American gospel singer Travis Greene has achieved tremendous success over time, with his music being played extensively on several stations across Uganda.
Best known for his hits “Intentional” and “Made A Way,” the Grammy and Stellar Award nominated artist has landed on the top of the Billboard charts. Kirk Franklin even called him one of the artists who are “the future of gospel music.”
But has all this been an overnight success? The singer’s testimony roots from the very day he was born.
“When I was born – on the spot, my mother said that I wasn’t breathing. My skin color was purple, and doctors immediately said that I was stillborn. My mother and father just started praying and believing God, and He performed a miracle.” He said, during an interview with Jet Magazine .
During his Ministration at ‘The Experience’, USA a while back, Travis Greene shared a powerful testimony of how he encountered Jesus Christ at the age of four.
The 33-year-old shocked the audience on revealing that he fell four floors out of the window of a house they were living in Germany.
“They [rescue team] got to my body and they covered me with white shirt. They said it was over and the doctors pronounced me dead.”
“But, then my mother came, she picked up my lifeless body, and prayed to God to give me my life. He did it.” Travil said, quickly noting that she called on the name of Jesus twice, nothing happened, but the third time, she screamed the blood of Jesus.
Twenty-nine years later Travis is traveling the world, literally letting people know that Jesus’ alive, and He’s still able to do the impossible.
“I said mum I remember falling, but I never hit the ground. Right before I hit the ground, a man with a big hand caught me but I couldn’t see his face. I heard a voice and he said do you want to go with your mama. He said I should come to him and I looked at him and said I want my mum. He said okay, this time you are going but next time, you will come with me and I looked up… I asked what his name was. he didn’t say his name was Mohammed… He looked back said, ‘Son, my name is Jesus”
The singer says that the most profound lesson that he has learnt is really finding his identity in Christ alone.
“God really had to deliver me from finding value in things, affirmation, pleasing people, and even with being impressed with people or wanting them to be impressed with me. He really extracted that from me, and then launched me to this level of success.”
“I don’t crave the stage in order to feel like I’m important, and I don’t anxiously crave an award, or anything like that. Now I’m able to really categorize all of those things in its proper place and prioritize which is more important–that’s God and family. Everything else is just secondary to that.” He told Jet Magazine.
Travis says that what this generation really needs to understand God’s divine timing,schedule and seasoning.
He says that for any dream chaser, getting there is not the problem.
“Everyone is always in grind mode–that’s the easy part. You can go on any show today, whether it’s American Idol, The Voice or Sunday’s Best or anything, and you can arrive to a place of glamor and lights. But, the question is can you stay there once you get there? I think that only comes by way of process, and God really developing you and equipping you through that process. So, that’s what was necessary for me and I’m glad He did it.”
By Paul Dennis.
