TESTIMONIES  FROM PRISON,

Michael Geraci  wrote:

I am 33 years old and  I’ve been in prison for  almost two years now. I came to know the Lord when I was arrested this time( yes, I have been in  trouble before) but this time I was really broken down inside, and the Lord brought before me a  old friend who also was arrested, but for violating a court order which he was only in jail for a week. Anyways I went to talking about what he was doing for the years that I haven’t seen him, and he told me how he was brought to the Lord and  was currently saved and that he was going to church regularly. Well, I saw something  there that I knew was real so I started to ask questions, then I started to pray with him and saying the Chaplin at the jail and I was really seeking, so I had problems understanding the scripture. God is good ! and loving and answer prayers. I really started to understand the life of Christ then I read the whole Bible and felt the power and the love of God. I’ve been born again on April 24th, 2006 and since then I completed several Bible studies, I prayed to the Lord for a study Bible, he put one in my locker, I prayed for a bible dictionary and he put one in my hands.
I know been bless with a bible commentary  for the New Testament. I earned 26 certificates and I’m growing in my faith and being blessed every day, Praise god!
I own my life to the Lord, He has saved me, brought me up from the selfish ways, He is working on me every day and he has blessed me now with a pen pal.
I want to serve the Lord, so I enrolled in Radio school of the Bible for a Associate of religious Education degree. I am expecting to get my lesson soon. It’s a 2 years course. I  only have five months left in prison and I hope to find a place to live and have it sent there. That’s another thing, I don’t have anywhere to go yet, but I have saved money and put it away for my release to get a place to stay. My family don’t and hasn’t spoken to me for this whole time and I don’t blame them. I really disappointed them by getting in trouble again. I caught a 3 dh degree grand theft charge which I ended up with two years in prison, but I am so glad I came to know the Lord, this has made it easier for God to work on me. No distraction from the outside world and now I know Him and I can depend on Him to really work on me to obey and serve Him  faithfully and without my own will. I know it will be trails, test of my faith but  I can use the word of God and trust in the Lord to deliver me from self and God will help me with my family and restore our relationship. My father died 1 year before I got arrested and I lost my friend and I became angry and blame others, myself for his death and hit the wrong crowd which brought me to prison, being self centered. So, my mom had a rough time, I made it worse by what I did. But I know God can make miracles and I know if is His will I am on my feet out there and in a church with some Christians brothers and sisters. Well, God bless you all and please pray for me.

Michael Geraci
DC # 583224/ A1-1595
52 West Unit Dr .
Sneads, FL, 32460

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ERIC ESPINOSA ,

 

“…….I’ve just come to accept our Lord as my Savior, I myself am just a infant….there is much I don’t know…but one thing remind me that we are all equal
and all His creation but yes lost souls…but I know the Lord loves me and I pray  that my old ways of living are gone and the new ones just started.
I am from Austin TX. Born and raised there come from a family of six kids, my mom was real pretty and had us real young but my dad was Vietnam veteran  but was only around long enough to have us and left. So, being my mom was basically a kid herself ….without a true role model and I choose  the wrong ones from the streets…and lead me to the life of crime, drugs and gang’s.  I’ve lived a life Hollywood make’s their movies on and the sad part about it those were never my intentions .All I ever wanted  was to have a simple normal life. But I finally understand that sometimes the Lord allows you to go to your struggles and trails and tribulations in order to learn and  grow from it. I do pray that some day I may be a fisher of men, once I  have finally gotten to understand and know our Lord better so, I am still learning and I am still struggling to over come my old ways and desires may you all please pray for me on this matter and please pray also for my mother that she may start receiving her S.S.I .check because she is medically disable and they are still giving her a hard time. God bless you  and thank you for reading  about me…”

Eric Espinosa 31262379
Estelle unite
264FM 3478
Huntsville , TX , 77320

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MICHEAL CHASE,

 

“….A little about me. I was adopted into a Christian family at the age of 2 or 3. So, I am a Christian and well educated in the Bible. I am doing life in prison now. For a few I went on a drinking binge and blacked out a lot. I did some things I’M not proud of that got me here for life. I hadn’t lost my faith, but I didn’t pray as much stopped going to church. It took a few years to accept the things I had done to get  myself in here and to adjust. But that is well and gone. I  hold my own Bible studies, help people in their walk for Christ, and one think I know God has planned for me, is to make sure that the word of God is not being perverted, changed, and interpreted correctly, and to answer questions of the inmates when they have them. The spirits, evil spirits are attacking this place with trying to distort the word of God, mixing religious, causing arguments, confusion, hatred etc. So, please pray that I can drive this spirits away with being an example, true teachings of the word, and bring Gods peace in to this prison. I also head a newsletter called Maine State Prison Christian bacon. I have anybody participate as long as it’s Christian material. My church in Hollis Center , Maine are discussing the details of getting photocopied and mailing the copies to the Chaplain here. So, please pray for me….and until next time  God bless you all.

Micheal  Chase #49252
Maine State Prison
807 Cushing Road
Warren , Maine , 04864-4600

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PASTOR  K.ADAM-TESTIMONY, INDIA

My name is K.Adams a servant of Christ, preaching his good news of birth, death and ressurection for to all unreached. I was born in a Christian family. All my education is I studied in Missionary Scool up to inyermediate. I have learn the word of God in Sunday School. He is the only Savior of sinners 1 Thimithy 1 : 15. And also the Creator of this Creation. Except He there is none other creator and Savior. My parents are good believers in Christ. God blessed them and gave five sons. I am the last. My parents sacrificed me for the Service of our Lord in my childhood.

Then after my 20th age I had confess my sins and taken Baptized in the name of Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. I dedicated and sacrificed my life to preach Christ crucified and got two years Bible training. I have studied the World Bible Corresponding Course and got diploma certificate. I have most straitest sect toward in the truth of the word of Cross. Please reaceive my service under your guidance and to do what manner you could do for the glory of God spreads abroad his word all unreached we are all praying for you. Please pray for us also.
I am very poor and need person having neither cooperation prayer help and fellowship in this ministry of Christ depends upon faith and leaning upon our Lord doing his service in his wine Yard.

    God bless you all, pastor Adams.

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Dear friends,

My name is Robenna Butts, 43 years old African American female. I am currently srving a sentence of two years, for not reporting to my probation officer for the 5th time. I must admit, I've been in and out of trouble because of something I couldn't overcome on my own. It all startedin 1990. First I was raped secondly I lost a son shot by another little boy playing with a gun, third my sister was killed. I begon shutting the whole world out, holding everything deep within never letting anything in or out. So, with all this going on inside I had no place to go. Nothing and no-one mattered to me anymore, mainly I didnt matter to myself so what ever happen from this point on in my life, so be it. I begun getting into abusive relationship trying to find some sense of being...when that wasn't going nowhere for me ethier. So, I started using drugs and along with me I have three other childrens going through all this as well, also headed for destruction, thats all it seemed to know was destruction. My mother was always saying to me when are you going to get tired of going no where with your life. I felt like just that nothing when ever she spoke those words to me. But, I know now all she wanted was for me to be the prson she knew I could be in life. So, I guess this is why she keep on praying. And I know God is answering her prayers because I continue to be lockked up. Because of it wasn't for me being locked up at some of those times, I would be six feet under headed straight to hell. I have finally found my self and where I belong. I feel better about myself as well as others. February 22, 2006 I was rescued once again by God and got saved from self destruction again. Thank you God ! Now I know the God I serve is a forgiving and merciful God. I was saved on March 18, 2006 I've tried to let my family know about the new me. ..but no response from them. I have three children out there and I have no idea which way their lives are headed. I have no idea how any of my family members are doing since my incarceration. I keep praying and keeping my faith in God, because I know He desn't make any mistakes. Of course I would appreciate their financial and emotional help, while I am here and since I havn't had it, I still survive, no matter how difficult it may be time tov time in here. I sometimes feel like no cares if I go without, because I have no money on my books....that's the time I draw on my inner faith and the great strength that God gives me.

             Gratefully your, Robenna Butts
Robenna Butts #303462-E-b-C
Pulaski State Prison
P.O.Box 839
Hawkinsville, GA.31036

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March, 2007

Dear  friends,

I pray that all who read my testimony is well and the Lord is blessing in every life. I do want to write my testimony the best I can and I pray that more people will learn from some of the mistakes I made but thank the Lord HE is still blessing me. My name is M.Dale E. and I was born December 1, 1961 in Atlanta ,Georgia.

 I was raised in the southeast area of Atlanta, a middle class neighborhood at that time. I was the youngest of five children. My dad was an alcoholic and was somewhat abusive. Mom was a Christian that saw to it that we made it to church on a church bus. So, by the grace of God I did manage to grow up in Church via the bus ministry.

When I was not at church I ran with the neighborhood boys and girls. In my teen years I was into cigarettes, drugs, pornography, alcohol and such things as that. Fallowing some trouble at school during my 10th grade year, I was placed in a Christian school to finish up my high school years.
The 11th grade there was not many changes in my life. I still ran with the same crowd. Then the summer of 1979 our youth pastor took the teens to the First Baptist Church of Hammond Indiana for a youth conference. Due to my sister’s prayers I was there.

Sometime during the week Dr.David Hyles preached “Deceived”.
I knew that I have been deceived that I was saved, but I realized I wasn ’t. One reason I was deceived I was baptized as a kid without having been saved. Upon my return to Georgia I was baptized properly. I spent my 12th grade school year with new friends, all old things passed away. I was not real sure but believed I felt the call of God to preach.

Five days after my high school graduation, I was on the campus of TennesseeTempleUniversity. I entered school on fire. I was ambitious but soon got discouraged when I couldn ’t pass a course, probably due to very little prior education and no study skills. Soon I was with the wrong crowd again. I quit my bus route and made Chattanooga a playground. I met who was to be my wife for 19 years. We married 1981 at DaytonBaptistTemple in Ohio. We were in and out of church, members of three different churches from 1981-1986. I was helping in the bus ministry when I backslid out in 1986. We raised our two daughters community people. We were Girl Scouts leaders and even looked up to in that sense, but we were out of God’s will and had a lot of sin in our lives.

The pornography was in and out of my life until 1986 and then it was in to stay. By the year 2000 I was a full blown sex addict. I was consumed by it. Porn, prostitutes , nude dance club coupled with an addiction to over the counter medication, which I consumed in large quantities, I sunk as low as a man could go.
I even took advantage of my own daughter. At this point it was either suicide or get help. By the grace of God I chose a clinic. After confessing to them at the clinic, I was sent to the sheriff’s office to “ fill out a report and come back”.

That was January 2000 and I have yet to make it back to the clinic. God, in His merci and grace, had a better plan for me, 15 years in prison.

At this writing, I have done over seven years. Upon entering the county jail, I asked my wife to bring me some books from the house. My oldest daughter, Jennifer, sent my Bible, a book that was dusty and hadn’t been opened in nearly 14 years. Simply at the sigh of it, I fell by my bed in tears and cried and prayed all afternoon. God in His mercy forgave me that day and lifted a load off me. I felt like a new man, ready to go home. But God wasn’t ready. Being the gracious God, He knew I needed a lot of repair work. I started saturating myself in God’s word. My faithful sister, Teresa , made sure I had plenty of books by Hyles, Roberson, Bob Jones, Rice and others. I read and read and did a lot of praying.

The now late Dr .Charles Hicks brought things from the church. He encouraged me to pray for others and gave me the Church prayer list of 10 or 15 missionaries. That is where I started. The more I prayed the more the burden, concern and wonder about the ones I prayed for grew. Mom started sending me prayer cards. By the time I was transferred  to prison, I began to write missionaries, take Bible correspondence studies, replacing the evil with good. I pulled away from TV and put no more evil before my eyes. God made the sexual addictions a thing of the past. My heart was more and more bound up in missions.

My wife divorced me April 2000, by law, I cannot contact her nor my youngest daughter. I rarely hear from my oldest daughter. I lost my family, freedom, and all I owned. I was left broken and lonely. I put God first in my life and love the Lord with all my heart. Seven and one half years into my incarceration I’m writing literally piles of letters and praying for scores of missionaries. I have a deep burden for the work of the Lord and I do pray that very soon the Lord will help me get out and starting to serve the Lord in Europe with my future life partner the Lord had given me. I do my prison time gracefully with contentment. Looking back, I praise the Lord I didn’t go home when I wanted to. I would have missed so many blessings, God’s timing is perfect. He makes no mistakes .Anyone reading my testimony that has any question, please fell free to write ask me. I enjoy all correspondence. I ask nothing of people but an opportunity to be your friend and pray for you. God has given me more grace than most and I do not want to waste the grace God has given to me. I love you all and give you thanks. Do write me and may God bless you.

                              With love and prayers,

M.D. Elliss
GDC1051085
DSP, Q1-16B
P.O.Box 276
Chester, GA,31012  USA.

 

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Kabue-Zambia

Dear friends,

My name is Harry Kamwendo, born on 12th of June 1964, blessed with two children to my late wife Rose. However I’m currently facing a 24 years imprisonment . Nevertheless .I’m now remaining with three and a half years before my discharged. Over this many years I have stayed in prison I feel delighted to enlighten you and share the pity I have fallen into. I hereby promise you and me to become a blessing in the eyes of the Lord Christ Jesus.

However ,it has come to my believe that prison has a lot of benefits although it really sounds so hard to be a prisoner for a long time and being deprived here and there more especially in under developed countries like Zambia...a place were gangs will take our little food we got as instrument of power.

My coming into prison I must not hide to tell has brought transformation in my life. I am now the current chairman in the prison fellowship and also proved to be a special stage (Gen. 39:20-23).
Which has proved futile for me as I was baptize in the bath tub 5 years ago. From that very time Christ Jesus come into my life so have dedicated my life to work for God the omnipresent ….however, my life has been struggle here in prison. I have lost all my two co-accused friends here. My health has not been the same as I suffer from ulcer for the past six years now. I’m deeply in between cross roads about my future. It is like I don’t envy to met my younger myself right now because I did things that I am not proud of.

Before my incarceration I was a soldier under Infantly Battalion of the Zambia army for almost eight years since 1983-1990. And after I left the army I joined the bad company( 1Corinth.15:33) of friends and got involved in crimes which I do deeply regret when my thoughts turn to such events. In the end I was caught  by committing an offence of aggravated robbery and sentenced to 27 years with other two friends who had died here. Leaving my two children in the hands of my in-laws and let alone informing them that I died a very long time ago(Gen. 18:14).

I strived hard later after a decade. I traced my two children a girl Lavendar 20 year old and a boy Mike 17   knowing that I have been the most happiest person to have them at that moment in life. But hearing to what they have been fallen into is another problem. Lavendar 20 has been force in an early marriage which I am not proud of. For a boy Mike have been turned away from school and without much of a proper shelter, he is now moving up and down.. who is now living a life of destruction .For me now that I’M about to be released I don’t know how my life is going to be once out of prison. This is now the darkest period of my life…so my dear friends please pray for me that the Lord will watch over me and will help me stay closer to Him serving until the end.
May the Lord be with all of you and God bless you for reading my testimony.

Love in Christ, Harry K. ZAMBIA.

 

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Dear friends,

 

I am so glad to share my personal testimony with you. I was born in Christian family, my father is a servant of the Lord, we are very poor, my father dedicated us to God’s work, we are 5 brothers. I could not continue my study because of we are poor. My grand father and grand mother were Hindus, they used to worship the idols but from that family. My father was saved he knew about Jesus Christ and accepted the Jesus as his personal Savior, because of this reason my  neighbours and relatives rejected us and hated us.

They did not give us any things even water, they were not talk with our family but we depend upon the God and we preached the word of God to unknown people, no body helping us there is no any help from anywhere but God is our help. Some times we have no food to eat, cloth to wear at the time my parents said to us pray and ask God then He will provide what ever we want, we did so, then one believer came and give us 70 Rupees, then we brought rice and we use to take rice water because there was no food, in that difficult time my father built the Church and he paid our school fees, after my study in 1995-96 I went Bible college. We were going to share the gospel in one of the village which is near to the sea shore in Kakinada, then our vehicle fell down at the side of the road but by grace of God, nothing happened to us, miracle God saved us from that incident, if I died then, I could not had the God’s work, but God made me alive so now I am doing the God’s work in both villages called Rajapudi and Manyavaripalem. One more time I was going to lead the Sunday worship in Manyavariplaem and one person was going before me by cycle like me then accidentally one lorry came and dashed him, immediately he died, I was feared. I don’t know what I have to do then, God using me in the mighty way for his work. Kindly pray for us, we too keep on praying for all of you and thank you so much that patiently you read my testimony, if you like to encourage us in gospel please do it.

                                                         Yours in His glad service, Pastor T.Jacob-India.

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Brothers  and  Sisters in Christ,

I am so glad to share my testimony with you but please forgive me I will try to make it shorter. Well, grew up in a poor family-orthodox religion ,in Romania-Europe- not to much in Church never read the Bible because we never had one until my brother and my father became Christians but yes, we have been a happy family.

Finished  school and got married with a nice man at the beginning but months latter a very different one. He had started to drink a lot become violent and his priorities have been his friends and his glass of vodka….a very hard life. He and his family never believe in Jesus Christ as their own Savior and when my younger brother got saved and baptized as the first one in our whole family and then my father became a Christian that everything had change in worst.

They had started to  pray for me …sent me a small Bible in a mail from my dad and I tried to hide it for months but my ex .husband did find the Bible destroyed all the pages and put me in a hospital from the beatings I got from him…I couldn’t talk with anyone about  the Lord at that time I wasn’t allowed to read any kind of Christian literature and I wanted so bad to know the Lord. So, months latter or perhaps even a year latter…I got another Bible and the same thing happen with the Bible and with me…but this time all the Bible pages have been dropped on a floor destroyed …and when my ex. Was finished with all of that he left the house got to the pub have more drinks …and here I was inside on the house on my knees getting all the scripture page and I couldn’t believe to see that the Book of John was intact. I took that scripture and the rest I could save and hid it under the tub in our bathroom. So, from now on –each night when I had to take a shower I would go in, lock the door, took off my clothes, turned on the water and read the word of God out there….Of course my ex .would knock to open the door sometimes but I always hid the scripture very well in seconds, got in  the tub(got wet only) but pretending that I was finished but the Lord knows how many times I got out dirty and just wet a little but happy I could read the word of God or just have a little prayer out there. Yes, this is the place I did received the Lord in my heart and I had given my life to Jesus  and saved  me …..the bathroom the best place for me to pray ever is the tub. God can work in such wonderful ways...He doesn’t care where we are  or do all He cares is to receive Him into our heart and love Him the way He loves us. …..well, after 12 long years of marriage …a very hard life I decided to move away…for almost nine years I did live in USA…and yes, there I did met some wonderful friends who helped me to grow as a Christian, to stay close to Him and love Him .I grew up there as a Christian and having such a preacher like I did pastor Sexton I was blessed….but the Lord wanted me back in Romania and since September 2000 I do serve the Lord here ..closer to  my family… children and all of my people. So, this is the way I got saved and please believe me I am the most happiest woman on this earth because I am a child of God and I know that He loves me and He will never leave or forsaken me.

I hope that some of you got saved and perhaps some of you are thinking about it. Well, my dear friends all I want you to know that my life without the Lord was a hell but since I do know Him and accepted Him in my heart my life is a blessing such a wonderful blessing. I wish that all of you who are reading my testimony to think a little more about our Lord Jesus Christ because He had died for me and for you on a cross.  But do you know why???? Please find out…..you wont be sorry ??

Love in Christ our Savior , Lucy M.-Romania.