The Story of a Song
October 2009
A Planted Seed
In 1998, Hank visited Honduras as a part of a short term team. He had no idea how much his experience there would come to mean to him, much less connect with the Father’s future plans. For the first few days, he was so sick that he had to stay behind in the mission house while the rest of the team went to work on a church in Tegucigalpa.“I had taken a keyboard with me, and I was sitting there, and I had Daddy’s Book there on my lap, and it fell open to Isaiah 41:10. And I wrote a song that is almost verbatim Scripture: ‘Do not fear for I'm with you, My righteous right hand holds you up. Give your anxiousness to me and I'll supply the strength you need. For I the Lord your God will comfort you and give you peace. I have chosen you, and I’ll supply the strength you need.’ I was feeling miserable and I needed the Father to teach me that scripture.”
While playing with the melody and chord changes, the Honduran pastor’s 17-year-old son, David, a worship leader, came into the room and grabbed his guitar. Though neither Hank nor David could speak the other’s language, David began to figure out the chords and play along. When the translator walked in to find them playing music together, a Spanish and English Bible both opened to Isaiah 41:10, and the lyrics scratched out on a piece of paper, she took the paper and came back with a translation a few minutes later.
“And that night, David taught that song to his church. The very first time I ever heard that song sung was in David’s church – in Spanish. That was the Father planting the seed for Seeds Unlimited, and I’ve got the piece of paper that she printed out stuck on my wall back there.”
“Ultimately, a song is a story,” Hank says. “The relationship with the Father naturally produces art that reflects the Father. That art will be refined, and that story will be told.”
“One of the things that I’ve seen,” he continues, “is Satan uses the original artist’s art, and pollutes it, but it still reflects the Father. If it weren’t for the Father, the art never would have been created in the first place. Satan's still a counterfeit; that’s what he does, he counterfeits. But there has to be the original there, or there’s nothing to counterfeit. So even in his deception and his ability to pollute and destroy, he has to have the art of the original."
"The original song.”
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