Tamela Mann, despite her recent knee surgery, chose to personally accept her award for "Best Gospel Artist" at the BET Awards yesterday, June 29.

The "I Can Only Imagine" singer was greatly humbled on Sunday night at the awards show at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Her Husband David Mann walked her onto the stage as she limped.

The singer shouted, "Wow" as everyone in the audience stood on their feet to applaud Mann. She went on to tell everyone that her husband assisted her as she walked on the stage because she had knee surgery.

"I'm a trouper, I'm a week old on Knee surgery," she said. She wept as she proceeded to give her acceptance speech.

"Thank you so much, thank you Lord, I'm so grateful," she declared.

Mann went up against some steep competition in the category for the "Best Gospel Artist" award. The others nominated were Erica Campbell, Donnie McClurkin, Tye Tribbett, and Hezekiah Walker, but Mann came out on top.

She publicly stated her love for her husband of 26 years and jokingly told presenter Nick Cannon, "I think I beat you Nick, I got the best one."

Mann ended her speech be encouraging everyone, "The sky is the limit all things are possible if you just believe," she said.

Tamela Mann, is certainly a BET favorite, BET.com said, "Her show-stopping performance of "Take Me to the King" at the 2013 BET Awards wowed us all."

Mann and her comedian husband are set to bring more positive and enjoyable entertainment with a reality TV series coming in the near future on BET.

Watch her acceptance speech below: