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I was serving at a church that serves meals to the homeless and was so taken with the hopelessness in their eyes. They looked like they had given up on life, just existing, waiting to die. I thought, "Lord, what is it that you want to say to them?" I was inspired to write a song that encourages them and other hopeless people like them to declare the promises of God over their life. It’s one thing to have someone tell you that there’s hope, it’s another to speak words of hope and promise out of your own mouth with a sense of faith and God’s assurance. After I wrote it I went back and had the privilege of singing this song over them.  On a more personal level, when I wrote this song the circumstances of my life were telling me that my ministry influence was only going to be shrinking. I was actually feeling a bit discouraged about this, but then God, as if I had nothing to do with writing it, ministered a renewed sense of destiny and hope to me through this song.