Lisa Ann Coleman Held Captive

 

Lisa Ann Coleman 38, has been on Texas death row in Gatesville since June 2006.  She was convicted in the starvation death of a 9-year-old boy a decade ago. In April of 2014, her execution date was set for September 17, 2014. Lisa Ann Coleman has written me several letters from her death row cell in Gatesville, . She expressed to me that her brother was murdered, her own son is imprisoned and her mother is suffering from many infirmities. Time is drawing near to Lisa’s execution date but she still remains hopeful, despite this verdict, she believes that her life is “in His hands,” and has began to pray and call on Jesus Christ. Lisa’s life is a “novel”, according to her she was a product of incest, neglected by her mother, bounced through the foster care system and raped multiple times by an uncle. In an on-line  interview, her mother said that Lisa chose the wrong friends.  The truth was that Lisa didn’t have a chance, she was sexually abused and tormented as a child; she too was victimized by child abuse had under gone periods of time with out eating while she was young. As a child, Lisa was nicknamed “Pig” and this resulted in her being harassed, bullied and tormented by her schools mates– who used to make snorting sounds to tease her.   By the age of 13, Lisa Ann Coleman was using marijuana, ecstasy and cocaine; held captive, and broken without a moral compass. Lisa never completed high school and dropped out in the tenth grade.

It is even reported that Lisa Ann Coleman was bi-polar. Bi polar is a mental illness, it is a borderline personality disorder. With all this in view, the state has decided to execute Lisa Ann Coleman. My question is : “What sense does it make since to kill someone who comes from this kind of bondage? Who says that a life for a life is justice? What ever happened to the Satanic devises that  shaped and molded her life and values? How is it that the cursed are expected  not to curse? As far as I can  see , there is a cycle of abuse here, Are not the signs of a curse  obvious to you?

The bible says in Psalm 11 v 3 says ³ If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Spurgeon( a bible scholar) makes it plain. We are to reason decisively. He tells us that we are to assert all our trust in Jehovah God (which is what Lisa Ann Coleman has done) or else we will be flying like a frightened bird to the mountain whenever danger comes upon us. Here is the exact quote: “He will use such plausible logic, that unless we once for all assert our immovable trust in Jehovah, he will make us like the timid bird which flies to the mountain whenever danger presents itself.” (Spurgeon)Right now, Lisa Ann Coleman is leaning on the Lord and trusting in her new legal team to navigate the battle for her life and do extraordinary things, supernatural things before her execution date. When God is at the helm, nothing is impossible.

 

The Bible says this– and I am applying it to the death row process; “What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear proclaim on the housetops. Do not fear those that kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him that can kill both the body and the soul in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.: Matthew 10 v 27-29. I believe that Lisa Ann Coleman will be victorious irrespective of the outcome. Yes, as a intercessor, I will continue to be on the wall on her behalf. My church will cry out and call on the Lord to extend mercy. Our prayer is “Lord hem me in  both behind and before and create within me cleanness and wholeness of heart that I may be Your servant to stand in the Gap for Lisa Ann Coleman and for the other women on death row.”  We believe that when we pray, God does the impossible in situations in ways that we can never imagine. As intercessors, we are to cover the persons and situations in prayer: it is God’s job to convict and heal. The word of God says that He sought for someone to stand in the gap. Ezekiel 22 v 30 says “And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none;”  and thus we are standing.

We are standing on faith that God will take control of this situation and every other regarding the women on death row, not only are we are praying without ceasing ; we have embraced Isaiah 62 v 6-7  which says ” I have set watchman on your walls,  O Jerusalem who shall never hold their peace day or night. You will make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent and give Him, no rest till He establishes and till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.” Isaiah 62- 6-7. God hates injustice, “To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth, to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High, to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve”. Lamentations 3 v 34-35. It is our belief that God is definitely going to make changes on death row in 2014

Some of us may have the mistaken notion think that our sins are bigger than God’s grace and His blood, but the bibles says “But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through right­eous­ness to eter­nal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”( Romans 5:20–21) The letters I have received from Lisa indicates that she has repented and embraced Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. The Lord is the Bishop of Lisa Ann Coleman’s soul. He is the Advocate with the Father, we trusting that in the end, in the allocation of time, that God will accomplish His will.

It is Isaiah 49v 25 that says, ” But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.” The good news is that if  Lisa Ann Coleman  has sincerely repented she been redeemed, even the generational curse upon her life will have been canceled by the blood of Jesus. Once you become a child of God, no longer will the sins of your forefathers cause curses to transfer into your life: (read) Jeremiah 31:29-30 Hallelujah! “Christ was made a curse, so we can be freed from the curses that sin (both our sins and those of our forefathers) has brought us. Galatians 3:13, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:”

 

We have been gifted to do this,

in the mighty name of Jesus

Intercessor Abu

Divine Revelation International Church of Christ

It Takes Feet to Win Souls.

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God Reigns!” Isaiah 52 v 7

In the prior post, I shared another scripture about feet. It is also a beautiful scripture:Romans 10 v. 15: “And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

Its amazing how the Lord says that feet are beautiful. He could have said the hands, or heart or the mind of the person is beautiful but He specifically said the feet. Why? because, it takes the feet to go out and share the good news of the gospel. When I was just coming to Christ, I wasn’t very bold, so I would look for unique novelty pens and pay to have scriptures customized on them. Then I’d visit restaurants and distribute them. But now, that I have matured in my walk with Christ;  He has given me so many beautiful assignment. The assignment that I am engaging in right now is a good example: writing to the women on death row. Oh Lord, I want to thank you for allowing me to become a soul winner for you. In Proverbs 11 verse 30, it says that “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.”

Very few believers today are soul winners. They think its the job of the Evangelist, so when they are in the doctors office, on the grocery store line, at the bus stop or even on an air plane, they fail to share the Good News with others.  Trust me; they are not opening up their mouths to bring about the salvation of the lost. God gives us many opportunities to share the gospel. How many times has someone come to you to tell you about some problem or difficulty they have encountered? How many times have you used their situations to share that the resolution to what they are experiencing lies in the risen Christ? The believer who fails to share the Gospel with others is foolish. Hell is real, life is short, and   we are vapors. Don’t you know that  people need to be born-again to escape the wrath of God? (John 3:36; Romans 5:9; 2nd Thessalonian 1:8-9). You may have thought we were saved from sin but Paul says we are saved from wrath. (Remember, this is not God’s wrath towards sinners, but his wrath towards ungodliness and unrighteousness and those things which keep us from him.) Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! (Rom 5:9)

The bible gives us a parable that describes the believer as being the salt of the earth,  it says that “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for nothing except to be but to be cast out, and to be trodden under the foot of men. What an analogy; we are flavoring, enhancing and preserving life. The question is asked, “What good is salt if it has lost its flavor?” What happened to the passion, the fervor, the fire that was burning in your bones when you first believed? I t needs to be reignited because without it you will not be a threat to the devils kingdom.

As I reflect on the biblical notion of feet, I think of the sinful woman who washed the feet of Jesus with expensive anointing oils, tears and her hair. She didn’t know it but it was to prepare him for his crucifixion. The outcome was, she was forgiven of her sins. Notable too is the humility of Jesus; he washed the feet of  the disciples before he went to the cross. Both activities involved the washing of feet, and invoke the feeling that feet are uniquely special.  I am decreeing and declaring a spiritual foot washing for those who are not sharing the gospel. Truth be told, if you are not sharing the gospel you couldn’t possibly be opening your bible. I am praying for a revival in your soul;one that regenerates you and propels you to witness, one that compels you to keep your saltiness, because if you are not soul winning, you are  spiritually dead and already on death row.

Standing in the Gap

Albert Camus Sketched by Petr Vorel

“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists.”  ALBERT CAMUS, Resistance, Rebellion and Death

Suzanne Basso executed on Texas Death Row 2-6-14 by Lethal Injection

Today Suzanne Basso became the 14^th person to die on Texas Death Row. At  5 am, when I arouse for intercessory prayers on the Three Cord Prayer Line, she was remembered by me.  I prayed for her salvation, I prayed that in her grief that she would call upon the name of Jesus. It is our duty to stand in the gap for those lost in darkness.

 In Acts 26 v 18 Apostle Paul is giving an account of His assignment to King Agrippa. He says that it is Jesus Himself who has sent him to redeem the Gentiles. Paul was assigned to ¹⁸ To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Likewise, I prayed for the eyes of Suzanne Basso to be opened this morning. I prayed that she’d turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, I cried out for her repentance and for her to receive forgiveness for her sins, so she would have the inheritance of those sanctified by faith and receive the promise of eternal life. It is our assignment as well; as believers, we are to know that Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. Jesus came for the ungodly and it is God’s desire that no one should perish but that all would come into the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

Before the year 2014 began, the Lord commissioned me to stand in the gap for the women on death row. He told me to get my church’s women’s ministry to pray without ceasing, for the women on death row. The scripture He gave me was Acts 5 v 12 “Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him,” which became the name for this ministry “Praying Without Ceasing: A Prison Ministry for Women on Death Row”

In the bible, God was opposed to the sinfulness of the Israelites and was seeking to destroy them. In Psalms 106:23 He says, “Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.”  We like Moses, are to stand in the gap for others, and the women on death row are no exception.

I am only an intercessor, and we know that the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous availed much but, the prisoners on death row need the army of God to stand in the gap for their salvation; any effective standing in the gap has to involve the church. When I received this mandate, I moved quickly to set up this ministry which involves scripture cards, but I hesitated to inform my Pastors because I was waiting to hear more directives from the Lord, but now with the execution of death row’s Suzanne Basso, it is confirmed that I need to quickly alert the church. As I gather up the names and addresses of the 59 women remaining on death row and as I gather stamps, envelopes and salvation cards. I intend to send His word. I will continue to stand in the gap and pray for the salvation of those who have done the most unspeakable crimes. Because, “when God  finds no man to intercede, He will use His own arm to bring salvation to Him, And His righteousness to uphold Him.” (Isaiah 59:16)

Isaiah 6 verse 8  inspires me, it says” Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

In the name of Jesus,

Intercessor Abu