HOOK: Let's hear it 1 for the pastors and preachers, those who was burdened to teach us just so they could reach us / and 2 for Big Mama Madea, Granny Mae, all those who would pray us through the faith / and 3 for the cloud of many witnesses, who stood for the faith and paved the way so we could witness this / kingdom people this song's for you, kingdom people this song's for you so let's go /

VERSE 1: Nine years old getting dropped off at Sunday School, class clowning with my boys I just wanna be cool / see I grew up thinking that church was for the preacher until I met brothers who wanted to reach us and teach us / how to study our Bibles to see what it means and show Christianity isn't just about what it brings / but sadly there are some who live opposite Scriptures, Christians to the public who muddy up the picture / cause for too long cats like Kells and Mase been the spokesmen, all the while the public see us as a joke man / so this song's for the true shepherds who prove selfless whose aim is to aid the true helpless / I mean brothers like Spurgeon and Piper, Tom Nelson, John Edwards, brothers who make disciples / those who because of Ezekiel 34, shepherd the flocks as a true pastor of the Lord /

VERSE 2: I was a hardhead growing up in ... Texas / where the girls was fast acting and the men would plex us / where nobody seems to care so my cousins was reckless / but from moms and Madea there was more that was expected / from their perspective life wasn't over / they all had a sense of hope that was based on Jehovah / and more over they knew the life to come / they had a love for their people based on Christ the Son / and as I write this song I can remember many times / I left home mama crying just wishing I'd try Him / well I tried Him mama and I kept Him too / I praise God that Madea that was praying me through / thank you Miss Luke, Mama Grant, and Aunt Jessie Mae / mama, all those who was praying through the faith / this song's for you, and knowing no one can compare to you / to me Madea's more than a Tyler Perry character /

VERSE 3: There are those that have gone on and gone home / to worship at the throne but their lives live on / it's their precedence of faith that gives the evidence of faith / exhorting residents of grace to lay aside every weight that hinders our race / true examples from the Father, that even if we're martyred our faith should never falter / I pray we trust in the Father like Jacob and Joseph / true faith hall of famers like David and Moses / and I praise God for my present day models / from the Columbine daughters to my spiritual fathers / thank you God for Dhati, Keynon, Lecrae and Sho / godly men that's an example of which way to go / and to the sisters I see ya'll holding it down / standing firm for the faith like light poles in the ground / this song's dedicated to all ya'll who's true / kingdom people let's go, this song's for you /