Feeling anxious and overwhelmed, Jesus listens is a wonderful way to bring peace,

joy, and hope into your life. This 365 daily devotional prayer book by Sarah Young

contains short, heartfelt prayers based on scripture. Jesus listens is available wherever you buy books.

Sometimes the answer may not come when you want it to come, but keep praying and keep believing

and keep hoping. And I promise you God who is promised to never leave you nor forsake you,

the same God who was with me and who is with me now. He is faithful. He is faithful to hear your prayers.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Sometimes the people we least expect to make a difference in the

world are the ones that show up in ways we never thought would have been possible and are used

by God in big ways to draw others to Him. Alice Marie Johnson had been sentenced to life in

federal prison, but she didn't let it define her. She consistently clung to her faith and then

became a minister to other prisoners despite the tragic circumstances. And she's now an active

criminal justice reform advocate. While following anti-human traffickers in Southeast Asia to film a

documentary, Christina Zorick witnessed the crippling heartache victims faced and saw how God

can bring hope and healing to anyone anywhere. Let's start with Alice's story.

I'm Alice Marie Johnson. I'm a criminal justice reform advocate, author, and former prisoner.

I grew up in a small town called Olive Bridge, Mississippi. Both my parents were strong Christians.

There were nine of us. I'm number six of my siblings, eight girls and one boy. I had the experience

of growing up in a black community, a very Christian community. But my mother and my father,

they taught us things that would carry me through life. One of the lessons that they taught us,

not to be judgemental, but to accept people as who they are. Because we knew what it felt like

to be looked at and judged by the color of our skin. At the age of 14, even though I had loved

the church all of my life, I became, I won't say disenchanted, but doing those times, it was going

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