Brandon Lake and Spouse Brittany Launch Kids’s E-book ‘Little Lion Lungs’ (Unique)

Brandon Lake and spouse Brittany just lately left their three boys at residence with household in South Carolina so they may spend some alone time collectively in New York. And whereas there, they did what any dad and mom do with out their youngsters.

“We instantly ordered room service,” the Grammy-winning Christian artist tells PEOPLE with fun. “More often than not I am touring on my own, however we’re making an attempt to reside it up since we’re attending to work collectively.”

The artistic couple just lately launched their newest creation within the type of the endearing youngsters’s e-book Little Lion Lungs, a narrative of a younger lion cub named Levi whose adventures have him studying all concerning the significance of gratitude. 

“Brandon has been speaking about [writing this book] for over a 12 months,” explains Brittany, 36, throughout an interview with PEOPLE. “I might catch him drawing Levi the Lion and simply being so artistic. And in the future I used to be like, ‘I believe you might want to do it.’ He had informed me the storyline that he got here up with in his head, and I used to be like, ‘Brandon, let’s do it.’ After which he obtained his staff behind it and it simply propelled from there.”

“It began as a clothes line based mostly on the success of [No. 1 hit] ‘Gratitude’ and folks responding to that lyric “you have obtained a lion inside your lungs,” Brandon, 33, says of the artistic beginnings of the e-book. “We have additionally all the time needed to be a household that does not simply useful resource different households with music, however assets of every kind that will assist the household develop to be a worshiping household.”

Certainly, whereas Little Lion Lungs reads identical to a fascinating youngsters’s e-book, the message behind the lovely storyline is much stronger. 

“This [book] truly has the potential to show youngsters that they had been created to be worshipers,” says Brandon, who not solely served as a co-host alongside Sadie Robertson on the eleventh Annual Ok-LOVE Fan Awards final month, but additionally got here residence with two awards, together with male artist of the 12 months and worship tune of the 12 months for “Reward You Anyplace.” “The world distracts you and will get you to worship different issues, however you’re all the time created to worship God.”

Little Lion Lungs additionally ended up turning into fairly a treasure for the Lakes, because it allowed the couple to spend a lot time collectively engaged on it. “Brittany is clearly queen of our residence and sacrifices a lot,” Brandon says. “She places up with child poop and canines and animals in every single place and caring for the cows, however she’s additionally all the time serving to me with songs I am engaged on and giving me nice suggestions. It is undoubtedly a household ministry for positive.”

And sure, you heard that proper — the Lake household now has cows.

“I went from ‘Metro Brandon’ to ‘Farmer Brandon’ this previous 12 months,” admits the Texas-bred artist, who has collaborated previously with teams corresponding to Maverick Metropolis Music and Elevation Worship. “I purchased Brittany a cow for her birthday. We now have a farm in our yard and Billy the cow has principally grow to be our farm child. My aim in life now’s simply to be a full-on cowboy.”

And Brittany could not be prouder.

“I believe Brandon was made for this,” Brittany tells PEOPLE. “I am so pleased with him. He stewards our household first. However that’s no shock. I do know that that is what he is known as to do, and I simply love supporting him. He is simply so pure and simply loves folks so nicely.”

It is this delight that additionally all the time extends to their three youngsters.

“Our 9-year outdated did a buddy studying day at college and he introduced our e-book,” remembers Brittany. “He learn it to a kindergartner, and he stated that they learn it twice as a result of they beloved it a lot.”

Now that Little Lion Lungs is out, the hitmaker says he is wanting ahead to spending some high quality time with the household earlier than starting the Summer time Worship Nights tour in August after which his Tear Off the Roof Tour in October.

“As a household, we will go for a couple of weeks to the seaside and I’ll flip the cellphone off,” concludes Lake. “After which, I am actually enthusiastic about new songs. It is what my coronary heart burns for greater than something. This subsequent season is absolutely going to be about household and creativity … and farming.”