This is a Testimony from An Inmate who is a member of The Church of God at Hazlehurst Georgia.

FROM; DENNIS EUBANKS,. .

GREETINGS; IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS,

I’M CURRENTLY SERVING TIME AT M.S.P. ON TWO LIFE SENTENCES. I CAME UP TO THIS PRISON FROM REIDSVILLE. I’M IN MY NINTH YEAR, AND ONLY GOD KNOWS WHEN IT WILL END. I’LL NOT GO INTO MY PAST BUT TO SAY, DRINKING AND PARTYING AND CAUSING TROUBLE FOR OTHERS WAS WHAT I LIKED BEST. I HATED EVERYONE, EVEN MYSELF. I ALWAYS THOUGHT MYSELF TO BE SATANS RIGHT HAND MAN. I THOUGHT WE HAD IT ALL WORKED OUT, THEN I FOUND SATAN OUT TO BE A LIAR, BUT BY THIS TIME IT WAS TO LATE, HE HAD DESTROYED MY LIFE AND MY KIDS LIFE AS WELL AS OTHERS. HE LEFT ME STRANDED WITH TWO LIFE SENTENCES RUNNING WILD, WITH NO HOPE OF EVER GETTING OUT, AND WHAT MAKES IT SO BAD IS, THAT AFTER ALL THE PAIN AND SUFFERING HE HAD CAUSED ME, I STILL SERVED HIM FOR THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF THIS TIME AT REIDSVILLE.

I HATED PEOPLE WHO WORE A BADGE, WHO REPRESENTED AUTHORITY. I CONSIDERED THEM AS CROOKS AND THIEVES AND MURDERERS ALSO, AND AS BAD AS IT MAY SOUND, SOME ARE. BUT TO SHORTEN A LONG STORY UP TO FIT HERE, AFTER FIVE YEARS OF SERVING TIME, I JUST WANTED TO DIE, JUST WANTED IT TO END, AND AT THIS TIME SATAN STARTED PLANTING THE SEED OF SUICIDE IN MY MIND, ALL I COULD THINK OF WAS WHAT WOULD BE THE FASTEST WAY TO CARRY IT OUT. THEN IN DECEMBER OF 1997 AN INMATE WALKED BY MY ROOM, AND ASKED ME TO GO TO CHURCH WITH HIM. I TOLD HIM I DIDN’T WANT TO HEAR IT, I DIDN’T WANT NO PART OF NO CHAIN GANG RELIGION. BUT FOR SOME REASON WHICH I STILL CAN’T EXPLAIN, AFTER HE LEFT, I GOT DRESSED AND WENT TO CHURCH. THE MESSAGE THAT NIGHT WAS ABOUT GOD’S LOVE AND FORGIVENESS, THAT HE LOVED ME NO MATTER WHAT I’D DONE. IT WAS A MESSAGE I’D HEARD EARLIER IN MY LIFE, BUT NEVER PAID ANY ATTENTION TOO. BUT THIS TIME FOR SOME REASON IT EAT AT THE INSIDE OF ME AND MADE ME MORE RESTLESS THAN I WAS. I FOUGHT OFF THE URGE TO GO TO THE ALTER, BECAUSE I DIDN’T WANT TO SEEM WEAK IN THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE IN HERE. IN HERE, BEING A CHRISTIAN IS A SIGN OF WEAKNESS, AND BEING WEAK IS SOMETHING I’D NEVER BEEN. BUT ANYWAY, I WENT BACK TO THE DORM AND LOCKED MYSELF IN MY ROOM AND WALKED THE FLOOR TILL ABOUT 3am. I HAD DONE HAD ALL I COULD HANDLE. I COULDN’T HANDLE ANY MORE, SO CRYING I FELL TO MY KNEES AND CRIED OUT TO GOD. I REMEMBER THE WORDS WELL, GUESS I’LL NEVER FORGET THEM. I SAID “ GOD, IF YOU ARE WHO PEOPLE SAY YOU ARE, IF YOU ARE REAL, AND IF THERE’S ANYTHING IN ME YOU WANT, ITS YOURS, JUST PLEASE GIVE ME PEACE”. AND PRAISE GOD, ITS 2007 NOW AND I STILL HAVE THAT PEACE THAT GOD GIVE ME THAT NIGHT, BUT NOT ONLY PEACE, BUT ETERNAL LIFE TOO, PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME. WHOM THE SON SETS FREE, IS FREE INDEED, AND PRAISE GOD EVEN THOUGH I’M IN PRISON, I’M FREE, AND NO ONE CAN TAKE THIS FREEDOM FROM ME. I’VE BEEN FREED FROM ALL THE CHAINS THAT SATAN HAD ON ME. I WAS SENT TO PRISON TO DIE, BUT INSTEAD I’VE GOTTEN ETERNAL LIFE. I’VE GOT PEACE, LOVE, JOY, THAT NO ONE CAN STEAL FROM ME. I NO LONGER HATE PEOPLE OR MYSELF, THE CUSSING IS GONE, THE SMOKING IS GONE, I NO LONGER FEEL LIKE SOMETHING IS MISSING FROM MY LIFE. THE VOID HAS BEEN FILLED, AND ONLY JESUS COULD FILL IT, AND NOT ONLY THIS, BUT PRAISE GOD FOR SHOWING ME THE CHURCH, THE BRIDE OF CHRIST, AND LETTING ME BE PART OF IT. THANK GOD FOR THE CHURCH OF GOD PRISON MINISTRY OF BROTHER RICK RAZSI, BECAUSE IT’S THROUGH THIS MINISTRY THAT I FIRST HEARD OF THE CHURCH OF GOD, AND AT FIRST, I JUST COULDN’T BELIEVE THIS, CAUSE IT WENT AGAINST EVERYTHING I’D EVER HEARD. BUT THE LORD DEALT WITH ME ON THIS AND SHOWED ME THROUGH HIS WORD THE CHURCH, THE TRUE CHURCH, THE ONLY CHURCH, THE BRIDE OF CHRIST. NOW, PEOPLE CALL ME CRAZY, AND I AM, BUT NOW I’M CRAZY ABOUT MY LORD JESUS. I’M LIKE SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO, MY GOD CAN DELIVER ME FROM THIS PRISON, BUT IF NOT SATAN, I’LL NOT SERVE YOU ANYMORE, PRAISE GOD FOR THE LIFE CHANGING HE HAS DONE IN ME. WITH LOVE IN CHRIST JESUS,

DENNIS JOINED THE CHURCH OF GOD BY COVENANT ON JAN. 27, 2001 ;

PLEASE WRITE HIM AT;

DENNIS EUBANKS ( GDC-397127 )