God's Glory Church

“Here I will make something new, now it will grow.” — Isaiah 43:19
The star player of American football took the stage. However, it was not a stadium. He spoke to three hundred inmates at the Everglades Correctional Facility in Miami, Florida. He shared with them words from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah.

At that moment, it was not about the performance of a famous athlete, but about a sea of ​​broken souls. At this special time, God appeared behind bars. One of the eyewitnesses of the event wrote on Twitter that “the chapel began to explode with worship and glorification.” The men cried and prayed together. Eventually, about twenty-seven prisoners opened their hearts to Jesus.

In a sense, we are all in prisons of our own making, behind bars of our own greed, selfishness, and addiction. But God appears in a miraculous way. In the prison that morning, the key verse was the words: “Behold, I will do a new thing, now it will grow. Do you not know this?” (Is. 43:19). “Do not remember the past, and do not think about the old” (v. 18), because God says: “I am the One who… does not remember your sins” (v. 25).

At the same time, God notes: “There is no Savior but Me” (v. 11). Only by giving our lives to Christ do we become free. Some of us have yet to do it, some have already done it, but need a reminder of who the Lord really is. We are sure that through Christ God really does “new things”. So let’s see what happens!

How did you become imprisoned by your own sin? What do you need to do to get rid of brokenness?
Heavenly Father, please set me free from the prison bars of my sin.
Author: Kenneth Petersen