Letters & Comments from Inmates

Below you will find letters and comments from prison inmates that have been touched by Vic Porter Ministries.

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From an inmate at Lovelock Correctional Center

In the Borrowed Offenses segment of the class I've found so many moments in my daly life where the teaching can be used in such a practical way, especially in prison. In how I react to certain situations and in the way I see things and how I relate to people.

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The following is a comment from an inmate that finished our ISW lesson, "The Power of Imaginations".

Question:  Has this course helped you?
Inmates answer: It's given me more confidence in being a Christian.  This course really hit home.  I had so many questions and they were answered.

Inmate at Ozark Correctional Center
Fordland, MO 

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Pastor Vic:
Once I started watching your video on Borrowed Offenses here at OCC, I couldn't get enough of it.  It was like turning on a light bulb every time I watched the DVD's.   I plan on using everything I have learned in ISW for the rest of my life.  I will become addicted to the truth and will use all that I've learned to help others.
Thank you for coming to OCC.

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Pastor Vic:
I praise God for what ISW is accomplishing in the earth for the kingdom of God.  It is raising a standard and an awareness that is essential to living a successful Christian life.  Finding our identity in Christ is crucial to living a healthy life and this curriculum does just that.
Thank you Vic
From OCC

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From Chaplain Evans
Pastor Vic:
I wish to thank you for the support that we receive from you.  The first DVD set of ISW we received was truly a blessing to the men here.  Thank you for your faithfulness even in these difficult times.  It is because of ministries such as yours that we are able to minister to almost 2000 men here at Jackson Correctional Institution.

In His Service,
Ron Evans, Senior Chaplain

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From Chaplain Bill Cardin
Yacolt, WA

Dear Vic:
I wanted to let you know that we recently started your ISW curriculum here at Larch Corrections Center.  The study is being led by a group of three offenders under my supervision.  The feedback from the leaders and the participants is very positive.  I was a little hesitant at first because the material is more in depth than the usual prison Bible study courses.  I have been surprised and pleased by the desire of the men to grow deep in their faith through this study course.  Thanks for your donation that made this growth experience possible for the men at Larch.

Sincerely,
Chaplain Bill Cardin

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Mr. Porter:
I am an inmate and a chaplain clerk here at Barry Telford and work closely with the chaplains in helping them with ISW classes.  ISW is starting to move like a little wild fire here on the unit.  We just had four atheist inmates born again and then baptized because of your curriculum.  In one week we've had 13 inmates born again during the ISW classes.  They are telling their families what they are learning and their families are putting into practice these principles. 

We had one man who hated God and Christians and I talked him into attending one class.  He received Jesus as his Lord and Savior at the end of the class.  He had a tooth that was giving him a lot of pain and needed to have it pulled.  The dentist told him he would pull his tooth on the same day and time as the ISW class.  He decided to trust God to take care of his bad tooth.  During class he reached up and touched this tooth and the tooth fell out on the table with no blood and no pain.  Two weeks earlier he was saved and then healed. 

Thank you for giving us ISW.
New Boston, TX

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From OCC
Fordland, MO
This has been the greatest class I have been through here at OCC as far as self awareness and reasons why I have done some of the things I have done.  It has allowed me to get a better understanding of myself as a child of God and the blessings I have as a child of God.  My attitude and outlook has changed tenfold.  I walk around with the peace and confidence that can only come from feeling the self worth I now feel.  It has taken everything I have been learning here and fine tuned it.  Hopefully I can be an example and carry this message through my actions.
Sincerely,
OCC inmate

The Institute of Self-Worth has been a true blessing to me.  I have learned more about myself in three months than I have in the past ten years.  I have learned even though I have made mistakes in my life that Jesus loves me.  I think Vic Porter is a true man of God.  It shows in everything he does.  This class is a high light in my week.  Thank you,
Inmate

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Pastor Vic:
I look forward to this class more than any other gathering in this facility and that includes the best meal they serve or getting money in my account.
Thanks,

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Pastor Vic:
I have really got a lot out of this seminar.  It's helping me see it all begins and ends with me letting go and believing that Jesus has already pair for all.
Thank you,

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Pastor Vic:
The first time that you came you touched our lives with the Word that you brought.  You have allowed us to put together things that we did not understand.  Now that we understand what the law is and what the means, we can look forward to a better life of understanding God's will and who paid the price.  Pastor Vic, what you have given us we can give to our children and to those that do not know the Lord.  Thank you and please come again.

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Pastor Vic:
I've been a violent gang member for over 30 years.  I don't think there is one crime I haven't been involved in or accused of before.  I'm sick of being me and I tried to change; but it didn't work.  I've been saved one month and began to pray and read the Word.  Thank you for your time and teaching.  It has helped me more than anything else.  WOW!  I would never have believed it could be like this.
Thank you,

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Pastor Vic:
I want to thank you for spending time with us today.  Your teaching has touched my life.  I was a gang member for 25 years and a gang leader for 15 years.  Because I was sent to the Wynne Unit, I met Warden Pittman and Pastor Valentine.  Because of the love in their lives for me I have hope.
Thank you for coming,

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Yes Sir,  I want to say that I've never received the message like I did today.  You have caused me to understand that God truly loves me.
Thank you,

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Pastor Vic:
You have opened my eyes and thought process to change my addictions.  I can now and will start believing and I will believe.  Thank you for pulling me out of my personal hell.

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Pastor Vic:
I listened to your for exactly three hours and when you told of the elder you encouraged to move on, a light was turned on in my mind.  I'm 42 and have been listening to preachers for 32 years and finally I understand!  WOW!
It seems so simple now.  I've been plagued with addictions for over 30 years and I've never seen the solution presented as you have.  Thank you for your time and sharing your love with us.  It shows clearly.

In the church that I was raised in I was taught there were certain things that a Christian did and others that he didn't do.  Though it may not have been directly stated I was left with the impression that if I did not fully meet those standards then I was not a good Christian.  And if I was not a good Christian then how could I be pleasing to God.  So for several years my motivation to do the right thing was mostly to avoid the shame of not meeting my churches expectations.

Now there is evidence that we are Christians seen in our conduct.  And we should remember when Paul said that salvation is not an invitation to test the extent of God's grace.  Though I have learned through ISW that we will never find that end.  His grace extends far beyond what we will ever require.  But as we grow nearer to understanding the full debt we owed and the sacrifice necessary to pay it, we develop a heart of gratitude.  As a result our thankfulness is seen in our behavior which should be much different than it used to be. 

What I failed to understand all those years and what kept me in an exhaustive cycle of attempting to perform perfectly, falling short due to my flawed human nature, and becoming frustrated in realizing that as long as I'm in this body I will always fail, I would torment myself because I could not fulfill the Christian image that was presented to me through my church.  Many times I gave up entirely because I felt that it would be better not to try at all than to continue disappointing God.

I was never given a clear message of grace.  Not until ISW.  I certainly never saw my heavenly Father as  someone who was fully loving despite my short comings.  But I have learned that grace is not just the forgiveness of my past, but it is Jesus taking the place of my sins for all time.  So that when God looks on me now it is not a shamed, hopeless sinner He sees, but His perfect son that is in me.

There is a great amount of freedom in realizing that by the same measure that my works were never enough to earn salvation, neither will they ever be enough to keep it.  What was given was done so freely according to what I believed not what I did.  In knowing that my performance cannot alter the perfect love that God has for me I have overcome a great barrier that served as a foothold for Satan for many years. 

ISW has been a true blessing for me and something that I have been able to share with my family and others with great joy and confidence knowing that it will help them to find as well their worth in Christ.