My dear friend,

It has been an amazing six months since the Lord called me back full-time to Coming Clean Ministries.  Not only has He given me a clear vision and direction for the ministry, He has blessed me in the past six months with some of the most amazing young people on earth, and most important He has reconfirmed His calling on my life on numerous occasions.  In essence, He has given me a fresh anointing of His spirit. Today, I want to tell you about some of those times He has reconfirmed His calling on my life.

In February of this year my dear brother and mentor Manny Mill invited me to travel with him to see what God is doing at the Louisiana State Penitentiary known as Angola. I had heard of this prison because of its notoriety for being the bloodiest prison in America and at the same time it was the location where numerous films such as Dead Man Walking, and Shawshank Redemption were filmed.  Since that day I have now gone back four times and each time it has been an amazing experience.  As I have written to you before, at Angola I have seen Jesus face to face in a manner I have never seen Him before.

May of this year I was invited by Warden Cain to attend the Angola annual rodeo and at night conduct the chapel service.  I took my very dear friends Jim Pace, James Beabout, Jared Adams, and my five year old son, Estevan.  Can you imagine taking your precious gift from God into a prison full of murderers, rapist, and hard core criminal?  Can you imagine doing the chapel service and while you speak your son is running around among those men, hugging them and kissing them?  I can, and there is no other place that I rather take my son to experience the love of Christ than Angola.  That night God showed up in an amazing manner and many souls came to meet the only hope they will ever have, Jesus!

From Angola we flew to Mobile Alabama where to conduct a youth rally at the church my brother and former Federal Parole Officer, Ken Cole, attends.  It was another amazing confirmation as a concerned mother came up to me sometime before the service was to begin and told me that while she was praying that day the Lord told her to take her son to hear me speak.  That lady did not even belong to that church, and had only heard of the event over the radio.  But, what was amazing was the night before her son got arrested for drug charges.  She bailed him out and that night he came to hear me speak.  At the end of the night I lead her son to our Lord Jesus Christ and we all three cried and prayed that Jesus would fill that young man’s life with the Holy Spirit.

In May I was invited to return to Winona Minnesota and do another youth rally at Rock Solid Ministry with my brother Greg Mosher.  The morning before the rally I had the opportunity to speak at two public High Schools.  I shared a message of how critical it is for us to come clean and live a life of transparency and that if we’re to be in a position to not only help ourselves but help those we love, we have to come clean with God and with those whom we love, to stop living a fake life and be real. 

About lunch time eight of us where sitting around Rock Solid talking about the night’s event, when suddenly this beautiful young lady who heard me speak at her High School that morning came in and began to talk to us.  She started by thanking me for coming that morning to her high school and what an impact my speech had on many students.  Suddenly, out of nowhere, in front of complete strangers she began to weep.  She began to come clean with us and tell us how crucial this message was for today’s youth.  She shared how she was raped by her grand father and how much it still hurts, but that what hurts her the most is that her best friend was raped in school and she did not have the strength to share with her how she had been raped and how critical it was for her to report that act.

As we sat at the Rock Solid Youth Center we listened as this amazing young lady come clean, began to find healing, and to believe that now she was in a position to use the tragedy in her life to help other young girls.   The fastest growing crime in America is date rape.  This amazing young lady was now free!  After coming clean with complete strangers she now believes that God will heal her wounds so that she can help heal others.  Was this not what Christ did, use His wounds to heal us? (I Peter 2: 24).

My friend, coming clean is a simple idea that has been there since the beginning of times.  Adam had to come clean with God and Jesus set the example for us today as He came clean with His apostles about His temptations.  Coming clean is the most liberating concept.  Christ tells us to confess our sins one to another so that we may be saved.  Amazing!  Salvation is dependant upon of confession.  Coming clean is the foundation for us to be real one with another and to be in a position to truly minister to a hurting world.

God bless you,

Jorge

Jorge Valdes, Ph.D.
Founder and Speaker

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