Following the success of her last project and touring, Natasha Owens knew there was more in her heart that needed to be written and recorded. Industry heavyweight and iconic producer Ed Cash agreed. One meeting explaining the heart behind the new project landed him squarely in the production chair, as excited as Natasha about the message that was about to emerge.
“The project took on a very clear direction,” she says. “I knew I had made it through, but it was time for more. God gave this song to Ed Cash as we were talking about the new project. I shared with him that a lady I went to church with several years ago reached out last year and said she had a dream that she felt like God wanted me to know about. She said making it through was not the true message. It was just a stepping stone. Rising above is the true message.”
That truth courses through each song on the record, but is particularly poignant in a lyric crafted by Ed Cash, “We Will Rise.”
We will rise, We will rise
Rise above the ashes
Rise above the fire
Lift your heads
Lift your eyes
Jesus is faithful
Faithful to revive
We will rise, We will rise
“The church wants you to be healed, but they don’t have a lot of patience,” she says. “It seems like you have to put on a fake smile and hide how you’re really feeling. People don’t always take the time to listen.”
Those are lessons Natasha has learned first-hand and has witnessed in the lives of those around her. Those lessons have fueled her healing and her music. Those lessons have helped her face her own feelings of inadequacy and intimidation for the sake of a call bigger than herself.
“He doesn’t call the equipped. He equips who He calls,” she says with stalwart conviction. “That has stuck with me and given me the courage to do what He’s called me to. If God is with me, I can do all things. I can do more than survive. I can thrive. If others can see the power of God to do such a work in my life and then translate it to their own…to really believe that they can do more than just get by, I’ve done my job.”
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