There are times when we think that God couldn’t do anything better than the way he’s doing it now. I was about to find out that God was about to prove me wrong this Saturday. It was looking like a typical Saturday with the family’s worshipping around the King Soopers store.
The weather was quickly turning warm, and no one was in a hurry to stop worshipping our King. Lydia recognized me and the worship stopped. I introduced myself to the new families that were about to be blessed. I then gave Lydia the money to give to the families which restores their faith. After Lydia anointed the money, this is where everything began to change.
A parachute jumper landed in the middle of the parking lot. As he came down, he noticed the large crowd. He was amazed by the love shown to him by the people who were present and asked what was going on. We gave him a short course of everything that was happening. They explained who Blue Mustang is and his ministry in the ghetto. This guy was so impressed with what Blue Mustang did that day that he matched everything that Blue Mustang did. He then called his wife and told her what was going on. When she arrived, she started handing out $20 bills to everyone including me.
While this was going on a gang also noticed the jumper landing in the parking lot and came over to watch. I knew they were hungry and offered them burritos and Dr Pepper which excited them. They recognized me by my truck and began asking questions. The families also began coming over and began praying for these young men. They had no fear over this gang as they prayed. The soon began calling their parents and began giving their lives to Jesus Christ.
You are probably wondering how the jumper messed this up so bad, but you are wrong. He has been doing this for 12 years and his brother was flying the plane. He could not figure out what happened either. Jumpers can control their direction of their chutes as they descend. Well God had a plan, and he directed his chute right into the parking lot.
God’s plan netted one gang and double blessed two families who needed it. The families also stepped out in faith to pray for the gang that showed up. I know that God has more things planed like this that he is going to do. I am glad he allows me to witness his creativity. This is more proof that God truly loves us. He will send people to places just to change people’s lives.
I was witnessing to a gang in the park and all of a sudden, a grey van starts driving on the grass towards us as I was speaking. The gang drew their pistols, and they were ready for a confrontation. I told the guys to wait because I think I know who could be in this van. The van stopped beside me, and all these beautiful ladies crawled out of the van. The gang leader with a smile said, “Sonny, are you bringing us girls.”
I reminded him that my King has asked me to share his message to the broken hearted. Their hearts are broken just like yours. My King wants to restore their hearts too. They are here because I asked them to if they ever needed help.
One of the ladies spoke up and said, “We want nothing to do with you guys. We’re here to see Sonny.” She then looked at me and said, “We just got through running away from our pimps! We need your help to get out of here!”
I then asked, “Do you have your cell phones with you right now? If you do, they are tracking us as we speak.”
They held their phones up to me to show that they had them. The gang wanted to help defend them from the pimps, but I said I had people that are trained to deal with this stuff. I don’t want you guys to get hurt. I called the undercover police in the area and told them about the situation.
They said, “Sonny, we’ll be there in a few minutes there to get their phones. We’re going to bring the van with the manikins in it to see if we can trap these guys.”
Soon the captain arrived and confiscated all of their phones. They proceeded with the manikins to set them up in the park where we were at. We waited at a safe distance for the pimps to come. Soon two black Cadillacs showed up and a bunch of guys with guns got out of each vehicle. They started shouting obscenities at the women who they have not realized by this time that were manikins. They proceeded to shoot bullets into the manikins to punish the women for what they did to them. As soon as they started shooting law enforcement surrounded them physically and arrested them all.
The girls all gave their hearts to Jesus Christ. Their parent anxiously reunited with their daughters. After things unfolded, they identified their perpetrators behind a one-way mirror, so they physically do not have to do anything in court. It is interesting how God does things. There is never a dull moment serving our King.
It was Halloween night and my King had me out praying for people on the street. The night was fairly warm, so the streets were busy. Normally, I do not check my cell phone out while I am praying but Blue Mustang sent me a text and asked me if there was anything big happening on the streets. Blue Mustang told me that God woke him up from a sleep, and he was wondering what God was trying to tell him. So, he began praying for me after sending the text. Before I had a chance to respond, there were three men dressed up in Luciferian costumes. They looked really hideous with the makeup they had on.
These men in these devil costumes were doing these really weird dances around people just trying to cause problems by scaring people. Whatever they were doing made my spirit just felt terrible. They’d soon started heading my way and I knew they were going to be a problem. When they got closer to me God told me to raise my Bible towards them. The minute they saw my Bible fully raised; they immediately began to run away like they just saw a ghost.
I continued to pray for people on the street after they fled. About 2 hours later, these men came back. But this time, they came with their faces fully clean and horns off. They were crying in fear when they asked the question, “How did you turn your Bible into a flaming sword? That really frightened us when we saw you do that.”
I replied, “I had nothing to do with it. Look at my Bible. It is no different than any other Bible. My God did not like what you were doing and wanted you to stop.”
They were even more afraid realizing how powerful my King is and said, “We want to know the God that you know. What do we have to do to know him?”
I made sure they understood who Jesus Christ is and that they knew he rose from the dead for the forgiveness of our sins. I then asked, “Do you want to have your names written in the Lambs Book of Life?” They nodded their heads. I continued, “All you need to do now is ask Jesus Christ to forgive you of your sins and give your heart to him.”
They then gave the hearts to Jesus Christ. I wanted them to know that they cannot serve two masters. I begin to explain to them what they were doing was not pleasing to our King. We were put on this Earth to serve Yahweh and Jeshua and not the devil. I then finished with, “Go home and burn those costumes. They do not serve my King at all. Just remember that we serve a jealous God and do not mock his son by how you act. You do not want to face his judgement but serve him to receive his blessing.”
They knew I was serious, but they also know how much Jesus Christ loves them. I believe that I will hear from them again in the near future.
The world belongs to the devil, but prayer kills what the enemy is planning. When people pray, bind the enemy in the name Jesus, and God is standing with me on the street; I am invincible.
When God had me start witnessing to gangs, I was many times beaten and told to go away. They wanted nothing to do with me or Jesus Christ. I have people pray for me for protection, so I never was severely beaten. But as time progressed, Blue Mustang made specific prayers against what was happening to me. The first thing he prayed for was that they would quit using me as a basketball when would throw me in the back of my pickup. After he prayed that the violence against me stopped. But many times, while I was reading God’s word to them, one of their men would have their pistol pointed at me at the back of my head and the gangs themselves would have their pistols drawn. Blue Mustang then prayed that whenever I pulled my Bible out of my truck, that would be a sign for the gangs to put their pistols away.
The gangs immediately began putting their pistols aways when I reached for my Bible and carried it in my hand. It was so cool when they would simultaneously put their pistols back into their holsters. I was beginning to enjoy this not being hit or having pistols drawn on me while I am witnessing to these men.
God usually has me witnessing to the gangs in the Denver area. Because he physically brings them to me. But from time to time, he lets me leave to the area to go other major cities. I only do it when he tells me so. I finally had an opportunity to go. I told Blue Mustang that God is wanting me to go to Chicago, New Jersey, and New York to witness to the gangs there for two days.
The MS13 gang in Chicago had the reputation of being one of the meanest gangs in the United States. Blue Mustang made a special prayer and prayed that when I got there that the gangs would be in a state of confusion when I arrived.
The undercover police in Chicago gave me a vehicle to go into the neighborhood where these guys were residing. Before I left the building, the undercover police were taking a pool on how many bullet holes there would be in the car when I brought it back. Before I entered the neighborhood, God had me open my Bible to Isaiah 41:10 and place it on the windshield under the wiper. It was a war zone here just as you would see it in a movie.
I finally arrived where they were at and low and behold, they had their pistols put away. These guys were totally confused and they begin asking me for help. They’ve been in a fog starting the day that Blue Mustang prayed that prayer. I’ve never ever witnessed to gangs in these big cities like this because of the power of prayer. I had trouble keeping from laughing because I knew what happened. I said, “Let me pray for you for peace.”
As I began praying for each man, the fog that took over their minds began to disappear, and they became peaceful in spirit. This was all that it took for them to want to give their hearts to Jesus Christ. Almost all gangs are formed because of broken relationship between the father and the sun. These guys began calling home and found out that their dads have quit being alcoholics and druggies. Many of them were Christians. This further excited them so that they wanted to go home because it was dangerous where they were at constantly watching for gunfire. Soon the family members of the boys came and began picking them up. Many tears were shed as families became united again. The Holy Spirit was so powerful that everyone there gave or rededicated their heart to Jesus Christ.
By the way I always brought the cars back with zero bullet holes. Those in law enforcement that understand the protection our King gives his servants always bet zero and win the money pool.
Exactly the same thing happened to the gangs in New Jersey and New York. God placed a fog over their minds. And they were anxious to get away from that. I have never been able to do that all the time. I’ve been witnessing to these gangs in these other cities before. There has been nothing like this ever. I have heard that God is making a great hunger over the nations for him. And that possibly could be the reason why these gangs are so interested in talking about God. But for me because I witnessed a change every time Blue Mustang prayed. That change was immediately. I firmly believe that the power of prayer was also the solution. Blue Mustang kept praying that same prayer to the gangs when I came back. They would become also confused wondering about their future. As of this writing they have been wondering about their life and where they are going.
God has burned in their hearts to figure out that something is missing in their lives. Many times, they were searching for me even though I did not know them. The gangs that I do not know found out who I was from other gangs who shared things about me and my love to bring the message of Jesus Christ to the gangs. Those gangs even stood up for me and said, “You leave him alone because he will not hurt you and he usually has food.”
The fact that I can feed them is because of the wonderful help that I have behind the scenes.
God had me had me do something new. He has asked me to have the gang members write down messages on notepads so that they could give their thoughts to their parents and their siblings. This has made them think about family and wanting to go home. When they deliver their notes to their families, they begin to find out that their dads have changed and many of them became Christians. Like I always say, I’m only the Messenger and God gets the Glory and the Victory. Unless the Holy Spirit prepares their hearts for me, my message will not reach their hearts.
The gangs are becoming more hungry for God each week. In the first week of October, a total of 12 gangs have given their hearts to Jesus Christ. What was strange about all this is that many of these gangs were enemies of each other. But they still came together and began asking each other questions. They wanted me to meet them to discuss things further about the promises of God. This is the largest group of men that God has sent me, and they all gave their hearts to Jesus Christ.
Poncho 17 – Pablo 15 – Carlos 14 – Manuel 18 – Santos 19 – Nuna 10 – Simon 11 – Sammy 9 – Toni 16 – Salvador 12 – Tomas 14 – Christo 15
It is Tuesday night and normally I go to the college to meet with the college students. But not tonight, I received a call from Victor who was the leader of one of the drug cartels that I’ve been witnessing too down in Denver, Colorado. He said, “I am being surrounded by Mexican mafia. Paco the leader is threatening me to get out of town willingly or by casket. He reminded me of the time that when you said, ‘Now is the time to give your life to Jesus Christ, because tomorrow is never promised not even for me.’ I began to realize that I was in a dangerous situation, and I may not live through the night. Your words penetrated my heart. My men and I are ready to accept Jesus Christ. We are all tired of living this kind of life.”
God told me to go and meet Victor where the action was. The undercover police gave me sniper reinforcement in case anything went wrong. They got to see everything that God was about to do. When I arrived at Victor’s building, it was surrounded by men from the Mexican mafia. God told me to go into the building, he made me invisible to Paco’s men. I physically walked between all of Paco’s men unrecognized. When I got inside of the building, I noticed that Paco and Victor were talking to each other. Paco was threatening Victor with death if he did not leave the city. He told them that this is our city, and we don’t want you here.
I walked up to them while they were speaking. I turned my head towards Victor and said, “Victor, I am here as you asked and I am ready to pray for you and your men.”
I surprise Paco because he was wondering how I got passed all of his men. He asked, “How did you get in here? You do not have any backup.”
I replied, “God’s Kingdom sent me here and his Kingdom is here with me right now.”
This made Paco nervous because he was thinking that I came directly from heaven. Paco said, “You know you’re not going to be able to leave this room.”
You should have seen the weapons these guys had on them. Being a gun enthusiast myself, I did not recognize what they were carrying. I replied, “If you are going to do something to me, I would like to pray for you and your men first. Victor asked me to come here because he is ready to give his life to Jesus Christ. Do you know where you are going?”
Paco was not sure what I was talking about. But I continued, “Jesus Christ is the answer. Today is the day of salvation. Tomorrow is never promised not even for me.”
This really shook Paco up. Because he remembered that his grandma said exactly the same thing to him 3 years ago. She also said that there would be a man who would come and witness to you and would say the exact same thing as I told you. That warning will be the last one you will get. You will regret not doing something about it.
I then asked Paco, “Are you are a good swimmer because presently your destination is the Lake of Fire?”
By now Paco’s men have all put their weapons away. Because of what Blue Mustang prayed over me months ago neither side had directly pointed their weapons at me. Paco was still holding his pistol and begin asking his men what they were doing. But then he began to realize that they were making the right choice and he immediately put his pistol away. Both sides began to start asking questions about God, the Holy Spirit and anything to do with God.
I spoke to Paco and said, “You have a great hatred for you dad. You need to forgive your dad before you do anything else.”
Paco and his men began calling their dads discovering that they have all changed to men they should be. They then beginning to ask for forgiveness from their parents for the things they had done to them. Many of Pacos men kept their phones on so that their dads could hear them giving their hearts to Jesus Christ. 11 of the dad’s gave their hearts to Jesus Christ as their sons did while they listened.
I was there with both organizations till 3 AM talking to them about the Lord. Pacos’s men were anxious to get back to Mexico to start their new lives in Christ at home. Victor wanted to bring his family to meet with me tomorrow afternoon.
It was so cool how the Holy Spirt came across both organization and softened their hearts so quickly. I am beginning to see that God’s glory is being revealed in this ministry he gave me. His glory is so mighty that hearts are changing at record speed. It is nothing that I did but is from the great love Jesus has for these men. They were all broken and were ready for just what happened. There is never a dull moment watching the Father, his Son and the Holy Spirit work in this ministry of theirs.
It is another Saturday and God had me head back down to Commerce City. It was starting out to be a nice brisk sunshiny day. What was your unusual about today was not the fact that I was going witness to three gangs, but they were all parked on the same side of the park. They just don’t do that. They separate their cars, so they do not get damaged. Usually if the gangs come together, it is because they’re going to fight. Normally they try to respect each other by staying for as far away from each other is possible. The first thing that came to my mind, “Lord this looks like this could be nasty. You need to take over.”
God then replied, “You don’t know what’s going to happen. Why are you even thinking that? I want you to take them my Kingdom.”
I proceeded to get out of my pickup and walked toward the gangs. I noticed that the gang leaders were standing in the center. They began looking at me as I was walking towards them. Once I was in talking range, they kindly said, “Good morning, Sonny we have been looking for you. We went to the other park, and you weren’t there so we decided to come back here to see if you happen to come later. In the my times of doing gang ministry, I’ve never seen this happen before. I know these guys very well and they are enemies of each other. But all three of them said, “We need to ask you some questions.” I noticed that they did not have any weapons of any sort shown or other hostility of any kind was even seen.
I then silently asked, “God what is going on here.”
He replied, “Their hearts are ready for you to receive my message.”
I then asked them, “What kind of questions do you guys have for me?
The leaders replied, “We remember you talking about the forgiveness of sins. We are wondering if God can really forgive us for all the things that we have done. We were over at one of the parks and we noticed all the families with their children playing together in the park. We begin thinking about what it would be like to go back home. We want to have changed hearts before going home.”
The leader Niki spoke up and said, “Sonny I have not forget gotten that verse of John 3:16. Is that true that Jesus got beat up like that and was crucified just for us. It’s hard to imagine someone doing that. Then he rose again just for me.”
I then explained to Niki the parable of the 100 sheep. The shepherd left the 99 to go after the one that was missing. Jesus Christ wants all of you guys to come back to his flock.
Nikki then said, “I am the missing sheep. My mom she said I was the prodigal son. It is hard to be out in these parks trying to stay safe. We are always hungry. We are always pressured by the cartels to sell drugs. We always remember what you have said that this is all temporary, but Jesus Christ is eternal. It’s lonely out here.”
The gangs all shared with me that they have not fought with each other for over a month. But the one thing we don’t want to do is go back to broken homes. Almost all of them came from families where the dad was either an alcoholic or a druggie. Those addictions drove them to leave. They all said, “We do not want to go back to homes that are like that.”
I replied, “God does not want you to do that either. But have any of you talk to your dad slightly lately.”
Nikki said, “No, but I talk to my mom’s once in a while.” Nikki represented all the gangs and did most of the talking. The other two leaders were Marty and Jerome.
I then replied, “You guys need to call your parents. This is the only way you’re going to find out if your dad has changed.”
Nikki was nervous and asked, “Sonny could you walk with me over to my car? I will call my dad first. But if my dad is still an alcoholic, what should I do.”
I replied, “Why don’t we just pray for him now. I will be with you. You won’t have to call him alone. I will even pray for him.”
When he called his parents, his dad answered the phone and asked, “Nikki are you okay?” His response is typical since Nikki hasn’t called them in such a long time. The first thing that his dad thought maybe he was hurt.
As Nikki listened his dad and said, “You’re not drunk today.”
His dad replied, “When you left 6 1/2 years ago, I change my life and quit drinking. When you left was all it took for me to stop. I have given my life to Jesus Christ. We are doing church and involved in church activities.” There was a slight pause then his dad asked, ” Nikki can you forgive me for all the things that I did to you when he was an alcoholic.”
Nikki then began crying and walked away talking with his dad on the phone. God said, “Let them go Nikki needs to spend time talking to his dad.”
Marty then came over and said, “I want to call my dad.” After the leaders began having conversation to their parents the other men in the gangs began calling their parents. They all agreed that they would never go home if their dads have not changed. They all begin finding out that when they ran away from home that major changes were made inside their family life. Most of their parents already have accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. As the day progressed, a whole bunch car began showing up. The men communicated to their parents they wanted to go home. The parents were anxious to come and get them. It is amazing how many of them went home to their rooms that were left exactly as they were when they left home.
I do not know how many people were there, but I gave away 300 Bibles that day to people so they could read about God’s word. After everybody arrived, I climbed on the back of my truck, and I asked those who were Christians to go on the left-hand side of my truck and everybody else to stand on my right-hand side of my pickup. I then asked, “Those of you that haven’t accepted Jesus Christ do you want your names written in the Lamb’s book of life. This would be a good time to do so. Tomorrow is never promised.”
Everybody there gave their hearts to Jesus Christ that hadn’t made the commitment. There was a lot of crying going on not only because of uniting with their sons but that excitement of becoming part of Jesus Christ. As everybody got to know each other better, the families who had been Christians for a while began to share with those parents who haven’t about their church and how their sons can get connected with the youth groups to encourage their new walk with Jesus Christ. This way the boys can still see each other like they were in the gangs. It is very important that all people who come to Jesus Christ are discipled in some way or another to not be distracted by the evil things going on in the earth.
The gang leaders began coming to me and telling me that they are grateful that I never gave up on them.
I replied, “God has never given up on me. Just as he never given up on me, I am not going to give up on you.”
Three days later these boys all got baptized at the boy’s club swimming pool. These guys ate 14 dozen burritos with all of the Dr Pepper that I brought. Boy, gangs sure do love Dr. Pepper. One of the most interesting things about this story is that my favorite gangster is Lorenzo from San Jose California. He comes to Denver and is now the most respectful gang I would say in Denver. When one of the gangs asked him where I was at, he said, “I know where he is at but if I find out that you are going to try to hurt him, I am going to hurt you and I am going to sell all your cars.”
The gangs have respect and fear for Lorenzo. The leader replied, “No, I am not going to hurt him. We just want to ask questions about Jesus Christ.”
Lorenzo shared with me that his grandfather just gave his heart to Jesus Christ. He shared with me that he is the last black sheep in the family. But it is interesting that Lorenzo’s famous last words to one of the gang members was, “If you give your heart to Jesus, you will begin to love people.” This is very unusual for a gangster to say this but I have been planting so much seed in this guys life. He is not that far away. You can listen to the entire story below:
It is now Easter weekend and I have a special treat for the gangs on Resurrection Sunday. Earlier in the week the college students that I speak to on Monday and Tuesday nights had a gift for me. They had purchased a bunch of plastic eggs at the dollar store. Inside of each egg they put a single Bible verse. They used either John 3:16 or Jeremiah 29:11. Before they closed each egg up, they put in a chocolate Kiss on top of the verse. When I came to speak to them they handed me this bag with all these eggs in it. Before I had a chance to deliver the eggs to the gang members God had me put money in them. God had me withdrawal $245 in ones earlier in the week. I thought it was for the students. God said, “No, I want you to put money in the eggs.”
There was extra cash, so some eggs had $2 or $3 in them. On Sunday morning I arrived at the park early and began to hide the eggs. One thing I didn’t have to worry about is kids finding them since this park was in a dangerous area. When the gang members showed up they already had been looking for me. They were hungry as usual and we had Dr Pepper and burritos to eat. After we finished eating, I had them sit in the bleachers that the park installed because the soccer season started. I told them all to sit down. After they finished sitting they looked at me intently. I said, “I have a surprise for you. I hid Easter eggs in the park to find.”
With that “you are trying to treat me like a baby look”, they said, “Sonny we don’t do Easter egg hunts anymore.”
I said, “Well then, you are going to miss out on a prize. We will have to have somebody else look for them.”
They were looking at each other to try to figure what their peers might think if they did this. Finally, when they started thinking about the surprise, one man jumped up and began running the course. Then they all decided to give it a try. One man open his egg right away and yelled, “Wow! This egg has $3 in it.”
That really got them all looking. It did not take long to find all of the eggs. When they begin reading the Bible verses and the fact that they were on an Easter egg hunt brought them back to memories of home. They soon began asking more questions about Jesus Christ and they all decided that they wanted to give their hearts to Jesus Christ and go home. But as usual they wanted to make sure that their home environments were safe to go back to. They always remember their homes like it was when they left. Usually, it is the dads who cause the problem why their sons left. Those dads began to realize that they need to make a life change and many times that is done by serving Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ has the power to take you away from any addiction. There is great fear when the gang members call home because they feel like nothing will be different. Many times they asked me to stand by them when they call home because they feel more secure. It always makes me cry when I see the son ask for forgiveness from their fathers. The father’s then ask for forgiveness for what they did to make their son leave. When the gang leaders and members see that they’re parents have changed, they are excited to go home.
Again God orchestrated all this through the college students that this Easter egg hunt would be the catalyst for them turning their lives over the Jesus Christ. God gets the glory into victory.
It was Sunday and I went down to Denver to meet with the gangs I spoke with yesterday. By the time I got finished with them it was almost dark. I was sitting on a picnic table and began thanking the Lord for what just happened. By the time all their families picked everybody up there was over 140 people there. Both gangs went home with their families.
As I was still sitting on the picnic table, I looked over to my left and noticed three black Cadillacs pulling up beside me. These are the kind of cars that the cartels drive. I said, “Lord, give me wisdom to speak to these guys.” I am not scared of them anymore because I have learned that God decides when I am going to live or die. After they stopped, five men got out of the Cadillacs. I have met this cartel before. What was unusual this time is that they did not have any weapons pointed on me. I begin thinking about when I told Blue Mustang that the only people now who point guns at me are from the cartels. Blue Mustang then said, “Let’s pray to God and ask that even cartels will put their guns away when they see the word of God.” I vividly remember that prayer that he made over me when they had their guns holstered.
The men who were nicely dressed began walking towards me. The leader came up to me and said, “You must be Sonny. We have heard that you always tell the gangs around here about Jesus Christ. You have even talk to our girls about Jesus Christ. My name is Salvador. I was also raised in church. I have forgotten what it means to serve God. I have been telling my team that I am tired of hurting people. In my profession we sell drugs to people which are devastating to their lives. I have been thinking how my profession just brings destruction to people’s life but what you do is bring life into people, just the opposite what I do. I am just sick of what I have been doing to people.”
I reminded the leader that it is the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ that provides that life into people. Only the Holy Spirit can transform a heart. He gets the glory and the victory for that.
The leader then asked, “We are here to ask that you pray for us. We got rid of everything. Now we want Jesus in our hearts. We want to start a new life and go back to our families.”
As soon as he said “families”, nine more Cadillacs pulled up. The rest of his crew showed up. I was thinking that they are angry for what their boss was about to do. But God said, “No”. They all got out of their cars and walked towards me. The leader looked over his shoulder and said, “These are all my boys. I gave them the option of serving Jesus Christ or to continue what they were doing. I have been looking for you today. When we saw your truck, we noticed that you were praying for these gangs. We wanted to make sure that we do not interfere with while you praying for them, so we just waited until they left.”
The men from the other cars came up and asked Salvador if he has given his life to Jesus Christ yet. Salvador replied, “No, I have not.”
His men then said, “Well, we are right on time then. We have been thinking about what you said. Going back to our families and starting a new life, that is what we want to do also. We are also done with this life. We are done hurting people. We don’t want to hurt people anymore.”
I began thinking about the first time I met these guys and started talking to them about Jesus Christ even though they wanted nothing to do with me. I planted seeds in their lives when I left them. Those seeds have matured and now these men want to give their lives to Jesus Christ. As all the men began given their lives to Jesus Christ, they begin to cry uncontrollably. Even more so than I’ve seen it any time while I’ve been witnessing to the gangs and cartels. God is totally healing their hearts and their minds. These guys have hurt a lot of people but surrendered it all for Jesus Christ.
They began calling their parents to tell them what they have done and that they are ready to come home. I chuckled and begin to think that I was just about done for the night and God had something cool happen just before my eyes. You can listen to the entire story below:
Now that the new year has started I was thinking back about one of the most unusual things that God had me do last year. I do believe that a school bus that brought a gang to accept Jesus Christ was probably the most unusual thing that he did. This all started about mid December when God asked me to go see several gangs. He had me pick up Christmas cards for each gang to fill out. He asked me to have them to write down things that they would like to share with their parents. The gangs accepted their cards and some begin filling them out right away. We had burritos and I talked with them about Jesus Christ while they ate. But they still were not ready to give their hearts to Jesus and I eventually left. My King already has made plans for me to see one of these gangs again next week.
It was Thursday of next week and I was speaking to the highway patrolman that night. After the meeting, which was cut short because of other activities, God had me go speak to that gang with the time that I had left. God said, “Before you go, I want you to get a school bus.”
I began to think maybe God was losing it because I could see nothing coming from this. But I have learned that God usually has some plan that I just cannot see. Of course being this late, where would you pick up a school bus at this time of night. But I remembered that the undercover police had buses in their garage. I asked, “My King needs a school bus.” At first they thought maybe I was losing it it but they knew from past experiences that I was serious. They weren’t sure at first but they finally let me have one. Then they asked, “Have you ever driven a bus before?”
I said, “No, but it can’t be any worse than riding a horse.” They chuckled at my reply. They said, “We we’ll show you how to run one.” They showed me where all the switches and the bus things were just in case I had to stop at a railroad track. They then had me practice in the parking lot driving it forward then backing up just to make sure I felt comfortable. I am sure that I was not that comfortable because I had a lot of fear driving something that big on the street. I told the undercover police to pray for me. I then left the lot and headed towards the gang’s home that God wanted me to see. Eventually, my King told me why I needed to get this bus. When I got to their home, some of the gang members came out to greet me. They looked like they were about ready to start shooting at me. When I open the bus door they saw who was sitting in the bus. The leader said, “Geewiz Sonny, we didn’t know that was you in that bus! We were about ready to start shooting at you! Did you trade your monster truck in for a bus?”
I replied, “No, My King told me to bring this bus. He wants us to go cruising together to view the Christmas lights.”
The other gang members said, “Wow! that sounds like fun.” They were like children and started running towards the bus.
The gang leader standing all alone said, “I guess it looks like we’re going to view Christmas lights tonight.” So he climbed on board with his men and we started heading out to view the lights. Everybody was quiet so I got on the buses microphone and said, “Hey guys, shouldn’t you guys be going ‘ooh’ and ‘aww’ as we see these cool lighting displays.”
They chuckled as I said that. I know that they were thinking about the past before they became gang members about these things they did around Christmas. They we’re beginning to miss all of this. Finally I said, “Let’s go to Parker. I know they’ll have some fancy lights displays.” We headed towards Parker and turned into one of the fancy developments. The people out walking gave us a strange looks. They never have seen a bus here at this time of night.
I turned to the leader and asked, “What Christmas traditions did you do during Christmas?”
He shared, “Mom would make tamales and cookies. She would do all kinds of baking.” He continued to share some of the things that he did and finally confessed, “My folks lived in this area and we are just a few blocks away from them.”
I suggested, “Let’s go and see your parents. They will surely be surprised.”
The leader had not seen his parents in almost 7 years and hesitated. He replied, ” I am not sure that my dad will want to see me. I left on bad terms. He may never forgive me.”
I said, “You will never know unless you try.”
He finally give me directions to his home. When we got there his parents came out to greet us. They were surprised to see a school bus in front of their home. But they were even more surprised when their son came out of the bus. He immediately went and talked privately with his dad. His mom invited all of us to come into the house. Sure enough just as he said, his mom was making tamales and making cookies as their family always did. As the leader was talking to his dad they started apologizing to each other about what happened years ago.
The leader said, “Dad, I really left on a bad foot. I said some pretty nasty things too. I am just asking for your forgiveness.”
His dad replied, “Son, I just want to say I’m sorry for anything that I did to cause this.” His parents already knew the Lord so he understood what he must do. They started crying and hugging each other. Then the leader came to me and said, “Sonny, I want to come home. I want to give my life to Jesus Christ.”
I looked around to see what his men were thinking about this, but I noticed most of them had left the room and they were on their phones. They too were calling home. All of their parents were coming to pick them up. His men too wanted to go home and they too wanted to give their hearts to Jesus Christ. They just wanted to make sure that their hearts were right with God before they went home.
It is interesting that just filling out a Christmas card which the entire gang sent their cards out. This prepared their hearts for what I was doing tonight. God then use that school bus and the Christmas lights to bring this gang to Salvation. God gets the Glory and the Victory.
A lot of healing took place at the leader’s home. We ate everything that his mom had prepared for Christmas but she didn’t care. After praying for everybody and watching the unsaved families give their hearts to Jesus Christ, it was time to go. I needed to let their sons go so they communicate with their families. I then took the bus back to the garage where I got it. I parked it back inside the shed where I found it. As I drove into the buses parking spot, I noticed on the chalkboard that there were names on that board and next to their names were their prediction on how many bullet holes would be in that school bus. One guy said that I would have one bullet hole and one guy was as high as seven bullet holes. But the man there who knew God and talked about Jesus Christ all the time wrote “zero – When God Is Watching Over You nothing will happen.” Of course this man won the bet.
Before I went home I checked the condition of the bus. Even though we had pizza on the bus, the gang members left the bus really clean and they did no damage to the interior at all. I was about ready to go in and sweep up what little there was but the undercover police told me that we will take care of it.
Even though it was supposed to be private, everybody from the undercover police knew that I took out the bus. It was interesting that the captain said, “You guys are not to allow him to take a bus by himself. You should have drove him.”
All his men said, “No way are we were picking up gangs. That could be dangerous. They may even shoot at us.” The captain dropped it knowing they were right and said everything is okay. This reminds me about how much my King protects me as I complete his ministry. But I would not give this up for anything.
It was Friday night and I was witnessing to people out on the street. All of a sudden three white vans showed up. When the doors opened up all of these beautiful women started exiting. I recognize some of them as prostitutes that I have witnessed to before. I began looking for their pimps but I did not see them. I asked them what they were up to.
One girl said, “Sonny we want to give our lives to Jesus Christ before we go home.” They told me about their story. She said, “Our pimps stopped at a restaurant to get something to eat together. They left the vans running so that we would stay warm. I said to the other girls that I want to go home for Christmas. The other girls thought about it to and all of us decided we wanted to go home too. So we all decided to steal the vans. One of the girls said she knew where you were at. So we immediately left the restaurant in these three vans. The pimps saw us take off with their vans and started chasing us on foot but they could not catch us.”
I begin praying for them as they confessed there sins. Meanwhile, the undercover captain was driving a big bus. He just finished dropping a bunch of people off at a convention and was heading in my direction on the way back. It was amazing when he stopped to see what I was up to when he saw all these prostitutes surrounding me. I told him what they were about to do.
He said, “Why don’t all of you get into this bus and I can haul you ladies off to a safe place until your parents arrive.”
We took the keys to the vans and threw them inside and left. The undercover police came back later and the vans were gone. Being in a dangerous neighborhood we have no idea whether the vans were stolen or retrieved by the pimps. It was so cool to see 72 women give their hearts to Jesus Christ.
It is so exciting to imagine these women being home for Christmas with a new life in Jesus Christ and spending Christmas with their families. God gets the glory and the victory.
