Several months ago God placed a burden on my heart to launch a Transition Home for Ex offenders, as I was told about ex-offenders that I knew, that would soon be getting out of prison in 2020, as a part of the Presidents Prison reform bill signed in December of 2018.  But because they had no homes, or no where to go, they were not looking forward to getting out.  A vision I had been given several years earlier was reignited in my heart - a start-up Re-Entry Transitioning Service registered with the State of Ohio as a Limited Liability Corporation, to provide an array of supportive services to ex-offenders, individuals in recovery, and the homeless who are attempting to transition back into society.

President Trumps Prison Reform Bill Goes into Effect in 2020

In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the First Step Act, a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill aimed at reducing recidivism and refining sentencing laws and harsh penalties.

The bill expands in-prison and...

Many have asked my thoughts about the latest political firestorm with the impeachment proceedings, and the President's latest remarks suggesting a Representative who voted for his impeachment, that her husband who died less than a year ago is in Hell looking up at all that is going on.

As far as the impeachment proceedings go, depending on how you view President Trump most likely determines how you see the impeachment proceedings and whether or not he did something that was impeachable or not. Seeing that many in Congress have been crying out for his impeachment since Pres Trump won the 2016 election, for offenses that have been levied against him, from Collusion with Russia, to Obstruction, and on and on, with none of them sticking, it's not surprising that we are at this juncture in history with the possible impeachment of President Trump, if Speaker Pelosi actually files the impeachment articles.

As for me, as a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ with a responsibility to be...

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INTRODUCTION

ENCOUNTERING GOD IN THE LORD’S (DISCIPLES) PRAYER

In 2017, almost two years after a 10 day prayer, worship and evangelism Solemn Assembly at Shiloh Christian Center, we were still praying worshiping and evangelizing the region, day and night. What began as a 10-day solemn assembly turned into an ongoing day and night house of prayer at Shiloh.  One night as I was praying in the night, I had a dream concerning how to pray, what is commonly known as The Lord’s Prayer, to encounter God and build a culture of encounter prayer in God’s house. I dreamed I was by myself in the Hope for Columbus prayer room, the 24/7 prayer room established in 2015, praying what’s called, “The Lord’s Prayer in Luke 11:2; Matt 6:10.”  In the dream I was praying through the Lord’s (Disciples) prayer in phrases (7 phrases), saying the phrases from the prayer and then praying those phrases...

Mar 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition 13… making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

By the time I was born in 1966 legislated segregation and discrimination of the races had been outlawed in our society. That’s not to say that there still weren’t discriminatory factors in the system set up to hold me back. Though institutionalized discrimination and racism is real, I do not believe this is what’s holding African-Americans from God’s full purpose and destiny for their lives. We must get to the root of racism and discrimination to really get free from the chains that still bind us today. Journey with me as I unpack what I believe has many African-Americans still in chains in the 21st century even though legal race-based slavery and segregation was done away with in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Once the vehicle and...

SET FREE AND DIDN’T EVEN KNOW I WAS BOUND

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. Joh 8:36

One of the most overlooked purposes of Christs' first appearing, that most believers in the body of Christ aren't aware of is that one of the missions of His incarnation was to set His people free from religious bigotry, racism and religious tradition.

One of the earliest examples of racism in modern History (A.D.) actually began with religion. And one of the strongest statements for racial reconciliation was actually spoken by Jesus Christ Himself dealing with religious exploitation in God’s house of prayer in the New Testament in Mark 11:17.

Jesus Christ uttered one the most profound statements about the inclusion of all racial groups in his house of prayer, quoting from Isaiah 56:7, when He said, “My house shall be called of ALL NATIONS the house prayer.” but you made it a den of thieves. The word, “All Nations” is the Greek...

Watch this FB-LIVE on Reconciliation BEFORE Reparations

After the civil war and the release of the slaves the era of reconstruction and the promise of land, and that which the slaves would need to live and make a living was revoked....our ancestors were never given that which they were promised in reconstruction...but not only that, but after 400 years of building this nation we weren't even given the rights and freedoms of the constitution...ALL THE WAY UP TO MY LIFETIME.

It wasn't until 1963 and the Civil rights bill that we began to be given the freedoms and rights as full citizens...all the way from 1863...And while God has graced us America has never really acknowledged or made any attempt to compensate the descendants of the slaves for all the inequities of these hundreds of years since the declaration of Independence declared us ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY & JUSTICE FOR ALL.

I don't believe this discussion should be a political football tossed around...

The discussion of reparations is not a discussion that should be attributed to White people owing Black people money, but of AMERICA, a nation that was built upon the backs of Slaves, acknowledging that it never compensated her slaves or their descendants for raping them from their land, with millions never surviving the journey through the middle passage and being thrown overboard or jumping into the sea.

Then being bought and sold as property, taken and forced into uncompensated labor, being considered as property, not people, raping their women, tearing apart their families, keeping them from learning and providing for their own survival and well-being for hundreds of years, producing generations of thing-oriented human beings, then releasing these brain washed ancestors of ours, only after she (America), was forced to do so, by the outcry of the decency and human sentiment of the few abolitionists, and eventually a whole army of northern soldiers, eventually emancipating...

Brondon Mathis is director of Yeshua Life Center, a ministry dedicated to training up Watchmen, Intercessors, Worshipers and Forerunner messengers for facilitating city-wide 24/7 prayer, worship and evangelism for racial reconciliation and regional transformation. He is committed to building God's house of prayer for all races, praying for the release of the fullness of God's power and purpose in Columbus Ohio and abroad. 

He is also director of Hope for Columbus, a City-wide initiative to establish 24/7 prayer rooms throughout Central Ohio for regional transformation. 

In the summer of August 2015 Hope for Columbus launched this vision by conducting 10 days of 24hr prayer, worship and evangelism at a church called Shiloh Christian Center in Downtown Columbus, in the center of the city, that has been going non-stop, prayer, worship and evangelism since. Shiloh Christian Center is now a city-wide prayer room where varied races, denominations and congregations gather day and...

The coming of the Lord is so near.  On our 2018 Israel Mandate Pilgrimage, I was challenged again by the nearness of His return.  I always have that when I go to Israel, but this time it was even more pronounced.  There is an awakening happening in Israel, which means that there is an awakening coming to the global body of Christ.  And I was challenged to awake from my slumbering heart on our Israel Mandate 2018 Pilgrimage more than I had ever been challenged in my life.

YOU’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE…YOUR PASSPORT IS EXPIRED

There was a personal challenge that I had at the beginning of the trip that was a prophetic picture of how near His coming is and how we should be preparing our hearts to hear from Him in the details of our lives, to be able to keep our hearts prepared for that Great and Awesome day of the Lord.

My passport was expired and I didn’t know it until I got to the ticket counter in NYC to board the plane to...