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Vilanculos Prison

To: Cait Evangelista From: Viente Jeremias Date: April 05, 2010 Well: to start with I can say thanks 4 the Bible, may God blease you becaus...

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To: Cait Evangelista
From: Viente Jeremias
Date: April 05, 2010

Well:

to start with I can say thanks 4 the
Bible, may God blease you because you hade show me a good way to
follow -God.

 
[A prayer]You are my cave to hide in,
my cliff to climb. Be my safe Leader, be my true mountain guide. Free
me from hidden trapes; I want to hide in you. I've put my Life in
your hands. You won't drope me. I hope you'll never Let me down.
 
How I hate all silly religion. I want
to follow this one you are in it. I have count myself Lucky, how
happy am I to have a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean.
 
I wish will be together one day singing
and worshiping God together. Because no king succeed with a big army
alone, no worrior wins by the brute strength (Hors). Let you be my
partneer for me to deffit the Temetations of Satan.

-Dedcations. Please refair this chapter
and verses.

(1)Isaiah 43 ves 2-3 [When you pass
through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the
rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am
the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt
for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your stead.]

(2)Pisal 28 ves 8-9 [The Lord is the
strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one.
Save your people and bless your inheritance; be their shepherd and
carry them forever.]

(3)Song of Songs 6 ves 8-9 [Sixty
queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond
number; but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the only daughter of
her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her. The maidens saw her
and called her blessed; the queens and concubines praised her.]

Be cool keep H6nest as you are
f thanks=
 
The people from this prison give me so much hope. They have it so right. They are turning their lives around. They aren't just saying the salvation prayer and then going back to regular life. It's inspiring. They are understanding what Jesus meant when He said "reborn." They BELIEVE that God put them in prison for a reason, and they are living it out. They want more of God. They are thirsty for Him and are realizing that they need Him.

Whoever drinks the water I give him
will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a
spring of water welling up to eternal life. -John 4:14

 

 
 
This is the street side of the prison.
 
 
Claire and I embracing our American-ness and took a picture in front of the giant tri-palm tree in front of the prison.
 
The prayer that Viente wants me to lift up is that the judge would give him a sentence. In Mozambique the people get thrown into jail with no questions asked. It takes months, maybe years, for them to receive a sentence...which is usually 7 years.  I saw him last on Tuesday, and he had been in the prison for 3 months and 10 days (yes, he counted). It's not as bad as a lot of the men there, but I ask that you would be praying for them also. One of our last times preaching at the prison we had the +90 men and women write down prayer requests on paper and give it to them. We received some interesting ones, where a lady said how she wants to kill her husband, but then we had some deep prayer requests, like pray for my wife and children. Mozambican prison is not like American prison. You don't get that "one phone call' and you don't get the same sort of cell or the same sort of diet. There are are over 90 men and women, and 3 rooms, do the math. Their cells are the size of an average bedroom and there are no beds. There aren't even bamboo mats. Their diet is a spoon full of pap once a day (pap=cornmeal=not much nutritional value). But despite all this, they have such joy!  Let's just say that joy is not from their living conditions, it is from someONE much greater.

 

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