Prison Saved My Life

The last six years of my life have truly been an experience that has transformed me in ways I never imagined. In 2008, I felt like I wanted to die! I was a real estate investor and like most investors, I saw the real estate market starting to collapse in 2007. Even though I saw this and knew it was getting ready to happen, I didn't use wisdom and still continued to spend money and not prepare for it. In 2008, the house market crashed and my over $200,000 a year income dwindled down to nothing. The fear of losing it all overtook me  and I decided to take the wrong route and made a trip to Atlanta to buy drugs to sell. At the time, I felt this was the only way to keep up the lifestyle my family and I were living. I can remember 2 weeks before I took the trip to Atlanta, God told me not to go down that road, but I didn't listen. I got busted!! I made bond and was out for two and a half years. Going into court to be sentenced I thought my world was coming to an end. Little did I know, God had an amazing plan for my life and this period of time he needed to isolate me so he could restore me. While I was in prison, God started to do the work in me because there were no distractions and I needed God like never before. 

Life as I knew it changed drastically. From divorce papers being served to me to being 7 hours away from my family and where I lived my entire life. Christ was always by my side. God began to purge people out of my life. It was very hard at times but God was in that cell with me. I could feel his presence in the midst of all the demonic spirits that are in prison (I will blog about this later). One night my heart was hurting so bad while in prison and God began to speak to me and he told me "Shawn I have so many blessings for you if you just trust me." From that point on, no matter how bad it hurt and no matter what was going on around me in prison,  I diligently stayed on my knees crying out to God and casting every care upon Him. I began really living a disciplined lifestyle of intercessory prayer and fasting and truly seeking Christ by studying His Word. 

One step at a time God began to clean out my heart and remove anything that was not like him. As I prayed, fasted, read God's word, and even disciple'd other inmates, God began speaking to me like never before. He showed me my future and all of the amazing things that He was going to do in my life. In March 2013, one of those things came to pass when He brought an amazing woman of God in my life by the name of Jennifer Richardson and she is now my wife and I'm honored everyday to live this life with her.

I have so many amazing things to share with you on this blog 

• From visions Christ gave me in business, 
• Marriage 
• How He renewed my mind and my faith, 
• How He delivered me from bondage and how I no longer think like the world
• How He delivered me from alcoholism
• How it feels to be betrayed in relationships
• Sex and lust
• Prison stories
• and Purity

Prison really saved my life. I needed to be isolated from the life that I was living. It allowed me to have one on one time with God and really establish a relationship with Him. What the devil meant for bad, God turned it around for my good. The worst thing that I thought could have ever happen to me, turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to me.

I Pray this blog has blessed you and that you could see God in my story. No matter what you are going through right now, know that God will see you through it, but you have to surrender it all to him. 

God Bless,

- Shawn Spears

Announcement: Jennifer and I will be speaking at the Singles Conference 2014 in Charleston, SC. If you are interested in attending, register HERE Details are in the flyer below.