Matthew West – Text Messages

At the time, I didn’t really believe her because I was a bit of a doubter. I didn’t think I was a very good student in school. I thought I was unqualified. Who am I to write a book?

But over the years, that dream has become something very real for me. I feel like the Lord’s gifted me with the written word. Now, I’m just trying to make my mom proud. And I’m learning that mom’s are never wrong, so I’m not going to doubt her again when she tells me that the Lord has put something on her heart.

CCM: Obviously one man’s story inspired your single “Hello, My Name Is”, what inspired you to turn these stories into this book?
MW: Every now and then, I’ll have a song that just seems to resonate with the audience on a deeper level. “Hello, My Name Is” was one such song. It’s inspired by the true story of a guy named Jordan. I tell his story in greater detail in the book, but Jordan was a young guy who had the whole world at his fingertips and … he began to wrestle with the identity of being a drug addict. God radically restored his life, and he shared with me how he doesn’t see himself as an addict any longer, but now he knows that he’s a child of the one true King.

Many people have shared with me how that song has helped them to remember who they are in Christ. I began to realize that while we all have different lives and different stories, the search for identity is very much a part of every single one of our lives. The devil wants us to believe a lie about who we are. He wants our search to be a misguided one that leads us to all the wrong places, believing all the wrong voices. I really wanted to write this book to help anybody out there to push away Satan’s lies once and for all, and take hold of their God-given identity.

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