We are in Granada, Nicaragua this month working at an organization called Reap Granada. Each week we work on a farm and go prayer walking through the neighborhoods. Four people got to experience going to jail ministry on Thursday mornings. Honestly, I didn’t think I was the right person to go, but God obviously had different plans. It’s the uncomfortable stuff he likes me to do, after all, how can He use me if it’s easy? When they asked us if we wanted to share something with the ladies there, I told them I had nothing. The next morning In my time with the lord, he showed me that there was something he wanted me to say. Share my love with them and a little of your story about how my love has transformed your life. Walking into the jail was eye opening. They came out of their jail cells and sat down at a table with us. We worshiped with them, did a devotional together, did a craft together and encouraged them. Later that day God told me that what these ladies did in the physical is what is happening spiritually in their lives. They are coming out of their cells and sitting down at the table with me. They are being welcomed by their heavenly to sit down at the table. They are being welcomed to taste and see that he is good and experience the abundance of his love for them.
A few weeks later I had the opportunity to walk around and pray at the jail. At one point, we were told we could go into the jail and pray, which normally they do not allow. I immediately heard the sound of worship and preaching coming from a sound board at the entrance. We stood outside the cells and prayed for the men. The presence of the Holy Spirit was so powerful. As I was praying, I heard the word freedom. I also saw a picture of light falling on these men’s faces as they were kneeling before him. Another one of my squad mates had heard freedom in prayer as well. I knew God was moving in this place. The men and women inside of these cells are experiencing the freedom and light of Jesus.
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV
