I can’t help but be so excited to share how this praise team delivers a powerful cover of Phil Wickham’s ‘What An Awesome God’ song at church one Sunday morning. When I first heard it, I had chills. There’s something holy in hearing a song you’ve been humming along to on the radio suddenly rise in the sanctuary of your own church. 

It’s the ordinary pews, surrounded by friends and family, the choir robes slightly wrinkled, the faces you see every week—yet when the opening notes of ‘What An Awesome God’ rang out, it felt like heaven brushing earth.

The worship team of First Baptist Clarksville didn’t just perform this song. They smashed it. Each voice—whether trembling with nerves or booming with confidence—was poured out like an offering:

“What an awesome God, what an awesome God You are
What an awesome God, what an awesome God You are
And You save, You redeem, You have called us Your own
What an awesome God You are.”

And isn’t that what worship is? Ordinary people carry extraordinary truth in everyday voices. They are not professionals chasing spotlights, but brothers and sisters giving us permission to lift our own cracked, everyday voices high, even if you can’t sing. I sure can’t sing, but it definitely didn’t hold me from belting out the chorus while I was writing this article. My cats definitely didn’t enjoy it, but I know God did!

You can’t help but belt it out because it means so much to you, and it feels so good to worship Him. It sends goosebumps down your arms when the melody of your commute becomes the anthem of your congregation.

When they sang the words, they were prayers. They were truths we knew God had already answered:

“You are the One who makes the heavens,
You are the One who shapes the earth,
You are the One who gave me purpose,
Before I was born.”

The power of this song lies not only in its soaring chorus but in how it roots us. We are reminded that the same God who stretched out the stars is the God who hears our Monday prayers, our whispered fears, our small hallelujahs.

Friend, maybe you need to hear this today: You don’t have to be standing on a stage to worship with your whole heart. Maybe you are in your living room, on your morning commute, whispering prayers in the kitchen, or coming out of surgery like I did, and it can become a sanctuary. And maybe the goosebumps you feel when a choir sings your favorite song are God’s way of reminding you: I am here. I am awesome. I am yours.

So lift your voice today. Off-key, on-key—it doesn’t matter. Because when we join together—choir, congregation, heaven, and earth—we declare what is always true:

What an awesome God You are.

Psalm 145:3 "Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable."