Please Pray for Jesse
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MadeNewPrayers: 197Requests: 70
March 8, 2021 at 6:39 pmJesse is someone I met through a prisoner pen-pal ministry, we have known each other for over ten years and communicate regularly, at times via phone and twice in person. He has been incarcerated in TX for roughly twenty years, being subjected to an evironment and treatment that most would be utterly shocked and appauled by. I’ve never met, or been exposed to, anyone who knows scripture better, anyone with as much understanding and life-applicable scriptural wisdom; I don’t personally know anyone who I respect more as a disciple of Christ Jesus; all things considered.
Jesse suffers with continuous back pain that reaches down his leg, sometimes so severe that he collapses and is unable to move. He is denied the one and only medication available there that offers him pain relief, yet that same medication is available to other inmates of a different ‘ethnos’ and he is denied proper medical and dental treatment in general. He has lost all but a couple of his teeth; the treatment for a cavity is to pull the tooth. He, and others like him, are not provided with basic hygene supplies, and they receive no stipend for the work they are forced to perform that brings additional profit for the privatized, for profit, prison system. I’m not even putting a scratch in the tip of the iceburg but this can help to ‘paint a picture.’
I have fought battles with the TX department of corrections over the years – for a number of different injustices – on Jesse’s behalf, exhausting the avenues through which any potential for a remedy is offered or available. The system is simply ‘broken’ just as so many other systems are. I have prayed and prayed alongside Jesse for many things over the years, heartbroken about his sufferings and persecutions. He teaches Bible study in there, he speaks and delivers sermons, and he is targeted, hated, and persecuted for doing so on top of the already unpeakable and horrific situation as a common prisoner there.
He is in a prison which is ranked in the top ten of the worst prisons in the entire nation. It seems that his requests for me to ‘fight’ for him, and my efforts over the years, have simply resulted in additional hardship and suffering. When we, you and I, meet for the first time in our joy, Jesse is someone I want to introduce you all to; he is simply a wonderful man of God. I just read a letter received from him today, which prompted this request / plea for prayer support on his behalf.
Please pray for Jesse. Pray for pain relief associated with the continious nerve pain, and healing for a torn rotator cup that has nearly incapacitated the associated arm, for a reprieve of those verbally antagonizing and physically attacking him, for his protection and provision; his biological family doesn’t help much financially or offer support of any kind with regular communications. Please pray for Jesse’s spiritual encouragement, that the Lord lift his chin and grant him peace, the peace that suprasses all human understanding; that Jesse would be able to get some decent sleep with the associated reliefs and peace, that he would be able to quiet the hunger growls with monetary provision resulting in the ability to purchase some food (I’m currently unable to send financial help) and hygene supplies, some cloths, and some paper and something to write with to enable further communications, etc., the overall wellbeing, comfort, peace, protection and provision in every way for Jesse. Please pray that the Lord continue to bless the ministry Jesse is working on behalf of the Lord for in there; that the Lord enables, empowers, encourages, uplifts, comforts, blesses and brings much fruit through the work being done for Him that His name would be magnified, glorified, exalted, praised, worshipped, and given thanks all the more. Amen.
Ideally, pray for Jesse’s release. He was recently denied parole, a miraculous delivery from behind bars. Amen.
Thank you all; may God bless you and all those you love. Amen.
ChelleTPrayers: 24Requests: 16
March 8, 2021 at 7:07 pmPraying for Jesse.
carloab80Prayers: 60Requests: 6
March 8, 2021 at 8:38 pmI pray for Jesse for healing for his physical and mental pain. I pray that a hedge of protection be on him to protect him from the spiritual attacks he is going through. May he not lose faith and not tire of doing God’s work despite the troubles he is facing. I pray that those in power and authority correct the injustices brought about by unjust systems. I pray that more people like MadeNew be continually strengthened and encouraged to “visit the prisoners” as Jesus Himself commanded. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.
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