The Last Man Is Standing

By Firebird Green

The Last Man is Standing; get off to a good Start with the Author Living a Lifestyle that He considers to be a pretty Decent Life and is Feeling pretty good about His Social Standing in Society and believes He has overcome Many of His Past Failures and His Future is Looking Bright when just before He Sticks out His Chest with Pride, He has a Dream and this is Said to Him "I am about Tired of You and Your Foolishness," and I was Tempted to Answer back, but I Knew better and later that Day a Christian Lady just walked into My Store and Handed Me a Bible and Said to Me I brought You this Bible and turned and Walked out the Store and I knew without any Doubt the Dream, the Lady and the Bible were all connected so I flip the Bible Open and it Fell on the Book of Ecclesiastes Chapter 4 and I begin Reading right there in that Chapter and when I Finished with It I Already got it, the Answers to My Life is Written in that Book and that I just received a Personal Assignment for My Life and went Home and got Started that Night Reading those twelve Short Chapters and it took Me a Month to Finish but when I did, I was a Transformed Individual and I Knew that God had Used King Solomon the Preacher to Preach Me a Sermon and My House just got Shaken off Its Sanded Foundation and now It was Necessary to go back to the Beginning and Take an open and Honest Look at My Life and try to Understand just where or how did My Ship Sail off Its Course, so take a Trip with Me and Enjoy the Ride and See if We can find Out Together; The Last man is Standing!

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• Release date: Sep 11, 2014
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CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Hello to my book audience. If by chance you have just purchased this wonderful book, it is my pleasure to share with you my all-inspiring life story about my solo walk with Jesus Christ without ever realizing that he was always right next to me every step of the way in my life’s journey, right through the good times and the bad times. He was slowly drawing me to himself and transforming me into his image so he could present me to his Father as a Son of God and not as a child or good person but a new creature or if maybe by some chance you are just standing out there somewhere in a book store and you have been flipping through different books looking for something Truthful and interesting to read and by chance You have just picked up this book that is based on a young man’s life story and My personal walk with Jesus Christ, it is not by accident and Because you have gone this far, I now invite you to come aboard the magic carpet and go the next step and take the all-important trip and Time travel with me and take a panoramic look, an interesting and open and honest Look at the evolution of my life that begin in the early forties as a naive young kid that was born and grew up in the Old South, R.B. Louisiana. In the forties and fifties, I was filled with excitement and love and hope. I was programmed from early on to succeed by family and community as Well as the church and teachers in school. The book will span over six decades starting in the forties right into the two thousands and It chronicles My life as I was in hot pursuit of a fast-changing world and its many treasure chests of pleasures that God wanted Me to let go. In this earthly journey I will identify six different personalities as I will go through one metamorphosis is after another seeking contentment with Myself only to learn after each and every remake there still was a void that seemed to get deeper and wider. It was slowly becoming a deep gulf fixed finally when I arrived at a time and place in my life, 1979 in W.I., California-where God through a dream revealed to Me Revelation knowledge and showed Me through My own daily routines the errors of my ways and boxed me in a corner and made me step back and take a second look at a life I thought I had perfected. Early one morning, God spoke to Me in a dream and said this to Me, I am about tired of you and your foolishness. I had no understanding of the Dream at the time. Later that evening, a lady who was a total stranger to me walked into my store and handed a new Bible to Me and said I brought You this Bible and then turned around and walked out the door when I opened the Bible, it fell on the Book of Ecclesiastes chapter 4. As I read a couple of verses, I was captivated right away and made a decision to study the twelve short chapters starting that very night when I got home I already knew that the dream and the lady and the Bible were all connected, and only God could do such a thing. Without hesitation, I took the plunge; and for the next month, I fiercely lived in those twelve chapters. In the end, I understood that God had used King Solomon, son of David King over Israel and preacher to preach Me a personal sermon and It shook My house off its sanded foundation until it crumbled. I remembered what the Scripture said, If God doesn’t build the house, the man that builds it labours in vain!" With eyes open, I now Understand that God had given me a personal assignment, and it was to search out my life and find the truth wherever it may lie. I now invite you along with me a second time to come aboard the magic carpet and travel back through time and take a look at the last man standing. To God be the glory.

CHAPTER 1

Jesus Christ Is the Pattern!

A Confession of Hope!

I will come to visions and revelations in my life of some special events of the third kind from times past, I can remember a very specific season in my life. It was in the month of July of 1993, a very busy time for Me, I was working the fair circuit out on the West Coast when I had something peculiar happen to me on the sixth day of a twelve-day fair. We were working on the fair circuit when something that was strange alerted me. The Lord opened my eyes at about three forty on a Tuesday Morning and gave me a revealing message that said to me, Go and seek after the children because the older ones are stiff-necked and they will not change from their evil ways. My immediate reflection went like this, Lord, I’m lying here sleeping on an air mattress in a Ryder truck behind the livestock barns cold with six other Men-it gets cold in the month of July in J.S., California, in the early morning hours- trying to make enough money to pay these men their Daily wages and then pay the $52 a day for rent and buy the gas for this Ryder truck. I hope and pray that after the daily expenses are paid, there be something left over for me. The very last thing on my mind was to have an argument with somebody about being faithful and true to God. The fair opened every morning at nine o’clock, and my Immediate responsibility was to be up by 6:00 a.m. and have the men up and ready and over to the trailer by 7:00 a.m. so that we would be ready for business when the gates opened. The message that I received that morning seemed to be somewhat off pattern for the time and place, but I knew even back then that God travels along his own time line. One day for God is one thousand years for man. The Word of God is true, and not only that, he is always an on-time God. We were located in the back of the fair, but there were three other very good events around us that also helped draw crowds of people into that area. On our immediate left side was a circus tent that featured some famous magic shows and very funny clowns acts. On the right side, about fifty yards past us, was the animal barns, and they always had some kind of special family events going on such as Blue Ribbon and 4-4H Club judging contests and animal auctions where many prize animals were bought every day. Directly in front of us, there was a popular sports arena that featured a small Trick bicycle show, and how lucky can you be? The world-famous Globetrotters basketball team was also a daily feature over there in the arena, and they drew some very large Crowds. Believe it or not, those guys ate at my stand every single day. God Bless America!

Many other life-changing events have happened in my life since then. I had a miracle healing from colon cancer on February 5, 1995, in Saint Luke Hospital in Pasadena, California; and later in that spring, I had an up-close and personal experience with the Holy Ghost in my living room. It actually started in the bedroom when I was awakened by a supernatural presence that was right there in the room with me. I was asked this question: are you ready? It was about 3:30 a.m. (I had prayed six months earlier and asked God for knowledge from the Holy Spirit.) I was led by the Spirit into the living room and lit up like a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve in Times Square, New York. It was some years later, after having that wonderful Holy spirit visitation, that something quite special happened to me late one night. While I was studying the Book of Leviticus, I came upon this verse be not drunk with wine but be ye filled with the power of the Holy Ghost that God gave me the knowledge of that verse of scripture and mixed it with the explanation of the special beyond delightful feeling that I had experienced from that Holy Spirit visitation some years ago by adding the third and final piece of the puzzle that is found in the gospel of Saint John chapter 6 that speaks like this when The Lord Jesus was speaking to the multitude about the different between the Hebrews travelling in the wilderness after God brought them out from Egypt after four hundred years of bondage and eating the bread that was rain down from heaven every morning in the wilderness to sustained their daily food need and the New Testament saints eating the true bread that had come down from heaven in the manifested form of the Lord Jesus Christ in the flesh and When you have tasted of his body a odour of a sweet smell a sacrifice acceptable well pleasing to God and you have dined on the sweet savoury flesh of Christ a free Gift of God and drink of his royal blood, you will undergo a spiritual metamorphosis and you transform into a little Begotten Christ because you are now made from the Same stuff as the only Begotten Son of the Father and now Airs with God and Joint Airs with Christ and. You will never hunger or thirst after the World witch is by its very nature inferior, created and withering and destined to die and is predestined to fail. Because you are now complete in Christ, the yoke of Satan has been broken and you are free from the vain windows of your Mind and You will no longer be led by the dark angel to be forever seeking after day-to-day fixes and temporary Gratifications that the world is offering you. We are made from the food we eat, and the food that we consume on a daily basis determines the regeneration and composition of our natural body. What does not become tissue become the energizing life blood that propels your movements, but man got himself a unique problem of the spiritual kind. Although man is a spirit and he has a soul, he lives inside of a body in flesh and blood, cannot inherit the kingdom of God that which is created by God. It is temporal, and that which is begotten by God is eternal. Christ came down to infect man with his personality and transform him from the created Adam into the Begotten Christ, who is forever. Another amazing season in my life happened to me in June of 1994. God opened my eyes one morning about three thirty and spoke, When you get on the Pasadena freeway this morning, be very careful. Do not exceed the speed limit of fifty-five miles per hour. The Lord showed me a vision. There was danger that lay before me. (The Pasadena freeway is the oldest freeway in Southern California, and it’s built around the side of a mountain. It is only two lanes, and there are some very blind curves. It was around One of these Curves in the left Lane the Lord Showed Me the Danger that I needed to Look Out for. He Showed Me that there would Be about a 1953 Buick Station Wagon that had Stopped in the left Lane and there was a Mexican Man Standing by the Driver’s side Door.) On the Pasadena Freeway, every Morning at seven, I would Drive from P.M. down to Los Angeles to get the Trailer Ready to go on the Road (when You are allowed to Participate in the Fair Circuit on the West Coast, You either come Correct or They will put You Out Directly). I was more often than not in a Hurry! I Lay there in My Bed for a while letting the Dream Marinate in My Mind’s Eye. After a while, I went back to Sleep for about an Hour. Then I got up and Brushed My Teeth and Showered and Dressed Myself and Walked down the Stairs that led to the Living Room Hallway and down the second Stairway that led to the Garage. I Opened the Car Door, got into My Car, put the Key into the Switch, started the Car, pressed the button to Open the Garage Door, backed Out, pressed the button again, and Closed the Garage Door. Just like Batman Exiting from the Bat Cave, I was on My way to the Pasadena 210 Freeway North that takes You Through the city of Pasadena. About seven Miles Later, when You make it to the Pasadena Drive Exit, You will get off the Freeway Westbound, and You turn right there and Drive about two Miles Through the city of Pasadena, that Lead You to the Pasadena Free Way West that lead You to Down Town L A, Now on this Particular, Early Morning, when I made it to the four-way Stoplight that led me directly into the Pasadena Freeway, I was at the Head of the Traffic in the Right Lane waiting for the Light to Change. There was a Car on My left side, and Both of Us were Headed into the Pasadena Freeway. Just then another Car Squeezed through down on My right side, and I thought, It is illegal to make a right turn. The Car was going to turn right. There was no other Place for it to Go. All of a Sudden, when the light turned Green for the Freeway Traffic to go Straight, the Car on the right Side burned Rubber and went Straight ahead and cut My Car off very Sharply, almost causing a very bad accident with My Vehicle. I got so angry at the Driver I Immediately put the pedal to the metal and went right after the Vehicle. Before I realized what I was doing, My Speed had gotten up to about seventy-five Miles Per Hour. Just as I was coming up to His Driver’s Side Door, the Holy Spirit Spoke to Me Once again very Quietly and Said, Firebird, You do not Remember the Dream that You Had this Morning, and I Immediately got off the Gas Pedal and Fell back. Just as I got off the Gas Pedal, We were coming into a Blind Curve. As I Moved to the right Lane, Lo and Behold, there was an Old Buick Station Wagon that had stopped in the Left Lane and there was a Mexican Man Standing by the Driver’s side Door. If I had not been Warned before in the Dream by the Holy Spirit to be on the lookout for Danger, Satan would have been Victorious that Blessed Day. Satan is a spirit, and without Permission, He can do You Nothing. But if You give Him some Place, He will Certainly take it. He will be Glad to Oblige You. Satan had Me Set Up for the Kill. The Bible Said, Be Angry but Sin Not. The Lord Jesus Said, There are Consequences for All your Actions. By Your Actions, You are either Justified or Condemned. Joel Prophesied, In the Day of the Lord, I Will pour out My Spirit on All Flesh, and You Young Men Shall See Visions and the Old Men Shall Dream Dreams. Finally in June of 1995, While I was attending a Sunday Morning Service at Tower of Faith on Rosecran Boulevard in Compton, California, I must have gotten More than a little Excited because all of a sudden, Pastor Anderson Stopped Preaching His Message, and He said, There is Someone Here that Loves the Lord, and He seemed to be Looking in My direction. I kind of felt that He may have been Talking about Me, but there were Saints all around Me, and We All were Christians. Don’t We All Love God? Well, when the Service was over and while leaving the Church, We were Walking along the sidewalk when My Wife Said that She Thought that He had been Talking about Me. Just as She was Saying that, a Sister was passing by Us. As She got next to Us, She Said, Yes, Brother, He was Talking about You. For the rest of that Week, I Thought about what He had Said Several times, but it only took until the next Sunday Morning Service to find out the Real Truth. We were having the same Scenario that We had the Sunday before. The Atmosphere was Highly Charged, and Pastor Anderson was Delivering a Wonderful Message. I was having Myself a good Old-fashioned Shouting moment. No, I was not Dancing all over the Church, but I was feeling Mighty good. The Pastor stopped Preaching His Message, and He Called Me to the Front of the Church, and He Said this to Me, The Lord Told Me to tell You that You are Running from Your Obligations. I left Church that Morning with a Newly Found Direction and Purpose for My Life, but it was not to be So. Satan had been Quietly Listening in on the Conversation and went on the Attack that very same Day. He Blind sided Me and threw Up a Smoke Screen. Before I could Understand what had just Happened to Me, two Years had Passed by Me and I almost lost Hope. I Thought that I had been Roasted Well enough, Only to find out that God had Only Browned Me on One Side and I needed to be Turned over and Browned on the Other Side. God will not put You into the Battle Until You have Armoured Up and Devised Yourself a Battle Plan. I’ve have had many God-filled Moments in My Life other than the four that I just Spoke. I want Say more at this Time, because it’s not about Me for I can do Pressures Little Except the Power of God Working in Me and through Me and Its this Power of the 3 Personal God and The Charitable Relationship They Choose to Share with Man, that I want to Talk about. In 1997 I was diagnosed with glaucoma and had to Retire from Work. I thought My Life had come to a dead End, and I was starting to Sink into a Dark deep Cave, Wondering if I had Waited too long to Act upon God Plan and His Promise for My Life. I had Believed for some time that I had a pretty good understanding of the Bible. I had been an Abbott Student of the Word since 1979, but what I had not Understood was that I still thought that I was Travelling on My Own Steam. It wasn’t until May of 1999 when I Made a Change in My Surroundings and Moved back to My Hometown, R. B., Louisiana, the Place of My Birth! A Place that I spent the first eighteen Years of My Life and had many Fond Memories. I Seemed to have Enjoyed Every aspect of it: Family, Friends, Church, School, Neighbourhood, Recreational Activities, Hunting, Fishing Swimming, and Dancing. What turned Out to be the most important Event of All was it’s Where, at the tender Age of twelve Years Old, God Separated Me from My mother’s Womb. I became a Born-again Christian. It Happened to Me On a Thursday Night at the Summer Church Revival for Teenagers at Ellen Grove Baptist Church, on Thirty-eighth Street. in Eden Park. It was Rapidly coming to a close. Friday would be the last Day of a two-week-long Revival, and I was the only One still Sitting. The last two Kids of the 14 Kids had gotten Up and accepted the Lord that Wednesday Night. I was starting to Feel a little Embarrassed being the Only One still left Sitting. As I sat, I Said, Oh well, I Guess that I will just have to wait Until next Summer. If Something doesn’t move Me, I’m not moving a Muscle. Just about that time, I must have become a Shouting John because the next thing that I Knew, two Deacons were holding on to Me on the Other side of the Church, Saying, It’s all right, Son, it’s Alright. The Church was standing and Praising God. Two Days later, while walking down Thirty-seventh Street in Eden Park, A Remarkable Thing happened to Me. Between footsteps, a Presence overshadowed Me, and I went from a Boy on the left step with many fears to a Man on the Right step, with no fears. No, I did not become a Bully, but I became very Confident or Self-Assured, and the only Thing that I was able to Understand about It was that God had done Something to My Spirit. I Knew that it was All Good. (I did not Know anything about any Holy Ghost.) I felt Pretty good about whatever it was that had just Happened to Me.

While Looking back Seeing where You have Come From or more Correctly Saying It I am Speaking as, those I’m Talking to Mature Christians the Place Where God has Brought You From. Despite the Pikes and the Valleys, the Highs and Lows, in Your Life, You’ll start to See a Clear and Defined Pattern; and this Pattern Will Bear Witness to Itself and of The three Personal Gods Better Known as the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. They are so Delicately Interwoven into Your Life as I have Finally Understood in My Life. God gave Me the Spirit of Confidence, and the World added Its Own Style to it. (People will Pat You on the back and tell You what a Great Person You Are.) If You are not careful, because You Might Have had a Measure of Business Success or Climbed the Corporate Ladder or Maybe You are Successful Entrepreneur, If You believe These Accomplishments, came By Your Own Steam, be very Careful Satan is playing a Subtle but very Dangerous Game with You call Pride, because He wants to Set You Up so He can Launch His Deadly Attack on You, so that He can Compromise the Blessing that God, has placed on Your Life. Satan will have You Thinking You are a Special Person so you’d Develop an attitude of Look at Me. What a Clever and Smart Individual I am. It is just then that You have gotten Yourself into very deep Waters. Lucifer Himself was once an Archangel, and it was Pride that Turned Him into the Devil and got Him Thrown out of heaven. (Pride is Enmity with God.) Satan is the Great Rebel. He wants to Share Authority in heaven with God, and Now He Walks the earth to and Fro to See whoever He can Devour.

In 2001, I moved from R.B. to P.V., Louisiana. I had never Heard of it either, but by whatever Means, I found Myself Here. It has a Population of about eleven thousand People that are Pretty Evenly divided between Cajuns, African Americans, and All in Between, most of the Older People are multilingual, speaking Cajun French, and English. It is Known as the Smoke Meat Capital of the World.

P.V. is a semi-rural Community that Enjoys good Eating While most of the Men Love Hunting, Fishing, and Camping Out. Everyone Here, it Seems, is Highly Sports Minded. The People Here actively support the Children Athletics Programs: Football, Baseball, and Basketball. It’s a Semi-retirement Community with many People Receiving Disability Checks. The Younger People Seem to leave soon after High School Either to go to College or Move to other States where there is more Opportunity for Jobs.

In 2003, I was starting to get Myself Situated in My little Apartment, and I was starting to Learn a few things about P.V. It kind of reminded Me a little Bit of R.B. when I was a Kid. I had People ask Me, How can You leave a place like City of Angels and come and Live in a Small Place like P.V.? I was starting to Wonder Very Much that very Same Thing Myself, Why am I here? One Night, there came a strong Wind that lasted through the Night; and to My surprise the next Morning, Our little Town was infested with Mosquitoes the size of flies. It could not have happened at a worse time for Me because Every Monday and Wednesday of the Week I kept a Standing Appointment at the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic at eight thirty to get Allergy Shots. This was one of My Lucky Days. It was Monday, and I needed to Walk a distance of about one Mile to the Clinic and the route that I travelled was on Constitution Drive, and it was right next to a canal, which meant even more Mosquitoes to Fight. Every time You Stop for a Second, there would be at least eight Mosquitoes that came Immediately at You to attack. Well, I Fought My way to the Clinic, got The Allergy Shots and Hurried, and Fought My way back to My Apartment and Closed Myself in that Monday Morning. I stayed behind closed doors the Remainder of that Monday and all Day on Tuesday, and I was starting to get really Frustrated. I had heard on the Local News that the Truck that was used to Spray at Mosquitoes Broke down and Nothing could be done at that Time. I was Thinking, What’s up with that? It’s not like Mosquitoes are New to the Town. I was starting to have very Serious Thoughts of Leaving and Moving Myself back to A. L. because I had some very bad allergic Reactions to Mosquito Bites and Some People were Contracting West Nile Disease and Dying from those Mosquito bites. (The Bible Speaks of A Time and Place for everything, but this is not the time or place for Me to die.) Wednesday Night, I Started to Place Myself back into LA, Psychologically and Emotionally, and Planning the Steps that I needed to take to bring about the Change. While Lying in Bed thinking on that Subject and those Large Fly-sized Mosquitoes, I fell a Sleep and God Spoke into My Spirit as Clear as He ever had. This was what He Said to Me, Grow where You are Planted. I Knew Instantaneously that the Message I just Received was not at all about Me or about P.V. either but All about God. Well, I fell Back to Sleep again and awakened the next Morning Feeling Surprisingly Fresh. I got Up and had My Early Morning Coffee, and while Drinking Coffee in the Quietness and Calm of the Early Morning, Reflecting on the Revelation from last Night, I could hear chirping and Chirping. With My Curiosity Stimulated, I got Up and Looked Outside; and to My Amazement, the Whole Front Yard was Full of Black Birds and a Few red-chested Robins. (One of the Things that Excited Me about P.V. was those Red-chested Robins that Stand so Proud with their Chest Poked Out.) Note the Birds covered the Whole Yard. I knew that They were Eating Something in that Grass. What it was I had no Idea, and I never gave it a second Thought; but every so often, I would open My Door and Look to See if They were still there, and they were there and as Busy as ever. Soon I forgot all about the Birds and started to do Things in My apartment, and the Day seemed to slip by. At around about 4:00 p.m., I was Starting to feel more than a little Claustrophobic, and I was Forced to Confront My Fears. I finally got a sufficient amount of Courage and opened My Door and stepped Outside and Stood on My Sidewalk and got Prepared for the Mosquitoes to Attack, but after five Minutes, there was Nothing, not even one bite. There were only a few Birds left, and They seemed to have been left behind to Work the Cleanup detail. Finally I went back inside and listened to the Radio for a while, and all of a sudden, a Light came on. Bingo! Oh yes, why didn’t I understand that it Earlier? The birds were Eating the Mosquitoes, and there it was again, A Silent Voice: Grow where You are Planted. The Holy Ghost will Bear Witness to the Truth and Remind You of All Things that are Christ. (I Knew from that very Moment in Time that I was on Assignment.)

The next two Years came and went kind of fast, and I Knew that I needed to be on My Best Behaviour. I was slowly finding out that P.V. had a Dark Side. Witchcraft was very much alive and well. (There is more Broom riding, Candle Burning, Perfume Spraying, and Dust Blowing here in P.V. than Dorothy ever Thought She experienced in the Wizard of Oz.) I have had My Personal Experiences with this Dark side not less then seven Times since I’ve been in P.V. but I Choose not to Chronicle all of those seven Times because I will not Glorify Satan and His Dark Angels, but I will Mention a few of the Events. (If this Subject Frightens You, don’t Read this Chapter!) My very first encounter with this Spirit of Darkness came a few Months after I Moved Here. One Day, while I Was brushing My Sofa, I removed one of the Pillows to Brush the other side; and lo and behold, there was a Brand-new Candle about twelve Inches long that I definitely Knew was not there the last time that I had taken a look under those Pillows. I went into the Kitchen and got a Paper Towel and Walked Quickly back over to the Sofa and picked up the Candle with the Paper Towel in My Hand. Then I took it outside to the Front Yard. I started to throw it away, but then I got Smart and Decided to Burn it Right where it lay. I went back into My Apartment and got a book of Matches and came right back Outside and lit the Candle and Stood on the Porch until it Burned itself completely Out. (I Should have never Burned that Candle.)

I Thought that I had solved the Situation when I burned the Candle. I was trying to Figure out Who could Possibly put the Candle there. There were only a Few People I had to Choose from. Finally about Midnight I took a shower and went to Bed.

I Awakened to find the Living Room Light on. I lay there for a Second, Thinking, What’s going on here? How did the Lights get turned on? I Distinctly Remembered turning them off. Finally I got up and Walked through the apartment and checked both the Doors. They were Locked, and every other thing seemed to be in place. I turned the Light back off and went and got back to Bed, and immediately Things started to Happen in the Living Room. I could feel A Very Dark Presence in there that lasted through the Night, and it Seemed to have been threatening My Faith in God. I did not Waver in My Spirit, and I Knew that I was Being Tested. (I will not go any Further with this because I will not Glorify Satan.)

I will Summarize, Some of the Other Events, in a series of One Liners, there was a day after I had been in P.V. for about 1.5 Years, A Lady Friend was helping Me to Hang Drapes in My Living Room when, all of a sudden, She said, Mr. Green, come and See. She had Discovered Carefully concealed across the Top of the Drapes twelve Stick Pens with voodoo doll heads on them. Now don’t ask Me to tell You where they came from or when and how they got there. Now there came another Day when a kid was Looking in My linen Closet and He said, Mr. Green, come quick and See. I Walked over, and He reached down under the Bottom Shelf and brought out a twelve-inch Candle that had been burned to the base. Again don’t ask Me when, why, and how. All I know is that Somebody was Practicing the Art Witchcraft in My Apartment! I was Tested on all Sides by this Dark Power. If It was not in My Bed with Me, It was at the Foot of My bed or Right next to the Head of the Bed, and there were Many Times if I went someplace especially late in the evening when I would Return Home and open My Door and step into the Living Room Often this is How I would be Greeted, the Living Room and Kitchen Area would have a glittering to it, almost like a Strobe Light Shining in a dark Room and a Sweet Perfuming Smell that would last two Seconds at most and Vanish right away and Yes, I had various Eyewitnesses On more than one Occasion as well as many Comments about the smell they perceived the very Moment that We would enter the Apartment, like Mr. Green, what is that Sweet Smell in here? (In a five-year Period, I Experienced more Encounters with Tales from the Dark Side than Any three Christians would Care to believe.) The One Event that I will go into Some Details did not happen in P.V., Louisiana, but in Covina, California, seven Years Earlier on March 1996. One Day I was feeling the Power of the Holy Ghost all over Me While I was sitting in My Apartment after Work. I was Reflecting on the last three years of My Life. I want to give Thanks to The Almighty God Who is King of Glory and His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ Who is the First Fruit among the Living, to Rise from the Grave, Full of Grace and Truth and Who is Lord over the heavens and the earth and The Savior of all Mankind. Amen! My Good Times Outweighed My Bad Times. In 1993, at the U.S. State Fair is ware God gave Me the Revelation Message, about the Children that seemed off Pattern at that Present time, but I Knew back then it was on time. In 1994, Something Remarkable Happened to Me at the California State Fair. Our Concession Stand Won first Place for having the Best Food in the Fair, and that was Certainly no Small Feat. (All Things will Work Together for Your Good, For Those Who Love the Lord and is the Call According to His Purpose.) We were the Only Food Stand at the State Fair to Receive a 5 Rating! Only One other Stand Received as much as a 4 Rating, and They sold Catfish on a stick. All other Stands got 2 and 3 Ratings. Now is there Anything that is too Hard for Our God? On Thursday and Friday of the Week, the Judges went around to each Food Stand and Tested whatever Food the Stand Featured and See who had the best Food in the Fair. Well, it was Friday afternoon when They finally made it to Our Trailer, and this is what I Said to the Inspectors, Because You have already tried the Rest, Now You can try the Best. I was really making Small Talk because Our Stand was Located one Mile from the Front Gate. We were the last Stand in the back of the Fair; the only Activity farther back than Us is the Racetrack for Horse Racing! (Another thing that Worked out in Our Favour was Directly in Front of Us; it was a very Popular Bungee Jump.) The Fair got very Busy on a Saturday Afternoon. We have two long Lines to feed. My Job was to Keep ten People Powered Up. If I must Say so Myself, We would Always be Working like a very Fine-tuned or well-oiled Machine. The Greatest Challenge of Running a Concession Stand is Delegating and making Sure You Put Your Strongest Soldier at the Head of the Battle. What that means is I was right there in the Middle of four Barbecue Pits with three Other Men. (You cannot Make Money unless You have something to Sell. I was Working One of the three Cashier’s Windows. The more Polished and Faster You are, the better and Quicker You can Move the Product that You have Cooked.) From about 11:00 to 1:00 p.m., there were a lot of well-to-do-Looking ladies telling Me from time to time that My Stand was Being Featured On One of the local Radio Stations and they were Telling the People of the city of U.S.A., when they come to the Fair, to make Sure that they Try the Chicken. Finally, after a while, some of the Ladies were starting to Point to the Mobile Radio Transmitter Right across from Us, and They were Saying, See, They are Right There. (Abraham, is there Anything that is too Hard for God?) In 1995 I had a Miracle Healing from colon cancer. I Spoke about it Earlier, and now I want to go into some of the specific Details. The Story started on a Thursday Night at Second Baptist Church on Baldwin Boulevard in Baldwin Park, California. It was 7:30 p.m. Bible Class had just wrapped up when the Pastor’s Wife Said to Me, Brother Green, I want to See You in Church this Sunday Morning. I answered Her Back, If it be the Will of God. She Replied, Brother Green, You already know that it is God’s Will for You to be in Church, but what I had not Said to Her was the next Day, Friday Morning, I had a Scheduled Appointment to be at St. Luke Hospital in Pasadena for a Pre-op Testing. I would be going under the Knife on Monday Morning, at six thirty, for my colon cancer. She didn’t know and I had not Said to anybody Else at the Church that for the Last three Months, I had been going through some very Tough Times with My Stomach and had Some Bleeding from My Rectum. Now there were five of Us Saints that Evening who were just Standing around and Talking: Sister Betty, the Pastor’s Wife, Her Sister, Who was the Sunday Schoolteacher; the choir Director; the Mother of the Church; and Me. The Pastor was Busy gathering His belongings so We All could exit out of the Stage. (Bible Class in California lasts for one Hour only, and five Minutes later, the Church Grounds are as Clean as the Board of Health.) The Mother of the Church made a Suggestion, Why don’t We All form a Circle, hold hands, and Pray? We formed a Circle and held hands, and She led the Prayer. Although it was not Said, I Believed at the Time that All four of those Ladies were Praying very Sincerely for Me. I Believed it then, and I Still Believe it Now!

The Next Morning, I made it to My appointment on Time; and after all the Pre-op procedures were Completed, this is what I was Told by the Doctor, Mr. Green, Your Vital Signs Seem to be that of a Young Man. Under different Circumstances, I Might have been a little Excited and poke out My Chest, but My Mind was in a Future Paradise, Thinking, Is this how it will all End? I’m sorry if I sound Faithless because that Certainly was not the Case. Sunday, I made it to the Church Service; and Again, I said Nothing about the Procedure that I was having the next Day. I Knew this was My Own Cross to Bear. Monday Morning finally Came, and My Dear Wife, Lynn, Drove Me to the Hospital Emergency Room and drop Me Off and Said that She Needed to be at Her Workplace and that Her Job was too important to Her to miss a day, I felt like I had just been thrown into a Trash bin with the Door closed and Padlocked. (Forgive Us, Father, for We know not what We do.) I Could have easily felt that was Her way of Showing that She had Forsaken Me, but The Lord Stood with Me and brought Me through it All.

I reported to the Hospital Emergency Room, and the Nurses and Technicians