Brandon Lake is currently on a break from his King of Hearts Tour, his biggest headlining run yet. During a show last month in Henderson, Nevada at Lee’s Family Forum, Lake provided a powerful moment for one fan in the crowd, leading a prayer over them in the middle of the show.
The moment began while Lake was speaking to the crowd about his faith and shared that “there’s a special family here tonight” and he “knew I was supposed to pray for them.” Walking up to a fan named Lexi, Lake explained to the crowd that he had seen a video she posted on Instagram “because everyone in the entire world tagged me.” Asking Alexandria to share her story, she explained that she has had 30 heart surgeries and spent around 40 nights in the hospital just in the past year.
“My open heart surgery this year left me on life support for a week, collapsed lungs, and it’s just been a really, really hard journey. Your music in particular and just worship music and leaning on my family and Jesus is what’s gotten me through,” she told Lake, adding that she had just gotten out of the hospital last week.
Lake was moved by her story, and after sharing his thoughts on the power of prayer, asked the crowd to “join our faith together” and pray for Lexi. “Let’s lift her up,” he said before beginning his prayer. “Lord, we thank you for this beautiful family. God, we thank you that we get to gather, and we get to gather in your presence where miracles happen.”
“God, I thank you for Lexi’s life. God, I thank you so much for what you’ve already done in her life,” Lake continued. “In the mighty name of Jesus we pray where there has been a heart that has struggle, this heart will be perfected, it will be strong. We pray that her heart will be filled with strength. Any area of her body that isn’t functioning how you designed it to function, we pray that you would completely renew it, revive it, restore it. Recreate parts that are missing or gaps, fill them.”
Speaking not just over Lexi, Lake asked for healing for anyone in the crowd that may need it. “As I pray this, I pray that so many other people in this room that healing would be released to their body where the pain has filled their body. I pray that it would be removed right now in the mighty name of Jesus. We say pain go, pain leave.”
As the crowd joined in with affirmative shouts and applause, Lake continued, “God, I thank you for Lexi, I thank you for her story and God that moving forward we pray, no more surgeries. That you would supernaturally just completely renew, revive, complete her heart, that it would function exactly how you intended it to function. But God, that you would continue to use her story and her testimony to give faith to other people in the midst of the storm that they would keep going.”
The singer utilized the title of his recent hit song with Jelly Roll, “Hard Fought Hallelujah,” in the closing portion of his prayer, declaring that for anyone going through struggle, “no matter how hard fought their hallelujah is, it matters.”
Lake concluded by thanking God for Lexi’s testimony and “the testimony of her being here tonight.” “Days removed from the hospital, still with her hands held high. My goodness, if you can do it, surely all of us can.”
Brandon Lake will resume his King of Hearts Tour in March, traveling the country before concluding with a show in Charleston, South Carolina on May 2.
