“During my first year in prison, I was fighting with the guards and other inmates continuously and was in and out of lockdown seven or eight times. I was one of their most difficult inmates. One day, I found out that one of my co-defendants was going to testify against me, so I attacked her in the yard. They put me in lockdown again, but this time, something different happened.
“I was sitting on the floor of a cold cell that smelled of urine and vomit. My back was literally against the wall, and I was feeling pretty miserable when I got a revelation — This is God’s way of dealing with you! It took this level of lockdown to get you to break.
“I remember slumping back against that cold cement wall, thinking, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’ I had been fighting everybody out on the streets, and now I am fighting everybody inside. I didn’t even realize I was fighting God Himself.
Right then, the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I want you to surrender to your captivity, because this is My perfect plan for your life!’
Surrendering to God’s Plan
Katie knew that God was talking to her, and she surrendered her life to Him.
“Once I started to focus on the Lord, everything turned around. I began reading the Bible and I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever read in my life. I would go from the front to the back over and over again.”
“As I read, the Holy Spirit began to point out the Scriptures about ancient Israelites who went to prison. I was thinking, ‘Wow, this is my story. It’s the story of every con I’d ever known.’ I started getting excited about it, and I started teaching it to everyone who would listen.”
A Revival Behind Bars
“Everything began to change. The guards started calling our unit ‘The God Pod,’ because everybody was worshiping God. We were baptizing people in the shower and praying. There was fellowship going on, and an amazing breakout of the presence of God right in the middle of our captivity.”
“Instead of a punishment, captivity became the very ground on which God established a relationship with me. It turned me around and turned every fiber of my being to God.”
“Prison makes you silent and sequestered so God can fill you up with His goodies. People are wrong to dismiss jailhouse conversions. In First Kings 8, I read that Solomon prayed that the people who went into captivity in Babylon would seek God with all their heart. So, getting saved in prison is totally biblical.”
A Promise of Freedom
“While inside, I began getting revelations about the captivities of ancient Israel and I began to teach it to others. After a couple of years inside, God spoke to me and told me He was going to do a jail-break and get me out of prison. He even told me the exact date I would be let out. The next day, I told everyone in the facility…”
TO BE CONTINUED…
Miraculous Monday: 15th January 2024
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