The Story Behind Words of the Bible Explained

By Pastor Garrick Bridgeforth Sr

I was born in Brooklyn, New York. A child with no father. He passed away when I was one year old, but I went on with life. My mother has six kids. Yes, I was brought up in a group home till I was twelve, moved to Brooklyn to live with my biological mother, and have been with her ever since. Life was hard as a teenager. There were many drugs in my life, anger and resentment to all for the loss of my father, and the homelessness I had to endure. But God, amen, he called me to ministry service at the age of fourteen. I was brought up in the church but backslid for I wanted to live a life with women and drugs, so my nickname was Mr. Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll. This life turned me into a bad person with a good heart. I was strung out on crack cocaine and alcohol for three years; but God stepped in, took me out of the abandoned buildings I was sleeping in, and now gave me more than I ever had, because God saw my heart and saved me in 1995 at the Helping Hands Ministry under Pastor Randolph Ferdinand. There I learned how to pray in the spirit, how to believe in God to remove my hurt. There I heard God teach me his laws, and he told me what he wanted me to do. So I grew in the Lord with wisdom, finished the program, obtained a job, worked hard, got married, and became a pastor of the House of Prayer under Apostle Gladis Dugue. There I was blessed by God with a ministry, and I became a Sunday school teacher. I have my associates degree in management and my bachelors degree in science in religion, and I prayed, and God showed me the words in the Bible. He said, You must teach on every word in the Bible before you leave this earth. I began reading the words, and the Holy Spirit guided me into understanding the meaning of the words in the Bible for everyday life. None of the meanings are from the dictionaryall from God to me to you.

I would like to thank my wife, Noreen Bridgeforth, who inspired me, my son; Apostle Dugue; Apostle Tyrone Monroe; and House of Prayer, an anointed new beginning where I teach Sunday school. I would like to thank my grandfather Willie Bridgeforth Sr. and my father, Robert, and my mother, Marie Bridgeforth. Thank you to all my family and friends at Helping Hands Ministry and Pastor Randolph Ferdinand.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 15, 2013
• ISBN: 9781479770441

Pastor Garrick Bridgeforth Sr

About the Author Pastor Garrick Bridgeforth was born in Brooklyn, orphaned of a father and lived in a group home away from his biological mother for twelve years. Times were tough on him during the teenage years, living in abandoned buildings and partaking in drugs, evil-inspiring music, alcohol and casual relations with women. In 1995, Pastor Randolph Ferdinand of the Helping Hands Ministry saved him from his wayward ways and introduced him to God. After much hard work and study, he attained an associates degree in Management and a bachelors degree in Science of Religion, and became a pastor in the House of Prayer. God called him to help the faithful in understanding the words of the Holy Bible, and that has become his lifes vocation. He is married to his loving wife Noreen, and they have a son.

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THE STORY BEHIND

WORDS OF THE BIBLE

EXPLAINED

PASTOR GARRICK BRIDGEFORTH SR.

Copyright © 2013 by Pastor Garrick Bridgeforth Sr.

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Contents

HERE GOES THE STORY BEHIND THE BOOK:

2 CORINTHIANS 5-17 THEME

TOPIC: HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREAT

TOPIC: TOGETHER

TOPIC: JOSHUA 1:10 CARRY OUT THE MISSION

TOPIC: IT’S MY SEASON

TOPIC: BELIEVE TO RECEIVE THE PROMISE

TOPIC: FATHERS

HERE IS MY TAKE OF THE

BOOKS OF THE BIBLE EXPLAINED

SUMMARY OF THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

SUMMARY OF THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

WORDS OF THE BIBLE

TOPIC: ATTENDANCE

TOPIC: CARNAL

TOPIC: BUILDING

TOPIC: CHANCE (LUKE 10:25) A CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

TOPIC: RESPECT

TOPIC: RUIN

THE BLOOD PT. 2

GOD, DO IT FOR ME RIGHT NOW

MISSION OF THE CHURCH

BAPTISM OF JOHN

TOPIC: COMMUNICATION

TOPIC: BELIEVE TO RECEIVE THE PROMISE

TOPIC: PENTECOST, ACTS 2

GROWTH

TOPIC: GLORY OF GOD

TOPIC: THE DAY JESUS MARCHED FOR ME. CAN YOU MARCH FOR JESUS? (JOHN 12:12)

TOPIC: JESUS CHRIST (ISAIAH 52-53)

TOPIC: OBEDIENT 2—THE VISION

TOPIC: THE EFFECTIVE MAN OF GOD

STORM

JEZEBEL, DELILAH 2012

SPIRITUAL GROWTH

BIBLIOGRAPHY

HERE GOES THE STORY BEHIND THE BOOK:

2 CORINTHIANS 5-17 THEME

Many may say who is this person that has written books about the Bible? And I would say he is a young dark-colored man who was living a life full of regret and hatred for the situations he was in. He was snatched away from his mother because she could not take care of her six children after his father, the sole provider for the family, passed away when he was one year old. He was raised in a home called Mount Loretta in Staten Island where he learned how to survive in the wild. He was a lonely kid that stayed to him and talked to an unseen God, but he knew at the age of ten that God exists and was curious as to what was his purpose in life.

After about six years in Staten Island, Mount Loretta, on Hylan Blvd. in the early 1970s, he was moved to a group home where he ran away many times in search of himself. He was in the streets trying to fit in or to belong and was in much trouble, but God kept him alive to write this book and to explain the plan God had for everyone. Whether you are rich, poor, bad, or good—God has a plan for your life. So as he was in search of himself, he returned home to his mother in Brooklyn at the age of twelve. He was a runaway from the home, but the courts decided that the young man could stay with his biological mother in Brooklyn on Saratoga Ave. because he would not stay in his group home.

Well, while in Brooklyn, he was going to school JHS 275 on Rockaway and graduated from there where he went on to Job Corp. and was introduced to all kinds of talents. But while home in Brooklyn, he learned about feeling good and the drugs as well as alcohol was his god during his teen years that led to many unanswered questions such as how can someone so smart turn out so devilish? But one day, he realized that if he kept on the road he was on, it would do no good, so he was brought to Jesus. And while he was with Jesus and in church, he met a woman. And yes, it was something to remember because the pastor said that if you are in church, you were not allowed to have a girlfriend or to be with a woman or a girl at my young age.

So that was when I left the church. Yes, I went after the lovelies, and because of that, I became addicted to sex, drugs, and rock and roll. I was hanging out being with as many ladies as I could be while not knowing I was learning how to be a true lover of my wife, so it was a teaching experience. In my mess, I learned how to love women, and when God took over my life, experience and the power of God made the marriage that I am now in perfected because I married the same lady I was getting high with and fornicating with at the time. I did not know it was wrong because that was the way we lived in the 1980s. And yes, God has a way of doing things, and now she is the lady elect of our church that God has given us to manage called the Glory of God Anointed Ministry. And we have a website now as well, which is located at www.gloryofgodanointedministry.net.

I am now a pastor, leader, teacher, CEO, president, and a devout man of God of Glory of God Anointed Ministry, doing the will of God forever as long as God allows me to spread his Word on earth. This is something amazing because now all of my family is saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost, and we are all doing the work of the Lord in our church given to us by God. We are here to be a helping hand to help others break free from a life of sin. I must say that if you believe and wait on the Lord our God, all that you desire to have or to know—he will reveal it to you. We all have a plan in our life with God, and that plan is to help tell someone about the Word of God and how he can change your life so that we all may be saved and make it into heaven. We must remember that God is in charge of all things. No matter what it is—it is God’s will as long as you are alive. Whether sinner or saint, God is in control of what happens in your life, and he gives you many opportunities to allow him to guide your life into peace, love, and understanding before you leave this earth. And many reject the voice of God so long that when it is your time, you miss it, and that almost was what happened to me. I was so lost in my sin that I did not realize that the next drug I used or the next alcoholic drink I drank or the smoke I smoked could be my last, but it was as I was introduced to a substance called crack cocaine that made me lose my sense of thought and life.

For around five years, I slept in the streets selling scrap metal cans and bottles. I was not taking a bath or paying rent to live in a home. I was so convinced that the streets were my home. I would not sleep for months because I was chasing something that was too hard to find. And the more I stayed up, the more I believed I was invincible. I was powerful. I did not need to brush my teeth. When I felt like it, I would wash in the Johnny pump with no soap and eat food out of a dumpster because I was convinced that the money, no matter how small it was, was for my substance and my substance only. This is how I lived, like a person in the Bible named Nebuchadnezzar. He was sent into the wilderness to eat grass like an animal. I was sent into the world to live like an animal, a dog, a nasty person. But God kept me. I need not go to the mental institution to get my mind back; all I had to do was be on my deathbed. Yes, I almost died because I said no to the call from God on my life. I was chosen to tell people my story as well as God’s story, but instead, I ran and did what I wanted to do. And the end of it was death, but thanks to praying friends and family as well as strangers, I am here today to say that with God, all things are possible.

Before I was hospitalized, I was doing something against the law and lost my finger in the process, and I heard a voice say, If you keep this up, you will keep losing limbs. I tried and tried so much but did not give up my sinful ways. So after several months in the hospital, I was ministered to by three women, and every day they came and prayed for me over and over again. And when I was released, I was sent to a shelter in the Bronx, and somehow the church was following me because the saints were preaching and teaching in the shelter I was in which was located in the Bronx. And one day, they