Our God Delivers Us From Evil

This has been one of those spectacular weeks of seeing God at work!

I met Gaile Owens on my first visit to Master Life, a Bible study held every Sunday night in Freedom Chapel at the Tennessee Prison For Women. I started volunteering on a regular basis 12 years ago. Eight years ago the new warden decided that since Gaile was on death row she needed to be segregated from the rest of the inmates so during those years I was able to see her only at the Christmas party that was held in her unit.

In the spring of this year the Supreme Court declined Gaile's appeal of her death sentence and set the date of her execution for September 28, 2010. You can read her story at www.friendsofgaile.com. Her lawyer and friends organized a massive campaign to solicit signatures on a petition and letters to Governor Bredesen pleading that he commute her death penalty to a life sentence On Wednesday, July 14th, Governor Bredesen commuted Gaile's death sentence to life in prison and she goes up for parole in 2011!

On Sunday night, July 18, after eight years, Gaile was free to attend Master Life in Freedom Chapel and what a celebration it was to hear Gaile give God all the glory for her deliverance.

Another account of God's deliverance...

Early last week I just happened to look out our front window and saw a strange car backed into our driveway. I walked out the door and saw a stranger putting two large pieces of construction equipment belonging to a carpenter doing renovations on our home into the back of his pick up truck. The wanna be thief had been watching for when Jeremy would leave for lunch and within ten minutes he had backed his truck into our driveway. Side note, my car was also parked in the driveway.

When I asked him what he was doing he came up with a carefully rehearsed story but I told him to put the equipment back where he found it and he did! I tried to write down his license plate but the license plate was bent up in half so it was impossible to see the number.

Here's where the story gets even better - I was suppose to be on a conference call with a songwriter during this time but I got a text saying that he didn't have any reception so needed to reschedule for later in the day. He felt very bad about changing times at the last minute but when he heard about my thwarting a robbery we both recognized the lost reception as a divine intervention by God.

I am fully of thanksgiving for seeing God at work and how he keeps watch over his kids!