This is my fifth day of a 24 hr per day fast with no food or drink. I am fasting and praying to God for one thing that I've been praying for over 17 years now. But since I started my fast something keep coming up in the back of my head that I need to pray for someone else as well as myself. Someone who needs God's help probably more desperately than I do. And this morning it came to me through a program on Daystar television network. I also saw one of the main reason the Lord had me take my family fom up north to Orlando Florida.
Before I begin my discourse I wish to let the family of the victim in this matter know that my heart goes out to you all and you have my deepest sympathy.
Jason Kent has been incarcerated for over 12 1/2 years for first degree murder. He has been given a sentence which noone leaves prison except in a body bag (commonly referred to as a toe-tag sentence).
When I asked God how can my prayers help while hearing his mother say the crime was premeditated. God reminded me of an incident in my past when my nineteen year old daughter then got pregnant (while in college upstate New York) by a twenty-seven year old man from the bronx. I drove from Melville on Long Island to Metropolitan Oval in the Bronx to meet this young man face to face for the first time. A lot of thoughts went through my mind that evening. I had no idea how I was going to handle the situation. I felt like I failed to protect my famiy.
At that moment God let me know that Jason was going through the same experience on that 6 1/2 hours drive fom Panama City to Orlando that evening. The difference between he and I was, my oldest child was nineteen yrs old, and his oldest child was 6yrs old and, I prayed for God to take control of the situation that evening and Jason probably did not.
Jason may have wanted to talk to this other gentleman, his wife's ex-husband and his wife's children's father but when the thought of the aleged abuse of his family (April his wife, his 6 yr old Chelsea and her younger sister Anna, the two daughters) at the hands of this ex-husband came to the forefront of his mind, he lost control and his military training and experience kicked in to protect his family by all means necessary (instead of letting God take control).
I respectfully ask for a second chance for Jason and consequently, Jason's immediate release from prison as this young man has learned his lesson and has paid over and over again to society from where he is. Look at the many young men he has poured into (over 500 former inmates) who left prison and has become valuable members of society and contributed positively.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, give Jason Kent a second chance, so he may go home to his mother, Carol Kent and her husband Jean Kent and he can make a positive impact in society. Please don't let a naval officer and young man with great potential waste his life away in prison because he made one mistake in an attempt to protect the innocent and helpless as he was taught to in the military. There are good men who make terible mistakes in society but when given a second chance they certainly capitalize and do much better than they were doing before their mishap. I will continue to fast and pray for Jason Kent's release. Take Michael Vick as an example of a positive turn around.
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