One With Christ Ministries Newsletter
Volume No. 2 Issue No. 4 April 2002
Dear Family & Friends,
What a joy it is to be in the
Presences of God Almighty. Just five minutes in the presences of God is worth more then
the whole world can ever give you. Seek God’s face each day and worship and praise
Him and enter into His Precious Holy Presences. All the Glory, Honor and Praise to you
God.
This has been a blessed month for us
as we continue to go forth in God’s calling on our lives. The School of Elijah was
April 26,27, 2002 at Word & Spirit Ministries. This month’s teaching was on
Servant Hood and Integrity & Accountability. What a teaching by Pastor Tootsie Gudal
and Deborah McAlister.
We were truly blessed with the
teaching and the anointing of God. The presences of God was so awesome. We had three
people to give 20 minute preaching message this month. The preaching was really good. We
thank God for Pastor Tootsie Gudal and Deborah McAlister each month for traveling to
Franklin, NC to teach the Bible School.
We would like to ask each one of you
to keep the ministry and us in pray as we have a very busy month in May. We will be
traveling to Buckhorn, KY to be with Tootsie Gudal Ministries and ReJoySing on May 10,11,
2002. ReJoySing is a Christian group of four anointed people from Gray and Somerset,
Kentucky that travel with Pastor Tootsie’s Ministry to lead Worship and Praise in the
Love of God. We are looking forward to traveling again with Pastor Tootsie and Sister Deb.
As they go forth in God’s calling please keep them in your prayers. We thank God for
Pastor Tootsie and her Ministry.
One With Christ Ministries has been
invited on Memorial Day Weekend in Hindman, KY on May 25-26, 2002 for two days of
speaking. For any of you that would like to be their to support us, New Beginnings Church
will have a Men’s Breakfast at 9:00 A.M. Saturday morning May 25 and Bill will be the
guest speaker. At 6:00 P.M. May 25, their will be a Women’s Lunching and Sue will be
the guest speaker. Sunday morning May 26, Bill will be giving the Testimony that God gave
him about his Vietnam experiences and what God’s love has done in Him and his
family’s life. If anyone needs directions to New Beginnings Church please call or
e-mail us and we will be glad to send you the information.
Word & Spirit Ministries with
Pastor’s Sam & Sharon Bradham is continuing to grow. God’s hand is truly
upon His Church. By the Spirit of the living God and his power we are witnessing many
healings in people‘s lives. When God’s love, unity and harmony is in the body of
Christ, then their will be signs, wonders and miracles that follow those that believe. To
God be all the GLORY forever. It is exciting to watch how God builds His church. Just to
be of help in the Lord’s House is very rewarding. Keep Pastor’s Sam and Sharon
in your prayers as they go forth in the calling on their lives.
MESSAGE THIS
MONTH
By Susan Haney
THE SPIRIT OF
GOD IS LOVE
AND
THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE
Galatians 5:22 But
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
That itself is amazing. I truly feel
that in these last days that God is pouring out His Spirit, The Spirit of Love. And we
will see more of His Love coming forth in ministry and His Church. When we were filled
with the Holy Spirit we were filled with the Spirit of Love.
I was thinking about when I received
Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior how I was receiving His Spirit / His Spirit of Love. I
can remember feeling such a love, and I felt loved even if situations around me were grim.
And we know God is Love. He delights to pour His love into us.
MANKIND NEEDS
LOVE
Why is that so? That was the one
great need of mankind, that was the thing which Christ’s redemption came to
accomplish to restore love to this world. When man sinned, why was it that he sinned? I
believe selfishness triumphed he sought self instead of God. God’s Love was forsaken
with evidence of man and woman accusing each other of having led them astray. Does that
not teach us that sin has come to rob the world of love?
In a book I read by Andrew Murray,
he said it like this “One of the worse things sin did for man, was to make him
selfish, for selfishness cannot love.” I tend to agree with him.
The Lord Jesus Christ came down from
Heaven as the Son of God’s love. (John 3:16) For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. He came to show us again what Love is, He lived
a life of love, His compassion for the people, He died a death of love. When Jesus Christ
arose and returned to Heaven, whom did He send down? The Spirit of Love, to come and
banish selfishness and envy and pride and to bring the love of God into the hearts of men.
The fruit of the Spirit is Love. Alleluia!
Everyone needs love. We were
created in God’s image, Love.
LOVE IS GOD’S GIFT.
LOVE CONQUERS ALL
LOVE SHOWS GOD’S POWER
CHRISTIAN WORK REQUIRES LOVE
Love is hard to find, but as we give
up self and let His Holy Spirit of Love shine forth, this is what the lost are in need of
seeing.
Here are a few Scriptures about Love in the Bible, the Word of God.
The Greek Word for Charity is agape { ag-ah’-pay} means “LOVE”
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Matthew 5:42,43 43Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44But I say unto
you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that
hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Matthew 22:37-39
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38This is the first and great commandment. 39And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself.
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That
ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love
one another. 35By this shall all men know that ye
are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments
John 15:12,13 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I
have loved you. 13Greater love
hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 8:35-39 Who
shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written,
For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37Nay,
in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love
of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Charity (Love) suffereth long, and is kind; charity (Love)
envieth not; charity (Love) vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians 14:1
Follow after charity (Love), and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that
ye may prophesy.
1 Timothy 1:5 Now
the end of the commandment is charity (Love) out of a pure heart, and of
a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
We pray that you have been
blessed by the Word of God and His wonderful Love for us all. We thank each one of you for
your prayers and love to us. Until next month continue to seek God’s face and Love
one another as Christ Love the church. Our Love and prayers to each of you.
In Our Heavenly father’s Love,
Bill & Sue |
