Prison Ministry Stories

Clarifies one thing. God only wants one thing from you, and it's only one thing you can really give Him, and it's your heart. Some people wonder why we come to church. It's because church is a time where we let God sculpt our heart. Church is a time where we let God put His Word in our heart, and church is a place where we can express our gratitude corporately for who He is and what He's done. But what God wants us to understand, he is representing us very well. Our representation isn't in Washington. It's not the statehouse. It's at his right hand, his Son that has died and rose again, our high priest that has nail scars in his hands, ever lives to make representation before you through— oh Lord Jesus, help us. That's what God's trying to say. We're spending our energy, our time, and we're fighting battles that have already been won. Come on, thanks be unto God that always causes us to triumph. Listen, in Christ Jesus, when he is the center, it's not just the song we sing, it is a life that Jesus said, I've come that you might have life and life more abundantly. How many want a full life, an anointed life, a life with zest and power? Then stand in awe in who he is. We're weighed in the balance and we're found wanting. We still want even though we We have everything. See, the person who Jesus died for— Christ is the Savior of the whole world. Because of our sins, listen, the Creator became our Savior. That's what blows me away. It's not a cross. It is the cross and the person that was on that cross that amazes me. Because a lot of people died on the cross, but only one died and rose again, and only one was the Creator. Creator of heaven and earth that hung and bled on that cross for me. To stand in awe of God, it will idol-proof your heart. I need to understand that he's the potter and I'm the clay, and he ain't finished yet, but he has begun a good work in me, is going to complete it. In fact, Paul said in Romans 8, you've been predestined to be conformed into the image of Christ. If there's an area of your life that's not reflecting the risen King, the Divine sculptor is working on that area in your life.

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Welcome, welcome, welcome all the way from Mexican Lane, Texas. Um, everyone that's on here, go ahead, drop a comment in the chat. I want to see, uh, who's joining me tonight. Tonight's going to be a really special night. I'm going to share some stories just from this prison ministry trip that we just did, um, that I really believe is going to give you guys a lot of, um urgency, I guess, is the right word. Uh, here's what I'm believing for y'all. I am believing that in the near future— what's up, Luke? I'm believing that in the near future I'm going to be able to take cameras in there so that we can really show what's going on. But for now, this is just kind of the way that we're gonna rock, is I have to fill you guys in, um, through pictures that we don't even get to take, because when we go into prison, we don't even get to take our cell phones in there. Um, and so yeah, I'm gonna get more into that. Um, but before I do, I just want to make you guys, uh, be aware of something really cool that is starting next Monday. Next Monday I'm going to be starting this right here. This right here is going to be our, um, 30-day devotional. I'm trying to make it— you guys can actually see this a lot better. Boom, there we go. Actually, you know what, let's go ahead and just like make this a show, bro. Let's have this going on. Amen. Have this little radius going on right here. Praise the Lord. Yeah, so we got our Unstoppable devotional that's going to be going live next Monday at 6:00 AM Central Standard Time. So every single day from Monday to Friday at 6:00 AM Central Standard Time, um, there's going to be a new devotional that's dropped, um, on YouTube. So make sure that you guys go and subscribe to the YouTube channel. You can go find it at MOG Ministries, um, on YouTube, just MOG Ministries on YouTube. And this, uh, devotional is going to get started on there. It's 5 to 10 minutes a day max. You can listen to it while you're driving on the way to work. You can listen to it while you're in the shower. Um, there are questions that I ask you in there, so you can drop in the comments. So it is interactional or interactive. Um, so it's going to be really good. I'm really excited about that. Um, but yeah, that's what we got going on, um, next week. And then what I want to do is I want to go ahead and just jump straight into these stories, man. Prison stories. I want to thank everybody who's partnered with MOG Ministries, everybody who's been a, uh, who's became a part of the Hope Dealers program. Uh, if you don't know what that is, that's our program where you, uh, partner with us at $87 a month. That's what we're believing for. We're believing for 1,000 partners at $87 a month as part of the Hope Dealers partnership. And what you're gonna do is you're gonna receive one of these t-shirts, a Hope Dealer t-shirt, the official MOG Ministries Hope Dealer t-shirt. You're going to receive that by partnering with us. It's just a thank you gift. There's not a t-shirt that you're going to be able to buy online. We're going to sell those. We got the oversized fit. If you do choose the oversized fit, just know that if you are a large, it's going to fit as an extra large. So if you want it to fit just a little bit better, get you a medium. Okay. Also, it is going to shrink the more that you wash it. So it's a, it's a pretty good fit. But yeah, I want to say thank you to all of our monthly partners. Who have just, um, who believe in what God's doing here. I want you to know that what happened this past weekend, um, all the harvest of this past weekend gets credited to you guys and the difference that MOG Ministries and the Hope Dealers are making inside of these prisons. Um, I want you guys to know something, man. We are literally going into the darkest areas. Here's what's cool about what's happening right now through MOG Ministries. Is that Austin wants a hat. You can purchase the hat, praise the Lord, on, uh, on our website. You can go find the link in my bio. Austin, you can get a hat on there. That— these hats are sick. Probably my favorite hat that I've designed so far. Um, but we are going into the darkest places in the world. Um, that, that just is what it is, right? Um, here's what's wild. We went to this, this prison, and even just us going into this prison is a God story in a in and of itself, y'all. We weren't really supposed to be in this prison. I have on my whiteboard up here, I have, um, a discipleship program that I wanted to start inside of prison in 2026. And I didn't go out and talk to people about it. I didn't go out and network about it. I, I spoke to God about this discipleship program that I wanted to launch in prison And the reason for that is because I feel like a lot of the times we go places to preach, you know, and we go and we get converts, but we don't get disciples. And Jesus was very clear. He said, go out into the world and make disciples, not make converts. And so that's what we're doing in prison. And so that's what I wanted to do. And so we get a call— my brother Josh Sullivan gets a call from this a distant cousin who works at this correctional facility, uh, and this correctional facility, it's not like a good facility, um, it's, it's like they call it a warrior's, like a gladiator's camp is what they call these places, right? Um, and that is, it is because they call it that because that's what it is. It's, it's where you go and you become a gladiator or you just simply don't make it. Um, either you get killed or you check in. And what you do when you check in is you pretty much say, hey, I can't be here, my life is, um, being threatened, I gotta go, I gotta roll out. And so you go, you tell them like you got to get taken out of there. Um, but most men don't do that because of respect, is from what I've heard, right? And also at this specific facility that we were at, um, they're just known, um, it's known that officers there, end up killing a lot of inmates. Um, it's just not a good place. It's not a good place. And so this is where we went into— this is what we got connected to, right? And so the officer that works there reaches out to Josh Sullivan and just randomly says, hey man, do you know anybody who would want to start a program at this facility? And Josh Sullivan says, I think I might know some guys that are interested. Now here's what's really cool about this, y'all. Is that my best friend Guy Jones, I wanted him to do prison ministry with me, but he wasn't really about it anymore because he wanted to go after the main people. He wanted to go after the dogs. He wanted to go after the people who are running these prisons, right? And so he didn't want to go just after anybody. He wanted to go after the top dogs that are controlling the violence the extortion that's happening inside of these prisons, because he really believes that's how you'll make a lot of change. And so when Josh Sullivan calls me, I'm like, man, well, I don't know if Guy Jones is going to want to do anything with it because this is really all he wants to focus on right now. And so then Josh is like, well, let me talk to him. And so we get on the call with Josh and with the, the officer from this prison, and it turns out that he actually wants us to go and serve um, there's— it's, it's the, the people, they call it the CMTI group. So it's the people who are in solitary confinement. They're actually in confinement for 23 hours a day, and they only get 1 hour of sunlight a day, but the— but they get it inside of a cage. So even the sunlight that they get, the 1 hour of sunlight that they get in the day, they're stuck in a cage, and they just got like a pull-up bar and a dip bar. That's really all they have in there. And so it's just like, bro, it's, it's— you end up getting the worst of the worst. These are people who are either way too violent to be with general population, or it's people that have a hit on them, so if they put them in general population, they're gonna get killed. Like, that's the kind of people that you're dealing with, right? And so when he tells us this, that he wants us to start a program for those inmates it qualifies Guy Jones to start going there. So now Guy Jones is a yes, I'm a yes, Josh Sullivan is a yes. And we tell this gentleman, we say, "Hey, how many people can we have in this discipleship program?" And he says, "Only 15." We're like, "Okay, well, how many people do you have in confinement right now?" He said, "I have about 156 of them." We're like, "Okay, perfect. Would you allow us to go first and kind of cast a vision for this program?" that you want us to release in prison? He says, absolutely, you guys can do that. So when he says that, really our intention is just to go and do one thing and one thing only— do a Holy Ghost blowout. So here's what's awesome, y'all. We plan this Holy Ghost blowout. We don't have to do our background checks. We don't have to do any of, any of that. It's just Holy Spirit favor. We go, we give them our IDs, and we get rolled up in there. And so he wants us to go and speak to this unit that he's in charge of. Well, what we didn't realize was that the week before we went into this prison, they gave him a new unit, a fresh unit, because the stuff that he's been doing with this other unit has been so effective that they want him to take on more units. So when we roll up, he tells us, they just gave me another unit to take of fresh dudes. So we're like, okay, bet, this is incredible. So we walk into this prison, right? And as soon as we walk in, they're literally taking down this inmate, and they're taking him down and using like excessive force or whatever they call it, right? And so he pulls us to the side, he's like, here, let's just step over here while they handle that guy. Once they get him cleared, then I'll go, I'll show you guys my office. And so this is as soon as we walk into the prison. There's already an inmate getting taken down, and then he starts filling us in. He says, guys, this week has been crazy, man. Um, just want you guys to know, like, the warden received, um, death threats. Um, somebody mailed him some ammo, some bullets, and with a note, and it said that, hey, these bullets have your name written on them. So immediately they went into lockdown in this prison and they started shaking down every single dorm every single cell, um, to search them. And guess what they found in this compound? In one of the cells, they found live ammunition. Um, and so there's death threats going out to this warrant, there's live ammunition on this compound. Um, and I'm going to actually share with you guys an image of just the, uh, the weapons that get taken up in these prisons. These are the weapons that get taken up in these prisons. And so if you notice this, these are all actual like shanks, um, that they create with just stuff that they find inside of their cells, um, whether that's at the rec yard, um, doesn't matter. It's just things that they find and they create these weapons with, which is just insane, um, to think about, right? That this is actually stuff that they're carrying around every single day um, to attack each other. And so these are all just from that prison alone. There was over 3,000 inmates, right? And so they've got live ammunition, they have those weapons in there. I mean, this is like the Wild Wild West. It's just, it's ridiculous. And so when I say that we went to the darkest places on Earth, I'm telling you, and I haven't even shared anything yet with you But we were in the darkest places on earth. This is not people that— I want you guys to really grasp this, okay? There are 3,000 inmates in this facility and none of them are going to go to church. They're, they're just not. None of them are going to go to church. None of them are going to go to a little outreach. That we do. None of them are going to do it. And we need a church. I will never talk crap about a church. We need the local church. But a local church is a lighthouse that attracts people that are looking for light in. What we are doing is we are lighting our lanterns and we're taking the light into the darkness, as opposed to waiting for dark people in darkness to come to us. We are being proactive and going straight in there. And this is how I believe that we're— what I believe that we're doing. I believe that God has put us on a mission to go into the gates of hell here on Earth and plant a church behind the gates of hell. We are going behind enemy lines. And I'm about to share with you how dark this place is because I want everyone who's supporting us monthly— I want you to know how thankful we genuinely are. And I want everyone who's backing us in prayer on a weekly basis or a daily prayer, uh, basis to understand how grateful I really am for your prayers and how much we really need you guys to be praying and fasting with us so that we can really go into these places and do some damage. Because this is the darkest places that you could ever imagine, and I'm about to tell you why. So we go into this prison, right? The first thing that we do is we see officers taking down this inmate Then they tell us about the ammunition. Then we see the shanks, right? And they're rolling out the red carpet for us. This is like red carpet treatment. Like, they're taking us in to meet every officer, to meet every person that's there on staff. They're, they're telling us these guys are going to go preach, they're going to go share a little bit, they're going to roll out a program in here. I mean, it was just absolutely insane. And then the lieutenant says that every officer in the dorm that we're going into is required to wear a stab vest. And so they're all wearing these black vests so that those shanks— they can't shank them. So if they happen to shank them or cut them, it'll be on the arms or the legs, or they'll have to go for the neck. They can't do it in the chest or any of their vital organs. So it decreases the chances of, you know, officers being murdered, um, on these sites. And so they have to wear a stab vest. And so everyone is wearing a stab vest except for yours truly, Guy Jones, and Josh Sullivan, um, and then the lieutenant who took us in there. But everybody else in there is wearing stab vests. And there was a part of me that was like, hey yo bro, like, uh, where's my vest, dog? I need a vest. If they're all getting vests, I want a freaking vest, right? But we just went in there with no vest. We went in there with the Holy Ghost. Believing that we're there on mission, so we're protected. Praise the Lord. And so we're walking by, okay, we're, we're walking by, and I, I want to see if I do have this image. Okay, I'm, I'm going to show this image. It won't be— it won't give you like the greatest look, but it's going to give you some. Let me see here. Okay, so if you can see those buildings— I wish I could zoom in more, I wish I could see— zoom in more. But if you could see those buildings right there, there's like, I don't know, maybe 20 of those buildings filled with inmates, just filled. So we're going in and we're walking by one of these buildings, and then the officer, the lieutenant, tells us this. He says, yeah, what we're passing right now is the mental unit. And so in this mental unit, he said, this is where you have the guys who gut themselves. So you have men in there, they've got, they've got their windows painted so they can't see people outside of their windows. They literally don't see anything or anyone, um, in this mental unit. And he was telling us, he said, these guys will cut open their stomachs and they will literally pull their intestines out and pull their gut, their own guts out. You have men in there who literally will sit there and they'll just cut off their penises, and then they'll have to get them sewn back on, and then they'll cut their penis off again and they'll get them back sewn on until they cut it off enough times to where the doctor says there's no reason to put it back on them. They're just going to continue to cut it off. And so you literally have these dudes just doing that to themselves. And then the lieutenant tells us this, he says, in there right now we currently have a gentleman who has eaten all of his fingers. There are no fingers on his hands anymore, guys. Like, catch this. There are no fingers on this inmate's hands anymore. He just has like paws because he's eaten his own fingers, and now he's began to eat his own toes. And like, these dudes are so far gone that they don't allow them to see outside of their window. They paint the window because they're not allowed to see other human beings. That was the first building that we walked by, and you could just feel the heaviness. I mean, you could just feel like demonic spirits, because that's purely demonic, man. There is no human being with their right mind that is going to be doing those things. That is full-blown demonic possession, and we didn't even get the opportunity to go in there and do something about it yet. But I believe that we are going to. I, I believe that MOG Ministries is going to be able to go into those places, and we're going to be able to pray, and we're going to be able to deliver people of demons that want to be delivered of these demons. Now, here's the thing, y'all. When it comes down to prison ministry, we've got to be honest about something, y'all. We've got to be honest about the fact that not everybody is going to receive Jesus at times. There are some people that are just purely wicked that have fully given themselves over to the devil. Now I know that that can seem like negative, but here's, here's the matter of fact. It's just a fact. It just is what it is. There are some who have just completely given themselves over to wickedness and to the devil, and that is what they're choosing. It just is what it is, okay? In churches, you'll never really hear that, okay? Because you've got normal humans coming in, and a lot of people that are coming again are people that are searching. We are not going to places where people are searching. We are going to the darkest places on Earth. We are going where the wicked are residing. We are going where there are full-blown demonic possessions, and people are choosing that. That's, that's the reality of prison ministry. So for anybody who's like, man, it would be so cool to go do prison ministry, I want you to think twice about what you're saying. I want you to understand the gravity of what's actually going on in these places. I want you to understand that a 3-point message isn't that you hear on a normal Sunday service that you don't even remember what the pastor spoke is not going to cut it in prison. It's just not. I want you to understand that if you're walking in and you're walking in with some lukewarm faith, right, that's just like, well, I believe that God can do it, but if it be God's will— I want you to understand that it's not going to work. I want you to understand that your Christianese is not going to work in prison. I want you to understand that you going up there and trying to be a hype man and a motivational speaker is not going to cut it in these places. This is where I believe that Paul used the scripture where he said that I do not come at you with wise and persuasive words. It's not how we can articulate our faith, but he comes with a demonstration of power. That is what these inmates need. You can find a really great way to articulate your words and reach people when they're searching for truth, when they're coming to you looking for it. But what do you do when you're catching them off guard? What do you do when they've given themselves fully to wickedness? The second place that we went to, we passed by the mental institute, right? And then we go into this new group, the group that the lieutenant told us that they're trying to give him to take over.. And so this will be another group that we're going to get to walk through discipleship as well in the near future. But these people, the lieutenant doesn't trust them enough yet to let them out of their cell. So we walk into this room and he tells us, he's like, hey, I just want you guys to address these guys really quickly and just give them a quick word. And we're like, okay. And so we obviously expected him to like open up the cells so that these dudes can come down. I mean, I've never preached to anybody behind a closed door, and he didn't let them out because they're not ready for it yet. So he told the men to pay attention, and you have inmates with this little window, and you just see them pressed up to this window. Everyone's like looking down at you, and we're standing there, and we begin to preach the word of God in the middle of this dorm. I want you to imagine we're just standing in the middle of this dorm with metal tables, metal chairs, a staircase going up. And all you see is these doors, and you see these men's face plastered up against the door, um, plastered up against the door, trying to listen to what we're saying. And we're standing in the middle of the room speaking at a volume to try and get it so that the entire dorm can hear us through their cell door. This was the first opportunity we had to preach. We're preaching to men that aren't even allowed out of their cell. They are so violent, they've broken the rules in prison. They are inside of the prison that's inside of prison. That's the first guys we went to, and here's what we did. We did not come at them with wise and persuasive words, man. We came at them real. We let them know that, bro, we are here because we want you guys to experience what we've experienced, and we don't got— you guys can't offer us anything. And we just declared the goodness of God over them. And the lieutenant had told them that we were going to be launching a program there. And before we left— here's how I know that God was speaking to these men through that door. Because before we left, there was men shouting, when does your program start? When does your program start? When does your program start? Which shows us that there are men in there that are hungry for the truth. I believe all of them are hungry for the truth. I just believe none of them even know what the truth is or what it looks like. And so that's what we're going in and doing. And so then after that, he pulls us out of there, there And then we go into the next group, and this next group, he actually allows them out of their cell. So these guys are kind of out hanging out. Um, he mentions to us, he says, hey, you know, there's a guy in here who, uh, he's actually killed his last 3 roommates. Um, and he's staring at me right now, so I'm not going to point him out. He's like, but he's the only one in here who is not allowed to room with a roommate because he's literally murdered the last 3 roommates that he's had. Um, and so these are the dudes that we are taking out to the pavilion to go preach to. I'll show you guys a picture of that right now. He happened to get some pictures of us out there. See, where is it? You can see this picture right here. So this is one side of the pavilion. Come on, man. That's one side of the pavilion. You can see it's over there. It's pretty packed. It's my brother Guy Jones preaching. So we took them outside to go and preach, and we had, um, that pavilion full, and then we had the other pavilion full, which is this one right here. There's me. That's when I was up there speaking. And so then you have that other pavilion over there full, and we're just preaching to these men. Now keep in mind, that man— you can see the building behind those men. Those are the buildings that they're kept in. You can see how big those buildings are. Two men in every cell except for that one guy who keeps killing his roommates. Two men in every single cell. And we only went into one of those buildings. That's all we went into is one. Think about how much more work we have to do. We only got to go into one of those buildings. 3,000 inmates. We only got to go into one of those buildings. We've got work to do, y'all. Now, these men are not going to come to our church services. I'm just saying. I'm just being honest. I'm not crapping on the church. I'm just being honest. These men will not come to a church service. These men will not come to a men's event. That's not how this works. So we're going in there, we're being proactive about it. And so we're preaching there, we're spending time with them. Um, that man who murdered his last 3 roommates, he was in there in that crowd. And so these are the men that we are preaching the gospel to. And here's one thing that I've really like started thinking about— it's that if you can't go and preach a message to these men and it be effective, then you shouldn't be preaching it on a Sunday. It's got to work for these men. The gospel has to work for these men. And if the gospel that we're preaching doesn't work for those men, then it doesn't work. It doesn't work. Which means that we can't give flashy messages. What are you going to say to a guy who's murdered his last 3 roommates and who's probably not feeling bad about it because he keeps doing it? What are you going to say to him? I don't think we can say anything to that. I think that's where we need the Holy Spirit. I think that's where we need the Holy Spirit. So we ministered to these men, and then this is a really cool picture, man. We ministered to these men, and when I say minister, I mean we actually ministered to these guys. We did the altar call, and these are the men that came up and gave their life to Jesus. I'll just share the entire image right here. These are the all the men that gave their life to Jesus. Now I want you guys to notice something about this picture, okay? I want you to notice my brother Guy Jones. Notice his, his head. And I want you to notice Josh Sullivan, who's on the right, left side of me. Neither one of these men, Josh or Guy Jones, have their head bowed. Why is that? Why is that? Again, here is a reality of prison. You always have to keep your head on a swivel because you don't know who is there with bad intentions or with good intentions. You don't know who's there being genuine, and you don't know who's there with bad intentions. Now, there were some guys that were absolutely genuine You can see, um, right over my left shoulder, you can see that really dark black dude, and then right behind him, that light-skinned bald black dude. Um, those dudes were weeping among some other guys. There's some Mexicans over here where you can't see them because Josh Sullivan is covering them. Um, but they were bawling their eyes out because the Holy Spirit was actually touching these men. These dudes do not cry. It shows radical weakness. And if you're in a dorm with the dude who's killed his last 3 roommates, the last thing you want to do is show weakness. And so Holy Spirit was actually touching these dudes, and the guy who actually, um, had murdered his last 3 roommates, he came up there to pray the sinner's prayer. Now this is why Guy Jones and Josh are like, this is why this, this detail is important, because Guy was watching that dude. God had— Guy had already identified who that dude was, and he said that dude was just up here. He was like, and man, he was just clowning. He wasn't really serious about it. You could just tell that he was up to something. And so this is why it's important when you go to prison that you go with men like Guy Jones and Josh, who like, they know the culture, they know the ins and outs of it, because these inmates, some of them are just watching to see who they can play up under. See who they can manipulate, see who they can take advantage of. And when you've got guys that are peeping game, as we call it, you, you avoid that. You avoid that. You— it lets these inmates know, like, hey man, you can't just do whatever you want. You can't just do whatever you want. Stephanie Ramirez said, that's amazing, that's so beautiful to be able to reach those lost souls. I absolutely love, absolutely love this. Thank you, woman of God. That means a lot. And so these men ended up just getting wrecked by the Holy Spirit. Now here's what's really cool, y'all, is the lieutenant came up afterwards and told them that their next step is to get baptized. And, um, and he was talking about getting baptized, and he said, but if you guys want to get baptized by these men, then just let me know and we'll make sure that we, we make that thing work.. And so there was men who wanted, you know, us to baptize them. And I told them, I said, hey guys, um, I'll figure out the way to get back out here for your baptisms. Like, this is, this is the ministry that I'm committed to doing. This is what God's committed me to do. So if those dudes want to get baptized next week, then guess what? I'm on a plane to Florida next week to make sure that these men get baptized, um, because they want us to be the ones that baptize them. And we got to lay hands on every single one of these men. Not one of these men didn't get hands laid on, and I believe that the power of God touched those dudes. And so now we're going to go back and baptize them. And if you notice, there's more than 15 guys there. Well, for our discipleship program that we're going to be running, there's only 15 guys that are going to be able to be on there. And so there's not going to be a lot of guys that are going to be able to walk through it, but we're going to be able to spend more intensive time with those men that are actually committing to that discipleship program. Um, and I just want to share with you guys a little bit about what MOG Ministries is going to be doing on the inside, because we're not just going out there and getting souls. We're getting souls and then we're going to actually walk them through a process. I truly believe that what is happening through MOG Ministries in these prisons right now is that God is giving us a church behind the gates of hell. That's what's happening. Just like Paul had the Church of Corinth, just like Paul had the Church of Ephesus and all the other churches that he went to and he planted and he trained people up, and then he would send people there to love on them and he would send letters. That's what we're going to be doing with these prisons. And so the program that we're going to be launching is going to be this right here, right? I don't know if you guys can see that fully. But we've got, um, our 12-week transformational, um, discipleship program. This is for the CTMI, um, Suwannee Correctional Facility. It's going to be 12 weeks long, and it's going to have one virtual teaching session that I'll be able to do over here from Dallas, Texas. And then we're going to do one in-person discipleship session a week where I'll also be they're in person once a month, um, and then I'll be virtual twice a week, obviously. So it'll be a total of 24 sessions. Um, the vision behind this is— it's called The Road to Damascus is what we're calling this program. This is inspired by the transformation of Saul in the book of Acts. This program is built on the belief that no life is beyond redemption. Just as Saul encountered God on the road to Damascus and was transformed from persecutor to the Apostle Paul, this journey invites participants to confront their past, renew their minds, and step into a new identity and future. The road to Damascus is designed to guide men through a process of confession, freedom, renewal, and purpose so that true transformation becomes possible. That's what we're going to be walking them through. And here's, uh, here's what I believe is, uh, I think this is phase 1. I hope I pulled up the right one. Yeah, phase 1. I just want to let you guys in on what we're actually doing because I think you guys are going to appreciate this because you're a part of it. If you're partnered with us monthly, you're a part of this. This, you are making this happen. And when we get results from this and a harvest from this, and then these men get transformed and begin to lead other men to Jesus, and the prisons begin to experience revival, guess what? That harvest goes to you. So I want you to know what you are doing. Phase 1. This is the Phase 1 that we're walking them through, bringing darkness into light. Weeks 1 through 3, this is where transformation begins with honesty. In this phase, participants confront their past, release shame, and begin breaking the internal bondage caused by secrecy and forgiveness. This is key. This is so key. Week 1: Confession and Bringing Darkness into the Light. Participants will begin by confessing their past, bringing out all secrecy and all hidden struggles into the light. This is based off of the scripture where it says confess your sins one to another and you will be healed. Week 2: Understanding the Shame and Guilt Cycles. Participants are going to learn the difference between guilt and shame and begin separating their identity from their past actions, breaking the shame and guilt cycle that causes them to recreate the same sins and patterns over and over and over again. Week 3, they're going to go through Breaking the Power of Unforgiveness. This is designed specifically for inmates, y'all. Week 3, Breaking the Power of Unforgiveness. Participants learn the destructive nature of bitterness and begin taking practical steps toward forgiveness. The outcome— and also this week they will be receiving a copy of my book Unforgiveness to practically help them walk through that as well. Um, so MOG Ministries is donating all of these resources, obviously, because inmates cannot pay for it. So again, thank you to our partners for making all this happen. Outcome of phase 1: Participants begin experiencing freedom from shame, secrecy, and bitterness. That's what will happen after phase 1. Phase 2: The Renewing of the Mind, weeks 4 to weeks 5. True transformation requires changing how a person thinks. In this phase, uh, participants learn how their focus and thought patterns shape their lives and how to actively renew their minds. Week 4, they're going to be focusing on the power of focus. Participants learn how attention shapes behavior and direction in life. We're going to break down the science behind all of this, and this is all based off of the scripture that says fix your eyes on the author and perfecter of our faith. Week 5, renewing the mind. Participants will learn practical ways to replace destructive thinking patterns with healthier thought patterns. This is based off of be transformed by the renewing of your mind and take every thought captive and make it submissive to Christ. We're going to show them a very practical way on how to actually do this and walk them through that. The outcome of phase 2 is participants are going to develop greater awareness of their thinking and begin building mental discipline. That's going to be phase 2. Now, phase 3. Phase 3, we're going to establish an identity and vision. So this is going to happen between week 6 through 8. Once the past has been addressed and thinking patterns begin to change, participants begin building a new identity and creating vision for their future. Week 6: Identity—Who You Choose to Become. Participants explore how identity shapes behavior and begin defining who they want to become moving forward. Week 7: Vision—Creating a New Future. Participants develop a clear vision for their future and identify the kind of life they want to build beyond their current circumstances. Week 8, Living a Value-Driven Life. Participants, participants identify their personal values and learn to make decisions based on those values rather than emotions or circumstances. The outcome of Phase 3 is this: participants will develop a clear sense of identity, direction, and purpose. Phase 4: Living with Responsibility and Dominion. The final phase focuses on practical life skills and spiritual disciplines so participants can live with responsibility and purpose moving forward. Week number 9: Understanding Your Human Needs. Participants will gain awareness of the psychological and emotional needs that influence every single human being's behavior. This powerful teaching that transformed my life. Week 10: Stewardship and Healthy Conflict. Participants learn responsibility, stewardship of their lives, and healthy ways to manage conflict through communication and self-control. These men are going to learn how to have a man-to-man conversation, not be pansies about it. Week 11 will be the power of practicing prayer. We're going to teach these men how to pray. Pray. I don't think I have another image. I don't think I have another image. No, that's the last image I have. We're going to teach them how to pray. That's what's going to happen. And then we're also going to teach them how to walk in faith, not by sight. All of this, y'all, is what's happening. All of this is happening inside of those prison walls. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord. So it's incredible to see what God is gonna— what God is doing. It's incredible to see what God is going to continue to do. And here's what's going to happen is MOG Ministries is working currently on getting approved to be on the tablets. It's called the Pando app.. And so we're going to get on the Pando app so that inmates can actually listen to our content. So for example, this episode, inmates behind, behind the walls would be able to listen to this content. Why is that so important? Because I believe that if we get this content behind, uh, the gates, then we're going to have more prisons actually begin to reach out to us, and we're going to be able to launch this program behind more prisons, and we're going to be able to do it for more people. This is what I see happening. I see men of God running chapters of prisons. In other words, just like Paul had different churches, MOG Ministries and Hope Dealers will have different prisons that we're overseeing and that we're discipling and that we're building up as the church. This is already happening in Florida, y'all. I just— soon, I believe we're going to be able to, be able to, as a ministry, document this stuff and take stuff into behind the prison gates, right? Uh, and have like a full-time media director to be able to capture all this content and tell these stories. Because Friday night, we went into another prison, and I sat down with 12 of those inmates. Now, at this prison, I've already been there 4 different times. Um, the first time I went there, we had about 12 guys in chapel. Um, oh no, I've been there 4 times. The first time was with Champions in Christ Ministries, um, or the first 2 times was with Champions in Christ Ministries. Then I went by myself with Josh Sullivan, right? And so it was really powerful because I went by myself with Josh Sullivan and Guy Jones, and it was just us, and we promoted it, and there was only 12 guys that showed up, but the Holy Ghost showed up and blew that place out. The second time that I went back there— guys, listen to me, this is the, this is the power of the Holy Spirit— the second time I went back to that prison, the entire chapel was completely filled out. Those 12 men that were there the first time went and filled up the chapel because of what God did in their life. They became evangelists. And so this prison, I went there again, but this time I went to the work camp, which is different from the main unit. And so I went to the work camp, and me and Josh got to sit down with 12 inmates and just talk about the word of God. And if you would hear the testimonies that came out of these men, I'm talking about El Chapo type activity. These men were just sharing how God found them inside of these four— inside of those four walls, how the Holy Spirit just came and radically changed their life. And I believe, because those men are going to be getting out, I believe that I'm going to be able to have them as guests on this podcast or on this show, whatever you want to call it, and they're going to get to share their stories. Because some of these men, just radical stories. I'm talking about they should be in there for life, and then they encounter the power of the Holy Ghost and they fully surrender. And you can tell that they've truly surrendered because you can see genuine joy on their face, and you can just see them tear up as soon as they start talking about God. They just love God. And you see that they're going from potentially facing life to then, after they received God and started completely walking in repentance, now they're only getting 10 years, and they, they just are overwhelmed by God's mercy and by God's goodness. It's just radical. It's just radical what's going on, and God's doing all of this. So I want you guys to know that MOG Ministries is not slowing down. If anything, we are ramping up in prisons. I already got officially, um, cleared in Florida Texas. I'm almost fully cleared in Texas, and so I'll be in Florida at least once a month. We'll be launching our discipleship program in Florida, so I'll be with them virtually twice a week pouring into these guys. I mean, I'm talking we're going to be full-time blitzing it, um, behind prison walls. It's going to be awesome, and to see what God's going to do. And so it's just been— it's just going to be incredible. I want to thank everybody um, who's just been a part of this. Um, if you want to partner with a ministry who's going into the darkest places on Earth, um, then just scan this QR code. Scan this QR code, partner with us. $87 a month. We're going to send you a Hope Dealer t-shirt so that you can represent, um, who you are. Because once you join the Hope Dealers program on a monthly basis, you officially become a Hope Dealer.. And so when we go out into these prisons and we're making a difference like that, that harvest is going to be credited to you in heaven. And I believe that this is fertile soil. I believe that when you sow into fertile soil, what the Bible says is going to happen will immediately happen, and you will reap what you sow, that your gift will come back to you pressed down, shaken together, and running over. So you can scan that QR code, or you can go to mogministries.com. Org. That is mogministries.org. You can go here, and if you go there, you can go and partner with us as well. You can also see a lot of our content on there. You can check our calendar for events that are coming up. Um, we are looking to do two crusades inside, behind prison walls this year. Um, I'm actually lining up right now to go up to North Dakota to do a jail up in North Dakota. And so we are moving, we are moving, um, we are not slowing down, we are moving. And so if you want to link arms with us and partner with us to make these things happen, um, the QR code is right there, or you can go to mogministries.org. And man, we're just gonna have so much more stories. Again, this was such an incredible time that we had there. God is so freaking good, man. God is so freaking good. I hope that these stories blessed you. Um, there is so much more to be shared, but guys, we just don't have enough time. Um, that's why I really do believe that we're going to be able to take a media team to these places soon, and we could just have these videos released on YouTube. Just imagine YouTube documentaries Hope Dealer documentaries from these different counties where God is showing up and doing something. Um, it's just going to be radical what happens, and we're going to keep going back. We're going to keep going back. We're going to keep disciples discipling these men. We're going to keep doing life with these men. Um, we do believe that we are going to change the rate of men going back into these prisons. And so thank you guys so much for being a part. Let me pray us out. Um, and bless anybody who partnered with us today. Um, just make sure that you check your email after you set up your recurring partnership with us. Um, check your spam because you will receive an email to fill out a form for your free t-shirt. So make sure that you do that. Um, Father, I just thank you for every person right now who's sown into this ministry, who's partnered with us. God, I thank you that you are blessing their seed right now. God, I thank you that your word says so freaking clearly to give, and your gift will come back to you pressed down, shaken together, running over, making room for more. And that you will cause men to give freely into our bosom. I declare that to be true over every single person who's partnered and joined the Hope Dealers Partnership program, God, because we're going out to the least of these. We're going out to the darkest places here on Earth, Lord, here in the United States of America. We're going out to men who will never have the opportunity to step into a church building or into a men's event, God. And so, God, I just thank you for the people that are coming alongside with us and making all of this happen, God. I thank you for the doors that you're opening so that we can go in and just minister to these men's hearts, Lord. I thank you, Father, that you've not given up on them, and neither have we. I thank you that we are choosing to be the hands and feet of Jesus, and we're willing to go to places where other people will not go. So Father, I just bless your children right now, God, that are linking arms with us and making all this happen. God, everyone that can hear the sound of my voice right now, I ask in the mighty name of Jesus for a fresh filling of the Holy Spirit, Lord. In Jesus' mighty name, amen. Amen, amen, amen. Y'all, love you guys. Tomorrow morning we've got the Bible study at 11 AM Central Standard Time. Um, and if you happen to forget, I just want to remind you, if you weren't here for the beginning of this, um, next Monday I will be launching— I will be launching my new devotional called Unstoppable. It's going to go live on YouTube at 6 AM Central Standard Time. So Monday through Friday for the next 4 weeks, starting next Monday, there will be a 5 to 10 minute devotional video that you can go along with in the morning while you're driving, while you're taking your morning glory dump, uh, while you're in the shower. Doesn't matter. Um, that way you get your devotional in. So if you don't feel like you have time to sit down and read, this is going to be perfect for you. Um, it's going to be released— I already have them scheduled out, I've recorded some episodes today— that's going to be starting next Monday on our YouTube channel. So make sure that you go and you subscribe to the MOG Ministries YouTube channel and that you turn on the push notifications so whenever the video goes live you get notified at 6 AM Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for the next 4 weeks. So I love you guys, man. Thank you guys for jumping on this live with me and spending this time with me. Thank you guys for supporting MOG Ministries and the Hope Dealers program. Um, because of you guys and y'all's generosity, uh, man, we're just— we're blowing it out for the kingdom of God. Love you guys. I'll see y'all on the next live, and I'll see you tomorrow