Christian singer-songwriter Franni Cash wanted to keep touring with Christian singer-songwriter Brandon Lake, but asking for another opportunity felt like pushing her luck.
“Would you please consider letting me open for you for the spring?” Cash recalled asking him in a clip from “The Walk” podcast.
That question took more courage than it might sound. Cash said she had grown up believing women should keep quiet about what they wanted, and even after landing a place on Lake’s fall 2025 tour, she struggled to ask for more.
But, the singer explained how prayer, an unexpected encouragement and one nerve-racking conversation helped her stop shrinking her dreams. She spoke with worship leader, songwriter and pastor Kurtis Parks, who hosts Worship Leader Magazine’s faith podcast.
Cash hadn’t kept her original touring wish a secret. She wanted to open for Lake, she said, even when people laughed or reminded her how many other artists he could choose.
She admired him as a person, not just as someone with a stage to share. Still, other people’s surprise at her ambition left her wondering why they seemed so sure she couldn’t get the opportunity.
Then Lake invited her, Cash recalled, four months before she released any songs as a solo artist. The invitation gave her the chance she had talked about — but it didn’t erase the fear that surfaced when she wanted to stay.
Cash already had an accomplished musical background. The Recording Academy lists two Grammy nominations connected to We The Kingdom’s Holy Water album and its title song, yet she described asking Lake about the next tour leg as intensely intimidating.
During a post-workout breathing exercise on the fall tour, Cash said she sensed the Holy Spirit telling her she was brave and should ask Lake about opening the spring dates. Her immediate reaction was resistance: He had already given her a tour, and she worried about requesting more.
“I’m not doing that. Are you kidding me?” she recalled thinking.
Back in her dressing room, Cash said, her guitarist picked up a worn blue card from the floor and asked whether it had fallen from her purse. Gold lettering on the card identified its holder as brave — the very encouragement Cash said she had just sensed in prayer.
She took it as reassurance from God. Then she did the uncomfortable part. She approached Lake, explained how much she had learned on his tour and asked him to consider bringing her back.
“I’ll make my set better,” Cash recalled promising.
Lake told her he would think about it, she said, and texted the next day with an invitation. Cash joined Lake and Christian singer-songwriter Pat Barrett on the King of Hearts Tour.
Cash’s next chapter also includes her debut solo album, Here I Am, which her label lists as a 13-track release. But the lesson she drew from that tour conversation wasn’t only for artists trying to book another show: She urged men and women alike to pursue the dreams God puts on their hearts.
“Don’t let anybody keep you small or silent,” Cash said.
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