Mark chapter one, verse 15. The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel. I love it. I love it. Because without it, we have nothing. Absolutely nothing. I went from a hopeless dope fiend to a penitentiary hope dealer. Because I know that I have been transformed, not reformed, truly transformed. I came to prison, but yet I'm free. But I'm glad I'm here because God put me here for a reason. To get me right. And I thank him every day for it. If I got to stay here the rest of my life getting me right, I'll be here. I was a maniac and I got extradited to Mississippi for two counts of capital murder. And I was facing and ultimately received two death penalties. And I was, I think because I was from up North and my charges were so severe, I was kept in absolute solitary confinement. Everything was contraband to me. No books, no radio, no television, no visitors, no human contact. And I had a Bible. And there was a guy that would come in, and I can't remember his name, but he would come in on Tuesdays, and he had to sit way away from my cell, couldn't come near me. And he would tell about Jesus. And I was so unsaved and so wicked. And I thought, all right, well, I'm going to read the Bible then, and I'm gonna tell you about yourself. And so I read it cover to cover, over and over and over again. and looking for contradictions, looking for mistakes, looking for a way to tell this preacher that I didn't need him and I didn't need God. Well, after probably the 12th time of reading the Bible cover to cover, I thought, wait a second, if this is in fact true, then there's a decision to be made here. So then I began reading it like it was true. And it didn't take long after that. And again, I'm completely isolated. No one to teach me or to guide me or anything like that, just the Holy Spirit. And I got to a point where I realized I'm in so much trouble. I began to see myself as God saw me. You know, I would see the sins of Israel as a whole. You know, they're just the rebellion and Adam's disobedience and the way that God would deal with them. And I thought, man, I'm all of these people combined. You know, man, I'm the worst. I would challenge Paul for his title of chief of sinners. You know, I was, man, a murderer. I mean, just everything. I was terrible. And so I think that it was just the totality of everything and the Holy Spirit just working on me, working on me, working on me to reveal who I was, in fact, in God's eyes. And it crushed me. It absolutely crushed me. And so then I began to read again. Now I have no hope, right? I deserve everything that I get. So I began to read then to find hope. There's gotta be something in here. There's gotta be, God is so much bigger, he's holy. There's gotta be some mercy here somewhere. There's gotta be something. And remember, I had nothing else. I had a blanket and a Bible. That was it. Total isolation, which is what it required for me to be broken, I suppose. So I began to read the Gospels and began to understand that there was a price that I could never pay, that I deserved exactly what I thought I deserved. And then I began to learn about Jesus, the Holy Spirit again. I had no outside teachers, no commentaries, nothing like that. It was just the Word of God. And I began to understand the gospel, the life, and the ministry, and the sacrifice, and the ascension. You know, it wasn't until way later in seminary school that I began to understand the fullness of what all of that meant. But my faith, my coming to Christ was simple and pure. And I almost feel sorry for people who don't have such a similar experience, honestly, because it was just the Holy Spirit. It was lovely. I was going to church in the world. I was always going to church only to make sure you see my Cadillac and my children in church. But as far as remembering anything about the word of God, I really didn't know it. But I was at church every Sunday. Every time the doors opened, I was there. But no real change, no conviction or anything like that. And then I ended up in a situation where I was in prison. Found myself in prison and I was in one of the worst prisons at the time. It was just going through a riot when I came in and there was this younger guy, he had Bible study. And during his Bible study, I was there, but I never did read, never brought my Bible or nothing like that. And I was, I was, I was just coming into prison, but I couldn't read. So I believe I started to believe everything that he was saying at the Bible study. And he asked me one day, he said, hey, you want to give your life to the Lord? And I was like, I knew I did, but I just didn't want to do it in front of nobody. I wanted to make sure that I knew that this was what God wanted. So I get in the cell, it was December, super cold in the cell where you could hear your, see your breath. So I'm praising and worshiping God. And the more I praise and worship Him, the warmer the cell became. And then I get on my knees and I ask God to save me. That's when I got saved, and that was like 10 years ago. But the first beginning of it was rocky because I couldn't read the Word. I just believed the Word. So knowing what He expected out of me was a real hard thing when you couldn't read the Word, you know? So me and the guy that brought me to Christ, we split up, and I wasn't around other Christians for a while. So I kind of found myself falling back a lot. So I ended up getting into it with two officers that ended in maximum lockdown. That's when you only in, you come out one hour a day. Every time you out, you in handcuffs. So that's where I found myself for over a year. And then one day I was coming off the yard and I could hear the Holy Spirit speaking like, hey, you need to read your Bible. And I'm like, I'm like, I can't read. You know, I can't read. And we going through this for about 30 minutes. And I pick up the Bible and I open it and I immediately, I knew I could read. No literacy classes, no nothing like that. I never went to a class when I came to prison. I've never been to school and prison because I couldn't read anyway, so. But from that moment on, for six months, I never read anything else but the Bible because I thought it might go away if I read anything else. So when I'm on the yard, I used to take cards out that I wrote and I'm trying to read and memorize scripture. It's still hard for me to memorize scripture now, but I wanted to remember it just in case it just went away one day. I have something locked in. But it never went away. God started transforming me with his word, you know, like being on a potter's wheel. And he kept me there. He kept molding me and shaping me. Yeah, prison saved me. Because in the world, I wasn't listening. I was going to church every day. I was going to church every time the doors was open. But I wasn't listening. But now that I can't get out this way, I can't get out this way, like he was saying, I can't get out this way. Now I know I could only look up and I know it's only freedom there. That's the only freedom there was, it still is. I can see the bars, I can see the fences now, but I'm freer than I ever was, ever, ever was in the free world. I've been in and out of prison since I was 19 years old. It's always been crystal meth and trailer park Barbies. And Scott Walters was a chaplain for Rainey County Jail. brought me a life recovery Bible up there. And I started reading it. I was like, Lord, I said, I'm going to hell. I'm torture. I mean, I'm just totally living in sin. I said, God, I can't do it no more. I said, I'm tired of being sick and tired. I'm at my rock bottom. My nephew lost his dad, I lost a brother-in-law, my sister lost her husband. So when my drug addiction was just bothering, I thought was just bothering me, it was fine. But now it's affecting the people around me. So I got hungry for the word, so I started reading the word. And I'm facing two natural life sentences being already convicted of one charge already as a violent offender. Now I'm facing two life sentences. As I'm reading the Bible, God put on my heart that I wouldn't do over ten years in prison. So I get ready to go to court. I remember it was January the 1st, the 23rd of 2022. When I gave my life to Christ, when I got to the New Testament, and I was reading in Matthew, and I just broke down and confessed all my sins to Him, nothing happened right then. But that night when I laid down, I started crying so hard I couldn't catch my breath. And I didn't know I was saved then. I just knew something inside me was changed. So when I went to court, There was a bird singing outside the window, but the strange thing was, it was coming a thunder and a lightning storm and it was raining. And something you don't hear every day is a bird during a thunderstorm. I looked at the guard, he says, I'm looking at you right now. I said, sir, do you hear that? He said, hear what? I said, that's God. He thought I was crazy. As I get up and go into the courtroom, they look at me and said, Mr. Marchman, today's your lucky day. We're throwing a sexual battery charge out because the doctor papers are forged. We can't find the doctor. They said, but we're going to give you 10 years. Since that day right there, I've gave my life to God and he has changed my life tremendously. Jesus Christ is my Lord and personal savior. My mom asked me about a year and a half ago, well about two years now, this December, she says, son, what do you want for Christmas? She says, do you want me to put money on your books? or do you want me to buy you some books?" I said, what I really want, mom, is for you to go to church with sis, my sister. And I'm 41 years old and I never knew my mom to go to church. She's not a religious woman. She said, I don't know about all that. So I called my sister the next day. She said, I don't know what you said to mama, but she called me last night and asked me what we was having for dinner at church. I'm not promised to see my, and my mom's been going to church, every Sunday since then. I'm not promised to see my mom again outside these walls, because she's old. But I am promised that she's saved. That little jewel in my crown, that knowing that God used me and my brokenness to get to my mom, to get her saved. And now I went from a hopeless dope thing to a penitentiary hope dealer. That's what I do now. I'm a mentor on D5, counseling people with drug and alcohol problems. So he has used me. I was raised in a home that was Christian all my life. I was with a single mother. And she raised me as a child, following the scriptures, going to church. I knew about Jesus. But I can't say that I really just gave my life over to Jesus. I do recall at every church service you could probably go to going down to the altar and giving my life to Jesus, right? Saying all of the Jesus prayers over and over and over. But I just never had an assurance that I was saved. I think that's probably the reason why I was constantly going down to the altar to get saved all over again. But it wasn't until I came to prison go figure, that I really kind of found Jesus in a real way. And not like a prison religion, I have a friend, my best friend's name is Matthew, who really sat down with me and really began to answer a lot of deep questions about the faith. Just the deep questions about who Jesus is and what is this movement that he has going on and how is it possible for him to live in me and to die for me and what's the significance of that. I remember my friend, just one time he was talking and I said to him, so what, that Jesus died on the cross? What does that matter? What does that all even matter? And it was only through just a really intellectual conversation, just talking about all the different things that I kind of figured that this is true. It's all true. Everything that is being said is true. And so Jesus says, the truth, they will know the truth, right? And the truth will set you free. And I believe it was only through the knowledge of the truth that I was able to gain from this person really sitting down with me, talking to me, and answering a lot of deeper questions that really led me to Jesus. I hated church. I couldn't wait to get out of my parents' home so I could just live my life the way I wanted to live it. No church involved. So at about 16, I moved away from home from Alabama, from Mississippi back to Alabama. Staying with a grandmother who let me do just about anything I wanted to do. Came home when I got ready, left when I got ready. Girls, whatever. Then I got involved in drugs. Started out smoking marijuana when I was 12. Started smoking crack cocaine by the time I was about 17, 18 years old. And when I started doing crack cocaine, that's when my life just went upside down. And I didn't know what to do, how to overcome. I was in such a bad situation to where I wanted to kill myself. I was so sick of the way that I was living. So I thought that if I would just change scenery, that that would make it okay. So I left Alabama, moved back to Mississippi, got involved with a female there, and then she had a brother that was strung out on drugs, so that led me back down the drug path. And again, life went up in turmoil. Messed around, got in some trouble, went to jail. Stayed in jail about a year, got out on probation. Went out a year later, got locked back up again. Did five mandatory years, came back out, back on drugs. The Lord was dealing with me while I was in prison for those five years, but I wasn't thinking about the Lord. I was just thinking about doing my thing. When I got out in 2002, after doing five mandatory years, I just wasn't happy. Drugs was just destroying my life, destroying my relationship. So I tried to commit suicide, sat in my truck one day with a loaded .38, but for some reason just couldn't pull the trigger. Got in a little more trouble after that, tried to make about seven state troopers kill me because I was so sick of the way I was living. Tried to hang myself in the hospital examination room one night, that didn't work. And finally, because of drug use, I got caught up in another charge, robbery and attempted robbery. and ended up getting life in prison without the possibility of parole, probation, or early release. And when I got sentenced, I went to my county jail and cried like a baby. And I asked the Lord why would he allow this to happen to me? And I realized that for a long time I had been playing on assuming on God's mercy. And that's one of the things my mom always told me to not assume on God's mercy. And I did that. But yet God was still faithful to put an obstacle in my path to save my life. And when I realized that it was God dealing with my heart, one night I just confessed, Lord, I'm a sinner. I cannot do this on my own. I need you. I need your help. I'm sick of the life I'm living. Please, Lord, help me. I can't do it by myself. And so I began to go to church, which I love now. And God has done such a miraculous work in my life. And there were some times that I straddled the fence and the Lord, man, will he chastise you? And he did that for me. And that's just the love of God that he showed me. And so I had to make a decision, and that decision was, am I going to continue the strategy of defense, or am I going to get serious about what God is doing in my life? So I decided to get serious, and when I did, that God started elevating me, started learning His words, studying Greek language, how to how to exegesis the scriptures, just all kind of stuff. Had a mentor that taught me how to study the word of God, and it has such an impact on my life to even to this day, I'm teaching others now how to study the word of God, verse by verse. And man, I'm just telling you, it's amazing how God can take a poor, wretched sinner like me, strung out on drugs, caring about nobody but himself, no matter who gets hurt, And God will shed his love abroad in my heart and save me. It's been the best life I have ever lived, even in prison. I have lived my best life in prison because God saved me. And man, I'm telling you, it is an amazing thing. I can't begin to explain in words how God is just so awesome and how he could change the life of any individual, no matter what you've done. It's just awesome, and that's all I could say. I don't know what else to say. Man, hmm. Now, for the first time in my, at that time, 40-something years of living, I heard some words from my mom I always wanted to hear, and that was, I'm proud of you. I heard that for the first time, and can you imagine after living for 30, 40 years and never having your parents say, I'm proud of you because you've never done anything that your parents could be proud of? She looks at you and tell you, son, I'm proud of you. That was so amazing. But that's God. That's God. So that's my testimony. I teach different classes, but I also teach a Bible study class preaching techniques and hermeneutics. And I always tell the guys here that we're not here because of the crimes we committed against the state of Mississippi. We're here because of the crimes we committed against God. because that's where it all starts. And if you cannot see God's grace and mercy, and you're being in prison instead of God taking your life out on the streets, and you open your eyes in hell, then you're messed up, you're confused. This is God's mercy. And when Pastor Paul Washer was preaching about sin today, and he was telling us about those obstacles that God puts in our lives to save us, He gave an example, an illustration of Jacob and Esau, where he said, Jacob, I love, but Esau, I hate it. But he wasn't talking about in the fact of God just hating Esau. It was the fact that he just let Esau just go and live his life, accomplish whatever he wanted to accomplish in life. He didn't just let him go. But Jacob, he was in every aspect of Jacob's life. And I can see throughout all my 55 now years of living that God has always been there, always trying to call me and draw me unto himself. But because of my rebellion toward God, I always ask him this question, Lord, why me? Why would you be so long-suffering? Why would you be so loving and so kind toward me? What have I done to deserve your grace and mercy, your love? And I began to realize that Even if I have to do life in prison, this is where God saved me at. This is the instrument that God used to finally get my attention. And this is where I surrendered and I committed my life to God right here in prison. Now, it took me a long time to get to that point where I could say, Lord, Whatever your will is, if it's to release me, hallelujah. But if not, hallelujah anyway. I'm still going to live for you. I'm still going to do your will. I still want to fulfill your purpose for my life through you and fulfill your purpose here at this facility or wherever you send me, Lord. That's my heart's desire to serve you no matter what, because I know that at the end of my life's journey, this is not it. There's a heaven and there's a reward waiting for me. So that's why I can say that this is God's grace toward me here at Marshall County Correctional Facility. Amen. Man, y'all got me stirred up over here. Some of the guys several years ago that were major in the security threat groups, they were involved, organizations, violence, basically bad inmates that really caused a lot of trouble. Some of those guys now are leaders here. That's the change in their life. Some of these guys that are doing life sentences that had no hope now are some of the instructors in educational programs, vocational programs. The leaders in churches, deacons in churches, it's just phenomenal to see the turnaround in these guys. Honestly, I'm four years past when I could have retired and it's one of the things that keeps me going is the fact that I get to see this change. If that don't motivate you, nothing will. It's a sincere movement. It's a God-led movement. He's involved. If he wasn't, none of this stuff would be happening. Yesterday, one of our guys is battling a terminal disease, and we had to move him out to get him a higher level of care. There was a line in medical of other inmates that wanted to come by and pray with him, speak to him, tell him they loved him before he left. And that shows the closeness, the respect they have for one another based off their behavior. He's got his life. He gave testimony in church not too long ago. I lived a rough life, but he's a different man. The last thing he told me was, I hate I'm not going to be able to wire up the chapel for you. I mean, the man's at his end and he's worried about serving others still. So, to me, that's the best example of real you can get. That's the change we see. I told you that I suffer from a dual diagnosis. I've been on medication since the time I was seven years old. Diagnosed PTSD, mood disorder, ADHD. Was admitted into the hospital one time for homicidal and suicidal tendencies at the age of 13. Had a lot of things going on and up here I couldn't, I just, I didn't process things as I should. Well, that night, I was like Gideon. I didn't even know about the story of Gideon. But that night, I was like, God, if this is real, you just got to allow me, please, to know these things. And so my pastor gave me some scripture. It was John 14 through 16. And he told me to read. And as I started to read, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. There was a change from that moment on. I felt it. The next day, I woke up. I didn't do a shot of dope. I felt guilty for smoking a cigarette, I still remember. And all that day, it was just like, I'm on this high. And I find myself in the middle of the hood, the very hood that I've sold guns and I've sold dope in all these years. And I'm actually pulling a guy, pulling a guy to a meeting with me, stopping a drug deal right there, like seriously. And that was so odd of me. Normally it's me enticing people to buy this gun, buy these drugs. Come on, man, let's party, let's have fun. At this moment, I knew there was a change within me because I'm sitting here stopping the drug deal, like totally being disrespectful to the drug dealer and trying to pull this guy to this meeting with me. At that moment, I knew that there was a change in my life. And I won't never forget it. I was raised in a Christian home, been around it all my life. Father's a preacher himself. I knew about the Lord, but it wasn't until I caught my charge, you know, I was convicted of a crime, then I brought me to prison and everything. It was in those moments in doing my waiting to go to trial and everything that the Lord began to deal with my heart. I lived a rebellious life, grew up in a home, like I said, with a pastor, fathers and mother ministers. Well, I lived a rebellious life, and it wasn't until this moment that the Lord led me to church that Sunday, and I heard the gospel preached by my father. I heard the message preached. The Spirit of the Lord convicted my heart and drew me to the altar. And that day I surrendered my life to the Lord. As a matter of fact, I was shacking up, living a fire life, shacking up. And it was that day that I surrendered my life to the Lord and everything changed. I walked out a different man. My mom and dad didn't have to tell me, the bishop or the teachers didn't have to tell me that I had to change my way of living or my lifestyle, the Spirit of God instantly. Let me knew to look at things were different now that I had to change how I was living. And that day I walked away from a five year relationship and started living my life the way that I felt like God had called me to live and that was for Him. Shortly after then I ended up coming to prison, but yet I came in a new man. I didn't come in with the same mindset or the same desire that I had before I was in custody. Because I wouldn't have learned that I can't get to heaven on my parents' coattails and that I had to have a personal relationship with Christ myself in that day. Changed the rest of my life. I came to prison, but yet I'm free. I still had to deal with the consequences of my sin and the decision that I made. But now that I'm in Christ, I can deal with it not by myself, but I got the Lord to deal with it, to walk me through this journey. So my mind set about how I was because I thought I was good. I thought I was all right the way that I was, but I found out that I wasn't, that I was deeply steeped in sin and evil and wickedness. The Lord saved me and changed my life, and I now see different, that I'm in need of Christ. Even now as a believer, I still live here. Once it was all about me, I was self-centered. I thought only of myself, which was led me to prison. But now I have new meaning. I have new purpose that is not about me, but it's about the meaning God has placed me around. Meaning who I lost, who don't know Christ. He was just like I was. He's given me a person to reach out and preach the gospel to them and to help them in every way I can, to help lead them out of the darkness into the light and where I now stand. My testimony is Galatians 2.20. I've been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live the life I now live in the flesh. I only live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. From that point on, he penned that scripture in my heart, and I've been trying to live my life graciously in gratitude to the Lord and all he's done in my life. I'm a banger now. I'm a Christ gang member. I want to be a Christian gang banger. You know what I mean? And all that other stuff. Michael got me killed, got me put in prison for 30 years. You know what I mean? I got three more years to go, I'll be home. And I'm going to be lost out there. You know what I mean? I ain't been out there so long to be lost. But I met a bunch of good people right here in Hollis Plain, and I think I'm going to probably stay with them, you know, when I get out. They got a little halfway house thing going on. Brother Kevin and Danny, Arch, Pastor B, good people. And I'm going to surround myself with good people. Because if I don't, I know what the devil is going to do. Same thing he did last time. Pulled me right back in that gutter. And I'm out of the gutter. I don't want to go back in the gutter. Jesus pulled me through it several times. Because I don't know how much time, I'm 56 years old. I don't know how much time I got left to live. And probably if I wouldn't have been in prison, I'd have been dead a long time ago. Because he changed me. He could change anybody. I just hope I could talk to some people when I get out to help change them from going the route I went. But I'm glad I'm here because God put me here for a reason. to get me right. And I thank him every day for it. If I got to stay here the rest of my life getting me right, I'll be here. Because I'm going to get right before I get back out there. Every time I'm in class, I'm taking the glorious gospel, Paul Walsh's workbook. And I got all that in there, every one of them. And I wrote this down a long time ago, a while back. And then, there it is. There it is. There it is. You know what I mean? And it just goes on and on and on and on about Paul Washington, the divine dilemma, the boy, our son, our sin, Jesus, the boy, our sin, took the sin away from us and all that. I just, every time I think about what he did for me, it hurts me, bro. I'm so, cause I done so much dirt and guilt and this man died for me. And I'm just really realizing what he done for me, you know what I'm saying? And it breaks me down every time, man. It really does. Because I wasn't nothing but a ratchet sinner, bro. And I was doomed, I was hit. I'm going to hell. If I didn't know Jesus, I'm going to hell. And everybody else is too. And I try to tell them all. I look around the zone, there's a bunch of dead bodies everywhere. And I'm trying to tell them right. Know God, get with Jesus, come to class with me, go to church with me. They look at me like, man, you trying to get me to go to church? Yes, I am. People, things change when you're with the Lord, man. He changes your heart. Because I wouldn't have been sitting here crying right like I am now if it wasn't for the Lord. You know what I mean? It didn't even matter to me back then. I didn't care. But now that I sit here and know what he really did for me, how could I not? But like I said, I ain't perfect and God's still working on me. And I hope he does a lot of things through me. I hope I could change somebody else's life from going the road that I went down. And hopefully God will change some other people just listening to my testimony and what I done been through in my life. Maybe, maybe not. Christ is faithful and we are seeing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Word of God, the Kingdom of God transforming men's lives in this place. Some of the darkest places in the prison, some of the most violent men, some of the worst of the worst. to see them put in their faith in Lord Jesus, and to literally see men that you knew for years that were just terrible people that you wouldn't want anything to do with. You'd be scared to death to be around, to have an encounter with Christ through His word, through His gospel, and to become some of the most loving and some of the most wonderful men of Christ and godly men hungering and thirsting for righteousness and living their lives now as servants to reach young men, to bring others out of darkness, out of gang life, out of destruction and into the light and into Christ. It's just an incredible thing to have the Lord has given us purpose in this place, even in this prison system, to serve him and help others to come to know him. My name is Daniel Lawabdi. I'm here with George Bell. We grew up together. He was actually my brother and is my brother's best friend. And so I was kind of like a little brother to them growing up. I can remember playing and doing all kinds of stuff together. But there was a season in our life where I drifted off drugs and alcohol. I really had some insecurity in my life, and I know the same thing happened with George. Fast forward a little bit. I was facing life in prison. God met me in my cell. I gave my life to Christ, ended up going to a faith-based discipleship program where my life got transformed. God sent me back to my hometown to launch an extension of the ministry that's out of Dallas, Texas called Care Center Ministries in Hilltop Church. I did that, and in the meantime, George was dealing with drug addiction and crime and ended up getting a life sentence in Mississippi Department of Corrections. But just a few years back, we were doing some ministry in the streets of Jackson, doing a street outreach called Soul Snatchers, where we cook hamburgers and hot dogs, and we'll hold signs on the corner of Northside Drive. And we'll preach the gospel and minister to people. And there was a gentleman who drove by named Juan Cloy. He was running to be the sheriff in Hines County. And he said something pulled him into the parking lot. He was inquisitive of what we were doing. And he came and asked who's running this ministry. God brought me into this ministry, into this parking lot to kind of see what you guys were doing. And we started talking and sharing. And he was telling me his history and why he's running for sheriff. And I was telling him what happened in my life and how God met me and transformed my life. And somehow we brought up George's name because I was just sharing like how God will take the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and how he'll save anybody. And he just kind of paused for a minute. And he was like, I remember George clearly. I mean, it was kind of he was blown away. He said, I was the sniper who had the gun with the red beam facing on his head. And George was at a gas station. He had his mother. held captive, and he was holding a gun to his head and his mom's head for a few hours. And Juan Cloy's sergeant released him to go ahead and kill him, to pull the trigger. And he said, something wouldn't let me. And when he said that, we both just started crying, right there in the parking lot. because we understood the reality of God and how He kept Him for a season like this to use Him. And so it's been how long? 20-something, 25 years, 24 years? Since we've seen, since I've seen you. And God is sovereign. We say it all the time, but He just, there's moments when He proves it to us. So all these years we prayed for heart cry of Brother Paul to come here. And for years, Danny's been trying to come in and begin to support ministry and to be able to preach here in the system. But it's just never worked out. And so for him to be able to show up today, During the Paul Washer Conference, he's been wanting to hear, meet Brother Paul for so long, too, and to be able to come today, the first time in maybe 20 years I've gotten to see him, and then for him to be able to share this testimony, man, it's just been an incredible thing to see the Lord put together. Yeah, I'm excited to see what God's going to do next. Maybe 2012, we started to pray one day that Paul would come, be able to come to the seminary and speak and come to the prison and preach. And a couple of years later, we found out about some of the gospel books that he had authored. gospel studies, the workbooks, discovering the glorious gospel and one true God and the plight of man and began to get some of those sent and start teaching classes and began to see the Holy Spirit use His teaching on the cross and on the person and the attributes of God and the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ to radically transform lives and Dr. John Snyder, pastor of Christ Church not too far from here in New Albany, he helped us get in touch with Brother Paul and so I began to talk to him on the phone and talk about the gospel and he began to support us field ministers as sort of inmate missionaries and heart cries have been sending Bibles, all his gospel workbooks and books and materials for several years now, large print Bibles. ESV Bibles, NASB Bibles. And so we, around COVID, I remember Paul wanted to, right before COVID, he was trying to make a plan to come and to preach. And then COVID hit and shut everything down. And I know he's had a lot of terrible health problems since and was never able to make it. And so now, even this weekend, the reason that we're here, we spoke a couple months ago and he He said, man, I'm ready. And so the superintendent, the chaplains, worked it out with him and HeartCry to come and do this three-day gospel conference here in Marshall County. In the middle or getting toward the end of day two right now, about 360 men attending morning, afternoon, and night services. It's just been incredible, unbelievable to experience the presence of God and the power of the gospel and just to witness. These last few years, the Lord answering things that we prayed for, fasted for, the men in this prison, in the churches, praying and begging God and crying out for this change and this transformation and the support and everything, everything that's happening now is just all answered prayer. If you are Christian, your only boast is this, Jesus Christ died for wretches like me.