8.23.2010
Letters From Prisoners

The prison mailbag is full again. Here are a few excerpts of letters from prisoners.

My heart goes out to all of you around the world that work so hard to get the Word to the Bride of Christ. I love the purity of the Message and I know with all my heart, It is real! Sometimes I am amazed at the absolute Truth of it, and it brings tears to my eyes. God bless you all.

FL

My experiences in religion started as a child growing up in the Catholic Church, then going to the non-denomination services here at the prison, very uneventful. My duty in the prison was working in the library, where I would discuss God and religion with the librarian. One day she said that she thought I was ready, and that sharing her copy of a book called “Spoken Word Is The Original Seed” would have an impact on me. It did. Amazing is all I can say, amazing. Never in my life have I read anything that came close or even hinted at what these pages reveal. She said you have a free program for the inmates. I have four years left, and I want to start right away. What a blessing. I believe I have read or listened to every ministry out there, but nothing can compare to Brother Branham.

IL

I wrote you with concern regarding my sister in Ghana. I thank the Lord that I have received a letter from my sister, telling me that she received material at her door from the Voice Of God Recordings distributor in her hometown. Now she has the same Gospel Truth that I have here in my cell. What a blessing. Now I have turned it over to the Lord. God bless you all.

OH

Dear Reverend William Branham

I am sorry, I am an inmate and I am writing you from prison. I have heard so much about you and your teachings that I am asking for two books. I have no money, no funds to make a donation, but I have a hungry soul. I would like your teaching on the Church Ages and also on the Seals. Thank you so much and God bless you.

SC

Without this Message we would truly be lost in a dark cloud of worldly confusion, It is truly a lighthouse of hope for us all.

CA

I want to thank you for the Truth you have exposed me to. I went from church to church and listen to speaker after speakers explain the Gospel and everyone was different. Then one day in my Bible, I read that God is not the author of confusion. I wondered what was going on. Then I started reading the books of Brother Branham and bang, the Scriptures came clearer and clearer. Now there is no confusion. I also read that He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. I truly believe that Brother Branham is the Man Sent From God!

WI

I would like to thank you for the booklets you have sent and enclosed is a request for more. The Bible has always been a puzzle to me. Now Reverend Branham’s sermons have filled in the gaps between the puzzle pieces, and I am starting to see the picture. I will always be indebted to your loving ministry. Lord willing someday we can be friends. Thank you.

CA

Mr. Branham, I am a convict serving 32 years in prison. I have tried to change my ways time after time but nothing changed. I have learned that God does exist and has a way of turning things around. It is just hard for me to accept but God does know best. I am writing you because I read your book Demonology and everything started to make sense somehow. Please pray for my soul and let me know love and not hate anymore.

Maximum Security, Trinidad

I was released three days early. I was trying to get home, it was late, getting dark, and I was tired. The schedule changed messed up all the arrangements. I had no place to stay and found an old camp-park in the woods and settled down. I was really down, cold, tired, and hungry. I was asking the Lord, what is happening, what did I do wrong? In prison, we would be having fellowship, and now I am alone in the middle of nowhere. Felt like the lowest point in my life. I heard a sound, there in the middle of the path I just came down, was an opossum looking right at me. She stood for the longest time, looking at me then shook her head and walked off. I thanked the Lord right there and had a big revival! An old ugly opossum might not look like much to most people, but right then it was a reminder that He's omnipresent, omniscient, and The same a yesterday, today and forever. Praise our God!

VA

Our Volunteer group traveled to a state prison Sunday night to hold a service. A few months ago, we place the entire MP3 set of CD's at the state prison so that along with the books VGR provides the 1800 inmates. They now are able to hear the Voice of God in this day. Since then the Chaplain asked if we could possibly provide and additional portable MP3 CD player for the library as inmates are starting to hear and read many Messages and there is a hunger.

We gave the altar call after the Message, there were at least 30-40 raised there hands to accept Christ and get baptized. I am sending you the names of the many that have requested books.

GA

I have been here since 1995 and been to every shrink and therapy to no avail. About two years ago I started reading your books. I had a guard stop me the other day and said watch this. He pushed me, and I said, “What are you doing?” He said, “I am showing you something.” “What?” “Three years ago, if someone pushed you, they were on the deck. You have changed.” Brother, I never noticed. I read my Bible and the prophet’s Message. My life, my whole character has changed. I don’t react with anger and violence anymore. They tried for ten years to educate it out of me. God took it without me knowing. Now I’m a nice guy. The Message and the Word is what truly changed my heart. I still have issues, but one by one, I see them leaving. We all here thank you for your support. God bless each one involved.

AZ

I am a young minister of the Gospel and through my own dumbness, I am in jail. Well I was appointed head of religious studies in the prison because of my background. An inmate told me about a prophet and the Message, and I said, “Right, sure... A prophet.” I glanced at the Church Age book he gave me and thought, “I got to tell them the truth. So I’ll look up some things to guide them.” Well I studied, I cried, and I shouted. Brothers there is a prophet, there is a Truth. Now we have a very close group of eight brothers, and we constantly thank the Lord for showing us the Truth.

TX

Please keep this prison and brothers in your prayers. Brother Branham’s Message is making a great difference here. Many are rededicating their lives and being baptized in Jesus Name, and the devil is fighting it all the time. The denominational groups are constantly trying to stop the Message. We love the Message and thank God for His prophet.

FL

It was ’09 when the Lord showed me His Name, and ever since I have been reading and studying the Message that God sent to me by His prophet. I have been moved around quite a lot and have little chance to meet brothers, but there are believers in every prison I have been in. Now they tell me this is my final move, and what an answer to prayer. My new location has many believers. The books are available and the conversation is about Jesus Christ. But that was not enough for my Lord Jesus; my own cousin is here. Every morning we get together and pray that our brothers and sisters keep pressing. The Word is getting out.

AZ