GOSPEL singer Londiwe Nxumalo wants to help fellow musicians going through depression via song and prayer.
The Akhona Amandla hitmaker said she knows that artists are going through tough times because she’s been through the same thing, and God helped her through it.
Londiwe (36) from Pongola in KZN said her upcoming show, Worship Encounter which will be held on 29 September, will be focusing on that.
“The purpose of this show is to come out and say I have been through trials and tribulations, and I’ve made it out. The reason why musicians, especially gospel singers, are depressed is that we have not come to terms with speaking the truth to say yes, we are born again and are spirit-filled, but we also go through things like other humans.
“Some musicians even move away from God when they go through tough times and depression because they think they are the only people who go through it. We must open up about what we go through, and God will help us. Those things shape us in the ministry we do as well. They cannot be running away from them,” she said.
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The singer said she believes in what she’s saying because she’s passed through it.
“This show is to thank God because I’ve been through depression, and I made it out. I’ve been through a divorce, and I made it out. I’m here to say God opens closed doors for me, and he’ll carry us through anything. This show will lift anyone who is having a hard time.
“Our reality of life and faith should come to a point where we can apply what we preach in our churches. So that when we are sick, we can say, ‘By his stripes, we are healed,’ and it happens. Not that we’ll only preach this verse in the pulpit and forget it when we get home,” said Londiwe.
She said people should remember that they are not alone.
“We want people to have faith. The reason people leave God and even become suicidal is because they believe they are alone. They have lost all hope, and we’ll be assuring them that the Holy Spirit has been living among us and we are never alone,” she said.
