The Voice That Came in the Valley: Maria Jacobs and the Song Born From Survival
Some songs are written. Others are breathed into being through the rupture of a life split open. Maria Jacobs’ “Tell Them About Me” belongs to the latter category—a single that arrives not as artistic exercise but as obedient testimony, the musical exhale of a woman who stood at the edge of annihilation and heard Jesus speak her purpose into the void. During a battle with bipolar disorder that nearly claimed her existence, Jacobs encountered something she could not manufacture: the audible voice of Christ, commissioning her not toward grand platforms or impressive metrics, but toward simple, staggering obedience. Tell them about Me. Those four words became both book and now single, the thematic heart of her album Perfect Is Your Will, and the compass point by which her ministry now orients itself. Produced by Wally Minko with an atmospheric blend of Christian Soft AC, Inspirational, and Smooth Jazz, the song does not demand attention through volume or virtuosity. Instead, it extends an invitation—warm, unhurried, anchored in the conviction that the Gospel is not a concept to be studied but a Person to be announced. When Jacobs sings the Great Commission over a groove that breathes like Sunday morning filtered through blue hour, she is not performing Scripture. She is living inside it, still trembling from the encounter that gave her back her life.
What makes “Tell Them About Me” linger is not merely its lyrical fidelity to Matthew 28, but the lived authority behind every vowel. This is not a singer reaching toward abstract theology; this is a survivor extending her hand toward those still drowning, whispering that the same Voice that spoke peace over her chaos is speaking still. Top Christian Music News described the track as pairing “Scripture-centered lyrics with a smooth jazz groove, delivering the Great Commission with warmth, confidence, and quiet authority”—an assessment that captures the song’s paradoxical power. It commissions without shouting. It evangelizes without anxiety. It declares that the One who leaves the ninety-nine does not rush, does not panic, does not abandon His search. Jacobs’ vocal delivery, controlled and pillowed by Minko’s sensitive production, carries the accumulated weight of years both devastating and redeemed. When she repeats the command that saved her—tell them about Me—it functions simultaneously as worship, as memory, and as marching orders for anyone still unsure whether their story qualifies as ministry. For Jacobs, the answer is unequivocal: the darkest chapters are not the disqualification. They are the credential. And “Tell Them About Me” stands as proof that what nearly destroyed her has become the very thing God is using to restore others. The valley produced a song. The silence produced a voice. And that voice, steady and sure, is still telling.
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