Devon Wilson spent years selling drugs, abusing drugs, accumulating criminal charges, and running from warrants. But eventually he realized there was one pursuit he couldn’t escape.

God was after him.

In this episode of The Contagious Faith Podcast, Devon shares how a praying mother, unexpected encounters with strangers, a jail cell, and Adult Teen Challenge became part of his journey toward surrendering his life to Jesus.

Devon describes opening a Bible while incarcerated and beginning to recognize that God had been pursuing him long before he was ready to surrender. After being given another chance by a judge, Devon entered Teen Challenge and began a transformation that has now included more than 20 years free from drugs.

But freedom was only the beginning.

God eventually called Devon into what he describes as “kingdom business.” Through Sword of the Spirit Ministries, he now returns to prisons, serves people experiencing homelessness, and reaches communities many others avoid.

One defining moment came through a dream. Devon saw himself riding a train through comfortable neighborhoods until it finally stopped among addicts, criminals, prostitutes, and abandoned buildings. When he resisted getting off, he heard: “You don’t get to pick and choose where you go.”

IN THIS EPISODE:
• Drugs, crime, warrants, and incarceration
• The prayers of Devon’s mother
• Finding Jesus through Adult Teen Challenge
• The judge who later expunged his record
• Being called from business into ministry
• Devon’s defining train dream
• Prison and homeless outreach
• Reaching people society often rejects
• Why discipleship is messy
• Showing others the same mercy God showed you
• Why someone else may be waiting on your “yes” to God

God didn’t erase Devon’s past.

He redeemed it and turned it into a mission.

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What if revival isn’t something you wait for—but something you begin to carry?

Evangelist Symphor Bambi was born in Congo and moved to Belgium as a young teenager. Although Christianity had always been around him, everything changed when he gave his life to Jesus in 2018 and developed a hunger for something beyond what he describes as ordinary “Sunday Christianity.”

Symphor began reading the Book of Acts and asking a simple question: Why shouldn’t this be our lifestyle today?

That hunger eventually pushed him onto the streets to preach the Gospel. Long before there was a ministry, a platform, or large gatherings, Symphor simply started going. Today, he leads Go Revival, mobilizing believers to share Jesus throughout Belgium and across Europe.

In this episode of The Contagious Faith Podcast, Symphor shares his journey into evangelism, his conviction that Christians are called to make an impact, and his account of praying for a woman who had been blind in one eye and seeing her vision restored.

We also wrestle honestly with what happens when healing doesn’t happen, why salvation remains the greatest miracle, and how believers can continue stepping out in faith without pretending to have every answer.

The conversation takes another turn as Symphor recounts facing public controversy and a government investigation connected to his evangelistic work—and why he remains determined to preach Jesus.

IN THIS EPISODE:
• From Congo to Belgium
• Moving beyond passive Christianity
• Developing a hunger for a Book of Acts lifestyle
• How Go Revival began
• Consistency in street evangelism
• Symphor’s blind-eye healing testimony
• What to do when someone isn’t healed
• Why salvation is still the greatest miracle
• Evangelism and revival across Europe
• Facing opposition for preaching the Gospel
• Why revival requires believers who are willing to go

Revival isn’t only something happening somewhere else.

Sometimes revival starts when you become the person willing to carry Jesus wherever He sends you.

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What happens when God gives you a calling that demands everything—but the circumstances around you seem to contradict what He has spoken?

Joel Mott, co-founder of California Will Be Saved, joins Gabriel Jackson for a conversation about radical surrender, encountering Jesus, persevering through disappointment, and awakening a generation through worship, prayer, and evangelism.

Growing up in a Christian home, Joel knew about Jesus but struggled with complacency and a lack of personal purpose. Everything began to change in 2017 when he attended a gathering in Colorado Springs and experienced an encounter with God that redirected his life.

Joel describes sensing that God had a significant calling for him—but that it would also come at a significant cost.

Years later, after moving to California to pursue a vision for revival, Joel found himself facing closed doors, discouragement, and the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rather than abandoning the vision, he chose to surrender again.

What began with small gatherings in homes and backyards eventually led to a worship and evangelism gathering at Huntington Beach, where approximately 400 people came together.

Today, California Will Be Saved has expanded into a grassroots movement that Joel shares has reached 43 cities.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Joel's encounter with Jesus that changed everything in 2017

• Discovering your God-given calling and purpose

• Why following Jesus requires surrender and sacrifice

• The vision behind California Shall Be Saved

• Persevering when God's promises seem delayed

• How worship, prayer, and evangelism work together

• From small gatherings to reaching 43 cities

• Why seasons of testing can deepen our relationship with God

• Staying focused on Jesus instead of ministry success

Joel's story challenges us to stop measuring our calling by our circumstances and start responding to what God has placed in our hearts.

The calling may be great, but the cost of obedience is worth it.

LEARN MORE ABOUT CALIFORNIA WILL BE SAVED:

🌐 https://cawillbesaved.com

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