One of the coolest things my King has allowed me to do is honor our highway patrolmen with a weekly Bible study. It all started a few months back when one night a highway patrolman pulled me over because my tail light was out. The minute he walked up to me my King showed me that his Dad was sick and that I had to pray for him. The patrolmen asked for my license and registration. When I gave it to him, I also gave him my ministry card. He asked, “Are you the Sonny that ministers to the Gangs here in Denver and the United States?”
I said, “Yes I am.”
He said, the reason I pulled you over is because of your tail light.” He then said, “I’ll be right back.” He left and went back to his car. I waited a little while and he came back. He then asked, “Could you pray for my Dad because he’s really sick?”
I said, “Let’s pray right now.” After I prayed for his Dad, him and his family, I asked, “Give me your Dad’s room number and I’ll go and pray with him.” After he gave me the room number, I went to the hospital and introduced myself. His Dad said, “My son called me and said you would be coming.” A few days later he’s Dad was healed and released from the hospital. After the miracle happened to his Dad, he asked me if I would be willing to meet with his friends that are highway patrolmen and have a Bible study with them. My King gave me the go. He said, “Sonny, so many have broken lives. They need to be restored.” My schedule is getting full and the only nights I had open were Wednesday and Thursday nights. We picked Thursday nights to meet. The Captain found an auditorium for us to meet in Aurora. There were only thirty who showed the first time. Then it kept growing until over 300 Highway Patrolmen show up. The wives began seeing such a dramatic change in their men and they wanted what their husbands had. My King also gave his approval for the ladies. I meet with them on Wednesday nights.
When I was preparing to leave for the coming Thursday BIBLE study, I received a call that we were meeting at a different location. I drove to the address they sent me. I noticed it was a football stadium and began looking for a place to park. The parking lot was loaded with vehicles. Definitely more cars than people who come to the Bible study. I checked the address to make sure I was at the right place. I was at the right location and had to park towards the outside edge of the parkinglot. After I made the trek to the stadium entrance, a young man approached me to introduce himself. He said, “Hi, Mr Sonny. My name is Jonathan and I’ll show you where need to go and get ready.” As we walked under the bleachers, I could hear everyone talking and laughing. It sounded like a big crowd was present. I began to realize something is up. I asked, “What is going on?”
He explained, “The Captain sent out memos to all the patrolmen to bring out their families and close friends for the next meeting. We want to hear your testimony on how God has been using you to do what you do. We were afraid you might get nervous if we told you up front.” I later found out the Captain did this by the prompting of the Holy Spirit. I was taken to a room by the locker rooms so I could pray and prepare for tonight’s event. I never have spoken in front of such a large audience before. I nervously asked the King what to say to the crowd. My King responded, “Sonny, just speak from your heart. They want to hear the truth about my Kingdom.” I then heard someone coming.
It was Jonathan. He asked, “What song do you want to start with?”
I replied, “Amazing Grace!” then I asked, “Play an old hymn called When the Role Is Called Up Younder when we finish worshiping.” Jonathan was instrumental in getting things set up for today’s event. His Dad, a highway patrolmen talked about the ministry to him quite often and he felt it was time to quit running from God and turn his life over to Jesus Christ. He jumped at the opportunity to be the sound guy for the event. It is now time to meet everyone. They started out playing the music. It was exciting to see everyone with their hands in the air worshipping my King. The worship lasted nearly half an hour. Now was my time to go on stage.
As I stood on the platform I was seeing lions in the crowd. I asked my King, “Why do I keep seeing all the lions?”
My King replied, “Sonny, you are seeing these men through the eyes of the people on the street. I want you to close your eyes for 21 seconds then you will see them as I see them.” I did as my King asked and when I opened my eyes, I only saw men of integrity not lions. I also observed the expression on everyones face as I opened my eyes. They probably were wondering what I was up to. I started speaking by thanking everyone for coming. I then said, “I was not expecting to see this many people here today. But, Praise God, I would like to pray for all the Highway Patrolmen that are here tonight. can you please all stand.” We estimated that 307 patrolmen stood up. I then said, “Take a good look at them. I know you see men and women that are risking their life’s for us but the people that are on the streets see them as lions and they want to destroy them but my King sees them as mighty warriors of the highways. If there’s a man or woman standing by you, lay hands on them and pray for them.” I prayed out loud closing my prayer that our King will protect them and continue to show them how much he loves them.
I than began my testimony by sharing everything that was in my heart and I wanted to be honest with everybody. I told them that before I got started in this ministry how my life was deteriorating. I had a failed marriage. I was abandoned and felt all alone. My King was always there for me and had to break me in order for me to bring his Kingdom to anyone. I was definitely at the low point in my life. I cried out to God, “Give me some ministry that nobody else wants. I am ready to take on the challenge.” So God gave me this ministry that I’m going to tell you about. As I began speaking and sharing everything about the King’s ministry, everybody was silent. Not a single cell phone was visible. Everyone was looking forward. As I continue talking, many of people became emotional as the Holy Spirit began to move. Nearly an hour had passed as I finished giving my testimony. What came next was totally unexpected.
A bunch of highway patrolman came in late and asked if I could re-cap a short version of my testimony because they were called out on a serious accident and many of them we’re out directing traffic and were disappointed they could not be here. The Captain stood up and said, “Hey Sonny, why don’t you just go ahead and give them the whole version of your testimony. I am sure no one will mind plus it will be good for them to hear your complete testimony.” I saw from the crowd that they were ready to hear it again. I began to give my testimony all over again. I’m sure I shared things I didn’t share the first time. The crowd made sure I did not forget anything. As I was going on, some of the crowd shouted, “Don’t forget to tell us about Blue Mustang.” I completed my testimony again. I noticed many people who were emotional the first time were still emotional during the second time. There were not very many dry eyes in the crowd. The moving of Holy Spirit was extremely strong during both testimonies. It was now time to ask the crowd about their salvation.
I asked, “I’m going to be honest and tell all of you what my King shows me. God is showing me that a lot of you love God but some of you look like you have no life inside of you. It’s because your running from my King. Today is the day of Salvation because tomorrow is never promised not even for me. My King is knocking at your heart and wants to restore the joy that you had when you accepted Jesus Christ in your hearts the first time.” I then said, “My King has shown me who you are. Those of you that feel dead inside and want a fresh Anointing from my King, I want to rededicate your hearts to Jesus Christ. I want you to come so we can pray for you.” Over 360 came forward and asked Jesus Christ to forgive them and they asked our King for a fresh Anointing from God’s Kingdom upon them. My King gets all the Glory and the Victory. Over three hours have passed by the time I finished praying for everyone who came forward. One message I would like to say is, “Be obedient to God and use Jesus Christ as an example on how to live your life. The Bible shows the life of Jesus Christ well. Even if you have moments of failure, do not give up. People will see what you have and will want what you have. Your life can be a testimony to someone else.” Another cool miracle happened today. It has been threatening to rain during the time of this event. Nothing happened until I finished praying for the grounds keeper who approached me at the very end when most everyone was gone. We both got into our vehicles and the rain began pouring down.
The Holy Spirit did change lives during my testimony. Fifteen minutes after the meeting was over Jonathan approached me and asked, “Sonny, could you talk to us teenagers on how we can become better servants for Jesus Christ.” My King and I jumped at the opportunity to do this. we scheduled a meeting two days later at a safe, quiet place where there were some trees to keep things cool for people to gather. We met in the parking lot first. After everyone arrived we headed in the back of the building where the trees were at. I did not know this until the end but the parents and sisters of many of the teenagers went on the top floor of the building to observe and pray that their sons could have that deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. Meanwhile, I told the boys they need to find out who God is by reading his word. His word defines who he is. The next thing is to model your lives like Jesus Christ was as a man. We talked about how to treat women as a Godly man would. When I got to the topic of honoring your parents as shown in the New Testament, it really hit home. I had boys coming forward while I was speaking who were convicted. They knew that they have been very disrespectful to their parents. I asked them to call their parents to ask for forgiveness. It was fun to watch brothers call. One would call one parents and the other the other parent. When they apologized to that parent, they would swap phones so the other could apologize to the other parent. I think the parents were more emotional than the boys. As this was going on, the rest came forward after they began thinking that they too have not been honoring their parents as much as they could. Our culture tells us that us many things contrary to what our King wants. These young men have said, “I am taking my life to serve Jesus Christ better.” Jonathan did a head count and estimated 325 teenage boys present.
Independent of the boys, four of the teenage girls also wanted me to speak with them without their parents or brothers. Some could not make the first meeting or had friends who needed to hear my testimony. I also asked them what was important to them. The number one thing they said was to stay pure until they got married. They too had issues with honoring their parents. They too came forward to change their lives for our King. They then called their parents to apologize for their behavior. The parents of the girls were close enough to observe them as they dedicated their lives to Jesus Christ. I estimate that 370 girls came to tonight.
As I finish this story, Jonathan has shown his commitment to Jesus Christ. He is president of the student council. The school principal wanted to meet with him and some of the students about the coming school year. He began talking about the fears of the Covid 19 virus that we had to live with for the coming year. Jonathan would no accept this and quoted Isaiah 41 :10, Jeremiah 29:11 Philippians 4:6-7 to him. The principal saw a new boldness in Jonathan and commented on it. The principal has been avoiding talking about Jesus Christ in school because of political correctness. Jonathan said, “I want to be proud about Jesus Christ. Jesus did say, if you deny me before men, I will deny you before the Father.” These words convicted the principal. The principal than said, “You will see some changes from me this coming school year. ” It is so cool to see the Holy Spirit working in Jonathan so quickly. I feel all the teenagers I met with are going to have an impact on the other students this coming school year. Thank you Jesus Christ for calling us yours.
The principal met with Jonathan today in a private meeting. He said, “Jonathan, from now on I’m going to carry my Bible to school, wear a cross around my neck and I am not going to be afraid to talk about Jesus Christ to others. I may get fired me for sharing Jesus Christ in school but it is better than living in this box I created for myself all these years.