{"id":25964,"date":"2023-06-12T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=25964"},"modified":"2023-06-12T11:12:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:12:22","slug":"brandon-lake-believes-god-can-use-anyone-after-winning-3-k-love-fan-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/06\/brandon-lake-believes-god-can-use-anyone-after-winning-3-k-love-fan-awards.html","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Lake Believes &#8216;God Can Use Anyone&#8217; After Winning 3 K-Love Fan Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25972\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/06\/brandon-lake-credit-k-love-fan-awards-youtube.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25972\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/06\/brandon-lake-credit-k-love-fan-awards-youtube.png\" alt=\"brandon lake\" width=\"768\" height=\"513\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">K-Love Fan Awards\/YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brandon Lake led the way with three wins, and For King &amp; Country won Artist of the Year during the 10th Annual K-Love Fan Awards. Lake won Male Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, and Worship Song of the Year, both of the latter for his song \u201cGratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For King &amp; Country won Artist of the Year, while MercyMe won Group of the Year. Fan favorite Lauren Daigle won Female Artist of the Year, and CAIN hosted the show. Lake said \u201cGratitude\u201d is a \u201cpowerful weapon\u201d for Christians.<\/p>\n<p>After the show, he told Christian Headlines and other media outlets, \u201cI have so much to be grateful for. The song has been a reminder that God can use anyone, and He can use anything. That song almost didn\u2019t make my record. And it wasn\u2019t a single or a highlighted track.\u201d He said the song \u201creminded me that God will use the least likely person and the least likely song to change other people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dQdfs5S6jyA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The wives of For King &amp; Country\u2019s Luke and Joel Smallbone accepted their award while the group is on tour in Canada. Moriah Smallbone, Joel\u2019s wife, said she travels with him \u201ca lot.\u201d She added, \u201cThe biggest challenge is just lining up the calendars. But we will cross oceans, and we will take trains and planes and Ubers and do whatever we need to be together.\u201d Courtney Smallbone, Luke\u2019s wife, said, \u201cWe\u2019ve had great adventures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bart Millard said he and his bandmates are \u201cstill best friends.\u201d The group released its first album in the 1990s. \u201cWe still love what we\u2019re doing,\u201d he said after the show. \u201cThere\u2019s no explanation other than God in this because it makes zero sense that we\u2019re making music 30 years later. We never in a million years thought we\u2019d be still doing this.\u201d Rachael Lampa won Breakout Single of the Year for her song\u00a0\u201cPerfectly Loved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Lake led the way with three wins, and For King &amp; Country won Artist of the Year during the 10th Annual K-Love Fan Awards. Lake won Male Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, and Worship Song of the Year, both of the latter for his song \u201cGratitude.\u201d For King &amp; Country won&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":25972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3488,6,11,7,3388,1],"tags":[5600,5598],"class_list":["post-25964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-award-show","category-celebrities","category-christian-music","category-entertainment","category-faith-based","category-television","tag-brandon-lake","tag-k-love-fan-awards"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brandon Lake Believes &#039;God Can Use Anyone&#039; After Winning 3 K-Love Fan Awards<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After 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