David Archuleta released an original song titled “My Little Prayer” on Thursday. In the Facebook post and YouTube description, Archuleta shared the inspiration behind the song.
Archuleta shared that the lyrics and chords came to him during a dream after he fell asleep before saying his nightly prayer. Archuleta found himself having a conversation with God in his dream but he remembers the conversation being different because he was singing.
"I could hear simple chords in my dream that I was laying a simple melody and prayer on top of," Archuleta wrote on Facebook. "As I was having this conversation in music with God, He told me to get up and write this down. I thought and said, 'But... I'm sleeping. I'm not sure I know how to get up from a dream!' He told me, 'If you don't get up now, you'll forget it in the morning.' I tried everything I could to wake up, and I did!
"There in the middle of the night I went straight to the piano with the words and melody I had spoken in my dream still clear in my head, and wrote it all down. It was the fastest I had ever written a song because I feel this one was given to me."
Archuleta released “My Little Prayer” in conjunction with the eighth day of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ “Light the World” initiative. According to mormon.org the theme for the eighth day is, “Jesus Prayed for Others and So Can You.”
The singer wrote that he has performed the song several times this year and after multiple people asking where to find it, he “felt it would be good to share it during this Holiday season.” The music video was filmed on Temple Square.
Watch the video on YouTube here.