Gene
Freedom Behind Bars 2/2
(Please listen to Gene’s story by clicking the white play button at the top of this post. You can read the transcript of the story below.)
So I always say that, you know, Jesus got me ready for heaven. But the Holy Spirit got me ready to do work on earth. And to be a witness and be a testimony to the Lord, both in character, because it gave me a greater level of strength. When I pray, both in the vernacular or in my spiritual language, it gave me a strength that, I know came from the Lord, you know, and you can hype yourself up so much, you know, but when you go through a prison day with the, demonic surrounding and, and the oppression that’s in there, and you’re soaring in faith, in sharing the Word of God and ministering day in and day out and not growing tired, not growing weary, you know, it’s not you, it’s not, you know. I know it’s the Holy Spirit.
I remember this guy Orlando, he’s out now. He got out a year ago. He was involved in everything when I met him. He was Hindu, Buddhist. He tried everything, Catholicism, everything. He’s a very bright guy. He shows up in my cell one day, just comes and knocks on my cell door and comes in and sits down. And I was like, kind of taken…. We’d never spoke. We had mutual friends. It was kind of weird. So I had been watching a show about Jesus on A&E or something. And he said, “What are you doing?” I said, “I was watching this show.” And so he sat there and it was kind of on my mind. I’m like, “Orlando’s sitting in my cell. I don’t really know him. And we never talked before. But okay, God, something’s up,” you know.
So we begin a discussion. And at the end of the hour discussion. He didn’t have a Bible and I said, “Do you have a Bible?” He said, “No, my brother sent me a Bible some years ago, (he had about 20 years in) and he said, “My brother sent me a Bible.” And he said, “But I don’t know what I did with it.” And I said, “I have a Bible here. Will you take it?” He said, “What should I do?” So something in me wanted to lead him to the Lord right there. And I heard the Holy Spirit say, “Don’t lead him to the Lord.” I was like, That’s strange. So I gave him the Bible and he said, “So what should I read?”
I said, “Read the book of Philippians.” So I showed it to him. I said, “There’s four chapters. Just read a chapter tonight.” So he comes back the next day, Sunday, and I read that chapter, chapter one of Philippians is so good. And he pointed out a verse or two. We talked for an hour, he leaves. He comes back the next day. He said, “Man, I read chapter two. This verse here is incredible. This I never saw this. This is a great verse.” Third day, another verse, fourth day, another verse, and he’s like, everyday he comes to my cell and we’re talking. I want to lead him to the Lord. I want to say, Hey, can I introduce you to the Lord and pray for you. And the Lord kept saying, don’t. So he leaves the fourth day and he says he’s going to read another book. And I said, well read Colossians. And I’m just, I didn’t realize I wasn’t saying it with a purpose. I just, that was in front of my mind’s eye to read Colossians. So as he left, I would pray for him. I would pray for him, I’d pray for him to get saved. I prayed for him to know the Lord. Lord showed me, he said, “I told you to have him read Philippians because it depicts Jesus as a servant, and you can’t argue with a servant from where he was at. So, and when it came to Colossians, He said, “I told you to have him read Colossians, because it depicts Jesus as supreme, there’s no one higher than Jesus.” And so he you know, so that was what he told me.
So he come back, chapter one, same thing, next day, 2, 3, 4. So on the ninth day, he comes to my cell, and he sits down and he’s kind of somber, he’s kind of looking almost like, sad. He’s not upbeat, you know. I said, “What’s going on Orlando?” And he’s real quiet, and he says, “I did something, I did something today that I never did before.” So I thought maybe he screwed up, he messed up, or something. I said, “So what’d you do, what happened, man? I said, “What’d you do?” He said, “I prayed.”
I said, “You prayed? What’d you pray?” He said, “Jesus save me, I’m a nut.”
And I laughed, you, I mean, I was cracking up. And he looked at me, like What? What are you laughing about? I said, I said, I saw it in his eyes, he started welling up with tears. And I said, “So what happened?” He said, he said, “Jesus changed my life.” He said, “I got rid of the … I got rid of the garbage. I got rid of this.” He said, “I went I apologized to people..”
And I said, ‘You’re born again.” And he said, “I knew I knew I was born again.” And so Orlando, he went on, he spent a couple years in prison after I left. He spent a couple of years in there. He’s out now. But literally, every cell mate he had, he led to the Lord, I can’t. I know like, I wish I could say every cell mate I had over the years, they came to know the Lord, you know, I wish they would at least leave better than when they came in my cell, you know. But Orlando was, so he was so dynamic. And he would just lead people to Lord. He’s doing extremely well, you know, and he’s, the first inmate, Christian inmate that I was influencing along the way that would call me dad. It was surprising on a Father’s Day some years ago, he gave me a Father’s Day card and he said you’re a father figure to me.
And I thought, man! Wow, how humbling. What a great responsibility that another guy would look at you as a dad and it’s so that kind of changed my ministry to, you know, and so Orlando’s an incredible, incredible incredible guy. And part of the the investment you make in people’s lives and you see it over the years.
You know, I remember you know, even years before my release, I always prayed for these three things. I prayed for…I prayed for a wife. I prayed to be a homeowner. And I prayed for a car. So there were, there were three things I prayed every day, even long before I was even in court. This is when I had 20 years in. And I remember reading a driver’s manual book in the prison. And I had no chance of getting out. But I wanted to see myself driving a car, wanted to see myself doing those things, eating at a restaurant, and going to a professional ball game and stuff like that.
And so we had a Tuesday morning prayer group in the chapel, in the prison chapel. And it started with six guys. It was like 80-90 guys would gather every Tuesday morning from 10 to 11. And we’d go in there and pray in groups, individually, but we’d always go in there and dedicate that hour to prayer for the ministry. I was in there and I remember praying with some other guys, my buddy Jose and some other guys. I was telling him, you know, we need to pray for release. And we need to pray for God’s provision. And God, you know, all these things. I was telling those guys, and so we went on to pray. As I was praying for a car, I literally saw a hand in front of me with keys. It was this image of a hand with keys. And after we got done praying after the hour, and I remember telling my friend Jose, I said, “I’m not going to pray for a car no more. I’m just thanking God,” I said, and I told him that I saw a hand with keys. So I went on to continue to pray for other things over the years.
I can tell you that I don’t, I don’t regret one day of my incarceration, not one day.
Well, I’m out. I’m jumping ahead. I’m now released. I moved to Texas, and in the ministry. I’m working in the office and I didn’t like it. I didn’t like administrative work at all. I was dying inside the office. I needed to be out and about people, you know, as I like being around unbelievers because I just had this evangelistic desire to see people come to know Jesus. And so someone introduced me to a guy named Monte Webb and Monte had a roofing company and they said, ‘Well, Monte might hire you as a roofer and do sales or, you know, do contracts and help them out.” I said, “Good.”
So we went to eat lunch with him. And I shared a little bit of my story and he said, “Well, let’s go back to the office.” So we go back to his office, he’s in Bedford and my friends are with me, and they’re all excited, I’m excited. I’m going to get a job, outside the ministry, you know, and so I go in his office and he said, “Hey shut the door.” So he he’s standing there with a manila folder in his hand, and I thought, Okay, you know, I came from prison, I never did a job interview, you know, the job the prison assigned you jobs, and you do whatever they tell you to do. So, here I am. I’m going to have my first job interview, so I’m kind of nervous, and I’m excited about it. So he says, “Shut the door and he’s standing there. “Hey,” he said, “money is kind of tight right now.” This is in 2012. I’m out two months, I’ve been released two months. He said, “Money is kind of tight. So I really can’t hire anybody. But I’d like to keep you in mind for something if something comes up.” Okay, I was kind of disappointed. Then he said, “But the Holy Spirit told me to give you a check for $10,000.” So he pulls out the check from the envelope and he holds a check to me. And my eyes are like, big as saucers. And I’m like, looking at this check with zeros. Like, I’m counting, like looking at the zeros 10 comma 0 0 0. And I’m like, “Monte,” I said, “come on.” And I thought he was playing, you know. I’m like, I’m waiting for my friends to jump jump out of the room. You know, the inside of the closet and I got you man, good joke. And I’m like Monte, come on. And he’s looking, he’s crying. He’s, like, teared up. And he said, “Seriously, the Holy Spirit told me when we were driving back to the office from lunch, to write you a check for $10,000 and welcome you to Texas. Go buy yourself a car.”
And at that moment, God showed me that prayer with those keys. I said,
We bawled. Oh, my goodness. We just cried like babies.
And I said, “Monte,” I said. He didn’t know, he didn’t know I had I prayed that and saw that and I told him, you know, and we just cried more and more and just worshiped the Lord. It was it was just–I know God provides, you know, and his timing is perfect. And there he does it he does it to build our confidence in him, he does it prove himself strong and mighty, you know, and I know that I know we get faith by the Word of God and and all but there’s those moments where God answers prayers and God does things in your life. It’s just, it’s unbelievable. And so that I’d say that that vision or that whatever I saw that hand, God’s hand, said “You know, I’ve provided.” you know.
And since then, a house also has come about. I had a person hand me a check for $100,000 to purchase a home and I was able to purchase a home over, a little over a year ago. So it’s just, and recently I, yeah, and so recently, so I’ve been out of prison seven years, and I’ve, always wanted to be, always want to be a husband. I want to be a father. I love kids and I’ve dated, and just, you know, when I go out and date and you meet somebody it just doesn’t work. It’s not, it doesn’t fit. You know, sometimes I tried to make it fit. And I’m saying God, but this …and God says, No, you know. So about two years ago, I met a young lady named Autumn.
It’s unbelievable. So I’m so excited that those things at times, I’m like, God I might be single, you know, and, I could not I could not get past that He answers prayer and I prayed for those things. I said, “Well, the three things I prayed for was a car, a home, and a wife. And you’ve answered the first two and they’ve been so etched in my life and my prayer life. So, it is really, it’s amazing. So you said, you see my you see Instagram, my Instagram? You know, it was like my Valentines Day, you know, I put a post out there and, and so, Oh, my goodness.
Yeah. It was funny. I was with a my friend Alex.
And she said something. And she goes, “Well, you’re my sugar.”And I was like… my face turned like hot, right? I says my face is beet red, right. They were laughing.
Yeah, it’s like, I have never experienced that.
Never. Not in high… You know, I told her. I said, “I feel like I’m in high school. It’s like God restored, you know?”
Yeah, he is literally, [restoring the years the locusts have eaten] and I can tell you that. I don’t. I don’t regret one day of my incarceration. Not one day.
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Matt shares his transformative journey from the brink of death, where he battled physical, emotional, and financial crises, to a miraculous turnaround. Through divine intervention and the [...]
Open to The Call
Through her own testimony of God's goodness, Dawn sees value in everyone and is open to the call of God to make sure they see it too.
Out of the Pit
Desperate, hopeless, and longing for answers John turns to mushrooms to find a way out of the pit and meets Jesus instead.
Overcoming Idols
Dustin's journey of faith and trust in God led him from fear and financial insecurity to a life of ministry, where he discovered God's miraculous provision in every step.
Partnering with God in Business
Taylor describes how God led him to start a Kingdom Business and gives examples of how Holy Spirit has empowered them to focus on Godly principles.
Persisting In Faith
As Lauren fights an incurable disease, she wrestles with the truths and promises of God despite her physical results. After trying every medical treatment possible and every inner healing [...]
Power Evangelism
Tom trains tens of thousands to evangelize with the power of God and sees lives radically transformed again and again, believing that there is always more.
Power of Hope
Living in abundant hope, faith and power, Caroline refuses to let her diagnosis of infertility define her faith, her purpose, or the goodness of God.
Power of Prayer in the Storm of Addiction
Cherry's daughter is caught in the storm of addiction. Wanting to rescue her daughter from a life of pain and trouble, Cherry learns the power of prayer.
Prayer is the Answer
As Tracey struggles to find peace amid life's many challenges, she finds prayer is the answer and the only way forward.
Precious Pain
Paralyzed by the pain of arthritis, forced to rest and unable to care for her family Sayo hears clearly from the Lord. Her illness becomes precious.
Prompted by Holy Spirit
Kyle is prompted by the Holy Spirit to "bless the feet". Later that morning, his feet are blessed so that all ministry expenses can be paid in full. He also details an encounter of sharing the [...]
Provision for the Journey
They sold everything and set out on a journey, not sure where the Lord would lead them. They've learned to trust Him every step of the way.
Purposefully Homeless
Led by God on a purposefully homeless journey, Rachel leaves her job, home, and modern day comforts to find the one thing money can't buy.
Radical Faith
Wanting more of God, Dave moves his family from Australia to California where radical faith is stirred up through obedience that moves mountains.
Radical Love Extravagant Provision
God's radical love causes Kyna to leave drugs and alcohol behind as her daily provision becomes the extravagant love of the Lord.
Raise My Son
Her son was dead for 21 minutes and brain dead for 2 days. In a sea of doctors, Angelic cries out to God and prays over her son through the power of the Holy Spirit, "Raise my son!" What happens [...]
Reclaiming the Past
Unable to trust God after the loss of his sister, EJ looks for answers and is able to reclaim the past when he has multiple encounters with Jesus.
Reconciling Race
A purposeful engagement and wedding become the catalyst to reconciling race through the union of marriage and the grace of God.
Redeeming Grace
Kristi's story chronicles a journey of brokenness transformed into beauty as God's redeeming love restores her shattered past. From the depths of despair following abortions and a failed marriage [...]
Religion Makes You Crazy
Erin's world was falling apart. Her religious life left her feeling defeated and crazy, until she was taught her true identity and authority in Christ.
Resource Room of Heaven
Financial plans crumble, car totalled, Clint feels he is being punished by God. He has an encounter with Jesus and learns about the resource room of heaven.
Revival of the Heart
As Hillary longs for revival in the church, God breathes revival into the lungs of a little boy and Hillary's heart.
Running With The Gospel
After multiple confirmations of his calling, God anoints Peter's feet to run with the gospel. When a father affirms a son, there's nothing more powerful.
Seed of Faith
God gave JK a dream that has transformed his life and his entire family. What started as a seed of faith has overflowed to abundant blessings for many.
Send Me a Cardinal
A mom makes a promise to her daughters to send a cardinal from heaven. The day after her funeral a cardinal hits the window of their home. Be sure to watch the video of what happens next.
Setting Captives Free
Once a slave to addiction and pornography, Anthony is now setting captives free through his non-profit and restoring their God-given identity and value.
Sharing God’s Love
Lonnie's desire to share God's love with his community transforms an entire town. From trimming hedges to baking cookies, God uses it all.
Showered with Love
As a young teen in college, Elaina find herself pregnant and afraid. But God stands in the gaps and showers her with love in the most unexpected ways.
Silencing the Inner Critic
Growing up Christian, David saw himself as a disappointment. God's audible voice silenced the inner critic that had tormented David most of his life.
Simple Prayer of Faith
Wade shares how a simple prayer of faith and following Jesus' example of laying hands on the sick has lead to supernatural healings and salvations. The ultimate goal is to follow Jesus.
Simply Say Yes
What can God do with a simple yes? Mike finds out again and again after he gives his life to Jesus and starts tithing.
Sowing Seeds
As racial issues divide a nation, Eniola shares her desire to go beyond unity to sow seeds of oneness for the next generation.
Spiritual Roots
After years of unexplained medical issues, Renee hears that her symptoms have spiritual roots. At the end of her rope, she considers the supernatural. Renee's faith is challenged and deepened in [...]
Stop Rejecting Me
He spent his entire life rejecting God until kidney failure went from dialysis to a nearly fatal organ transplant, causing Chris to stop running from the only One who could save him.
Student of Forgiveness
Kathryn learns true forgiveness from her Heavenly Father, but had to become a student to truly forgive and find complete freedom for herself.
Surrender
Leaving his ways and plans behind, Bob chose to surrender everything to the Lord. In doing so, he found true freedom.
Survive or Thrive
Challenged to get from one city to another relying only on God and the kindness of strangers, Thomas learns that he can either survive or thrive. The choice is his.
Tablets of Testimony
Adam and Brooke sit down to discuss what Adam has learned about the tablets of testimony and how their depth reveals something much greater than a law.
The Blessing
What's happened since the break-in? Today we share how God has shown up in a mighty way through blessing after blessing.
The End of Me
Years of addiction and lies bring Ron to the end of himself and to the feet of God. He encounters God in the back of a police car and feels free for the first time.
The Father’s House
When things don't add up, God's miraculous provision provides further confirmation for missionaries to create a discipleship house for lost sons –The Father's House.
The Forgiveness of a Murderer
Ryan is able to forgive his brother's murderer and offer him the same redemption and hope he has found in Christ. I was a son who needed to be redeemed and rescued. That reality changed my life.
The Forgiveness of an Adulterer
A broken past leads to lies and adultery as the foundation of their marriage. Through God's incredible grace and forgiveness, hope is found and a marriage is restored.
The Forgiveness of an Adulterer
A broken past leads to lies and adultery as the foundation of their marriage. Through God's incredible grace and forgiveness, hope is found and a marriage is restored.
The Gift of Compassion
During a mission trip to Congo, Lisa was moved with deep compassion for sexual abuse survivors. She now sees that compassion as a beautiful gift from the Lord.
The Gift of Trust
Faced with infertility, Rod and his wife choose to trust God and His plans for them through the gift of adopting a child with Cerebral Palsy. God has supernaturally revealed himself through the [...]
The Heart of the Father
Traumatic events in Sherri's life left her battling fear most of her life. It wasn't until she uncovered the heart of her Father that she was set free.
The Height of Grace in the depths…
Abortion leaves many in the depths of despair, it is only through the heigths of the Father's love and grace that Brooke is able to forgive herself.
The Invitation
Brooke and Adam revisit some of their favorite stories. If you only listen to one Unseen Story this is the one to listen to. An instrument maker by trade, Caleb sees and hears an unknown [...]
The Joy of the Lord is my Strength
Circumstances and people no longer define Alma. Her identity is secure and the joy of the Lord is her strength.
The Life God Intended
He had everything the world could offer, but it wasn't the life God intended for Michael. God had a better plan, one that Michael had to hit rock bottom to find.
The Miracle of Salvation
Fighting for her life in war-torn Congo, Sandrine and her family move to America where she experiences the miracle of salvation and finds true freedom.
The Mystery of God
Brad shares about his miraculous healing as a kid which led to a wrestling with faith and science. He's learning to accept the mystery of God.
The Mystery of Prayer
Seeking to understand why some of his prayers are answered and others aren't, Keith finds their is a greater mystery to prayer.
The Power of Identity
Trapped in an addiction to pornography, Josh learns the truth of his identity and the power that has to set him free.
The Power of Story
As a sports writer and pastor, Tyler knows the power of story and shares the profound impact stories have to encourage others, lift spirits, and honor God.
The Power of Testimony
As Brooke and Adam wrestle with their son's diagnosis, they find comfort in a testimony they wrote 4 years earlier that speaks to the power and love of God in their lives.
The Process of Becoming Free
As Cody sings and worships the Lord, he has a revelation that leads to breakthrough in his anxiety. He walks us through those emotions and steps, as he surrenders control to God.
The Risk of Faith
Looking for opportunities to celebrate God, Daniel goes out expecting God to show up in a moment and his faith is increased with every risk he takes.
The Unexpected Church
Through a series of unexpected events, Sam becomes the pastor of a multi-national church and finds immense joy in his calling.
The Wrestle with Hell
Paul's story is a powerful testimony of faith, and love, amid challenges faced by his wife's battle with traumatic visions in hell.
Theology of Suffering
Jim shares about his journey through his wife's life altering diagnosis, near death experience, and the miraculous birth of his son.
There is Always Hope
Throughout her life, Britni has been told by several doctors that there is no hope. But she knows that with God, there's always hope.
There’s Power in the Presence
When the world and all it offers no longer works for Kim, she finds the power and presence of God through worship music and the prophetic.
Through the Wilderness
A seasoned hiker loses his trail and is lost for seven days. Desperate for help and ready to give up, Josh hears a Voice that guides him through the wilderness, giving him peace in the midst of [...]
Today Is The Day
When multiple tragedies strike in Sarah's life she finds herself desperately seeking the Lord. From inner healing to physical healing - today is the day Sarah really meets Jesus.
True Identity
Andrea overcame childhood selective mutism and paralyzing fear through a profound encounter with God, leading her to embrace her true identity.
Trust Me
After receiving a dream from the Lord, Suzanne chooses to trust the Lord with her healing from breast cancer.
TUS Update
Brooke and Adam return home from vacation to find their home has been robbed. They process their loss and the future of the podcast with you, their listeners.
Two Words from a Stranger…
Jeremy prays for an opportunity to share God's love. He receives a word of knowledge for a stranger. Those two specific words change both men forever.
Unbelievable Expectations
From prison to praise, God redeems Mike's life in unbelievable ways causing him to have expectations for hope and favor despite his past.
Unlimited Possibilities
When God awakens Tom's heart and mind to His unlimited possibilities, Tom learns his true identity in Christ.
Unraveling Addiction, Restoring a Marriage
Aaron's life was unraveling because of his addiction and his wife uncovers the truth. Restoring their marriage becomes possible through Jesus, love, and recovery ministry.
Upside Down Kingdom
When Dave decides to attend seminary in Oxford his life is turned upside down for the Kingdom of God and hasn't been the same since.
Vehicle for the Gospel
Rapping and preaching the gospel all over the country turns out to be quite difficult when you don't have a vehicle. Moses prays and fasts for a month asking God for help. The Lord shows His [...]
Voice of God
The appearance of perfection was important for Craig as a Pastor's son, but when he hears the voice of God everything changes. I heard the voice of God in a way that I didn't know was possible. [...]
Walk of Faith
Benedikt's walk with God takes him places he never expected as his faith grows with each step.
We Will See
Tara battled unexplained illnesses and debilitating conditions for 10 years, In a surreal moment of divine intervention she was miraculously healed.
What Are You Waiting For
Fiona shares her journey of discovering her worth and identity in Christ, from struggling with self-value to embracing her belovedness in God and helping others recognize their own potential.
What Love Feels Like
Does the darkness of sexual assault cancel God's love and purpose? Landon finds out what love feels like after a near fatal car accident.
When All Else Fails
When everything else has failed him, Neb finds himself at rock bottom crying out to God and wrestling for truth.
When All Seems Lost
On suicide watch all seems lost when JD loses nearly three quarters of a million dollars in three days. But faithful obedience pays off. I thought God was going to bless me. And here I am all of [...]
When Heaven and Earth Collide
An instrument maker by trade, Caleb receives a digital download of an instrument he has never seen and a tribe name in a dream. This dream ignites a journey where heaven and earth collide to [...]
Whoa, God is Here!
John begins each day with expectancy of what the Holy Spirit will do. Lead by the Spirit, he gets to share in some incredible supernatural experiences with God and His children.
Witness of God
Max's story revolves around his dedication to living out Mark 16:15-18. Through his ministry at a local gym, Max shares multiple stories of the miraculous.
You Belong Here
On her own at 16, Monique was searching for family, identity, a place to belong, and ended up in jail. That's where she cried out to God for the first time and discovered true life.
Your Life Is Not Your Own
Rosie has attempted suicide twice since losing her son and is planning a third attempt the very day that she meets Tyler and Andy who share that her life is not her own and God has a plan for her.