The Prayer Tunnel with Daniel and Michelle Moore - 2

Ever wondered how to seamlessly blend faith, family, and professional life? Join host, Kim McIntire, as our latest episode of It's Time to Rise Up brings you the inspiring journey of Daniel and Michelle Moore, dedicated church leaders and community members. Daniel shares his unique experience working at a Christian radio station, intertwining his ministry with his career, while Michelle offers heartfelt reflections on their 22 years of marriage and their dynamic family life. Together, they reveal the highs and lows of their spiritual journey and their unwavering commitment to serving others.

Have you ever heard of a prayer tunnel? Daniel and Michelle recount their transformative moments with this unique experience, where individuals receive prayers while walking between two lines of intercessors. Michelle shares her testimony of spiritual release and freedom after participating in a prayer tunnel. We also explore the balance of worshiping as a couple amidst the distractions of family life, offering insights on maintaining a spiritual routine together.

Michelle also shares about the life-changing impact of Rise Up events and the upcoming worship night in January, as she reflects on how these gatherings have powerfully transformed her spiritual journey. Join us for an episode filled with heartfelt testimonies and empowering experiences that showcase the boundless power of faith.

Visit us at www.itstimetoriseup.org to learn about our ministry and everything we have to offer. We pray blessings over you and that you will receive a renewed excitement for Jesus through this episode!

Chapters

• 0:09 Daniel and Michelle Share their Testimony
• 14:57 Prayer Tunnel Experience and Meaning
• 27:25 Personal Testimonies and Worship Nights
• 31:29 Empowering Testimonies of Faith
• 37:48 What's next on this podcast?

Transcript

Kim McIntire: 0:09

Welcome to the it's Time to Rise Up podcast. I'm your host, kim McIntyre. Thank you for joining us today. If you're not familiar with our show, please check out our website at itstimetoriseuporg. For our social media links, for our platforms we're on YouTube, apple Podcasts and Spotify and anywhere else you find your podcast. Please subscribe, leave us a comment, give us a thumbs up or, even better, give us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. We're excited today to have Daniel and Michelle Moore here in the studio. When I was thinking about how to describe Daniel and Michelle, this is the word that came to mind servants. I know them through church and when I see them, they're never sitting, they're always serving, and I'm very happy that they said yes to this interview. Daniel, why don't you introduce yourself and just tell us a little bit about you?

Daniel Moore: 1:05

I can do that. Well, I'm Daniel Moore, as you said, and I do thank you for having us on the podcast today, you're welcome. I appreciate that. Well, I've lived here in Yoshua my whole life, for the most part, and I work at a Christian radio station. So when you say you know us as servants, well, I do that at my job as well. I've got ministry all around me, so it's pretty awesome.

Kim McIntire: 1:28

Yeah.

Daniel Moore: 1:29

But I've been there for about seven years and really enjoy that. I do have a beautiful wife, Michelle. She's sitting right over here, so she'll be talking here in a minute. We've got three kids, two grandkids and one on the way, a couple of dogs, so living that good American life you know how that goes.

Daniel Moore: 1:49

I've been in church my whole life. I pretty much, as I like to say, I was born underneath the pews pretty much, and I remember many times as a kid falling asleep under those pews, as the services would go till midnight or one o'clock in the morning, the way it used to be back in those days. But I went to a Christian school and so I've pretty much been around church my whole life and I've known who God is my whole life been in a godly family. But of course, as it goes with a lot of people, we have our ups and downs and I've not always been a perfect person, been out of church a few times. Of course we're never perfect, but there are times that I've gotten out of church and gotten away from it, just with different things in my life, that's come along and it lets Satan win some of those battles and I've had to take that ground back Right Amen, quite a few years now that once.

Daniel Moore: 2:47

I, as I say, like to say when I finally grew up and matured a little bit. I've, I'm thankful to say that God, just you know, he's brought me a long way. And I know there was another thing here that you wanted me to mention with the intro here about the role that I have with you guys, you guys, asked me to help with the podcast. You guys asked me to help with the podcast.

Kim McIntire: 3:04

Yeah.

Daniel Moore: 3:04

And so whenever you asked me that and I prayed about it, I felt like you know, that was something that God, really, you know, put up on my heart to help you all. I just love the ministry that you guys have and what your intentions are with all of it and the way that God's just leading and guiding all of you in this.

Kim McIntire: 3:22

Thank you.

Daniel Moore: 3:23

And I actually took it as an honor to be, you know, asked to be a part of it all and kind of watch this whole thing to grow. Wow, thank you so much I really enjoy watching you guys, minister, and everybody that comes to these conferences and everything. I know they share that as well. So basically I help and produce this podcast and everything. Yes, when I first met Daniel, but so basically I help and produce this podcast and everything.

Kim McIntire: 3:45

Yeah, yeah, yes. When I first met Daniel, he asked if I would be on his podcast. He hosts a podcast called Connecting the Gap. Tell us where we can find it, Daniel.

Daniel Moore: 3:56

Okay, it's on everywhere you can get your podcast. It's on YouTube and Rumble. If you can go to my website at connectingthegapnet probably the easiest way to find it- yeah, well, thank you for that.

Kim McIntire: 4:06

Yes, he did our tech for us at Conference 1 and also Conference 2, as well as Worship Night. Yep Worship Night so yes, Daniel is our tech mind, so we're really grateful for him and we're glad to have your wife here today. Michelle, tell us a little bit about yourself.

Michelle Moore: 4:24

Well, I'm Michelle. I am the lucky wife of Daniel, as I call him, my handsome honey, and I put that in her cell phone.

Daniel Moore: 4:33

That way too.

Michelle Moore: 4:34

It is that way.

Daniel Moore: 4:35

When it rings, it says handsome honey.

Michelle Moore: 4:37

I love it. That's great. We've been married for 22 years. As he said, we have three kids. We also have a daughter-in-law and a son-in-law and we have the two granddaughters, Addie and Alayah, and one on the way. He said we had one granddago, but I think we have like five.

Daniel Moore: 4:58

I lost track of all of them. I guess we do have a couple more, don't we yeah? Whose count?

Michelle Moore: 5:03

Ministry work. We went to Abundant Life before we went to James River.

Michelle Moore: 5:09

And we did a lot of different kind of ministry work there. We did a life group for young adults, college-age kids. Our church didn't have one, so we created one with Vicki and Scotty Alvius. And about that time is really when I seen my life kind of change, because you're more in a leadership kind of role. And then Dan was on the praise and worship team and I was always known as the drummer's wife. Never, my name is Michelle, it's the drummer's wife that sounds so dignified.

Michelle Moore: 5:44

It does. And then I helped with Hope Kitchen. I kind of led that and I had a blast with it. We do Connect Center at James River and we absolutely love it.

Kim McIntire: 6:01

My heart is for people. I love people.

Michelle Moore: 6:03

I love to serve. If you've got something for me to do, I'm going to do it my heart is for people.

Michelle Moore: 6:08

I love people, I love to serve. If you got something for me to do, I'm going to do it. And I'm the crier in the back. You know, I let everybody else up front, they pray and I just in the back and I'm just praying and crying the whole time. I love it. And so I kind of I work for community bank and trust Been there 27 years. Wow, I kind of I work for community bank and trust Been there 27 years. I kind of laugh because I've done so many different jobs and right now I'm an internal auditor and I don't know what I was thinking when I took the job in March. But it's been a challenge to learn a lot. But God opened the door, he's placed me in it and when I go in every day I'm like it's all you, God, that's right. There's so much to learn and so much to do. It has to be Him.

Kim McIntire: 6:49

Absolutely Wow. Yeah, it's so good. Yeah, it's so good. Well, one reason I asked you guys to be on the podcast there's several, but the main reason is you guys have both been involved in each event that we've had. So you were involved in Conference 1 in 2023. You were involved in Worship Night in January of 24. And then you were at conference just a month or so ago in August of 24. And so you guys have really kind of watched it grow and we're still in baby stages. And so you guys have really kind of watched it grow and we're still in baby stages. But I thought, you know, just hearing your perspective and your testimony, Michelle, I just feel would be really impactful for our audience, especially people who haven't yet attended a prayer conference or a worship night. So you had an experience at Rise Up this past August and I would love for you to share that story with us.

Michelle Moore: 7:50

Okay. Well, I'm going to tell you I'm going to actually read out of my journal. Absolutely, feel free to do that. So if you hear me changing pages, that's because I'm going to read what I wrote. Yes, go right ahead.

Michelle Moore: 8:02

So to Rise Up 2024,. First and foremost, thank you to the Rise Up leadership team for being obedient to God, and I wouldn't be here writing this if you guys weren't obedient to what he placed on your heart and allow him to move like you guys did. I will start from the beginning of what I wrote. I put I am God's favorite. I've never felt like God's favorite. I've lived in a world of shame because of choices I've made in my past. Not just shame, but feeling like I'm not good enough. The enemy has stolen who I was because of choices I've made and choices of other people around me.

Michelle Moore: 8:45

I sat in the audience just bawling. Holy Spirit was working on me as I sat there, releasing myself to him. I came with expectation but honestly never thought I would leave a complete, changed woman. Where to start? God First, you loved me. You truly loved me. No matter what, you love me. I'm your favorite. You've chosen me To know that. To say that words cannot describe the thoughts that I have With me being your favorite, what power that has and what understanding that has given me. I don't have to be perfect, I don't have to have a checklist. You love me unconditionally, you, my Abba, father, who formed me, who has given me boldness, a loving, compassionate heart, a baller, and I'm your favorite.

Michelle Moore: 9:37

Ashley spoke about being God's favorite and it spoke to me in ways I can't describe, questioning why I've never felt that way. It came down to things I've done in my past, things I'm ashamed of, but I still knew that I was a daughter of the king. Friday, before service, andrea came up to me and said I've got a word and you're the one, and if anybody's got a word from Andrea, you just know. Right? And she said seven. And I'm like okay, and she's like the word seven, I don't know. And I was like okay. So I tucked that away because I had no idea what it meant.

Michelle Moore: 10:13

When Kim came up and started giving her testimony, it hit me straight to the core of my heart. You see, everyone that has spoken at Rise Up has always testified of what happened to them, what someone has done to them. When Kim mentioned shame, I wanted to slide down in my chair because I knew what I've done in my past and what Satan has been using that to fight me against speaking out of my testimony. Not only using shame, but being disgraced, unworthy, fear, guilt being insufficient perfection. Kim talked about building a community to surround her and her husband during her season. That's what I did. I allowed the community of the Rise Up Conference to walk me through a prayer tunnel. As I started walking through the prayer tunnel, rose was swiping my back, saying God's shedding stuff off of you, releasing shame, perfection insufficient. And at that moment I become joyful in my heart, happy, smiling, laughing, crying. Because that prayer tunnel and the Rise Up community, he created a new child, a bold child with a fire. Sorry, I can't see.

Kim McIntire: 11:34

No, please don't be sorry.

Michelle Moore: 11:36

It's beautiful, the way has been completely lifted off. After the event, rose came up to me at church and said I have a word Nahum 1-7, and I'm going to read that to you. The Lord is good, a strong refuge when trouble comes. He is close to those who trust him. You see, I wouldn't have received anything if I wouldn't have trusted him or trusted that community as I walked through that prayer tunnel and received what they had for me. Then God brought to me the Psalms. I'm going to read that, and it's Psalms 95, 17.

Michelle Moore: 12:15

Unless the Lord had helped me, I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave. I cried out I am slipping. But your unfailing love, o Lord, supported me. When doubts fill my mind, your comfort gave me the renewed hope and cheer. You see, if I wouldn't have walked through that prayer tunnel and allowed God to work and to minister for those people that are around me, I wouldn't receive what I had today. This RISE conference has changed me completely. You don't understand that. The fact of when I came into church I always felt like I would say hi, but the joy that it's brought to my heart To be able to come in, smiling, the excitement, I mean it's just it has changed me tremendously.

Kim McIntire: 13:05

Praise God, tremendously. Praise God, michelle. That was so beautiful and I want to mention that Ashley was one of the speakers who currently has a book called Favorite, god's Favorite. I hope I'm saying that right.

Michelle Moore: 13:25

Favored.

Kim McIntire: 13:26

Yeah, favored, thank you, thank you.

Daniel Moore: 13:29

Same concept.

Kim McIntire: 13:30

Yes, I should know that I helped coach her through the book, but in this moment it just escaped me that she was the first speaker and then Kim Lester shared her testimony and the structure of the conference for people who don't know is testimony and it's not recorded and you can't go and get a link to listen to the conference, and the reason is they're very raw and real and personal stories. But you are an example, Michelle, of how when people say yes to sharing the redemption story that a lot of people are too ashamed to share, that it has an impact. It creates a multiplication effect because it gives people the freedom to know I can share too, Right, and my story can impact someone as well, Because the truth is all of us have been in a pit and I said that last episode. But he's the redeemer from the pit, he crowns us with love and compassion and he satisfies with all good things. So our youth is renewed like the eagle, and that's what I was picturing when you were sharing that just how God has crowned you with love and compassion and has renewed you and it shows and it's beautiful.

Kim McIntire: 14:51

So I'm so grateful for your willingness to read your journal from what happened at Rise Up. But I do want to just talk a little bit about the prayer tunnel, and I'm going to direct this question to your husband, Daniel. You were there, I know you were up in the sound booth, so you were really observing a lot of things that were happening from up high. And how would you describe a prayer tunnel to someone?

Kim McIntire: 15:16

So you were really observing a lot of things that were happening from up high Yep. And how would you describe a prayer tunnel to someone, because I know we have people listening that have no idea what that is.

Daniel Moore: 15:25

Yeah, it's very foreign to a lot of people. So a prayer tunnel is basically where, you know, you get your prayer team or whatever. They'll basically make two lines facing each other and they create what you would, you know, look to see as a tunnel between the two of them, and then everybody that wants to walk through that they just start at one end and they start walking through between the two lines of people and those people are praying over them as they pass in front of them all the way down that line from one end to the other, and probably the—and a lot—you know some people think, well, why is that necessary? You know, because you've got these people that think, well, I can pray at my seat at my house or I can pray at the seat at church. You know, you don't have to go through all this, whatever, but a lot of it is humility, because—'s good.

Daniel Moore: 16:18

Something I want to want to say here you know, michelle, when we this was at conference two is where this happened, which just happened here in August and when we went to this conference, michelle, you know she was there as an attendee. I was there, you know, helping with the media and that kind of thing, and the media was in a second floor area of the auditorium there. So I tried to, as I could. You know, in between here and there I was able to go sit with her for a little bit. But we like to worship next to each other and so sometimes when we're separated and we have to go do separate things which we've done plenty of that it's not like it's never happened, but every time that we do get the opportunity to worship next to each other it's just pretty awesome Because, you know, in the past it's not happened a whole lot.

Daniel Moore: 17:12

You know, like she was saying earlier, I was on the praise and worship team. At the last church I was on, I was the only drummer, so there for 12 years pretty much she worshiped by herself because I was up on stage from the beginning of service, clear up to the sermon, and so she spent a lot of time, you know, doing that on her own. And so when we finally had the opportunity, when God moved us to James River, our current church that we go to with you guys, I decided I just didn't feel like that's where God was pushing me to, and so we finally had the opportunity then to worship next to each other and it was super weird because it's like you're not used to, you know. She told me you know I pray in my prayer language sometimes and she wasn't used to that, you know, and so she's making comments when we get home.

Michelle Moore: 18:03

I'm like you're praying too loud. You need to be quiet.

Daniel Moore: 18:07

You're singing too loud, you're praying too loud, it's all this stuff. You know, I'm like I'm just doing what I used to do on the drum set at the last church. You know, it's like what's the deal here? And so it took a little bit for us to get used to each other. People were thinking like well, that makes no sense, you know, because most people get to worship next to each other all the time and when you don't get to, you start seeing the other side of that. It's just, it's a little bit different. So at this conference, you know she's got tons of friends there, but still she was kind of sitting to herself and whatever, and I didn't know how much she was going to actually get into it. It was kind of a I don't know. At that time there at the first of August, there was some stuff going on family wise and that kind of thing, and so distractions Sure, distractions are a bad thing when you're trying to get in with God and you know, get something from him.

Daniel Moore: 18:56

Distractions are a bad thing. When you're trying to get in with God and get something from him, distractions are a bad thing. And so I wondered through the whole conference how she was doing, because I couldn't see where she was at because of where I was sitting, and when the prayer tunnel happened I wasn't sure she'd went through it yet or not.

Daniel Moore: 19:13

And I was hoping she would, but I had not. I was where I could see most of it taking place up there, but there's computer monitors in front of me and all this stuff. Well, all of a sudden I get a text on my phone and she goes you have to go through that tunnel. And I saw it and I'm like, well, I guess she went through it, you know. And so I asked her I said did you go through it? She goes yes, god released a lot for me and I didn't answer back for a little bit because they were still singing at the time so.

Daniel Moore: 19:46

I was still putting lyrics up on the screen and everything, and then I get a text again. Please go down and go through it. Wow, they will understand the screen change. That's funny. They won't miss the funny.

Kim McIntire: 19:56

They won't miss the lyrics. They won't miss the lyrics.

Daniel Moore: 19:59

She's like they're at the end of the line and then she goes please just right, quick. I'm like man, she got something out of that tunnel.

Michelle Moore: 20:06

I did.

Daniel Moore: 20:06

She's going to be up there dragging me down the stairs here in a minute. That's great. And I told her I was like well, I plan on going through it. I told her, you know, I was like well, I plan on going through it, but I was kind of waiting until everybody got through it.

Kim McIntire: 20:17

It was long.

Daniel Moore: 20:18

It was. It took a while, it almost wrapped around the whole auditorium it did.

Daniel Moore: 20:21

And so I finally, you know, had my opportunity to go down through it. And you know there's two ways you can walk through a prayer tunnel. You can walk through that prayer tunnel thinking that, eh, I don't know if I'll get anything from this or not, you know, and you just kind of go through it. You never open yourself up and allow God to really work on the things that's in your life. Or you can approach that tunnel with expectation yes, your life. Or you can approach that tunnel with expectation and you can come up to that tunnel and say, okay, god, I'm getting ready to take this step through this path. Here. I've got all these people waiting to pray over me and, you know, plead the blood over my life and whatever it may be.

Kim McIntire: 21:01

Right.

Daniel Moore: 21:02

I'm ready to accept something from you.

Kim McIntire: 21:04

Yes, and so good.

Daniel Moore: 21:06

I wanted to read something here, so I'm going to be. I've got a podcast coming up in the future I don't know exactly what I'm going to do just yet but it's called the seven mile miracle and it's so fitting for what we're talking about, because the second conference that you guys had, the one of the themes was burn, yeah, and some people didn't understand what I actually had people ask me burn, what's that mean? Right, and some people didn't understand what I actually had people ask me burn, what's that mean?

Daniel Moore: 21:29

It was some of the kids there at the college and so once I explained it to them, they understood it. But if you look at Luke 24, 30, where this story takes place, that this came from it's Resurrection Sunday, jesus sits down in a common experience of a shared meal.

Daniel Moore: 21:46

The Bible says that he was at the table Remember these two disciples that Jesus had met on the road to Emmaus and had talked to them. They're interested in who he is, but they still don't recognize him. They still don't know who he is at that point when he sits down with them. And you know Jesus.

Daniel Moore: 22:07

Christ you know the Son of God. He has a time for a meal break on Resurrection Sunday, yeah, and the Bible says that he just starts taking over. Well, one of them was Cleopas was one of the people's name. I like to call him Cleo, but he's just sitting there watching and this visitor, this traveling companion, who's Jesus? All of a sudden becomes the host at his house, instead of vice versa.

Daniel Moore: 22:27

You know it's supposed to be the other way around, but you know, jesus takes bread and he breaks it, and when he breaks that bread, you go through that motion of breaking bread.

Daniel Moore: 22:37

When you do that, your hands turn upside down, and at that moment they saw those nail scars in Jesus' wrist and at that point they understood who he was. When they saw those nails that had been there, they realized he was Jesus, which lets us know that sometimes the power of an example is greater than the power of an explanation. Jesus had not explained to them who he was yet. They didn't have any clue, but when they saw those nail scars, they understood by the example that Jesus had given when he died on that cross. And it says that they saw those nail scars. They understood by the example that Jesus had given when he died on that cross. And it says that they saw the scars in his hands. And the more we think about that, we realize we may think about it kind of like this If Jesus got up from the grave and he has the power to overcome death, he wouldn't leave scars where the nails had been.

Daniel Moore: 23:33

If God has resurrection power, surely he'd do a little bit of cosmetic surgery and get rid of those holes that were in his hands and the marks that he had over his body where the Roman guard beat him and all the stuff that took place. Surely he wouldn't leave those scars there. There's times that I've thought about that, because Jesus, you know God could have taken those scars away. Jesus did not have to keep bearing those scars. You know, when they seen those scars, their eyes were open and they recognized him because of those scars that he had. They saw the one who was with them that whole way down that road. But they saw him not in his words, they saw him in his wounds.

Daniel Moore: 24:09

At that point they saw him not because they had heard the stone was rolled away, but because they were up close and personal with the one who had actually suffered and had been behind that stone. Then their eyes were open, they recognized him and then he disappeared from their sight. He just vanished, because that's not really where his destination was. His destination was, you know, to be into heaven. But the scriptures say in verse 32 there it says they asked each other were not our hearts burning while he talked? His words made their hearts burn, but it was his wounds that opened their eyes. There's some things that cannot be explained.

Daniel Moore: 24:43

They can only be experienced. And that really sums up that whole conference with ending it with that prayer tunnel. I can sit here and explain what that prayer tunnel is, I can draw a picture of it and try to explain to somebody what it's like to walk through that, but until they experience that tunnel and what it can actually do, and with the way.

Daniel Moore: 25:06

Michelle described what happened to her. You know when she went through it, you know when I went through it. We always think, well, we pray all the time. I'm on the prayer team, you know, with you guys.

Daniel Moore: 25:16

And everybody's like well, you're all prayed up, you know you shouldn't need this or that or whatever, because you pray all the time. And what is all this other stuff? We, we're human. We still need prayer too. We still go through things, we still fight battles. Yeah, god's called us and he's blessed us with the ministry that we're a part of, or whatever, but we still have to have our time. We still got to be able to go through and get things taken off of us. And you know so that prayer tunnel was awesome.

Daniel Moore: 25:42

And I think the conference was amazing, but a lot of people have talked about that prayer tunnel.

Kim McIntire: 25:48

Yeah, and that's what's so exciting about having Michelle share her testimony tonight or today is that a lot of people don't know what it is. A lot of people that were at conference haven't heard all the testimonies that have come from the prayer tunnel time. But I want to just take a minute to just kind of brag on the prayer team. I have the honor of leading the prayer team for the conference and we meet once a month to pray and they actually had the names of every person registered up to Wednesday. We didn't get the people who were registered last minute were last minute that registered last minute. So, but everyone who was registered up to the Wednesday before their names had been prayed over regularly and the prayer team was praying. You know, lord, help me to know what to pray, how to encourage words to speak, words of knowledge, prophetic words, like they were prepared to pray over the people who were there and it showed.

Kim McIntire: 26:54

I mean, the Lord honored that preparation, you know, and so I'm really grateful for the emphasis on prayer at conference and the willingness of people to walk through something they had never experienced and, truthfully, not everyone did, and that's okay. We had people just sitting in the seats and watching and maybe next time, right, and we don't know that that's going to be every event that we have. But you know, we really try to lean into the Lord and be directed by Him. And the theme was burn I'm glad you brought that up. Burn because we want hearts to burn for Christ, and so you can take the word burn many ways, but in the context of conference it was we want everyone's heart to burn for Jesus Christ, and so if you guys had a thought to share about maybe a listener is tuning in today and they have never attended any of the Rise Up events, but they're thinking about it what would you say someone could expect, michelle, if they show up at worship night in January? What should they come expecting? I guess would be the question I'm asking.

Michelle Moore: 28:06

I would say that don't come expecting. Let God show you his expectations that he's going to allow, because I came in expecting but I wasn't expecting a whole lot. Yeah, god expected and his expectations for me to receive for what he had for me that's good Was beyond anything I can even imagine, and the praise and worship. There's just something about it and it's amazing that the fact that they follow the Holy Spirit, they don't stop, and I don't know how many times we're like okay, we're going to move this, because this is where we're going. It was completely all God. Yeah, the leadership stood to the side and let God move. Yeah, if you want to see something as powerful as it can be, you need to attend.

Kim McIntire: 29:00

Rise.

Michelle Moore: 29:00

Up, because not only the first Rise Up conference, the worship night, this last one we've had, there's not a time that I have not taken anything from it, that God has just given to me and just changed me in ways that I didn't even know, that were hidden, or that he showed me that I need to be doing Like there is nothing that I can say, that I would just tell anyone that pray about it, come with an open heart. Yeah, let God put his expectations out there. Right, Because each speaker has something, and I just want to make this comment right quick, one of the things that I was talking to, amber Sampson, which she's part of the lead team. Yeah, in each conference, it's always been a speaker that has had something done to them and I don't know in every one of them. I can't even imagine getting up in front of someone and speaking that out Right, because it is raw. It is raw and they're being humble to what.

Michelle Moore: 30:08

God has for them to use it as a testimony to speak to us, right. But when Kim got up there and she talked about something she had done, right, I hadn't heard at either conference how everybody had something done to them, but she was the first one I heard that she did something Right. And so I'm, you know, when I've talked about a little bit about my past, which Dan and I are going to get ready to do a marriage podcast, but it goes a little bit on my testimony of I had an affair and I'm very I'm not anymore, I mean, because it is the past. God has, you know, taken that, but it talks about what she was talking about, that shame and stuff. It's so easy to get caught up on all that and he meant for her to be there.

Michelle Moore: 31:02

Sorry, everybody else, but it was meant deeply to my heart because I didn't want to do the podcast. I've been fighting to do the podcast and Satan knew it and he was just trying to squash me like a bug and doesn't want us to release it because we know it's going to help somebody out there, we're going to help marriages, but I know I'm going rabbit trail.

Kim McIntire: 31:28

No, you're good but.

Michelle Moore: 31:29

I also want to talk about the prayer tunnel. Right quick, I took my shoes off because I didn't know what to expect. I knew that God was going to touch me from the bottom to the top. Yeah, yeah, let me tell you. I was sitting down there. I feel sorry for whoever was behind me because I was taking my time. Yeah, I was receiving everything that God had for me Amen. I was laughing, I was crying, I was like y'all behind me, just forget it.

Michelle Moore: 31:55

I'm taking it all because God is just doing the work and I'm like. I come out of there and I was just like holy moly, I'm just like I couldn't stop. It's just I cannot explain how much God meets you there at Arise. Yeah, and I would tell anybody go.

Kim McIntire: 32:16

Yes, go.

Michelle Moore: 32:17

Thank you, run Go.

Kim McIntire: 32:19

Don't let anything stop you no oh wow, I appreciate that so much, thank you. Thank you, michelle. I feel very encouraged. I was going to ask you guys to share something that might encourage our audience today as we close out, but I feel like every person who listens is going to be encouraged by the words that were spoken is about magnifying the name of Jesus and pointing everyone to the only one who can save you, redeem you, set you free, give you joy, hope, peace, and it's about Him, and so I'm honored and thankful that you guys took your time, and I hope to have you back again when you're ready to share your marriage testimony, and so we're going to close out this interview. But you guys have such a story and I have no doubt God's going to use it to impact many, many lives, so thank you so much for your time.

Daniel Moore: 33:25

You're welcome. That's just our prayer that you know a lot of people have. Everybody has baggage.

Michelle Moore: 33:31

A lot of people have baggage.

Daniel Moore: 33:33

Everybody has baggage out there and I know a lot of people are. You know, as we discussed this tonight, a lot of people are ashamed to let that be known.

Kim McIntire: 33:42

Right.

Daniel Moore: 33:42

Just because they let it rule their life.

Kim McIntire: 33:46

It's true.

Daniel Moore: 33:48

You cannot let that stuff, you cannot let your past define you and I know that's kind of cliche and you hear that all the time but there is so much truth packed into that comment that you cannot let your past define you. You have to keep looking forward. I mean, god's forgiven all the sins in our past and are present into our future. He's got all of this taken, you know, under his wing. If he's not going to look at all that stuff behind us, then why are we looking?

Kim McIntire: 34:13

back there at it. That's a good word.

Daniel Moore: 34:15

We miss a lot of goals in our life. Sometimes we miss opportunities to witness to other people, we miss opportunities to share our testimony and that kind of thing, because we're so busy looking at where we've been that these opportunities just pass right on by us. And you know that's what Satan wants. That fits right into his MO. I mean, that's his plan and he enjoys every moment that we allow that to happen in our life. And you know, I think one thing that real quick here before we do close.

Daniel Moore: 34:46

One thing that I do want to say to people. You know churches, when you go to churches, your church has their, the things that they allow to take place in church, and sometimes they suppress things. I guess is the best neutral way to put that. One thing that I've really enjoyed about the conferences so far and of course you know all of us in here are pretty much Pentecostal-based in our doctrine and that kind of thing. But the conferences are allowed to just take off and wherever God takes them. Conference one there was a message in tongue interpretation. I saw dancing in the Spirit, I saw people getting slain. There's just all kinds of things that happened that I had not seen in a long time it was a breath of fresh air.

Kim McIntire: 35:29

Yeah.

Daniel Moore: 35:30

And I just, like Michelle mentioned earlier I think that's probably, if anything is said about these conferences and the worship nights that we've been involved with so far, to say towards you guys as a leadership team thank the Lord that you allow God to do what he wants to do.

Daniel Moore: 35:46

Yes, Thank you so much, because there's too many times that, and I know churches, for whatever reason, they have some limitations sometimes to what happens and what doesn't happen. I totally understand that because I've been in several different types of churches. But at least this venue, this thing that you guys have put together, the atmosphere that you allow you go into it expecting God to do something, and whatever God does, god does it, and that's one thing that I just want to encourage. I pray that that continues because I think that's very important for people. We're only going to get as much of God as we allow ourselves to retain. If we're going to allow so much to come in and then throw that gate up and lock it, that's on us, true, and if we're in a spot where we have the opportunity to receive anything from God, that we could ever want and we're going to take the time to dig in and try to receive that from Him and get on the same page with God and allow Him to do that.

Daniel Moore: 36:50

we need to take that opportunity. You shouldn't walk out the doors and not receive that, and that's one thing that I love about the conferences so far and the worship nights. You guys have just really allowed God to move. And so kudos to you guys for that and I pray God blesses that tremendously.

Kim McIntire: 37:08

Thank you so much. We have an amazing lead team, and I am going to mention their names Holly Hoyer, amber Sampson, christy Marion, kelly Keener, kelly Carter and myself. We love the Lord. We're just doing what he's calling us to do, and he's growing it little by little, and we have great expectation. The testimonies that are coming in are so encouraging that I just can't wait to see what's next.

Kim McIntire: 37:37

I feel like I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for January to come, yeah, for worship night, and we'll be announcing all of that information in the future. Well, thank you for listening today. Our next episode will be an interview with Darla Hightower, a friend of Rise Up who serves on our prayer team. Darla recently published her first book. We know her story is going to be a blessing and encouragement to you. Please be sure to check us out on our facebook page or instagram at the underscore official underscore, rise. Underscore up and don't forget to subscribe to our podcast. Please leave a comment, give us a thumbs up and leave a five-star review. God's peace and grace be upon you, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.