While an area is being cleared for us to worship and teach, we have time to greet the many muslim and other prisoners. One young man had malaria and was still suffering from pain in his shoulders and other parts of his body. We prayed for him and the pain began to go away. The young man ended up giving his life to Christ.
The believers in the prison are also part of our ministry team. I told them it’s very easy for them to visit other prisoners since they themselves live in the prison. They are the lights of the prison and the main means through which the Lord will transform lives. I’ve been encouraging them to ask the Holy Spirit to give them one person to minister to that they don’t know, or a person they know doesn’t like them. One prisoner called up 3 new people he had ministered to who had received Jesus.
The Holy Spirit gave us an impromptu drama to help the men understand their liberty in Christ and be renewed in their minds. One prisoner played satan and another played a Christian with little faith and knowledge of who they are in Christ. The drama caught the attention of all the men sitting in the courtyard as they watched satan’s tactic to make the Christian (or anyone) choose other ways to live life outside of Jesus’ will.
Every week is a little different. Toward the end of our visit, the Holy Spirit directed us to have the men form two lines facing one another. The believers prayed for one another, declaring the word of God over one another’s lives. It was a beautiful time.
Pray for the prison that the believers would be a light and carry God’s fire and love within the prison, and the Lord would open up new avenues of ministry within the prison.
Other updates:
Foundation being dug for brick wall around our house
Foundation dug for children's ministry center
For His glory and kingdom,
Tyren and Tiffany Haynes
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