Today, I shared God’s word in a Ugandan prison. Now, before
you get too concerned for my safety, I want to mention something that made this
prison very different from those back in the US. As our team sang and the
prisoners listened, 9 children came into the courtyard of the prison. The small
children, ranging in age from about 5 to 10 years old, sat next to the only
woman inmate at the prison. The children sat in the prison courtyard as if it
were a neighborhood park.
My message was one that God began working on when I was in
Thailand. If you remember back several months ago, I was freed from a prison.
The prison I was living in was a prison of dwelling in the past and connecting
past memories to every current and future experience. Through that experience,
I was now, over 3 months later, able to share a message of freedom with inmates
in a physical prison. As 4 men accepted Christ, after my message, what hit me
was the depth and intricacy of God’s plan. God knew, back in Thailand, that I would
be standing in front of these men in yellow who were not only living in a
physical prison, but the same prison of lies that I had served more than my
necessary sentence. God anticipated and
prepared me for this day, as He is doing for many days in my future as well.
