When Interceding For Women on Death Row- Think of Prophet Jonah

Intercession:

As a people who stand in the gap for individuals, situations and nations, we need to see people the way God sees them. We need to let go of our personal opinions and ideas about things. This is what happened in the bible with the prophet Jonah. God sent Jonah on a mission to Nineveh. Specifically, God wanted Jonah to go to Nineveh to cry out against the sin of the people and to preach. Even though though the Ninevites walked in wickedness God wanted them to know his love and he wanted to give them a chance to repent.

But Jonah disregarded the Lord’s request and got on a ship headed for Tarshish, instead he was fleeing from God (Jonah 1:3) Running from his assignment made Jonah end up being thrown overboard and eaten up by a fish. While inside the fish he repented and God had the fish spit him out. Later Jonah tells the Ninevites about God and interceded for them. Nineveh repented and God had mercy on them. This made Jonah very angry. Jonah wanted to see the wrath of God express on Nineveh, but God had compassion and mercy and wanted to save them.

Jonah more than likely believed lies about Nineveh, himself and God and this what caused him to miss his calling to be used as a vessel of hope,love and life. He knew God was s

low to anger and full of love which is why he fled to Tarshish. (Jonah 4:2) But what Jonah knew about God did

not line up with what he wanted to see happen to the Ninevites.

When God commissions us we are not to let our personal feelings impact on what we are being sent to do. We need to be firm and stable in our connection with God and other people. This is important, so that we can pray without letting our own problems derail us from the purposes and plan of God

Unless we allow God to renew our minds we about our own personal identity we are likely to have thoughts from our own thoughts and mind. Isaiah 55 v 8-9 says, “For your thoughts are not my thoughts, nor your ways my ways, declares the LORD, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Until we have allowed the Holy Spirit to change our thinking, we will have poor results!

Generated Curses that Carry over

Exodus 34:6-7 (NIV) And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.”

 

Just like physical buildings, the totality of our lives and destinies is being built day by day by our actions and inaction and also by the actions and inaction of those who have generated you. Wisdom requires therefore that we pay great attention to the foundations upon which we build our lives and destinies, especially what transitions from one generation to the next—because there is a carryover

Kings 4 v 1-7 Provides us with a POWERFUL  story about the wife of a dead Prophet who tells Prophet Elisha that her two sons will be taken as bond servants to satisfy a debt that her dead husband owed. Think about this —Here is a case where the children of the debtor would be required to be slaves to pay the price for something they had no knowledge of and had no responsible for— they needed a miracle. (read the story of the widow’s oil below).

This is the case for many of the women on death row. Many have inherited a faulty foundation from those who have generated them and stand in need of a prophetic miracle.  There may be forces at work in there lives that have their origins in previous generations. The bible says If the foundation is destroyed what can the righteous do? If the foundation of the life of a man is faulty, it is unlikely that he would live a fulfilled life let alone finding and fulfilling the purpose of God.

I pray right now that God sends a miracle to the foundation of every woman on death row. Many have been systematically victimized and suffer from a lifetime of molestation, incest, sexual abuse and domestic violence. Several have been slaves victims of people who dominated them and cause them to commit crimes. I am praying that every generated cursed carried over through blood lines, family curses and abuse be cancelled now in the name of Jesus. I am praying for  Elisha’s to rise up to come  to their aid. I pray for a prophetic miracle and an end to the death penalty in the mighty name of Jesus.

2 Kings 4 : 1-7

4 The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”² Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?” “Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”³ Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. ⁴ Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.”⁵ She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. ⁶ When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.”But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.⁷ She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”

Even if a mother should forget her child, I will never forget you. Isaiah 49:15b

Isaiah 49:15  Good News Translation (GNT)

¹⁵ So the Lord answers,“Can a woman forget her own baby
and not love the child she bore?Even if a mother should forget her child,
I will never forget you.

The women on death row are an ignored and forgotten group. You cannot find a dated collective listing for the women on death row group on-line. These are lists but they are outdated or incomplete. The list that i created was  painstakingly made through a tedious process of checking and cross checking death row inmate locator’s through out America’s death row prisons. This is very telling; I assure you that they have been forsaken, forgotten and ignored. Suzanne Basso (below) was the last female to be executed on America’s death row.  On February 5th, 2014, she became the 14th women killed on Texas death row.

Death by lethal injection was her punishment for allegedly masterminding the torture and brutal murder of a mentally impaired man. It was said that Basso lured the man from New Jersey to Texas under the pretense of wanting to marry him. Soon after signing up to receive his social security benefits, it is claimed that Basso had an army of people torture and torment the man to death.

My question is why did Suzanne Basso go to her death in a wheel chair? The truth is she was a vegetable paralyzed  from her waist down, according to news reports.  I wonder, since she did not enter prison with any paralysis, why  it is reported  that Basso became paralyzed while she was imprisoned, at the hand of a jail guard. If a prisoner comes into institutions to get a beat down by those whose job it is to administer justice- what’s the point of capital punishment? If by the time the inmate is to be executed, they are paralyzed and mentally impaired, what will be accomplished by killing them? It is totally inhumane, repulsive and inherently wicked to think that someone who came into the prison system whole, left it suffering, bruised, and broken. Know that every spirit of infirmity was  upon them when they were ordered to be killed on death row. Think about it, no compassion, no forgiveness, and no mercy; just murder for murder, and then we do it grossly through lethal injection.  Ponder, the  many innocent lives have been taken  because we feel that this is a humane practice and an effective response to attain justice.

The lives of the women on death row can be redeemed.  Jesus says…even if a mother forgets her child, I will never forget you. (Isaiah 49:15b) . His love for them is unconditional. I want the women on death row to know that nothing can desperate them from His love for them.

God’s Everlasting Love is describe in Romans 8:31-39

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? ³³ Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”^[a]37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

If the women on death row will turn to Jesus He can and will raise them up.

Teresa Lewis was executed on  Virginia death row despite thousands of appeals to save her was a good example of someone who Christ redeemed.  Here are her last words:“Man wants me to die, but I’m not worrying over this, I’m trusting Jesus,” she wrote. She urged the prisoners to turn to Jesus promising, “He will forgive you of all your sins and He will bring you into His loving arms.”