These men are the treasure of God, and stewarding your broken past.

I have not updated in a while but things are going fantastic at the Jail services! God has defined this ministry further for me during times of prayer and really made me even more excited about what He is going to do.

In prayer, I heard God say this to me about these men, and I wrote it down...."The jails will produce the fruit that only these men's lives can yield. They have been plowed in such a way that their fruit will be more then most men could yield any other way. Watch as they go out and bear harvest disproportionate to themselves because of the plowing (the trials) of their field."

God treasures these men. And because of what they have been through these men, regardless of intelligence, social stature, financial resources, or ability, will go out and be more for Him then they ever could be by themselves. A heart that is broken knows how badly other hearts need mending. They understand the need. You and I who have never been in that situation can still speak into these lives, but the one who has truly been there God will take, and in His great mercy, give them the ability to steward their past.

That is an important concept, stewarding your past. Too often we are expected to "forget about it, because God has.". The problem with that mentality is that it doesn't show God's true victory over your past. When God has your past, completely, He doesn't forget about all your mistakes and mis-steps. No. God says "See that life you broke? I know it hurts you to think about, but since you have given that pain to Me, I give you the chance now to speak life to people in the same situation."

God is good. Do we really think that we could have ever have done anything so evil that God has to say "listen, I'm just going to forget this ever happened.". No. God knows what happened, and His love and wisdom so great, that He allows you to steward your mistakes, to steward your past, so that you can change someone else's future........

"Great harvests come from fields with plenty of manure".........Proverbs 55:7..........lol