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My personal background
I am 40 years old and in 2009, my jaw locked down, my ear closed up with fluid, and I started getting the absolute worst headaches imaginable. They would knock me out from the pain during the day and... they would wake me up screaming at night. I couldn't eat anything I couldn't squish down to less than 9mm or drink through a straw. I went from 175lbs to 130lbs in 1 year. During this year (from February 2009 to June 2010) the doctor I went to could not figure out what was wrong. He had me in surgery twice for biopsies, once for a tube in my ear, and once for an arthroscopy of my jaw. I got so many CT scans, MRIs, X-Rays, and PET scans during that year. In June of 2010, I went into surgery to remove the cancer and the surgeon there said it was the size of a grown man's fist and wrist. It went from my right ear to my lower jaw, to my full sinus cavity, to the base of my skull, to touching the front nasal cavity. After removing it bit by bit, they had cut my chin open from my neck to my lip, then cut from ear to ear around my neck, then cut my jaw apart just behind the canine tooth and cut my jaw out from there to the base by my ear, then they 'scooped' out the tumor which included much of the mass of tissue from my brain stem along the base of the skull, through the roof of my mouth, and ending at the top of the sinus cavity. They took all the nerves in my lower head with that tissue, so I have no feeling inside much of my mouth, skin from my cheek to my chest, and some of my throat. After removing all that, they cut the bone from my leg to replace my jaw bone and my inner cheek bone, took a large patch of skin from my leg and folded it several times to partially construct where my sinuses meet my throat (which I suppose is the only thing that keeps me from being able to lick my own skull lol), and took the artery out of my leg to connect to my carotid artery to feed blood to this new tissue (skin) inside my head. They sowed me back up and left me with 6 blood draining tubes for swelling and a trachea and a feeding tube. They also took all but 9 of my teeth on the front of the lower left side. 1 year later I noticed a lump under my neck on that same side. They were quick to biopsy that and it was another cancer. They took that out and more nerves leading to my arm, so I can't feel much of my right shoulder or neck either now. They said that was not a 'new' cancer, but may have been a 'fragment' that fell there during the first surgery. After each surgery, I went through 30 sessions of radiation and 6 sessions of chemo. I am surprised I don't glow in the dark and keep myself up at night. In the late summer of 2014 they found a third cancer, this time in the lower portion of my left lung. They removed it with micro-surgery and said it was indeed the same type of cancer as the other two. They said now because of this, it is most likely in my blood and will probably land in other places at other times. I did not have any radiation or chemo after this surgery because they said they were able to determine that they removed all of the cancer from the lung. In the late summer of 2015, again, they found a second lung tumor. It was removed from the same lung in the same way as the one exactly one year before, except they had to place a tube to drain fluids this time in my side. I am still out of work on disability. I now am facing another cancer in a lymph node near the same lung. This time it is a very difficult place to get to for surgery or Cyber-knife. We have gone over options of Cyber-knife, surgery, or a new chemotherapy and decided. Thanks to finding new markers (found with the use of a sample of my previous tumor aided in virtual research on 3-d modelling), this new chemotherapy has been found to show a possible affect on my cancer. After a second opinion visit to a different set of doctors in the city in March I am convinced to try the high precision linear accelerator radiation therapy (or Cyber-knife) treatment as the next best step depending on how this chemotherapy affects the tumor. After 6 treatments the tumor went from 10mm down to 6.8mm with full metabolic activity still. I have a scan now after 11 treatments to determine next steps. (May 15, 2016) This too shall pass.
All that said, here is the testimony part.
When I was finally diagnosed with the cancer the first time, they said from all the scans I had gotten, they all showed that the cancer was inoperable, because the cancer took up all that space INCLUDING surrounding the carotid artery. They could not operate because to cut it out, they would have to cut that artery and if they did that I would die because no blood would be getting to my brain. (the surgery took 18 1/2 hours) They also said that radiation and chemo would not do anything without removing the cancer first. There was nothing I could do but get my affairs in order and wait to die in pain. The night before the last PET scan to make the inoperable decision final, I had asked the church to have a James 5 prayer meeting over me anointing me with oil and prayer to heal me. The PET scan showed something that all of the previous scans had shown to be the opposite. There was a 'tube' around the artery from top to bottom through the cancer where there was no cancerous activity. They could operate.
James 5:13-16 "Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
God healed (sozo: saved/healed) me that night at the altar in church. Now, from the surgery until today, He is 'raising' me up. God is so Good!
And the video:
Personal testimony:
I was born October 1, 1975. Raised in a basically agnostic/secular home. I was christened Catholic and after Kindergarten spent 5 years in Catholic school. This was because of influence from my grandmother. For 6th grade after all the “child sacraments” were finished, my parents moved me over to public school through high school. There were 3 major things that went against me on this plan. First, I started Kindergarten at age 5 with no preschool, so I was 6 in first grade as my first ‘real school year.’ I was a year ‘behind’ the rest of the class on mental development and never really caught up all through school. I should have been held back into a second year of first grade to catch up, but I wasn’t and graduated HS and started a few courses at community college at age 17 in remedial classes in both. Second, Catholic school for 5 years taught me religion and not really academics. I was learning times tables for the first time in 3rd grade (and still needed summer school to learn them.) So when I got to public school, they had all the things Catholic school was waiting on and I had none of it. I never caught up and graduated High School with Algebra I and II and general level 3 English classes still teaching grammar in 12th grade. Third, I never understood the religion I was being taught. I remember asking a few questions in 4th grade. Honest questions of understanding basic things. I was cut off after 2 questions. First, I asked, “What does saved mean?” Because I had heard that word and told that Jesus came to save us, but it was never explained. I was told to sit down and the next question was taken. Second I asked, “If we are Roman Catholics and the Roman soldiers killed Jesus, why did we kill Jesus?” The priest turned to my teacher and said I am “never allowed to ask any questions in class ever again.” The rest of 4th and 5th grade, I was never called on when my hand was up.
So obviously, after leaving Catholic school, I never went back to Catholic Church or had any faith at all. From 11 years old until 19 years old, I went in and out of atheism to Wicca to demonology to agnosticism and back to extreme atheism. I can be verified to be quoted by one of my atheist friends from high school (who is no longer a friend because of my faith) as saying, “I don’t believe in God, but if He does exist, I hate him for letting me live not believing in Him.” I remember saying this several times and so does he. All the while, whatever group of friends I had, I was the ‘lynchpin’ member. Not really the most popular or the leader, but the stitch that held the group together. But when I got saved, the whole group of maybe 12 direct and 50 extended group members except for 2 went their own ways into drugs, jail, loss of legs, eyes, arms, and life due to violence and other personal tragedies caused by their lifestyle. Since that time, 5 extended and 2 direct have gotten saved or at least claimed salvation (and one of them was saved early on in life, but never hung out with us regularly or had influence on the group.) I led them down that path to destruction and when I got saved was driven out of the group and the group fell apart. How it happened was that when I was 19 I started an Amway business. As I worked with this group, some of them were heavy into going to church and claimed to be unashamed Christians. I was tolerant to this, but opted out of all the activities that they had together specifically for God and not the business. Eventually, I began to pick up their morality and eventually began to attend the Sunday night home Bible study with them. After about 6 months of this, I thought I was now saved because I had cut my hair and shaved my beard, stopped smoking, and was going to a Bible study. All that time, they never told me how to be saved. After I got saved, I asked them about that and was told that they were praying for me, but believe that salvation is something God does and man can lead someone to God, but should not do God’s work by inviting someone to get saved. This upset me and showed me the real danger of TULIP and of lifestyle only Christianity.
So one Sunday night, I was driving home from this Bible study with my Amway sponsor and one person I had sponsored. We stopped at a Denny’s to eat before I dropped them home. After we ordered I noticed 3 guys come in and sat across from us in the restaurant. They were dressed in suits and ties. They ordered and got their food before we had gotten our food, which made me pay more attention to them. Then before they ate, they prayed out loud over their food. I stood up and went over to them after they finished praying. I said to them, “Sorry to interrupt, but I noticed that you are dressed nicely, you are not ashamed to pray before eating, and get good service here, because you are obviously nice and outgoing people. Would you be interested in a way of making an extra supplemental income?” The man in the middle of the table said to me, “I believe we have more important business to discuss right now.” I was surprised by this and said, “What is that?” He looked me in the eye and asked me, “If you died right now, are you 100% sure that you would go to Heaven or do you have some doubts?” I totally forgot why I was standing there and answered the question. “I think I will go to Heaven, but I guess I do have some doubts.” Then He asked, “If I could show you from the Bible in the next 5 minutes, would you be willing to know for sure that you are going to go to Heaven when you die?” I said with almost a stutter because of my surprise at his claim, “Yes.” He immediately turned to the one on his left and said, “Matt, start praying right now.” Then he turned to the one on his right side and said, “Matt, go out to the car and get my Bible.” Well, it took him almost an hour and a half (until 12:45 Monday morning) because of all my history with different religious walls I had and real questions keeping me from Christ, but when he was finished and I had no more walls between Christ and myself, I had heard the whole truth on salvation for the very first time in my life. He asked me right in the middle of the Denney’s then if I would be willing to get down on my knees and ask Jesus to forgive my sins and save me. My heart said yes, but my eyes looked around the room. I was about to say yes and kneel down right there, but he saw my eyes look around and asked if I would feel more comfortable outside? I say yes because he offered and we went and sat in Matt’s Suburban and I asked Jesus to save me and forgive my sins. I believe I got saved in the restaurant when he asked me if I was willing to ask Jesus to save me, because I was and had a heart of repentance and willingness to follow Jesus and the truth I was just shown from the Bible, but I made it an out loud profession in the Suburban seat outside the restaurant. So I got saved at 20 years old on Monday, February 5, 1996 at about 12:45am.
On that Wednesday night, I went to the church where that man was the pastor dressed in jeans and a silk collared shirt with a swim suit on under the jeans and I brought 2 towels and a pair of flip-flips in a bag ready to be baptized. I was baptized that night in freezing cold water, because the baptism pool was not ready for me. The pastor had not talked to me about baptism, but I saw in the tract that he gave me that I should get baptized, get in church, and witness to others. By the next Sunday, I had won one soul to Christ and lost all my friends, because I went and told them the Gospel individually and been rejected by them all. I have been committed to Christ from day one. I went to a Bible college less than one year later because I wanted to get back to college and I already knew from the very start that my call was to preach the Gospel and see people saved and disciple. I wanted to know everything I could on how to do that more and more effectively. I only lasted 3 semesters in that college because of finances and it actually took me until December 2008 to pay off the $65,000 debt I had acquired before I was 19 in 1995. So for 12 years of salvation I was learning financial lessons on how to tithe and give offerings, live on poverty level wages, and pay off huge debt. I was also learning the Bible under the very best Bible preacher and teacher that I know and know of in my pastor 3 times a week minimum. I have run pastor’s Bible College now for a few years and am taking all the classes as people take them. I have been involved in street preaching, the nursing home ministry, and started the media segment of my church, which now has over 7 years of audio recordings of services, started video recordings 4 years ago and now live streams every service over the internet. I consider my ministry my life and not a specific ministry inside the church, although I want my life’s entire ministry to aim at Jesus through my church, because discipleship works best when someone is under steady preaching with regular fellowship. I also believe that my call is to be a missionary to the Uygur people of Urumqi, China. These people are 100% Islam within an autonomous region of communist China. So far, no doors have been opened to me to get there, but it has been on my heart and much prayer has gone into that and those people for almost 14 years when I believe I got the call to go there. Praise God for His providence and love for sinners in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us! My life’s verse is 1 Corinthians 9:16 “For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!” And I always add on to that when telling someone another set of verses. Ephesians 6:18-20 “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.”
BAM! user since: February 15 2015
Birthday: October 1
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URL: http://tbc-pa.org
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My personal background
I am 40 years old and in 2009, my jaw locked down, my ear closed up with fluid, and I started getting the absolute worst headaches imaginable. They would knock me out from the pain during the day and... they would wake me up screaming at night. I couldn't eat anything I couldn't squish down to less than 9mm or drink through a straw. I went from 175lbs to 130lbs in 1 year. During this year (from February 2009 to June 2010) the doctor I went to could not figure out what was wrong. He had me in surgery twice for biopsies, once for a tube in my ear, and once for an arthroscopy of my jaw. I got so many CT scans, MRIs, X-Rays, and PET scans during that year. In June of 2010, I went into surgery to remove the cancer and the surgeon there said it was the size of a grown man's fist and wrist. It went from my right ear to my lower jaw, to my full sinus cavity, to the base of my skull, to touching the front nasal cavity. After removing it bit by bit, they had cut my chin open from my neck to my lip, then cut from ear to ear around my neck, then cut my jaw apart just behind the canine tooth and cut my jaw out from there to the base by my ear, then they 'scooped' out the tumor which included much of the mass of tissue from my brain stem along the base of the skull, through the roof of my mouth, and ending at the top of the sinus cavity. They took all the nerves in my lower head with that tissue, so I have no feeling inside much of my mouth, skin from my cheek to my chest, and some of my throat. After removing all that, they cut the bone from my leg to replace my jaw bone and my inner cheek bone, took a large patch of skin from my leg and folded it several times to partially construct where my sinuses meet my throat (which I suppose is the only thing that keeps me from being able to lick my own skull lol), and took the artery out of my leg to connect to my carotid artery to feed blood to this new tissue (skin) inside my head. They sowed me back up and left me with 6 blood draining tubes for swelling and a trachea and a feeding tube. They also took all but 9 of my teeth on the front of the lower left side. 1 year later I noticed a lump under my neck on that same side. They were quick to biopsy that and it was another cancer. They took that out and more nerves leading to my arm, so I can't feel much of my right shoulder or neck either now. They said that was not a 'new' cancer, but may have been a 'fragment' that fell there during the first surgery. After each surgery, I went through 30 sessions of radiation and 6 sessions of chemo. I am surprised I don't glow in the dark and keep myself up at night. In the late summer of 2014 they found a third cancer, this time in the lower portion of my left lung. They removed it with micro-surgery and said it was indeed the same type of cancer as the other two. They said now because of this, it is most likely in my blood and will probably land in other places at other times. I did not have any radiation or chemo after this surgery because they said they were able to determine that they removed all of the cancer from the lung. In the late summer of 2015, again, they found a second lung tumor. It was removed from the same lung in the same way as the one exactly one year before, except they had to place a tube to drain fluids this time in my side. I am still out of work on disability. I now am facing another cancer in a lymph node near the same lung. This time it is a very difficult place to get to for surgery or Cyber-knife. We have gone over options of Cyber-knife, surgery, or a new chemotherapy and decided. Thanks to finding new markers (found with the use of a sample of my previous tumor aided in virtual research on 3-d modelling), this new chemotherapy has been found to show a possible affect on my cancer. After a second opinion visit to a different set of doctors in the city in March I am convinced to try the high precision linear accelerator radiation therapy (or Cyber-knife) treatment as the next best step depending on how this chemotherapy affects the tumor. After 6 treatments the tumor went from 10mm down to 6.8mm with full metabolic activity still. I have a scan now after 11 treatments to determine next steps. (May 15, 2016) This too shall pass.
All that said, here is the testimony part.
When I was finally diagnosed with the cancer the first time, they said from all the scans I had gotten, they all showed that the cancer was inoperable, because the cancer took up all that space INCLUDING surrounding the carotid artery. They could not operate because to cut it out, they would have to cut that artery and if they did that I would die because no blood would be getting to my brain. (the surgery took 18 1/2 hours) They also said that radiation and chemo would not do anything without removing the cancer first. There was nothing I could do but get my affairs in order and wait to die in pain. The night before the last PET scan to make the inoperable decision final, I had asked the church to have a James 5 prayer meeting over me anointing me with oil and prayer to heal me. The PET scan showed something that all of the previous scans had shown to be the opposite. There was a 'tube' around the artery from top to bottom through the cancer where there was no cancerous activity. They could operate.
James 5:13-16 "Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
God healed (sozo: saved/healed) me that night at the altar in church. Now, from the surgery until today, He is 'raising' me up. God is so Good!
And the video:
Personal testimony:
I was born October 1, 1975. Raised in a basically agnostic/secular home. I was christened Catholic and after Kindergarten spent 5 years in Catholic school. This was because of influence from my grandmother. For 6th grade after all the “child sacraments” were finished, my parents moved me over to public school through high school. There were 3 major things that went against me on this plan. First, I started Kindergarten at age 5 with no preschool, so I was 6 in first grade as my first ‘real school year.’ I was a year ‘behind’ the rest of the class on mental development and never really caught up all through school. I should have been held back into a second year of first grade to catch up, but I wasn’t and graduated HS and started a few courses at community college at age 17 in remedial classes in both. Second, Catholic school for 5 years taught me religion and not really academics. I was learning times tables for the first time in 3rd grade (and still needed summer school to learn them.) So when I got to public school, they had all the things Catholic school was waiting on and I had none of it. I never caught up and graduated High School with Algebra I and II and general level 3 English classes still teaching grammar in 12th grade. Third, I never understood the religion I was being taught. I remember asking a few questions in 4th grade. Honest questions of understanding basic things. I was cut off after 2 questions. First, I asked, “What does saved mean?” Because I had heard that word and told that Jesus came to save us, but it was never explained. I was told to sit down and the next question was taken. Second I asked, “If we are Roman Catholics and the Roman soldiers killed Jesus, why did we kill Jesus?” The priest turned to my teacher and said I am “never allowed to ask any questions in class ever again.” The rest of 4th and 5th grade, I was never called on when my hand was up.
So obviously, after leaving Catholic school, I never went back to Catholic Church or had any faith at all. From 11 years old until 19 years old, I went in and out of atheism to Wicca to demonology to agnosticism and back to extreme atheism. I can be verified to be quoted by one of my atheist friends from high school (who is no longer a friend because of my faith) as saying, “I don’t believe in God, but if He does exist, I hate him for letting me live not believing in Him.” I remember saying this several times and so does he. All the while, whatever group of friends I had, I was the ‘lynchpin’ member. Not really the most popular or the leader, but the stitch that held the group together. But when I got saved, the whole group of maybe 12 direct and 50 extended group members except for 2 went their own ways into drugs, jail, loss of legs, eyes, arms, and life due to violence and other personal tragedies caused by their lifestyle. Since that time, 5 extended and 2 direct have gotten saved or at least claimed salvation (and one of them was saved early on in life, but never hung out with us regularly or had influence on the group.) I led them down that path to destruction and when I got saved was driven out of the group and the group fell apart. How it happened was that when I was 19 I started an Amway business. As I worked with this group, some of them were heavy into going to church and claimed to be unashamed Christians. I was tolerant to this, but opted out of all the activities that they had together specifically for God and not the business. Eventually, I began to pick up their morality and eventually began to attend the Sunday night home Bible study with them. After about 6 months of this, I thought I was now saved because I had cut my hair and shaved my beard, stopped smoking, and was going to a Bible study. All that time, they never told me how to be saved. After I got saved, I asked them about that and was told that they were praying for me, but believe that salvation is something God does and man can lead someone to God, but should not do God’s work by inviting someone to get saved. This upset me and showed me the real danger of TULIP and of lifestyle only Christianity.
So one Sunday night, I was driving home from this Bible study with my Amway sponsor and one person I had sponsored. We stopped at a Denny’s to eat before I dropped them home. After we ordered I noticed 3 guys come in and sat across from us in the restaurant. They were dressed in suits and ties. They ordered and got their food before we had gotten our food, which made me pay more attention to them. Then before they ate, they prayed out loud over their food. I stood up and went over to them after they finished praying. I said to them, “Sorry to interrupt, but I noticed that you are dressed nicely, you are not ashamed to pray before eating, and get good service here, because you are obviously nice and outgoing people. Would you be interested in a way of making an extra supplemental income?” The man in the middle of the table said to me, “I believe we have more important business to discuss right now.” I was surprised by this and said, “What is that?” He looked me in the eye and asked me, “If you died right now, are you 100% sure that you would go to Heaven or do you have some doubts?” I totally forgot why I was standing there and answered the question. “I think I will go to Heaven, but I guess I do have some doubts.” Then He asked, “If I could show you from the Bible in the next 5 minutes, would you be willing to know for sure that you are going to go to Heaven when you die?” I said with almost a stutter because of my surprise at his claim, “Yes.” He immediately turned to the one on his left and said, “Matt, start praying right now.” Then he turned to the one on his right side and said, “Matt, go out to the car and get my Bible.” Well, it took him almost an hour and a half (until 12:45 Monday morning) because of all my history with different religious walls I had and real questions keeping me from Christ, but when he was finished and I had no more walls between Christ and myself, I had heard the whole truth on salvation for the very first time in my life. He asked me right in the middle of the Denney’s then if I would be willing to get down on my knees and ask Jesus to forgive my sins and save me. My heart said yes, but my eyes looked around the room. I was about to say yes and kneel down right there, but he saw my eyes look around and asked if I would feel more comfortable outside? I say yes because he offered and we went and sat in Matt’s Suburban and I asked Jesus to save me and forgive my sins. I believe I got saved in the restaurant when he asked me if I was willing to ask Jesus to save me, because I was and had a heart of repentance and willingness to follow Jesus and the truth I was just shown from the Bible, but I made it an out loud profession in the Suburban seat outside the restaurant. So I got saved at 20 years old on Monday, February 5, 1996 at about 12:45am.
On that Wednesday night, I went to the church where that man was the pastor dressed in jeans and a silk collared shirt with a swim suit on under the jeans and I brought 2 towels and a pair of flip-flips in a bag ready to be baptized. I was baptized that night in freezing cold water, because the baptism pool was not ready for me. The pastor had not talked to me about baptism, but I saw in the tract that he gave me that I should get baptized, get in church, and witness to others. By the next Sunday, I had won one soul to Christ and lost all my friends, because I went and told them the Gospel individually and been rejected by them all. I have been committed to Christ from day one. I went to a Bible college less than one year later because I wanted to get back to college and I already knew from the very start that my call was to preach the Gospel and see people saved and disciple. I wanted to know everything I could on how to do that more and more effectively. I only lasted 3 semesters in that college because of finances and it actually took me until December 2008 to pay off the $65,000 debt I had acquired before I was 19 in 1995. So for 12 years of salvation I was learning financial lessons on how to tithe and give offerings, live on poverty level wages, and pay off huge debt. I was also learning the Bible under the very best Bible preacher and teacher that I know and know of in my pastor 3 times a week minimum. I have run pastor’s Bible College now for a few years and am taking all the classes as people take them. I have been involved in street preaching, the nursing home ministry, and started the media segment of my church, which now has over 7 years of audio recordings of services, started video recordings 4 years ago and now live streams every service over the internet. I consider my ministry my life and not a specific ministry inside the church, although I want my life’s entire ministry to aim at Jesus through my church, because discipleship works best when someone is under steady preaching with regular fellowship. I also believe that my call is to be a missionary to the Uygur people of Urumqi, China. These people are 100% Islam within an autonomous region of communist China. So far, no doors have been opened to me to get there, but it has been on my heart and much prayer has gone into that and those people for almost 14 years when I believe I got the call to go there. Praise God for His providence and love for sinners in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us! My life’s verse is 1 Corinthians 9:16 “For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!” And I always add on to that when telling someone another set of verses. Ephesians 6:18-20 “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.”
