Josh Kezer: Be

Monday, December 13, 2010

Be

Most of us have 1,000 wishes for Christmas, while the sick and afflicted often have one ~ to get better. In honor of those who've died, suffered, survived and are still fighting, pray and ~ be the healing voice, be the healing hand, be the healing touch ~ be the answered prayer. Open your eyes. Open your ears. Open your hearts. Open your doors. Be Christians. Love them like Jesus.

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Francine Bockmon-OrtizDecember 13, 2010 at 3:46 PM
Somehow, I have heard of you and your case. I cannot remember where I read about it, though. I am glad you are free and living a Christian life. These are the stories that I love to hear and read about!
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Celeste Branch - O'NeillDecember 18, 2010 at 2:38 PM
In saying prayers for you, it hit my heart how much of a difference you have made and continue to make in the lives of so many people. I see the light of Jesus shining within you and all around you Josh, and I am blessed all the more. You walk the path He integrated in your heart and follow His example through and through and you are appreciated and loved. I feel the words you said move within my heart and gives me a strong determination to continue walking in His will in reaching out to the lonely and the lost, the sick and shut in, and those that need to know the love of Jesus. It is because of your consistancy in following the Leader that many others will be inspired to follow Him as well. God bless you Josh...you have my love always.

Celeste
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Anonymous December 25, 2010 at 9:02 AM
I hope your life becomes brighter and brighter Josh. All my love
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Julia KimDecember 26, 2010 at 11:37 PM
I just watched the 48 hours and visited this site. Am amazed by the life you lived!
And though I didn't have to go through what you went through, your blog entries of experiences with god makes a lot of sense to me and I had so much convictions from it. it also personally hurt me to see the hurtful comments made on your news article. But I figured they just dont know Christ the way we do. God bless them.
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At 18, I was arrested in Illinois and sent to Missouri on a 1st degree murder charge. At 19, I was erroneously convicted of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive 30 year sentences. I was sentenced on the victim's birthday. The victim's name was Angela M. Lawless.

The day following my sentence, I was sent to the Missouri Department of Corrections, where my sentence was illegally reconfigured to a 60. I was illegally placed under life sentence sanctions. I did a total of 16 years, 10 of which was spent in Jefferson City's notorious "Walls", once rumored to be the largest prison in the world and a place Time Magazine once deemed "The Bloodiest 47 Acres In America".

Two days after my 34th birthday, I was released and declared "innocent". I was completely exonerated by Judge Richard Callahan on February 17th 2009 and released on the 18th.

I'm a blessed, loved and fortunate man of God.

I'm not trying to be a "good Christian" and I accept that I'm not. I'm just a genuine, authentic, messed up, jacked up, screwed up, busted up, mistake prone, "too much", love struck, silly, incurable, delivered, justified, redeemed and forgiven child of the King and follower of Christ.

I'm a public speaker.

When contacting me for an engagement, please include the following information in your invitation:

. Dates, times and locations

. Travel arrangements

. Your affiliations

. Your vision and purpose

. Why me? and Why you?

. Offered amenities and compensation

When I speak, my goal is to reach into every life listening to me. Everyone has something they're going through. Everyone has something to overcome. No matter what the circumstance, whether legal, criminal, personal, financial, physical, mental or spiritual, people have something to overcome. That's where my message comes in and tries to help. This wasn't who I was before I was locked up. It's who I am now.

What's your testimony?

Here's a snap shot of mine.

I've been beaten with fists and bats, stabbed, shot at, mobbed and ganged up on. As a teenager, I was in a Kankakee Illinois Chicagoland gang and was once addicted to several drugs and alcohol. I've had someone attempt to hit me with a car, nearly fallen to my death as a child and again as a teenager. I've known several forms and types of abuse. I've boxed, lifted weights, wrestled, done some martial arts and am proficient in street fighting. I've overdosed on cocaine and fallen asleep in my own vomit several times as a teenager. I've literally been thrown through walls, been homeless and slept in the worst places, and once, for a matter of months, faced the unfortunate and undeserved prospects of dying by lethal injection while facing charges for a murder I did not commit. I did 16 years in prison as an innocent man in the state of Missouri. I've defended myself against prison rapists and was once hospitalized for a week due to a failed attack by multiple men in the late 90's, and yet ... I'm still here! I'm still breathing! I'm a man of purpose and honor. I'm confident in who I am. I've known enough near death experiences to fill up a thesis, but it's not these near death experiences and atrocities that define me. It's my living and, more specifically, my living in my salvation in Christ that defines me and makes me who I am, and when I'm finished and it's all been said and done, I want to be forever known as a man proficient in a few attributes, as a gentle, loving, honorable and selfless man, a husband, a father and a friend that reflects more of Him and less of me.

In light of my own faults, sins and frailty, of everything I've ever learned, I've learned this more than anything; more than the Cross, I need the Lord of the conquered Cross of sin and death. I need the Life Giver. I need Jesus. Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I am unashamed.

"I was crushed...so much so that I despaired even of life, but that was to make me rely not on myself, but on the God who raises the dead." 2nd Corinthians 1:8,9

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Josh Kezer

Monday, December 13, 2010

Be

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