Andy Kirk’s much anticipated 1CN Records debut release, Wake Up My Soul, recently hit stores and radio stations across the nation.

The title of Kirk's new record reflects his heart as he explains, “I hope to see God’s people awake from their slumber. Awaking from the numbing effect of culture and society, to the knowledge and revelation of who Christ is and what He can do through us. I’m truly humbled to see what God has done with a small seed of talent in my life, and I am eager to share these new songs of hope and surrender with the Church.”

Andy has been a worship leader of the second largest church in America, LifeChurch.tv, based out of Oklahoma City. During his tenure there, Kirk led worship seven times a week for 3,000-10,000 people live every weekend at their different campuses and events. When he was part of the online campus, Kirk was in front of more than 125,000 people in 120 countries.

In 2009, with the blessing of LifeChurch.tv and lead pastor Craig Groeschel, Kirk and his wife moved to Nashville after he signed with 1CN Records. Andy now leads worship as an Artist-In-Residence at Hopepark Church in Nashville. I had the opportunity to speak with Andy about his song “You Are God.”

Please tell me about the background in writing the song “You Are God.”

I co-wrote the song with Michael Farren from the band Pocket Full of Rocks... a few years ago. I’m a huge fan of his songs “Let It Rain” and “Let The Worshipers Arise.” He writes powerful worship songs, so it was neat to see how God orchestrated an opportunity to co-write a worship song with him. I went to his house and his home studio and I can remember the morning I was driving to his house.

My songwriting happens two ways: either in the studio with a guitar in my hand, pounding out melodies and chord structures, and other times it happens while I’m driving my car. I’ll be singing along with a worship song or just worshiping personally. I was headed on a 45-minute drive and had some butterflies in my stomach. I was praying that God would give me something meaningful and true that would speak to people’s hearts. I know, being involved in writing songs for a living, that you can let the pressure get to you. I never want to lose the meaning of why I’m writing a song. I remember that morning I started singing the melody and chorus of “You Are God” in the car. I didn’t have an instrument and I just let the words come to me in my time of prayer with God. Those words “You are God and You’re unchangeable, You alone are faithful and true” came to me on the drive. I recorded the chorus on my iPhone and when I got there, I played him the chorus. He came up with chords and then we finished the chorus together.

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

Philippians 3:8-11: What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

What do consider to be the take-away message for listeners?

I felt God breathing into the song, and I feel blessed to have been part of it. It is my favorite song to sing. Every song on my album includes truth from The Bible. This song is a reflection of my heart and my gratitude to God for what He’s done in my life. The story of the enormity of the God we worship is found throughout the Scriptures, and for me, that is why this song connects with people. Whether you are struggling with the economy, and seeing everything that can be shaken is being shaken, people can relate to the song. The song starts with the fact that God is the Creator of the universe. Then we focus on how He is our King and Savior. The bridge brings it down to a personal level, which gives me goose bumps: “Ruler of the nations, Beginning and End, You are God above all, yet you call me Your friend.” That’s the story of the Gospel and that’s the takeaway message of this song.

Here are the lyrics:

God of heaven, God of earth
God of never ending worth
Through the ages, You remain
A God who cannot be contained

You are God and You’re unchangeable
You alone are faithful and true
We could search all of heaven and earth just to find
There is no other God, there’s no other God like You

God of wonder, God of grace
God above all time and space
King of mercy, love divine
Savior of this heart of mine

You are God and You’re unchangeable
You alone are faithful and true
We could search all of heaven and earth just to find
There is no other God, there’s no other God like You

You’re the righteous redeemer, mighty to save
Endless in power, Ancient of days
Ruler of the nations, Beginning and End
You are God above all, yet you call me Your friend

You are God and You’re unchangeable
You alone are faithful and true
We could search all of heaven and earth just to find
There is no other God, there’s no other God
You are God and You’re unchangeable
You alone are faithful and true
We could search all of heaven and earth just to find
There is no other God, there’s no other God
We could search all of heaven and earth just to find
There is no other God, there’s no other God like You

No one compares to You
There’s no other God like You

Here’s Matthew Henry’s commentary on Philippians 3:8-11: “He deemed all these things to be but loss, compared with the knowledge of Christ, by faith in his person and salvation. He speaks of all worldly enjoyments and outward privileges which sought a place with Christ in his heart, or could pretend to any merit and desert, and counted them but loss; but it might be said, It is easy to say so; but what would he do when he came to the trial? He had suffered the loss of all for the privileges of a Christian.

“True knowledge of Christ alters and changes men, their judgments and manners, and makes them as if made again anew. The believer prefers Christ, knowing that it is better for us to be without all worldly riches, than without Christ and his word. Let us see what the apostle resolved to cleave to, and that was Christ and heaven. We are undone, without righteousness wherein to appear before God, for we are guilty. There is a righteousness provided for us in Jesus Christ, and it is a complete and perfect righteousness. None can have benefit by it, who trust in themselves. Faith is the appointed means of applying the saving benefit. It is by faith in Christ's blood.

“We are made conformable to Christ's death, when we die to sin, as he died for sin; and the world is crucified to us, and we to the world, by the cross of Christ. The apostle was willing to do or to suffer any thing, to attain the glorious resurrection of saints. This hope and prospect carried him through all difficulties in his work. He did not hope to attain it through his own merit and righteousness, but through the merit and righteousness of Jesus Christ.”

I really love the message of this song. Having featured Pocket Full of Rocks before, I know that Michael Farren’s life verse is Zephaniah 3:17: “The LORD your God in your midst, The Mighty One will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”

It’s cool how the bridge of this song includes that Biblical truth. That Truth stops me in my tracks as a worshiper, and I have no other response than to praise Him and sing, “No one compares to You, There’s no other God like You.”

I love singing this song to God in my car during my personal prayer time and profess to Him that “You are God and You’re unchangeable, You alone are faithful and true.” Amen.