Maverick City Music (Feat. Brandon Lake and Eniola Abioye) Yearns for God’s Spirit to Move Like it Did During Creation in “Rest On Us.”
"Spirit, when You move You make my heart pound
When You fill the room
You're here and I know You are moving"
Nodding back to the beginning of creation when God’s spirit rested on the waters and then filled the earth, “Rest On Us” by Maverick City Music moves the listener in a call for the spirit of God to rest again on and fill His people again. A driving, rhythmic melodic cadence moves the listener with the same persistentency present in lyrics as Maverick City Music implores God to come. From the beginning to end of the song, the artist helps the listener boldly enter the throne room of God and ask Him to rest on them with His spirit.
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“Fire and wind, come and do it again. Open up the gates, let Heaven on in. Come rest on us.”
However, as much as the lyrics humbly ask God to come move and rest on His people, the entire track is also a confident declaration that He will do just that. In no way does the artist believe that God will not come and that His presence will not be enough to completely fill the room and every heart present. Just as the artist knows that it is God who was responsible for sparking creation through His spirit, they also know that it is God who is responsible for filling them through the movement of His spirit -- and they are confident He will.
Maverick City Music originated from Atlanta, GA and was founded by Tony Brown and Jonathan Jay. Through a series of collaborative albums, Maverick City Music rose to notoriety within the Christian music community.
“Rest On Is”, written by Tony Brown (Housefires), Rebekah White, Jonathan Jay, Harvest, Elyssa Smith & Brandon Lake, is featured on “Move Your Heart”, the second collaboration between Maverick City Music and UPPERROOM. The EP was released on January 2021.
