November 5, 2026
For many years I have prayed that my Lord will save, challenge, convict, encourage, and equip people to win people to Him everywhere that the soul of my foot treads and He is answering me! Praise His Holy name! “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye” (Psalm 32:8 NKJV).
Craig Price is the retired director of the Morristown Parks and Recreation Department. He also works as a referee with TSSAA Football. He invited me to briefly pray (five minutes) with his co-laborers before a recent high school football game! I also gave them a New Testament with the plan of salvation. I did emphasize the importance of salvation! They received me well!
On the last day, Sept. 30, of the revival at Central Baptist Church in Spring City, TN with Pastor Milton Knox, I told him that I desperately wanted to see somebody saved before I left town! Immediately, I received a text message from a teacher in the Hamblen County School System who has worked with me in sharing the gospel with students. She stated: “You must have been praying today! A student just came to me because he wants to be saved!” She led this student to faith in the Lord Jesus!
Pastor Milton Knox stated in his follow-up letter to me: “On behalf of all the members of Central Baptist Church in Spring City, TN, I want to thank you for coming to lead our church in soul winning and revival services. I had told the congregation that I had never had an evangelist work with me like you have consistently done in every service you have led for us. Your passion and commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ and your dedication to the calling of an evangelist is unsurpassed in my book. You have accompanied me in visiting whoever and wherever the Lord allowed us to go, and every time you spoke the truth in love with every person we met, young and old alike. Every message you brought spoke to our hearts and challenged our souls to live more dedicated to Christ by winning others for His Kingdom.” One of the men that we visited has become a member of the church!
Every Thursday morning when I get out of bed, I can feel the Lord’s servants praying for me! Oh, what wonderful encouragement! With all my heart, thank you! Your Lord is hearing and answering you! Your powerful, passionate, and persistent prayers make all the difference in this spiritually dark place! I must stay faithful as long as my Lord keeps the door open at the Jefferson County Jail! Recently a Hispanic man was interpreting for another Hispanic man who could not speak English. You could feel the awesome power of God moving through the room they call The Church Room! I could see the look of wonder and amazement on the faces of the men as they were realizing that they were in the presence of the living God! The inmate who was leading the song service was anointed and gifted to lead! I taught them the song This Little Light of Mine.” After the service, one young man came to me and said: “This was the most powerful service that I have ever experienced!” He hugged me strongly! Another young man came to me and hugged me harder than anyone has ever hugged me in my life! He was very passionate and intense! He had commented several times during the service and each time his comments were from the Lord and I publicly affirmed him! I could feel the power of the Holy Spirit moving in his great heart!
On another Thursday at the Jefferson County Jail, a young man came forward for prayer and he said: “I just want to thank God for my incarceration! If He had not allowed me to come here, I would be dead right now! I am clean off drugs and my wife, who is on the outside, is now also clean!” On this same day, I had just begun the message on having the peace of the Lord in your heart when suddenly, an older man who was seated in the back began to cry out loudly: “Oh, I am so miserable! I am so miserable!” He was moaning and groaning loudly! I stopped the message and I went to him and I said: “Have you ever been Born Again?” He said: “YES!” I shared with him 1 John 1:9 as I told him about recommitment. I had the men to come and lay their hands on him as I led him to pray to recommit his life to his Lord! You could literally see the burden and weight of his sins being lifted from his heart! He laid back in his chair in sweet relief! Two precious men were Born Again this past month while twenty-two men rededicated their lives to their Lord! Also, I learned that thirteen ladies were recently baptized at the Jefferson County Jail! I do not work with the ladies, but Spirit-filled ladies do and that is how it should be! The awesome power of the living God is moving powerfully in this spiritually dark place! Praise His Holy Name!
Pastor Bob Province recently hosted me for a revival at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Knoxville, TN! The power of the Holy Spirit was in each service as Daniel Young led us in anointed worship! He sang the beautiful song that my Lord gave me three years ago Let Jesus Set You Free. This great church has a very powerful presence online! I proclaimed the Word of God with all my heart in each service! Many precious people recommitted their lives to their Lord, but no one came forward to tell me that they were Born Again. One of the deacons took me out into the community to share the gospel! He stated after the revival: “Brother Jeff, wanted to let you know I woke up this morning feeling so blessed with the Holy Spirit so active in my life. Your messages this week have had a glorious impact on my spiritual life and growth in our Lord. I praise God for your ministry and will be in continual prayer that our Lord will honor your boldness in doing what He has called you to do with no reservation of conviction. Thank God for using you as He has in reversing the destiny of souls that were headed for Hell but instead now have victory in JESUS our saving Lord.”
Pastor Jeremy Smith had me to share the gospel at Sunrise Baptist Church in Bulls Gap, TN this past month on a Sunday morning. My relationship with this great church goes back over 55 years! My uncle, Rev. Dale Gray, pastored here in the late 1960’s and he would take me with him to give my personal testimony! As an evangelist, I have served here with former Pastors Roy Mullins and Scott Ingram. My Lord had me to proclaim the gospel with the message The Sin unto Death” from 1 John 5:16. One dear man came forward during the public invitation to rededicate his life to his Lord! Pastor Jeremy states: “I have never heard anyone preach a sermon on The Sin unto Death to the best of my memory, anyway. I believe it is a message that needs to be heard. Thank you for your faithfulness.”
Pastor Don Bible of Bibles Chapel Baptist Church in Midway, TN has been a good friend and co-laborer for over 42 years! He called me last Friday morning very excitedly! He is normally not an “excitable person!” Ha! A family had joined the church, and Pastor Don was counseling with them to be sure that they are truly Born Again and one of the boys said: “Pastor Don, I accepted Jesus as my Savior in Vacation Bible School this summer!” I was the one who delivered the gospel the night that he was saved! He did not come forward to let us know, but his Lord brought him forward in His time and way! Pastor Don will baptize him on the last Sunday of this month, Youth Sunday, and he has invited me to proclaim the gospel! Pastor Don was also very excited that another boy from Bibles Chapel Baptist Church was going to be baptized in the river on Sunday by his dad who is a deacon there! He invited me to attend his baptism, and I was so very blessed to be able to watch his beautiful baptism!
The wonderful power of God never ceases to amaze me! No one can ever stop Him from accomplishing His purpose to “seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10)! I am so very thankful that He is allowing me to be His mouthpiece in these very evil Last Days! With all my heart, thank you for standing with this passionate soul winner! I seek the great heart of Almighty God daily to place me exactly where He needs me and to move on those whom He wants to assist His passionate soul winner! He is always enough! Being in the center of His Holy will is the most exciting and safest place to be in life! I appreciate and love you!
For Souls Forever In Heaven,
Jeffrey L. Harvel
Matthew 18:14
A young man from the Jefferson County Jail who has recently been called to preach sent this to me:
“You have, through the power of Him who works in and through you, made a monumental impact on the lives of us who the good Lord has given eyes to see, ears to hear, and a softened heart; Of all the brothers that come to preach to us – It is you who, more so than the others, address the topics that need to be spoken on without glossing them over with a sugary coating to make them easier to swallow. When we enter the church room, I immediately feel and see the Holy Spirit working in and through your actions, speech, and prayer. Surely, He who guides your every step also leads you to hug all of us, look us in the eye with a beautiful smile and remind each and every one of us that even in these dark days, God loves us and will never abandon us. If only you knew how much your sermons and spirit inspired talks have helped to prepare me for sharing the Gospel to any willing to lend an open ear! Praise God, for through you and what He does in you, lives have been changed and souls have been saved.”
“I love you, Brother; Stay strong, stay firm, stay bold, stay courageous – in Christ. Thank you for living your life according to God’s purpose and will, and by such, changing many lives for the better.”
