<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>60-0228, Conferences, First Assembly Of God, Phoenix, AZ, 73 min
L-1 Thank you very much Brother Williams. Lord Bless you.
Good evening friends. It is a priv... [The congregation claps--Ed.] Thank you. That just makes me feel double welcome. And so nice to be here in Arizona tonight in this city of Phoenix and this lovely tabernacle with this fine fellowship, which I've looked forward of coming back since I was here last.
And few days ago it was mentioned just before I went overseas, that the possibilities of coming back to Phoenix, that none of the brethren was coming in this time. Well, that sure made me feel good to know that I'd get to see my friends again out here. And while I was in Puerto Rico and in the--the Caribbean Islands, why, then when I returned I heard then that we was coming out here. And it certainly was a great privilege to get to come back.

L-2 It always seems good to me when I come down across the mountains, and see those deserts blooming, and flowers beginning to come, after battling a snowstorm for four days, and then freezing up, and coming down here where it was nice and warm. It's just a little touch of heaven. This valley always has had an attraction for me since I was a little boy. Remember, my first visit to Phoenix, I was just about, well, I was about sixteen, seventeen years old. It's been around thirty years ago.
And up on Sixteenth and Henshaw was a desert. That's where I stayed, up, just right out on an old country road. Rode down along an irrigation ditch coming into Phoenix, how I got down from the Henshaw Road coming into Phoenix, all gravel, just an old gravel road coming here. Certainly has changed.

L-3 And this people has changed. The valley has changed. Phoenix begins now at Apache Junction, coming this way. It will continue to change if time goes on. And that's the way we find everything in life; it changes. I've only found one thing that doesn't change; that's God; He doesn't change. I found Him around thirty years ago. I was running from Him when I come to Phoenix. But there's no need of running from Him; He knows where you are. And so then...
But He has never changed and never failed to remain the same loving, sweet Saviour that I have--that I found. The only thing in me, it just seems like He gets more dear to me each day as it goes by. Because I'm getting just a little closer to Him. My life's running out, and I'm not the little boy I was a few years ago. But there's one great hopes that I have, that someday to return back to that again, only with immortal life never to die.

L-4 A few days ago, or some time ago, I might say, I was combing what few hairs I had left. My wife said to me; she said, "Billy, you're almost bald-headed."
I said, "Yes, it was caused to start with from a barber putting carbolic acid on my hair; it all come out and then it never did come back right." I said, "But, honey, I want to tell you; I haven't lost one of them."
She said, "Pray, tell me where they're at?"
I said, "Well, I'll answer you if you'll answer me."
She said, "All right."
I said, "Where were they before I got them? There were bound to be a substance somewhere. And wherever they were before I received them, they are there waiting for me to come to them." Someday this... That is exactly right. Not one hair of our head but what's numbered, God knows all about it.


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