Miraculous Story of God's Justice and Compassion Moving to Set the Captives Free Both Spiritually and Physically from Baja Prison!

Alot of wonderful things and miracle's are springing from God's move through the Baja Bible and Purple Book ministry! This is recent story of how our powerful God and His compassionate justice moved on behalf 57 prisoners from El Hongo prison, (where the Bible and Purple Book ministry is spreading.) It also reflects God's timing which got each of them saved and prayed for by one of our BCM Purple Book regional directors, Lalo Meza, before their release!  OUR GOD REIGNS!   Enjoy this inspiring story which recently happened in this Baja prison!   Bob Sanders 

God’s Justice, Timing and Release of  Prisoners from El Hongo  Prison in Baja

  A while back the Mexican army discovered a 120 acre Marijuana plantation, on the road between San Quintin and Guerrero Negro in Baja, six hours south of the city of Tijuana. Some of the plants measured 2.5 meters in height and were hidden among tomato orchards in a farm located about 60 kilometers south of the city of San Quintin in the municipality of Ensenada.  A total of 58 persons were arrested when the discovery was made, and according to the authorities it is the biggest crop of marijuana discovered by authorities in recent times in the history of Mexico. The men who were arrested were taken to El Hongo prison. The news of this event made the National headlines in the country of Mexico not long ago, and I want to share a testimony that has something to do with this, to the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God has given me the privilege to go and minister the word of God and introduce Bibles and Purple Books in two prisons in the state of Baja: La Mesa prison and El Hongo penitentiary. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to go into El Hongo and when we arrived there two of the brothers who usually go in with me to building H1 inside the prison, did not show up, so I had to go into that building alone on that day. I was a little apprehensive because it would be the first time that I would be going in there alone, when I arrived at the cell-building I was informed that I would be going into hall #3 and this would also be the first time that I would be going into that particular hall, so yes, I was a little nervous.  As I entered the hall I began shouting out: Glory to God! Hallelujah!  He lives!! ? I tried to encourage the prisoners as I did in the other halls, but no one answered back.  Everyone was silent. You could feel the tension in that place.  In that moment I thought, God has to do something here!  I asked God to give me grace and the words to encourage and minister to these prisoners. I did not know who these prisoners were or what they had done to be there, so I began to sing worship songs as I walked the length of the hall, and I could only hear one or two prisoners singing along with me.  After I finished singing I began to preach the word of God!  I told them that God loved them very much and that there was hope for them! God began to move powerfully I could sense His presence in that place, something supernatural was happening!  The truth is that the majority of them were behaving very indifferent in the beginning,  but after hearing the message of love they began to open up their hearts, and then I made a call to share the plan of Salvation. I told them: If you want to open up your hearts I want to see your hands outside the prison bars, and to God's glory almost all of them stuck their hands out of the bars, so I began to pray for them and they came to the feet of Christ!  Finally I told them, that before I left,  I wanted to go to every cell and pray for them.  So I began going from cell to cell and they would come to the front of the cell up against the bars so I could pray for them. That's how God gave me the privilege to pray for these men.

Last Wednesday I returned to El Hongo to minister there again, and before going in,  (as I was talking with a pastor who goes in there with me), he told me: “Do you remember the 57 men you ministered to in Hall #3?”  “I said yes, I remember them,” then he told me: “That day you went in there to preach and pray for them, on that same evening, 56 of them were set free,”  The pastor told me that he saw them as they were leaving the prison and that many of them were asking for me and were thanking God because I had gone there to pray for them.  They were convinced that a miracle had happened in that hall on that day and because on that same evening they were set free after I had prayed with them. It was then that the pastor informed me that these prisoners were the same ones that had been arrested by the military at the marijuana plantation south of Ensenada.

In truth these prisoners were men from very humble families who lived in extreme poverty, and who were taken to work in these plantations with lies and threats, so God carried out His justice and manifested Himself in a miraculous way in the lives of these prisoners, they were able to experience the fact that God is real and heard their prayers, and I thank God for giving me the privilege to serve Him at the prison and to be able to experience the miracles He does.    Blessings!  Lalo Meza