Songs by Angela Chapman Larson
Little One was written out of complete surrender unto the Lord. I was at the end of my rope & barely had enough strength, mentally, to hold up my head. As my pen scribbled across the page, tears fell and mixed with the red ink from the pen I was using. The paper became as limp as my spirit had become. I remember thinking... "Had God forgotten me? Was I important to Him, or were my petty little problems just too small for Him to notice." Half way through the first part of the song, I suddenly heard that still small voice saying, “Dear little one, of course I see you. Your hurts are not too small for me to feel. Open your heart & come unto me…. I’ll give you the rest you need.”
HE'S ALIVE (Start Again & Human Race CD)
I had been praying for a new song for almost a year,
but on this particular day, music was just not in the foreground
of my mind. The day was so beautiful, I felt drawn out into
the garden to do some work. I started noticing how marvelous
His creations were. The wind was blowing across a field of
wild flowers & I could smell their sweet scent. The colors
were so vivid and clear it made me want to fall into the warmth
of His creation and meld into it all.
I thought, “HE IS SO ALIVE!”
No sooner had that thought come to my mind, than the
words to He's Alive ran across my inner
eye like a ticker tap. I put down my hoe and ran into the house. I
wrote as fast as I could. The whole time I was thinking, this song
is really ALIVE and full of HOPE & JOY! After all….It's
because He IS alive that we DO have hope for
a bright new tomorrow.
As Christians, we are to be a LIGHT unto the world.
They should see Jesus in everything we do & everything we say, in EVERY
situation. I was not doing that. I was giving up and giving
in. My strength was just not enough…..
I fell to my knees and prayed. I felt
like I had been out on the battle field & had tried to fight a whole
army ALL BY MYSELF! My armor was rusty. My faith was tattered.
My spirit was covered with serpent bites. I lost my map back to camp
& my vessel was empty. I cried out, “CHANGE ME. SHOW
ME. TEACH ME WHAT YOU WANT ME TO KNOW. I'M READY. TAKE
ME WHERE YOU WANT ME TO GO!” He will & He does......if we LET Him.
I was enjoying a praise and worship song that I had
never heard before.
The truck I was sitting in was idling & so was
I. All at once another melody seemed to separate itself from the
one playing through the speaker. It had a new, or rather, modern
folk sound to it. The melody went perfectly with some words Jeffrey
& I had written down earlier in the week.
We were sitting in a dinner, pencil in hand and paper
place mat turned over. We told the waitress we were going to write a new hit Christian
song & what did she think it should be about.
She put her pencil to her mouth and thought.
"Well, it seems like every time I need to make a call, no one has any change and every time I need
to get from here to there, I never have enough time!" THAT'S IT! We all try to run a
HUMAN race and not the GOOD race as Paul talks about in his insightful writings. And so was born, HUMAN
RACE. The song follows a young woman's walk from a “world”
mindset, to a “Godly” mindset. As we learn to walk in the spirit,
the world's madness seems to fade into the distance. As it should.
WE WILL BELIEVE (Start Again & Human Race CD)
We will Believe was the first song I had ever
written in my life.
I had been singing for the Lord For only a year and
did not really know HOW to write a song. All I DID know, was I was called by God to sing His
praises….. and do it boldly. Problem was…. I did not know where,
when or how He was going to use me. I just knew I was to sing. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
I sat down and penned We Will Believe. My mind said; “where
am I going…when am I leaving…how will I know when I GET there?” My heart said; “I TRUST you Lord, I LOVE you Lord
& I’ll follow you until the end of time.”
THE DAY MY JESUS WILL COME (Start Again & Human Race CD)
Sitting in my living room one evening, I found myself
watching the TV show Matlock. In the show, he was sitting on the front porch playing
the ‘front porch suthun blues’. I loved the blues….always had. Then a thought
came to me…. “Didn’t the blues start out as spiritual songs?” SURE
they did. Then why didn’t we still have blues in Christian music?
I picked up a piece of paper and began to write.
The song grew and grew. I wrote about the JOY I knew I would feel when my
savior, Jesus, returned to gather His church. I wrote of my hope that others would know the same
joy of His blessed returning.
HALLELUJAH!
COME YE UNTO THE LORD (Start Again & Human Race CD)
Two friends of mine from church sang background on
this song. Indicative of the professionals they are, they sounded
FABULOUS! The fact is... Not only was it the first time they ever
sang backup in a studio, it was the first time they Had ever BEEN
in a studio.
You see, Chad and Holly were only 14 and 15…….
NOW go back and listen to that song AGAIN …… great
huh?
This is a cry to Christians everywhere from people
in the world who need to know the peace, love, joy and HOPE of Jesus.
People who don’t know Jesus will follow ANYthing in hopes of filling the
empty spot inside. Mother earth, one world ideas, psychics, new age
philosophies and chi all lead God's people down a path of seeming fulfillment,
but it is a rue and they get massacred in the end. WE need to be
a light in the fog of deception for people of the world.
If not YOU……………WHO!!!!!!!!
This song declares the joy and peace that is found in the Lords wonderful mercies. It is a mix of good 'ol Appellation slash Celtic music. Not only is the music full of a wistful blend of mountain and Irish instruments, the wording in the song will take you to a completely different world. A world without chaos, worry or care. There is complete aww in the way our maker cares for us and nature in His awesome way.
Black Gospel has always been the backbone of Christian music. It is only right for me to put a spirit moving, foot stomping, hand clapping Black Gospel song on my CD. This song was written by a friend of my husbands, Kenneth Johnson. I'm so grateful he heard the voice of the Lord and wrote this song down for all Gods' children to enjoy. If THIS song does not "get'cha go'en" you wood is not only WET, it's MISSING!
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