Wow! What a time!
Fishers of Men Ministries has been having a tent revival all week inside the Morgan County Corrections Complex.
Yes, there is a REAL tent inside one of the sections of the prison!
I went to minister, but I have been ministered to! It has been a truly amazing time!
Monday, 28 came forward,
Tuesday, 12,
Wednesday 11,
and tonight is the last night.
There have been some getting saved every night.
And the singing? Oh! What a time! I have to stop and remind myself while I'm there just exactly WHERE I'M AT!!! I've got my eyes closed, my hands raised to the heavens just worshiping GOD (1Tim 2:8), and then I realize I'm standing in a prison amongst convicted felons. Then I'm reminded of Paul and Silas.
"And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed." Acts 16:25-26
Oh! I pray that ALL the prisoners would hear us pray and sing.
I pray that the LORD would shake the earth!
I pray that the LORD would open the doors of the their hearts and loose the bands of sin!
It is so hard to find words to describe what I've experienced this week.
This much I do know: when it started Monday night I was ashamed of myself. I am a free man and I go to church every time the doors are open. I "go" to church. These guys in prison "have" church! They don't have freedom to come and go as they please; church really means something to them! They NEED that place of refuge; they DEPEND on the hope that Jesus gives them.
I had to repent of that! These men in prison have taught me a lot, and I am thankful! It is my hope and prayer that GOD turns this back to them and blesses them 100 times over!
