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Barrier Breaking

Monday, October 15, 2007 Share: |

We had a unique and transformative Bible class this past Sunday morning. Our college group combined with another group called the Freedom from Bondage class...deals with addictions. I was proud of our student servants who prepared breakfast for us all...thanks again y'all! We all sat and ate together and then the leaders of the class shared letters and experiences from their prison ministry...the most powerful comments were about prisoners who had come to Christ talking about how free they were because of Jesus, even in prison. Wow! The power of prayer was emphasized. One comment was, "Don't tell God how big your problems are...tell your problems how big your God is."
It was special being a part of some barrier breaking...like Peter and Cornelius. I love that story in Acts 10 because we tend to learn that Cornelius needed Peter. What we often fail to see was that Peter needed Cornelius as well. Peter learned much from this God-fearing Gentile. We have much to learn from a group of people learning to break free from the bondage of addictions.


God thank you for bringing us together. Continue to tear down the walls!
For the kingdom!

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Blogger Luke wrote

At Eric's suggestion, I met with some of the Freedom guys last night to film their testimonies from the prison ministry. Hope to have the video available in a few weeks. They are really on fire for the Lord.

11:12 PM

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