Jeremy Camp returned to the stage on Thursday (March 21), just days after a surgery to correct a “really dangerous” heart condition he had developed over the past few years.
On Friday, ChurchLeaders attended Camp’s Theater Tour in Dayton, Ohio, and witnessed the Grammy Award-nominated singer praise God throughout the concert for his faithfulness.
“God is so good. He’s so faithful,” an emotional Camp told the crowd. “That’s not cliché or Christianese. If you’ve experienced God’s goodness and God’s faithfulness—it’s not Christianese, it’s my life. God is good!”
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Camp shared that he didn’t tell people about his heart surgery last year because he didn’t want to make a big deal about it. But his heart arrhythmia recently returned, leading doctors to diagnose him with atrial fibrillation, better known as AFib, which was making his heart beat 200 to 236 beats per minute for 30 minutes at a time.
“It was getting really, really dangerous…and I was terrified to be honest,” Camp added.
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The Dove Award-winning singer explained what God has been teaching him through his latest surgery. “I think all my life…I’ve dealt with trust issues,” he said. “But it’s interesting because there’s like specific things that God is continuing to strip away from me, including my control.”
Camp said that he took pride in being healthy and taking care of himself but that this latest health scare brought him to the “realization that my life is not in my hands. It’s in God’s hands, and he’s a trustworthy God.”
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When we experience tragedy, it doesn’t mean that God “isn’t good,” Camp said. “It doesn’t mean that he doesn’t love us. It doesn’t mean that he’s not faithful.”
Camp went on to share how Scriptures like Proverbs 3:5-6, which says, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight,” have such a deeper meaning to him following his surgery.
Before his surgery last Saturday (March 9), Camp had to cut a show short because his heart was beating so fast. At Friday’s show, he reported that at his first show after his surgery, his heart didn’t even flutter.
