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Matthew Perry passed away in his LA home today at 54. Our prayers are with his family. The “Friends” star opened up in his book last year about how God helped him overcome his addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs. “God, please help me,’ I whispered. ‘Show me that you are here. God, please help me,'” he recounts in his memoir.

He continued, “As I kneeled, the light slowly began to get bigger, and bigger until it was so big that it encompassed the entire room…What was happening? And why was I starting to feel better?”

“I started to cry,” he explained. “I mean, I really started to cry – that shoulder-shaking kind of uncontrollable weeping. I wasn’t crying because I was sad. I was crying because, for the first time in my life, I felt OK. I felt safe, taken care of. Decades of struggling with God, and wrestling with life, and sadness, all was being washed away, like a river of pain gone into oblivion.”
“I had been in the presence of God. I was certain of it. And this time I had prayed for the right thing: help,” Perry said.

Perry credits that encounter with God as the reason he stayed sober for the next two years. “God had shown me a sliver of what life could be. He had saved me that day, and for all days, no matter what. He had turned me into a seeker, not only of sobriety, and truth but also of Him,” Perry wrote.

Matthew Perry said his six favorite words in recovery were this: “Trust God, clean house, and help others.” Matthew Perry reminds us of how important it is for each one of us to make our peace with God before our time comes. No one knows when we will take our last breath. And every one of us will spend eternity in Heaven or hell. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Jesus is the only way to Heaven!

If you’ve never invited Jesus into your life, pray with me… Dear Jesus, come into my life. Forgive me of my sins. Fill me with your Holy Spirit. I believe you died for my sins and rose again, so I could be in Heaven with you forever. Thank you for making me a part of your family. In Jesus’ name I pray…
🙏🏼🙏🏼 Amen 🙏🏼🙏🏼