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"This Love" by The Follower of Christ: Found by the One I Was Searching For


Ever feel lost while chasing your own plans?

In the summer of 2025, Frank Valentine sat alone in the Appalachian woods with a chest pain that would not leave. Weeks passed. It grew worse. He began to believe that his days were numbered.

The Follower of Christ - This LOVEThat is when “This Love” came to him. While singing it to the Lord, playing it on his guitar, he worried it might die with him, so this became the song that he recorded first. One voice accompanied by an acoustic guitar. The song stood on its own.

Listen to where the song starts. “Used to be a vagabond in this life for so long.” Valentine knew that road, and so might you. Plans built, plans fallen apart. “All my mistakes that have hardened my heart.” Changes happen when you invite God in: “This love I found. Or should I say He found me.”

Read what Jesus said in Luke 19:10: “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” You are not the hunter in His bigger plan. You are the one who is being sought.

So what are you still trying to fix on your own? Describe it and hand it over to God in prayer. The song promises “No purpose in worries and no truth in fears,” because the One who found you has already carried both.

Then do what Valentine did. After he recovered, he sold all of the firearms and tactical gear of his old life and bought guitars and amplifiers, so more people could hear about the Love that he had found. Be the change! Tell someone this week what God has done for you.

Press play, sing along, and let God find you again. “This love I found, or should I say He found me when I opened my heart.”

(Related scripture: Luke 19:10; Romans 5:8; 1 John 4:19)

Background:

In the summer of 2025, Frank Valentine, now recording as The Follower of Christ, was living alone in the Appalachian woods of Kentucky. A chest pain set in and refused to leave. Weeks passed. It worsened. He began to believe his days were numbered.

Around that time, a new song came to him: “This Love.”

He sang his songs privately to the Lord with his guitar. One of his worries was that the songs he believed God had given him might die with him. So when he finally pressed record, “This Love” was his first choice. Just a voice and an acoustic guitar.

The result surprised him. The song stood on its own, with no drums, no layers, no polish. That discovery kept him going.

After he recovered, a new ambition took hold of him. Valentine sold all of the firearms and tactical gear from his old life and bought guitars, amplifiers, and recording equipment. Months of trial and error followed as he taught himself to produce, mix, and master. Could one man really build a full-band sound alone? He discovered that with God's help he could. Electric guitars, drums, bass, synthesizers, and layered arrangements, every part played by Valentine in his home studio.

Now, more than a year later, he returns to the song that started this journey. A new rendition of “This Love” arrives November 11, 2026. It began as a song he thought he might leave behind. Today it’s the one he begins again with.

Release date: November 11, 2026

Connect with The Follower of Christ
Website: https://www.thefollowerofchrist.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheFollowerofChrist-JesusMusic
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Bandcamp: https://thefollowerofchrist.bandcamp.com/


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