Brandon Lake ~ Artist of the Week 8/28/26

“How Good God Is” is out now!

Some songs don’t just arrive — they confront you. They walk straight into the places you tried to forget, the seasons you didn’t want to relive, and the moments you thought disqualified you. Brandon Lake’s “How Good God Is” is that kind of song. It’s not polished gratitude. It’s not surface‑level praise. It’s a confession born from breaking, rebuilding, and finally realizing that God’s goodness isn’t proven in the easy chapters — it’s revealed in the ones that nearly crushed you.

That’s exactly why we chose Brandon Lake as this week’s Artist of the Week. Because this song doesn’t just tell a story — it tells our story. Every believer who has walked through anger, silence, weakness, fire, drifting, or darkness will hear their own testimony echoing in these lyrics. And Lake himself said this track was shaped by the hardest seasons of his life — the ones that forced him to pray, taught him to wait, and revealed a God who was far better than he ever realized.

The song opens with a truth most of us don’t admit: We don’t know the Healer until we need healing. We don’t know the Savior until we lose our way. We don’t know the Father until we feel like orphans. We don’t know the Light until darkness becomes familiar.

It’s raw. It’s honest. It’s painfully human. And it’s exactly why this song matters.

The chorus becomes a declaration forged in fire — thanking God not for the easy things, but for the hard ones. The anger that pushed you to your knees. The silence that taught you patience. The breaking that revealed His mercy. The weakness that exposed His strength. The drifting that proved He never let go.

This is the kind of gratitude that only comes from surviving something.

And Scripture backs that truth with a weight that matches the song’s intensity: “Behold, I have refined you in the furnace of affliction.” — Isaiah 48:10 “Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word.” — Psalm 119:67 “Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.” — Psalm 126:5

These aren’t soft verses — they’re forged in the same fire Brandon sings about.

Verse two lifts the song into spiritual revelation: You don’t know the Spirit until His power shakes your life. You don’t know the Lion until His roar becomes your rescue. You don’t know the Light until He opens your eyes in your darkest hour.

And then the final verse lands with the heaviest truth of all — the goodness of God revealed through the sacrifice of His Son. Lake sings it with reverence: If God had spared Jesus from the thorns, the nails, the agony… we never would’ve known how good God truly is.

That line alone is enough to make this song worthy of Artist of the Week.

But here’s the real reason we chose it:

Because this song doesn’t just celebrate God’s goodness — it explains it. Not through blessings. Not through comfort. Not through ease. But through the moments that broke us and the God who rebuilt us.

Brandon Lake’s “How Good God Is” is a testimony wrapped in worship, a battle‑cry wrapped in gratitude, and a reminder that sometimes the only way to discover God’s goodness is to walk through something that forces you to need Him.

Add “How Good God Is” to your playlist, share it with someone who’s walking through a hard season, and grab your copy here on Amazon. Every purchase supports Brandon’s music and helps us continue sharing songs that awaken faith, strengthen believers, and point hearts toward Jesus.