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LGAM May-June 2022 Newsletter From the Desk of Brother Tom Let God Arise Ministries Inc. “Ministering God’s Love in the County & City Jails” Thomas M Bridges, Chaplain May-June 2022 Edition “Let God Arise and let His enemies be scattered” ...... Psalm 68:1 ____________________________
Who will accuse God's chosen people? God himself declares them not guilty! Who, then, will condemn them? Not Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who was raised to life and is at the right side of God, pleading with him for us! Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death? As the scripture says, "For your sake we are in danger of death at all times; we are treated like sheep that are going to be slaughtered. ”No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us! For I am certain that nothing can separate us from his love: neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers or powers, neither the present nor the future, neither the world above nor the world below - there is nothing in all creation that will ever be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:33-39 GNT “Celebrating 29+ years of service to Jesus Christ since September 1992". _____________________________ How do we measure God’s love? Can we count the grains of sand under the oceans or on top of all the beaches on earth? Can we measure with a thimble all the water from the oceans, lakes and rivers around the world? How about exhaling a deep breath and try to measure one breath to all space in the Universe? Have we considered the Bible and what Jesus Christ said in John 5:39 “you study the Scriptures, because you think that in them you will find eternal life. And these very Scriptures speak about me! What do we find in scripture that speaks about Messiah? In the Old Testament 350 to 400 prophesies foretell every aspect of Messiah. Where he would be born to how Messiah would die. (Micah 5:2, Isaiah 53, Psalms 22) Messiah would be born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14) He would descend from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and inherit David’s Throne as an everlasting kingdom. One writer said the probability for one person fulfilling 18 biblical prophesies would be 10 to the 18th power or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000. In order to understand this number picture the State of Texas covered with silver dollars 2 feet deep. Take one of those sliver dollars and paint it red and bury it somewhere in Texas. Someone blindfolds you and challenges you to find the painted silver dollar. You only have one chance to find the painted silver dollar. So you begin your journey for days, weeks, month’s even years. Finally you are compelled, in some remote Texas town, to reach down 18 inches and grab a silver dollar. You remove your blindfold and look in your hand and it is the red painted silver dollar. Jesus fulfilled 10 to the 400th power or 10 with 400 zero’s. In simpler terms Jesus Christ loves you and me so much that even though we have blown it over and over that there is nothing in heaven or below earth that keeps us from God’s Agape love. God’s Love Endures Forever! Love Never Fails! The Steadfast Love of the Lord Never Ceases! When ministering to those behind prison bars we witness this Power of God’s unconditional love manifest before our eyes. The hardest of hearts soften and tears begin to flow when God wraps His arms around the hopeless sinner. God’s goodness and mercy leads the hopeless sinner to repentance and forgiveness of their sins. Remember Jesus Christ knelt between a mob of men chasing a prostitute down the streets ready to stone her. This was legal under Jewish law but Jesus said to the mob, “he among you who is without sin cast the first stone”. They dropped their stones and walked away from Jesus and the woman.” Woman, where are your accusers”, Jesus asked? She said,” Lord they are no more”. “Neither do I condemn you go and sin no more”. Jesus Christ was the only one without sin and the only one legally qualified to carry out this woman’s execution but instead Jesus forgave her and encouraged her to walk in newness of life with her God. So with our blindfolds of faith let us reach into the bleeding heart of Jesus and receive God’s eternal treasure and free gift of His Agape Love. Love always, Tom & Beth ---------------------------------------------------------------------------cut here $10000___$5000___$1000___$500___$250___ $150___$100___$75___$50___$25___other
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