Lucinda Moore Wants More Christians to Prioritize Mental Health

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Lucinda Moore is a Stellar Award-winning and BMI Trailblazer Award-winning gospel recording artist with a show stopping voice that she’s using to spread the gospel and spread a message of healing through mental health care.

“I think Christians need to open our eyes. We are flesh and flesh goes through stuff, we have mental challenges,” Moore tells Elev8. “There are people dealing with all kinds of disease. We have to target that in addition to speaking spiritually and prophesying, ‘God can heal you!’ God also put the doctors on this earth so we can get help.”

Moore found herself standing in the need of care when she received a terrifying diagnosis in 2015. Doctors informed her that she needed immediate surgery to remove a cyst on her spine that, if left untreated, could leave the singer paralyzed. While on the operating table, Moore’s heart stopped for nearly a minute and had to be restarted. Upon waking up in recovery and hearing this harrowing news, Moore lifted her hands in praise.

“I said ‘Lord, I hear you’ because a lot of times we take life for granted. And when God brings you back to life, there is a purpose, there is a reason why He did not take me,” she recalls. “So I went ahead and penned the song in the hospital with staples in my back and wires coming out of my body.”

That single “Lord, I Hear You” peaked at #1 on the Mediabase gospel charts and serves as the title track to the album of the same name. Lord, I Hear You features collaborations with Tremaine Hawkins, for whom Moore got her start singing background, and the album also features a dedication to those who may be struggling with physical or mental health issues with information on the back of the CD about how to contact someone if you’re going through mental health challenges.  

The album also features her most recent single, “Fire,” where the vocalist sings about praising her way through trials and tribulations. But the popular and powerful gospel ballad almost ended up in the hands of another familiar artist.

“The song was not for me, it was actually for Rihanna,” she reveals. Her son, fellow musician Trey Moore, produced the song and asked his mother for help with the lyrics in the hopes of having the pop star sing it. But Lucinda Moore knew it was meant for her. “I begged him for a whole year to let me have the song. He produced it, he’s even singing some of the background. We’ve just submitted this song for the Grammy Awards so hopefully we get nominated.”

“Fire” speaks to the power of praise but Moore wants Christians to remember that in addition to prayer, it’s okay to need a little extra help. “The church is going to say, ‘pray about it’ or ‘let God handle it!’ but the church doesn’t advocate mental health help. You need psychologists, doctors, and therapists [as much as] you need prayer and praise,” Moore says.

When she’s not tearing the roof off a stage with her powerful vocals, Moore is running her fashion boutique, LM&M Boutique. “When I first got into the gospel industry, everybody used to talk about my shoes, every pair of shoes I wore, they wanted them. So I said I’m going to take that and I’m gonna make a business out of it!” Moore sells her signature shoes and custom, colorful fashions both online and at a brick and mortar in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

Lucinda Moore is currently on tour performing songs from her album. Lord I Hear You is available now.

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Gospel Artist Lucinda Moore Wants More Christians to Prioritize Their Mental Health  was originally published on elev8.com