When a Testimony Unfolds: A Pastor's Personal Story Hope and Redemption

When we surrender to the Lord, He works in our lives for His glory. But not all pastors tell their personal stories.

When Pastor Wayne Basye shares his sermons, listeners hear how the cross has personally affected him and filled him with overflowing hope. Bits and pieces of his story are in everything he does—his sermons, songs, and actions. The power that brought transformation, healing, and hope fuels his daily steps forward.

In this episode of the Single Christian Women Speak podcast, Pastor Wayne Basye shares everything: his weaknesses, his poor decisions, his desperation, and God's power of redemption.

Listen as his testimony unfolds. As a young man who always prioritized his family, 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 us. When we invite Jesus into our story is when our testimony unfolds.

Stay tuned to hear Pastor Wayne Basye speak on Hell in the next episode of Single Christian Women Speak Podcast. Read more in The East Valley Tribune Spirituality Flourishes in Kingman Prison, detailing how he took hope back to prison.

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East Valley Tribune Spirituality Flourishes in Kingman Prison

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