There was a time I was jailed for having committed an international crime. My Visa had expired and the renewal was somehow rejected. This was a crime offense and I was viewed as an illegal immigrant. I was sentenced to a jail term of 40 months imprisonment and it seemed to me like life imprisonment. It was while I was serving my sentence in a foreign country when the imaginable happened! First I salute the people who out of their love for the gospel, go out of their church comfort zone and take the #ministry of good news to #hospitals, #ghetto areas, #schools and even #prison camps. I must say it is not easy to talk to a dying person, or a drug addict, or talk to convicts and share with them the good news of Jesus Christ. I was in my fourth month in jail when I physically met this #preacher for the first time. I had heard of him from my fellow inmates, but I never cared much of it. He’d come twice a week and hold a 30minutes #fellowship service but to me it was like they were worshiping the whole day. There was no one in the camp who didn’t know about this fellowship. The day they held their fellowship, it was all loud singing, loud praying, you’d hear them clapping even if you covered your ears with a pillow. The more this preacher came, the more the crowd increased. So on my fourth month of serving my jail term, this particular day the noise was unbearable and I decided to go and watch them. When I arrived at the gathering, I realized that I was the only one in the entire prison camp who was not invited to the party! I mean it was such a huge crowd full of both prison wardens, corporal officers, few senior sergeant officers and almost all convicts. I must say it was an awesome scene to watch! So I decided to remain until the end of it. Few minute later, the singing stopped and the preacher made an altar call. Again almost the whole crowd wanted to be prayed for and receive this salvation of Jesus Christ. When everyone had moved to the front for prayers the preacher asked everyone to close their eyes. For the first time I made a quick glimpse at who was telling people to close their eyes and to be honest his appearance didn’t impress me. He had this unkempt long beard, and he was not clean shaved. His clothes had so much folding and I could obviously tell that he had not ironed out his clothes. For me he was a put off . Don’t they sell mirrors where this preacher comes from? Why couldn’t he just look at the mirror and groom himself properly. Where was he rushing to that he didn’t have enough time to shave his beard? I am used to seeing leaders of all caliber well groomed but this particular one well, to me he seemingly was not on the right league. I was still weighing him, turning his scale, classifying him, judging his appearance in my thoughts when I heard a voice like someone was addressing me! I looked around. Everyone had their head bowed and eyes closed. I managed to look again at the front and there! My eyes met with his eyes and we were locked! Again I heard it for the second time. ” #Receive Me and you’ll be rejected by them!” What! He was talking to me! By this time I was seeing with both eyes and seeing with my mouth as well. My mouth was wide open out of shock. He then signalled me to move to where he was and what happened next is for another day! As I narrate this narration today, I was released from the prison the following month after that ordeal with the preacher. I will never forget that preacher’s words to this day. “Receive Me and they will reject you!” Jesus #Is The #Way, The #Truth and The #Life. I came to know The Truth and The Truth set me free because I received Him and they rejected or they “vomited me out” of the prison. The gates of prison has no option but to OBEY HIS COMMAND! I judged the preacher that he didn’t deserve the attention of the crowd yet JESUS SAW I DESERVE #MERCY & #GRACE ! Glory to I saw The #Light! #JESUS IS #REAL! (Read John 8:12)