Great Escape Prison Ministries

02/10/2026

Rooted in the Word When Your Thoughts Need Turning
by Dr Cyril K Anthony

“Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.” (Psalm 119:37 KJV)

Some days the heart is not attacked by obvious evil. The heart is simply pulled apart by a hundred small distractions, until you cannot tell what you truly feel anymore. Your eyes move from one thing to another, your mind stays busy, and your spirit grows thin, as if your inner strength is leaking through tiny cracks you did not notice.

This verse feels like an honest prayer from a believer who knows his weakness and still reaches for God. The request is not for a louder life, it is for a cleaner focus. Vanity is anything that looks important for a moment and leaves you emptier afterward, so the psalmist asks the Lord to turn his eyes away and then to quicken him in God’s way. Life returns when your attention returns.

What follows is a gentle truth you can live today. You cannot always control what passes in front of you, yet you can choose what you keep looking at. Scripture trains the eyes of the soul, so you begin to recognize what drains you and what feeds you. When the Word stays near, it becomes easier to release what is hollow and to hold what is holy, since God often renews us by redirecting us.

This is where freedom begins. A distracted gaze makes a scattered heart, and a steady gaze makes a strengthened heart. You do not fight vanity by staring harder at it, you overcome vanity by turning toward God. Will you offer this prayer today and let Him guide your eyes, your attention, and your life back into His way.

Prayer
Father, turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity. Help me recognize what is empty before it steals my peace, and quicken me in thy way when my spirit feels thin. Train my attention through Your Word, renew my inner life, and teach me to look toward what brings life. Let my focus become worship, and let my choices become obedience. In Jesus name, Amen.

07/13/2025

11/16/2023

“He received 39 stripes because 40 was known to kill a man. They wanted him alive. They held handfuls of his beard, and hair and pulled it out by the roots. They wanted him alive. They kicked, punched, and spit on him for hours. Until there wasn't a single spot on his body not covered in blood. They wanted him alive.

They shoved a crown of thorns down on his head so harshly it stuck in his skin. They wanted him alive. After hours of being beaten, mocked, whipped, flogged, and tortured they made him walk with a cross. They made him carry it. A rough piece of wood with splinters digging into fresh wounds. They wanted him alive.

They wanted him to feel every ounce of pain they could bring. He had to feel it in order to heal us. Crucifixion was historically one of the cruelest most tortured deaths a human could face. Hours upon hours of torture. Torture most of us can not mentally think of because the cruelty isn't normal. It isn't something our minds can comprehend. We celebrate Easter with pastel colors, happy children hunting eggs, and chocolate. Truth is there was absolutely nothing happy about the day Jesus died. It was cruel, bloody, and nasty.

He could have stopped all of it. He could have called every angel in heaven to demolish every person standing and shouting "Crucify Him!" He didn't. He knew in order to have a Sunday you have to have a Friday. He knew in order to have joy you have to carry your cross. He felt everything that day. He felt how your heart broke wide open when you had to watch your baby die. He felt how heavy your life was when you were staring down the barrel of a gun wondering if the man you called husband was going to shoot you. He carried the weight of the burden you have felt since your spouse died and life just doesn't seem right since.

On that cross he held the ra**st and murderers, the sinner and the saint. He leveled every playing field and said ALL of you are worth it. He knew he had to carry the cross. He never promised the cross you carry in this life would not be heavy. His wasn't. His promise is that Sunday is coming.

No matter how heavy Friday is. Financially, emotionally, mentally, or physically. Friday is heavy. That cross is weighing you down and you are about to crumble under its weight. His promise was simply this. He won't make you carry it alone. What kind of king would step down from his throne for this?

Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God did. For you.
He did every bit of it for you and me. Oh yes it is heavy. So heavy sometimes you do not think you can take one more step. But look up, because Sunday is coming.”

I do not know who wrote this, but it is POWERFUL!

09/11/2023

I know it’s been awhile since I posted any news so here is a update. We just finished a twelve week SAE class graduating seventy women! It was great to watch how their attitudes changed as we encouraged them that they were loved and not forgotten and that they could live a fulfilled and purpose life with God! God will always change your life for the better! It’s such a rewarding experience to watch how these women who have lived in bo***ge most of their life are set free from their addictions all because someone showed that care about them! And that is what our ministry is about love and caring! Will be starting new class in two weeks Sept 28t so pray for us to remain faithful to our Master Jesus and may God bless!

08/31/2022

If you're having s*x before marriage, go to church anyway. If you are a drug addict trying to beat addiction, go to church anyway.
If you were out drunk all night the night before, go to church anyway. If you aren't sure what gender you prefer, go to church anyway. If you can't quit that disgusting habit, go to church anyway.
Church is a hospital for the broken, lost, empty, confused, desperate, and rejected. Every sinner has a future, and every Saint has a past.

How do we break the chains of addiction and bo***ge? By prayer, prayer for you and prayer with you! There isn't a single person in the 4 walls of the church that doesn't have something they hate or regret about their past.

We've all made mistakes, and will continue to, BUT His Grace is enough! There's things that I'd never want to admit out loud about myself, but God knows.

And He loves me none the less. So whatever you've done, whatever you're doing, whatever you will do....go to church anyway, it might just change your life! (Mark Sharp)

Amen.. If your looking for a perfect church … It won’t be perfect when you show up !

You bet there are hypocrites in Church , liars an thieves too..

As I’ve walked the Highways of America 🇺🇸 these last 9 years it becomes more an more clear to me people out here think they need to get cleaned up before we can come to church..

Only Jesus can clean us up …

That’s who Jesus died for …

You an me …

““The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.”
‭‭2 Peter‬ ‭3:9‬…

Shalom…

Steve & Saundra…

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