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Hello, friends, and welcome back to From My Father.
I'm excited today, but it does look a little bit different, although it is going to be very good.
And I know you're going to get tons from it.
Today, we're going back to a conversation that I had at this past women's conference here at Bridge Church back in April.
I sat down with Lizzie Morgan, an incredible worship leader out of California who travels, sings, leads us in worship.
She's a songwriter, incredibly anointed.
And I was able to sit down with her, our special guest, and learn about her personal story.
I truly believe that this is going to be a time that God ministers to you.
So I want you to sit back, take your shoes off and stay a while.
Because I do believe that this conversation is going to touch you.
Well, hello.
We are back with Lizzie this morning.
Wasn't she incredible last night?
Lizzie, it was awesome.
It was so good.
I really want this session just to be a little bit about your story and your background of how you actually got to where you're at.
God's favored you.
It's incredible.
Do y'all remember a couple of years ago when we had Pastor Delana Rutherford?
That's Lizzie's aunt.
Blood.
Yes.
Can you tell a little bit?
I can.
Their boldness.
I love it.
Um, my first question for you before anyone ever heard your voice on a stage, what was the sound that God was forming in you privately?
Oh, my gosh.
That's straight into it, huh?
Well, I'm a pastor's kid, so I grew up in church my whole life.
I always say, like, in our family, which I feel like y'all's family is like this, too.
You're weird if you don't sing in this family.
Like, you're not the special one.
Everybody does it.
I've been hanging out with the girls and I'm like, y'all just feel like we're cut from the same cloth, same thing.
So yeah, I grew up in church.
My family came out of the UPC organization, United Pentecostal, which is like super strict, but very powerful.
So I feel like I got the powerful part, maybe with a little bit less rules.
I didn't have to wear skirts and I could cut my hair and wear makeup.
My grandmother couldn't.
But from a young age, it was an interesting dynamic.
My dad struggled with a cocaine addiction.
So I kind of had these like two dichotomies that I was living in because I was a pastor's kid, going to church every Sunday, super healthy church.
My grandparents were super solid.
And then my dad was struggling with this addiction at home.
And so from a young age, I just...
very interesting dynamics that I was living in.
So your question is like, what was the sound that God was birthing?
I knew what to do because I was a pastor's kid.
Like I knew how to go into worship and how to fight for things and plead with God to do things.
And so because I grew up in such a radical environment, I saw my family like be the family that people would call to do miracles.
Like when their lives were falling apart, people would call our family and
We would plead for them to do something, but I was really struggling because at home, God was not doing that for my family.
And so I think from a very young age, I dealt with a lot of confusion and trying to understand how God really worked and how he chooses when he's going to do certain things and when he doesn't do certain things.
Um, and so I really do, I think from a young age, I had a lot of fight when it came to my worship.
And I think even like when you bring up my aunt Didi, I call her aunt Didi.
I know y'all call her pastor Delana.
I'm like, that's aunt Didi.
Um, there is a grit.
I feel like I've always had a fight in my sound, like, uh, this power thing.
Cause from a very young age, I always,
felt like I was using worship as a place to fight for battles.
And so I think that's in my sound a lot is just this thing of trying to plead with God to do what I know he can do.
And then also using worship as a place of warfare has always been something from a very young age.
Yeah.
Who do you think was the main voice that shaped who you are today?
I know that would probably be hard.
That's super hard.
It would be my grandmother, though.
Grandmother.
Grandmother, yeah.
So my dad's mom.
So the way we grew up, country, y'all.
I'm from Tennessee.
We grew up, my grandparents are up the hill, and we were down the hill.
Literally, I was probably five years old climbing up the hill, and I would just show up at my grandparents' door like, it's chaos down there.
I'm coming up here.
And so my grandmother's always been a prayer warrior.
She's always been a worshipper and she's always been pretty much up the hill for me.
And so when I tell you all growing up was it was chaos.
It was very, very interesting growing up.
My parents ended up splitting when I was 13 years old.
And so until that age,
we just definitely grew up in fight or flight, like never knowing what it would be like at home.
Because sometimes my dad would be clean for months and then he would be gone and then he would just show up strung out.
Like we really didn't know what to expect.
I remember some Easter's we spent
at the rehab facilities.
Like my mom set up an Easter egg hunt in the front of a rehab facility for us.
Go mom though, honestly.
But my grandmother was always a safe place and she was always close.
And when she talks,
She always says, even from a young age, my mom would have to literally tell her, I just got her in the car.
Please don't let her see you.
Because if she sees you, she's just going to go crazy and want to be attached to you.
I want to be that kind of grandma.
You will.
You are.
You are.
And I think it's...
Yes, because I loved her and she was my grandmother.
But I think from a young age, there was something on her life that I was drawn to.
And I think that even as like babies and at a young age, you pick up on that stuff.
Yes.
And she always felt safe to me.
There was something on her life that I wanted on mine.
And when things were crazy, I literally knew I could climb up that hill.
Sure.
and my grandmother would be there.
That'll preach.
Yeah, yeah.
So I would say my grandmother.
But don't tell everyone else in the family because they will be mad.
How many siblings do you have?
Tell us a little bit about your family.
Crazy, y'all.
Like, how long do you have?
Okay.
My parents met in Bible college at Dr. Rod Parsley's Bible college.
Yes.
World Harvest.
They got married super young.
I think my mom was like 19 and they had me and my brother.
So my dad was clean while he was at college.
my mom will tell the story they thought they were going to go back to my grandparents church build the ministry and that it would be a fairy tale and so they got married they had me and my brother my dad was clean the first two years of my life and then when my mom got pregnant with my brother malik he um relapsed and he started struggling with an addiction to cocaine
Um, my mom says that when my brother, when she was in the hospital and I had my brother, they were literally looking for my dad.
They didn't know where he was.
And, um, he, he made it in time for Malik.
That's my brother's name to be born.
He showed up at the hospital and my mom wanted to kill him.
Um, and he made it for, for that.
And my brother's like first two years of life were really rough.
Not his life, but that season of life was rough, those first two years.
Because my dad was just struggling.
And I remember everyone just praying to God that he would come out of it.
So this is to the siblings conversation.
Because he was strung out so much during that season, I mean, he was...
out doing what he was doing you know i call him father abraham had many sons so when we were 13 years old fast forward we get sat down so here's the crazy part my dad gets healed of a drug addiction so the testimony is good he got drastically healed of a drug addiction
Re-gave his life to the Lord was solid for a while.
Him and my mom had a solid marriage for a while.
They were both pastoring at the church.
Things were going well.
And when we were 13, it had come up that we had younger siblings that we didn't know about.
Wow.
Yeah.
So we had two half-sisters.
Wow.
that their names are Wesley and Olivia.
And I was 13 years old, and I thought my life was over.
I really did.
Because I still had so much religion on me, too, where I was like... I had religion on me, and because I was a pastor's kid, I also had this thing on me where I was like, we are supposed to be, like, the example.
And...
I dealt with secondhand guilt and shame because I just felt like... I was so embarrassed.
I was so embarrassed.
And my brother had the complete opposite response.
He thought it was the best thing in the world.
He thought it was amazing.
But anyways, I'm talking a long time.
They sat us down.
We're 13 years old.
We find out we have two sisters.
And...
They gave us like a month, I think, to deal with it, cope with it, meet them.
And then they were going to tell the church that.
Wow.
Yeah.
So I'm a pastor's kid and they come up on the stage and they make the announcement.
It was rough.
How old were you at this time?
Thirteen.
Which is like the worst age.
You're right in that spot where like everyone, you care so much what everyone thinks.
Right.
And at this point, my dad's career was doing really well.
He's a gospel artist.
We're traveling.
It just feels like this redemptive story.
We were on the other side of it.
And all of a sudden, our world is crashing in on me.
And my mom, she was not handling it well at all.
She was really struggling with...
i mean it's public i mean it's humiliation and like it was hard it was just really really difficult yeah and so everyone's dealing with it in their own ways and then my dad's trying to navigate something that he did years ago like this wasn't a recent thing that he had done it was something that he had done so long ago and he was having to navigate it publicly and so 13 years old we find out we have two sisters
We bring them in quick, y'all.
We jumped in fast.
We were doing vacations and the whole thing.
It was like, we have these daughters and we're gonna bring them in.
And they were also navigating.
who are these people this new family and like they didn't grow up with a dad and they're trying to learn their dad and I'm overprotective I'm like this is my dad like all these things at 13 years old and ultimately the other side of the testimony that I share a lot is it did end up like messing up my parents marriage so they did end up splitting when we were 13 years old
My dad got remarried and this is where I have two younger siblings that I am obsessed with.
It's Joel.
He is 11 and then Wyatt, she's five.
So there are six of us total and I'm the oldest.
Oh my goodness.
I know that's a long, but it is like, I'm like, how long do you have?
I can explain all the, yeah.
So with all the crazy, right?
Yeah.
You're going through all of the crazy.
You're 13 years old.
How many years from that point did things begin to happen for you?
Did you doors open?
Take us on a short journey of where you're at now to where you are at now.
So that was the age that I think was super pivotal for me because I think I always knew the Lord, loved the Lord, but that was when I really needed the Lord.
And I always say like I had to make a decision.
Do I still believe in this or am I just like done?
Yeah.
And I always say that I really wanted to believe that he was still real.
And I really wanted to believe that he would still come through for me.
It would just look differently.
And I always say like my desire to want to believe is what carried me until I did.
Because there was definitely a season where I was like, I don't believe any of this.
but I really wanted to.
And so my desire to want to made me like press into him a lot and talk to him.
And I always say that was the season where I really met the Lord and I feel like he really showed up for me.
Wow.
Yeah.
And so that happened.
And then I started, um, going to Jensen Franklin's youth conference every year.
And that youth conference changed my life.
It really did.
Cause I experienced worship in a way that I hadn't experienced worship before and
And then I would go home.
We started youth bands, started singing in church, just really got involved.
And you're about what?
At this age, I'm like 14.
I'm going through high school.
And so I got super involved leading worship.
And then when I was 18, I became like the worship leader at the church.
Yeah.
So I did that.
My mom and me agreed to go to college for one semester.
So I did that.
And then I came home and I was like, I'm going to
do this ministry music thing.
And I don't know how it'll look, but we'll figure it out.
And so from 18 to 21, I just served at my grandparents' church, worked random jobs.
Like I had all kinds of crazy jobs.
And then I remember I actually went on vacation with my aunt Delana and I was driving home from vacation and I was 20 at the time.
And I was like, all right, Lord,
Like, you need to open up a door or I'm going to go get my real estate license, like something, because I can't just keep just hoping for the best.
And so I prayed that prayer.
And God does not always speak to me this way, but it was like he heard and he moved quick.
I got a text on that drive home and this girl was like, hey, I got asked to audition to sing background for Lauren Daigle.
And I threw your name in and just thought maybe if you'd want to audition, it could be a cool.
Yeah.
And so I was 20 and I went in to audition for that.
And I remember I started touring with her when I was 21.
So that was the first big door that opened.
How long were you with Lauren?
I was with her for four years until COVID happened.
So I'm 28.
So was COVID like four years ago?
Like something like that?
Yeah.
So I was with Lauren from 21.
It was six years ago.
Really?
Wow.
Well, I toured with Lauren until then.
I'm about to be 29, so I guess that math adds up.
But yeah.
And I was, I mean, they told me it was for a two-week tour.
It ended up being years of touring with her.
And I stayed until obviously everything shut down.
Yeah.
I love that.
Yeah.
Was there a time, Lizzie, where you were singing and you knew that God had anointed you for that purpose?
Like, you know, in my personal life, there were times where I knew God said, you're going to break chains.
And you know what I mean?
Like, was there a moment where, man, I know that God's called me to this?
Yes.
I mean, I think growing up with people around me who were in ministry, love the Lord, I was always reminded of it by them.
But I think when I first started leading worship,
there were just moments where I was like, there's nothing like this.
There's no way that I could run from this, even if I wanted to.
And just seeing, worship was really for me in the beginning.
Like it was really my way of like,
navigating life I felt like it was such a safe place for me and then the older I got I started seeing other people be ministered to by it and yeah I would say from a very young age leading worship I knew this is what I was supposed to do I always say like if you try to run from it and you can't you know you're called I love that what do you think helps you stay in tune to hearing the voice of God
You went through a hard battle growing up.
There's probably still areas in your life that are being healed, you know, as you lead worship and sit in the secret place.
But what helps you stay tuned to his voice instead of how crazy your life is and everything is around you?
Honestly, I think it's because I remember seasons where I didn't.
I remember seasons where I let other voices block.
And I know how it left me.
And I think it's so weird because I feel like my whole life, all I've ever wanted to do is this.
And when I first started getting to do this, I really, really struggled with like,
this feeling not satisfied, feeling like really disappointed.
And it was in that season where I was like, I got to figure this out because I feel like all my dreams are coming true.
And I'm so disappointed and I'm miserable.
And like, why is this happening?
And I remember walking off stages and literally, it's kind of what I talked about last night a little bit.
I mean, I was like depressed because I'm like, I'm doing what I want to do.
I'm doing what I dreamed about doing.
And
It really was that season where I had to go figure out a lot with the Lord.
I remember just talking to Him and being like, why am I sad?
Why am I sad right now?
I think I just got confused by what the goal was.
I started living for the applause of man a lot.
And the problem with that is if you live by their applause, you'll die when they're silent.
And that was really, really hard for me.
And so I think to answer the question, when I started navigating that, that was when it really came to me.
I was like, his voice has to be everything.
He has to be everything.
Because when you walk off the stage and the people are gone,
Yes.
And he's all that's the only thing left.
And so I think when I started really having mountaintop moments was when I really, really started learning his voice.
I think everyone's like, oh, you really learn his voice in the low seasons.
But for me, it was like life's really good.
I'm not satisfied.
And I think it was those seasons when I really felt like he came through for me and like really learned how to hear his voice.
And also in the secret place, like.
from a young age, spending time with the Lord and learning His voice and learning to be quiet in His presence and learning to just listen to Him.
So I think because I did that from a young age, I've always been able to find His voice.
So good.
Yeah.
What would you say to a woman who feels like she doesn't have a voice?
What would you say to her?
Gosh.
I would say that that's not something God decided
and that life has a way of convincing you that you've lost your voice.
And I think a lot of times when that happens, you're trying to figure out
where it went, what happened, trying to navigate what made me lose my voice.
And I think you have to really go back.
Life has a way of doing that to you.
Life has a way of silencing you.
And life has a way of disappointing you.
And I think it is hard to sometimes remember the power of life and death.
It's in your tongue, all of that.
All those things are so true.
I always go back, quick story, being a little girl and
When my dad would come home struggling, I knew one song by heart.
And it was, I've been through the storm and the rain, I made it.
Been through sickness, I've been through pain, but I made it.
I've had people scandalize my name, but I made it.
And I thank God that I made it.
It was the only song I knew.
I don't know why a little girl knew scandalize my name, but that was my song.
And I always go back to this story because it reminds me of the power that's on our voice.
I was so young and I didn't know what that song meant, but my dad would come home and it would be chaos.
And I literally remember grabbing my little brother and going and sitting in a corner and holding him while my parents were screaming.
and singing that song over and over and over again.
And I had no clue what it meant.
But now I look back, I'm 28 years old.
And I can see that I was literally prophesying over not just me, not just my brother, but even over my parents that we were going to make it.
Maybe it wouldn't look how I thought it would look.
But that is why your voice matters because that's the power in your voice.
And I know I talked about it last night, but like...
It is the truth.
And you may not feel it in the moment, but you can look back years later and remember things that you spoke over yourself.
And that's the power that your voice has.
And it's literally the power that God gave you and your voice.
And sometimes it's not a song.
Sometimes it's just speaking things into the atmosphere.
But I can remember like right now going back to that moment.
I didn't know if that moment even mattered back then.
But now standing here,
And seeing that my mom is healed of depression, seeing that my dad is healed of a drug addiction, I can literally see the power that it had.
And I think that's what you have to do.
It's literally what I was talking about last night.
You convince yourself that it doesn't matter.
And that just makes you want to just shut up.
If it don't matter, if it doesn't do anything, why do it?
And I think that that's the thing, is you have to have almost the capability to see 10 years down the road.
This might not feel like it matters right now, but what I'm doing will matter.
And so I would say that you have to have the faith that what you're doing actually matters and that what you're saying actually matters.
And I literally always go back to the scripture of power of life and death is in our time because it's just that quick reminder of it.
It matters and it has power.
So good.
So good.
So when you sing, you weren't there.
The night he found me.
I mean, there's a story.
Now you kind of know that, right?
Very real.
You don't know the cost.
People don't know the cost.
And so, man.
That's so incredible, and it puts actually a picture for all of us to see kind of what you walk through and how the anointing just rests on you.
Thank you.
Always say, don't ever crave somebody's anointing.
Yeah.
Because you do not know what they walk through.
It's true.
Addie, can you come to the keys?
This wasn't planned, but I'm going to ask you one more question, and then I want you to...
sing a song just what's in your heart and then I want you to pray but if you could speak directly to the women in this room maybe even sitting across from them at a coffee shop what do you believe would be the sound that God is trying to awaken on the inside of them I think I've been saying it a lot lately I think that
culture in the world that we live in today is teaching us to put on a persona of strength and of power it's not a bad thing necessarily it's only bad if it's not real and i think that um in a place of worship and in a place where you're communicating with god
if I look at the women in the Bible that I love, they were all desperate and they were real.
I love when I look back at Hannah in the Bible and she's so real with God, like almost to an uncomfortable point where she's like, you've, you forgot, like you forsaken me.
And, um,
I think in a culture and in a world where we're taught to put on this mask of being strong and being this and being these powerful women that we forgot how to get desperate.
And it feels uncomfortable to be desperate.
Even if you look, I talked about it last night, the woman that pushed her way through the crowd, she was desperate.
But God responds to that.
And I think that if we can remember how to be desperate before the Lord, and if we can remember to not care what people think.
So good.
the woman with the alabaster box people thought she was crazy but she got God's she got Jesus's attention and I think that God is calling us back to a place of desperation I believe it but it's not a weak thing I think it's like a
we just know that when you get desperation has a sound desperate people aren't silent hungry people aren't silent there's a sound that happens when you're desperate and i think that we are getting back to a place of that and i don't think it's a bad thing i think that like the world that we live in has made us really believe that we can't do that anymore and that it's weird
And I think that God is calling us back to that place.
I think there are a group of people that actually are hungry for more.
And I think that that sound is rising in women of God.
I always say children are going to watch their moms.
They're going to do what they see their moms do.
And I actually think that it's happening for men of God too.
I think that there's a lot of men in the world that...
They feel like they can't do that because that means they're not men and they're not macho.
And I think that that's changing slowly.
And I think that there's a sound that's birthing in churches because we're gonna get desperate again.
There's too many people that are walking around and they believe in God, but they've settled for less.
They quit asking.
So good.
And I think that's the problem.
When you quit asking, I just picture Jesus up there like, ask.
I want to come through.
I want to show up for you.
But ask me again.
There's so many people that quit asking because disappointment has made you just set it aside.
And so I really do believe if there's a sound that's rising up, it's the sound of desperation.
Will you sing over us?
Yeah.
I've come to pour
My praise on him like oil from Mary's alabaster vows.
Don't be angry.
If I wash his feet with my tears And dry them with my head Thank you.
Cause you weren't there
The night he found me You did not feel what I felt When he wrapped his love all around me You don't know the cost of the oil You don't know the cost of the oil
You don't know the cost of the oil.
You don't know the cost of the oil.
You will never know the cost of my worship.
You will never know the cost of the oil.
You don't know the cost of the oil.
You don't know the cost of the oil.
Of the old You don't know the cost Of the old In my alabaster box No one knows what you carry
No one knows what you've been through.
No one knows the story, how he showed up.
It was just you and him.
No one will ever know the cause.
No one will ever know the cause.
Lord, right now I just pray for every single woman in this room.
I pray that every story that's represented in this room is not wasted.
And I just pray right now that he's reminding you of the things that you walked through.
And I believe that callings and purposes are coming out of those stories.
That right now he wants to remind you, you walked through it for a reason.
You navigated that season for a reason.
And your purpose is always attached to what you've been through.
Your purpose is always attached to the victories that you've won.
Your purpose is always attached to the battles that you've walked through.
And so right now, I actually declare in this room that there are testimonies that are coming forth and stories that are coming forth that are for other people.
I speak to every calling in this room that it has to come forth right now, that your calling is directly
it is directly attached to what you've been through if you've struggled with something and you've overcome it I believe that the Lord wants to use you for that right now so right now I speak to every idea that what you've been through is wasted and I say that right now it is designed for a purpose and that what the enemy tried to take you out in God is going to use it in this next season so I speak to every calling in the room right now that's
Daughters are rising up right now.
That testimonies are being birthed in this room right now.
I declare that purpose is coming forth.
I speak over every dream.
I speak over every purpose in this place right now.
I speak to every worshiper in this room right now.
That daughters are getting their voice back and that worshipers are rising in this room right now.
I speak to every dream that is coming forth and that no season was wasted that no season was wasted but that God is using it and in this next season you will begin to see how he brought you through something for a purpose and for a reason so every woman that feels broken I declare healing in this room right now that you are about to come on the other side of it and I declare that it has to happen
And it has to come forth in the mighty name of Jesus.
We declare it and we seal it in Jesus' name.
Amen.
And I pray for you.
Father, I thank you for the gift on Lizzie's life.
I laid in bed last night and I wept.
To think of the gifting that you've given her.
How precious it is.
God, I pray that you would keep her.
God, that she would guard the gift on her life.
God, I thank you that you're ordering her steps.
God, I thank you for favor.
God, in every area of her life, Lord, I thank you that you know who her husband is.
She doesn't have to worry.
She doesn't have to try to make it happen at a certain time.
But God, you know.
Because you've ordered her steps, Lord.
And I thank you, Lord, that God, even as she goes forward and God follows the call of God on her life, Lord, I thank you that this will be a launching.
God, everything that she's talked about today, God, every, when she held her sibling, God, this was a launching.
God, when she was walking up that hill to see her grandmother, Lord, it was a launching.
God, I thank you that the word of God is cultivating its purpose on the inside of her.
And I prophesy this, and I know I'm stepping out in faith by saying this, but Lord, I see a preacher on this woman.
I declare right now that she will preach the word of God.
God, that you would give her a heart for her generation.
And I declare right now that the word of God, oh, it would be made real in her life.
Oh, and that she would preach the gospel.
God, I thank you.
I thank you for who she is, Lord.
May she always walk hand in hand with you, never to get ahead of you or behind you, but God.
I just see a picture of you holding her hand, you leading her in every place, in every footstep, God, every door.
We thank you for it.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
We love you.
We love you.
My friends, I hope that you enjoyed that conversation.
Wow, what an anointing that Lizzie has.
Why don't you do this?
Why don't you share this with someone who you know it would bless their life?
We never like to have conversations and then stay in a room because we feel like that God would allow this conversation to touch so many women.
We're so thankful that you joined us today, and I look forward to seeing you next time.
Thanks for joining me for today's episode of From My Father.
I encourage you to every day ask the Father, what is it that you want me to receive from you today?
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That's all for today, friends.
Until next time, keep leaning in to the Father's voice.