First, I'll start by telling you a little bit about myself. I live in Middletown Virginia and I attend the church my dad pastor's, Lighthouse Full Gospel Church located in Stephens City, Virginia. I was raised in a loving,Christian home with two siblings, my older brother Brent and the youngest, my sister Bethany.
I'm twenty-six years old, I have a beautiful wife Rhonda and we have two beautiful daughter's, Brittany who's five and Natalyn, two.

I was attending a Nursing Home Services, run by Bro. Nathan Mcdonald, who attends my church. As I looked at the elderly people, some just barely hanging on, I thought " Lord these people don't have a purpose or reason to live, there's just nothing they can do. Why don't you just take them home.?" And I felt like the Lord spoke to my Heart and said " They can still Pray:"

The thought burned in my heart and mind, until one night I couldn't sleep, at twelve in the morning sitting on my Mom's piano the words and the melody came immediately to me.
Just a word to fellow writer's, when God has message he wants to get out, there is no rest for the messenger until he does his part to relay God's message. I called my mother who was in Oklahoma at the time, she said it sounded great but it was twelve in the morning and she was tired. Not to be deterred, I made another call, and woke up my cousin, Ryan. Same response. Several days later I persuaded my cousin-in-law, Kara, (who's a great pianist) to put my melody into action.

Several service's later I did something I rarely do. I asked to sing a song. As I began to sing the message, God gave me "I Can Pray" . The power of God immediately filled the House. I knew then this message needed to be spread through out the world, but I didn't know how to spread the message having never published a song. That's when God laid a burden on Christine Fitzl (a prayer warrior in our church) to help me publish the song. (she didn't know what she was doing either.)
But remember what I said about God wanting to get His message out, He Didn't need either one of us. Some how we got the demo to I Can Pray to Crossroads Publishing Company. Greg Bentley heard the song and called me and told me that this was the message for the hour and they were excited about publishing my song.

A short while later Chris White of Crossroads approached the Dove Brother's at the very end of there recording session of "Never The Same". According to Jerry Martin the power of God filled the studio to where he couldn't even continue singing. At that point they decided to record the song.

The rest is History... Before I go I'd like to thank the Lord for using me to spread his message. I'd also like to thank my parents who lived a Godly life in front of me. My wife who has been constant support, I love you Rhonda. I'd also like to thank Scotty Mcnutt, who had such faith in my song, he offered to pay for my demo and did. I'd also like to think Greg Bentley,Crossroads, and the Dove Brother's for having faith in my song. God Bless!

Sincerely,
Nathan Markee

I heard Ronnie Milsap do this song. His cut of the song is called You Don’t Know My Love.  I re-wrote some of the lyrics and changed it to You Don’t Know Gods Love.  I didn’t think the writers would let me but they emailed back and gave us the ok to do it. I won’t get the credit for it, but that’s ok.  All I care about is the message .  This is our first single on the new recording called "Life". 

McCray