It is now evening...
This is a good time, as I sit in my prison cell, to quietly reflect after having had a full and busy day of chapel services.
I find it interesting that some of the most frequently requested prayers that my fellow Christian prisoners bring before the altar in this place, is that their spouse and/or children would get saved. And for those who have professed faith in Christ, that they would get "on fire" for Jesus.
I find it so ironic that here are men who are in prison, yet God reaches down and touches their hearts so much, that they fall in love with Him. They serve the Lord with such fervor. Yet, their wives or children who are outside these walls basically remain indifferent to their husband's or father's faith.
Today, for example, during this morning's altar call, men with wives and/or kids jammed the alter, many of them with faces awash in tears, pleading with the Lord to be merciful to their loved ones. They pleaded for their spiritually indifferent wives and their wayward children. And for those men who have wives or children who actually profess to be Christians, that all lukewarmness would be removed from them.
These men weep because their wives seem so "worldly minded" and disinterested in knowing Christ, or in serving Him to the fullest. Christian prisoners yearn for their families to get touched by God.
D.B.
I find it interesting that some of the most frequently requested prayers that my fellow Christian prisoners bring before the altar in this place, is that their spouse and/or children would get saved. And for those who have professed faith in Christ, that they would get "on fire" for Jesus.
I find it so ironic that here are men who are in prison, yet God reaches down and touches their hearts so much, that they fall in love with Him. They serve the Lord with such fervor. Yet, their wives or children who are outside these walls basically remain indifferent to their husband's or father's faith.
Today, for example, during this morning's altar call, men with wives and/or kids jammed the alter, many of them with faces awash in tears, pleading with the Lord to be merciful to their loved ones. They pleaded for their spiritually indifferent wives and their wayward children. And for those men who have wives or children who actually profess to be Christians, that all lukewarmness would be removed from them.
These men weep because their wives seem so "worldly minded" and disinterested in knowing Christ, or in serving Him to the fullest. Christian prisoners yearn for their families to get touched by God.
D.B.
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