New Music Friday! – 8/22/25

This week, you’ll start hearing “Lemonade” by Forrest Frank

Story Behind the Song

“I need y’ all to understand the full parameters of this experience. I took like 55 days off of social media. Deleted TikTok. God had just sent me through this arena tour. So I just felt the need to pause and say, hey, God, here’s everything. If you want me to never drop music again, that’s okay. If you want me to tour all the time, that’s okay. Like, whatever you want for me, I will do it. But I need to hear you, Lord, direct my compass. So my pastor challenged me and my buddy Noah, ah. To in tandem, do a 30 day journal challenge. Long story short, I felt like God was saying, hey, I want you to start documenting everything, specifically with music, literally in the journal. Like, God practically. What does this mean? And I’m like, okay, I got to get camera equipment, I got to get. Blah, blah, blah. so I buy all this gear, tripods, memory cards, battery packs. I set everything up and I test it out. I actually made two songs that, I haven’t shared yet because I was still figuring out if it was possible to make a whole song while. While recording. Anyways, I’m ready to go. I’m ready to launch this thing where I start documenting my musical journey and I break my back. And what’s crazy about this, I happened to crash right in front of the ring camera and we caught it on video. that’s already super weird. I’m like, I can’t believe we caught this on video. Next, I’m tears falling to my face, screaming in agony, and yet I’m overwhelmed with the presence of the Holy Spirit. I don’t know where it is, but I commented that somewhere in a post where I said, like, I felt like God was going to do something good because he’s always doing something good. So I, I find out that I break my back in multiple spots. I’m out. You saw the footage. I’m like, okay, I’m gonna be here for who knows how long, months. And because I had all my camera equipment set up, I told Grace to go downstairs and just grab my gear. Like, hey, go grab this, go grab this. Bring, it upstairs. So she brings it upstairs. So then I make God’s got my back. At this point in the timeline, I’m already thinking, oh, this is a miracle. I just captured making a whole song. It’s a proclamation of joy in the midst of a trial. And that could have been it. He could have ended it there on the post for God’s Got My Back. The caption was turning lemons into lemonade. Took that social media break. Now I’m on social media. I scroll past it. I’m like, yo, this song kind of hits. So they send it over, and then we do that back and forth thing. Capturing in real time. And I’m talking to my friends. I’m talking to my pastor. I’m like, I think. I think this is it. I think this is what. What the journal was about. Capturing the real thing. And, so then that song happened. I’m already. I’m getting emotional right now. Just overwhelmed. The Holy Spirit, that song comes out and is doing what it’s doing. Like, that was the miracle. That was the miracle. Just that. And then suddenly my back is completely recovered. I know there’s someone watching this video who doesn’t know Jesus. I used to be depressed. I used to be insecure. I used to be full of anxiety. I was not this person. I gave my life to Jesus, and he changed everything. Give your life to him holistically. God. Bye. You guys, peace.” – Forrest Frank 

Music Video

Lyrics to “Lemonade”

Previous New Music Friday Songs

• August 15, 2025 “Still” by Crowder and Zach Williams
• August 8, 2025 “God Story” by Anne Wilson
• August 1, 2025 “Cant Steal My Joy” by Josiah Queen and Brandon Lake
• July 25, 2025 “All Joy” by Natalie Layne
• July 18, 2025 “Let The Church Sing” by Tauren Wells