In the current Villar Clip, Christian recording artist Taren Wells paused the mid-concert to pray for fellow singer-songwriter Forest Frank. But that moment hardly happened.
“I discussed it with God,” Wells recalled on CBN’s “Faith in Culture,” recalling the moment he led Frank’s prayer at the Ohio State Fair, performing the show a few days after the “God is Good” singer revealed that he had destroyed two vertebrae on his back.
Wells, 39, said he tried to reason with God. I wondered when to pray during the show, and whether he should pray at all, as it was a national event.
God then intervened, enriching and articulating his desire for prayer to the singers of “heavenly battles.”
“At the end of the song we were singing, all our inia (monitor) packs disappeared, so it was my microphone that worked,” Wells said. “I could no longer listen to music, and I thought, ‘It’s okay, Lord, you will win.’ So it seems very noble and very spiritual, but I was arguing with God all the time. ”
Ultimately, Wells said he was grateful for the opportunity to pray for Frank, as he felt it was “encouragement” for the 30-year-old singer, who had recovered from a painful back injury that had miraculously healed a few days after Wells’ prayer.
The “Take It All Back” singer continued to make his claims, whether it was an injury like Frank or David Clauder, or the revelation of allegations against former newsboys frontman Michael Tate, whether the Christian music industry faces a spiritual attack.
“I think it’s because Christian music is rising,” he said. “Christian music consumption has increased significantly over the last five years, so whenever God began to raise something, of course, the enemy planted seeds to dismantle what God had designed early on in that thing.”
Wells continued. “We are not just looking at the sin that has happened now. Our enemies are always trying to grow kimonos along with wheat, so we are going to get out of sin in the past.”
“I think God separates wheat (or weeds) from wheat. And in the end, his kingdom wins, his name is elevated, the gospel is preached, and honestly, sin is not final. “If they surrender and repent, and turn from that sin, we serve a faithful God full of grace and mercy, just and able to forgive.”
Wells went on to explain his belief in all the evils of the world, from the assassination of Charlie Kirk to a fatal rampage against the Mormon congregations in Michigan.
“Whatever we are ignorant, we are the subject of it,” he said. “And if we don’t know what the Devil is doing in the world, we are subject to that power.”
However, he said that Christians are not “weaponless” or “powerless” in spiritual “wars.”
Because we are not working on flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the power of the universe against this present darkness, the spiritual power of heavenly evil. Therefore, we take up the entire armor of God. You may be able to endure evil days, do everything and stand firm.
“God actually gave us weapons that have the power to overwhelm and overcome our enemies,” Wells said. “And that makes it clear who the enemy is actually. Our soul enemy is not in Washington, DC, our soul enemy is not hidden underground somewhere in the cave. We need a spiritual solution.”
“When the church misses this one thing, we give our enemies so much ground – prayer,” he continued. “Prayer, intercession, and (and) fasting (yes) some of our primary tools actually hold back the land of darkness and advance the gospel of the world.”
See the full discussion with Wells in the “Faith in Culture” episode above.
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