“I know the lies are always going to try and find me, but I’ve never been so sure. I still struggle every day with feeling good enough… I sing ‘The Truth’ to myself, because I need that reminder in my own life.”
That moment came about twenty minutes into my conversation with Megan Woods, the fresh-faced artist behind what I’d call the breakout song of the year, The Truth. The song has become a lifeline in rough waters for people across generations. I’ve watched six-year-olds and sixty-year-olds alike add it to their playlists, each finding something in those lyrics that speaks directly to their own lives.
Megan is vibrant and expressive—professional and poised, yet carrying that spark that only comes from being in your early twenties and experiencing something very few ever do. She laughs with her whole body, talks with her hands, and radiates a contagious joy. But underneath it all, there’s an anchor of honesty that grounds her.
I leaned in and asked if this past year had been as wild as it looked from the outside. She didn’t hesitate. “Yeah, well, it’s been so mind blowing. I’ve been singing since I was four years old, so this is just such a dream come true. And, God called me to sing for him about three years ago. So I moved my life to Nashville. I was living in Massachusetts, and I moved here three years ago and started writing songs about Jesus, and that’s when I found that doors were really opening in my life, when I fully just committed to singing for the Lord, what he’s done in my life and how he’s changed my life.”
That kind of obedience, leaving everything behind to chase a calling, isn’t easy. I told her so, and she just nodded, like she knew exactly how crazy it really is. But she also knew she didn’t have a choice. “This is just such a dream come true,” she repeated, almost as if she was reminding herself out loud.
Woods is a true child of the 21st Century, her Mom discovered the world of Christian music in a dark time. Not through the sounds of her local radio station, like you might expect, but by a few keywords on a search engine.“My mom literally found Christian music by Googling ‘hopeful music’ during a really hard time in her life… She found Casting Crowns online and that’s what was playing in the car all the time. It really was a foundation for my faith, and I learned scripture that way.”
The roots of Megan’s story are planted firmly in Christian music. When I asked what she wanted to hear during our cover photoshoot, she immediately suggested Brandon Lake and, of course, Mark Hall and company. It was an honest and refreshing response. To create Christian music that stands the test of time, maybe you have to love it as deeply as the everyday listener. Megan grew up with those songs shaping her understanding of God’s promises, even before she was old enough to fully grasp their weight. Songs like “Praise You in the Storm” became markers in her faith journey long before she was writing her own.
While most kids dream careers change from week to week, Megan desire to sing never wavered. Music was always her constant. She sang around the house, in school, and eventually stepped into worship leading. But those natural gifts weren’t met with unshakable confidence. “Four years ago, when I would lead worship, I was so afraid to say two words on stage. And now I get to walk onto a stage and share the gospel and my heart and what God’s done in my life… only the Lord could do that.”
The leap from worship leading to the global stage didn’t come with years of gradual climbing and endless touring. For Megan, it was one post, sixteen seconds long.
She laughed when I asked if going viral was the plan. “Yeah. Well, I remember my team literally would always say, Megan, we’ve got to figure out your social media and how are you going to connect with people and grow this? It’s so wild because I posted 16 seconds of ‘The Truth.’ And in those 16 seconds, it was literally like three lines of the chorus, and it literally started blowing up in South Africa.”
Sixteen seconds. Three lines. And suddenly her voice was influencing strangers’ lives across the globe. “People just connected so deeply. And what I loved is just getting on TikTok to see people use the sound and sing it over their life and see them sing those words as an anthem. And they were so bold singing it. And I just never knew that people could do that, you know?”
I told her I had personally seen people of all ages latch onto that chorus. She nodded, wide-eyed. “Slowly it started really growing in the US. And seeing it connect with all ages—I see young girls sing it, young boys, I’ve had a woman come up to me in her seventies say this song means so much and I struggle with what I see in the mirror. So that’s been the biggest thing for me.”
That kind of overnight explosion can be disorienting, but Megan carries it with humility. She admitted she never expected the encouragement to flow both ways. “I thought when I wrote the song it would be an anthem in my life and God would use it for people, but I didn’t expect that I’d hear testimonies that encourage me in this season to continue doing what I’m doing. There are nights when I’m about to pack my suitcase and I think, how am I going to do this when I need encouragement myself? And then I’ll see a comment like, ‘The Truth changed my life’ or ‘The Truth gave me strength,’ and it inspires me to keep going.”
She paused for a moment before continuing. “It goes back to the heart of why I started doing this.”
We need to back up. A song this powerful doesn’t just appear—it’s written in a room, in a moment, with a story behind it. I asked her how “The Truth” was born.
She smiled, remembering that day clearly. “It was actually the first day I met Matthew [West]. My first time ever time writing with him. And I remember just telling him the story of my life and just how I’ve always struggled with my worth. And I always struggled believing I was good enough. And I always felt small in rooms.”
She didn’t shy away from the hard part of that memory. “Even though God was calling me and opening doors, it was still a struggle for me to really understand—I belong in this room. God’s opening the door in my life.”
From that vulnerability came a title. “I had a song title because I always start with song titles. The song title was ‘My Father’s Child.’ And I remember Matthew read it, and he was like, I love what that says. And we just kind of knew from then, just after sharing my story, that every line of this song was going to be about who we are to Jesus and how he sees us and how he views us. And the truth of that.”
“Even though God was calling me and opening doors, it was still a struggle for me to really understand—I belong in this room. God’s opening the door in my life.”
The verses had to be real—Megan insisted on it. “I just wanted it to be so real in the verse and just be honest. Like, how many times do we hear the same line in our lives over and over in our heads and we believe it? It’s so easy to believe it. But the still small voice of God tells us this is where you find your worth. And so we wanted to make that voice just louder than the enemy’s voice in the song.” So is the next step in the journey instant stardom? Not quite.
“I wrote ‘The Truth’ about two and a half years ago… I had the song for so long. And there were so many parts that we rewrote—we rewrote the verse melody, we rewrote the whole bridge. We were just working on it for so long.”
And even before it was ever released, it started to do what it was always meant to do. “The first time I actually sang it live, before it was even out, a young girl named Carmen, she’s 18, got saved at that concert through that song. She wasn’t even supposed to be at the concert. She came anyway. And that night she posted on social media like, ‘Jesus is my Lord and Savior.’”
Megan leaned forward, her eyes bright “‘The Truth’ live would connect in ways I can’t explain.”
That’s when the true test of any song begins. Not just the streams or the TikTok clips. It was taking it out on the road. Megan joined her first tour in early 2025 when she was invited to open for Big Daddy Weave on their Let It Begin tour alongside Ben Fuller.
Touring with a band that has carried the banner of Christian music for decades was a crash course in turning a room into a house of worship.“Their heart for ministry is so powerful and inspiring, to be a new artists and see that…” For Megan, it proved what she was learning each night on tour: the ministry doesn’t start at doors and doesn’t end at the encore. These lessons came in the way Big Daddy Weave modeled Christ off stage. “I’ve seen them pray over every single seat before every show, and I’ve seen them love people behind the scenes… That to me is so encouraging… My favorite moment, though, was probably when I was at a pizza place after a show. I was just grabbing food like anyone would after a concert, and this woman came up to me. She had tears in her eyes and told me that ‘The Truth’ was a reminder for her of her true identity, that she’s a child of God. She said she’d been struggling with who she saw in the mirror, and hearing that song brought her back to who Jesus says she is. And I’ll never forget that conversation because it wasn’t during a meet and greet or on the stage — it was just life. And that’s what it’s about.”
Megan stepped onto that bus as an emerging artist, but she carried away something much more: a vision of what ministry looks like when it’s lived out in green rooms, restaurants, and parking lots just as much as it is in the concert hall. And somewhere along the way, she realized the song wasn’t just carrying the audience. It was carrying her too. When she sings “The Truth” over an audience, she’s also singing it back over her own heart. As “The Truth” was connecting with people, Megan walked through a season that tested whether she really believed the words she sang. She developed severe TMJ pain—jaw issues so bad they threatened her ability to sing. For a young artist who had just found her footing, it was terrifying.
Instead of silencing her, that season gave her a new song. “I was walking through a season where I couldn’t even sing my own song because of TMJ pain. I remember questioning if I was really called to this. And in the middle of that, God gave me ‘I Believe You.’ I knew it was a heart cry, that I believe I’ll get through this with Him.”
It was another anthem, but this time birthed in desperation. In a way, “I Believe You” is the bridge between where Megan has been and where she’s going. If “The Truth” was her declaration of identity, “I Believe You” is her declaration of trust. Together, they form the foundation of a story still being written, one that’s now finding its way onto the biggest stages of her life.
It’s hard to imagine how fast Megan’s world has expanded. In just a short span of time, she’s experienced the kind of firsts artists dream about their entire careers.
One of the most emotional came when she stepped onto the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. Her family flew in to see it, and the moment is etched into her memory. “My grandma flew in, she’s 80 years old, and she was just crying during soundcheck. There’s a picture of her in the audience with a tissue in her hand, crying as I stood on that stage. I’ll never forget that night.”
Not long after Megan was nominated for multiple awards, performed at the K-LOVE Fan Awards, and even had a moment that still makes her shake her head in disbelief. CeCe Winans, one of the most iconic voices in Christian music and her dream collaborator, took a moment to encourage her personally. “I was sitting there with my mom [after performing at the K-Love Awards], and CeCe came up to me and said, ‘You did amazing!’ I couldn’t believe it. That was one of those full-circle moments for me.”
When you’re writing an anthem, it’s hard to imagine the weight it will one day carry. Night after night, Megan hears the stories, and she lets them soak in, not as baggage weighing her down, but as a backbone that strengthens her to keep going. One story in particular has never left her. “Her name was Joy. She’s fighting cancer and going through chemo, and she told me that ‘The Truth’ got her through the hardest season of her life. When she looks in the mirror and sees her hair falling out, she was identifying herself as her trial. But the truth reminded her of her true identity—that she’s a child of God.”
The weight of Megan’s platform isn’t lost on her. She knows little girls are watching, teenagers are sampling her songs for social media, and she doesn’t take that lightly. She just hopes they remember what she is singing about. “Jesus loves you more than you could ever fathom. And no matter what someone in school says, no matter what you think you are like, that does not change the truth. The truth is the truth, and you are a child of the King. And He made you so perfectly in His image, exactly how He wanted to craft you. And you are a masterpiece to Him.”
As a mom, I thought about my own daughters and how many times I’ve watched them sing Megan’s song around the house. I pray silently that they would never forget what Megan was declaring, that their worth is already settled, their identity already well known.
Megan is also aware that to keep going and grow her live show and audience, she is going to need more songs. “Yes, I’m working on an album right now… In the fall I have an EP that’s coming out, which I’m so excited about because it’s kind of like a glimpse of my life the last three years and just a glimpse into what God has done and how he’s changed my life for the better.”
“Jesus loves you more than you could ever fathom. And no matter what someone in school says, no matter what you think you are like, that does not change the truth. The truth is the truth, and you are a child of the King. And He made you so perfectly in His image, exactly how He wanted to craft you. And you are a masterpiece to Him.”
That glimpse will include songs like “The Truth” and “I Believe You,” but also new ones that capture pieces of her journey she hasn’t shared yet. And as she looks to the future, her heart remains simple: to be faithful to the call, wherever it leads. “I feel like I’m just allowing myself to, in any room I walk into when I’m writing, just write from the heart and write from a vulnerable place that is going to connect. And I feel like God has the rest.”
Megan’s story is a reminder that worth doesn’t shift with seasons, trials, or stages. That hope is not wishful thinking, but an anchor. “I could have the worst day, but I know I have an amazing relationship with Jesus and I know where I’m going. Whatever this world brings, I cling to the hope of Jesus.”
That’s Megan Woods. Her songs are not just a hopeful melodies, they’re the truth. The whole truth. The Gospel Truth.
See Megan Woods on the second leg of Big Daddy Weave’s Let It Begin Tour this Fall.
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