Phil Wickham - How To Write A Worship Song | Teaching Moment 

I am a songwriter and i am only 13 bit those moments when the Holy Spirit puts a song inside of you and you start writing and the words start flowing out and you feel so close in that moment is beautiful I actually wrote this comment while i was writing a song a i just want people to remember that God’s going to give you a song at just the right moment so don’t be upset if you just think one day that you want to write a song and don’t have the words it’s okay he will give it to you at just the right time

I find it funny when he hits the chords while speaking 😅 deep message! God bless u 😍

This is the reason why he’s never released a bad song!

This is really inspiring! I may not be a songwriter, but I am a poet... Though they aren't really the same thing, I would like to use my passion for poetry to worship Christ :') I want to be unashamed of the Lord, because He saved us!! I want to share my joy for the Lord with others! Please pray for me, because I want to have courage and strength when I go to my campus to perform. I pray that my poems will plant seeds of hope in people's hearts. I pray that people will be inspired to follow after Christ. Thank you for your gift and worship, Phil! Thank you for always inspiring me!

I'm a brand new Chrsitian songwriter/pianist/guitarist along with one of my best friends, who does the vocals. It took us two months but we finished our first song just two weeks ago. Everything Phil said here is true. Before I wrote for Christ (and before I was saved), I had such a hard time with writing. But when I got saved, me and my friend were in a storage room in our church. There was an old keyboard in there, and we just started playing and singing randomly. I remember our first song we played was Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) by Chris Tomlin. I don't exactly remember how it happened, but we started talking about how God Knows all of our pains. He knows the trials that we face. He holds everything in store for us. And that He's never going to let us walk alone. I started playing some chords on the piano and my friend started singing. We just started singing. We sung about God's great love. And I feel God showed us something, something that we hadn't felt. We wrote the original draft. We transposed different versions. We took a guitar to our church picnic and we played for several people. And everything fell into place. Our music director, who writes songs as well, approved of the lyrics and the song. Our senior and assistant pastors approved. We feel Good wants us to play for Him. The song is on RU-vid and you can look up Bryson Motion Pictures if you want to hear it, but most importantly, God is using two teenagers from Clayton NC to help others. It's truly amazing. Trust me, I would know

God makes me feel so good and the words just flow out of me and I sing them.

Whoooooooaaaa !! Thanks for the inspiration Wick, means a world

This is so awesome. Reminds me so much of how Paul Baloche approaches songwriting. Really great stuff here. Love it!

I needed this. I want to write and create for God soon someday but I struggle with writing and I often focus on the wrong stuff when trying to write! I love Phil, love his music, and he's a great songwriter who's inspired me greatly.

This is amazing, thank you so much for tips, and it was awesome to see you come up with a song on the spot. May continue to use you and to reach as many people and bring them to his kingdom.

Ooh. I love how he breaks down this journey. Beautiful!

Love this. Gonna come back to this. I am not a songwriter but this is inspirational.

Thank you so much for sharing the moment of worship🎉

I’ve watched this 5 times and still come back for more! :)

Such a blessing to hear your songs, they have a special meaning!

absolutely excellent, thanks so much, I got the messsage

Thanks for your occasional chord strumming, Im able to write a whole lyric for my chorus. Such an inspiration.

this is awesome and practical thanks brother!

Phil you are one talented dude! Love your process. Keep fighting the good fight of God!

Really helpful. Thank you so much

Thanks so much Phil 👌

'This is amazing grace' is very good. God bless you phil!!

This is really deep. Praise the Lord 💕

Phil thank you! You gave me so much clarity and i know through god i can stay strong and jeep looking to him and complete what he has given me to do. I know this is a year old but new to me for just seeing this haha

Amazing insight, thank you, God bless

One of my favorite contemporary song writers...

This has changed my whole mindset about writing!

U has inspired my next song. Thank u

This is a great lecture for me. I got a reason to say Thank You and God Bless!!

So Good Phil!

Great talk! Thank you for the tips.

Ty for sharing his unending love,goodness,mercy in the process of writing about worship

I am a songwriter and I am glad I found you. Everything is pouring out of me lately. This is very very helpful Thank you so much

wow! that song is actually good Phil! need to hear the finish product..😊

Bro, seriously this is great! We need that song about silencing the lions and lies and his faithfulness! For real, keep thinking on it! It is really great!

Amazing tips

Something that has been drawing me is seeing a phrase or word that seems to pull at my spirit, I’ll jot it down and mull it over and then it just flows.. or not. There is such a stirring in my heart to write worship songs!

So good !!!

Same here. I sometimes have such wonderful phrases that come into my heart for a brief moment and then its gone. I need to have some way to capture these moments so that I can mold it into a beautiful masterpiece for him , our God.

This is so insightful! I just wish I could pull melodies out of thin air like that! Like I understand his lyric writing process but the music itself is just rushing out of him!

Really almighty God moves through him may God bless you Phil.

This is helping like I am a songwriter but don't know what to do about the Song and been wanting more of worship songs

This is amazing ❤️

Wow...I cried...

So good 😭🙏🏻

It's now March 2023, and I just watched this video. I really appreciate the fact that Phil did something like this for the rest of us.. ❤️🕊

I’m a little late, but thank you soooooooo much. I’ve been struggling with this, I’ve had ideas but never been able to put it into song. My voice isn’t a singing voice which is the hardest part, I don’t know if that chords go with the voice

He hit home for the longest I’ve always wanted to make music even Christian music the most but I’ve always been targeting what people would think rather than praising God and I felt like when that was harder to make music because it wasn’t really praising God but more of my satisfaction and I’m understanding more now about God that I juss wanna praise him

And I love the strumming!!! Keeps the worship atmosphere going!!!

This was super helpful!

Watching this after he's released Psalm 23 and I can hear the whole song come together here. Very interesting

Love his heart of worship! 😍Totally agree with the process of the writing he describes! A song conceived in your heart will come out like a baby, in due time! 😉

A songwriter of God ❤️

This guy is a good songwriter, nice lyrics.

Amen.

Amazing...Worship U, thank you for sharing.

strum... strum... and more strums!

So helpful! 💛

My favorite worship artist by far.

What song was he singing that went “With my hands held and my heart bowed low I surrender”

My first cousin is Jaci Velasquez and her father (My uncle David) told it to me like this when I told him I want to be a song writer- It's either in you or it's not. No way I'm going to be an NFL quarterback in the next 3 years. I did not play growing up, I did not practice and train like the others, and most importantly, I did not fall in love with that dream. Focus on your strengths and the things that you do have and the rest will fall in place like tetris if you're working diligently at it.

Take what the last hit said, rephrase it, and use the same chords. Praise song complete.

Hey Phil, I write poetry.. and I think writing poetry is very close to writing songs.. I get a lot of what you're saying... I wonder if you could turn any of my poems into a song. I think that would be awesome.

Anchor

I have been writing songs of testimony and praise. I believe music is influential and has the ability to teach… #hopedealer #visioncasting #daretodream #emc2= empower musicians to cultivate change (use their voices for God and the betterment of our nation) Dear God, I pray 🤲 🙏 for your help in finding people who share my love for You and literature. Help me to find people who believe that thru You we can make a change in the way we teach our children to have the courage to follow You everyday in this fallen world. Amen 🙏

Thank you so much! i cant acces the link for the full video, can you help me please?

My heart is in writing songs of worship to God and I've only written couple of lines. I feel the holy spirit nudging me

Worship is not music, it is the response of God’s people to Him and His Word! Worship is the matters of the Heart expressed through a lifestyle of HOLINESS! If you are writing a worship song you need to start with Scripture and prayer John 4:23-24 makes it very clear that is is the Lord who desires Worship and has clearly laid it out that He desires worship in Spirit and in Truth we don’t just write what is on our heart we proclaim what He has already given us and we respond with a life of obedience!

I appreciate the LOTR reference. ❤️😂

Pray & seek the anointing of the Holy Spirit to write, sing and compose and you will be amazed in the end result- melodies & lyrics that exalts our ABBA father, our Savior Jesus and transforms the listeners for eternity.

really nice sounding chord progression. what chords?

This is pretty much my writing process

Philllllllll. Always so humble. Love you man.

I like what he’s saying, but he’s talking way too fast lol I need to pause sometimes to take in what’s he’s saying.

👌🏿

He needs a sustain pedal for his guitar😂

Phill : man this is a bad song Also Phill: goes on to casually write a hit on stage 😂

Can i use theses lyrics ?

Seeing this on 2021 **trying to write a song**

Barf out the best idea. That's my issue!

I wrote this song, but I’m not sure of it gives the message I want it to. Can you help me? Often times we ignore the calls And we don’t do what we should at all Often times we tend to stray Farther, farther, farther each day But then we open open that magic book And we feel compelled to take a look And suddenly suddenly we see That God still cares God still knows who I am And even when I fail He draws me closer to the lamb For I am His And He is mine And I will live Him For the rest of my life God still cares

Which guitar is this?😅😅 it sounds amazing !!

What model Taylor is that?

Can someone tell me what chords is he playing? Thanks

haha, Phil talking about the God who's done great things, and hes released a song called 'Great Things!'

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Phil Wickham is literaly the best songwriter and i believe he is sooo filled with the holy spirit. U da man😂

Man writing ✍️ songs are not easy at all.

Can you guys just put a Chinese subtitles on this video plz

What is the purpose of holding guitar in hands and playing some chords while speaking???

hes in Eb standard.. interesting

Whats up with that super awkard strum every 7 seconds?

"House of the Lord" is a rip off/carbon copy of "Steal my girl" by One Direction. Play them side by side.

What He wants to make a song for his records and his church ? Is that the order ? Is that that what he is doing ? I thought we do it for him alone. I you want to write a song of worship ? First ask the Holy Spirit to help you? Because the only way scriptures said is worship in spirit and truth and not like most of the famous music the are just for fame. Christian music Grammy ? Really ? Red Carpet for musicians ? Really ? I won’t said anything else please give a little thought about who is been exalted ?

Satan robots

Very annoying when he keeps strumming the guitar, I hear more when he stops playing

How to write lame songs 🙄

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