Thursday, October 12, 2017
A staff member from the Richland Parish Detention Center - Prison - contacted me about coming to meet with a female inmate. We will call the inmates name J. I honestly didn’t know what her history was until I arrived at the prison on Tuesday. I walked in and sat down and the staff member proceeded to tell me that J has massive anger problems. She has already served a sentence of 9 years and has come back due to burning a house down with her X girlfriend inside. Thankfully the X girlfriend escaped.
After hearing this bit of information the staff member goes to retrieve J. I’m thinking to myself, Wow, Lord you know I really need your help today. J walks in. She looks tough and rough. Like she’s strong and stout looking - like tough like a Linebacker for a football team. She said she’s been dealing with so much anger that when someone wrongs her in prison she wants to kill them. Hurting them doesn’t satisfy her anger any longer. I asked her if she had ever heard of Ted Bundy. Serial Killer from the 80s. I told her that Ted Bundy did an interview with Dr. James Dobson sharing how pornography started as a fascination but soon the pictures stopped satisfying him and he began acting out by raping women. Then he began mixing violence. Then he went on to killing women after he raped them. She was truly mesmerized by this story. She said, “That’s the way I feel”. Anger alone doesn’t satisfy any longer. Hurting no longer satisfies. Now I just want to kill. I said Jesus wants to give you a new Heart and remove your dark stony Heart today. The Holy Spirit began to move in.
I then shared the story of how Queen Esther had intimacy with the King and was able to access protection through a whisper to remove evil Hamman from the picture. She said she couldn't wait to read about Esther in her Bible. I explained that God defends us. That “Hurt People Hurt People”. I said all people are broken to some extent. Let’s ask Jesus to give you His heart today and to see people the same way He sees them. I shared much more as I had almost 2 hours with J. I was able to lead her to Christ. We renounced some evil darkness. We asked for enduement and clothing of POWER. She was visibly touched by the LOVE of Christ!!!
I saw the prison staff member last night. She said that today one day later every time she saw J she couldn’t take her smile off her face. Please join me in praying for J’s ongoing walk with JESUS!!!
HE STILL RESCUES!!!!
Whit Bass