“I don’t know a lot about worship as a music genre,” Velasquez freely admits, “but I know how God can use music to move people. What we experience in church, in worship, we want to have that experience every day… at home, in the car. In the middle of the day, God uses it to meet us in the middle of our chaos, to move us closer to him, to remind us of who we are and who He is.”  In fact, she really wasn’t convinced a worship album was meant to be until she found herself comforting her youngest son, Soren, 7, in the middle of the night, after a bad dream.

The rocks are falling, the broken calling to the God who moves the mountains

The earth is shaking, the weary waken to the God who moves the mountains

“When you’re scared and don’t know what to do, I want you to remember this,” she told him. Then she played “God Who Moves Mountains,” written by David Leonard, Dustin Smith and Richie Fike.  Standing in his room, she closed her eyes and, as the words washed over mom and boy, she raised her hands. When the song was over, they both had tears in their eyes. “Our lives were changed in that moment because God met us there in a song,” she says. “Music is powerful and healing.”

Slow me down enough to hear your voice / Speak your words of mercy over all the noise

“Rest,” a melodic ballad co-written with her husband Nic Gonzales (Salvador) and Greg Sykes, will undoubtedly resonate with mothers and fathers who hit the ground running all day, every day. Sitting down at 10pm for her first meal of the day, looking at a 4:20am wake up time for the next day, Velasquez realized she hadn’t even talked to God all day long. “If I don’t rest, I’m just spinning my wheels,” she says of the song’s origins the next day. “It’s not going to mean anything unless I give it all to him.”

A percussion-driven joyride, “The Sound of Your Kingdom,” written by indie-artist Ryan Corn, is as contagious as a song can get. “I fell in love with it, not only for what it says, but for how it makes you feel,” Velasquez says. “When God sees us, he hears what we offer back to him—our worship, our joy, our laughter, our honor, blessing and praise—that’s the sound of his kingdom.” One of her boys’ favorites and a great reminder that we’re part of something really big and ongoing, she says.

From “Praise the King,” a phenomenal Easter-every-day celebration, to “Great Are You Lord,” an ethereal anthem/duet with her husband, to Martin Smith’s “Great Is Your Faithfulness,” to “Never As Dark As It Seems,” a powerful reminder for tumultuous times written by Michael Farren, Mike Grayson and Seth Moseley—Trust echoes the courage that rises from understanding the One we worship.