Legendary Christian music artist Matthew West shares Christ's message of love and hope through an uplifting yard signs campaign.
The world is a lost and fallen place. It's full of hurting and struggling people looking for any kind or glimmer of hope. Sadly, those individuals are all around us and everywhere we go. They desperately want and need something or someone to believe in and trust.
Thankfully, there is one who can meet their needs. He can and has healed the sick, fed the hungry, given sight to the blind and raised the dead. Jesus Christ provides hope and interjects life into a dead and lifeless situation. He loves the lost and the sinner, constantly calling and beckoning them to Him.
However, sadly, some may not have heard of Jesus Christ's powerful, life-changing and life-saving message. So, to bring hope to a lost world that so desperately and badly needs it, Matthew has started a yard sign campaign and movement.
In a clip posted on YouTube, Matthew explains the origins of the Don't Stop Praying Movement. He says that after writing the song "Don't Stop Praying," he felt that there was something more he could be doing to spread Christ's message.
"Ever since I wrote the song, "Don't Stop Praying," it really felt like a statement," he said. "My team and I were talking about how there's all these signs that are going to be in people's yards. Everybody's getting the word out about something, and it's like, well, what's the campaign slogan of the, of the believer, of somebody who follows Jesus? The idea came up about a "Don't Stop Praying" yard sign."
Later in the video, Matthew admits that the yard sign campaign touched his heart and forced him to consider how he could reach people for Christ.
"It's funny, as I'm driving around this city that I call home, I've been kind of convicted in a good way," he said. "But just like how often I just stay in my own little bubble, my own little world of family and friends and influence when there's a great big city full of people who are lost and searching and need hope."
He added that he has felt challenged to pray for the lost, those without hope and everyone who needs Christ.
James 5:16 "So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working."