Prayer – Fortress of Hope Ministries

While the world’s scientists scramble to discover a vaccine for the Coronavirus, as believers, we are equipped with something more powerful, and stronger than any man-made vaccination. We have the completed work of Christ on the cross, the blood He shed by His stripes is for our healing, and we have HIS Word on it. By confessing God’s Word, it activates its intended purposes so the Word accomplishes the reason God gave it to us (Isaiah 55:11). I’m not opposed…

Scriptures and Declarations to Conquer Fear Over CoronaVirus

Shonda Savage Whitworth

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Experience God’s Perfect Love

Shonda Savage Whitworth

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The Lord is a personal God. He desires a personal relationship with each and every one of us. Jesus, God’s Son, was the Lamb who was slain so that we may have a personal relationship with the Father. If you did not have a healthy relationship with your earthly father, this may be a difficult concept to understand. However, the Lord desires to show His unconditional love as a perfect Father to you. The Lord desires for us to be…

The Significance of Praying Psalm 91

Shonda Savage Whitworth

Prayer

One of the enemy’s tactics against believers is fear. He uses fear that something bad will happen to us, whether it is a tragedy, natural disaster, financial difficulties, disease, or anything else. Bad things do happen in our fallen world. Jesus said we will experience trials, but we can be courageous BECAUSE Jesus conquered the world (John 16:33). Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). So if Jesus is life and He has conquered the world,…

So Long Cancer, You’re History!

Shonda Savage Whitworth

Freedom, Praise, Prayer

The following letter to cancer was written by an inmate and submitted to Fortress of Hope. As families of prisoners, we pray for healing and good health for our incarcerated loved ones and ourselves. If you or a loved one is fighting cancer, I pray the following letter encourages you to keep fighting the good fight of faith (see 1 Tim 6:12). This inmate held onto his faith in Christ, followed the doctor’s treatment plan, and is now in remission.…

Who I Am in Christ – 31 Scripture Decrees

Shonda Savage Whitworth

Prayer

When we say what the Word of God says, it renews our minds and we develop the mind of Christ. Daily confession of the Word strengthens our inner person (Ephesians 5:26). The spiritual battle is in the mind. When take captive the enemy’s thoughts that oppose the Word of God and replace them with the Word of God, the enemy is defeated. The enemy wants us to live defeated lives by not knowing who we are in Christ. In Christ…

Pray for Peace

Shonda Savage Whitworth

Prayer

After my son was sent to the state penitentiary, I read in Jeremiah 29 how the Lord allowed His people to be taken into captivity. The Lord allowed it because the people refused to humble themselves before the Lord and live according to His ways. My son admitted that his lifestyle was not pleasing to the Lord and the Lord allowed him to be taken into captivity in order to get his attention. In the early days of his incarceration,…

God Sees Me

Shonda Savage Whitworth

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Two months after my son was arrested, I attended Lysa Terkeurst’s She Speaks conference in North Carolina. This was a tough time to travel away from home, but this was a pre-paid trip. So I tapped into my reserve energy and traveled across two time zones to attend this conference. The staff informed attendees that they set up a prayer room that they used to pray over each person. No small task as there were approximately 600 attendees. We received…

What Can I Do?

Shonda Savage Whitworth

Prayer

When a family member goes to prison, we feel helpless. We go through the “could of” and “should of” list of what we could have done differently that would have prevented the incident or situation that led to his (or her) incarceration. But there is something we can do – Pray! Yes, there are many other things we can do for them such as visitation, put money on their accounts, and send letters and books. However, the number one thing…

Always Pray and Never Give Up

Shonda Savage Whitworth

Prayer

“… always pray and never give up” (Luke 18:1 NLT). That phrase from the NLT version in the first verse of Luke 18 became seared in my mind after my son’s arrest. While my oldest son sat in a county jail awaiting trial, I cried out, “Lord our life is not supposed to look like this!” I prayed for my son to love the Lord his God with all his heart, soul, and mind. Now we faced a tragic situation…