“For a long time the Lord would give me songs. I never had a desire to produce music. I never wanted to be an artist and do not consider myself one. What did happen was there would be these times where I would encounter the Lord in such a manner that I could actually hear a song, a sound, lyrics being played. It happened in such a drastic and sudden manner that I would be afraid I would ‘lose it’ and so I would quickly grab my phone to repeat the lyrics and the sound the best I could into the phone. My capabilities in music were very limited. I could hear the music as if the sound was being released through a radio but I had no idea what instrument it was or what chord it was, in fact I didn’t even know what a chord was. But even with my musically challenged skillset, I could very clearly hear it. And would be able to tell if a sound being replayed was the same as I had heard it in the spirit or not. 

There was no way I could possibly produce the song as I was not musically talented in that nature at all. I could only hear it like it was being played through a speaker and I would write the lyrics down as it would come. This experience started happening to my wife as well. It took place for a little over three years. I remember she would cry at the thought of never being able to hear these songs we had heard in the spirit in the natural world as that task would take thousands of dollars, and music studios, resources way outside our ability. We tried to do it but the task was way over our ability and talent. We could not replicate the sound we had heard. 

One day the Lord began to speak to me about music and some of the things that were happening in the industry. I saw that there was actually a bit of an argument going on in the ‘christian’ worship scene with an AI song being the top song (whatever that means), and someone else was arguing how an AI song could not be anointed by the Holy Spirit. I thought about that which was going on and began to think that the unsettling reasoning behind the AI platforms of music was actually about authenticity. It was about someone who was “fake” masquerading as if they were real. The whole paradigm was hinged on authenticity. Wanting to know what is real and what is not. I went about exploring whether these platforms could help me copy the sound that I had been hearing in the spirit all the while determined to express authentically that I was truthfully not an artist but did have an experience with the Lord that I had heard sounds. What would have taken resources way outside our ability was now available on a laptop. I began the process of putting the previously recorded songs of myself singing, to the best that I could the music that I had heard in the encounter, into the platform. I then would put it into a studio format and adjust it tirelessly until it matched exactly what I had heard in the spirit. The journey was extremely hard to go on, as I had no formal training in music, and some of the randomness of the AI music platforms made it difficult to hone it into the sound that I had heard in the spirit.  I do not claim to be a musician and never want to be called one. The ability to produce exactly what I had heard in the spirit into practicality was genuinely beautiful. The experience of being able to hear the sound that I had heard in the encounter with the Lord now on repeat in this world brought me to tears. I hope that you encounter Jesus in the same way I did through them.