Up!
Forrest Frank & Connor Price · Up! - Single
Straight-up testimony with energy to spare
What do these signals mean?
- Edifying: Points the heart toward God, truth, hope, or love.
- Worth Weighing: Real good and real concern together. Test it before you take it in.
- Take Caution: Leans toward what could dull or mislead. Approach carefully.
- Consider Avoiding: Celebrates what Scripture warns against. Little here builds up.
Weighed against Scripture
“He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.”
The image of being lifted out of the mud and set on solid ground is exactly what the chorus describes, a move the singer credits entirely to God.
“And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.”
The Lazarus reference in verse one is deliberate. Being called up out of a place of being stuck and buried is the spiritual picture the song is painting.
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
The confidence in the song is not self-generated. The repeated insistence that 'this all God' mirrors Paul's posture of strength drawn from outside himself.
This is a revival-room shout in hip-hop form. Forrest Frank and Connor Price are telling a before-and-after story where God is explicitly the reason for the turnaround. The Lazarus image is not accidental; it frames the whole song as resurrection, not just a good season. The confident swagger is pointed at the enemy's defeat, not the listener's envy, and the final rhetorical question ('Mind your business, now who I worship') is the thesis: the credit belongs to God alone.
No profanity, no mature content. Playful wordplay and confident bravado, all in clean language.
The chorus plants the flag plainly: this is God's doing, not luck. References to Lazarus, asking the Father's permission, and 'who I worship' keep the heart pointed upward throughout.
The song reads as genuine testimony, celebrating restoration and giving credit to God. The braggadocious tone serves the story of being lifted up, not self-promotion for its own sake.
When you hear someone give this kind of credit out loud, does it stir something in you, and what does that tell you about where you are right now?