Murderer Finds Jesus in Prison

my mother and my father divorced when I was at a very young age I was like six years old and all I knew is I had an absent mother that was nowhere around any longer as the years went by my older siblings moved away from home and this left me with just my dad I began to run away from home at a very young age at eleven years old and trying to find my mother not even realizing how big this world was I just get on the freeway and begin to think somehow along this journey I would find my mom I found myself in and out of juvenile detention facilities because of my running away in rebellious life and ended up finding my mother my mother at that time had done been married to another guy her in him were already functioning alcoholics when I got with her I was 12 years old never even completed the sixth grade as time went by I ended up meeting this young lady me and her never got married we were both young and she ended up getting pregnant we had our first child which was a little boy within 45 minutes after the boy's birth he died from he was premature that sent me into a whirlwind I didn't know how to deal with that as I was excited about having a little boy even though I was still a little boy in myself me and her ended up having another child a little girl and then following that one we had another little girl and in 1989 my daughters were five years old and three years old and things I was not giving her the attention that a wife or common-law wife deserved I realized that now someone else stepped into her life while I was not there and me and her separated and this guy that she was with he ended up molesting my five-year-old daughter throwing a pot of hot boiling beans on her and that night her and him both went to jail her for neglect and her children him from doing what he'd done and my children were taken into temporary custody with CPS well during this time I was the only one allowed to go to a Catholic Charities place in downtown Houston to visit my daughters for four hours every Sunday and in between the Sundays I did not know how to deal with all this hurt and anger and resentment and the things that would rise up within me every morning when I'd look at the coffee table and see their pictures and realize they weren't home with me and I would just begin to consume enormous amounts of alcohol drugs whatever it was I could take take to take my mind out of its original state to keep from having to deal with these issues well unfortunately before I could get on the docket to get my children that's when some friends of mine came over and told me that this guy had got out on bond and my next question was where is he at where does he live and when they told me that I am Telling You I was so out of my mind my kids were my life but I wasn't thinking rationally and reasonably I wasn't thinking about their future my future anybody's future all I was thinking about was revenge and a vendetta so I made my way over to the condominium where this guy and his uncle was residing and unfortunately I murdered both of them I made it way back to the house of course um you're always going to give an answer for your actions the Bible even tells us that be careful your sins will find you out and that's exactly what happened it was approximately a year later I was arrested for the murder of these guys at that time my kids had yet to been released into my custody and they were adopted out to a wonderful Christian family that is that couldn't have children and they raised him really well I sit in the county jail for almost five years awaiting trial and I had so much hate bitterness anger and resentment within me just ball over out of my life and to the lives of those around me before going to trial I made a plea bargain for 30 years sentence in my mind thinking I was going to do seven and a half according to the law at that time I would go down there just a couple more years and I'd be back out well thank God he didn't let me back it out I went down to prison and I began to express my faithfulness to rebellion so much that in fact the other gang members started recognizing it I would continue to pursue to even get better at that which I was doing so that I could get more recognition more love and acceptance was transferred to a unit in Amarillo Texas bill Clements unit and was involved in a gang riot one guy was life-flighted out to the hospital and under the assumption that he may die this is when the warden and the gang intelligence had called me out to their office and they sent me down and laid three pieces of paper in front of me but with these statements from guys that I recognized their handwriting they were of that fictitious family that I was involved in which we called back then our brothers we have a different family now but in looking back this is what you get for serving a fake god a false god they weigh statements pointing the finger straight at me that I was the just reason for this guy being taken to the hospital if I did not get the death penalty I would spend the rest of my life in prison this is when God began to just rewind the tapes of everything that I had been doing with my life and as they got me to that cell when I walked into that cell they took the cuffs off and I before they could close that door I was in the back of that cell on my knees crying out to a God I did not know in mice my words to God were just simply God I do not know you but I will get the Bible and I will get to know you and I'll serve you for the rest of my life even if you desire for me to serve you from the confines of this penal institution I'll serve you I just got one request and one request only let that man live well fortunately the man lived and I still had to suffer the consequences of my actions of course seven years and administrative segregation in an eight-by-ten cell with him feeding me breakfast lunch and slippered through a slot it was there that I obtained my Bible and I had a little clock am/fm clock ready that I began to tune in to all the Christian stations I would listen to the Tony Evans ministry along with the many others so I had already began began to be filled with the Holy Spirit which was my teacher my comforter and as I studied God's Word and then listen to Tony Evans along with the other ministries I begin to experience changes within my life of a supernatural nature I could tell that they were teaching me the truth I had married a woman and while I was in prison by proxy to which you're allowed to do and what it gains you is you're able to get that that touch affection and in November of 99 my mother died unfortunately from pancreatic cancer she had left me we're very large insurance policy and I needed to sign over this insurance policy in order to make means for her funeral they did not allow me to go to the funeral it wasn't but two months after my sake experience I got divorce papers in the mail and every bit of the money was gone and I remember distinctly walk in this cell when I got those divorce papers asking God God how in the world could this woman do this to me where does she get to all - to do this she knows my mom she knows that my mom done this for me to do something with my life while I was doing something with my life by sowing into her life and her kids lives and then that's when I shut up long enough to hear from God that's when he spoken to me that now I know what it's like to be victimized I went to the back of this cell and I got on my knees and buried my face into this bunk as God would remind me of all the people in my past that I had offended or that I had hurt not necessarily physically but emotionally all the way through my family and friends and loved ones and as he would remind me for each one of these individuals I would ask him for forgiveness and I stayed there on my knees for about 45 minutes and then when I raised it up to my feet I'm telling you I experienced more freedom than I had ever experienced in my entire life and that's when he brought to my remembers that when his son sets you free you're free indeed when me and my daughter's mother had split up I had gotten with someone else and we did get married I know it was not ordained by God it was a flesh thing but yet we got married and we had a daughter and she was 6 months old when my arrest came about what she took off with my daughter up in North Texas and I never seen my daughter or her again until she was almost 15 years old my ex-sister-in-law was bringing her to see me at the sto high security unit and this young lady was a young lady that was sold out to Jesus herself well on April the 10th 2005 I seen her it was on a Sunday and then it was that Wednesday that a chaplain had came by my door but it wasn't abnormal for chaplains to come by my door because we would always fellowship I just felt something come over me to make an inquiry that chaplain you come here to tell me something and unfortunately my daughter had died in the house fire the night before what I just say this took me on another mindset or trip a journey with the divorce and with my child dying God was preparing me and equipping me to be able to deal with those things in a whole new way than the way I was dealing with the situation with my daughter's before I even went to prison the same energy that I had for living for that world and the enemy God just transferred it over for his kingdom and his purposes and his glory I was invited to go over to the Terrell unit which is right next door and birth one of the very first faith-based dorms in Texas that's when I requested mr. Gary Richards that I met on the Terrell unit to come in and be my mentor and he actually became the dad I never had he would come and visit with me every Tuesday and impart some wisdom and truths into my life he picked me up December the 31st 2011 I walked out of that prison and he took me straight to a Fuddruckers burger restaurant I'm staring at the colors and he's like go get you a burger and I said no man just get me the fat of sloppiest burger they got it was three months after that that the owner of the facility had came to me and asked me to manage fertile ground Christian transformational Center to which I greatly took on there was like 67 guys that I would oversee I'd pick him up from prison help them to get their social security card their birth certificate their driver's license would even let them use my car to do their driving test and to see the fruits guys growing in Christ just brought a sense of joy into my heart knowing that God chose me to be able to be used by him to make a difference in someone else's life the following year after I was out I was given the privilege and the honor to go to Dallas Texas to the Tony Evans ministry and participate in the men's conference that he has which is the theme of the men conference is no more excuses God has put a ministry on his heart that serves as a serious indictment to me and to be come to me and that God has called us to be approximately one month after the attendant in as I'm managing fertile ground Christian transformational center I'm going through a home depot in Houston Texas wearing this shirt so more excuses men's conference and I had a man and his son looked to be about 18 years old approached me right in the front of Home Depot and he held his hand up to my chest and asked me loudly no more excuses what's that mean and I simply stated hey it's a men's conference in Dallas Texas before I could get any more out he interrupted stating I know what no more excuses it is and I know who Tony Evans is when you pass me on this aisle awhile ago God gave me a word to speak to you and I was like really God gave you a word for me he said yes and I said what is that word he says I has not seen nor ear has not heard of the great and mighty things God has prepared for the fertile ground within you and within your care I must pray with you was his next words so we stood in the front of Home Depot as he prayed with me but he did not know the name of the facility that I was managing is fertile ground Christian transformational center when he walked away I went to the car and said in the car as tears rolled down my face I got a job in Longview Texas I had this lady and her husband contact me and tell me Billy asked me Billy you're going to Longview yes I am well listen I want you to meet our daughter and I'm like hey I ain't got time to meet no woman I would be working seven twelves we was rained out a couple of days and therefore there was no work so I had an opportunity to meet my wife who is to this day my lovely bride my life was interrupted with my sister being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in Florida to which I took off down there to spend time with her staying by her bedside until she took her last breath from pancreatic cancer it wasn't long after my sister's death I admit Valerie and was conversing with her in Longview and she reached out to me she needed some help I didn't know to what extent what the help was that she needed I knew that she had a very large house I knew that she had went through a divorce four years prior to that and I knew that she had nine children she had done gotten to the point where she was being consumed with depression and I took on the role and the privilege and the opportunity of ministering to her every morning I'd get the kiddos up and get them off to school and then come back and help her get packed up and off to work while I would tend to the house and the property it was approximants after this that we started looking at each other and from her story what she says is that God was telling her are you crazy look at this man he comes down here to serve you and to be faithful to you and your children you need to marry this man I have the privilege and the honor right now of being a stepfather to nine kiddos so it's as if God's given me an opportunity to step in and be a father when I was unable to be a father before what I would like to challenge each and every one of you that's under the sound of my voice to do is to begin to study God's Word ask God to reveal himself to you in a fresh new way see a lot of times we get it twisted up and think that we're in an everyday struggle that we're fighting to overcome this we're fighting to do this when in fact we're fighting for victory when we should be fighting from victory my friend the battles done been won at the cross at Calvary I'll tell you right now through the heartaches and the struggles and everything that I've been through myself just like the Apostle Paul we're nobodies special he's called us all to do some great things and I encourage you right now to submit yourself to God I would like to say a personal thank you to Tony Evans thank you so much for giving to the Lord I'm sure that you know the song thank you for giving to the Lord I was a life that was changed and I'd like to say as well that your labor brother is not in vain keep doing what God's called you to do keep raising up Kingdom man I love you brother [Music] you you

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Length: 15min 11sec (911 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 04 2019