20 CeCe Winans Songs That Inspire The Most

CeCe Winans has spent four decades making music that people reach for when they need something to hold onto. With 18 Grammy Awards behind her and a new album out in 2026, here are twenty of her songs that have inspired listeners the most.

#1. Goodness of God

Her rendition became one of the most widely sung worship songs of recent years. CeCe Winans took a song already in circulation and delivered a version that congregations across the world adopted as their own.

#2. Believe For It

The title track of her Grammy-winning project became a rallying point for listeners facing situations that looked immovable. It is the song most associated with her recent career.

#3. Alabaster Box

A song built around the woman who poured out her most valuable possession. CeCe Winans delivers it with restraint rather than force, which is exactly why it lands.

#4. Count on Me

Her duet with Whitney Houston from the Waiting to Exhale era brought her voice to a mainstream audience that had never encountered gospel music.

#5. Holy Spirit

A worship song that moved from church services into her concert sets, and one that audiences consistently sing back to her without prompting.

#6. Never Have to Be Alone

A song about presence in difficulty rather than rescue from it, which is a recurring theme across her catalogue.

#7. Heaven

From her solo work, a song that demonstrated she could carry an album entirely on her own after years as half of a duo.

#8. Throne Room

Worship music built for congregational singing rather than performance, reflecting her role leading music at her own church in Nashville.

#9. Way Maker

Another modern worship standard she brought to enormous audiences through her live shows.

#10. More Than This

The song that gave its name to her tour, which sold out dates through 2025 and returned for a new run in 2026.

#11. Lost Without You

A quieter piece from her catalogue that long-term listeners frequently name above the better-known hits.

#12. Pray

A straightforward call to prayer, delivered without ornament, which is characteristic of how she approaches her most direct material.

#13. Mercy Said No

A song about grace arriving where judgement was expected, and one of the most requested in her live sets.

#14. Don’t Cry

From her work with her brother BeBe, a song that showed how the duo could handle grief without becoming maudlin.

#15. Addictive Love

A BeBe & CeCe Winans track that crossed into R&B radio and helped break the barrier between gospel and mainstream music.

#16. I’ll Take You There

Their cover with Mavis Staples became a signature of the duo era and reached listeners far outside gospel audiences.

#17. Up Where We Belong

Another BeBe & CeCe recording that demonstrated the pair’s ability to reinterpret material from outside their tradition.

#18. What a Friend We Have in Jesus

The lead single from The Hymns, released in 2026, returning to the traditional hymnody she was raised in.

#19. Great Is Thy Faithfulness

A hymn she has returned to repeatedly across her career, and the kind of material her 2026 album was built around.

#20. Blessed Assurance

A standard of the Black church tradition that CeCe Winans grew up with in Detroit and has carried through four decades of performing.

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The bottom line: CeCe Winans has never chased trends, and that is precisely why this list spans forty years without sounding dated. From the BeBe & CeCe era to The Hymns in 2026, the through-line is a voice used in service of the song rather than the other way round.