A. Salvation - verse 18

B. Baptism in a true Baptist church.

C. Told how to be faithful to God in that church.

D. Called to the ministry.

E. Called to pastor here.

A. Born in US - parents - if not - I would not have heard the gospel message.

B. Health.

C. Good place to live.

D. Family love

A. Gen. 39:3 - Joseph prospered because he did what God told him to do. (See also Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Laban.

B. Deut. 29:1-9 - God before Israel and Moses telling them God would make them prosperous if they would obey God.

C. II Chronicles 26:1-5 - Uzziah was blessed because he served God.

A. John 14-15 - We have a place prepared for us which we will inhabit one day.

B. I Thess 4:13-18 - We are awaiting the rapture.