Brandon Lake Takes ‘Good Morning America’ to Church, Says He’s Pointing People ‘to Jesus’

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Grammy-winning Christian artist Brandon Lake brought a taste of church to ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday, performing his hit song Hard Fought Hallelujah and telling viewers his mission is to spread God’s love.

Lake performed the hit title just three months after it took home three awards at the 2025 Dove Awards, including Song of the Year, Music Video of the Year, and Bluegrass/Country/Roots Recorded Song of the Year.

Told by host Lara Spencer that he is helping fuel the Christian music genre’s explosion, Lake remained humble.

“I’m just trying to chase one song after the other and point people to a hope that's higher and point them to Jesus,” he said.

Hard Fought Hallelujah was initially released as a solo single featuring only Lake’s vocals, but it surged in popularity after he teamed up with Jelly Roll for a collaboration.

“I just knew that he would probably identify with this, these lyrics … because he has worn his faith on his sleeve,” Lake, a five-time Grammy winner, told Good Morning America. “I'm so proud of him that he's a man of faith, but he's like, ‘Yo, I don't have it all together.’ And that's what this song is about. It's just still singing out of a ‘hallelujah’ even when you don't feel it.”

Lake caught Spencer off guard when he joked that he and Maury Povich – another guest on the same episode of Good Morning America – had something in common.

“We both tell people who the father is,” Lake said with a smile. “I'm here to tell them who the Heavenly Father is.”

Povich is known for hosting the long-running reality program Maury, which featured dramatic paternity test results – and Povich revealing who the biological father was.

Jelly Roll has been open about his faith journey in recent months, even telling ESPN during a basketball game in December that Jesus is the secret to his dramatic turnaround in life.

“I hope they don't get mad at me saying it on TV, but first and foremost, God is everything, baby,” Jelly Roll said, according to The Lion. “None of this would work for me without Jesus Himself, and developing that relationship with Him.”

He urged ESPN viewers to “get lost in them gospels, and it will change your life.”

“Man, that's where I'm at right now. I'm somewhere between Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It is doing it for me, baby. I'm not pushing it on nobody. I’m telling you what worked for me.”

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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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