Koryn Hawthorne ‘His Favorite’ Turns God’s Favour into a Beautiful Story About Patience, Purpose and Sharing

Koryn Hawthorne His Favorite turns a jar of honey into an unexpectedly powerful picture of God’s favour. With a new video now introducing the world of her forthcoming Big Gospel project, Hawthorne is celebrating patience, purpose and blessings that become sweeter when they are shared.

Koryn Hawthorne has found a sweet way to talk about favour

Christian music has sung about God’s favour for generations. Koryn Hawthorne has found a jar of honey.

In the newly released video for “His Favorite”, Hawthorne plays a woman preparing carefully curated jars of honey before taking them to a local farmers market. It is warm, playful visual storytelling, but the idea underneath it carries considerably more weight. Honey does not appear instantly. It requires process, patience and work before the sweetness arrives. Hawthorne uses that process to reflect on the way God can be working through ordinary seasons even when the final result is not yet visible.

That makes Koryn Hawthorne His Favorite more interesting than a conventional song about blessing. The emphasis is not simply on receiving something good from God. It is on recognising that favour can be present during the preparation, the waiting and the unseen parts of a story.

There is another detail that gives the video its heart. Hawthorne does not keep the honey. She shares it. The blessings produced through the process become something other people can taste too. It is a beautifully simple picture of Christian purpose. What God develops in one life does not have to end with that person. Grace can become generosity, testimony can become encouragement and favour can become something that makes another person’s day a little sweeter.

‘His Favorite’ begins with identity rather than achievement

“His Favorite” was originally released on 24 July through Motown Gospel. Spotify confirms the single as a 2 minute 52 second release, issued by Koryn Hawthorne Entertainment under exclusive licence to Capitol CMG. The new official video arrived on 21 August, giving the song a fuller visual identity almost a month after listeners first encountered it.

The song centres on worth, confidence and belonging. Those ideas are particularly effective because Hawthorne places them inside a Gospel framework rather than treating confidence as purely self generated. The source of assurance is relationship with God. Favour becomes less about proving superiority over somebody else and more about knowing whose you are.

That distinction matters. Christian music can celebrate confidence without turning faith into a competition for blessings. God’s goodness towards one person does not require His goodness towards somebody else to diminish. Hawthorne’s visual concept strengthens that interpretation because the honey is ultimately shared. What begins as something personal becomes communal.

The video also gives patience an important place in that conversation. It is easy to recognise favour when the door opens, the opportunity arrives or the prayer receives the answer somebody hoped for. It is more difficult to recognise God’s activity while nothing appears to be moving. Hawthorne’s honey metaphor creates space for those quieter seasons. Sometimes the evidence of growth is still being made.

A new era is beginning with Big Gospel

“His Favorite” is also important because it is the first preview of Hawthorne’s next project. Big Gospel is currently scheduled for release on 2 October through Motown Gospel, with Christian music release listings identifying it as an EP. The project is being positioned around a fresh meeting point between Gospel and R&B, continuing Hawthorne’s ability to carry an unmistakably faith centred message through contemporary production.

That title feels appropriate for an artist who has rarely approached Gospel as though it needs to become smaller to connect with modern audiences. Hawthorne’s music has consistently embraced rhythm, personality and mainstream production instincts while keeping faith at the centre of the writing.

Producer Lil Ronnie brings another interesting dimension to “His Favorite”. His credits include work associated with artists such as GloRilla, Usher and Britney Spears, giving the record a production connection beyond the traditional Gospel ecosystem. The result supports what Hawthorne appears to be building with Big Gospel. This is music comfortable with the soul of Gospel and the language of modern R&B at the same time.

That crossover should not be confused with reducing Gospel identity. Some of the most exciting Christian music develops when artists understand their musical roots deeply enough to explore beyond them without losing their centre. Hawthorne has been doing that for much of her recording career. Big Gospel now has an opportunity to push that instinct further.

From ‘Won’t He Do It’ to a more mature understanding of favour

Hawthorne’s journey gives “His Favorite” additional context. She first became widely known as a teenager through The Voice, before developing into one of contemporary Gospel’s most recognisable younger artists. Her debut album Unstoppable arrived in 2018 and established “Won’t He Do It” as a defining early recording. Later releases including “Speak To Me”, “Look At God” and her collaboration with Danny Gokey on “We All Need Jesus” have continued expanding her catalogue.

Her career has also brought two GRAMMY nominations, something the current His Favorite campaign highlights as Hawthorne begins this next chapter. Those achievements provide useful context, but the more interesting story is how her perspective has matured alongside the success.

The early declaration of “Won’t He Do It” carried the excitement of expecting God to move. “His Favorite” feels interested in another part of the journey. What does faith look like when God’s work takes time? How do you recognise favour before the result appears? What happens when the blessing finally arrives?

The answer Hawthorne offers is not simply celebration. It is stewardship. The honey gets made, the jar gets filled and then somebody else gets to receive it. That progression gives the new song a maturity that fits naturally with an artist who has now spent years living beyond the breakthrough moment that originally introduced her to Gospel audiences.

Gospel and R&B do not have to live in separate rooms

Hawthorne’s new chapter also arrives during an encouraging period for Christian music. Genre boundaries are becoming increasingly fluid. Gospel singers collaborate with Christian Hip Hop artists. Worship music absorbs soul and R&B textures. Christian pop reaches listeners who may never organise their music libraries according to the traditional industry categories.

Hawthorne fits naturally inside that movement because contemporary influences have never seemed ornamental in her music. R&B is not something added afterwards to make Gospel sound fashionable. It is part of the musical language through which she communicates.

That makes Big Gospel an intriguing proposition. The name suggests expansion rather than restriction. Gospel can be spiritually direct and sonically adventurous. It can carry testimony into modern production. It can honour tradition while allowing a younger generation to recognise itself inside the sound.

TLD Music’s wider editorial mission benefits from artists operating in these spaces because they create natural pathways between audiences. A listener arriving through contemporary Christian music can discover Gospel. A Gospel listener can encounter Christian R&B. A Christian Hip Hop audience can recognise familiar production language while meeting another part of the Christian music ecosystem. Healthy Christian music discovery should work like that. One artist opens the door to another.

The most beautiful part of favour may be what happens next

The visual world of “His Favorite” could easily have ended with Hawthorne holding the finished jar and celebrating what had been produced. Instead, the story moves outward, and that decision transforms the meaning.

Christian faith has never treated blessing as an exclusively private possession. Scripture repeatedly connects what people receive with what they are able to give. Encouragement travels. Generosity travels. Testimony travels. Music does too.

Koryn Hawthorne appears to understand that instinctively. The new video turns something as ordinary as preparing honey into a picture of waiting well, recognising God’s work and allowing what has been produced through your life to nourish somebody beyond you.

It also provides an inviting first doorway into Big Gospel. If the forthcoming project continues exploring faith with this combination of warmth, personality and contemporary musical confidence, Hawthorne may be entering one of the most interesting creative periods of her career.

Sometimes favour looks like the breakthrough everybody can see. Sometimes it looks like the work happening quietly before anybody notices. Once the honey is finally ready, the most meaningful response may be to pass the jar.