This is another gripping episode of the Single Christian Women Speak podcast, in which Pastor Wayne Basye unveils his personal testimony.

Pastor Wayne is known today for being a pastor who closes each sermon with a song. Those songs are often ones he wrote while in prison when he was paying the penalty for his poor choices. But today, that life doesn’t define him. The power of the cross does.

Listen as his testimony unfolds. As a young man who always considered his family a priority, he joined the military, earned his college education, and became a successful contractor. Then, he made a choice that led to his being dominated by a substance. Within three years, he lost everything. Isolated and with six cents in his pocket, he made a decision that led to another that affected other people.

Has a child ever called your bluff? A child asked Wayne, “Are you going to hurt my mother?” It was then that the trajectory of his actions changed. Have you ever wanted your situation to come to an end? Wayne did. And he declared, “Thank God, it’s over”, when the SWAT Team took control.

Get ready to sit on the edge of your seat as he shares his personal story and where it has taken him today, including who he met along the way, how his life transformed inside prison, and how he became a prison chaplain upon his release.

Now, he pastors a church, closing each message with a song that shares the hope he found in Jesus.

Our stories aren’t always as dramatic as Pastor Wayne’s, but God’s power is the same; in the story, He has waiting for each one of us.

As Pastor Wayne says, “No matter where you are coming from, you are coming from sinner into grace. And it is an amazing story in each and every person’s life. You don’t have to go through what I went through. Nobody needs my testimony. I don’t wish it upon anybody. Only the power of God has turned that testimony into the life you see Sandi and I living now.”

You will be inspired when you hear Pastor Wayne explain how his testimony was instant: “It was a very emotional and instantaneous belief.” If you think you are too far gone to embrace the hope of Jesus, you’ll be relieved as he defines testimony as: “My testimony isn’t about all the stupid stuff I did. But the testimony is what Christ does in your life to change all that.”

A story about us is simply a story about ourselves. But our testimony unfolds when we allow Jesus to be a part of the story.

Stay tuned to hear Pastor Wayne Basye speak on Hell in the next episode and read more in Spirituality Flourishes in Kingman Prison, as he took hope back to prison.