Tagged with "confinement"

• Stay In Your Lane

  Written while incarcerated, this testimony reflects on the slow path into temptation described in Proverbs and the necessity of choosing a different road before destruction takes hold.

• Lesson From Much-Afraid

  Written while incarcerated, this reflection on Hind’s Feet on High Places reveals a growing understanding that God is not merely fixing problems, but calling for complete surrender and transformation.

• Hope

  Written from jail, this testimony reflects on the fragile, painful, and necessary nature of hope—how it can both wound and sustain, and how ultimately hope must rest in God.

• What Are You Feeding?

  What we consume shapes what we become — and the Word of God is meant to be our daily bread.

• Be Transformed

  True worship is not conformity to the world, but transformation through a renewed mind, shaped by the righteousness of Christ.

• Mustard Seed Faith

  Even little faith is powerful when pointed toward Jesus. Mustard seed faith moves mountains—and multiplies miracles.

• Seek His Face

  God desires to be desired — not for what He can give, but for who He is.

• Faith to Faith

  The righteousness that saves us is credited by God, received by faith, and lived out by faith—from beginning to end.

• A Meditation In Suffering

  When pain strips away understanding, surrender becomes worship. This meditation offers suffering back to God as an act of trust and praise.

• Purify My Heart

  A prayer of surrender and longing — for a clean heart that desires God alone and seeks His presence above all else.

• It’s About You

  A quiet surrender to the truth that life is not ultimately about us, but about the glory of God and His redeeming work.

• The Chrysalis

  In the stillness of confinement, transformation begins — where surrender gives way to renewal and a new man emerges in Christ.

• In the Margins

  A reflection on Scripture, time, and the holy space before the beginning—where God already knew every moment of our lives.

• Margins

  What is your favorite place in the Bible? Mine may surprise you.

• A Psalm From Confinement

  A meditation of confession, grace, and longing—written when hope felt distant and mercy refused to let go.

• Whispers in the Dark

  In the quiet battles of confinement, I learned that the whispers of the enemy grow faint when the voice of my Deliverer becomes my focus.

• No Excuse

  God’s revelation is not hidden — it’s everywhere. Creation declares His power, and conscience confirms His nature. The question is not whether He’s spoken, but whether we’ll respond.

• When Jesus Wept

  The shortest verse in the Bible reveals the depth of Christ’s love and grief over a broken world. Jesus wept — not out of weakness, but out of divine compassion.

• A Holy Moment

  In the silent sway of trees and the thunderous hush of mountains, God's love speaks without words.

• Not So Small After All

  Beneath the vastness of the heavens, I discovered that humanity is not insignificant but deeply loved — called by name by the One who set every star in place.

• Meditation #1

  A meditation of surrender — looking back on flight, self-reliance, and the quiet persistence of grace.

• From It or Through It

  When the king renamed them, he thought he was erasing them. He wasn't.

• Here With Me

  A meditation on God's nearness — written in confinement, in awe of a presence that remains personal.

• Building a Throne

  In a place stripped of comfort, I discovered that worship does not depend on abundance. It depends on who God is.

• Falling Into His Grip

  What felt like collapse became rescue. In confinement, I discovered that when I fell, I had not been hurled headlong — God was still holding my hand.

• I Need You

  A simple prayer of surrender—recognizing that loving and following Jesus is not something we can accomplish in our own strength.

• Awakened in the Valley

  Written in confinement, this testimony reflects on a painful awakening — recognizing how sin had created distance from God and how a season of confinement became a place of clarity, healing, and transformation.

• Freedom in Confinement

  Written in confinement, this testimony reflects on discovering unexpected freedom while incarcerated—freedom from addiction, clarity through God's Word, and a renewed commitment to live faithfully before Him.

• Happy Birthday

  Written in confinement on his birthday, this testimony reflects on spiritual growth, past failures, and the deep realization that only God can fill the empty places of the heart.

• Letters From Confinement

  A book-length sequence of reflections, prayers, and meditations shaped by confinement, moving from collapse to new sight.

• The Confinement Journals: Finding God in the Silence

  Twenty reflections, prayers, and meditations written during a season of confinement—tracing the journey from descent to encounter.

• I Am Loved

  For most of my life I understood God's love as agape — unconditional, selfless, sacrificial. But Psalm 42:8 introduced me to hesed: a love God has commanded of Himself, bound not by obligation but by nature. He could no more cease to love us than water could cease to be wet.

• On Amazon and Life

  A review of his Amazon cart — butter dish, heating pad, Bible pens — opens into an account of homelessness, jail, divorce, and rebuilding on $200 a month. God is providing. It's a long, slow crawl. But I've already won.

• What Fear?

  When the police knocked with an arrest warrant, every fear he had imagined came true at once. What followed — 653 days in a cell, divorce, homelessness — brought something unexpected: an identity, a relationship, and power. God isn't a path out of addiction. He IS the path.