"Free Inside, Free Indeed"
It is an honor to come to you a month before my parole hearing, at the time of this writing. As you are reading this, I�m most likely a short week from seeing the board, if I haven�t already! It is an honor because I know God is in charge. I know the people on that board can only do what God allows. God has the kings� hearts in His Hand. I love and appreciate each one of you. I hope you count me a brother and a friend. I ask each of you to pray God�s will for my hearing. Don't be discouraged if I have to stay, because God will have a plan for me staying � it may be reaching that one more soul. How could I put a price on that? I can�t and neither can you. Jesus paid the highest price for each of us. He lay down His life at 33 years old. He did that for the world to have an oppor-tunity to be saved. In Isaiah 42:6-7 God said, �I the Lord have called thee in righteous-ness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.� That was what Jesus did at Calvary. That is what God called me, and every man, woman, boy and girl called by the name of Jesus, to do. To keep allowing the message of Jesus to go forth by the unction of the Holy Spirit and break every yoke of bondage. Today I sit here putting pen to paper anointed, right standing with God, God making good of the bad of my past. I sit here running over with joy, love, patience, and totally dependant on God. I have double chain link fence, razor wire, gun towers here, surrounded by every demon spirit imaginable, every false religion thought of, with a multitude of opposition: but I am free! My Jesus holds my hand. My sword is sharp and gets honed daily � it does not get dull in battle. God has given me a vision and His Presence is always apparent to me. Jesus has been with me in the beginning and He�ll be there in the end. I know the truth (Jesus)! I have met the Son (Jesus)! I am free inside this old useless piece of flesh! I am free from sin! I am free inside what the Commonwealth of Kentucky calls a prison. I�m set free by God in the flesh. I�m �FREE INSIDE, FREE INDEED�!
The month of May was a month of many terrible storms. I witnessed firsthand men who claimed to be tough and unmovable be scared by the storms. They were afraid to go to sleep. Not many feared for their families, but only themselves. I enjoy a relationship with God and would lay down in the middle of it and go to sleep. My only prayer was for God to protect the children, yet for His will to be done. I�d get up the next morning and men would ask, �How could you sleep with all the wind, thunder and lightning?!?� I told them I had Jesus! They claim 300 or more tornadoes, one 30 miles wide, many coming back to back, day after day. God was merciful in sparing lives. He is completely in charge, and when we grab on to that and get it down inside, that�s when you�re truly �Free Inside, Free Indeed.�
In prison I have witnessed the greatness of God that most people may never behold. I�ve stood before hardened men and preached under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The words that came out were bold, full of power, and penetrated hearts. Many times there were men sitting with stone faces, tight lips and defiant, glaring eyes, looking at me with hate and distrust. I�ve witnessed those same men later break down in tears, their countenance changed � a smile replacing the sullen hateful looks! By the Hand of God I�ve been blessed to have those men tell me future plans they once had � horrible plans � but God set them free and replaced all the hate and hurt with love and peace! Once bound with broken hearts, their hearts now mended and set free. Set free by the Son, not by me or any other preacher. The only part the messenger plays in it is being a willing vessel and yielding to the Holy Spirit. The messenger must be willing to go! When God truly sets anyone free, they will desire to see others set free as well. That woman at the well in John 4 couldn�t hardly wait to share her freedom with others. You see, when you�re Free Inside, you want everyone to be Free Indeed!
You must truly be free to do this type of work.
Any ministry work takes dedication, prayer, meditation, discernment and total dependence on God. When you step out in prison ministry, street ministry, homeless ministry, hospital or nursing home ministry, you must be free and every door to sin closed! If someone is not free from lust, you can believe they will encounter that spirit and it will be strong. Any open door for lust or any other sin is bondage to a Christian! That bondage will destroy you if you don�t get free from it. Out there on the battlefield in ministry there are people full of demons. Every demon of perversion imaginable. Demons that desire men to lay with men! Demons that desire women to lay with women! Demons that desire to steal and to rape! Demons that desire to molest little children! The spirit of murder is out there, the spirit of lying is out there. The spirit of gambling is out there. Every evil spirit is there waiting on any field of ministry. That�s why you must be truly free. You must seek and use your gift of discernment. I once saw a preacher that preached a good message. He danced, he praised God, he prayed for the sick. All seemed well until he called up a practicing homosexual, put his arm around him and said, �My spirit bears witness with his spirit�� He had NO discernment. A minister must be free inside, completely free and walking by the Holy Spirit. Totally dependant upon God and all the Gifts of the Spirit. Friends, the fields are ready and a multitude is perishing. I warn you by the Holy Spirit, when you accept the call of God you�d better be �free inside, free indeed.�
In Luke 4:18-19, Jesus is quoting prophesy as given in Isaiah 61:1-2a: �The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.� There is only one way to be totally free inside and that is through 100% surrender to Jesus. Before you can be anointed to preach by the Spirit of the Lord God you must surrender everything. You must be dedicated to time with God in His Word, in prayer, in meditation. Today I enjoy that freedom and it has been a road of many trials � the battles have often been hot! In each battle I found myself having to throw away something that rose to the surface! Often things I didn�t even know were there. Each individual must get before God and say, �Set me free at any price, that You will be able to use me.� My main priority at one time was getting out of prison. Today it is being totally in the will of God and to be found doing His will. I can witness to you that I am �Free Inside, Free Indeed.�
As I close this, I want each of you to know that we serve a mighty God, the only God, and He loves each of us. As this parole hearing has approached, the battles have gotten hotter. Kim and I have passed through them by total dependence upon God. There has not been one area that we�ve not been attacked in: family, finances, property, church, all those who we love. Things in prison have really gotten crazy. In all this though we have learned not to lean on our own understanding, but to trust and have faith in God. Many times this year people having spoken to me directly or through Kim about wanting to write a letter of support to the parole board, or about supporting the ministry. I found them most often to be empty promises. Everything that was supposed to get in to the board did not. My daughter is angry with me and opposition started rising up. Finances fell to rock bottom and people close to us lost their jobs. None of that shook our home, our church or our ministry. As I prayed last week, the Holy Spirit spoke to me from Psalm 118 (verses 6-14) concerning my parole hearing, my enemies who come against me, and my trust in man�s promises: �The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? The Lord taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them. They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them. Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the Lord helped me. The Lord is my strength and my song, and is become my salvation.� God showed me in a dream that He fights my battles and is helping me get to the place where He has sent me. God has proven Himself to Kim and I many times. Those that rise up against any man or woman of God, or put their tongue against them, do it to the Holy Ghost. Just like Acts 5. We have learned to pray for these people, and for their souls. God has been training us both about dependence upon Him. Kim has done this time with me, but God has made it of use to Him and a growing experience for us. I face this parole board totally dependant on God, knowing His will WILL be done. I am no longer the man I was 13 � 14 years ago. I am the man God has made, and is still making. Friends, no matter what decision the parole board hands out, today I am without a doubt, �FREE INSIDE and FREE INDEED!�
In Christ's Love, Bro. Don George
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Whether you are in prison
or on the outside,
if you don�t know Jesus,
you are NOT free!
