It Is Well features several brand new singles such as "What Faith Can Do", "Amazed" and favorites such as "Hungry", "Give Us Clean Hands" and "God of Wonders." The heart of worship is something the band loves bringing to their audiences, sharing and coming together as one to give glory to God. With the new album, fans have been able to sing along to the classics as well as add some new favorites into their time of worship.

It Is Well (Expanded Edition) features four live songs including "What Faith Can Do" and one unreleased studio song. I got the great chance to speak with Kutless lead singer Jon Micah Sumrall in person at Winter Jam about the album’s single “Everything I Need.”

Please tell me about the background of the song "Everything I Need."

When we were working on the album, we recorded the songs at our friend’s house, which is 20 minutes from my house. Every night on my drive home I would think about other ideas for songs for the album. I remember thinking we needed another song. I started thinking about themes that people could relate to for another song. One theme we’ve seen while we’ve been traveling is that people have really been struggling and going through difficult times with the economy. No matter where we go, life is hard. People are having a harder time now than 5 or 10 years ago.

Ultimately as believers we ask God how this is all going to work out. How does faith play into issues like losing jobs? Jesus promises that He’ll never leave or forsake us. How does that pan out practically in our lives? I am reminded, especially as Americans, how we confuse our needs with our wants. As I learn from people’s stories, we get so focused on what we think is right and what we need for ourselves, out of selfish motivation, we miss out on the bigger perspective.

At my home church, a family recently lost their six-year-old daughter to a sudden illness. You wonder how can God use something so tragic and so brutal to help people. As a parent, you think how terrible that is. From an eternal perspective, lives are being changed and people are being saved after something tragic. The parents are heart-broken, but who knows what that girl has been rescued from now that she’s with her heavenly Father. The only thing we truly need is our relationship with God.

Do you have a life verse or any Bible verses you used in writing the song?

My life verse is Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Jeremiah 29:11: For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

What's the takeaway message for listeners regarding the song?

Using a sports analogy, in football, if you are a lineman, you don’t always know where the ball is or how the play is going, but you trust in the plan. You are in the trenches doing your job. You trust in the bigger game plan. The same goes for our lives as believers. Life is going to hurt sometimes, but I’m going to trust God. God has an eternal perspective and sees the bigger picture. The song declares that Jesus is everything we truly need. He is the focus and the beginning and the end of our lives.

When we focus on that truth and put our stock in that hope, as a loving Father, He guides us. That trust and that hope and that type of faith is exactly what I’m seeing from this family from my home church. When I wonder how someone can get through something so tragic, I know they trust in God. He has a plan and He will carry us through. The American church sometimes teaches that following God only means blessings. That’s not what The Bible teaches. The world will hate you because it hated Jesus first. You will go through trials and tribulations. Honestly if none of that has happened, you may not be stepping out enough in faith.

Here are the lyrics:

When every step is so hard to take
And all of my hope is fading away
When life is a mountain that I can not climb
You carry me, Jesus carry me.

You are strength in my weakness
You are the refuge I seek
You are everything in my time of need
You are everything, You are everything I need

When every moment is more than I can take
And all of my strength is slipping away
When every breath gets harder to breathe
You carry me, Jesus carry me

You are strength in my weakness
You are the refuge I seek
You are everything in my time of need
You are everything, You are everything I need

I need You
You are everything I need
I love everything about You

You are strength in my weakness
You are the refuge I seek
You are everything in my time of need
You are everything, You are everything

You are strength in my weakness
You are the refuge I seek
You are everything in my time of need
You are everything, You are everything I need

Here’s Matthew Henry’s commentary about Psalm 37:1-6: “When we look abroad we see the world full of evil-doers, that flourish and live in ease. So it was seen of old, therefore let us not marvel at the matter. We are tempted to fret at this, to think them the only happy people, and so we are prone to do like them: but this we are warned against. Outward prosperity is fading. When we look forward, with an eye of faith, we shall see no reason to envy the wicked. Their weeping and wailing will be everlasting. The life of religion is a believing trust in the Lord, and diligent care to serve Him according to His will. It is not trusting God, but tempting Him, if we do not make conscience of our duty to Him. A man's life consists not in abundance, but, Thou shall have food convenient for thee. This is more than we deserve, and it is enough for one that is going to heaven. To delight in God is as much a privilege as a duty. He has not promised to gratify the appetites of the body, and the humors of the fancy, but the desires of the renewed, sanctified soul. What is the desire of the heart of a good man? It is this, to know, and love, and serve God.”