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March 2008 Prayer Letter
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![Healing Hearts Ministries Internaional [LOGO]](https://www.healinghearts.org/nimages/HHLetterhead_Web700.png) Dear Friend, For the next several months I'm going to have you focus your prayers on different outreaches within Healing Hearts Ministries. In order to give you better insight I've asked our leaders who oversee those outreaches to write a short article so you can see how God is working and how you can pray for that outreach specifically. This month we covet your prayers for our prison outreach. God is doing amazing things at Dwight Women's Correctional Facility in Dwight Illinois.  Dwight Women's Correctional Facility in Dwight, Illinois by Jenny Hall  Choices! We all make them every day. Some are good, and some are bad. Some choices are life changing. All choices made in life have an outcome…positive or negative. Some choices we wish we could take back or do differently. The women incarcerated at the Dwight Correctional Center in Dwight, Illinois know this better than anyone. They are reminded everyday of the choices that landed them a prison sentence and for some it will last a lifetime. I am reminded of the saying, "but for the grace of God, there go I." Healing Hearts began ministering at the Dwight Correctional Center in 2004. This is a level 1 Maximum-Security facility with an average daily population of 1,039 offenders. They house offenders with a light sentence all the way to offenders who have a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.  When we began our relationship with these women four years ago I was terrified. How would I relate to these women? How in the world do you counsel a woman who was on death row until her sentence was commuted to life in prison? Then someone showed me this scripture in Isaiah 45:2-3 I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give you treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name. Ah, yes, the Lord...He would be faithful to go before and prepare the hearts for His purposes. The women we encounter are precious. Many are lost, broken and confused. Many have hardened hearts and are angry at the world, some are living a homosexual lifestyle, some are battling drug dependency, and most are weary and tired. They are weary and tired of living a life that has no meaning or value apart from God. They are heart broken because of the things they have done and the things that have been done to them. They are Mothers who have lost the blessing of raising their children and many are women who have been abused, rejected, tossed aside, and forgotten by the ones who were supposed to love them. They are women living in bondage and the pain and hurt runs deep.  The Lord has been faithful over the years to bring true His promisein Isaiah. We have seen His heart for the lost women at Dwight. There is no doubt about it; God's spirit is alive in this facility! Since we began ministering four years ago we have had the privilege of working with five very godly women who just happen to be inmates. It has always been our prayer that the Lord would raise up strong women at Dwight to lead the groups. These women are instrumental in bringing the Word of God and challenging their fellow sisters to examine their lives against the scriptures. The four months we are with each group are intense. The battle is strong and Satan does not want to see these women healed. But our God is bigger and we see Him work miracles all the time. He is making a difference in the lives of the ladies! They become lighter because their burdens are lifted. We see strongholds broken and we see the prayers of those interceding for the women being answered. Jesus is healing them and because of that the inmates are eager to share their healing with others. They are telling their friends about the difference the Lord has made in their lives and encouraging them to seek out the same healing for themselves! Choices! Would you choose today to commit to pray for this ministry that impacts a life for eternity?
Please lift Jenny and the other leaders at Dwight in your prayers daily. This ministry is possible through faithful volunteers and through your financial gifts and support. We could never thank you enough for praying and giving. "He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners." Isaiah 61:1b. May the Lord bless and keep you always. In His love  International Director |
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