Francesca Battistelli - Defender feat. Steffany Gretzinger (Official Lyric Video)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มี.ค. 2019
- Click here to stream/download "Defender," featured on my album 'Own It': smarturl.it/Own-It
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Very emotional for me when I first heard this song earlier today from Amazon Alexa's Praise/Worship feed. I was a blubbering mess cutting pineapple...no onion excuse today 😅😭
All I did was praise, all I did was worship. Declaring myself healed from stage 4 kidney cancer. Praise God for these two women with their beautiful voices for God!!!🙏🙏🙏💜💜💜
Healed in JESUS name! Prayers headed your way!
O Hallelujah thank Jesus. For Auntny Rary Honey my old Sweet haert Daddy of my little ones Larun Aiunte 1 Anne Sophia 2 Cristutyanne Maria 3
O Hallelujah you haul me Lord so much Better in your ways!🤰👐🙌👏👏🙏🏻
Auntny Rary Honey I'm really to get Merry to you if you have me to be your new wife!🤰👐🙌👏👏🙏🏻🙏🏻🤓🤓🤗👣
🤰👣💗💗💗💗👣👣👣😇😇⛪⛪🙏🏻🙏🏻🙌👏👏😇😁☺👨👩👧👧👨👩👧💙💛💛👑👑👑💒💒💒💒💒💒💒💒🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🍼🍼🍼
This song really gets me when it gets to “when I thought I lost me...”
I cry like a baby!! Thank you Jesus for saving me!!!❤️❤️
Beautiful!!!!!
Hallelujah He's fighting my war right now Thanks Jesus
This song is so anointed! The moment I hear that first chord, the tears come.... Thank You Lord, for being my refuge, my shield, my strong tower and defender! ❤❤❤☝☝☝
YES AND AMEN!!!!!
Amen!!!💛
How many times I sing these lyrics over my life - that I thank God for going "before I go" - fighting and winning battles I know nothing about 💟💟
when i thought i lost me... You knew where I left me. You picked up all my pieces & put me back together. 🙌
Thats my best part
@@banelemkhonta1846 mine too 😇
AMEN!!!!!
Sis, Yes that part speaks volumes!!!
You can’t tell where Francesca ends and where Steff begins or how the HolySpirit mixes in His flavour! We love You Lord
The lyrics are so deep 😭😭💜
All glory be to God 💎
YES!!! They truly are!!! Praise God 🙌
All I did was prayed and worshiped and I was healed from seizures then God confirmed this in a dream that as I was in a church telling everyone, of what God is done for me ) so I’m telling anyone who will listen that God has completely healed me ! Praise his name forever!
Amen 🙏 🤍
I’m sitting here crying my eyes out🙏🏼🙏🏼🙌🏼
People threatening my kids life and my life, just play this song. Sit back and watch what God does.
This song is so amazing and it reminds me of the beautiful anointed grace of God. He has got me through so many trials and tribulations and I’m only 14. He has saved my life and I’m thankful I found him earlier in my life
So much better your way (Gods way) 💗🙏🏼
This song! I sing it to my JESUS at the top of my lungs in the car every chance I get 🙌
Praise God . Amen ♥️
Amen. I do the same thing.
You keep praising our Jesus!
Hallelujah!!!!
Mmmmmmmm, I like that, my Jesus, He honors and loves you, bless you.
Thank you Lord for singing this, speaking this over me, for leading me to know you are truly here and see me. You are taking care of the pieces of me. You are the Defender of my heart, mind, soul and spirit. I love YOU.
When Francesca sings.....
Hallelujah you have saved me.... I get chills every time...the Holy Spirit is very much alive you all if you surrender and live righteously ... the helper 🔥ignites!!
Oh what glorious words !!! that lift up Jesus Christ the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings the most high!! All glory and honor goes to him!!
God bless you all dear brothers and sisters in Christ !
Thank you for this beautiful song! 🕊🌷
I just don't even have the words to express how this song has helped me with what I'm going through right now. The hardest thing to do is to stay still. But He is my great defender, always has been. Always will be. 🧡
He is the defender of our hearts!!! It’s true. I have a similar experience right now and God had told me to “be still and wait” and I trust him!
The best of francesca battistille is the best hymn for studying for a big finals. Thank you francesca. Big thanks to the LORD.
agreed
God is so so good. He knows what we need, we can let him fight for us. For so long I’ve tried fighting the battle of anxiety on my own. I’m letting him in to help me. Praise God ❤️
I love this song so much. It met me in a time where I was still healing from old wounds and trying to forgive past enemies. Enemies that were nowhere near me anymore, but the pain they had caused was ever present. "When I thought I lost me, You knew where I left me. You reintroduced me to Your love. You picked up all my pieces, put me back together. You are the defender of my heart." Those words get me crying every time. Praise God for the healing and restoration of my heart and my mind. Praise You my Jesus! Thank You! ❤️💕🎶
Yes! Those very lyrics is what God used to minister to me. You phrase it so well. He is so more aware than I am of the state I’m in. Thank you for sharing this. Sending a big hug my sister (from your big sis in the Lord). Love you.
Francesca is definitely the best Christian artist, but she is also one of the best singers in any genre. Highly underrated voice.
There is nothing like a best Christian artist. We don't do that in the kingdom
@@jadenmiller9479 That was not for you but this is: 'CORRIE TEN BOOM AND THE RAPTURE'.
- (This is from a letter Corrie wrote in 1974)
"The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.
Christians are ambassadors for Christ. They are representatives from Heaven to this dying world. And because of our presence here, things will change.
My sister, Betsy, and I were in the Nazi concentration camp at Ravensbruck because we committed the crime of loving Jews. Seven hundred of us from Holland, France, Russia, Poland and Belgium were herded into a room built for two hundred. As far as I knew, Betsy and I were the only two representatives of Heaven in that room.
We may have been the Lord's only representatives in that place of hatred, yet because of our presence there, things changed. Jesus said, "In the world you shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." We too, are to be overcomers - bringing the light of Jesus into a world filled with darkness and hate.
Sometimes I get frightened as I read the Bible, and as I look in this world and see all of the tribulation and persecution promised by the Bible coming true. Now I can tell you, though, if you too are afraid, that I have just read the last pages. I can now come to shouting "Hallelujah! Hallelujah!" for I have found where it is written that Jesus said,
"He that overcometh shall inherit all things:
and I will be His God,
and he shall be My son."
This is the future and hope of this world. Not that the world will survive - but that we shall be overcomers in the midst of a dying world.
Betsy and I, in the concentration camp, prayed that God would heal Betsy who was so weak and sick.
"Yes, the Lord will heal me,", Betsy said with confidence.
She died the next day and I could not understand it. They laid her thin body on the concrete floor along with all the other corpses of the women who died that day.
It was hard for me to understand, to believe that God had a purpose for all that. Yet because of Betsy's death, today I am traveling all over the world telling people about Jesus.
There are some among us teaching there will be no tribulation, that the Christians will be able to escape all this. These are the false teachers that Jesus was warning us to expect in the latter days. Most of them have little knowledge of what is already going on across the world. I have been in countries where the saints are already suffering terrible persecution.
In China, the Christians were told, "Don't worry, before the tribulation comes you will be translated - raptured." Then came a terrible persecution. Millions of Christians were tortured to death. Later I heard a Bishop from China say, sadly,
"We have failed.
We should have made the people strong for persecution,
rather than telling them Jesus would come first.
Tell the people how to be strong in times of persecution,
how to stand when the tribulation comes,
- to stand and not faint."
I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation. There is no way to escape it.
We are next.
Since I have already gone through prison for Jesus' sake, and since I met the Bishop in China, now every time I read a good Bible text I think, "Hey, I can use that in the time of tribulation." Then I write it down and learn it by heart.
When I was in the concentration camp, a camp where only twenty percent of the women came out alive, we tried to cheer each other up by saying, "Nothing could be any worse than today." But we would find the next day was even worse. During this time a Bible verse that I had committed to memory gave me great hope and joy.
"If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye;
for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you;
on their part evil is spoken of,
but on your part He is glorified."
(I Peter 3:14)
I found myself saying, "Hallelujah!
Because I am suffering, Jesus is glorified!"
In America, the churches sing, "Let the congregation escape tribulation", but in China and Africa the tribulation has already arrived. This last year alone more than two hundred thousand Christians were martyred in Africa. Now things like that never get into the newspapers because they cause bad political relations. But I know. I have been there. We need to think about that when we sit down in our nice houses with our nice clothes to eat our steak dinners. Many, many members of the Body of Christ are being tortured to death at this very moment, yet we continue right on as though we are all going to escape the tribulation.
Several years ago I was in Africa in a nation where a new government had come into power. The first night I was there some of the Christians were commanded to come to the police station to register. When they arrived they were arrested and that same night they were executed. The next day the same thing happened with other Christians. The third day it was the same. All the Christians in the district were being systematically murdered.
The fourth day I was to speak in a little church. The people came, but they were filled with fear and tension. All during the service they were looking at each other, their eyes asking, "Will this one I am sitting beside be the next one killed? Will I be the next one?"
The room was hot and stuffy with insects that came through the screenless windows and swirled around the naked bulbs over the bare wooden benches. I told them a story out of my childhood.
"When I was a little girl, " I said, "I went to my father and said,
"Daddy, I am afraid that I will never be strong enough to be a martyr for Jesus Christ."
"Tell me," said Father,
"When you take a train trip to Amsterdam,
when do I give you the money for the ticket?
Three weeks before?"
"No, Daddy, you give me the money for the ticket just before we get on the train."
"That is right," my father said, "and so it is with God's strength.
Our Father in Heaven knows when you will need the strength to be a martyr for Jesus Christ.
He will supply all you need - just in time…"
My African friends were nodding and smiling.
Suddenly a spirit of joy descended upon that church and the people began singing,
" In the sweet, by and by,
we shall meet on that beautiful shore."
Later that week, half the congregation of that church was executed.
I heard later that the other half was killed some months ago.
But I must tell you something. I was so happy that the Lord used me to encourage these people, for unlike many of their leaders, I had the word of God. I had been to the Bible and discovered that Jesus said He had not only overcome the world, but to all those who remained faithful to the end, He would give a crown of life.
How can we get ready for the persecution?
First we need to feed on the Word of God, digest it, make it a part of our being. This will mean disciplined Bible study each day as we not only memorize long passages of scripture, but put the principles to work in our lives.
Next we need to develop a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Not just the Jesus of yesterday, the Jesus of History,
but the life-changing Jesus of today who is still alive
and sitting at the right hand of God.
We must be filled with the Holy Spirit. This is no optional command of the Bible, it is absolutely necessary. Those earthly disciples could never have stood up under the persecution of the Jews and Romans had they not waited for Pentecost. Each of us needs our own personal Pentecost, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. We will never be able to stand in the tribulation without it.
In the coming persecution we must be ready to help each other and encourage each other.
But we must not wait until the tribulation comes before starting.
The fruit of the Spirit should be the dominant force of every Christian's life.
Many are fearful of the coming tribulation, they want to run. I, too, am a little bit afraid when I think that after all my eighty years, including the horrible Nazi concentration camp, that I might have to go through the tribulation also.
But then I read the Bible and I am glad.
When I am weak, then I shall be strong, the Bible says. Betsy and I were prisoners for the Lord, we were so weak, but we got power because the Holy Spirit was on us. That mighty inner strengthening of the Holy Spirit helped us through. No, you will not be strong in yourself when the tribulation comes. Rather, you will be strong in the power of Him who will not forsake you. For seventy-six years I have known the Lord Jesus and not once has He ever left me, or let me down.
"Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him", (Job 13:15)
for I know that to all who overcome,
He shall give the crown of life.
Hallelujah!"
- Corrie Ten Boom - 1974
agreed. her voice reminds me of sara barielles. i love it.
@@scottspurgeon6777 This is absolutely magnificent. Thanks to you and Praise the Lord Jesus Christ who gives up power to withstand the claws of the evil one. I am encouraged!
Heard this on the live stream of Asbury Revival tonight. It is truly beautiful!
When I thought I lost me,you knew where u left me,you reintroduced me to your love. You picked up all my pieces and put me back together, you are the defender of my heart 😍❤️❤️
Woooooow, what a powerful declaration and reminder 💥
Francesca and Steffany👑👑👑
Very powerful indeed!🧡
YES AND AMEN!!!!!
It's almost as if someone is watching me in my walk with God even when He has been my only defender, and little did I know and would learn HE is all I need! How pleasantly surprising it's been to find he is FOR me, not against me and no weapon formed against his true children shall prosper!!
Such a beautiful song of Gods’ mercy, love, ad Grace! You both sing so beautifully as well. Our God is so so good!!! 🙌🏻💜👏
This is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard, if not The Most beautiful. How could there be a thumbs down?! Smh
Forgive them Lord!
Thumbs down are 99% accidental. I figured this out when I inadvertently selected thumbs down on my favorite song. Twice. What? It's bc I'll listen while cleaning & going about my day. I've found there's a statistical average of thumbs down actually. Someone more educated in statistics could tell you an accurate statistical probability of random thumbs down's. This song is absolutely one of my all time favorites.
@@cynthiabehr1870 )q.
This song was written for me!! Every last word of it! For me, it starts with "When I thought I lost me ...." (I knew He was supposed to be there but for 40+ years (dealing with the pain of abuse) all I could do was blindly reach for Him in the dark). Then it goes to the verses, (verse 3 - He knew where my heart could seek to find His truth, then verses 1 & 2 - He went to win my war (He was working quietly behind the scenes)) and then, when He came to the forefront and He "reintroduced me to His love", I realized it was because "All I did was praise ...." because I had never stopped seeking Him and His help and comfort. This song reduces me to a pile of tears ... tears of release, tears of gratitude and thankfulness ... EVERY SINGLE TIME!! All I can say is ... Thank you for writing this song!
👍
Well done, faithful servant. Psalm 34:18 🫡
Overwhelmed by the beauty of their voices and the message in this song. Outstandingly meaningful.
I love this song! I had been dealing with a long term illness And started giving up on God’s visions for my life and The Holyghost of God lead me to this song. I actually have never heard of this artist but God knew I needed a song that represented our personal love relationship!! Thank You thank you thank you’🙏🏾 👍🏾
I cant and won't even try to understand why the views this low on this song! best duo in a VERY LONG TIME!!
my great defender 🥺🥺, when I thought I lost me , you knew where I left me, you reintroduced me to your love.
You come back with the head of the enemy and You call it my victory🙌🏼🔥🧎♂️🕊. Thank you Father
Thank you for these tears of joy in my eyes and extra beats in my heart praising our Dad. At 20 He rebuilt my skull after my car slipped off a jack , especially with His Spirit the gifts helping thru 7 major countless minor skull fractures, 2 open brain surgeries, 1 optical nerve severed 3 times , 1 side of body nerve damaged and even last year when I got mugged by a gang while they attempted to murder me I called out to my Dad the Creator of Heaven and Earth , within the minute He knocked off 10 thugs beating on me and started levitating me! All glory to Our Father !!!
What the heck?? You started levitating? For real? That's one cool story my friend, humbled by it. Praise God for what He's done for you ❤️
@@crystalbrooks2684 for real levitating Yes thanks to Love from Jesus Christ the Creator of Heaven and Earth. Wacky thing is I am a sinner blackened by this evil world just like everyone else except I am a bit steadfast in my praise to the Almighty you could say excessive or even anal in praises unending for days. God inhabits the praises of His people and I prefer His company so praising Him is always a good idea. He likes Keith Green ministry years volume 2 , no compromise and for him who hath ears to hear. Love the One who rules Above all cuz He is all that truly matters
😒.
Well then, you should be on Ellen.
Halelujah❣🙌❣ Why should this be surprising to us?! God is real ,and He's the same yesterday, today, forever. The same Spirit that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead lives in us. We serve a King who is King of all Kings. How then could He not levitate someone? What a beautiful, full of love and awe testimony. I'm grateful that you cried out to our King, and He brilliantly saved you! Halelujah Jesus❣🙌🌊
If I want a good cry, I listen to this song. Cracks my heart to the core. This song came out when I lost my husband 2019.
I truly believe this song came after God speaks to you. Our Heavenly Father told me “Take Care of Her” and I Have... Better than anyone besides him ❤... I Love You God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit ✝️
You go before I know
That You've even gone to win my war
You come back with the head of my enemy
You come back and You call it my victory, oh-ooh
You go before I know
That You've even gone to win my war
Your love becomes my greatest defense
It leads me from the dry wilderness
And all I did was praise
All I did was worship
All I did was bow down, oh
All I did was stay still
Hallelujah, You have saved me
So much better Your way
Hallelujah, great Defender
So much better Your way
You know before I do
Where my heart can seek to find Your truth
Your mercy is the shade I'm living in
And You restore my faith and hope again
And all I did was praise, ohhh, oh-ooh
All I did was worship
All I did was bow down, oh
All I did was stay still, stay still
Hallelujah, You have saved me
So much better Your way
Hallelujah, great Defender
So much better Your way
When I thought I lost me
You knew where I left me
You reintroduced me to Your love
You picked up all my pieces
Put me back together
You are the defender of my heart
When I thought I lost me
You knew where I left me
You reintroduced me to Your love
You picked up all my pieces
Put me back together
You are the defender of my heart
When I thought I lost me
You knew where I left me
You reintroduced me to Your love
You picked up all my pieces
Put me back together
You are the defender of my heart
Hallelujah, You have saved me
So much better this way
Hallelujah, great Defender
So much better Your way
So much better Your way
(I know it's so much better)
So much better Your way
(I know it, I know it)
And all I did was praise
All I need to do is worship
Lord, I will just bow down
I'm just gonna stay still
Thank you ❤
Love this song!!!!!!!!!
Glorious duet. Your voice and faith always reaffirm the praise I have in God. Your music reminds me of the beauty and kindness inherent in his creation.
Two of my favorite Christian artists😍
God bless you sisters in Christ.
Some of the best lyrics…this song ministers to so many.
Amen 🙏🏼
I was walking yesterday and wondering where should I go with my life. I was listening to this song and, the "stay still" is where my attention was captured
This is the most beautiful song I have heard this year.
Jared
Best song of 2019. Just so in touch with the Jesus. Absolutely beautiful.
This song is so annointed. Thank God for Franchesca and all who came together to make this P &W piece....
I fell madly in love with this song from the very first time that I heard it.
Extremely beautiful. Awesome collaboration too. God bless you both Francesca and Steffany. Awesome song. Love it.
5/12/21 Welcome to the family Logan. I have led a brother to Christ tonight. 😭😭 Thank you Jesus for telling me to talk to this man. Because of you, Logan will be forever a NEW creation!!
Amen, He honors you for your obedience
10 years and your music still moves me. What a blessing you have been :-)
😍 I'll try & share this song with my church family. Hits me deep down
Beautiful thank you Jesus you’re our beloved defender always putting us sinners first ❤️🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
My Great Defender💕🎶💜
Thank you Spirit of God for leading me to this song. My soul is praising you.
Omg!! My daughter just sang this!! So Beautiful!🙏❤😢
I listen to this all day everyday
God is our great defender. We should keep on trusting God and study His words in the Bible. Let us remember that God loves us very much. Praying for God's protection to us all. God bless.
I can feel myself, thank you Lord for finding me again and putting me back to pieces 🤍
Oh, my God! 👑💣
Who’s still listening to her songs in 2024? She has the God given talent of singing to the masses
"🙏PRAYER CHANGES THINGS, 🎤🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶PRAISE IS OUR WEAPON"💓⚓
You just cannot listen to this and NOT feel the presence of the Holy Spirit...Beautiful!
Thank you for reminding us to be still and praise
Very very powerful song, wow wow.
Praise Jesus , I love Franscesa's music and the Lord🙏🏻❤️
You are such a warrior
Francesca really did a great job on the album! Especially this song! All I did was praise, all I did was worship. This line makes me want to give God my everything. All my life He is always worthy of praise. Praying that I can get off depression and anxiety meds. He is the Healer and Great Physician!
If you are reading this, I'm praying for you! You are so special to God. If you happened upon this song, God wants you to know you are loved beyond all comprehension. He loves you above all that you could think. He is reaching out for you so you could reach for him in your worship. He is leading you and will never let you go. God bless you dear reader!
So much TRUTH in this song!
Just beautiful , so melodic!!🙏
This song has helped me so much !!!❤️🙏🏽🙌🏽
This really toched my heart.
We love you Darlene ! ❤️
I love this song! So beautiful.
powerful song, powerful lyrics, God most certainly is always ready, when were broken beyond repair ,when we can not see a way to go on, or how to continue on. God is ready. He is ready to pick up all our pieces, one by one with such immense care and Love and beauty and put us back together even better than we were before God Bless You
YES AND AMEN!!!!!
my childhood song
Defender is a very nice song both you and Steffan do a great job at singing praise the Lord for you both and for the song defender.
Thank you Francesca.
God bless you! This song registered with my Soul thank you so much!!!!!!
Amazing as always
I love it.. yet I like how Katie Torwalt sings it too... very anointed!!
God is good, God is with us and for us! Thank you,Jesus! I love you My Jesus!
I absolutely love that song!One of my favorites ❤
This is SO GOOD
In tears!
What an awesome song. I can feel the spirit strong in this one as with all the rest of your songs. Just love your voice Francesca. You are so anointed. Thank you for sharing this beautiful song with us. You are amazing !!!!!! Big time fan! God bless you
Beautiful Song!!!
This is one of My Favorites!!
Worth the wait! Thanks for this frann!!! 💙💜💛💙💜💛😊
I love this!!! It's So touching!!
Beautiful.
God is my defender .Amen Amen Amen.
I love it
All glory be to God!
So beautiful.....
Amazing!!! I love you lord !!!
Yayyy waiting for the premieres💎
Awesome! I like hearing this on KLUV when I'm in traffic.
" PRAYING FOR "ANYONE" WHO NEEDS A DEFENDER IN JESUS NAME!!!!!!!🙏📖💖⚓
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chief called, he said THIS IS IT
God reminded me of that song when I was very sick after chemo. He said to be still and remember He is God.
"You come back with the head of my enemy...and you call it my victory"
Oh I'm so buying this song. Google music here I come
Boom 💥 💥