>> Hi. I'm David Hairabedian, my lovely wife, Joanna and I,
we have Virtual Church Media dot com.
It's an online platform to help equip
you quickly for accelerated growth
from the palm of your hand on demand.
I'm also the author of a book
called Jet Ride to Hell, Journey to Freedom.
It's my story of being on a jet ride to Hell and God
encountering me in a prison cell in 1990,
forever changed my life.
How did I get there? I'm glad you asked.
I was minding my own business with a stolen jet,
a Mercedes Benz, and a bag of cash,
at a private airfield in Boca Raton, Florida, in 1989.
And all of a sudden, feds came out of planes,
trains and automobiles, screwed uzis into my ear,
kind of ruined my orange juice morning.
I didn't pass go. I didn't collect $200.
I went to jail, directly to jail.
And for the next 19 years, six months, a week and a day,
I was in federal prison.
But it was in response to my mother's prayers
that God had sent the hounds of heaven to apprehend me.
And for once, God had a captive audience
in Leavenworth Penitentiary. And I've got to tell you,
if you're not right with God in Leavenworth Penitentiary,
you're always just one heartbeat away from help.
The Lord visited me in that prison cell,
and he operated through prisoners
who had become Christians,
and they worked with a hard headed person like me
and led me to the Cross of Calvary
where I accepted Messiah Jesus and I was forever transformed.
That was 30 years ago. And fast forward today,
I have the privilege of talking to you.
Today I want to share two things that happened on the journey.
The first one was after I had received Messiah Jesus
into my life in that prison cell in Building 63,
God came in, 1,000 lbs of weight came off my shoulders,
and I was marvelously born again.
Two weeks later, I had a dream.
And in the dream Jesus came to me
and he put his hand on my shoulder from behind,
and around me he put a Bible
and it was open to Luke chapter five.
And he said, Fear not from henceforth you will catch men.
And I woke up, and I'd never read Luke
Chapter five before, I'd only been born again two weeks.
I opened the Bible to Luke Chapter five,
and it was the story of Peter out fishing and Jesus said,
Throw out your nets and you will catch fish.
And they'd already fished all day.
But at the Word of Jesus, the Messiah,
they launched out into the deep
and they got such a great catch of fish
they didn't have room enough to receive it.
And Peter came in and he fell at Jesus's feet
and he said, I'm a sinful man. And Jesus said to him.
Fear not, from henceforth you will catch men.
And I realized, my goodness, God's calling me into ministry.
I didn't have three verses of scripture
that I could quote at that time.
I was still trying to discover my own salvation.
And here I am called into ministry.
And my codefendant in the prison cell in Leavenworth,
we were looking at life in prison
without the possibility of parole at that time,
for multi kilogram quantities of cocaine
for the Cali drug cartel and two stolen jets.
At this point, we'd done two and a month.
And I looked at him and he said, Dave, did you just have a dream?
And I said, Yes.
And I was in the Bible at that point.
And he said, What was it?
And I told it to him, and he looked at me
and he actually had helped lead me to Christ.
He actually helped lead me to the Messiah
for salvation two weeks earlier.
And he said, What was your dream?
And I told him Jesus appeared and he had the Bible before me,
he said Luke chapter five,
Fear not, from henceforth, you will catch men.
And I said, What do you think it means?
He says What do you think it means?
I said, Well, I think, and I was afraid to tell him.
I said What do you think it means?
He said, I think it's pretty clear,
God wants us to snitch. And I said, no.
And I went backwards a couple of feet.
And he said, Well, what do you think it means?
And I said, Well, I think
God wants us to be fishers of men and catch men for him.
And he said, Well, how are we going to do that in here?
A bunch of prisoners, they don't want God.
We need to snitch.
And then we can get out of prison
and go share the gospel
with those who really want to be saved.
And here's what happened. I said, no, I don't think so.
What happened was Vick then cooperated with the government.
He became the government's key witness against me.
He was out in a few years.
I ended up getting sentenced to 22 years.
And that's how the prison ministry was birthed.
We provide leather bound and bonded, leather bound
Bibles to prisoners in over a thousand facilities now.
Books and resource materials through Heart of America
Prison Ministries helping change lives one book at a time.
Helping change lives one Bible at a time.
Couple of weeks later,
I was baptized in the Holy Spirit,
and here is how it happened.
I got down on my knee right before
I went to go get sentenced the next day in June of 1990,
and there was no presence of God in the room.
It was a cold cell that day. As I got down,
I got down on one knee and I was still very prideful
and God had me get on both knees.
And I knelt before him in that prison cell in front of Vick
and another person who was incarcerated.
And here's what happened.
I prayed and about 2 minutes passed
and it was a dead prayer. And all of a sudden,
right before I got up off my knees,
when I got to the end of myself, God began.
And what happened was the presence of God
rolled into the cell and Jesus appeared before us
by the shower, in this 8 by 16 prison cell with cockroaches,
and Jesus showed up and he was in a white robe.
And he moved his arms up and down slowly.
And he went through a color cycle of a brilliant white
to a scarlet red, back to white, and then to a heavenly blue.
And he stayed about 15 minutes. He didn't say anything.
And then I began to utter forth in different language,
speaking in tongues.
I would speak in English, then seal it in tongues,
and then my codefendant
Vick would have full interpretation of tongues.
And almost every one of those prayers
that we prayed was answered within 48 hours, supernaturally.
And whatever came into my mind to pray in English
was in Vick's mind in English. But it came out of my mouth,
and whatever I prayed in tongues to seal
it, would be interpreted by Vick.
And then after Jesus left,
a white cloud appeared the size of a man's hand on the floor.
And I said, What am I supposed to do?
What is that? And I heard Test the spirits.
I pointed at it and I said, Do you know Jesus?
And it sparked platinum and gold
and began to fill and flood the cell.
And it became about 18 inches in depth.
And I walked out into the cloud and I put my hands in it.
And every time I said, Jesus,
it would spark platinum and gold,
and I could feel like static electricity.
And what happened was I heard the words
Drink from the cloud and you will be healed.
I had sinus infections and sinus problems for years,
and I reached into the cloud and as I pulled the cloud up,
what happened was it sprang back into itself.
And I had to kneel in and drink humbly from the cloud.
And when I went and drank,
I was healed instantly of all sinus problems
and I was marvelously delivered in that moment.
God wants to do a similar thing for you today.
You might be on a personal jet ride to hell,
but God wants to put you on your journey to freedom.
It might be the lock down of lust,
the penitentiary of pride.
You might have the handcuffs of hatred or the shackles of shame.
You might be in the bastille of bitterness.
But Jesus wants to set you free.
He loves you just the way you are.
But He loves you way too much
to leave you in your current condition.
If he did it for me, a former jet thief, a cocaine dealer,
and all that goes with that,
how much more will he do it for you?
The root cause of all addictions is a need for love.
Today, God wants to release His love to you.
Will you allow him? Let me pray for you.
If you want the love of God, just say God,
I give you my life.
Messiah, I believe you died for me.
Come into my heart. And fill me with your spirit.
Fill me with your love and change me by your power now.
Write my name in the lamb's book of life.
Cause me to have a new heart.
And empower me to follow your decrees
and to keep your commands. If you prayed that prayer,
it's a new beginning and you're off your jet ride
to hell and your journey to freedom has begun.
God bless you.
I'm David Hairabedian, Virtual Church Media dot com,
Jet Ride to Hell book. You can get it on Amazon.
God bless you. We'll see you soon.