Alexandra Osteen Shares Miraculous Healing Story Behind Lakewood Music’s New Song
Michael Foust
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By Michael Foust, Crosswalk.com
Lakewood Music’s newest album includes 10 tracks, but few are more personal to Alexandra Osteen than a song inspired by her grandmother’s miraculous healing from cancer.
Osteen’s grandmother, Dolores “Dodie” Osteen, co-founded Lakewood Church in Houston in 1959 alongside her husband, John Osteen, and later became known for her testimony of healing after surviving terminal liver cancer despite being told in 1981 that she had only weeks to live. She spent decades encouraging others through prayer and Scripture, later writing the book Healed of Cancer, before passing away in 2025 at age 91.
Alexandra Osteen serves as a worship leader at Lakewood Church and is part of Lakewood Music, the church’s worship group. Dodie Osteen’s son, Joel Osteen – Alexandra’s father – pastors the congregation.
The song Made You Well was inspired by Dodie Osteen’s testimony and is part of Lakewood Music’s new album, House of Worship.
“Made You Well is one of my favorites on this new album, and probably one of my favorites we've ever released,” Alexandra Osteen told Crosswalk Headlines.
“It's a song that's all about healing – something that's super close to our house is believing that people can be healed from physical or mental or whatever battles they may be facing.”
Made You Well is “really the story of my grandmother,” she added.
“She experienced a miraculous healing in her life, healed from terminal cancer 40-plus years ago – and they told her she had a few weeks to live. She went on to live more than 40 years, and she just really believed in praying and preaching the power of God's healing – and she had made this list of Scriptures that she would read every day, and that's really what this song is filled with.”
The song, she added, is “filled with” affirmations of healing from Scripture.
“And I think it's just a powerful thing to sing over yourself, whether you're facing a health struggle or whether you're just knowing that you want to believe and declare what God says about you,” she said. “It's special to sing. It's special to sing over people who maybe are facing health battles in their life.”
The album is a 10-track collection of songs – some upbeat, others reflective – focused on the goodness and faithfulness of God, Alexandra Osteen added. The album includes the voice of Alexander Pappas, an award-winning singer who is part of the collective and rose to fame with the group Hillsong Young & Free.
“Our inspiration was to write music for our house of worship, for our church, but ultimately, to write it for the [worldwide] church – and they're really just songs of faith and hope filled with the Scripture,” she said. “That's something that we're passionate about is singing the Scripture. We just feel like it's something that the church can sing, and it's [also] fun to listen to in your car.”
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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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