Out of the Closet And Into the Court Where God App
Georgia Justice: Journey to Faith is a moving story but more important is a guidebook on how to build your faith when faced with tragedy. Author Jackie Carpenter is a Christian lady who was active in her church, raised a Christian family, and was living a life we would expect from a woman of faith. And then her son was arrested and charged with felony murder.
It took ten long tormented months from the time son Jason was arrested for the author to build her faith to the point where she fully believed God would give her family a miracle. Two days before the trial her attorney asked Jackie not to bring her Bible into the courtroom because if a non-believing juror saw it he/she could be offended and hold it against Jason and send him to prison for 30 years. When Jackie decided to show up in court with her Bible, God decided to show up in court and perform a miracle ? an acquittal. Jackie decided she?d rather risk offending a juror than offending God, a gut-wrenching decision but critical to faith building.
And this is really what Georgia Justice is about --- building faith by daily trips into a private prayer closet to have the courage to face doubts, depression, daily attacks from Satan, nightmares almost every night. The author writes of the importance of her private, daily prayer in this passage: ?I was not praying for strength to get me through the tragedy. I was praying for strength to help me crawl from the bed into my prayer closet. If I could just make it that far then I knew I would be safe from Satan?s tormenting thoughts because my prayer closet was my refuge from Satan. It was the one and only area of my life where Satan could not get to me. I had to fight him every step of the way because he did not want me to get there. He did not want me to get too close to God.?
Few of us will have a son or daughter wrongfully charged with murder, but all of us can benefit from the lessons of this book because all of us will face tragedy of some kind during our lives. So any one really can benefit from this how-to story of how to escape from depression and torment to faith and hope and ultimate victory. I found her story useful and think you will also.
Emory Daniels
