A worldwide phenomenon has hit the Church today as Christians from across the globe are singing the hit worship song, “The Blessing.”
In March, the song was first introduced during a live performance at an Elevation Church campus in North Carolina as part of Elevation Worship’s latest album, Graves Into Gardens.
Featured in the video is Elevation Worship, alongside worship leaders Cody Carnes and Kari Jobe.
The lyrics in “The Blessing” are based off of the famous benediction in Numbers 6:24-26, where God told Moses to tell Aaron to pray over God’s people. The passage reads:
The Lord bless you
and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace
Prior to the song’s performance, Jobe told the congregation that the song lyrics illustrate “the heart of the Father over us as his kids” and invited them to receive the song as “a blessing over you and your family and your children.”
Five months later, “The Blessing” has become a worldwide hit and more than 100 virtual choirs have covered it, Christianity Today reports.
Renditions of the song have been created in Australia, Burma, Chile, Canada, France, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Romania, Spain, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
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