Tasha Cobbs Leonard - You Know My Name ft. Jimi Cravity

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About Tasha Cobbs Leonard

Grammy-winning American gospel singer-songwriter and worship leader, one of contemporary gospel's most prominent voices since her breakout live album Grace (2013), known for anthemic praise records like 'Break Every Chain'.

Faith journey and beliefs

Publicly and consistently professes evangelical Christian faith; writes and performs explicitly worship-oriented gospel music and frequently discusses relationship with God in interviews and testimony features.

What this song is about

Cobbs Leonard and co-writer Brenton Brown built the song around the claim that God personally and intimately knows each individual's name, drawing on Isaiah 43 and the Good Shepherd imagery of John 10; documented as the first song written for the Heart. Passion. Pursuit. album. Interpretively, it speaks to anyone feeling anonymous or overlooked, offering assurance of individual worth before God.

Sources

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Reflection

Being known by name carries deep significance throughout scripture; God calling individuals by name, from Moses at the burning bush to Mary at the tomb recognising Jesus the moment he says her name, signals intimate, personal relationship rather than distant awareness. John 10:3 describes the good shepherd calling his own sheep by name, leading them because they recognise his voice. In a world where many feel like a number, a statistic or simply overlooked, the assurance that God knows a person's name specifically, not generically, is profoundly comforting. Tasha Cobbs Leonard's gospel background often carries this kind of declarative, worshipful confidence, songs that state truth boldly as a form of encouragement to a congregation. To sing that God knows your name is to affirm a relationship rather than a transaction, closeness rather than distance. That truth can steady someone who feels forgotten or invisible in the ordinary business of daily life.

Questions to sit with

What does it mean to you that God knows you by name, personally?
When have you felt truly known by God or by someone else?
How does being known change the way you relate to God in prayer?

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