Moriah Peters’ sophomore release is a powerful collection of anthemic and m… Read Full Bio ↴Moriah Peters’ sophomore release is a powerful collection of anthemic and melodic pop songs that challenge us to boldly live out our faith as Christians. At 21 she delivers a cutting edge, energetic sound that confidently carries a message that resonates with both the young and young at heart.
Those familiar with her debut release, “I Choose Jesus,” will recognize her distinctive vocals and be delighted by her musical evolution. Co-producers Seth Mosley (Newsboys, Audio Adrenaline) and Joel Smallbone (For King & Country) closely collaborated with Moriah in creating a musical experience that is an artful blend of theatrical string lines, dynamic percussion, and pulsating synth sounds all seamed together by unforgettable Pop melodies.
The theme of the album is passionately articulated in the title track, “BRAVE.” The notion of bravery came to Moriah while on a writing getaway, in a cabin just an hour from her California home. After two fruitless days, the simple solitary word, “BRAVE” came to her, igniting an inward journey of self exploration. In the process of realizing and facing her fears, Moriah understood that the songs produced over the next year were meant to inspire beyond her. By choosing to open and close the album with Brave, the latter track featuring a guest rap by Andy Mineo, Moriah is issuing a call to arms. Moriah declares, “this is the soundtrack to the battles I fight in my own life.”
The past year and a half has been marked by circumstances that have challenged Moriah’s faith. Just out of her teenage years, Moriah had to confront the challenges of balancing her personal life with the demanding schedule of her and Joel’s separate touring schedules. She asked herself, “With all of the demands of a music career, could I be a good wife? Would our marriage survive the difficulties of being on the road?” The fear and doubt of her own inadequacies brought her to an extended time of fasting. There she discovered the strength in God to help her be BRAVE in balancing her career and her marriage. “Marrying Joel was the most beautiful day of my life. And every day since then has confirmed that we were made for each other.”
Soon after their marriage, while on tour, Moriah became very ill and was hospitalized. “The doctors initially believed that I might have leukemia, and that scared me in a way I’d never been scared before.” After days of prayer, doctors diagnosed her illness as an unknown virus that currently remains a mystery. “I learned a valuable lesson during those moments when I didn’t have strength to speak. Life can’t be taken for granted, not matter what your age. I also understood that fear and faith often come in a package. Choosing faith is an act of bravery. It’s a decision. I left my emotions to God. That’s the essence of Brave.”
After spending time touring over the last couple years and talking face to face and over social networks with fans, Moriah has a lot of empathy for what her fans struggle with today. “So many of the people I talk to are a lot like me. They are fearful, doubtful about lots of things. I wanted to write a song that personified fear so that we could see it and speak to it, to let it know that it would not control us. “Oh Fear” is my ‘letter to the devil,’ that he will not have his way, that I will choose faith over fear.” Moriah extended the ethos of this song to the powerful drum driven track, “Stand Strong.” Moriah’s hope is to encourage those persecuted for their faith, here and around the world, to hold fast and persevere. “I know that the persecution I experienced pales in comparison with what others face around the world, but I will never forget the moments of ‘social persecution’ I felt in my high school from teachers and students who vehemently disagreed with my faith. These were defining times for me. I learned to love those who rejected my faith while never backing down in what I knew was true.”
The struggle will never end, but Moriah is learning that victory and blessing come from release. “‘To Leave It All Behind’ was the first song Joel and I wrote together after becoming engaged.” The song is a creative, dynamic pop piece originating from Moriah’s internal decree to release all her plans for the future while falling into the hands of a loving God. “It was our way of stepping into a new world—a place where I wouldn’t have to fight the fear of vulnerability by myself”
Moriah finds connection with the famous “Footprints in the Sand” poem which became the creative impetus for her first single, “You Carry Me.” “I want others to know that sometimes trials are often just about focus. When I feel like I’m sinking and all alone, I know my focus isn’t on God anymore. ‘You Carry Me’ is a celebration song, a reminder to look back on the difficult times God brought us through. He promises that He will never leave or forsake us!”
BRAVE is an opening into the heart and mind of an artist who is not afraid to expose that fear has had its way and time. But more importantly, it is a renunciation of what was for the embrace of what will be. Moriah believes she is part of a generation whose time has come to break free of what prevents them from changing this world, a generation that has been called to be BRAVE!
Those familiar with her debut release, “I Choose Jesus,” will recognize her distinctive vocals and be delighted by her musical evolution. Co-producers Seth Mosley (Newsboys, Audio Adrenaline) and Joel Smallbone (For King & Country) closely collaborated with Moriah in creating a musical experience that is an artful blend of theatrical string lines, dynamic percussion, and pulsating synth sounds all seamed together by unforgettable Pop melodies.
The theme of the album is passionately articulated in the title track, “BRAVE.” The notion of bravery came to Moriah while on a writing getaway, in a cabin just an hour from her California home. After two fruitless days, the simple solitary word, “BRAVE” came to her, igniting an inward journey of self exploration. In the process of realizing and facing her fears, Moriah understood that the songs produced over the next year were meant to inspire beyond her. By choosing to open and close the album with Brave, the latter track featuring a guest rap by Andy Mineo, Moriah is issuing a call to arms. Moriah declares, “this is the soundtrack to the battles I fight in my own life.”
The past year and a half has been marked by circumstances that have challenged Moriah’s faith. Just out of her teenage years, Moriah had to confront the challenges of balancing her personal life with the demanding schedule of her and Joel’s separate touring schedules. She asked herself, “With all of the demands of a music career, could I be a good wife? Would our marriage survive the difficulties of being on the road?” The fear and doubt of her own inadequacies brought her to an extended time of fasting. There she discovered the strength in God to help her be BRAVE in balancing her career and her marriage. “Marrying Joel was the most beautiful day of my life. And every day since then has confirmed that we were made for each other.”
Soon after their marriage, while on tour, Moriah became very ill and was hospitalized. “The doctors initially believed that I might have leukemia, and that scared me in a way I’d never been scared before.” After days of prayer, doctors diagnosed her illness as an unknown virus that currently remains a mystery. “I learned a valuable lesson during those moments when I didn’t have strength to speak. Life can’t be taken for granted, not matter what your age. I also understood that fear and faith often come in a package. Choosing faith is an act of bravery. It’s a decision. I left my emotions to God. That’s the essence of Brave.”
After spending time touring over the last couple years and talking face to face and over social networks with fans, Moriah has a lot of empathy for what her fans struggle with today. “So many of the people I talk to are a lot like me. They are fearful, doubtful about lots of things. I wanted to write a song that personified fear so that we could see it and speak to it, to let it know that it would not control us. “Oh Fear” is my ‘letter to the devil,’ that he will not have his way, that I will choose faith over fear.” Moriah extended the ethos of this song to the powerful drum driven track, “Stand Strong.” Moriah’s hope is to encourage those persecuted for their faith, here and around the world, to hold fast and persevere. “I know that the persecution I experienced pales in comparison with what others face around the world, but I will never forget the moments of ‘social persecution’ I felt in my high school from teachers and students who vehemently disagreed with my faith. These were defining times for me. I learned to love those who rejected my faith while never backing down in what I knew was true.”
The struggle will never end, but Moriah is learning that victory and blessing come from release. “‘To Leave It All Behind’ was the first song Joel and I wrote together after becoming engaged.” The song is a creative, dynamic pop piece originating from Moriah’s internal decree to release all her plans for the future while falling into the hands of a loving God. “It was our way of stepping into a new world—a place where I wouldn’t have to fight the fear of vulnerability by myself”
Moriah finds connection with the famous “Footprints in the Sand” poem which became the creative impetus for her first single, “You Carry Me.” “I want others to know that sometimes trials are often just about focus. When I feel like I’m sinking and all alone, I know my focus isn’t on God anymore. ‘You Carry Me’ is a celebration song, a reminder to look back on the difficult times God brought us through. He promises that He will never leave or forsake us!”
BRAVE is an opening into the heart and mind of an artist who is not afraid to expose that fear has had its way and time. But more importantly, it is a renunciation of what was for the embrace of what will be. Moriah believes she is part of a generation whose time has come to break free of what prevents them from changing this world, a generation that has been called to be BRAVE!
Don't Want to Live For Me
Moriah Peters Lyrics
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All The Ways He Love Us He takes darkness and turns it into light He takes sorrow…
Bloom Have you ever heard You are beautiful I know what you're w…
Born To Be Free Come, what you running away from? Come, there's only liberty…
Brave No one ever told me this would be easy But I…
Brilla Con tantas luces en el mundo Y la gente vive en…
Give Me Jesus In the morning when I rise In the morning when I…
Glow So many lights on in this city The people still walk…
Haven't Even Kissed I have been waiting patiently I locked up my heart, gave…
I Choose Jesus I have searched to find The meaning of this life Something t…
Know Us By Our Love She had nothing but a heart of gold And a trailer…
Miracle Here's a simple melody to tell a simple story About a…
No Shame I hear what you're saying at the end of the…
Oh Fear You paralyze me You shut my eyes When I'm trying to find…
Oh Fear (My God Is Near) You paralyze me You shut my eyes When I'm trying to find…
Sing In The Rain If i could fly like a bird Singing songs to the…
Stand Strong With a soul as bold as lions And a strength to…
To Leave It All Behind This is life, This is love This is how I learn…
Waterfall There's a lot I believe Couldn't move, couldn't breathe Secr…
Well Done I'm headed down this narrow road Chosen by the few And all…
You Carry Me Feels like it's been miles and miles Feels like it's an…
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Nai Fran
Another day come and gone
I do what I hate to do
A little right a little wrong, it's true
Another choice another fall
I tell myself to stop
But on my own it's a war and I've lost
Why do say one thing
And then do the opposite
I don't want to stay this way
Here and now
I surrender all my life
I take this vow
And abandon me tonight
No more going down and up
And down so selfishly
No more going up and down
And up you take the lead
I don't want to live for me
I don't want to live for me
Give me grace give me strength
I can't do this alone
Show me when show me where to go
In the end I want to stand
By your side no regrets
And give it all to love you
Like you love me
Here and now
I surrender all my life
I take this vow
And abandon me tonight
No more going down and up
And down so selfishly
No more going up and down
And up you take the lead
I don't want to live for me
I don't want to live for me
To want you like you want me
To know you like you know me
To love you like you love me
Here and now
I surrender all my life
I take this vow
And abandon me tonight
Here and now
I surrender all my life
I take this vow
And abandon me tonight
No more going down and up
And down so selfishly
No more going up and down
And up you take the lead
I don't want to live for me
I don't want to live for me
yannick sangwa
wow this the most inspiring song i never hear
I'm a spoken word writer and this song has just inspired me to write this:
I don’t want to live for me
But somehow I do want to leave it for me
It all about me! Me! Me! even when I don’t want to admit it me
My purity, integrity and responsibility has left me
I’m failing by the succession of my worthless decisions
Just like a dove flying from the dust
I tried to make love out of lust
I failed and I rove to feed my insecurity that burst
My reason of living from above I have lost
I’m in a prison of thoughts that I entertained, that became arguments, and then became high things and at the end it all became a strong hold
That’s holding my life stronger to the things I don’t want to do
And the thing I’m willing to do I’m failing to do
Even when I’m trying to go one step forward
I’m heading back two step backward
I tried to fight on my own but it seems like I’ve lost the war
It took me on my moments oh awkward!
So I devoted myself to my flesh and fed its pleasures that up to the point where it made me a nominee of it award
Shame, regret, prostration, limitation, condemnation those are its reward
Still I cry out to the last breath of my lungs and the last voice of my tongue I don’t want to live for me!
Please lord like Roman 12 taught me here I lay myself down like a living sacrifice at your feet
My life, soul emotions and feeling I trust in your hand let you lead
Meet me in my rebellious and make me righteous
Meet me in my weakness and become my strength in all meekness
Meet me in my sins and justify me by your blood of Calvary
Turn my immorality into integrity
My lust into dust and then clay since you’re my porter to shape me on the way you will by your grace
So that I may follow your trace
Teach me and instruct me in your way so that I may know how to seek your face
Spoken word by Yannick I. Sangwa
Tittle Inspired from the song “I don’t want to live for me” by Mariah Peters
Victória
oh yes, she spoke what my heart is feeling
Mallory Webb
This song describes my life and what I truly want. I've been battling sin for so long and I've tried to fight it on my own, but we can't truly conquer it until we surrender our life and everything to Jesus. I LOVE the message of this song!
Ashlyn W.
I feel ya girl I want to cry this song speaks to me so much!
Garrett Pratt
me too
Elissa Vargas
Mallory Webb Amen so beautily said.
Montse R
Amen🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
mabelle felipe
Amen
Lyrics
This song has a really deep meaning!! I love it!!!
Nai Fran
Another day come and gone
I do what I hate to do
A little right a little wrong, it's true
Another choice another fall
I tell myself to stop
But on my own it's a war and I've lost
Why do say one thing
And then do the opposite
I don't want to stay this way
Here and now
I surrender all my life
I take this vow
And abandon me tonight
No more going down and up
And down so selfishly
No more going up and down
And up you take the lead
I don't want to live for me
I don't want to live for me
Give me grace give me strength
I can't do this alone
Show me when show me where to go
In the end I want to stand
By your side no regrets
And give it all to love you
Like you love me
Here and now
I surrender all my life
I take this vow
And abandon me tonight
No more going down and up
And down so selfishly
No more going up and down
And up you take the lead
I don't want to live for me
I don't want to live for me
To want you like you want me
To know you like you know me
To love you like you love me
Here and now
I surrender all my life
I take this vow
And abandon me tonight
Here and now
I surrender all my life
I take this vow
And abandon me tonight
No more going down and up
And down so selfishly
No more going up and down
And up you take the lead
I don't want to live for me
I don't want to live for me
Box
Another incredible song by Moriah. Her gift blesses me each time I listen to her.