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Ben Fuller talks about overcoming hardships and shares the story behind his "If It Was Up To Me" duet with Carrie Underwood.
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Okay, Ben Fuller and my friends, you are
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amazing. Let's just start there.
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I'm not I'm not I wish you knew the me
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before of Jesus, but
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Well, that's kind of what I wanted to
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talk about, which is going to lead me
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into this little duet you have. That's
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not a big deal. It's not It's no big
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deal. But you have been very open about
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who you were before and who you are now.
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Why is it so important to you to tell
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people that?
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I think it really it's just it's the
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blood of the lamb and the word of our
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testimony. It's Jesus and what he can do
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and how he can transform a life. I I
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just meet so many people that are like,
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"Well, you don't know what what I've
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done. You don't know how bad I've been.
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You don't know how far I've gone." And
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it's like, man, you obviously don't know
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the Jesus that I know because he'll go
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to to any length to bring you back home.
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So, I I just think it's important people
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people think that they're that their bad
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is the worst, right? And so it's like
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you you you've done way worse than
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anybody. And that is such a tool the
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devil uses to hinder you from
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surrendering to Jesus. And I've just
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been meeting people that are so
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terrified of like, well, he won't love
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me because I've done this or he won't
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take me back cuz I've done X or he
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won't. And it's like, no, that's a lie.
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He will and he loves you. So come on
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home. The veil's already been torn. And
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if I don't tell my story anymore,
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then then the enemy's got a hold on me
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and and all of a sudden the power of my
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testimony is is gone, right? And I and I
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forget who I am in Christ.
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I love that.
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And so I'm excited to tell my story
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every night. Um and to tell it with a
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fresh wind and a fresh fire cuz I know
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somebody needs to hear it.
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So we've been talking a lot to artists
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tonight about how country music and
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Christian music are kind of having a
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moment together right now. You have a
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song out with Carrie Underwood. It's not
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a big deal. Who say that?
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She was my first interview ever in 2005.
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You're kidding me.
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2005. So tell me how that song came to
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be cuz it's Carrie Underwood.
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Yeah, it's Carrie Underwood. Um, really
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long story. I wrote it three and a half
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uh years ago and I met this incredible
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guy at a ministry event in Paduka,
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Kentucky. His name was Bud. Bud and I
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really hit it off. He said, "Hey man,
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you'd love my brother. You got to meet
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my brother." And so he set up this
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breakfast date between his brother and I
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and his brother ends up being Mike
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Fiser. Well, I had no idea. He said
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before I walked in, he said, "I just
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have to tell you that uh by the way, my
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brother's married to Carrie Underwood."
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And I was like, "Oh, I guess I'll have
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the eggs and um some white toast,
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please." So, I didn't have any idea what
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was happening. I'm like, "This is
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crazy." And probably a year and a half
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of breakfast and fellowship, Mike is
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such a man of God. And I'm so grateful
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for his his disciplehip and his love um
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towards me. And he shared that song with
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Carrie when it came time for the album.
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And Carrie said, "I I want to sing on
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it." And so next thing you know, we
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ended up in the studio together and we
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were praising the Lord.
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Yeah. She's serious about her faith.
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She is very serious about her faith. And
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I feel like she's being called into even
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more of that. So I'm excited to see in
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the future. She loves singing about
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Jesus and praising her Lord and she's
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raising her boys up in Jesus and it's
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it's really special to be a part of. So
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I couldn't make that up though. I
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couldn't ask her, "Hey, Miss Underwood,
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would you sing a bit?" I couldn't. But
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but that's what God can do. And so let
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that be an encouragement, you know, to
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the people waiting on doing something
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big or having an incredible
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collaboration happen. It's like, yeah,
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God already knows.
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Yeah. And you guys sound great together.
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Thank you. I'm excited.
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Ben, my friends. That's
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