Live from the Pathway Studios in Johnston Proper, you are live from the Path. And you are listening to Live from the Path. We're broadcasting live from the Pathway Studios prayer room. Thanks for being with us. This is history. It is. It's big time. It is our very first broadcast from the prayer room. I'm pretty excited about it. Mike, your camera's just a little low. What do you mean? You better fix it. Pull it up. Okay, I got it. There you go. I got it. So, yeah, yeah. You know, I remember we'd approached this and we thought we have a prayer room coming in and we're kind of squatting in one of the rooms that we usually do a prayer room in. And, you know, it was either move out or join on. So we're joining on. We're broadcasting live from the Pathway Studios prayer room.

You are listening to Live from the Path, broadcasting live on livefromthepath.org. My name is Ben Foost. I'm in the studio, as always, with Dan Hudson and Mike Foost. Thank you so much for joining us. Yeah, yeah. The prayer room started, what, Sunday afternoon? This is Monday, so just over 24 hours. Yeah. It's been going on. Yep. Yep. I don't know. How's it going so far for you guys? Have everybody been in? Oh, yeah. Yes. Yep. Yeah. In fact, I filled in for a half hour here this afternoon. There was a little lapse in time and they needed someone just to fill half hour. And the wife called and said, hey, can we get you in? And I said, yeah, absolutely.

I'm heading out. Definitely. Even a half hour is worth the drive, really. I'm probably a half hour away no matter where I'm coming from. Yeah. And I don't know. There's something about the prayer room that I just, you can't beat. Like, there's so many aspects to it. You know, there's some serious alone time with just you and God and no one else around. And there's sharing some experiences with other people as they wrote on the paper. And there's prayer there. And then there's like a battle mode kind of, you know, like we're taking this city, you know, and prayer is going to be how we're going to do it and that kind of jazz. And I don't know. It ends up being like a huge time of reflection for me, you know, figure out where God's taken me from, what God wants me to do, you know, the blessings that he's given me, family, and that kind of thing. So I don't know. Like, there's just something about the prayer room that just seems like a great reset. But, you know, just kind of look and see what I got going and make sure that it lines up with what God's got going. I start out every prayer room. I tend to be in it at least once a day is my goal. And sometimes because I have more flexible schedule during the day, I might get a couple extra hours here and there,

you know, during the daytime hours. It just depends. But I start out every prayer room. We do this twice a year, two weeks at a time. This is what our probably fourth year or something. I don't know how long we've been doing. Anyway, I start out every prayer room, a little alone time with God, just saying, Hey, what do you want me to do? How do you want to mold me? How do you want to shape me? What do you want to change in me? And every time he does, you know, he does something. And it's a great time to stop and listen or to just shout and scream and praise. It just depends. It's a little different every day. Yeah, and you know what? And it goes to both extremes, too. Like the first prayer room that I was involved in, which has probably been two years now, a year, something like that. And boy, I just had the tunes way loud because I was a weeper. I used to be a weeper, you know, like, but I didn't want to weep in front of everybody. So I'd come into the prayer room and turn the tunes up loud and sing super loud. Turn the lights off and the tunes up.

And I'd be a weeper, you know, and I loved it, you know, but not so much anymore. There's still some things, you know, sometimes I can catch my wife's handwriting or something, you know. I try not to do that a lot, but. But I'm really careful to not even try to read, figure out who wrote what, you know, like, oh. Usually I'm pretty good about not trying to figure out what's what, but I can smell my wife's handwriting a mile away. And I don't know, you know, some of the stuff, like, especially when I see my wife has written something or, you know, and usually it's because she'll name our children, you know. And then for some reason it just means a ton to me, you know, that I have a supportive wife who seeks Christ and who's actively praying for things in our life. Like, it means absolutely the world to me when I see it on the prayer room. And so, you know, it's that kind of stuff that really just kind of brings me back to, you know, where I need to be, you know, and what I really like most and why I don't understand how it is in between prayer rooms I lose the effectiveness that I think prayer has. You know, like, I know what prayer can do, and I see it most in the prayer room. And then in between prayer rooms I tend not to do it as much as I should. At some point you kind of take them and say, God, I've got this. Right. You know, I think I'll go ahead. I'll take it. Yeah. You know, I don't know why we do that. It's always a mistake. It really is.

And it's not like a huge mistake. You know, I mean, everyone's walk with Christ is a little different, you know, and everyone, you know, you're shooting for a mature relationship with Christ, and it doesn't just happen. You know, snap, whiz-bang, you're there. You know, I mean, it is a walk, and there's stumbles, and there's taking the wrong path, and, you know, and there's sin in your life, and that happens. You know, but I like to think as I get older, you know, and as my walk with Christ matures a little bit, that maybe it won't be such a wham. I can't believe I forgot. You know, why did I stop praying? You know? Yeah. You know? So, I don't know. Like, the prayer room, it really does mean a ton. I can always tell from a pastoral angle when the prayer room is going on because my phone goes crazy. Like, usually my phone's okay. Like, it's about dead right now. It's about out of the battery. Usually I can go a day and a half, but right now it's about done. You know, I'm sitting there having supper, and, well, one person's child got put in the hospital, you know, some situation came up.

But at the same time, like, people are calling me all the same, you know, texting and calls at the same time. There's a situation where someone's friend had a boyfriend, and, you know, it's kind of an abusive situation, kind of a stalker situation now, you know, and they're like, hey, he's over here. And I'm like, well, you know, 911, you know, and, well, he just left. You know, and just some of the stuff going on. And then, oh, by the way, she's not a believer. Like, well, what's her name? I'll go put it on the wall. So now her name's written on the wall, you know, because we're hoping through this she can come to Christ. And turn her life around personally, too. She might be here next week. We tried to get her this week, but it was a little too late. She's with someone else now. Yeah. But, you know, it's just the kind of stuff that happens in the prayer room. It opens doors, and you have an opportunity to share Christ with people. When typically I'm a fairly, you know, I'm a preacher and everything, but I'm still fairly timid. I don't walk around and say, well, how are you and Jesus? You know, because, you know, I don't know, for whatever reason. But there's something about the prayer room kind of adds that boldness, too, to say, hey, we have somewhere to bring you. Right. And it's just like, you know, usually I use my default witnessing tactic is the church.

You know, it's like, you know, you invite him to church. You know, I feel like I don't corner him in a direct relationship with God question. You know, we just met the mail guy and says, thanks for the package, by the way. Can I deliver you to the kingdom of heaven? You know, it's a bit much. So, but the prayer room, you know, like I call most people that I know and say, hey, by the way, we're firing the prayer room again. You want to grab a slot? You know, I'll come pick you up. You know, whether they say yes or no, you know, whatever I ask them. You know, I ask them, and they know what's going on. You know, so it helps, you know, kind of speak to my relationship with Christ to start with, and that it's a legitimate thing, you know, that it's not a phony thing, you know, that it's not a holier-than-thou aspect. It's like, you know, you just show up if you want to. You know, we'll get you a slot. You know, you let me know when you're available, and I'll see if I can't get one. I've done that before where I've asked people who I thought could really use the prayer time with God, and I've called people from our church when they'd signed up and said, can I bump you? Can I just trade you? You know, and I'll cover your shift. I'll do whatever you want me to. I just, this is when they can make it, you know. Can I squeeze them in?

And I've never had one person give me any stuff about that. Are you serious? That's my prayer time. It's me and God. You can't do that. So let me ask you this. Why can't, what's the difference from the prayer room that people can't do at home? Maybe not can't do at home or won't do at home. Well, I would say one of the primary things is probably just the dedicated time. It's saying, I am not going to do anything else but focus on me and God and just talking to Him. And letting stuff go. You know, one of the things that I realized is how many things that I let bounce from my life. How many things were like, I intend to do something but I don't do it. And how crowded my life gets until you start, you sit down and you do a dump to God. And you just start, you know, putting it out there. And then the things, you know, the people that you've been thinking about, the guy that you thought about last week but didn't do anything about or that, you know, came across. You know, and sometimes even the barriers in the life that you didn't know existed because you never took the time to stop and really talk to God about it. You talked at God about stuff. Hey, God, I need this. Like if you're always telling God what you need, how can you ever hear what He wants you to hear if you're always talking at Him? And we're always like in this hurry. I've got to get this prayer out quick because I've got something else to do.

It's a checklist, really. Yeah, if I go out here, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and go. Right. This slows you down. It's intentional. Yeah. Sorry to interrupt. I just. No, and I think that's one of the primary things. And sometimes, you know, I'll get caught, and this tends to happen to me at the start of a prayer room is I will get in there and I blow through everything like 15 minutes. And I look around. I'm like, what did I do the last prayer room in here for two hours? You know, and then the next time I go in, then the hour's gone. Or even the latter 30 minutes of that one because you stop and you reset yourself and say, you know, I have the time. I should be taking the time. And then you go at it from that perspective. And God slows you down, and you leave yourself open to hear what it is that He wants going on. And then that directs it. You know, you'll end up on tangents that I never would have thought, you know, oh, here are the things that I need to pray for. And I'm praying for something that's 50 steps beyond that because I finally shut up for a minute and let God take me somewhere and get my mind in the place that it's supposed to be. You know, and sometimes it's dwelling on one thing and getting it resolved. You know, even if it's something that I'm not letting go that God's let go.

Sometimes it's just getting that aired out and getting it done with. So God says, you know, look, I've let this go. If you need to keep talking to me about this, get it done. Let's get it out. Take the time to flesh it out. You know, all the aspects of this that you think I haven't forgiven or seen yet, let's just do it because it's a me thing. I'm in the way of it. And sometimes getting rid of that so that I can be more open to the things that are going on around me, I've noticed that's actually pretty helpful. And just being in that atmosphere of, you know, it's not that God doesn't, I don't have God's attention. It's that he doesn't have mine. And this reminds me of that fact that it's me that's blocking that relationship. It's me that's not remembering that he's hearing the things that I'm saying and hearing the things that I'm thinking. And I think the prayer room helps to put that in focus. Yeah, and I think we, what I'm really excited about is we did something we thought would be pretty cool because we have, we tend to have musical guests in here just about every week or so. And we kind of sent an email out to some of the bands that we have on the program and said, hey, listen, we have the prayer room starting up here at the church. Would you guys be interested in taking an hour and then, you know, coming on the show and talking about it? And Candy for Nichols, who's in the prayer room right now, because we have to fill the slot, it's 24-7 prayer. Yeah, we couldn't kick anybody out. And so, yeah, we've got this big, important radio program. Yeah, so we're doing internet radio. You're going to have to exit. God will have to take a little pause.

So Candy for Nichols has said, yeah, yeah, we'll take the prayer room for the hour. And then they're going to come in and talk. And one of us is going to head out and head back in the prayer room just to make sure the 24-7 prayer keeps it up. But I think that was really cool of them to come back and say, hey, you know, listen, we'd love to take the prayer room and we'd love to come back on the show and talk about it. And, you know, it's just, you know, it's a double-edged benefit here because, you know, we get the people in our church that, because everybody can benefit from the prayer room. You know, everybody, you know. And so I love to see people that from our church sign up for the prayer room, but I also like to see people on the list that I don't know. Because I always think, you know, if we can just get a pastor from another church or even just a regular guy to come in and then tell their pastor about it or tell their church about it, man, everybody should do it. Everybody should do the 24-7 prayer room. I just, and I know, I mean, we've talked to a lot of people who are kind of creeped out by it, you know, kind of find it a little creepy. You know, you've got to kind of walk into it with your eyes up at God and say, okay, I'm going to take this step for you. I don't know where this is. Yeah, you know, you don't use it to your glory. I don't know what's really going on here. Everyone else seems to think it's okay. I think it's creepy, you know. But you do it, and, you know, basically you're setting a place apart to be with God. You're saying, look, God, we're going to be here, you know. You know, you come too. And he does, you know. Two or more are gathered. This is it.

You know, we're dedicated to communicating with God, and I think it really starts to get your prayer, it gets the squeaks out of your prayer life, you know. You're so used to just kind of, I don't know. You know, if you think of it like when your kids come up to talk to you, you know, they don't say, oh, oh, Father Dan, I beseech you for a sandwich, you know. I smite thee. You know, and so, I mean, that's not how you talk to your father. That's not how you talk to your father, you know. And so you get your prayer squeaked out where it's an honest conversation with your creator, and I think you see wisdom and pearls come out of that like you wouldn't believe. Oh, yeah. I think it's like any other relationship, you know. The first week or two that I had met my wife, which wasn't my wife yet, obviously, Cheryl, you know, we didn't know each other. It was, conversations were awkward. There was a lot of silence. There was a lot of, yeah, the weather sure is nice out, or, you know, it was very, very surfacy. And as we got to know each other better, it was more comfortable, and then it got to the point where we couldn't stop talking, and, you know, you'd say goodnight, and you're on the phone. Well, we didn't have cell phones back in that day, you know, and it's the same thing with a very chiseled. That was you in the tablet. The same thing with prayer. I think people are intimidated with, what, an hour with God? I mean, like, you know, because they're not used to a relational, relationship type of situation in prayer, and it is odd that there is no verbal, you know, well, God, how are you? Fine, how are you? Right, yeah. I mean.

I'm nice, Dad. Nice shirt. Thank you. Thank you, God, because Mike and Ben don't like it. But, you know, I think that's where another thing the prayer room does, it helps that deepen your relationship to a different level that you, for some reason, don't seem to do otherwise, because you are saying, here's an hour, and even if it's awkward, I'm going to, this hour, I'm not leaving until the hour is up, you know, and, like you said, the first time it might be a little okay, and the next, pretty soon before you know it, it's just like, I can't stop. Yeah. Oh, man, they're here. Maybe they'll be late, you know, that'd be awesome. Maybe they forgot, you know, and you get to that point. But you have to grow to that. Well, yeah, I think, you know, your point is a good one. It's like any other relationship, you know, if you don't ever talk to someone, how do you expect to just show up and, you know, find yourself in deep, earnest conversation with Christ if you never do that? I mean, I don't know a ton of people who wear their lives on their sleeves like that, who, you know, the first guy you ever met, you're willing to tell him your life story. And granted, you know that God knows that stuff anyway. But, I mean, you know, getting in the vibe of the conversation with God and recognizing that he's listening and that, you know, and understanding where you're at. Like, that's one of the cool things about sitting in the prayer room. And obviously you can do this anywhere, but just the thought that you have a, you have an audience. At that moment, you're like, you are sitting in the throne room with God and you're talking and he's just soaking it in. And he's just sitting and listening. And then you can, I usually. Boy, that would creep me out. Can't you just think about sitting in the throne room and God says, hey, Mike.

Hey. I didn't invite you. So, what's on your mind? Nothing. Nice place you got here. My car's running funny. I love the glassy sea. I kind of got to go to the bathroom. Where'd you get them, you know, five-armed monsters back there? Yeah, Mike, we don't bathroom in heaven. Sorry, that's out. Will you speak your piece? So, maybe we ought to describe the prayer room to someone who may be watching this, who has no idea what we're talking about, or listening to this, you know. Sure. What does it look like? Well, basically, so we have a ministry center as our home base. And so, we cut off about half of the building and dedicate it. So, there's like one big kind of conference room-ish area and then two smaller rooms and a bathroom. And so, the radio studio, which is this magnificent room you see here, is right in the dead center of the prayer room. Yeah. And so… It used to be the dead center of the prayer room.

Yeah, it used to be in there. Before it became the studio, yeah. And so, you know, we took it to, you know, to hopefully further the Lord's word in this radio studio. But we also took a room out of the prayer room. So, what they normally do is they normally paper all the walls. And then, depending on who's running the prayer room or, you know, what themes they come with. They have different teams each time that plan it. Yeah, yeah. And so, they, you know, they set the thing up so they can, you know, people can write their prayer requests on the wall. And, you know, sometimes they'll set up themes like, you know, here's, you know, write down the people that you need to be saved. You know, like I know this year they have, like, Band-Aid Post-it notes and heart Post-it notes, you know, and the hearts are for people that really need Christ's love. And the Band-Aids are for people who need healing, you know. And so, they write people's name on them and they just poke it on the wall. And so, the cool part about that is, is let's say I, you know, let's say, you know, my friend Steve needs healing. And so, I write his name on the Band-Aid. I put it there and I pray for it and, you know, whatever I leave. Well, for the next two weeks, you know, every hour someone's going to walk by that Band-Aid and go, and Steve, you know, pray for Steve, you know. And so, you know, if you know the prayer is our most powerful weapon, tell me how this can hurt. You know, there's not one bit of it can hurt. If it's in God's will to be done, it's going to get done. Because it's been prayed upon and asked for by, you know, multiple people.

And you have not only people praying for the ethereal, you know, God, can you do this? But, you know, you can see some hurting in the church and some healing needs to be done. And maybe it will change the way that you walk up to people, you know, the next Sunday come around or your next small group or, you know, next time you see them. Maybe it will just change your attitude a little bit to know that there's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes that maybe you weren't aware of. That you can back off and say, Lord, you know, help guide me on this, you know. So, I don't know. Like this year we also have a, or this time around there's a war room where there's some maps, you know, sitting up everywhere that, you know, you can write your name and write the name of people that need Jesus. And then you can, you know, put it on the map and so people can pray over that. What? Well, I thought that was so we could egg their house. Maybe I've been doing that wrong. Ooh. Yeah. Well, that's going to be awkward. How much are Jesus's eggs? I put a little crosses on the eggshell. That's probably bad. I don't know. The red light in the corner is kind of creepy. That was my idea. Okay. It weirds me out.

Does it really? Yep. Oh, dang it. Okay. So, that was my plan. There's some kind of like police lantern inside spinning around. It's an urgency. I got it. I found it in the basement. But every reasonable person was against it. And I pushed it. I pushed it too hard. I tried to find people that would agree with me that this red light really adds to the war. They were rightfully against it. All right. I'll shut it off. I'll turn it back on when I go in. I'll tell you what, though. I was, I really, so what we've, some things that have been available in the past was like a quiet room. And there's like a little, it's like a holy of holies type of holies, which is the whole vibe of the place is kind of like, you know, take your shoes off. You're on hollow ground. Yeah, we do.

We take our shoes off. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And there's like a little, a special section there. But I couldn't get it quite dark enough. Like I really wanted a, like a dark room. There must be some kind of Presbyterian still in me. Like I gotta, I gotta go in some kind of dark place. I turn all the lights off everywhere. Yeah. Yeah, I do that. So, so I lucked out because I got keys to the studio. And it's really dark in here when all these bright lights aren't on. So I snuck in here and I had all the lights off and I kind of just, you know, I prayed on the ground over here in the dark. And I thought, well, this seems like it's cheating in the prayer room because no one else can get in here. It's locked. That's my special spot. It was, it was nice. And I, you know, and I, and I came in here and I kind of felt, you know, the thing is obviously from a broad perspective, you can, you can pray anywhere. But, but kind of what you were saying, you know, if there's just something about being in the place or being around the people or being surrounded by the prayers of others to, to get you in the right, you know, atmosphere. You know, we are humans and we're, we're easily, you know, distracted with stuff. And sometimes it takes a little bit of forceful, you know, it's, it's why the guy sojourns into the, uh, into the forest and takes, it spends a day with, with the Bible and Christ.

You know what I'm saying? Like, who does that? I don't know. The hypothetical guy. That one guy. I've never heard anybody doing that kind of thing. It sounds like a weird men's retreat. Anyway. That's the reason I don't go to those kinds of things. Anyway, there's a guy. All I got is wheatgrass and a Bible and say, come with us, friend. He's got a knapsack, a bologna sandwich, and a English standard version of the New Testament. He's out there for hours. But, you know, there's something about putting yourself in a situation where you know, like, the world is not going to be the constant distraction. Like, I, I, you walk out of the bedroom and you, you really have to think about the things that you were thinking about before you got in there. Like, trying to, there's probably something on your mind when you were driving in. There's probably something on your mind, you know, before you came in. And then the last person was done. And then once you're out of that prayer room and you've been there for an hour, like, you're really hard pressed to remember what it is that you were concerned or thinking about before you went in. That's true. Yeah, that's true. And actually, you know what?

I had, I don't know, I had some kind of weird revelation a couple weeks ago that, when I figured out that I wasn't praying right, you know, and it's, and it's odd because, you know, people say, well, you can't pray wrong. You know, you can if you're just kind of, you're just kind of going through the motions. And I, you know, I realized that I do that on occasion because, like, I got up one morning and I thought, what was the last conversation I had with my wife? And I remembered it. And I thought, what was the last conversation I had with God? What did I talk about when I prayed? No idea. No idea. I know what, I know what I generally pray for, you know, my kids, my wife, whatever, blah, blah, all this kind of jazz, you know. But I couldn't remember my exact words, but I could tell you the exact, you know, pretty much the exact word for word conversation I had with my wife. So, what kind of prayer is that? You know, like, I had no idea what I was saying to God. I was just saying it. And I probably really meant it at the time, but I also meant what I was really saying to my wife. So, why don't I remember? Why don't I remember what I said? And I thought, you're not doing something right. There's something weird about that. You're not really truly engaged. Yeah, I'm not really, I'm just not, I'm not focusing on what I'm talking about. You know, I mean everything that's coming out of my mouth, but I'm not thinking about that I'm actually having a relational conversation with Christ, you know. I'm just kind of thinking, well, this covers my bases.

I will periodically catch myself, I don't know, a few lines into a prayer thinking, yeah, that's the same stuff I regurgitate every single time. And I don't even know what it is. I just, oh, God, thank you for the breath. And here's my list. And I got to stop and say, whoa, God, I am sorry. Right. I'm talking to the creator of the universe. Yeah. Right. And it's blah, blah, blah. Like, ooh. Is that how you're going to waste your five minutes in the throne room, Daniel? Exactly. Oh, bless your father. Or putting on a show. Like, that's one of the worst. And I actually, there have been times where I've caught myself almost doing it. And the prayer room's tough because people have some really cool thoughts for God. And you're like, wow, that's really, that's really great. And, like, you can feel them and the words that they've written on the paper. And you're like, I want to contribute. And then you're trying to wordsmith something, like saying something beautiful.

And you're like, no, no, no. That is not bad at all. If you're not a beautiful talker, now's not the time to try to pin one. I didn't write anything. I was in there this morning. Like, I took the 2 to 3 a.m. And Pants took the 3 to 4. So I was in there from 2 to 3. And I was looking around. And, you know, when you're in the first two or three days of the prayer room, there's not a ton written on the walls. And so, you know, I feel like I should add to it. And I didn't write anything. Like, I didn't write anything. I didn't even go around and, like, sometimes you all amen something. Like, ah, that was well done. Yeah, yeah. I agree with that. Amen. Good job. Go get them, God. But, you know, I didn't even do that because I thought, you know, I don't want to fill space with junk. You know, just junk to say, well, that guy said something really nice about his wife.

I should say something nice about my wife. Yeah. No, you know what? I could do better than that. Yeah, you know, and it's because that isn't the deal at all. I mean, it's tough because, I mean, you want to say pretty things to God. You want to say nice things and, you know, you sound nice. Everyone in the Bible sounds nice. I don't think I've ever thought to myself, I'd like to say something pretty to God. I do. I think, I think. I'm tired of coming off like a scurvy. Well, I mean, look at Job was getting it laid out on him and he was still fairly poetic. He sounded good. I don't sound good like that. Yeah. It's not like, you know, I'm reading off the side of a, you know, a kaibo. Yeah. Reading off the side of a kaibo. Somebody wrote Proverbs in here. So, you know, but it's just, it's tough. It's sometimes tough to pull yourself out of the mechanics of even that.

Even that, what do I write? Well, what do you think? What's on, you know, what's on your heart? Say it to him. You know, write it out like you would. But, you know, it's, I will find myself searching for the right words in prayer. And I thought, you know, no, I really, I really don't need that. He's got the deal. You don't do that with your wife. No, I don't. I say whatever I want. Yeah. It's although, although that's not really good. That's really. Although that's, that's not really working. I was trying to pull it over on her. My first reaction, baby, you know, Fullett Leonard, nope, I'm not going to do it. Yeah, you were listening to Live from the Path. We are broadcasting live from the prayer room within, within the Pathway Studios and the Pathway Ministry Center. Thank you so much for joining us tonight. It's a pretty special night for us.

We're pretty excited. Candy for Nichols will be in studio in the second hour. They are in the prayer room at the moment. They're taking an hour shift in the prayer room and then we're going to swap out. We're contemplating ditching them in here and having them just run their own show while we're in the prayer room. I think that sounds cool. Yeah. There might be some mechanics to work out, but I think that'd be cool. We just turn it over to them. I'm still thinking about that because I would like to go. It was weird. We were talking about who was going to go back into the prayer room, which one of us was going to head in while the show was still going on. And I'm pretty sure it could have turned into an arm wrestling match is who gets to go back into the prayer room. I really want to go. Yeah. I'm closest. That's true. Danny's closest. That's lowest probably too.

You're not spry. That's for certain. Next week, we will still be. It's a two-week prayer room. So next Monday, the prayer room will still be going on. We will have two other bands in the studio, Saved On Sunday and On This Rock will be here. We'll have one in the studio performing and talking and the other band will be in the prayer room and then they're going to swap out. So kind of the same situation next week. We'll have a couple bands on, hopefully some cool stories from the prayer room. We will be much more sleep deprived, probably. Yeah. Yeah. It's possible. I'm guessing the shifts will get longer as the weeks go on. Could be the truth. Which is so much fun. Yeah. Yeah. We actually have double prayer room action going on towards the end of next week. Actually, we have a prayer room set up at the Atheist Convention here in town. And we thought, you know, and we talked about this a while ago.

And, you know, if prayer's the weapon that we got, you know, the direct confrontation and the fighting and the bickering and the protesting, you know, it's not, that's not what we're after, you know. Yeah, people don't change hearts. No. I mean, God changes hearts. People don't. So we thought, you know, when's a better season than to do it when they show up in town with their Atheist Convention? And we'll just, we'll get a hotel room and we'll pray for them. And we'll do the same thing. We'll get 24 hours a day to the best of our abilities. And, you know, get some people on the prayer and actually concertedly pray for, you know, that God will show them, show himself to them. And, you know, it's hard because sometimes you think of the Atheists as your enemy. And really, they're just people who don't know Christ. There's no difference between them and you except for you know Jesus. That's it. Yeah. You know, and so. Yeah, you know, we get so offended by their worldview. But in a, you know, if you're living a life without Christ, what do you expect the

world to look like? Oh, yeah. You know, you want to point a finger and say you're looking at things wrong without Christ. They don't have the same perspective that we would. So, I mean, we got to get past that. We got to get past the point when you're saying you're just dead wrong and realize where they're coming from. They're coming from a life that's void of God. That's probably what their world looks like. They're clinging on to things that you wouldn't cling on to because you have something else that's more genuine. And generally, they tend to be, I don't know everyone. I haven't interviewed every atheist out there or anything, but they tend to be people who either at one time were, in some level, believers and were hurt by a church. Maybe people just weren't very Christ-like, you know, and they got hurt in some way and their anger was then vented toward God. And so they spend their time trying to either disprove God or to disprove the church a lot of times more than likely. So sometimes they've been hurt. Sometimes they're just angry. You know, it's very rarely that it's someone who just logically came to the conclusion, well, there can't be a God.

They're hurting people that we need to love and not throw things at, you know. Well, you know, and actually that comes off as being supremely unfair. You know, so God sent his son to die because of our screw-ups. And then the church, you know, screws up again, and then they blame God for it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And so, but, you know, that's what stops this kind of stuff from happening dead in its tracks is the relational aspect of your relationship with Christ. It is the prayer. It is the conversation. You know, it's not just the going through the motions and the Hail Marys and the I take communion every Sunday and whatever. You know, like it's the relationship part that keeps these things from happening because the church, you know, if you have a relationship with Christ and a church falls off the wagon, you have the choice to either stand and fight to put God back in that church or find a body of believers that does, you know, and you don't lose that relationship just because people in the body of Christ failed you, you know, because they will, and they will fail you. And actually, the more relationship you have with God, the more you realize that just as much as you're a cause for the sin are all the people in the church that you're, you know, you're pointing at. And so, you know, that's the kind of stuff that keeps that stuff from happening. You know, like you'll never find a situation where you say our church has never hurt anybody.

You know, our church has never done wrong to somebody or caused someone to stumble. Like, we've done it. Our church has done it. Every church has done it. Because we're just human. Right. Not a conceded effort to do so, you know, not for lack of faith. You know, it just happens because there's people involved with the process, you know. And so, I mean, you're probably exactly right. That's what happens is they, you know, and I know people to this day that went to church when they were a kid and, you know, they wore the Megadeth t-shirt to Sunday school one day and the Sunday school teacher made a big hairy deal out of it and they'll never go again. You know, because Christians are closed-minded and judgmental and they don't ever want to go back to church again because of that one incident when they were 10. Yeah, right, right. And so, you know, I look at that person, I'm like, get over it. Get back to church. But, you know, I didn't have that happen to me in that exact representation. But I had that happen to me at, you know, at the Boy Scouts once and I never went back, you know, for that exact same reason. Now, we're talking, it's apples to apples to a 10-year-old kid. Right, right.

Someone causing me a problem at church, someone causing me a problem at the Boy Scouts. Well, stay away from that group, whatever it is. Forget it. I don't want anything to do with it, you know. And so, I mean, how can you ever expect them to know any different until you show them any different and you show them through an example, you know, as a life for God? I think also there are some people who become atheists because they really don't want any type of moral code of any kind other than their own, you know. And so, if you can shove God out of the way, out of culture, then there's no, you know, wacky conservative Bible thumpers telling me I can't have sex with my dog if I don't want to or whatever it is, you know, all the just wacky things that are out there. Sometimes it's really that driving them, trying to disprove God or to get any type of morality out of the legal system, you know, because they want freedom, whatever their definition of freedom is, that is actually harming themselves. Well, see, I find it real interesting to know whether that truly pushes the guilt away, you know, whether it truly pushes the inane, you know, consciousness that the Lord's given you about the line between right and wrong, you know, whether that really gets rid of it because the law says it's not an issue or because, you know, your mom and dad said it's not an issue, you know, you still feel a little bit when you've done something that you know crosses a line, but there's a line in you and where'd you get it from? Which is probably why they get all that much more angry and they try all the harder because, you know, you're trying so much more to feel better.

Right, I don't want to be made to feel that way. And if we can, that's the idea of the prayer room, if we can help through prayer God to reveal himself to people in that situation to allow them to run to God for what they're looking for rather than run from him, their whole life would change. And yeah, we're not doing this because we like, like you say, we're not, they're not our enemies, we don't hate them, we're not spiting them, we just love them and we know God loved them enough to die for them. And what better way to introduce them than through prayer, getting the spiritual. And plus, you know, I mean, think, think how easily I can vouch to one of them, you know, to anybody, frankly, about the difference that Christ has made in my life. You know, I mean, people, people from the outside looking in go, who would want such a restrictive, you know, hard to follow, guilt-ridden religion to follow. And I turn around and I think, man, he's, he's given me a set of rules not to put myself in the straights, you know, like, I mean, these, the, what he says is sin is horrible. I mean, I, sometimes I don't think I truly grasp on how much God hates sin. He hates it and he hates it for a reason because it will destroy me, you know, and, and, and, and sometimes I don't give sin the weight that it carries, you know, but it's the things that he suggests not to do, you know, like, like get away from sex outside of marriage, you know, honor, honor, honor your wife, honor your kids, you know, be responsible, do these things, carry your load, you know, here's the things that I seek, you know, don't lie, don't kill people, you know, and, and it seems like, like, you know, the, the kill person, everyone can agree is bad, you know, but lying, everyone's like, well, you know, I tell lies

on occasion, what's the big deal, you know, and I don't think you, you, you truly see how much it, it, it's such a detriment to you, you know, that, that, you know, on top of another, on top of another, on top of another, it starts to pile up and, you know, he set these guidelines for a reason because they will destroy you and, and, you know, I think that's, that's hard for people to see who, who have never, you know, tried to engage relationship with Christ based on that because they see the rules and they go, I don't want to live like that, it sounds terrible, it sounds boring, and it sounds like nothing I want to get involved with. Well, and I think, I think the, the big thing there is, is, is, if you look at the Bible, the Bible is not a, it's not a book of condemnation, it's a book of salvation, right, like, you, you need to know what you need to stay away, like, you need to know why you need to be saved, right, I mean, if you don't know when you're running into sin with the loose, you know, standards that man has put out for morality, I mean, how do you know that you, that you need to be saved, right, so, like, it's not like God has set out a book to say, by the way, I just wanted to make sure you knew how crappy you were, except for the fact that I need to make sure that you know these things. I've read books like that. So, so that you know that you need a savior, right, because, because there, there is a blissful ignorance to, you know, people's behavior, which, how often do you hear that, I'm not hurting anybody, what I do in my own house is my own business, you know, these type of things, where from a, from a man's society, that's a standard, that's a standard, but from a, from a God perspective, he knows it's destroying you.

Right, whereas the rest of society will go, yeah, you're right, you can hurt yourself all you want, just don't drag it over to my house. Yeah. You know, and God's going, I created you just like I created everybody else, I want you to stop this. Yeah, I, I love you, I don't want you to do that to yourself, I don't want what you're doing to yourself to negatively impact the other people I created. I'm trying to protect you, you know, the, the other man, the, the society that surrounds you isn't trying to protect you, it's trying to make you feel okay about what you're doing and make sure that whatever that is, isn't strong enough to hurt them. And that's, that's not a person that looks down on, on every single person with love and says, don't do that, I, I want you, I want you to be with me, I want you to be, be clean, I want you to be saved, I don't want you to destroy yourself. I mean, we don't have God's perspective on the matter, and that's the problem. You know, we look at things from our own perspective, a selfish perspective, and God's perspective is significantly different, and He says, I, I, I want you to be with me, I don't want you to destroy yourself, and if we don't, if we're not coming from that angle, we have a hard time, you know, seeing where that's coming from, and, and a Bible that you want to look, look at and say, you know, this is condemning me, no, it's trying to save you by showing you what you're doing to yourself, right, and any book or anything that becomes a self-revelation where you look at it and say, oh boy, I'm a, I'm a pile here, like I'm in, I'm in some trouble, like, people don't tend to like that, people don't tend

to like people, books, you know, anything that points a finger at themselves, so what do you do? You point the finger at the author. Unfortunately, in this instance, that author happens to be God, and now you've picked the fight that you can't win, but you don't want to back down from because you're a prideful beast, and now, and now, now you're hosed with the whole thing, right, because that's the fight that you've chosen. Frankly, it's pretty embarrassing to point the finger at God and back away from it. That's why people, when they, when they turn, they tend to turn hard, because, because they were probably on the brink anyway, they're putting on the man show, the show for the men around them to say, I won't be bullied by some kind of, you know, infant temper tantrum throwing God who's going to, you know, point their finger at me and, and, and, and hose me down. And promised his just anger sometime in the future. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, and so, you know, when they turn, they turn hard because they realized the act that was having to be put on to try to keep God at bay. You know, you recognize, I can't imagine that if you're not going up, if you're going up against God, you're going to start to feel his, his pressure on your life. And sometimes it has to be given up. So, you know, I, I think that's, I think that's, that's a tough thing from that type of perspective to, to give it up, to give it up and say, you know what, the worldly perspective

of what, of me is not as important as the godly perspective of me. Um, I don't, I think more of God than I think of myself because it's, it's a self thing, right? I don't want to be embarrassed. Uh, I don't want to, to, to look like I believe in something foolish. Um, you know, that, that's, that's the type of thing that people don't want to give up, but they're, they're being dishonest. They're being dishonest because they don't, if you're really concerned about truth, you explore truth. You know, you validate whether the thing that you're asked to believe in is true or not. Uh, Thomas, Thomas gets a bad rap or doubting Thomas. Uh, he seems like a pretty reasonable cat to me. You know, Jesus shows up or like, oh, he's got 12 guys in his church, right? Or the 10 guys in church and saying, you know what? Uh, Jesus is back. He's back and we saw him. He's like, you know, there's a lot of weird stuff going, being talked about Jesus right now. I don't know. I'm gonna have to see it. Yeah. That's, that's a pretty, that's a pretty big story.

Yeah. Yeah. And so, and what is, and look at what Jesus did. He came back and he said, yeah, touch it, touch it. Fine. There's your validation. Stop doubting. Now, so we like to look at the stop doubting as if Jesus is like, no, stop doubting. But I don't know the way I read it. It's like, you know, it's like Paul talks to, he likes the Bereans because the Bereans are checking on him. They're making sure what I'm saying is biblically consistent. Thomas rightfully could have expected the resurrection. It was, you know, prophesied for quite a while, but you know, I find him to be pretty reasonable in that, in this aspect. I mean, John the Baptist did the exact same thing. They got John the Baptist holed up in prison and he's hearing story after story about Jesus, his cousin, who he grew up with. And, and, and John the Baptist, who, who knew Jesus from the womb, said he was excited in the womb about knowing, knowing the Christ child. Yeah. He's known all these things about Jesus for a long time.

He grew up with them. And still he sends his, John sends his followers out to say, are you the guy or do I need to wait for somebody else? Yeah. I'm just checking. Did I misunderstand? They're going to behead me. I mean, I just want to make sure we're going to be fine here. You know, and, and, you know, I think that's a big deal. Cause I mean, you, you, you kind of shelter the backstory. Like you don't see it quite, quite as often, but I mean, they were cousins, John the Baptist and Jesus were cousins. They, you know, they, they more than likely had some interactions together when they were growing up. And so now John is forced forced to look at his cousin, Jesus as the savior, you know, and, and, and just, you know, and I think some people like to paint that as, as, as he was doubting. And really he was just, just want to make sure that I'm, I'm going to decrease. I, I think he kind of maybe had a, had a notion that there was going to be the end for him, you know, that things were not going to, going to continue to go well. And so he's basically handing the people that were following the gospel he was preaching over to Jesus.

I just want to make sure that we're, make sure you got the right deal. Well, you know, and, and I, there wouldn't be any point in, in all the, um, all the Old Testament prophecy that is validated, uh, and proven true, uh, in Christ. If it wasn't in, if the intention wasn't to show, you know, here's the connection. I'm, I'm providing you validation. See, here's what I said would happen. Here's what happened, right? God doesn't have to do that. It's, he doesn't have to show, show us, um, that things are bearing out. He's doing that intentionally to say, look, you can trust me. I'm telling you, this is going to happen. Did it not come to happen to a T? It happened exactly like I said would happen. Yeah. There were no mistakes. Exactly. You know, he never said, Oh, now what do I do? You know? And that doesn't represent a God to me that says, uh, you know, I'm not giving you anything. Uh, you just believe that I exist. I mean, you can, you can look around and you can see it, but I'm giving you this because I I know that you're going to look and say, you know, I feel like I'm being led on here

because the other religions that are out there, the other ideas that exist look like that, you know? So I'm going to give you something that, that no other religion can claim, which is a prophecy that is, you know, 400 years, 300 years prior to Christ. Heck, they talked about, um, the prophecy that his crucifixion, uh, prior to the, to the point at which crucifixion was even used as a form of, of death, you know, it wasn't even invented, you know? And there was a prophecy that Jesus was going to die that way prior to even that. So, I mean, you know what I'm saying? Like that's, that doesn't show me a God that says, you know what, uh, you work it out on your own. I, I, I, this is him. Well, right. And I, I think that's just a straight proof that God loves you more than that. Yeah. You know, then, then, you know, some of the other religions, they, they offer, they offer the omniscient, but they don't offer the relational. They don't offer the sacrificial. They don't offer like a true love for, for you, you know, which, which the Bible maintains throughout, uh, you, you know, definitely most of the New Testament, even parts of the old, you know, that says, listen, this is how, this is how much I love you. This is how much I'm interested in having you with me, you know?

And, and they don't, you know, most, most other major religions don't offer that. And then they're not centered on, uh, the, the God itself or, or, or, or of, as like ours is Jesus, you know, the sacrifice that is Jesus, you know, everything is, is a place or a culture or a time period or, or a guy that lived and now came to some kind of deity status, you know? Um, they, they don't offer a relational aspect, uh, with, with your creator, you know? And I think, I, I don't know, I guess I don't see how God could approve that anymore. Well, and there's, uh, I mean, and, and the Bible, as it sits is, there's not a good guy in there. There's not like a, there's not like a, there's a, there's a, there's a random righteous dude, uh, Job, maybe, you know, but like Noah. Yeah. Who's the priest? It's McCuh, McCuh, McCuh, McCuh, McCuhsdeck, McCuhsdeck, uh, McCuhsdeck, which, yeah, someone suggests it's Jesus himself. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I thought. There was something weird about that guy. And that, and Jesus was wrestling, uh, Jacob, right? Yeah. Yeah.

That's funny. I like that. I do think that's funny. Christ is down there getting in the wagon with people. Now, doesn't that go back though to, um, the, the, the whole thing we're talking about in prayer in the first place, the whole, the whole doubt thing, like the Thomas thing, that you can even come in a prayer room where everything's all God stuff going on and still ask the question, are you sure? You know, you know, like, like John, are you really the one? Are you really, you know, you know, and I don't know, it may be healthy if you do that like every week or anything, but every, every believer has, has those times, I think, where you're like, really, really? Yeah. You know, I mean, I'm really putting everything on the line here, you know, and he seems to be okay with that. You know, he, he, he always shows up. He's like, well, well, yeah, it's, it's real. And he finds ways. I mean, he doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't never get up to me in the league. He says, yes, Dan. Yes, Dan.

This is the last time I'm telling you. Love God. By the way, the postage from heaven to here was ridiculous. I wonder how many, if God were filling out, like trying to do written responses to prayers, how many times he's having to check yes to, are you real? Yes. Yes. Yes. Form letter. Yes, that's me. Thank you for your question. Send him to number seven. You're listening to Live from the Path. We're broadcasting live from livefromthepath.org in the Pathway Studios in the middle of a 24-7 prayer room for two weeks here in Johnston, Iowa. Thank you so much for being with us tonight. We really do appreciate it. Next week, there will be, oh, well, to remind you, Candy for Nichols is a band that we've had on the show before. They are in the prayer room right now. They will be swapping out, coming here at 11 o'clock. We're still working out.

One of us, or all of us, will be gone and into the prayer room for the 11 to midnight shift so that the prayer will continue. But they will be in here playing. And then next week, the prayer room will still be going on. We will be broadcasting live from there as well. We'll have a couple more bands. Saved on Sunday will be in, and On This Rock will also be in. One will take the prayer room for an hour, and one will be in the studio for an hour, and then they will switch, and then they will be in. So, I don't know. I really dig on it. I'm really happy that some of these bands that we've had on the show were willing to come in and kind of share this experience with us, because, I don't know, it's kind of just a cool thing to be able to share with someone and spend time praying. Yeah. I've had my first pretty major impactful time the first time I was in. Sometimes it takes me a few times for, you know, sometimes, like I say, we've done these several times. They're two weeks long each time. And sometimes I'll go through the full two weeks, and the impact for me is hearing other people's stories, and it's just like, oh, that's really cool. Oh, yeah, that's really neat.

For me, it was just a neat prayer time or some worship time or whatever. And I talk to people who have that, and I'm like, that's okay. It's okay. You don't have to have some big Bible experience. I mean, some people do. Some people don't. Sometimes you do. Sometimes you don't. Anyway, this time, the first time I'm in there, Sunday, it opened up with it at two, so that we were in at six, our small group. So it was only been going for four hours, okay? So, you know, early, early on. And this is the first time I really had nothing to do with the prayer room. I've always kind of helped to start it and birth it, and then we started forming teams and the whole type of thing. And we kind of evolved to the point where I'm like completely off this time, so I did really nothing. And I came in and kind of like looked around like it was a different flavor. Now, that's actually one of the positive things. Each team kind of makes it a little bit different. They keep God as the center, and it's really a God thing. But yet you do some different things, so it's not always, oh, there's that wall again, you

know? Right. But it was different enough. I was walking around, and part of me, you know, maybe it was pride. I don't know what it was. It was like, oh, man, this isn't right. Look at this. They did that wrong. And then look at that. Are you serious? The lights are on. Can't just turn the lights off. Man, there's no candles like the ones I had, you know? And, you know, just different little things. And you're kind of battling the whole time going, okay, that's just selfish. But, you know, I'm human. And so part of me is, you know, thinking that, and the other part is, well, let's pray. What's God got to do? So they have one area that's like a holy of holies thing, where it's like a tent, so to speak, in one corner of the room, pretty small. There's a chair in there and a light and a Bible. And it's all enclosed.

And it's almost like you go into a changing room type of thing. It's about that size. Well, no, smaller than that. So I go in there, and I think, you know, and it's different because the whole small groups here. There's people out all over the place doing things. And I was like, okay, I'll sit down in this chair, and I'll just kind of think, and I'll just kind of pray, and I'll kind of listen. And I see the Bible. I'm going to pick the Bible. I'm just going to start reading it. And I'm reading along, and it's Mark chapter 7. I'll just read a little bit of this here because I've got it with me here. And, you know, I'm just reading along. Well, the Pharisees, some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem, gathered upon Jesus, and saw that his disciples eating food of his hands were unclean and is unwashed and so forth. And they came in. Anyway, they're all upset because Jesus isn't doing all the traditions that they do. And the Pharisees, the teachers of the law, verse 5, they asked Jesus, why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with unclean hands?

He replied, Isaiah was right when he prophesied. It's about you hypocrites. This is written, these people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain. Their teachings are but rules taught by men. You have let go of the commands of God or holding on to the traditions of men. And I kind of kept reading along. And this is a Bible from a guy who used to be here. They live in Texas now, Dennis Clark. And he was a preacher. And he had the word tradition circled several times. And I'm reading several verses down, and it just hits me like a ton of bricks. All the little whiny things that I had been thinking was total, had nothing to do with anything. It was not meaningful. It was my little traditions, traditions of men. And I was totally being a Pharisee. I mean, it absolutely hit me upside the head. And God's talking about you're missing God because you're all worked up over some stupid tradition that doesn't mean anything. Right.

And I'm like, oh, man. Oh, man, it was me this time. I'm getting out of this Holy of Holies because I want to go out here and complain and whine. It's not like mine, you know. I came out of the prayer room. I had prayer room right after Dan. And Dan goes, stay out of the Holy of Holies. I said, what happened in there? He goes, stay out. Don't go in the Holy of Holies. First thing I did when I went to the prayer room, Holy of Holies. I went right for it. Actually, I tried that out. And I felt a little weird because the way the Holy of Holies is set up is like there's a pretty comfortable chair in there. And I sat down. I'm like, I'm lounging in the Holy of Holies. I said, yeah, part of me is like guilty. He's like, I can't be doing this. We should have had someone. We should have put a chain. We should have had someone put a little bell.

So like I switched. I got it. I did the. I got out. No, I stayed in there. But I did that. I got on my knees in the Holy and then put my hands on the chair. I was going to say, is it feel more right to get in an uncomfortable position in the Holy of Holies and do something ridiculous? See, that's the thing. It's like really dumb to think. You know, remember it was our Worshipper of the Week conversation we had. Like, I can't be comfortable in worshiping Jesus. But like, and I'm like, the first thing I thought was, this is a really comfortable chair. And I'm like, well, this doesn't seem right. God and I are hanging out pretty good here. Now that I'm feeling pretty good. Thanks for bringing me into the Holy of Holies. From this green 1970s avocado lounger. And the scene was straight out of like kind of the bread man, right? But in 1972, the monk with the, you know, a nice comfy chair and just a Bible and a

candle and he's just sitting in there. And that's what he did from like seven to 11 o'clock at night was read this old school looking Bible. And I thought, oh man, I, I, it's too comfortable in this chair. I got to get out. So I, I stayed in there and I kind of went knees in there and, uh, it was, I don't know. I, I couldn't sit in the chair. I felt too comfortable. Yeah. That's probably not a bad idea. It's not right. But I, well, that's the thing is if it's in the middle of the night, like I've come in here before at like three or four in the morning and I've been pretty tired and I sat on the couch and I, and I looked at the clock, it was like, I don't know, three 10 and then I look up again and it was like three 15. I'm like, where'd it go? Where'd the time go? Did I fall asleep in the prayer room? I think I fell asleep in here. Okay. We got to do something different. It's, it's, it's fantastic.

So can we post the link if anybody interested and wants to sign up for the prayer room at all? Ben? Yeah. Yeah. I can do that. Same thing. Uh, we'll post the link. Uh, like I said, we do have the, the atheist prayer room coming up here. Uh, I don't know if I have that one at the, not, not at the end of this week, the end of next week, leading up to, uh, leading up to Easter. Uh, we'll be doing that. And, uh, uh, like we said, it's, it's the same setup. Uh, there's not going to be, uh, you know, paper on the walls. There's not a, it's not prayer requests for, for everybody. You know, it's, it's pretty much a bring your a game. We're asking for the Lord to, uh, you know, show himself to some people that don't know him, you know, and that's specifically what we're asking for. And so, uh, you know, I mean, if that's something that you feel like you get involved with and can give an hour of your time to, uh, uh, uh, go down there and talk to the Lord about it and, and, uh, you know, pray for some salvation for folks. Um, you know, that's, that's what we got going down there.

So, uh, just let us know. You can either send us an email or get ahold of us, or Dan's going to post a link on the, on the chat. Maybe if you want to take a look at that. Almost there. Yep. I got the one for the, uh, uh, for our, the prayer room that we're in at the moment. Dan's working on the atheist one. You know, one of the things I also noticed that, um, uh, in the prayer room is I'm totally not a, um, I'm totally not an arms in the air guy. Um, I'm not much of a knees, knees to the ground guy, like very often. And I found, because it feels weird to me. Like, it feels like I'm putting on a show, so I just don't do it. I'm the same way. I don't feel like it, so I don't do it. But I, but I, I did even, you know, whatever, how many hours ago? Uh, 16, 18 hours ago. Uh, I, and it was, it was really awkward. It was like, they're going up. Yep. Me too. They're feeling, they're tingling.

I was doing the holy, holy. Oh, they're up. And it was, and it was, the thing was, is I thought, this doesn't feel weird here. It doesn't feel weird right now where I'm at talking to God. It doesn't feel. Seems very appropriate. Yeah, exactly. And like, any other time and any other place, I just don't, I don't have it. It's a show if I'm doing it there. But there, it was weird to feel the compulsion to put my arms up. And there was another time when I was, I was kind of walking around praying. And like, I felt, I felt like a small pressure on me to like, to go down. And I thought, I'm going to go down. And it was, it's just, it feels, it feels right. It feels right there. Frankly, it doesn't generally feel right to me in other situations. But like, I don't know, it was, it was pretty cool to like, you know, my arms tingle just a bit as they go up and you're like, all right, I'm in on something. Am I doing this? Am I in on this? Yeah. I think I am.

I'm 50% committed. I'm there. Let's do this thing. I've Isaiahed in there before. I think we've talked about that. My first prayer room. I didn't really know what was going on in there, quite what to do. And so I walked in there and I gave it like five minutes after I looked around and I go, here I am. Send me. And then for some reason, I felt real awkward about it. I'm like, well, that didn't really do anything. And then for some reason, I likened it to like a guy that I haven't seen in 10 years showing up at my door and going, hey, Mike, send me. And I thought, what is God's reaction to this kind of ridiculous behavior? What are you doing? Will you get off my door? He probably had a big smile going, my, yeah. Mike, I appreciate your effort, but that's stupid. Oh, yeah. There's crazy stuff in there. Yeah.

Yeah. You do weird stuff in the pair of them. That's it. What happens in there stays there. I'm not sure it's going to carry, but. It's about ready time to switch us out. Yeah, it sure is. We'll give it another minute or two so Candy for Nicholas can tie up. I'd like to hear their, what they think. It'd be kind of interesting. Yeah. I mean, that might be awkward for them, too. Right. So where did you think? Go. I didn't really get much out of it. I've heard that before, actually. Yeah, me too. Yeah. It's not for everybody. And sometimes it takes people like a few times before they get it. Well, you know, and it sounds like a total amway, right?

Like, oh, you tried it once, you didn't like it. I mean, you really got to do it multiple times. Like, you try so hard to get someone to do it once and then they don't like it and you're like, oh, it's a couple of times. Or do try it in the middle of the night. Or did you see that there was yogurt in the fridge? You're like, whatever. You know, try to get someone to go back in there. But I would agree, actually, because of that, you know, creating intimacy that perhaps you're not used to having, you know, it does take two or three times or, you know, sometimes a pretty good block of time. I'll tell you, the last prayer room we had, I thought I would never go back from the two hour slot. Like, we were taking two hour shifts in the middle of the night and I'm like, man, I really like that two hour slot. I mean, because there's, you can stretch out with your stuff. Um, and, uh, I've been doing, I did a couple, uh, I did a couple of one hours, uh, or we've done a one hour and I've got a couple more coming up. Um, but I think definitely the second week I'm switching back to the two hour cause I just, you know, I don't like being cramped. I like to spread out. No, if you happen to catch the clock and it's like 10 till you're like, well, man, I better

turn the music down so I can hear the knock or whatever, but I better wrap this thing up. You know, we had a gal, uh, I think our first prayer room that, uh, she was probably in her mid to late fifties. I think it was late fifties. And, you know, she did the prayer room because she's kind of came from a tradition. Well, if the church is doing it, I'll go ahead and do it. You know, I'll put my time in, didn't get it at all. You know, I can pray at home. What are you doing? Well, I'll support you guys. And, uh, she came out, had the, the, the, the whole, it wasn't, didn't do anything for me. She prayed, but she had signed up for like two or three times. Well, I'm going to fulfill my obligation. She came out again. And this time she came in right after the youth group happened to be in there. And, uh, the youth group leader had her come in and they sat her on a chair and say, I want you to sit down right here. It's great. You come in and we're going to pray for you. And the youth group, uh, as many could get, you know, crowded around her and, and just put

their hands on them and start praying for her. And she, she, every time she told the story after this wept when she told the story about how she could literally just feel the weight, uh, fall from her shoulders and, and feel the presence of God. And, and, and here's a gal who'd been in the faith for decades, you know, and thought, come on. And she became one of our, our biggest supporters of the program saying, wow, there's something about this that I can't explain. And, um, it became a powerful movement. Like, like I say, a moment for her. And I say, every time she would tell people about this, uh, after that, it, she, she just couldn't help, but not, not like sob, but, you know, just kind of like, I didn't, didn't see that coming. Well, and I, I think a lot of what you get out of the prayer room is, is a lot of what you're willing to share with God about it. You know, like if you, if you walk in there stonewalled and just, you know, act like a, it's just another hour, then that's not, that's, you're not going to get anything out of it, you know, but if you come to find a one-on-one time with God there, you will find it there. You know, I mean, God's not going to hide himself from you. You know, you've, you've set apart, it's, it's available. That's what holy is, right?

Set apart. Yeah. Set apart. And so that's, that's what it is. You're setting apart time to, to, to talk with God. And so it's not like he's going to, going to be in Arkansas for an hour. You know, he's got time and that's what he wants. It's a holy time. Yeah. It's a holy room, a holy space. Every, everything about it. I think that's what makes it so powerful. It's, it's all holy. It's all set apart and it's all on, it's all on purpose. Every part of it. All right. We're going to take a quick, quick five minutes to get switched out here and figure out what we're going to do. I'm going to play, play for a, probably a couple of tunes here. The first one is a rescue by eyes wide open. They were recently in the studio. And so you can enjoy that from them and we will be right back with you.

All right, cool. Well, this is, uh, you're listening to Live from the Path. This is Eyes Wide Open with Rescue. I tried so hard to make it right, but on my own, I fall down, fall back tonight. I need someone to show me the guiding light to help me see. Come to my rescue and save my soul. I need salvation I can make. Oh, from my past regret, bring me true. My life is, it's fading to black. And I have so many things, but still I lack. The one thing that could bring me to you. Please won't you show me the way, the light. Come to my breath and save my soul. Be salvation I can make. Oh, bring me, bring me true. I'm dead. Oh, tell me where has it gone? Salvation like his pride. One redeemer was and is to come. Lamb who was slain. God's one and only son. Is worthy.

Who was slain. Only son. Live from the path. On livefromthepath.org. He is worthy. Thanks so much for hanging out with us. We are broadcasting live from the prayer room. Here, we are in the Pathway studios within the Pathway Ministry Center. Broadcasting from the, what was it? Johnson Proper. Yes, yes. That's it. You are listening to Live from the Path. My name is Ben Foost. Thanks again for being with us and hanging out over the break. We have been joined by Candy for Nichols. Hello. Hello. I'm doing very well. I smell good. I look very good. I'm dressed nicely.

You are. I'm freshly hair-cutted and shaven. I hate to cut my hair because I'm very much balding. And I don't know how much to what extent until I cut it all down and then it does look worse. The comb over then is gone. Yeah, well, so here's, I tried this. I made the, this is the first desperate move I've made. We nared Scott. Was it? Yeah. We did. You should nare your head. You know, I don't think I could buy nare. I think I would, I would have trouble walking up to the counter with it. And saying, you know what? That's why he had me buy it for him. You know what? This is for me. This is what I want. Make this happen. Yeah, yeah. I don't think I could do it.

There's got to be another product with a different name. Yeah. Man. What would you call it? Maine. I would call it, yeah, Maine be gone. That sounds manly. Maine be gone. Anyway, so as long as we got it out of the way that I'm doing, looking, feeling, smelling great. So, Candy for Nichols, you guys just came out of a stint in the prayer room. Everything all right? Yeah. It was wonderful. You got some there? Awesome. Okay, good. Any, any, not to put you on the spot, but any impressions or anything, anything come out of it for you? Now I feel so unspiritual. No, no. It's all right. It's all right. The pop.

I was expecting you to come, like, floating out of there. Oh, I thought it was fantastic. No, I was just going to say, I like the atmosphere. Yeah. It was a good atmosphere. Reading all the prayers is very heartwarming. Really, I think half the battle is the atmosphere because, and that's what makes it different than, like, praying at home or praying in the garage or at the stoplight or whatever. It's, I mean, it's totally, it's like, okay, it's a prayer room, you know, the lights. The candles, the ambiance. Exactly, exactly. He's kind of hanging out with God. And really what happens, I mean, you're really early in on this. It's about day three. I would do this for two weeks. And about day three of 24-7, people in here praying, that it just kind of mushrooms and it just becomes a whole different thing. So we don't know what this will look like for another day and a half. And then it'll be like, whoa, and God's going to do whatever he wants. Awesome. Well, I'm coming back to pray here. All right. Awesome. Very, very good.

It's a great time. You know, if, like, things are going poorly in your life for whatever reason, health, relationship, whatever, things going on, it is a great place to come and just be alone. Like, just you and God. I mean, it is amazing. There are a ton of people who come here just for the peace, you know, of just, there's no distractions. You know, you leave your phone out and then there really is no distractions. And there's some people who come just to shout and scream and jump up and down and holler and say, yay, God. And there's people who come just to kind of sit and, like, read the Bible. I mean, it's just, there's so many, there's so much to do. You can do anything. Actually, and I find myself really pulling between the two, like, either real quiet, real dark, or, and it's tough to do because we're broadcasting here, so you can't get the full, we'll see if Mike might crank it up. But, like, there's just a couple tunes just getting riled up and it's really, really loud. Like, you could drive by here at, say, two or three in the morning if I'm taking an hour shift in the middle of the night. And you could hear it. You could hear the tunes outside of here. And it's just, I mean, you just get jazzed up. It's really tough, as a matter of fact, to leave here at three in the morning after an hour praying. Oh, I'm sure. Because I get home and, like, ah. It's hard to sleep. I always drive around a while. Yeah.

You have to. Well, of course, you've got to drive home. It's tough. But anyway, it's a cool experience. So if anybody, we posted the link. Did you find that Atheist link, Dan? It was on there. I put it right after yours. So there's links in the chat and in the chat history if you're at all interested in signing up for the prayer room. Just put your name down. Just anybody else, get in there, put your name in, and just show up at your time, and you're good to go. So let's catch up with Candy for Nichols. It's been a little bit since we've seen you. How have things been going? Staying busy? We're trying, yeah. We're pretty busy. Yeah? So, I don't know. We were talking before the show. It sounds like you've got some really cool shows coming up. You're going to be at Java Joe's on April 16th, right?

Yes, this Saturday. That's two bones. So squeeze some cans together, people. Get some Nichols. No, it's actually $2. We're not taking bones. You stop the bones. We stop the bone thing because we don't make any, you know, you can't sell bones. So it's $2. I'm going to submit that you're not talking to the right people, but I'm going to keep with your line of thinking and say $2 then at the Java Joe's. Okay. $2 cover. A guy who can't sell two bones is a man with no imagination. Here, Fido. Okay, so Java Joe's on April 16th. You guys played Java Joe's before? No, this will be the first time. We got the gig because we played Vaudeville, oh, three weeks ago. Three weeks ago. And she actually, she's the one that gets the gigs for us. She's the mom, the manager, the boss. You know, we just show up and do what she tells us.

So, but that's, we got that show. They give me a hard time. They don't, they're not very good listeners. Now, will it be kind of an acoustic feel there? It will be. Because Java Joe's, you know, it's a pretty cool setting there. We're bringing it way down, mellow. Because, you know, I don't, I don't, you know, I've heard you guys, I don't go, oh, mellow. Right, right. Java Joe's, yeah. Yeah, we're going to bring it down a lot. Oh, cool. Yeah. It'll be a fun show if you guys want to come see. I love their orange iced tea. Never had it. We used to have staff and he's there and every, every Friday we'd have lunch there. It was, I didn't say that. We got to go by where the people are working. I just, I just made the Monopoly band pay your, whatever, with the tax where he goes like this. You know what I'm talking about?

They have really good cookies. I just did that. I love their chocolate chip cookies. Oh, you have to know. I heard really good things about their cinnamon rolls. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then I tried them and I wasn't that impressed. I did not, I should have given you a wink to know that I was going to go the other way with it because you're like, yes, they were great. And I say, no. I think they're great. I didn't, I didn't care for them. That's okay. I didn't, and I don't know why. Well, did they warm them up for you or did you eat it cold? I don't know. I don't remember. It has to be warm with butter. You put butter on it? Yes. It's got icing and everything on it.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I love warmed up cinnamon rolls with butter. Cinnamon roll is dough and frosting. How can you go wrong with that? I don't know. And then butter melted on top with your coffee. That's not enough calories until you add the butter. Boy. And the coffee. Word. See, I'm not a coffee drinker, but I could probably do it. I think that's a mistake, Dan, by the way. I think you really should take up with it. I've not grown up enough. But it's, I mean, it's free. They give it away everywhere. Everybody has free coffee. I think water is pretty free, too. I do a lot of water. Job just does not have free coffee. Yeah. That's kind of how, that's like their business, isn't it?

Yeah. That's different. That's like McDonald's giving out free burgers. You know, it's like, yeah, that's kind of what they do. So the John and Joe show sounds cool. Here's the deal. And we're going to do this one of these times. I'm going to get around to it. But like, you know, a lot of the bands that we have in here have some cool shows around town. And really, now that we're, it's one of the benefits of kind of switching to our own studio is I want to take the cameras and stuff out there. Probably one. We can't take the whole operation. But like, you know, broadcast your shows a lot. There you go. Just take a feed off the thing. Yeah, that's a great idea. You know, we can broadcast from here whenever we want to. But, you know, it's just a webcam. We can go out. And those acoustic shows are a little bit easier to handle, too, because sometimes the other stuff, just the atmosphere gets tough to really sail over the airwaves.

But yeah, yeah, you guys got a lot of stuff coming up. I'm really going to try to work it out. I remember I was trying to look at Smokey Row, because Smokey Row's got some easy angles to get in there and broadcast the shows. That sounds like a lot of fun. May 13th will be there. Oh, that's right. May 13th. And that's also 7 to 9, right? Yep. And that's free. That is free. So I wouldn't even bother with the… Go to the Java Joe show. Thank you. I was going to say, what are you trying to do? You're killing me, Smalls. It's going to be free at the Smokey Row. Just saying. Like I told you earlier, that's how we pay for her jewelry. Oh, yes, that's true. That's true.

You're really finely adorned. Thank you. She hung the Technicolor Dreamcoat outside. What did I do? Nothing. I need to go back to the prayer room. Oh, my goodness. Go back to the confessional. Go to the confessional. All right. So Java Joe's on April 16th. Smokey Row on May 13th. Do you guys have these… I can't remember. Facebook or website? Well, we're going to update our website, but Facebook is the best way to check what we have coming up. Again, she does all that, too. Okay. So she stays on that, pretty much. And you can find it under Candy for Nichols? Yeah.

I love Candy for Nichols. It's the Facebook page. That's very committal. That's a very committed page. Isn't that nice? Because then if I'm only like so-so on your band, I'm not… And I have to like that I love. Yeah. You have to like that you love it. Yeah. We don't want half-hearted fans. All or nothing. All right. You're going hard. I love it. I'm just really excited about the Iowa Roller Derby. Yeah. So tell me about that. How did you get to… How did you get to get with the Roller Derby? Well, I do my magic. I'm getting my nails done in the salon.

And this lady hears that I'm in a band, and she plays for the Iowa Roller Derbies. And she's like, they're always looking for bands. And the fact that you're a female fronted rock band, I mean, you're going to get in. So about a year later, I get a call saying, oh, yeah, sure. We would love to have you guys come in. Awesome. Yeah. That sounds pretty cool. So like, do you alter your set at all? Like for the Roller Derby? Do you got anything, things you want to make sure you want to do with the Roller Derby? We're actually going to be writing a song specifically for them. Oh, cool. Just, you know, I think it'd be kind of fun. And then just probably do… I like how he says, I think it'd be kind of fun, when it was my idea. Anyway. Can you guys arm wrestle it out? Because that would be exciting. My arm is like 12 inches longer than hers. She has no chance. I'll just do this.

Boom. That's cheating. I don't care. That means you're a poor arm wrestler and a dirty cheater. I am both. You're going back into the prayer room. I'm going back into the prayer room. I do want to plug this, that, you know, really, with Nicole, I mean, we are where we are because of the work she's put in. I mean, pretty much all the gigs. I mean, I have cards I hand out to people and I talk to people, but she's really the legs behind this. I mean, and I'm being honest. I'm not just getting points here. Is that all the gigs, I mean, she's pretty much lined them all up. She does all the leg work, the contacts. You know, she's pretty much the brains behind this operation. Well, thank you. That's a lot of work. Yeah. I mean, the radar is always going to be on. It's a full-time job.

Yeah. But I love it. It's fun. I love meeting people and that's what I do every single day. I'm just plugging the band and I have a part-time job on the side and three kids. All right. I'm magic. That's quite a juggle. That is magical. I don't have three kids. I've got two. And I, yeah. Really down to one and a half. 17, 13, and six. So, they're, my older ones are a lot of help. That 17 and six is a pretty, is a pretty sizable gap with how to deal with each of them. I mean, it's tough to spank the 17-year-old, right? Oh, yeah. Okay. That's what I'm saying. I mean, you're going to try to escape. But I can take away her Jeep.

I love you, Ashley. Oh, that's easier. Okay. I'm just saying, it's got to be hard to catch a 17-year-old and give him a swat. I don't know if you still do that. I'm not, my kids aren't that old. I'll get you. Yeah. We kind of stopped that probably by early elementary. I mean, it just depends. Every child is different, though. But a mom always has the look. Well, yeah. And there's always got the threat of we still can. And maybe will. I'm scary. I can be really scary. I don't buy that for one minute. I don't think that's true. Ask these guys. You cannot reproduce the look on that man's face. Whatever you say.

When you first met me, Keith, when Keith first met and joined the band, he was a little scared. Yeah. They made me a little bit nervous, but not anymore. Not anymore. Now he's like, blah, blah, blah. Whatever you say, Nicole. I'll do what I want. Keith, your comfort will be your demise, I figure. You're going to regret that. All right. Well, I tell you what. We've got some more gigs that I want to get to, but let's hear some tunes. So the first one is Take My Life. Yeah. It's a third day cover. All right. Any particular reason why you chose this one? We just kind of like it. We actually really love it. It's a great song. Yeah. I don't want to poke you.

I was watching it. I just got some healing going on in this arm. All right. So this is Cain for Nichols with Take My Life. So many times I've gone astray. The number is the same. As I stand on the shore. Every time do it once more. Please take from me my life. I don't have the strength. Please take from me my life. I don't have the strength. Every time. Please take from me my life. I don't have the strength. Please take from me my life. I don't have the strength to use. I don't have the strength to my Jesus. That was nice. I might have to show up to Jabba Joe's for that. Yeah. That's a nice sound.

It'll be a good time. Yeah. Wow. It's kind of nice to bring it down instead of, you know, we love to rock. That's what we're all about. But, I mean, you know, we're discovering that, you know, this acoustic stuff's not too bad either. Yeah. So. It's kind of fun. It's a nice change. We're in the right setting, you know. Yeah. Like at a hard rock venue, they'd be like. Right. We'd never do that. Well, we do have a story. We got a gig in Newton. Oh, I don't know this story. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you do. Oh, yeah. How could you ever get that story?

I don't know. I never know which one he's going to tell. Not that story. I like it that you have more than one story that could begin with. We got a gig in Newton. Oh, this is bad. Newton is a hotbed. No, I'm just kidding. This is a bad story. And I think there was some miscommunication or something happened. There was no miscommunication on my end. Okay. I'm just trying to paint it nicer than it was. So it was a jazz venue. I won't mention anything. It was a jazz venue in Newton. Jazz venue. And so Nicole had talked to the owner and said, this is who we are. This is what we do. Blah, blah, blah. And we do acoustic there. And we have a new song.

It's a newer song. It's kind of like a 30s, 40s jazz kind of tune. It's a great sound. Anyway, so we get there. And the owner comes up to us. We're kind of doing a sound check. And we're doing our acoustic stuff. And she's like, I thought you guys were a jazz band. We're like, no. So literally, we stepped outside in the alley and pretty much went through our entire set and changed everything to make it more jazzy. On the fly. It was supposed to be a paid gig, a three-hour gig. And so anyway, we start playing. And she said, well, there was something else going on in town. So we'll just play it by ear, play it for an hour and go from there. So anyway, needless to say, we only played for an hour because she basically came up after that first hour and shut us down. Really rudely. And it didn't go well. We got paid for the hour, which was great. But it wasn't. She wasn't tactful.

She came up in the middle of our sets and would say rude things. And everybody would hear her. And she bragged about how she had three glasses of wine. And wow, you just never know what she's going to do. And well, now we know what she's capable of. So yeah. Very unprofessional. Things aren't always great. Fun. That was our first and I pray only bad experience with a venue. Yeah. So have they invited you back? No. Oh, we will never. We won't go back. We're just, that's not, I mean, that's not us. We are not a jazz band and I made that clear, so I thought. But anyway. You know, you live and you learn and you, you know, it's a good idea. But we played outside and the people loved it. We were playing outside in the back and this lady was like, woo, you guys are awesome. So we're all pumped and we're like, okay, the people are going to like it.

We go in there. She did not like it. Yeah. It went down like a rat sandwich, so. But they still paid you. They did. They paid us for the hour. So that was good. We're glad for that. They didn't pay you for the full three. Actually, it was a three hour game. We only played for one hour. So we paid, we got paid for what we paid. Actually, you know. And that's not a very short drive. Yeah. Although I'm not sure that could have gone. I mean, that's probably the best. Because I mean, it's slogging it out for three hours. Oh, that would have been nasty. It was a God thing. He got us out of there.

We were glad to be out of there. Yeah. I think that would be pretty rough. I think that would be pretty rough. Especially. We did not get booed, however. No, we didn't. From anyone but the owner. And the people seemed to like us. They did. So it wasn't like a Blues Brothers moment where they're throwing things at you. No. We talked about that. That would have been a great story. That would have been a great story, though. Doing Rahein for four hours. You know. The jazz singer. Oh, yeah. We even did. Yeah, like he said, we did a jazz song. And it just.

And we even tried to take our rock songs, which we did, thanks to Keith Sage here. Yes. And make him more jazz. Yeah. And it's still. And he rocked. Yeah, it was great. On the fly. On the fly, but. Yeah, so. Not what she was looking for. No. Keith, I was very impressed with what you were able to do in that amount of time. It was awesome. It was pretty good. He's amazing. I've heard good things of it. Yeah. Just recently. People were talking about it, said things were great, so it's everywhere. I like to pass on good feedback when I hear it. It sounded good.

So, what's. Would you. You would classify that. Is that the worst. The worst gig you've ever done. That's the worst. So far. And hopefully that is the worst. Yeah. But you know what. I mean, you're. If you're. You're in the business long enough. Yeah. It happens. You do enough gigs. You're going to run into stuff like that. And. And our philosophy is like, you know what. If we can learn something from every gig that we do, whether it went great or not, then it just makes us better for the next one. Yeah.

Right. Yeah. Well, you know, sometimes it's just. If the only benefit is that you got a cool story to go along with it. Like, oh. I mean, you have to have a worst one. You might as well have a good story to go with it. And the heckling drunk bar owner. Cut you off after an hour in a jazz club of which you are not a jazz band. Is a good story. It is a great story. It's a good story. Yeah. So. Well, cool. Well, I tell you what. Let's keep. Let's keep rolling with the tunes. What do you have next? Pieces of My Heart, right? And that's an original. All right.

Well, I want to hear it. I'm excited. Can we heckle? You are allowed to heckle? Please don't. Okay. This is Candid for Nichols with Pieces of My Heart. Pretending. Just blending. We want to understand and be proud. Not just hang. Shine bright. Show the world. If the rent can't help. Give you all pieces of my heart. You are allowed to go inside. The answer. God, they treat you like cancer. I can't. But to be transformed by the renewing. Rent your sins. I can't help but give you all the pieces of my heart.

Whoa. Yes, it is. It's looking right at you. It's the old eagle eye. I also, I was, I digitally had a finger scratching your eyebrow and picking your nose while you weren't looking. These are the magics of the studio. I can do what I want. So what's the story of that song? I mean, what? Couldn't help it. That's their story to tell. What's our story to tell? Of that song. What led to it? That's her story. I'd love to hear the story. I think I've told it before. I think you have. But that was a long time ago. It was. This is a new studio.

Basically, it's just about me giving all of my heart to the Lord. Like he's given all of his heart to mine. And that's where it stems from. And I just went with it one day. Yeah. I like it. I mean, it really fits together in my sense. Thank you. Got a good message to it. Thank you. I do. I do like it. It speaks for itself. Yeah, I mean, it really is. It really does. So we were talking before the tunes about some of the gigs you got coming up. We said Java Joe's 416, Smokey Row 513. There's also, you're doing the Relay for Life, right? Yes. So tell me a little bit more about that. Like how you got involved with that and what it's for. A friend of mine I went to school with is actually in charge of hiring people.

And she just Facebooked me one day and said, Hey, Nicole, I would love it if you guys would come play for us during one of these hours. I think it's, I think it's from 6 a.m. to, or, I think it's, like, No, I think it goes on for hours. I'm not exactly sure, so I hate to say, but. And it's jazz. But it's, it goes for hours. It goes till, like, the next day. So it's a 24-hour thing, I believe. It's just, it's where they're walking, though. They're walking. They're walking for 24 hours? Yeah, it's crazy. Holy buckets. They have people coming in and out just like you do the prayer room. They have people. That's a lot of walking. Some people sleep once in a while. They have tents up and stuff. It's, like, a big deal, yeah. It's a pretty big deal. I was pretty excited that she asked us.

What's the cause again? Cancer. Cancer, okay. Cool. Relay for Life. Relay for Life. Where's that at? Indianola. No, it is not in Indianola. No, it's not. I'm going to push this big thing in front of me. I don't know if they have them around different places. I'm going to push it away. It's in Des Moines. I've got more information that I don't know yet. I know, like, a couple years, or last year or something, it was at Hoover. They had them at several places. I'm sure it's at a high school. Yeah, yeah, because they had to have the track. Right. Yeah. See, that's why she runs the show and I don't.

Okay, I do have a joke, though, and this is against myself, so it's really funny. I'm excited for it. Okay, in light of my mistake there. So, what do you call a guy who hangs out with a musician? Musicians. The drummer. Hey! Hey-o. Ha-ha. Ha-ha. That was funny, Scott. Hey, man. Scott's a good wingman. We're bringing him in. He's got killer instinct. He knows just the right time. Scott, I'm really glad you told that joke. That was the correct joke. You know what? It's a funny joke. He didn't even give us a drum roll and he's the drummer. He didn't have to sell it.

He just… Here it is. We could bring the gem bay in and you can see it from the window. Actually, you know what would be pretty cool? I was hoping. We've got to get a spotlight out here. And so we'll do a Scott joke time. Yes! And so all of a sudden, and now, a joke from Scott. And then we'll turn all the lights down and do a spotlight and just put the camera out there. It would be like, you know, the old Saturday Night Live's and now, Deep Thoughts. Yeah! It could be just like that. I love this. But he has to wear a hat. But the joke… You know what? The joke could be, he's out there telling jokes and then he does one of these and he doesn't have to say anything at all. Just put his head down in front of the camera. See, that's not even funny. That was funny.

There's no punchline to that whatsoever. No. I agree. I think it's funny. Oh, you guys are… You're in the same club, so I understand why you don't think it's funny. This thing doesn't play. It doesn't play with the audience. The bald club has to stick together. They think your hair is funny. Keith and I think it's funny. Oh, yeah. Hilarious. You know… All right. You know what? Just throw your long locks in the wind, Keith. Yes. Show that hair. It's like that old commercial. You know, the Rogaine or whatever it is. They show the picture of the guy and he's balding.

Yeah. And your friends will never know. Really? Yeah. Like, three weeks ago, weren't you almost bald? Yeah. What kind of friends do you have that have no idea who you're changing hairstyle? I like these friends. I like these friends of mine. We're doing this joke thing, Scott. Hey, seriously. We're going to work it out because this sounds awesome. I will write some material. Yeah. I've got some really, really bad, horrible stuff. Yeah. That's not even funny. Okay. And I don't even care. I think that's what we're looking for. Yeah. Yeah.

We're going to do it. We're going to talk. Okay. I think it's going to be awesome. I would love it. All right. Awesome. Well, I guess… Nicole's grinning her teeth over there. I'm like… We won't say he's from Candy for Nichols. I was just… Thank you. Thank you. Nobody will recognize him. We'll call him… Because he won't wear a hat. Scott from off the street. Yeah. We can work out. We'll deal. What was your nickname when you were younger?

What did they call you? Animal? Just call him Animal. Nobody will know. All right. I think… I'll let you choose. You do whatever you want to do. You're working for free, so you don't want to call yourself whatever. Rip off the shirt. Call yourself The Heat. I don't care what it is. The Heat. A moment with The Heat. Nicole, did you have a nickname when you were growing up? I'm not allowed to say it. Oh, my. It wasn't very nice. Oh. But no, people usually just… My family calls me Nicky. Oh, okay.

Okay. Good friends call me Nick. I don't have a good… The nickname… I cannot say really. Wait. Who are these people you guys are hanging out with? It's not… It's not good for the radio fans. Kids are mean. Kids are really mean. You guys. No, it's not a bad nickname. It's just a bad reference of a nickname. But other than that, I was also called by my last name. I'm assuming that they called you The Heat. His last name is Sage. So what was it? Just say it. Huh? They just called you Sage? No, the first…

No, no, no. The Sage was what they usually call me, but I had another nickname. What was it? We'll do it off air. Okay. We'll find out. We'll find out off air. Okay. I made it. I don't want to know. I'm really wanting to know that. Mike was in the Holy of Holies having snacks. I love that there are snacks in the Holy of Holies. There's some of their pictures. You guys have snacks? I just think it's cool. I was just going to say, there's four other people in this room, and Dan walks in with something only for himself. He asked if we wanted some. Let me put it this way. As people that don't know Dan all that well, you were surprised. You did not see a look of surprise on my list.

It's granola bars. Do you have granola bars? No. I would love one. Do you want one? Yes. I'm going to eat one on air. I'll take a chewy oatmeal raisin if you can snag one. Chewy oatmeal raisin. You know you're getting specific. They're in the bottom drawer. I was just in there. Did you forget what you were bringing us originally? Oh, yeah. I got it. Yeah, the gym bag's right here. You're awesome. That's old news. Old news. Yeah, I love it. I said old news. That would be a cool nickname.

What, old news? Yeah, old news with the heat. That's awesome. I think these are good ideas. But, you know, here's the deal. A lot of cool stuff happens in the Bible when people are eating. For example, the Lord's Supper. And I think there's a weird – I actually really love this scene of the Bible. So, and if it helps, I will be preaching on this on May 1st if anyone wants to swing on to Pathway Church. This is why I've been in this lately. But at the end of John, after Jesus comes back, he kind of – he enters the locked doors a couple times and, you know, interacts with the disciples. And then you get this scene where they're on kind of a beach, and Simon's like – or Peter's like, I'm going to go fishing. You guys want to go fishing with me? So they go out and they go fishing. And the Lord is on the – he's on the beach, and he's kind of hanging out. And he's got a fire going. And he's like, hey, you got any fish out there? You know, they can see there's a guy out there, but maybe they don't really know that it's him. And then suddenly Peter recognized him.

He's like, it's the Lord. And he goes bombing off of this boat. And he swims 100 yards. He's not even going to wait for the boat to go in. He's going to swim 100 yards. Is that the right one? It was the oatmeal raisin, Dan. This is the oats and honey. It had oat in it. So anyway – It's the raisins? It's the chewy one. I got bad teeth. Oh. I got to have the chewy granola. So anyway, he goes – Peter goes bombing off this boat. And then the scene at the end of John is kind of Jesus hanging around, and he's cooking breakfast. And nobody's really saying anything because he's – you know, it's a time where he hasn't really shown up in a weird fashion, like coming in an unlocked door. He's kind of just hanging out, and there's a scene where he's just – he's cooking breakfast. He's taking care of basic needs. He's like, we're coming together.

We're going to eat. And then they're going to talk. You know, he's going to have a long talk with Peter. Peter kind of needs to be dealt with a little bit for how he left the Lord was not in good repair. And so he's kind of back. But it's just kind of a cool scene where, like, these guys who had followed Christ, none of whom which performed very well when he was being dragged away to be crucified. And then he's on the beach. And it's kind of a surreal deal where you're sitting here hanging out with Jesus, and he's making breakfast. You've got to bring some fish in. He's got a fire going, putting some on. And it's just a really cool scene. Like, I really like that scene. It was – and the more I read it, the more I like it because you just get a better vibe from Jesus. He's like, you know, we've had this big event. This big thing went down. The thing that I told you was going to happen, the thing that the whole Old Testament was building to when it happened. You know, and I came back, and what am I doing? We're sitting out, and we're going to eat breakfast. We're going to have some fish that you caught. We're going to talk a little. I'm going to tell you what I want you to do after I'm gone, and then I'm going to head out. But for that one surreal moment in time, it's just a cool, cool vibe and a cool picture of, you know, think of everything that he wants to impart before he leaves.

And he starts with, hey, man, do you have any fish? Do you have any fish? Get some fish in here. I'm going to cook you some breakfast. Let's get – let's eat. Let's share some time together, and then we'll talk about what I want you to do, what this looks like after I'm gone. And, you know, they've got some – Peter's got some – you know, he's going down. He's following. He's literally following Christ, and he's going to be crucified the same way. I mean, they've got some heavy stuff to go through, but he's going to start out. We're going to go to the beach, and we're going to eat some fish. It's just a cool scene, and I really dig on it. But, you know, there's food in a lot of stuff. There's a lot of food in the Bible, a lot of fellowship, a lot of time, you know, taking care of base physical needs and meeting spiritual needs. And it's just a – it's a cool vibe, and I think it's – it provides us a way to relate to God in a way that is not – that is physical, right? God – you know, Jesus was on earth. He had the same hunger that we had. He had the same, you know, physical things that we had, and he's not denying us that and understanding our human condition. And let's do this, and then we'll get to the things that I got for you. Anyway, it's just – it's a cool deal, and I really – it's in John 21, and I really like it. But, so, you know, this granola bar reminded me of that. Let's partake in the granola bar.

I wasn't listening. I was eating. No doubt. Sorry. Please entertain everyone while we eat. We have an opening at 9 a.m. tomorrow in the prayer room and 10 a.m. at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Other than that, that's all you got for tomorrow. Oh, in the prayer room? 9, 10, 11? 9, 10, 11, and 2 p.m. 9, 10, 11 a.m., 2 p.m. Okay. Wednesday, we've got 10 and 11 a.m., 2 and 3 p.m. Ooh, and a midnight. No, 11, 11 p.m. All right. It's filled in pretty well. It's just people come in, and they sign up for more, and of course, that's the whole thing. And then new people come in, and then they sign up for more, and then new people come in. It's just kind of a snowball thing. Right. Because it's so awesome.

It is so awesome. So, what was your impression? I mean, you know, it's different because you're thinking, okay, you know, I've got to come in here and do this radio thing in a minute, you know, because this is like big time, life in the past, so you might have been distracted. From all the pomp and circumstance. Oh, sorry. Love coming here. You guys are fun. You know what? You know what God's doing, though? There's something bigger. We put the studio here, and there's still a lot of things in the works, but there's another radio station that's wanting to partner with us and actually use the studio that they will use in their studio. But they're going to bring people in for interviews. Honest to God, we could be having presidential candidates in here in the next few months. Wonderful. Just because of the stuff we've done, and they came in and said, hey, this looks like a studio. This is what, I mean, this is really cool. They're going to have some weekly show. I know they're going to be bringing in city officials and city government people stuff weekly, but then there'll be other bigger stuff, too. It's just, I'm just kind of blown away.

Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah. Yeah, with what? I don't know. Ooh, we got presidential. I mean, I don't know. It's just kind of cool because we're just like, you know, three guys and a donkey that… Well, and it was totally a prayer thing. We, you know, the other, when we were at the other, the Des Moines Amplified downtown, I mean, it was a sweet, it was a cool gig. You know, they gave us a cool spot. You know, we got to do whatever we wanted. They were really cool about what we're able to do. And there was just some, you know, an opportunity for us to say, you know, is there something else we should be doing? We would never be here had we not had that opportunity. You know, so it was just something that we just, we prayed on and said, we don't know if we, if we don't do what we were doing at Des Moines Amplified and we come here, we don't know what that's going to look like. You know, we don't, they've got, they've got nice equipment. You know, they know what they're up to. We didn't have either of those things.

And, you know, we thought, you know, the, you know, we just, we prayed on it. We're like, you know, we know that if we stayed where we were, things would probably be fine. You know, they could, we'd be in good shape, but we just felt like that was the thing. It was the time to do something and we prayed on it. And that's how we ended up here. And it's, it's, it's weird to say it's, it's odd how it turned out. Cause you know, if prayerfully that's where God takes you, you got to figure God's going to do something with it. And it's, it's, it's more cool to see how that, how that turns out. Like what God will do with something. And, you know, I don't think we're ever going to be, you know, broadcasting to 50,000 folks, you know, every Monday from 10 to midnight, 40,000 definitely. Yeah, probably. Definitely. Absolutely. I was going to start taking us by January of next year. If you keep having us on, oh, you'll get a lot of us. It'll just skyrocket. We're going to start, they're going to, they're putting this weekly now on, on, you know, the traditional radio.

I mean, it's kind of, it's kind of, it's kind of wild. God, God can do what he wants. And I missed. But nothing will ever top the poo tracker. Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure. Nothing will ever top that. That was the best show ever. It was. It was a shining moment in broadcast history. It slowed down some. And Mike even came up with a song. Yeah. That's right. That was on the fly. Yeah. Yeah. That's what it was. That got some pretty good play. That went into one of our, our legitimate radio programs. It's trying to filter this operation down into an hour's worth of legitimate radio time

is quite the undertaking. It is. And trying to maybe not even offend everyone listening because, you know, right after us is like maybe, what, hymn time or something. And so it's, it's very much a different audience than what maybe they're accustomed to. So I don't know. They haven't told us not to come back. I haven't heard anything yet. It is weird though because it is right after our show when we're on at Praise 940. By the way, we were able to be on Praise 940 by J.C. Walker who was, he's a realtor with iRealty and he has a show, Moving Iowa. And he, he approached us and said, look, would you guys like to have an hour, one of my hours on a Sunday, you know, one Sunday month, would you like to do that? It was really cool. And he, and he's one that allows us to do that. So a lot of thanks to him, to J.C. Walker for allowing us to do that. He, you know, he just said, hey, it's your time. You do what you want with it. I want to, I want to give it to you. So that was very cool. But one of the cool things with that time slot is, is we, we go and then it is like hymn time.

It's like an old liturgical hymn time, an organ and stuff. And it's weird to hear the end of the live from the path show and then go right into that. And it's, it's a couple of different worlds. And it's, I've always thought about what it looks like to the guy who's specifically turning in, tuning into hymn time. He doesn't want to miss hymn time. So he's in there five minutes early and he's catching the end of the poo tracker. That's awesome. And, uh, you know, it, it does make you wonder what that guy feels. Oh, what are they doing? Where is the church gone? Yeah. This, this is what's happening. The church has gone to the pot. Yes. But, uh, well, all right. So we're actually, uh, we're nine minutes to go to the end of the, into the broadcast. Uh, you've been listening to live from the path. Um, you can catch us during the week at live from the path. Or you can sign up for the podcast. You can catch, um, past performances from candy for Nichols and other bands.

Like I said, uh, saved on Sunday and on this rock. We'll be in here next week, uh, taking turns in the prayer room and in the studio. Um, these performances from, uh, candy for Nichols will be up on our YouTube channel probably within the next 24 to 48 hours. You can check those out. Um, and so, uh, please do that. Please sign up for the newsletter so we can be in contact with you. We expect, I think the summer is going to be pretty big. We're going to have a lot of cool stuff going on. Like I said, we're going to try to be broadcasting some acoustic shows from some of the bands, um, at their venues, uh, instead of in here. Uh, they, everybody sounds great in here, but it is, it is kind of tight, tight space. It's a different vibe when you've got an audience in front of you. No monitors. Yeah. Yeah. No, no camera staring you in the face. So, um, uh, yeah, I know you can't even hear yourself. Right. We're low range around here. We're just, um, we're working on headphones. What are you going to do?

So, um, but, but you can go to livefromthepath.org and catch us during the week. Um, but, so we'd love to see you out there, but you have been listening to live from the path. We are live from, uh, the 24 seven prayer room over the next two weeks here in the pathway studios. Uh, it's a pretty cool thing. Um, definitely. I don't know if you can still, you can scroll. The links for the chat or for the, um, the signup for the 24 seven prayer room here also for our, uh, the atheist, excuse me, the atheist prayer room, which is happening at the hotel of the national atheist convention that will be in town, um, coming up. And that is a, that is a no contact event. It is a, um, uh, we're going to let God do what he wants to do. So you come in, um, we have an hour in that room. There's not a lot of fluff in there. It's a Bible and an hour, and that's pretty much what you got. Um, just praying for the folks that are at that convention, um, that, uh, God's will be, will be done in their lives. And, um, uh, you know, uh, there might be opportunity that comes out of that at the convention. Um, but we're not, uh, we're not going to start stuff. Um, if, if they're going to be changed, God's going to change them. Their heart's going to be changed.

Um, I think what's going to happen is you'll have a lot of folks who suddenly, um, feel themselves being less abrasive to the thing, um, that they're, they're kind of raging against and find themselves asking more questions than they were before. Not so certain of the things that they were certain of, uh, and God working in their life. Cause the thing is, is like, um, you can yell at someone and, and, uh, and you can scare them and you can turn them the wrong way for Christ. Like, I mean, you think that there's not a wrong way to turn somebody, but like, if it's not a, um, if it's not a, uh, honest turn to faith, they're just going to leave it again. Um, and that's, that's not a way to go to God. So, you know, like if you let God do it, I think that's a better, that's a better atmosphere. So let's, we'll pray hard for him. We'll do what we have the power to do, which is to pray for him. Uh, and then let God do whatever he wants. And if there is an opportunity that comes out of that, uh, great for us, uh, for God and for their relationship with Christ. But, uh, more than anything else, we just want to, you know, be faithful in our prayer, uh, for those folks. And again, it's kind of a vibe thing, you know, be in, in, we know where they're meeting and we're meeting with Christ in that same, same area and saying, you know what, you know, do what you can here, do what you want to do, that you will be done with these folks. So, um, you know, if you're interested in that, uh, that, uh, that prayer room, uh, we do, we actually are, there are quite a few openings there.

It's a tough deal. Uh, we, since we have a prayer room going on here, uh, we've kind of doubled up on our resources to, to get into that prayer room. So, um, you know, definitely if you're interested in that, we'd love to have you sign up, uh, and take an hour in there. And it's a two, two room suite. And so that there's, there's, you know, you can have multiple people in there. You can do a group. It doesn't have to be just you. You want to take a, you know, a group of folks, a buddy, the band, uh, you know, whatever, do whatever you want to do so that you can be in there and, and, and pray. Um, you know, sign up for the 23rd. All right. I think I did. All right. One of those dates. If you, I'll put, let me, I'll throw this out there too. Like if you haven't been like a part of one of our, the prayer rooms here, um, I would actually try to get into the atheist prayer room early. Cause I think, um, the experience will be pretty cool and you may want to come back in. And so I'm not just saying that cause I want to feel slots. Like I want you to have a cool experience with Christ in that, uh, in that prayer room.

Um, but I actually think you, you know, you may want to come back. So, uh, just throwing it out there. Uh, so let's, uh, let's get to some more tunes. Uh, we're receiving, squeeze them in. You guys got a couple more songs. I'm gonna let you rapid fire them off and, and, and get them out and carry us out for the last five minutes. And then we'll have a new, yeah. And then new team coming in. So we'll have to kind of scurry out. And then we'll have to scurry out cause there will be someone else coming in their time. Yeah. Um, okay. All right. So once again, thank you very much, Candy for Nichols, for coming in. It's so good to see you guys again. It's fun. Thank you for having us back. Yep. We'll, uh, I'm sure we'll, we'll be seeing each other again. Um, once you carry us out, you will listen to Live from the Path. This is, uh, Candy for Nichols from the, uh, from the prayer room.

So you think you can get me, by messing with my mind. Try to get me to fall, crying all the time. You try to keep me busy, wound by other things. You got me running in circles, to let me be. I'm a child of God, kings. A battle is one, mission. You're lasting. You're running out of time. You want to break up my family, want to break up my family. We're fighting and arguing. It's never gonna happen, no. His blood has set us free. I'm a child of God. The battle is one. Satan, you're under.