What will stop you in your tracks though, is the answer that comes when we ask David about his musical beginnings –“I started taking piano lessons and I took them for… three to four, maybe five months when I was about six, and that’s all the music education I ever had, was these piano lessons, because it just came to me naturally.
When Nicole’s Mom (church choir director at the time), invited David, his sister Lisa and brother Bobby to come sing at their church as part of their traveling ministry, the two families would connect again as friends.It was clear by the time her family moved to Family Christian Center in Indiana that Nicole was more than ready to take her place in the adult choir. They soon settled into the congregation at Covenant Church in Carrollton, just a couple of hours from Fort Hood and Killeen, where the Binion and Power families had first met all those years before.Still traveling part-time and attending Covenant Church when they were at home, it was clear they had found their spiritual home in Dallas. It was time for David and Nicole to bring their young family home to Texas, almost a symbolic closing of the circle. I know it’s possible, and that’s what drives me to worship week after week after week, because I believe at some point we’ll taste it again.And so they left Indiana, traveling full-time with Tommy Tenney and the God Chaser movement.Early in 1997 came the news that David and Nicole would be blessed with their first child, and it was in the last months of Nicole’s pregnancy that the Lord spoke to them both. From the time I was little I just knew that was what I wanted to do with my life, period.”Nicole Binion was born to sing, and through her early teens, that is exactly what she did, bringing joy with every performance. This is a big week for our family! Official Website of David & Nicole Binion | Conference, Workshop and Church Event BookingsFor David and Nicole Binion, this is an undeniable truth. And may Jesus be lifted high in their lives for all the world to see! They simply felt they could not go back to “church as usual.” As David looks back on this time we catch a glimpse of what continues to sustain him in this high-energy ministry lived out over more than two decades.That three month period shaped what we are today…that keeps me going because I discovered a place in His presence…the more of God that I know is available. From years spent with Revivalist Throughout life there have been three constants for David and Nicole Binion — music, faith, and each other.Though born twelve years apart so much of their life experience seems in perfect parallel. ~ When Nicole shared a similar urging of the spirit, her belief that David was the man she was to spend her life with, the response was unexpected too.
Official Website of David & Nicole Binion | Conference, Workshop and Church Event BookingsGracie has been working with Integrity for a year now, cowriting with writers and producers in Nashville, working hard to create the first song that would introduce MDSN to the world. With the success of the Early in 2018, that familiar urging of the spirit came again – it was time to step out once more in faith and pursue the vision the Lord had given to them almost a decade earlier. As my husband says, may our ceiling be their floor. There were moments that would touch them deeply and move so many others through those years. Although Rusty Goodman is in Heaven David & Nicole remain firm friends with his daughter Tanya Goodman Sykes. Much happened in this time.Besides leading worship together, David and Nicole also appeared in the most significant annual event at Family Christian Center – the passion play, When a season of revival began sweeping through the Indiana church, sparked by the visit of renowned pastor, When this move came – when God wrecked us. The very wise Mrs Marti Power simply counseled her daughter to continue praying and to follow the plan God has for her life.Two years after that momentous revelation on the Dan Ryan Expressway, David and Nicole married and began their life of ministry together. What she wrote blew our minds and we quickly had our friend produce a track and record her vocal for the song. Giving voice to faith Ask Nicole about the plan for her life, and the answer is no surprise either: Through various connections of ours in the industry, Gracie’s song caught the attention of Disney Channel music executive, Steven Vincent.
Both Binions had become like a big brother and sister to Nicole, whose dream was to “sing just like Lisa.”When it came to God’s plan for their future together, David was last to get the memo. Before they could get a sign in the yard, people found out the house was for sale. By the time I was seven or eight years old I was playing in church.”And there’s no surprise when Nicole tells us she also was singing in church at the age of seven. That vision was for Dwell – first taking shape as a revival movement, then turning unexpectedly into a church plant! Welcomes Martha Munizzi, Mary Alessi and Jason & Jonathon Nelson David + Nicole Binion Live Recordings Anthony Evans Album to Debut on TBN Praise!
As the younger Binions begin to live out their passions and talents, it is clear the precious gifts of words, music and faith, so much a part of David and Nicole’s life together will continue. Gracie Binion is a singer, songwriter, and worship leader. Their differences simply reinforce how perfectly they “fit.”If you love to see David at the piano leading worship, or you’re a dedicated follower of his impromptu worship sessions on Facebook, you’re probably struck by his ability to play, to switch from song to song, perform requests from any time or artist at a simple mention. By twelve David had written his first song.