An inmate found Jesus inside a prison cell thanks to his praying grandmother.
Inmate found Jesus
God Behind Bars, recently shared an inmate’s testimony of how he was able to find Christ thanks to his praying grandmother. The God Behind Bars is a ministry that brings incarcerated people and their families to Christ through their prison ministry and outreaches.
This particular inmate grew up in a Christian family but was exposed to worldly vices after moving to Texas. As a teen, he started using drugs and got involved in life on the streets. When he moved back to his grandmother’s house in Florida, his grandmother didn’t recognize him.
“I was a different person. A person she didn’t know. She always invited me to church and I always said no. I didn’t see that the road I was going on was ultimately going to lead me to here (prison),” he recalled.
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Praying grandmother
One night, he came home with a bullet wound on his leg. When his grandmother saw him, he warned him that his lifestyle could kill him. He went to bed that night and woke up to his grandmother praying over him. He wanted to change and started to read the Bible but fell into his old lifestyle when he shot and killed a man who robbed him.
“When I did that it was so rough. Rough on my whole family. I was arrested a day later. I was sentenced to life in prison. And I was in this cell and nobody comes to see you. You’re all alone.”
When a chaplain visited his cell, he asked for a Bible and that sparked his transformation. He started to read the Bible and soon found Jesus Christ. Today, 22 years since the day he asked the chaplain for a Bible, he is a completely transformed man and spends his time in prison encouraging others and leading them to Christ.
” If I didn’t have a praying grandmother, I would never have found Jesus,” he testified.
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