Focus on the Family Magazine - April/May 2024

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they were married. Then, three years
after, Rebecca gave birth to their first
daughter, Gemma.
Darkness before the dawn
After two decades in an intense music
ministry, Rebecca wanted to focus on
her family. So, as she and Jacob began
life together, she retired from music.
Despite the daily joys of family life,
Rebecca began to struggle with her
sense of purpose, especially during her
first years of motherhood. “I had been
so productive [in previous years, as a
musician],” she says. “I was often working
on a book and an album and a tour
at the same time.” But, as a new mother,
Rebecca spent much of her time simply
caring for the needs of her family, and
she didn’t feel the affirmation she had
experienced as a musician.
Then, as time passed, Rebecca and
Jacob struggled to have another child,
and Rebecca experienced the grief of
two miscarriages.
“You are faithful, and
You bring the dawn”
Amid this frustration and grief,
Rebecca’s brothers invited her to join
them onstage in Alaska, and God began
to heal her hurt.
“While I was in worship,” she recalls,
“I had this encounter with the Holy Spirit.
It reframed my journey with music.
He set me free from pain that had to
do with both my music and also the
miscarriages.
“I remember feeling, Jesus, I miss the
connection that I have with You when
I sing. I was crying at one point—we generally
didn’t do that onstage—and the
audience was sniffling and crying, too.”
Rebecca says she was finally walking
out of the painful “winter” she’d
endured, and the darkness in her life
was passing away as a new dawn rose.
Immediately after the performance, she
turned to her brother Joel and said, “I
think God is calling me back to music.”
A few months later, Rebecca
collaborated with her brothers in producing
a rendition of “Amazing Grace”
and joined them on their Christmas
tour. The following year, she signed
with the Heritage Music Group and
in 2020 released her first EP album
since coming out of retirement. In
the album’s title track, “Dawn,” she
declares God’s unwavering love and
faithfulness even amid grief and pain:
Even in the darkness, / Even when it’s
hardest, / You are faithful, and You
bring the dawn. / On every mountain, /
I’ll sing it even louder, / You are faithful,
and You bring the dawn.
In 2022, Rebecca released her 10th
full album, Kingdom Come.
“Rest in that love”
Less than a year after performing in
Alaska with For KING & COUNTRY,
Rebecca and Jacob welcomed their
second daughter, Imogen, into the
world. Then in 2020, she gave birth
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APR / MAY 2024