At Fortress of Hope Ministries our desire is to provide you with resources for your prison family journey. Our resources are scattered about in a myriad of locations, such as: the website & blog the closed Facebook group transmitted in emails shared on monthly Zoom meetings What we found is that not everyone visits the website and blog or has an opportunity to read every email that lands in their inbox. We have many members who are not on Facebook.…
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…
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,…
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,…