The Making of the Album “Thy Kingdom Come”

• represent it was January 19th 2022 and I found myself on the balcony of a hotel overlooking a Vineyard I was honestly hurting in a way that I never knew was possible I was confused I felt misunderstood I was I was honestly in a place where I felt like maybe God was trying to do something that I didn’t understand I preached a message the Sunday before I got a little um it went a little viral and all I was trying to do is show people how God would take our mess and
• actually use it for a miracle but that moment for me turned into a mess and all I could do in that moment was do what I’ve always done when I found myself in a valley I worshiped a few months before I come to the studio and um we were supposed to be working on something different and the Holy Spirit dropped this like Phil Collins like double chorus Reverb and I was driving to 1519 and I just heard this huge like chorus and came in the studio and I was talking to Evan and I was like hey let’s let’s just scratch what we were supposed to do I I feel
• this thing and we wrote this song called available and when I was on that balcony I played the song probably a thousand times I didn’t listen to anything else it was the demo version of this song and it literally kept me because the first lines of the song say even before the beginning you were Alpha and Omega and when we wrote those words I was like I didn’t have a real Revelation until I went through fire and in the second verse it says even when the fire surrounds me you are my protection even when death tries to hold
• me you’re the resurrection I mean the words of this song I got Goosebump saying it right now it literally kept me and the grace of God that he would give me those words that Melody for the valley I can literally remember sitting and looking over this Vineyard that had no fruit on it and every morning at 6:00 a.m.
• there would be a group of guys that came out as I was out there worshiping and they had their shears and they were clipping on what looked like just branches and in that moment I remembered the word that God spoke in John where it tells us that he is the vine and we are the branches and it goes on to say that he pruned owns those that he loves because they’re going to produce more fruit my first time ever in a Vineyard no fruit around they’re cutting on it and God spoke to me he said Michael this is what I’m doing to you I’m pruning you cuz I want