Longtime Dove Award winning singer Cheri Keaggy just released her ninth album, No Longer My Own, to retail on Friday, August 7.

Read our interview with Keaggy here. 

"I gave a copy of No Longer My Own to my Dad," said Keaggy in a press release. "After he had a chance to give it a good listen, he called me. Through broken-up tears, he said, 'You wouldn't have been able to write these songs if you hadn't gone through the things you've been through.' He went on to say, 'This is your best one yet.' It touched me that it moved him so deeply."

Keaggy believes this new album is one of her best to date.

"I have often referred to my last album, So I Can Tell, as my beauty-from-ashes project or my bleeding heart album," she revealed in the release. "But, the Lord heals. And this album feels a little more broad. Brokenness humbles you and makes you more sensitive to the world around you and, perhaps, even more in tune with the Father's heart. It was a stretch, both spiritually and emotionally, and I stretched myself vocally too, going for notes I might have been too timid to reach before."

No Longer My Own has a message that seeks to "embolden fellow sojourners of the faith to live more fearlessly for Christ." The title cut represents this the most and is inspired by the "Covenant Prayer" popularized by John Wesley.

Listeners can look forward to such vertically oriented songs of celebration as "Lucky To Be Breathing Your Air," prayerful petitions like "Jesus, One and Only," poignant ballads like "You Go Before," and the powerful anthem, "Overcome," a response to recent news reports of believers facing persecution, even unto death, and the increase of moral decay in our nation.

Grammy nominee and Dove Award winner Phil Keaggy contributed a ukulele track in the lighthearted Scripture song, "Whatever is True (Phil. 4:8)." Composing new music and melody to the hymn "He Giveth More Grace" in her newly named "The Giving Song," she includes a hint of the church classic, "I Surrender All." She offers an invitation to abide in "I Love Your Company," a sentiment that echoes every parent's wish to see their child content and at rest in blessed communion.

"My prayer is that all-too-busy believers will rediscover the simple joy of being with Jesus, sitting with Him, delighting in Him," said Keaggy. "After an incredible season of pouring out, I knew I had to guard that, to remember my First Love. And it has humbled me, in a good way."

Perhaps the most poignant and achingly honest song on the project is Keaggy's newly penned, "Be My Sabbath," which serves as a desperate cry for God's restorative power and refueling.

Keaggy used Kickstarter to crowd-source the funding for the project, joining such high profile Christian recording artists as Shaun Groves, John Schlitt, Five Iron Frenzy and Thousand Foot Krutch, who also used the outside-the-box service to fund recent projects. Keaggy previously used Kickstarter to raise nearly $25,000 to fund her 2012 release, So I Can Tell.

While Keaggy admits to being both humbled and excited by the number of doors that opened for ministry through concerts, church services, women's events, TV appearances, interviews, and radio airplay as a direct result of So I Can Tell. Keaggy prays No Longer My Own will inspire and embolden fellow saints to live more fearlessly for Christ.

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