Uncomplicate Your Life, Unleash Your Faith

EARLY CALLING AND VOICE

Hosanna Wong is a bestselling author, Bible teacher, and internationally recognized spoken word poet but the strength of her voice was shaped long before it was carried across global stages. Before she was born, Hosanna’s father struggled with heroin addiction and was also part of a gang. When a woman invited him to church, he got saved, and his life was changed forever.

Years later, he took the gospel to the streets by starting an outdoor ministry where he held services two to three times a week. Hosana grew up in those services. People came as they were, sometimes with alcohol and drugs. Despite it, her father knew they needed to hear the word of God the most. He preached by the power of the Holy Spirit, and those listening began to change. 

Most of Hosanna’s friends rapped and performed spoken word poetry, and that’s how she began to express herself and step into her own calling.  
After posting a spoken word on YouTube in 2017 entitled, I Have A New Name, Hosanna had no idea what was to come. In 2023, “Kids began sharing it on social media, and it went viral,” she explains.

Delivered with honesty rather than polish, the piece struck a nerve. 

Millions responded not because it was loud, but because it was true. It named what so many feel but rarely articulate, the longing to be known beyond labels, failures, and expectations.

As her audience grew, so did her awareness that for many people, faith itself was not the problem. The pressure surrounding it was.

UNCOMPLICATE IT

That realization became the seed of her latest book, Uncomplicate It: Permission to Enjoy God in Your Unique Way. Instead of starting with answers, Hosanna chose to start with listening. Over several years, she sat across from more than one thousand people around the world and asked them to speak honestly about their relationship with God. 

Patterns quickly emerged. Hosanna realized that six common roadblocks stood in the way of many enjoying a fulfilling relationship with God, like:

• Busyness: Overloaded schedules that crowd out time for God.

• Distractions: Constant interruptions pulling focus from spiritual connection.

• Shame: Feelings of unworthiness or guilt blocking intimacy with God.

• Grief/Heartbreak: Emotional pain from loss or disappointment.

• Silence: Uncertainty about hearing God's voice or feeling His presence.

• Expectations: Unrealistic standards from self or others about how faith should look.

• The common denominator in all six, she explains, is that “People have divorced their God life from their real life.” 

While in Italy, Hosanna was thinking about the scripture in John 15: 1-2 which reads, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes so that it will be more fruitful” (NIV).  She decided to interview a vineyard grower and asked him how she could grow the most flourishing crop, thinking he would give her the best ten steps. He responded, “I don’t have a list of perfect steps for you. But I do have a question. What is your soil like?”  Hosanna realized the importance of what he said.  It all comes down to not only the quality of the soil but also the season. Growth, she reminds readers, is not rushed. It is cultivated. 

PRAISE-O-NALITIES AND PERSONAL CONNECTION

One of the book’s most distinctive contributions is Hosanna’s introduction of what she calls “praise-o-nalities.”  The seven found throughout scripture are, the:

• Recreationalist: People feel closer to God outdoors or through movement

• Beholder of beauty: Created things like art of flowers bring connection 

• Soul fire:  Outward expressions of raising your hands or being in loud and vibrant environments make them feel closer to God

• Sacred space seeker: The people connect with God through tradition, structure, communion, etc.

• Interior expert; Naturally introspective and bent towards silence or solitude or nostalgia

• Thought smith: Engaging with God through the mind

• Artist of people: Where photography and paint are not your canvas, people are your canvas. 
Hosanna explains, “When you feel stuck, consider the way you are naturally wired.” 

To learn more about Hosanna Wong, or to purchase her newest book Uncomplicate it, click the LINK! 

CREDITS

Bestselling author, latest, Uncomplicate It (Thomas Nelson, 2026); Spoken word artist, widely known 
for her spoken word piece, “I Have a New Name,” she performs in churches, conferences, prisons, and around the world; Co-Founder of Word on the Street Global (w/Guy Johnson in 2015) is a ministry taking God’s love and compassion to the streets where people live.