The Blessing (song)

"The Blessing" is a song performed by Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes and Elevation Worship, released as the lead single from Elevation Worship's twelfth live album, Graves into Gardens (2020),[1] as well as Kari Jobe's third live album, The Blessing (2020),[2] on March 20, 2020.

Initially, "The Blessing" was released as music video on Elevation Worship's YouTube channel in early March 2020,[1] with Kari Jobe and Cody Carnes leading the song in a worship service at Elevation Church's Ballantyne campus on March 1.

[3][7] The song became popular on YouTube, leading to the release of the live audio recording on March 20, 2020, to other platforms.

[14] The song had sold 12,000 downloads and garnered 1.3 million streams in its first week, and thus becoming Kari Jobe's and Elevation Worship's fourth top ten hit on Hot Christian Songs and Cody Carnes first top ten on the chart, as well as the highest debut for all three acts.

[15] Cody Carnes released a "Live from Home" performance video featuring Kari Jobe to YouTube on March 19, 2020.

[16] On March 31, 2020, a "Living Room Session" performance video of the song was uploaded by Elevation Worship to YouTube.