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God Knows Every Hair on Your Head

So is it possible that He knows your true identity?

July 17, 2019Share

God knows every detail about you — your likes/dislikes, personal characteristics, locations, family, and so much more. He’s an expert on you. He could write a book about you. He could write THE book about you.

There are over 7.6 billion people on the earth1, and He knows you personally and completely.

God even knows how many hairs are on your head:

“So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows” (Matthew 10:26–31 NIV).

How many hairs do humans have on their head? Go look into a mirror and start counting. Impossible, right? Here are some facts:

  • Blondes have about 150,000 hairs.
  • Redheads have around 90,000.
  • If your hair is black or brown, you have about 110,0002.

So the average human head has 100,000 hairs. There are approximately 7,660,000,000 people on the planet. That means God knows the current status of 7,660,000,000,000,000 hairs on human heads. (Yes, some people are bald, but this is an average.) That’s 7.66 quadrillion hairs that God knows quite well.

And that’s just the humans. We haven’t even gotten to the animals.

There are approximately 8.7 million species of animals on the earth. All the animals in all those species (the ones that have hair, and the ones that don’t) — God knows them too. But that’s nothing. He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name (Psalm 147:4 NIV).

There are nine planets in our solar system. Eight if you subtract Pluto. They orbit around the sun. The sun is a star in the Milky Way. The Milky Way has 200 billion more stars that are just like the sun. Planets and moons orbit around each of them too. God has a name for every one of them. In addition to that, there are 100 trillion galaxies in the universe, each with 200 billion stars.

My calculator just exploded, but let’s just say that’s a lot of stars and a lot of names. There are way more stars in the sky than hairs on human heads.

Every hair, every star … God knows them all. So is it possible that He knows your true identity?

Excerpted and adapted with permission from Revealed by Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick. Copyright 2019, B&H Publishing Group.

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1 You can check the current world population here.

2 https://www.baumanmedical.com/qa/many-hairs-human-head/

Alex Kendrick has dedicated his life to following Jesus Christ and making His truth and love known among the nations. After serving in church ministry for 20 years, he now writes, speaks and produces Christian films with his brothers, Stephen and Shannon. Alex directed the movies Overcomer, War Room, Courageous, Fireproof, Facing the Giants, and Flywheel and co-wrote the New York Times bestselling books The Love Dare, The Resolution for Men, and The Battle Plan for Prayer. He has been interviewed by “Fox & Friends,” CNN, ABC World News Tonight, and serves on the boards of the Fatherhood CoMission and the Christian Film foundation. He and his wife, Christina, live in Albany, Ga., with their six children and are active members at Sherwood Church.

After serving in church ministry for 20 years, Stephen now writes, speaks and produces Christian films with his brothers, Alex and Shannon. Stephen produced the movies Overcomer, War Room, Courageous, Fireproof, Facing the Giants, and Flywheel and co-wrote the New York Times bestselling books The Love Dare, The Resolution for Men, and The Battle Plan for Prayer. He has been interviewed by “Fox & Friends,” CNN, ABC World News Tonight, and serves on the boards of the Fatherhood CoMission and the Christian Film foundation. He and his wife, Jill, live in Albany, Ga., with their six children and are active members at Sherwood Church.

Who am I? It’s a question you might ask yourself a lot, and Revealed, for teen guys and young men, will lead you through an investigation to find the answers.

Find more Resources from the authors and the movie Overcomer!

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SearchSearchSermonPrepare for God’s VisitationGod’s visitation demands a response.Scripture:Luke 19:28-44Psalm 106:4Revelation 22:20Prepare for God’s VisitationDave GibsonSermon Outline:IntroductionI. God visits for personal deliverance.II. God will visit to culminate human history.III. God visits to offer an opportunity to respond to Him.ConclusionThis sermon is part of the sermon series “Are You Ready for a Visit?”. See series.IntroductionI have a friend named John who is a medical doctor. He was once making a commercial flight across the Atlantic Ocean, when a teenage boy who was seated nearby nearly lost consciousness. The boy’s mother was panicked, and his fellow passengers had no idea how to help. When the flight attendant finally called for a doctor, John came forward to help. John quickly ascertained that the boy was dehydrated and gave him some orange juice. The juice “miraculously” revived the young man in just a short time. The visit from the doctor proved to be a major blessing to this boy. Had John not visited him with just the right expertise, he might have died or suffered severe complications from dehydration.We all need visits in our lives. All of us find ourselves in need of expertise, confrontation, encouragement, or perspective that we will only find if someone visits us with the resources we need. Our lives come unraveled and veer off course. We need God’s expertise and resources. Yet sometimes we become practical deists. A deist is someone who believes that God created the world, wound it up like a giant alarm clock, and will never tamper with it again. They don’t pray, they don’t expect miracles, and they don’t anticipate any visits from God. Even though we believe in God’s intervention in our world, we often live like practical deists and do not expect God to show up and help us.That’s why one of the towering needs in the lives of believers is that we become thoroughgoing supernaturalists—people who expect God to break into the natural world and act with power in time and space. The good news is, whether we believe it or not, God still visits today. But what can we expect from God’s visits?A visitation is the sovereign God of the universe breaking into history to change the destinies of people by either blessing or punishing them. In our last sermon, we considered three reasons God visits his people. First, God breaks into our lives to test us, offering us the provisions for success, with the purpose of purifying our faith. Second, God visits to punish believers for chronic sin. Finally, God visits to offer blessing.The Bible gives three more reasons God visits his people.God visits for personal deliverance.Psalm 106 was written while Israel was in captivity for her sins. The psalmist offers a national confession as he catalogs and confesses the long history of Israel’s rebellious behavior against God. In addition to confession, the psalmist also praises God for his goodness and appeals to God for a visit: “Remember me, O Lord, in Your favor toward Your people; visit me with Your salvation.”The Hebrew term translated “salvation” can also be translated “deliverance.” The danger from which someone needs deliverance can be either physical or spiritual. In the case of Psalm 106, the psalmist is pleading for salvation from the physical bondage of exile. Because he needs God’s intervention, he asks God to remember him. In the Old Testament, the word “remember” means “to think about or take notice and act to help.” It doesn’t mean simply to think of someone without acting. Jeremiah 15:15 is an excellent example. In his desperation, Jeremiah calls out to God to “remember me and care for me.” Remembering and acting go hand in hand. When I remember my son-in-law, who is serving in the military in Iraq, I take action to help him by praying, sending emails, gifts, and care packages, and enlisting others to pray.We sometimes find ourselves in need of deliverance. We need God to break in, but instead, we try to deliver ourselves from our messes. Jeremiah 2:13 expresses this tendency in this way: “My people have committed two sins. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” When we try to deliver ourselves, we commit two sins. First, we forsake God as the source of life-giving water. Second, we attempt to make life work without God by digging our own cisterns—pursuing our own pleasures and plans for making life good.The fact is we cannot make life work without God. We can try doubling our efforts and digging our own cisterns. But we cannot find true fulfillment apart from a relationship with God. We must learn to rely on him for everything we need. To do that, we must confess our sins of self-sufficiency and cast ourselves on God for his help.Do you need a visitation for deliverance from something? Maybe your life is plagued by some kind of danger or bondage or sadness or pain. Just like the people we read about in the Bible, we are called to lean on God in faith and pray that he would visit us with deliverance. We are commanded to resist the temptation to dig our own cisterns and try to make life work without God.Not long ago, I was speaking with a mentor over coffee. When he asked me how I was doing, I immediately launched into a five-minute litany of all the things that were wrong in my life and ministry, all the people who were against me, and all the messes I was in. While I was still talking, my friend raised his hand in front of me like a stop sign. When I stopped speaking, he said, “Dave, you have only one problem. You don’t expect God to show up.”I had acknowledged my inability to solve my own problems, but I didn’t expect God to visit. In our busy, affluent, and secular society, we often become too “natural” in our thinking; we pray without expecting God to actually show up. We must become supernaturalists who expect God’s visitation.God will visit to culminate human history.Sometimes God visits in order to bring about personal deliverance. But some day, God will visit the earth to crush all rebellion. This visitation will mark the beginning of the end of human history, when Jesus will be physically present on earth to rule as King. This will be the second of Jesus’ two advents on earth.In the first advent, Jesus came as the Suffering Servant. In fulfillment of the prophecy in Isaiah 53:1-12, Jesus first came to earth in order to suffer for our sins, so that we might experience eternal life through faith in him. The Jews, Jesus’ own people, were expecting a Messiah, but they were not looking for a Suffering Servant. They were looking for a conquering king who would throw the Romans out of Palestine. The Jews rejected him, and ultimately crucified him, because he didn’t look like the conquering king they had in mind. Jesus’ first advent was intended to take care of sin. At that advent, he was born to die.We have friends in Anchorage, Alaska, who found out while their son was still in the womb that he had a chromosomal deformity and would not live more than a few days after he was born. The little boy shocked everyone by living for 53 days. He never left Anchorage Providence Hospital; he never even left the neo-natal critical care unit. He was, in a sense, born to die.At his first advent, Jesus came with the same prospect. He was born to die. He lived 33 years, but he knew that in the end his purpose would cost him his life. Fortunately, Jesus was not only born to die; he was also born to reign. In his second advent, Jesus will come as the conquering king. Revelation 19 describes Jesus’ return to earth, at which time he will appear on a white horse with a sword in his hand, and he will lead the armies that will subdue his enemies. At this Second Advent, Jesus will establish himself as king and quiet all rebellion, once and for all.Because Jesus is loving, he acts to meet the needs of the needy. Because he is just, he acts to rectify all injustices. Because Jesus is wise, his judgments are always right. All the things that are now wrong will be corrected when Jesus returns. Because we look forward to the day when Jesus will judge the earth with equity, we should invite Jesus to return quickly: “He who testifies to these things says, ‘Yes, I am coming quickly.’ Amen, Come, Lord Jesus” (Revelation 22:20).God visits to offer an opportunity to respond to Him.Luke 19:28-44 recounts the story of Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. Jesus wept as he approached the city, because he knew Israel would be judged for failing to recognize “the time of God’s visitation.” A visitation is a specific opportunity to respond to God. While he walked on earth, Jesus offered people the unique chance to recognize him as the King of the Jewish people. Instead, they responded by crucifying him.The Bible is full of visitations in which God gave people opportunities to respond to him in faith: Three angels visited Abraham to announce the birth of his son. God visited the boy Samuel in the night. The Angel of the Lord visited Jacob at Peniel. Jesus visited Saul of Tarsus on the Damascus road, and he visited Peter after his Resurrection.I once had an opportunity to present the gospel to an elderly couple in a restaurant over breakfast. I drew out the bad news and the good news and the invitation to trust Christ. I drew a box on a napkin, drew a cross inside the box, and then asked them, “Where are you putting your trust for forgiveness and eternal life?” Simultaneously, two aged forefingers landed on the cross on that napkin. It was the day of their visitation—the day of their opportunity to respond to God’s offer of salvation—and they both jumped at the opportunity. That’s the right way to respond to God’s visitation of salvation.The visitations we can expect are related to our inner lives. These are matters of the heart and the spirit. God shows up in the form of a sermon, a friend, or a book or Bible passage; He comes in the midst of a crisis event or in the form of a person modeling life-change. He arrests us, confronts us, and he demands a response—either positive or negative.The first visit God wants each person to consider is his visit to offer forgiveness of sins and eternal life. We are separated from God, and there is no way for us to restore our relationship with him. Fortunately, Jesus died a sacrificial death in order to pay for our sin. He invites you to place your trust in Christ and receive his forgiveness, so that you may experience eternal life with God.After he offers us eternal life, God visits us to demand our additional response to him. He may call us to greater obedience, greater sacrifice, and greater Christlikeness. You will know what he asks of you when God pays you a visit. How do you plan to respond to that visit?ConclusionWe all need visits from God. His visitations are not just a “Bible thing” or a “historical thing” or a just-for-super-Christians thing. We all need him to visit. The good news is God still makes visitations. Invite a visit from God into your own life. Demonstrate your faith by inviting him into your life and expecting him to visit your life for deliverance.Dave Gibson is pastor of Cypress Bible Church in Cypress, Texas.This sermon is part of the sermon series “Are You Ready for a Visit?”. See series.Share This PageFacebookTwitterGet Free Weekly Updates from Preaching TodayWhat’s your email?This form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.Related sermonsExpect God’s VisitationGod visits to test, punish, and bless his children.Dave GibsonGod’s Protection and DelightZephaniah paints a picture of love.

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English Quizzes

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Congratulations!! You’re in the top 2%!! Share the news with the world.

Way to go! You aced it! Only 2% of Americans can complete these basic idioms and phrases. Your score points to exceptional memory and creative thinking skills. You read with purpose, and subconsciously monitor that purpose while reading a text. You catch satire and puns, and can predict what is about to happen in movies and books. Furthermore, you automatically read letter combinations and scan through texts without losing your focus. Are your friends as smart as you are? Share the test to find out;)

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Please keep me and my entire family members in your prayers and thoughts

Please keep me and my entire family members in your prayers because Satan has been busy trying to keep all of us separated and murmuring against each other every day 🙏  Jesus Christ, I need you to please unite all of us together again!  This also includes all of our friends and all of those who are reading this message.   God Loves You and God Bless You 🙌 🙏 ❤️

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Matthew 10:36 What Does This Mean to Everyone

Matthew 10:36 and How it Pertains to All People!!

By: Anthony Joseph Hopkins January 31, 2020

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        Praise The Lord Saints!! Praise The Lord!! How are all of you doing tonight?  Fine, I hope.  I would like to start things off by asking everyone a very important question.  What does Matthew 10:36 really mean to all of us?  The answer is simple.  A Man’s enemies will be those of his own household.  What is the definition of the word foe?  A foe is a chief or principle enemy.  This can become in a form of principalities, powers, and demonic spirits. 

 

Therefore, I want to inform all of you that I am powerless over people, places, and things.  However, when it comes to the institution of the family, things can breakdown very easily.  There can be disagreements over comments and other issues.  It is that the very first family in the Bible was Adam and Eve.  They had two children named Cain and Abel.  I am focusing on these two individuals because God favored one over the other.  Eventually, Cain killed Abel over the simple fact that Abel was favored by God. 

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Next, I want to inform all of you that in my family, I had 5 brothers and 3 sisters.  My mother had me out of wedlock.     I am saying this because my siblings and I do not get along with each other.  I want to say that it is not very easy to have brothers and sisters by different parents.  My Father’s name is Joseph Webb.  He was married at the time that I was conceived.  My mother made a conscious decision to take me to my grandmother’s house because she suffered from Post-Partum Depression.  I ended up staying with my grandparents for the first seven years of my life.

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Further, I can relate with this Bible verse because all of our hairs on top of our head are all numbered.  When it comes to the subject at hand, I was subjected to having my name changed to Anthony Joseph Russell.  This is simply because my mother got married as soon as my sister was born.  My mother did this out of false pretense.  I did not understand why my mother had changed my name just to affiliate with a man.  That does not make any sense.  To me personally, I attended Edison Elementary School in Dayton, Ohio from 1971 -1976.  My mother changed my name to appease her husband Mr. Willie Andrew Russell Sr.

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Moreover, I want to inform all of you that my mother had 8 consecutive children by Willie Andrew Russell Sr. This has taken place from 1967 to 1980.  I am simply saying all of this because this man tried his best to kill me by putting my head inside of a very hot stove back on May 30, 1972.  I will admit that I was staying with my mother at the time.  I came home from school hungry and I decided to get something to eat.  This man grabbed me and slapped me a few times on my face.  He put my head inside of a hot stove because he did not know how to properly discipline children.  He was not my father in the first place. 

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In Addition, I want to say that this man was very abusive both physically and verbally.  My mother shot him at the time because what he had done to me.  My half siblings and I really do not get along because we have never learned how to really relate well with one another.  I also will admit that I became the Man of The House at the time because my mother and stepfather used to leave the house for a long period of time.  I also understand that I am not supposed to say things that are against God in any way.  This means that God is taking an account of what we actually say out of our mouths.  We will be held accountable for our actions.

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Finally, this is the reason why I do not believe in men and women having children out of wedlock to begin with.  Anytime that men and women get together, it is best to start things off by being friends; instead of having sex with each other.  This is simply because it makes things worse.  When it comes to Matthew 10:36, my own family members and I do not get along with each other.  I know that this pertains to those who live inside of our household.  I know that it is not very easy for me to really relate well with people who are very contentious.

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In Conclusion, I know that when I was a child, I stayed with my grandparents for safety sake.  This is simply because I was around someone who really did not like me as a person.  My baby brothers and I relate a whole lot better than the middle children.  I can really say that: there is also a lot of division inside of all of the members of the family.  There is also a lot of use of vulgarity and a lack of love in the first place.  My family members tend to group with one another and forsake those who are older than them.

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        In Summary, I want to inform all of you that I am in serious need of all of your prayers.  This is simply because there are members of my family, who are really against me personally.  Matthew 10:36 is very serious to me because I am not accustomed to drama.  I cannot stand anyone who goes against the truth.  I am not supposed to fellowship with darkness in any form.  

Even when it has a whole lot to do with this world.  Favoritism also exist in my own family.  This is a complete shame.  Favoritism also goes against God’s principles.  My family members really choose these things.  I am saying all of this because I am not used to this form of behavior.  Please pray for me and the rest of my family.  Thank you very much!!

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Matthew 10:36 and How it Pertains to All People!!By: Anthony Joseph Hopkins January 31, 2020A.jpg        Praise The Lord Saints!! Praise The Lord!! How are all of you doing tonight?  Fine, I hope.  I would like to start things off by asking everyone a very important question.  What does Matthew 10:36 really mean to all of us?  The answer is simple.  A Man’s enemies will be those of his own household.  What is the definition of the word foe?  A foe is a chief or principle enemy.  This can become in a form of principalities, powers, and demonic spirits. Therefore, I want to inform all of you that I am powerless over people, places, and things.  However, when it comes to the institution of the family, things can breakdown very easily.  There can be disagreements over comments and other issues.  It is that the very first family in the Bible was Adam and Eve.  They had two children named Cain and Abel.  I am focusing on these two individuals because God favored one over the other.  Eventually, Cain killed Abel over the simple fact that Abel was favored by God. B.jpg       Next, I want to inform all of you that in my family, I had 5 brothers and 3 sisters.  My mother had me out of wedlock.     I am saying this because my siblings and I do not get along with each other.  I want to say that it is not very easy to have brothers and sisters by different parents.  My Father’s name is Joseph Webb.  He was married at the time that I was conceived.  My mother made a conscious decision to take me to my grandmother’s house because she suffered from Post-Partum Depression.  I ended up staying with my grandparents for the first seven years of my life.C.jpg       Further, I can relate with this Bible verse because all of our hairs on top of our head are all numbered.  When it comes to the subject at hand, I was subjected to having my name changed to Anthony Joseph Russell.  This is simply because my mother got married as soon as my sister was born.  My mother did this out of false pretense.  I did not understand why my mother had changed my name just to affiliate with a man.  That does not make any sense.  To me personally, I attended Edison Elementary School in Dayton, Ohio from 1971 -1976.  My mother changed my name to appease her husband Mr. Willie Andrew Russell Sr.D.jpg       Moreover, I want to inform all of you that my mother had 8 consecutive children by Willie Andrew Russell Sr. This has taken place from 1967 to 1980.  I am simply saying all of this because this man tried his best to kill me by putting my head inside of a very hot stove back on May 30, 1972.  I will admit that I was staying with my mother at the time.  I came home from school hungry and I decided to get something to eat.  This man grabbed me and slapped me a few times on my face.  He put my head inside of a hot stove because he did not know how to properly discipline children.  He was not my father in the first place. E.jpg       In Addition, I want to say that this man was very abusive both physically and verbally.  My mother shot him at the time because what he had done to me.  My half siblings and I really do not get along because we have never learned how to really relate well with one another.  I also will admit that I became the Man of The House at the time because my mother and stepfather used to leave the house for a long period of time.  I also understand that I am not supposed to say things that are against God in any way.  This means that God is taking an account of what we actually say out of our mouths.  We will be held accountable for our actions.F.jpg       Finally, this is the reason why I do not believe in men and women having children out of wedlock to begin with.  Anytime that men and women get together, it is best to start things off by being friends; instead of having sex with each other.  This is simply because it makes things worse.  When it comes to Matthew 10:36, my own family members and I do not get along with each other.  I know that this pertains to those who live inside of our household.  I know that it is not very easy for me to really relate well with people who are very contentious.G.jpg       In Conclusion, I know that when I was a child, I stayed with my grandparents for safety sake.  This is simply because I was around someone who really did not like me as a person.  My baby brothers and I relate a whole lot better than the middle children.  I can really say that: there is also a lot of division inside of all of the members of the family.  There is also a lot of use of vulgarity and a lack of love in the first place.  My family members tend to group with one another and forsake those who are older than them.H.jpg        In Summary, I want to inform all of you that I am in serious need of all of your prayers.  This is simply because there are members of my family, who are really against me personally.  Matthew 10:36 is very serious to me because I am not accustomed to drama.  I cannot stand anyone who goes against the truth.  I am not supposed to fellowship with darkness in any form.  Even when it has a whole lot to do with this world.  Favoritism also exist in my own family.  This is a complete shame.  Favoritism also goes against God’s principles.  My family members really choose these things.  I am saying all of this because I am not used to this form of behavior.  Please pray for me and the rest of my family.  Thank you very much!!

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Do All Things Decently and in Order 1st Corinthians 14:40.

What does it mean to Do Things in Order?

        Good Day Everyone!! I would like to start this essay off by asking one question.  What does it mean to do things in order? First, let’s obtain the definition of the word order.  The definition of the word order is the sequence of words in a sentence, especially as governed by grammatical rules and as affecting meaning.  Another definition of the word order has a lot to do with setting boundaries and limits when it comes to behavior. 

        Next, I want to add that order when it comes to the Bible has a lot to do with obeying God’s word.  I know that when a child is growing up, they learn how to do certain things from being around their parents.  For example, a child is supposed to listen to their parents, and others that are involved in their life.  As long as the guidance is conducted in a positive manner. When it comes to following God’s word, it is imperative for all of us as human beings to listen and obey God in the same way we did our earthly parents. 

        Moreover, I want to inform everyone that I am a Born Again Christian man who adheres to God’s Holy word.  I will admit that I am not perfect.  I will say that I am a follower and a doer of the word of God.  Some might judge me and say that I am a borderline Christian.  I do not view myself as being inadequate in any way.  It is that I will admit that I have allowed myself to fall for the foolishness of this world.

        In Addition, I would like to apologize to everyone for the things that I have been doing that were distasteful to God Himself.  Like they say, only God can judge me.  Mankind only have an opinion about me as a person.  God has the final word.  I would like to say that I am a very good person who has a lot of common sense.  I also want to mention that it is our job to do the Great Commission.  I will say this that I still need help and prayer along in my journey to serve the Lord and spread the latter rains to everyone that I come in contact with each day of my life.

        Finally, I want to mention to everyone that our bodies belong to God.  Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit; that is inside of me right now.  Therefore, I am me and I am okay with myself today because I believe in my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  I have been clean and sober from alcohol and drugs for the past 34 years.  My sobriety date is May 2, 1990.  I take my recovery and life very seriously.  I love all of you very much as people.  I love all of you in the same way that Jesus Christ loves everyone.  I will say that I am a human being and a Child of God first and foremost.

        In Conclusion, I want to say that the poem that I have on the next page pertains to all people.  It is called the I am Me Poem.  When it comes to maintaining order for God, I take that very seriously.  Order to me gives me an opportunity to get things right before I leave earth.  I know that I have had a lot of things to do in order to change for the better.  I am very happy to have Jesus Christ as my personal Savior.