Jonathan Butler has spent a lifetime writing and recording music that uplifts and encourages others, but as he penned songs for his latest album, "Free", available October 30, he had no idea God would use his own work to minister to him in a powerful and unexpected way.

“I’ve been through a fire and all kinds of challenges. It’s been a crazy three or four years,” Butler says. “So this album is a testimony of God’s goodness. With the timing of all these things happening to me and in the midst of all of that, writing a record was pretty heavy.”