So, usually in our email blasts, videos, and blog, we only write about what GOD is doing, and what He’s doing inside the jail, but with this blog post, this is more of a miracle to do with my life. So, let me get started, and you will see what I mean…
My wife and I have had a specific hardship this year, during February and March. I had to pray-away some of the most intense fear I’ve had in my entire life, by far. Some of this is also discussed in KJM E-blast #110, which goes out later this week.
I know fear is a sin, and that sin definitely crushed me through parts of February. But by the LORD’s mercy, I was given the capacity to pray and cast it on the LORD (see one Peter 5:7). That breakthrough–breaking through the fear and terror–was late February, and right at that time of breakthrough, a miracle so blatant, and so vivid, that I assert it is at the level of being a Bible-style miracle.
So, during this time, I was looking at going into some types of hardship that I have never known.
In times of prayer, during this time, I found myself looking at incredible hardship, at a level that I never imagined I’d ever see. But during those times, and feeling a total helplessness, I found the LORD putting the power in me to call His name, and somehow, in some weird way, in the abyss, I was able to smile through tears and say thank Jesus for everything, and that He is my #1. Praise Jesus!
So, one specific prayer time during this stretch, I believe it was February 24th, I was praying for something very specific, that I needed for help during this time, and which was critical for my family. GOD put words in my mouth during this prayer time, and He had me say: Jesus let it fall from heaven. When we see GOD as He is, we become who we are (see 1 John 3:2), and when in His Presence during prayer, being with Him, He will shape our prayers, and give us the words. And GOD had me say that, multiple times: Jesus let it fall from heaven. It felt very good to connect to GOD in praying that prayer. Nearly nobody knew what was going on. Even much of my family I kept in the dark, so they would not be troubled. And I only told three from the KJM team about it (Jeff Porte, Jeff Kimmel, and Kris Sanchez). But during the afternoon that day, while I was at the jail, on the A-North wing talking to some of my brothers in the jail, one of our KJM chaplains, Gordon Daam, walked around the corner, and to the bars where I was, to see me. I had no idea he was even in town; I thought he was still in Florida. So, it was quite a surprise to see him there, all-of-a-sudden. After an initial “hello” time, Chaplain Daam said to me:
“I need to talk to you out in the hall.”
So, we went into the hallway between the jail blocks to talk. And Chaplain Daam, who had no idea of what was going on with the aforementioned crisis, no clue at all. And went we got into the hallway, Chaplain Daam said to me:
“Chaplain Jeff, GOD told me to give you this, He told me you were desperate for it.”
And Chaplain Daam handed this item to me. Now I have seen GOD work, but when you see GOD work, it is always and only awe, joy, and humbleness. I gave Chaplain Daam a hug (three hugs, actually), and said:
“Wait! You are saying that GOD told you this?”
And Chaplain Daam said confidently, with a total assuredness,
“Yes.”
I have told many of the jail inmates about this miracle.
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