Cover Us We’re Going In!
5/12/2013
My wife and I were invited recently to lead worship…in a prison. I told God I was excited, but not at the idea of my wife going in with me! It’s an all-male prison with some female correction officers.
When I told Jeanne that we had been invited to lead worship for 30 of the core Christian inmates in the prison every Thursday night for 12 weeks she was jazzed! I was not. I was not in control (are we ever?) and I was fearful of the unknown.
I talked with one of the clergy at our church and he suggested I find a quiet place and talk and listen to God.
So I did. This is what happened.
I was by the water, listening for God, His creation. Finally I spoke. I told God how scared I was to bring Jeanne into the prison and I was having a really hard time with this. When we said we’d go anywhere to sing for You prison was not what I had in mind!
“Okay God, I never do this, okay once in a while I do this and you probably don’t like it. I’m going to open my Bible and as soon as I look down I would like to hear from You”. And I did. My Bible fell open to Isaiah 42 and my eyes landed on verses 6-7. “I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness, I will also hold you by the hand and watch over you, and I will appoint you as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations, to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon and those who dwell in darkness from the prison”.
That was all the confirmation I needed! I had heard from the Lord and we were going in, Jeanne and me under the Lord’s covering!
Nothing is better in this life than being in the will of God!