All for Jesus — Arthur Blessitt

Was walking down the hall earlier tonight And I thought I'd pull a little joke on somebody and I stopped somebody and I said Arthur blessed. It couldn't come. He changed his Mind, I thought the guy was gonna kill me.

Well, he did come. He got here this morning From Dallas and and before I introduce him, I'd like for you to meet his one of his son Joel. Are you here? Where's Joel? I Don't see you. Stand up son. I'd like for you give this young man a West Texas.

Welcome. We're glad we're glad you came. He flew in this afternoon from Los Angeles and Arthur came from the opposite direction came in from Dallas. This is a night that many of us have looked for and longed for and prayed for for a long time and We've been talking about Arthur's coming and about his ministry in many ways.

I. I don't know whether I've ever met a preacher of the gospel quite like Arthur blesses. I don't know whether I've ever met a man quite like Arthur blesses. You're in store for a real treat Arthur. Welcome to Midland.

Welcome to our city. Come speak to us.

Boldly Proclaiming Jesus Christ

In this beautiful building, I mean he brought me in here this morning. Oh, wow, you know a real church. This is really it. I bought a pair of new blue jeans and a new shirt. I dressed up for you today and It looks so pretty although I mean artificial those real.

Can't get some real ones in here. I like it real. Don't you? Somebody bring some real ones in here tomorrow night. We don't want anything fake in this building anymore that I think we'll just start off with a Jesus cheer don't you.

I mean if we if you don't run me out after this then I can say the rest of the week and. But we want the devil to know we're meeting here. Don't we God already does but I mean, let's just Declare, I mean some old back-slidden Baptist about two blocks from here is gonna hear us holler Jesus and they'll think the Lord's coming and That Just ushers open the door and let's let the good news out.

It's great to be in church, but it's even greater to get out with Jesus Christ, isn't it? I mean, it's good to meet here and be empowered and then go out there to share about. I'll go Give me a J and you go J and then E and s you s and what does that spell?

Jesus now, I know that there are football freaks in Texas, right? III hear that people are excited about football here last night I met with the owner of the Dallas Cowboys for several hours. I mean if somebody can get excited about an oblong ball.

We ought to be able to get excited about Jesus Christ right and share about now some of you say now Arthur I don't know whether I want to do that or not. I'm only we're a biblical church. The preacher told me this afternoon when we were coming back to the television station.

He said, you know, I said, what do you really what's God teaching you? What do you really want to do around here? He said I really desire a real New Testament Church. I said great. I said what's your model, you know, where do what's the base and he said Jesus.

He said so I got all excited. I knew we could have a Jesus here. Because I I read over there where the Bible says. Where the Bible says when Jesus comes there's going to be what the sound of the flute and a whisper.

Right. What do you say the sound of the trumpet and the shout of the archangel? So if you don't like noise don't go to heaven. There's going to be noise in either place you go. The noise in the heaven is going to be shouting the one in the other place.

You don't want to hear those screams. But it's biblical the children of Israel marched around Jericho seven days and on the seventh day the seventh time around. Old Elijah hollered shout and they didn't go.

You know, they got it on. So let's let's just warm up for heaven. Now. This is rapture practice. Okay. Give me. I think y 'all are all ready to go. What do you need me? I thought I had to get you ready, but you're already ready.

Okay, give me a yay. Sounds like a bunch of winos in Houston. Come on now. Sounds like a let me act like you're talking to your wife. Are your children just act like it and we'll let you shake this old building up.

Everybody are you ready now? Let's just wouldn't it be great if we all got excited next Sunday night when the preacher gets up to preach the choir. Jumped up on the seats and hollered. Everybody let's try to give me a Coming again.

Who are you gonna tell the world about. If I was in Hollywood, I'd say what'll get you a higher than I said. I'll keep you up longer than speed. That'll make you feel better than coke now not coca-cola but coke our booze our Anything in the whole world.

And what are you gonna do with Jesus? Go. Let's give the Lord a great praise often to God, okay. Real quick turn around and tell somebody you love him and kiss them or shake their hand real hard. Okay.

Okay, you can be seated for a minute. Well, we're gonna have a good time. Don't you think you could go home now until it's worth it. I I make no apologies about being excited about Jesus Christ. God made us to laugh.

God made us to smile. God made us to be happy and it's the devil That's been robbing us the Jesus said it's the thief that cometh to lie to steal to kill and to destroy. But I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly too many times.

We've come to church. Somebody walks down the aisle grinning from ear to ear and they punch him wonder what they did last night. You know, it has to have done something wrong in order to smile, but I make no apologies.

I am Excited about Jesus Christ. I love him and I'm not ashamed to tell anybody anywhere any time that Jesus died for them rose again and that he's coming again and I haven't come to this town is the tourist I've come here to share about Jesus Christ.

To fellowship with you and together to reach out and see this city turned upside down for God. The pastor said you're ready to go. I don't. I haven't preached in one church in America for five days in over ten years.

This may be the last time you never know. Maybe another ten years after you hear me get him out of here. That that I I was just want you to know that I desire is that people see Jesus and that we Somehow fade away and that Christ is glorified and that everybody gives glory and honor to him.

I received a telephone call of several years ago and in Los Angeles I was back from an overseas trip of carrying the cross and and I answered the phone. I said praise the Lord Jesus loves you and the man said What I said praise the Lord Jesus loves you.

He said well anyway I'm a he said I'm a psychiatrist from UCLA and We want to psychoanalyze you. I could praise God. He said well anyway. He knew he had a case there already and he said we would like to come and and Try to figure out what it is that you're using to get all these people Converted on the Sunset Strip that back in the late 60s had Oh almost 40 nightclubs we've now got only two left on Sunset Strip and the whiskey just closed down about a month ago and.

And he said we don't know what it is said there's topless dancers that are now gospel singers and and Managers of one guy ran five nude nightclubs is now pastoring a church and saved it and and you're carrying that.

Are you using hypnosis or what is it? You're doing? He said we'd like to bring three or four students along. I said hadn't you got more students than that out at UCLA and he said that's enough. That's enough and we agreed when to meet.

Came to my office with these four students and they had tape recorders run down their sleeve and they're going to follow me around and and and record what I was saying and take it back to the class and play it and I was excited and it doesn't take much to get me that way and I couldn't believe they were really going to do this and finally they say we're ready and I started.

I said I stood up and Boy, I stepped out the door. I said listen, you've come to psychoanalyze me. But God has already Psychoanalyzed you and the problem is spelled F-I-N sin and God's going to get you before this analysis is over after a week's analysis three of the five had given their lives to Jesus Christ and That's what we're interested in is people seeing Jesus to know him and to discover the abundant life that Christ gives and the Joy, and the peace that he brings into our heart and tonight.

Liberty Through the Holy Spirit

I'd like to speak to you about that Liberty now, I'd like to really preach to the church tonight to the Christian. So all you lost people relax tonight for a while. I'll get you later. Don't worry. But I'm going to stomp around on some Christians for a little while and uh, and you just enjoy it if you will.

Because you see Jesus Christ has given us a commission to go into all the world and Preach the gospel to every person. I believe with the pastor you have at this church with a Bible teaching and believing that you have you know What God wants you to do?

You've got the knowledge in your heart. But many of us need the fire of the Holy Spirit in our life. To have the liberty and the freedom to do what it is that God has called you to do. Many of us have been praying and praying and don't get me wrong.

I believe in prayer, but we've been praying and praying and saying God Save us Lord. Oh God send the revival. Don't let anybody break in my house and steal my new stereo Lord. Oh God don't let anybody steal the hubcaps off my new car.

And we've moaned and groaned and complained and begged God to do something. And I think sometime he gets a sick of hearing this moaning and groaning and begging. I think God won't say shut up and get out of there and do something somewhere between heaven and earth.

Somebody's got to move. Amen. Somebody has to hear God say do something and for too long. We've allowed the devil's crowd to intimidate. Why instead of like creating bold witnesses for God? We've been getting a bunch of Christians about as much backbone as a wet string of macaroni eking along in life.

Trying to be a little witness you have a guy big old mean tough guy. Sets down at a bar gets a six-pack of beer punch and pool balls. He'd fight a gorilla with his bare hands. That man isn't scared of anything.

He talks about God all the time in the wrong way, but he uses his name. That man is mean bad and tough. We get him saved and in six months. He's a little pussycat meowing around won't even speak the name of the Lord afraid.

He'll embarrass somebody and instead of being a giant for God. He's all calmed down quieted down and in bed by 8 o 'clock. The wildest thing he'll do now is pop popcorn and pull taffy on a Saturday night.

You got a girl boy. She's a real hot girl boy. She's down at the disco every weekend. She's around all the clubs drives around by herself. She isn't afraid of anybody and she's riding around town drive 75 miles to somebody's big party.

She's just ready to go we get her saved and in six months. She's scared to get out at night. And if she does she's got her windows rolled up and a door locked. We've got her scared to death paranoid to even move you get the point.

We are to raise up giants for God and we've allowed Satan to intimidate. Some people say well, I don't know about being so emotional. Well, let me tell you we have a weird world. Think about it. Can you did you could you believe how many people get excited about?

Some form or some kind of little ball. Pool balls ping-pong balls. Tennis balls volleyball handball golf balls football. Soccer balls. Basketballs if it's round America goes crazy over it. I'm thinking about making a round Bible.

You you couldn't get down the street with it under your arm. Give it to me. That's a I want one. If it's in this way, you can't we get excited. I'm not ashamed of a God that made a big round world. Let me get excited about God.

Why somehow people are all screaming and cheering and everything over these kind of balls. I every time I see a football game. I I get so excited. I preach to a lot of football teams the Rams and the Raiders and and the Cowboys just asked me to come preach to them.

If I can work it out, I'll come down there, but I love to watch when I get in the huddle. I think they're having a prayer meeting, you know. Wouldn't it be great if we had a safe football team they'd line up.

God's gonna get you. And when they'd have a pilot, I'm not letting you up till you get saved. But here these big old football players 300 pounds of muscle and steel and iron over their eyes and big old things all over them button heads worse than a bunch of wild billy goats and some of them get a half million dollars to crash heads and.

And big old guy, I don't want be no emotional religion religious excitement. Raised my hands. I know I'm not that kind of thing. Have you ever seen that big guy get up get his ball over the line? They get so excited and they don't even have a round one and and they get it over a line and here's some old mean guy I don't want to be and he's just oh and they're piling on and jumping and carrying on worse than a bunch of kindergarten students and.

Some of them think I'm weird. I don't understand how we get so excited about the trivial since 1969. I've been carrying a 12-foot long wooden cross. Around the world on foot now over 20 ,000 miles. Almost the entire distance around the earth walking and it weighs about 80 to 90 pounds depends on whether it's wet or dry and.

And through 60 countries on six continents all of and sometime people see me with that cross. Going down the highway and they holler you're nuts. I said, don't worry. I'm screwed on the right boat. What about you?

I'm here to tell you tonight. I'm not ashamed of a piece of wood made in the form of a cross which Represents as a symbol the redemption of God's grace through the blood of Jesus Christ to save a lost world.

Because I see other people excited about boards. Have you ever seen a guy drive up in his big old Mercedes or Cadillac get out with a big successful potbelly and Walk out in a little green pasture and and he's got an iron rod and he's got a little knot of wood on it.

And he tries to knock a little ball in a hole 400 yards away. If he ever does it one time in a lifetime, you'll never hear the end of it. And that guy stand in there with his iron rod with a little knot of wood on it.

Sees me walk down the highway carrying a cross and he thinks I'm weird brother others. They go guys don't know about that carrying a cross been that's crazy. And what did he go? He goes down to the bar big old mean guy and hit he's got a piece of wood punching balls with it.

Now, isn't he really tough? Hitting a ball with a stick. Others I think you're half crazy carrying a stick around a big cross and what do they do? They give their whole life. Running around they make their piece of wood and call it a tennis racket goes Switch and they switch around day and night for years and they think they're all right.

Others get a stick of wood and they try to hit a ball with it. Call it baseball. Some get a million dollars. Million dollars for swinging a piece of wood. They're excited over that wood. There are others that take a piece of wood and they try to ride down a slippery mountain slope on snow with their board.

And there are others out in California. Why they think they're really with it and they're riding waves. Trying to ride the ocean waves and they always fall off my friend. Do you get the point? We've allowed people who get excited over round balls and little pieces of wood to Intimidate us and tell us we're strange for telling the good news of Jesus Christ.

You can have a guy walk down the main street in Midland, Texas. And you can have him walk down the street with a Bible in his hand and people seeing it weird. Religious enough. You walk down the street with some guy seven foot tall.

With a number two on his chest and little briefie pants bouncing a ball and they think he's a hero. The guy could get a good job picking fruit in Florida and make an honest living and he's running around.

Some balls now. I'm here to tell you tonight I'm not going to let a bunch of wood freaks and ball freaks turn me into a little quiet Witness for Jesus Christ if they can get excited about that. I can say like Paul I am NOT ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God under salvation to Everyone that believe it and it is time that we allow the Holy Spirit of God to set us free to loose us from the things that have bound us that we may speak and Teach in the name of Jesus Christ.

The Call to Follow Jesus Without Shame

Now, we're going to be sharing together for the next five days and As we share together I felt that tonight in the in line with the burden God's put on my heart to share during this week. That I could just emphasize a little in my own life and my own relationship with Jesus Christ.

Because I'd like for you to know what Jesus has done in my life that you that he may receive the glory and honor and praise and that We'll all be free to share and live for him. And let me share this with you.

I do not look at myself like a you know, uh an orator our Preacher or something like that. What I am is just the follower of Jesus Christ. That's it. I just follow the Lord I love him. He is my Savior and almost all the time.

I am sharing Jesus personally, I the pastor moved the pulpit so I'd have a little more liberty to move around here and most of my Living is meeting people. Most of the time when I share I will have walked in to like Midland, Texas and the word spread.

There's a guy coming down the road with a cross and whatever and people start gathering and as they gather the somebody will say up there's a wide spot in the in town or a parking lot up there and People will just gather and on the way in some of you would be giving me something to drink and others.

Something to eat and and I'm talking and sharing with you and and I'm preaching and sharing Jesus in a natural real setting of People that I'm around and here we have to meet in a building and you came in your clean nice clothes dressed up.

And and I did too and we're in a beautiful surroundings and we hadn't even got to meet each other. I haven't got to eat any of your food or sleep in any of your houses or anything else and I'm saying that to say that really I I love you.

I love Christ I love people and and so I'm not just preaching at you I'm sharing what what my life is in Jesus Christ and what he means to me all this summer I have been carrying the cross in Lebanon and in West Beirut and just walk from Beirut to Jerusalem and in Poland and I have been in war in devastation in death in horrors all summer and And so I just pray that God will help each of us to share together that Jesus May really be real in your life and that you may be free to follow him because I had rather meet you go home and share with you and talk and spend the night than I had to stand up here and And preach even to an audience, but it's what God has ordained for this time.

When I was seven years old, I received Jesus Christ as my Savior. I was converted in a parking lot my father was an alcoholic and my mother was a committed believer and And I grew up from the time. I was four years old until I was 13 in bars and nightclubs in Louisiana.

As a matter of fact, the first thing I ever remember of my dad when he came home from World War two was being in a bar in in Fort Natchez, Texas and Watching a jukebox bubbles in the jukebox going around and I remembered dad Sitting there drinking.

That's the first remembrance. I have of my father and then I we moved over to Louisiana and And grew up on a cotton plantation and one night I heard the message of Jesus in an outdoor rally out in the country in a brush arbor.

And I wanted to give my life to Jesus first time ever felt I needed him. I wanted to trust him and my mother helped me by my shirt, and she wouldn't let me go and And I begged her and on the way home finally mother stopped turn the truck around and we went back the only one left was the evangelist and the pastor and To one lady and another man and I went up to him and I said I want Jesus in my heart.

Seven years old barefooted and wearing Big Mac overalls. I knelt in the dirt and Jesus Christ came to live within my heart. Now I don't know about you. But all I know is me when I was saved I knew it and when I raised when I got up the next Morning, the first thought in my mind was I want to tell my sister Virginia about Jesus.

She was nine years old and I told her about the Lord and Virginia said I won't Jesus. I said give your heart to him. She said I will I'll go to church. I'll go to that meeting tonight. I said you might die before tonight you the Lord knew I was going to be an evangelist.

I didn't better and I said so pray now. Virginia said I don't know any prayers. And I didn't know any either, but I knew what the preacher had prayed and I remembered the little prayer I prayed. I said let's pray right now and I got my sister on her knees and I let her in a little prayer.

Something like Jesus come into my heart and save me. I give my life to God and I repent. My sister began to cry and I thought I'd done it wrong. Because I was happy when I was saved and I didn't know till that night that you could cry or laugh.

I just smile or whatever when you got saved I mean to tell you the desire the won't to was in my heart to share Jesus. I'd go to our church and I'd gather up tracks from the church track rack. They didn't have any good tracks and I'd lay them around in the bars while dad was drinking and And they were tracks like why bad just don't dance.

Ten reasons to tithe, you know these Ridiculous things, you know, but that's all they had. I'd lay him around everywhere people say what's this doing in here daddy said, that's my son. Y 'all leave him alone and dad with my bodyguard for six years.

I shared the Lord. I was so excited I used to drive the tractor standing on the tractor seat and steering it with my knees and preaching down. We had some crooked cotton rows, but uh, I Wanted to. I remember preaching to a friend of mine named Maxie and I was preaching to Maxie.

Maxie was my dog and I was. I was under the house. Our house was off the ground there in Louisiana in the swamps and and and I was telling Maxie I remember I said Maxie. I know you're a dog and you can't talk.

But if you'd give your heart to Jesus, would you just nod your head? And I promise you it's the truth old Maxie. Just raise your head. I Ran in the house. I said mama Maxie got saved. Mother said if any dog gonna be in heaven.

Oh max, he'll be there and I went out and started freaking to her puppies. I wanted everybody to get in when I was 13 years old. My dad staggered in home drunk could have hardly walked. Got in fell on his knees by the couch and he said son go get the Bible and I went and got the big family Bible.

My dad began to read it and cry and pray and I had the privilege of leading my dad to Jesus Christ. Stone drunk when he prayed and asked the Lord to save him got up saved and sober. I tell you people say man, you don't need to witness to drunks and drug addicts and these people are too far gone.

They don't know what they're doing. I tell you if a wino if anybody can counties change. He's got enough sense to get saved. You guys know what I'm talking about. You're down there and some old dive and the guy can't hardly stand up there and he pulls out his money and they don't.

Hey, you owe me ten cents more. Hey, if that guy can counties change he can tell God have mercy on me a sinner. He knows what he's doing. Don't say he doesn't. My dad was saved. Got up said son. I'm not ever going back in those bars again.

I said that's not right daddy. He said I thought that's what it was all about. I said no. We got to go back and you've got to tell those men and women what Jesus has done for you. And with my dad with our big family Bible with all the pictures in it.

We'd go back to those old bars and West Carroll pair. I mean East Carroll Parish and Morehouse Parish Bastrop Monroe and all those towns and go back in there. Daddy'd lay his big old Bible on the bar and Then how are you doing?

Mr. Blessed? He'd say I'm saved. What about you and share the riches of Jesus Christ. When I was 15 years old Christ called me to preach and I? Just always been delighted to just do anything the Lord wants.

I don't know about you, but I don't fear the will of God. I love for him to share just anything. When I was in college laying in the floor of my dorm room. Finally searching for the empowering of the Holy Spirit of God.

Laying in the floor not kneeling didn't feel where is it even kneel but laying in the floor. I prayed this prayer to God and it was a night of revolution inside my life for God. But I remember saying this to the Lord Lord I may not can preach like Billy Graham and I may not can sing like Beverly Shea.

But if there is any thing that nobody else will do I volunteer. I'll be your garbage can call the great call the mighty call the best. But if there's anything nobody can do and you want it done. I will volunteer to do it.

I tell you time after time in this world I think God has called and somehow he got to the bottom of the barrel and he said bless it. Let's go and here I go to me, it's just the greatest joy to be able to serve and share about Jesus Christ to be able to speak his name.

It's the most wonderful privilege to have his spirit abiding within us people say but don't you get lonely? Walking around the world all these years and places where you go for months and months and the jungles and what how can you ever?

Get lonely when you're surrounded by a whole company of holy angels. And you have the indwelling Holy Spirit on the inside and you're saved and you know. Your name is written in heaven, and you know that Jesus is with you.

And you know the presence of God will be with you always. And you know that he said he'd be before you and behind you and his hand would be upon you and he abide hey. You can't do anything but shout. Whatever the circumstance there is in life and I don't.

I'm not going to give all my testimony by any means we'd be here for every night and all day from now on but in 1966 I began ministering in Hollywood, California on the Sunset Strip and we Opened at first Jesus nightclub and put a big cross on the wall 12 foot high and 6 foot wide.

I never dreamed I'd be carrying it. I wouldn't have made it so big and. And so we put it on just remember whatever you make one day. You may have to carry. There's a sermon in that but one night after many years of witnessing in Hollywood.

Signed to and I've been preaching that night after the church service I went and preached in the cellar in Dallas. Any of you backsliders ever been in the cellar in Dallas. I've freaked there. What about in Fort Worth?

I prayed to me old cellar in Fort Worth and Houston. Freaked in the cellar in Houston. These are not this is not a church denomination but some of you these are nightclubs and If you hang out down here at your favorite bar or whatever.

If they want me to pray go down there tonight and ask them and I'll come down tomorrow night or tonight or anytime. We'll have a rally down there at midnight in your local bar. I'll preach anywhere if there's anybody alive I'll go there and share with them about Jesus, but that night after having preached at that church and then in the cellar.

At that old nightclub went back to my room and I was kneeling by my bed. And I was praying and I prayed on through three o 'clock and four o 'clock and five o 'clock in the morning kneeling by my bed.

Jesus spoke to me and said Arthur take the cross hanging on the wall of the building and carry it across America and give your life to Identify my message carried across and the roadsides and streets of the world and identify my message in the streets.

Where the people are now, I don't know about you. But again, all I did was pick up the phone call my wife in Los Angeles and say Sherry. The Lord wants me to carry the cross across America and on around the world.

My wife said when are we leaving? One place where I preached recently the guy said you're not married. Much as you travel I said sure I am my wife's name is Sherry we have six children Jenna Joel joy, Joshua Joseph and Jerusalem and It's the quiver full, you know, if I remember the first commandment in the Bible is be fruitful in multiplying.

I Think before you ever before they ever got lost or got saved or anything. That's the first commandment want to be obedient, you know to what the Lord said. And I remember when I first met my wife and it was kind of prophetic for our whole relationship.

I was in a meeting and I looked out and she was on the third row second one over and I punched the preacher. I said, you know that girl and he said yeah, I said I'm gonna marry her. He said when did you meet her?

I said I hadn't yet, but we will and two weeks and five days later. I married Sherry and Some people say why so fast? I said well the Bible says quench not the spirit. So wait. You know, I don't know whether that's good for y 'all's dating and marriage and single class but that's what happened to me and we've been living with the same wife for 19 years and and we're leaving again in January.

Heading overseas for another year. It is a joy to follow Jesus that night. Having answered the call of God to carry the cross. I felt him say leave Christmas Day and that was 1969 two weeks before I was to leave I was in our building and I felt a pain on this side of my head and and just moments the right side of my body started going numb and Paralysis on this side of my tongue and face and most of my arm and right leg and and I had a stroke and it was the fourth stroke that I'd had in three years and laying in Glendale Adventist Hospital with four neurologists Examining me and they did an arteriogram died.

My brain my head was but my neck was bigger than my head. I like to died from the test and and then they said you have a ruptured blood vessel. It's swollen out like a balloon and and it's seeping blood and we've got to go in and put in take it out put in Tubing and you may make it or you may not or this and all this I said.

But I'm supposed to leave next week carrying the cross. Said carrying off why and I said the cross in our building 12 foot long six foot wine. God said leave Christmas Day. He said you need surgery right now if you get excited or strained our preach you could die like that.

He said and he said if you had total rest if you didn't have the operation maybe you have six months to three years to live, but any exertion or excitement and They were giving me medicine. I forget what it was to make my blood thinner my head I don't know something.

I kept laying in bed. I said I've got to think it over and finally I told him Sherry take me home. I went home and there with all that medicine laying in bed. I made a decision. I said I'd rather die in the will of God then live outside of it.

She helped me. I went to the toilet threw the medicine in the toilet flushed it down. Three days later at 8 o 'clock in the morning got out of bed. Went down to our building took that cross off the wall.

Put it on my shoulder and started walking down Sunset Boulevard sick as could be. I didn't know whether I'd make it to Washington. I wasn't healed. I was still in bad shape, but every step I took I got stronger and Stronger and stronger it has been now this Christmas.

13 years. Walking farther than anybody's ever walked and with a cough through these 60 countries. 13 years. I've been in jail 25 times. I've been beaten and stoned taken out before a firing squad to be shot.

I'll tell you about that later on in the week. I had been through things you can hardly conceive of and yet by the grace of God Hadn't been sick a day. Never felt better in my life all glory to God. He said I will be with you.