GOD CAN AND DOES WORK MIRACLES no matter how impossible it may seem believe that He will here is my proof.
Ok as you can see I'm a little excited right now, alright alright a LOT excited. I am so excited I can't even think where to start. But here goes ...
For 24 years my older brother has been in and out of prison for one thing or another ever since he was 14 years old. He went in for one thing and everytime he got out he did something else and got sent back, sometimes he didn't even make it out because it would get close to his day and he would get in trouble, one day years ago he told me "I know you will never understand this sis, but I can't live on the outside like you can, I was never able to hold a job, nobody wants to hire an ex con, I can't find a place to live because nobody wants to rent to an ex con, nobody wants to give me a chance, at least there I have 3 meals a day and a place to sleep" I will never forget him telling me that because I didn't understand in a way, but I kind of did because he was only 14 when he first went to prison so he never had to live like us.
For 12 years I have prayed for and cried for my older brother EVERY DAY that he would find Jesus and learn to live for him and that one day he would make a decision to make a new life for himself in the real world.
I used to write to him 2 or 3 times a week, and he would write me back a couple times a month and of course on holidays we'd get that call from him to wish us happy holidays and to tell us how much he loved us and wished he hadn't failed us. My mother always used that call as her opportunity to tell him about Jesus, and he would act like he was listening and he would tell us he found Jesus, but you could always tell it was just to get us to leave him alone. About 3 or 4 years ago the holiday calls stopped, I started getting letters once every 4 or 5 months and eventually once a year.
It had been over a year since we last heard from him, the last prison he was in didn't send his letters back but he never responded which had us worried because for the most part prisons usually only don't send the letters back when they are deceased because they don't want to break the news to you that way. But I kept writing hoping for a response without any.
This morning I got woke up by a phone call, it was my older brother, who just happened to look up my new number in the phone book and called me. He told me that he has been out of prison for a month now and is living in a descipleship home and voluntarily in a program where he stays there for 4 months and they will help him to get on his feet. He is now ON FIRE for Jesus. He asked us to forgive him for his sins against us he was telling my sister and I that we need to stay in church and stay strong for Jesus. My brother after 24 years of tears and prayers and so much love, but not much faith (I prayed daily, but though I thought I had the faith in God, I didn't have the faith in my brother and I didn't realize that meant I didn't have the faith that God could change him) my brother is now Living in the real world, wants to do all he can to straighten up his life and stay out of prison.
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY HE IS NOW LIVING FOR JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PRAISE GOD
(sorry this was so long of a praise, but I am so excited I can't quit crying tears of joy and I had to tell someone how wonderful God is)
I also would like to ask for prayer for him because as we all well know the devil is going to be doing everything in his power to take my brother back because he no longer has him in his grasp. his name is Bob and I ask you all for your prayers
Thank you and God bless
*HUGS*
Shandy
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