Set the Captive Free
The cells of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua are dark and dusty. Our team of three filed into the concrete hallway connecting the cells, and began to pray for God to speak to the men and women´s hearts.
The history of the area could be described as religious, though we visited churches thriving with the Holy Spirit. Other long-term missionaries we had met in Nicaragua described a prevalent life-view in which God or the devil determines one´s life choices, and a person is helpless to change certain circumstances in their life.
Reaching through the bars to hold their hands and touch their heads, we prayed for boldness and a surety in Jesus for their lives. We called for a stop to the cycle in which they were caught, reclaiming all that had been destroyed.
Some wept and accepted prayers gratefully. One man showed us a Bible he had. We encouraged him to read from it daily; to drink from it deeply and to expect great things from the Lord. We taught them to encourage one another. To forgive and become the change they only have through the power of their heavenly Father.
Our team continues to pray for the men and women of this Nicaraguan jail. That they would continue to seek truth and reality from their Father God and accept the greatness He gives them as His Sons and Daughters.