Internationally recognised worship leader and pastor of Deeper Fellowship Church in Florida, McDowell's passion for gospel music and his steadfast faith have inspired many. His spiritual journey and devotion to spreading God's word through music offer fascinating perspectives on the role of gospel music in today's world.

One thing people may always assume about the pastor is that he's always been receptive to Gods words, but in an interview with Muyiwa Olarewaju OBE he revealed that there was a time he ignored God for a whole year: "I was serving at a church at the time, we were serving at a church planting conference, the lord spoke to me and said 'you're not here because of the reason you think you're here, you're here because there's something I want to birth in you' at which point I said 'I'm not interested'". 

It wasn't until the following year, when he returned to the conference with a friend, that he succumbed to what God was calling him to do: "my friend asked me 'the Holy Spirit told me to ask you why are you ignoring Him?' and so the Lord really arrested me in that moment about that he called us to pioneer". That friend went on to become the executive director of the Deeper Fellowship Church in Florida.