory, you know, and then he falls down what looks like to his death. If you just stop the story there in Star Wars— Empire Strikes Back, rather— you would think, man, this is kind of a bummer story. The hero just lost. And then a crucified Jesus from a cross. That doesn't sound like a winning story at all. And I think all of us have to remember when we find ourselves in those really deep deep, dark, desperate places where we're crying out for God, this is not the end of the story. We're not at the end yet. Evil will never win, not ultimately. It will never prevail. And so the hope of Psalm 73, which I'm going to share for you next, the psalmist, like many good pastors, come and say, "Lord, I'm doing everything that I can right." I'm doing my best and everything's going wrong while the wicked are prospering all around me. Well, that's what this song is all about. Whom have I in heaven but you? And if you get the chorus, I'd love for you to sing along with me on this song.
ever humble. Their bodies are sound, their pockets are full. They scoff at the righteous ones. They say you don't know, they say you can't see. But where else can I go? Whom have I in heaven but you? There's nothing on the earth I desire more. My flesh may fail, but you are the strength of my heart forever. I walked into the house of the Lord trying to understand the bitterness in my soul. Made me a foolish man. But you didn't scorn. You held my hand. You led me home again. You are the shelter the world hasn't seen. So I'll tell everyone I can. Whom will I in heaven but you? There's nothing on the earth I desire. Desire more. My flesh may fail, but you are the strength of my heart. Forever, whom would I in heaven but you? There's nothing on the earth I desire more. My flesh may fail, but you are the strength of my heart. Forever. Your nearness is my good. Your nearness is my good. Truly good. You're truly good. So who am I in heaven but you. There's nothing on the earth I desire more. My flesh may fail, but you are the strength of my heart forever. Who would I in heaven but you? There's nothing on the earth I desire more. My flesh may may fail, but you are the strength of my heart forever. Your nearness is my— nearness is my— nearness is my good. Your nearness is my— nearness is my— nearness is my good. Your nearness is my— Nearness is my good! Your nearness is my— Nearness is my— Nearness is my good! Your nearness is my goood... your nearness is my gooood!
Well, with those heavy songs that I just sang this evening, um, these next few I want to encourage you to sing along with me on. Psalm 89 is— and the one following are just songs of praise. This is one that I call just kind of my breath of fresh air. If you can remember these words, "Your love will be my song forever," you've got the chorus, okay? So I want to encourage you to sing along tonight. But Psalm 89 is just such a beautiful song of the Lord. It's actually a royal song that they would actually sing to the king and would be about his rule on earth. Truth, but I think as we reinterpret it through the years, it's actually a song very much about who God is. And it goes like this: I will declare your faithfulness.
You have made You made a promise to your chosen one. Let heaven declare your faithfulness. Hear the holy— The angels fill the skies with praise as all of the gods bow down to you, holy and righteous in all that you do. Your love will be be my song. Your love will be my song. Your love will be my song forever. You rule the seas, the crashing waves, but they only rage until you say, "Be still." The north and the south, the east and the west are held in your right hand. Faithfulness. Justice and mercy flow from your throne. Your name is exalted all eternity long. Sing it out now. And your love will be my song. Your love will be my song. Your love will be my song. Forever. <LYRICS>So even when hope is fading away, and when we are tempted to wander and stray, your love will be our song. Your love</LYRICS> Your love will be our song. Your love will be our song. Sing it again. Your love will be our song. Your love will be our song. Forever. Forever. Forever.
Give yourselves a hand. Great singing tonight. Well, we are already up to section 4 of the Psalms. There's only 5 sections, and section 4, for those of you keeping track, runs from Psalm 90 to 106. And let me give you a quick rundown because I really feel like this, this whole section corresponds to the book of Numbers. And I'm going to give you the RJV, the Rick Lee James version of scripture, okay? Not, not any any blasphemy intended or anything. This is just a quick summary, um, my summary of Numbers. God rescues his people from slavery. It's this whole recap. And as they're coming out of Israel— or as Israel is coming out of Egypt, I said that wrong— as they're coming out to the Promised Land, they don't get there right away. It takes them a long time. It takes them a lot of wandering through the desert, and they probably wished it was wandering through the dessert, but it was the desert. It was very, very, very— sorry, you don't have to laugh at that stupid joke. But it was a long time, 40 years, and then they thought they were going to enter into the Promised Land, and they sent out spies. And when they came back, 2 people said, "Hey, it's a great, it's a wonderful land, let's go take it." And 8 people said, "But there's giants." and they decided not to follow God. And they grumbled and they murmured and complained, and because they disobeyed the Lord and didn't enter the land, they had to wander 40 more years. And so the people complained and murmured and they disobeyed, and Moses, like a lot of good pastors, grumbles to God about the people, you know, "Lord, why have you given me these hard-hearted people to deal with?" And then God lets the consequences of Israel's sin as they're wandering in the desert, uh, you know, like literally bite them in the behind. There was snakes, you know, you can read about it in, in Scripture. And at one point their hope was that they would make a snake of bronze, and any of them who were bit by these fiery serpents could look up at the snake of bronze that was lifted up on high, and that would be the source of their healing. It's so interesting to me how things that can be so painful to us can also be such a source of our healing at the same time. It's interesting that we make antidotes from poison sometimes. It's very interesting how that all works. So this really prominent theme of, if you hear his voice today, don't turn away your hearts like you did in rebellion. Come back in obedience. So if you should hear him today, listen So that's where this next song comes from, Psalm 95. And please sing along with me as you get the words tonight.
Come, let us bow down and pray. Come, let us kneel before God our Maker. He is our Shepherd and we are the sheep of his hand. He holds the heights of the earth. He holds the depths of the sea and the skies. He is our Father. There is no end to his love. Come, let us sing unto the Lord. Come, let us make a joyful sound. Come, let us sing unto the rock of our salvation. If you should hear him today, if you should hear his voice calling your name, please do not my heart and your heart like you've done before. He is the highest of all. He is the King above all other gods. Why turn away from the peace he is offering you? So come, let us sing unto the Lord. Come, let us make a joyful sound. Come, let us Sing unto the rock of our salvation. Praise the Lord of all. Praise the Lord of all. Praise the Lord of all. Praise the Lord of all, enter his rest. So come, let us sing unto the Lord. Come, let us make a joyful noise. Sound. Come, let us sing unto the rock of our salvation. Praise the Lord of all. Praise the Lord Praise the Lord of all. Enter his rest. Enter his rest. Enter his rest. Rest. Enter his rest. Enter his rest. Thank you.
Well, Psalm 105 is a big thanksgiving unto the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name, make known his deeds among the people. So we're going to pick it up a little bit here.
Come on, sing out, call his name, make his glory known among the nations. Come on, sing out, call his name, make his glory known Today, give thanks to the Lord, call on his name. Make known his deeds among the people. Sing out his praise, glorify his name. Tell of all his marvelous works. Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name. Make known his deeds among the people. Sing out his praise, glorify his name, tell of all his marvelous works. He is our cloud when the sun scorches down. He is our fire when the darkness surrounds. He is our stream when the rivers run dry. He is our shelter till the storm passes by. Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name. Make known his deeds among the people. Sing out his praise, glorify his name. Tell of all his marvelous works. He is our grace when we lose the fight with sin. He's the restoration that is calling us back in. He is our salvation when there's nothing left to save. He's our hallelujah, giving us the words to praise. Come on, sing out, call his name. Make his glory known among the nations. Come on, sing out, call his name. Make his glory known today. Sing out his praise, glorify his name, tell of all his marvelous works. Come on, sing out, call his name, make his glory known among the nations. Come on, sing out, call his name, make his glory known today. Yeah, make his glory known today. Today, yeah, make his glory known today. Make his glory known today. Thank you. Glory to God.
Well, we're to the last section of the Psalms. Can you believe it already? Psalm 107 through 150. For those of you still keeping track, I don't know if you're writing it down or not, but the final section of the Psalms, um, it's a reminder again to not let our hearts wander. You know, if you look at Deuteronomy, there's this very famous Shema that is in there. It says, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord alone. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength." And it's interesting that as humans, our minds tend to wander. And maybe you're sitting there right now thinking, "I wonder how long he's gonna keep going?" You know, your mind's wandering, you're thinking, "Do I need milk on the way home?" You know, things like that. Your mind can start wandering and you're wondering what's next. Next. But if scripture teaches us anything, and if the Psalms teach us anything, it's that our hearts are also prone to wander, not just our minds. As a matter of fact, they're kind of synonymous in scripture as the same thing, the heart and the mind together. And I envision Psalm 130, which I'm about to sing, as the story of a person who has been reminded of God's love and God's grace But after seeing how great God is, something doesn't taste right in his own life. Seeing the glory of who God is, almost like the Isaiah 6 passage where he says, "I'm a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips." I think the person in 130, Psalm 130, is just realizing how far maybe they've drifted from the Lord and, and they want to be restored. And I love the intensity of this person because this person doesn't seem to be willing to move or to sleep or to do anything until he hears from the Lord. We used to call it this: until we prayed through, we would stay and pray until it was done. I don't hear that very often anymore about people that are willing to stay all night if that's what it takes and not sleep, but That's exactly, uh, what Psalm 130 is, and it's called More Than the Watchman. So here's Psalm 130.
Swallow my pride. If you should keep a record of wrongs, Lord, who could stand? All hope would be gone. I'll wait for you. Trust in your word. You give us grace when none is deserved. And more than the watchman waits for the morning, so does my soul wait here for you, Lord. I don't wanna move, I don't wanna Not gonna speak not till I know I've heard from your word. I'll wait all night with eyes wide open. Not gonna sleep till I am whole. Till I am whole. Till I am whole. Holy, yours. All of my life is held in your hands. Unfailing love covers my sin. You will redeem. You will restore. Out of your grace, forgiveness is poured. I wait for you. I trust in your word. You give us grace. For none is deserved. More than the watchman waits for the morning, so does my soul wait here for you, Lord. I don't want to move, I don't want to speak, not till I know I've heard from your word. I'll wait all night with eyes wide open. Not gonna sleep till I am whole, till I am whole, till I am whole. Holy, yo! Holy, yo! Not gonna sleep till I am whole, till I am whole, till I am whole, till I am whole, whole in you.
Well, when we finally get to Psalm 150, which is where we're at, it's the last one unless you're Catholic, then you have 151. But so no offense to any Catholics that are here tonight, but we're stopping at 150. And I always envision this when I get to 150. You started this journey where you're warned against the wicked, you've gone through the whole gamut of human emotions, you've come through everything, you've seen the glory of God and just how powerful and great and mighty he is. And you get to 150, it's like the service is ending. God has shown up, the people have been changed and renewed, and Psalm 150 is a praise song to leave on. And in this psalm, every instrument is called to come in, every hand is called to clap, every singer is called to belt it out, every dancer is called to dance. And it says, let everything that has breath praise the Lord. And it's, it's one of my favorite one of my favorite songs, although the words move quite along pretty fast in the chorus, so help me sing it, okay? And you can get tongue twisted with me, all right? Thank you again, guys, everybody. It's been great having you here for Basement Psalms. Here's 150.
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Praaaise the Looord! Prayise th' Loard! Preyse Th'e— <LYRICS>Praise the Lord and the saints, you weary. Praise to God up in the skies. Praise him for his mighty deeds, for his greatness now we sing. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord.</LYRICS> Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord in the sanctuary. Praise to God up in the skies. Praise him for his mighty deeds, for his greatness now we sing. Praise him on the harp, praise him on the lyre, Praise him on the trumpet! Praise 'em all around me— let it sound out loud to you today ♪♪ Lift It High by The Trumpet Boys Sisters of Christ Church Atlanta ♪♪ Let everything that has breath praise God; every tongue will speak his praises from afar away... Yeahhh!!! <LYRICS>Hold your hands up high for Jesus</LYRICS> Thank y'all so much guys, thank ya'll very much indeed. May we continue this journey together through worshiping our Lord JESUS-CHRIST!! Amen? Hallelujah, hallelu-jaaaaaiahh!!!! And I just want everybody who's watching us live right now online or at home here tonight because sometimes people say well what do they see when somebody watches YouTube videos like ours?! Well some things look weird but there was something amazing going down last night during church service then after everyone left he told my mom "I got saved!" She said no way!? You did?? He goes yeah man she didn't believe her either until later though haha. So amen brother Brian Gage Jr.! Blessings upon thee always dude, may thy life be filled fullness more than ever before! We love having been able to share these moments along side each other again alrighty boys n' girls come back next week if not sooner coming soon! Shalom family! Peace unto ye friends, shaloha ha-shalecha brothers and sisters!</LYRIC>Paise Him With Praise A Dance.</LYRICS> the Lord! Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Praise God! Thank you very much for joining us tonight on this special evening of worship at our church here today. We want to thank everybody who's been watching online or coming into town just like we have every week night right now. I'm so excited about what he has planned up next weekend— Sunday morning service. So if it was your first time tuning in live from home, please feel free to share that link out there because then more people can join along too. And again, thanks everyone for being part of something bigger than ourselves together. Amen? Well done guys! Hallelujah! Let me see some hands raised over my head all around the world.
It looks good! All praise be unto him! Glory be to Jesus Christ!
He reigns forevermore!
Oh yeah, yes sir!
Yeah boy! Yes ma'am! That's how we do things down under.
Come on y'all, let's sing another song.
You ready? Here comes number 2.
Ready? Are ya'll feeling blessed yet?
If not, come back tomorrow when they start playing music once again.
But until then, hey man... Hey girl... What does heaven look like inside? Can't wait till Heaven Comes Down.
Praise him on the harp, praise him on the lyre. Praise him with the dance, lift it high. Praise him on the trumpet, praise him on the drum. Praise him with the guitar, let it strum. Let heaven Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Let everything that has breath— let's go low... Praise God for this day; he will bless me again tomorrow through his goodness to help him who trusts on Him all of my days. Hallelujah. Everything That Has Breath prays The LORD! "Everything" means every living creature or thing alive?
Yes sir.
Okay then I'll sing it like you say 'everything' because we're not gonna do anything specific but just be thankful today so here goes everybody together now hey everyone come along please stand up if they can hear us okay guys how about some music from our friend Jonathon Wintersongerz?! Hey there friends welcome back once more into another edition of Sunday Worship Online at First Baptist Church Hendersonville Tennessee amen hallelujah thank You Jesus Christ wow what an awesome song isn't Praise the Lord! Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Let everything that has breath— Praise the Lord!
Yeah!
Thank you very much for coming to Basement Psalms tonight.
Thank you for being a part of this project. I am just touched. I'm thrilled. I want to say thank you to John. Thanks for being here with Out of Truth Records. Thank you so much. Absolutely could not have done this. Kind of a dream come true for me to get to do a live album. And Brandon Hancock, thank you, Brandon, because he helped so much with so many different things. And to my, to my wife who put up with countless hours of my practice in the basement and trying to figure out all this, you know, all that stuff. And to our little boy, we just found out we're having a boy in January, Alexander. So I'm looking forward to the day that he's old enough to carry my guitars around. So it's great stuff.
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