I hope you all had a great Valentines Day. I had a great time with friends in Pennsylvania.
So much to tell you guys… I’ve been running crazy! The next in the next two weeks I’ll be in NJ, Pennsylvania, Atlanta, Dallas, back to Atlanta, then back to Dallas, then VA, then off to Maryland, Houston, and Raliegh NC…then back to Dallas! A lot of work in the next few weeks. I’m thankful but during these times I can feel my heart pulling away from the Lord. I can feel myself falling away from my faith even though I’m out singing and leading people in worship. It’s can be hard (Christian Music) beacause what I do is about my life off the stage. It’s about the other 23 hours of my day. I’m worried that my work load will get me into a place of routine. Routine doesn’t work when it comes to following God If I get in a rut we I will eventually fall because my enemy is always trying to figure out another way to me. My challenge is to keep my faith fresh and doing that means that I’m gonna have to take a break! So… Your job is to remind me to take a break the music will always be there. Recovering a career/schedule is a lot easier than trying to recover from spiritual burn out! I’ll be praying for you guys. Leave your requests here and let’s continue to be “undisguised”.
Much Love,
AE
I got permission from the author of this testimony to share it with you guys what he wrote about one of my new songs “Could It Be”. Whenever I feel overwhelmed and like I want to quit, I get emails like this one that remind me of the purpose behind the music. Be encouraged…
Anthony
“Often times musicians, churches and people judge there success on there amount of followers and supporters they have. I just want to tell Anthony and his musicians and everyone involved within his music, that you your success has already far exceeded what you could imagine. You have saved my life. The song, “Could it Be” has particularly hit me hard. It has truly reached my heavy heart. In order for you to understand what you have for me, I would like to tell you a little of my background, I know your all busy but just to take the time to read this letter would truly mean the world to me. These past two years in my life have been the hardest by far for me. I got into a relationship as a junior in high school, She didn’t share my faith and it cause for me to conform and sacrifice my morals in many ways in order to please her and love her in the way I wanted too. Looking back, I completely lost my faith, she took the love that should of been for God and took a place in my heart she had no busness being in. I was blinded by the world and just got so far off track in my life, it wasn’t till a few weeks ago for me to realize just how far off I was. I planned on asking her hand in marriage, I had bought a ring for her for Christmas and gave it to her, I felt our life hit a point where we were ready, she began to seek God and our lives were coming together but, “It wasn’t worth it, to give myself away.” Days after I asked her to marry me, I found out lies that she had been keeping from me, and broken trust that had been shattered years before. I was crushed, I thought my world came to an end. That was straw that broke the Camel’s back. I soon came to the reality, for years I hadn’t dealt with pains, prescription drug abuse, anger, physical abuse as a child, being exposed to pornography at the age of 7 and lasted throughout my life. All my pain had been numbed. My broken engagement just days after I felt like I was on top of the world, brought everything down. I had to go to rehab, I began to cut myself, I had suicidal thoughts, I lost 15 pounds in 2 weeks. I had lost it all. I began rehab, therapy, spiritual counseling and many other methods to not fix me, but heal me. Looking back, I am on the recovery process and now, “the question that WAS haunting and somehow comforting.” I realized that through all my pain. God was calling me back into his arms. I had lost sight of what was truly important in my life. It took me losing it all to find something worth it all. Days after I came to the place of recovery and acceptance, your CD came out. I ordered it online to get a signed copy, but the moment it came it I couldn’t wait, I had to buy it on itunes. I went to a quiet gazebo at school at 11 O clock at night and sat looking over the Hudson river. I calmed my music ADD and allowed and went through every song. Then it came, the song that changed my life, “Could it Be.” At that moment by myself in nature I broke with tears flowing I went down to my knees and I realized. Could it be that through all of this God was there the whole time, just waiting for me to realize that giving myself and wanting to love was never enough. All I needed was God’s love to satisfy. That song was for me. I truly believe that God placed in your heart this song, along with many reasons, but knew that this song would touch me. You have helped me realized through your lyrics and music. What I must do to not just FIX myself but to HEAL myself. You have helped save my life. There is no greater reward in touching people than what you have given to me and you need to know how much you have done for me. Thank You. I hope to hear from you. God Bless.”
With the most humble and real thank you,
Ian Pena
PS – I attached a picture that I thought you might like
I’m on my way home from NYC, my first official performance for the new record “Undisguised”. I’m so looking forward to what God is going to do with this new music. I sang “Could It Be” for the first time and was speechless when the song was over. I felt an amazing connection to the audience there in Brooklyn. I never knew that my heartache would allow me to connect to audiences better than I ever have. I can’t wait for what God is going to do through this. I’m excited to hear what you think about the new music and can’t wait to meet you on the road. Please leave your reviews right here or on Itunes. I’d love to hear what you think. Thanks so much for the encouragement and I’ll be talking to you soon..
I’m so excited about today and the release of my new record Undisguised. I’m also thrilled with the responses to that you’ve given me to the blog I posted about being Undisguised in your walk with the Lord and with others. Your stories are encouraging and uplifting. During the course of this week I’m going to try and read/respond to all of you. I hope that you guys love the record and please feel free to pass the link to the blog/new record on to your friends I’d love to hear their stories also.
When it comes to the new music, please leave your reviews on iTunes or wherever you purchased the record. I love reading your comments it encourages me and helps me to get better at what I do.
Thanks soooo much for your support,
Sincerely,
Anthony Evans
In this moment we are surrounded by the news of the earthquake in Haiti. I’ve heard a lot about it, donated money to help, and I’m praying for the people whose lives have been severely affected. Something very interesting just happened though. I’m sitting in the airport and saw a CNN report that there was a group of Haitian people who gathered this morning (at a collapsed church) to give thanks for the gift of life that they still have despite their world falling down around them. In their tragedy they found time to say “thank you”. We could all learn a valuable lesson from the Haitian people who gathered to pray. Our personal lives may be falling or may have fallen apart right before our eyes but our job as believers is to look past our tragedy and say “thank you.”
Tell me your story. I want to know what’s fallen and what you still have in your life to be thankful for. Leave your comments here and tell a friend to do the same. We can encourage each other by telling the truth about what God’s done.
I’ll start us:
I have had a lot of heartache in the last few years (broken engagement, loss of my grandfather, loss of someone that I initially thought was a good friend) a lot of things in my world fell apart but I’m THANKFUL for the fact that God has used my heartache to be an encouragement to my audiences out on the road.
Thanks for reading,
We’ll talk soon,
Anthony Evans
Two and a half weeks before I release my new album “Undisguised”!! I’m excited about it! We’re going to get some of the new single up for you on the site so you can leave your feed back. I’m also going to start blogging regularly and would love to hear back from you on what you think about the different subjects we’ll cover. Everything from the challenges of being a Christian Single to how we can encourage each other through our personal testimonies of God’s healing in our lives. Can’t wait to start this journey of being honest with each other and with the Lord.
Congratulations to our “Fly Away with Anthony” WINNER, Nicole Arnold. Nicole will be flying to New York City to attend Anthony’s premier release of “Undisguised,” at the famous Brooklyn Tabernacle, in Brooklyn, NY.
Also, congratulations to our runner up Karen Guilbert. Karen has won a free trip to Ft. Worth, TX to attend Lifeway women’s “Going Beyond,” with keynote speaker Priscilla Shirer and Anthony leading worship.
Thank you to all who entered the drawing. Keep checking the website for new contests and giveaways!
Hey you guys,
We’re out on Christmas tour and I can’t express to you how much fun we’ve having. We’re going to be playing to close to 10,000 people over the course of our 13 shows. I had no idea that this tour would be such a success. Thank you guys for supporting me. I hope your Christmas is great and I’ll be getting back to you guys soon with more about the “Undisguised Worship” tour that we start at the end of January. I want to see you out on the road and I want to hear back from you so be sure to check back here often for new contests and other fun stuff. I’ll be talking to you soon.
Anthony
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. I had one that was full of memories and great times. I spent some time with amazing friends up in the North Carolina mountains. We sat around and talked about what we were thankful for and all I could think is that God has provided so much more than I could of ever asked. You might think that I’m talking about things along the lines of career… but I’m talking about the foundation of it all, Salvation. The fact that he would come and see fit to call me one of His own creates in me a gratitude that cannot be expressed in words. I want so bad for this thought to go beyond today and become a part of the way that I love and live.
I want anyone that I come in contact with to be inundated by the love that I’m showing them because of the love the Christ continually shows me. May we always be reminded that Thanksgiving is an attitude of our heart. Wishing you the best.
Anthony
