2024-10-24 22:06:00
When the God Behind Bars ministry went to carry out another evangelistic action inside a maximum security prison in Las Vegas, United States, they did not imagine that there they would find a paraplegic prisoner who would surrender to Jesus Christ.
The inmate was just one of the 113 women in the women’s prison who that day decided to give their lives to the Lord Jesus. However, there was a difference between them: the fact that she could not get up to be baptized in the improvised baptismal font.
The wheelchair-bound inmate then thought she couldn’t be baptized due to her physical condition, but she was wrong and was about to understand why. “I prayed to God that I could get baptized today and I thought I couldn’t,” the inmate recalled.
Jennie Allen, one of the ministry’s evangelists who was in the maximum prison that day, went to the prisoner to tell her the great news. “We will baptize you because it is a symbol,” he said in the woman’s ears.
The evangelist explained to her the true meaning of baptism, showing that the practice, despite being a biblical ordinance, is a symbol of rebirth, but not an exclusive condition for salvation.
“Water is just the image God gave us to let us know we feel clean,” Jennie said. Then, the evangelists used pet bottles to baptize the inmate, pouring water on her head.
“When you feel this water pouring on your head, know that it is the restorative love of God that washes you from your sins, it is the blood of Jesus”, said the evangelist, according to CBN News.
In a video shared on the ministry’s social networks, it is possible to see the emotion taking over the prisoner, while others, also moved, gave glory to God for yet another life saved. Watch below:
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