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We Reach With the Health of Christ

We Reach With the Health of Christ declares that Christ in us ministers bodily wholeness now with boldness, reach, and present authority. We do not treat sickness, pain, weakness, or visible diagnosis as final where Christ dwells in us. We receive before sight agrees, speak from union, and stretch forth our arms as instruments of Christ’s healing life now.

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Chapter 1: Our Reach Is Not Stopped by What Is Seen

What is visible does not rule over Christ in us. What is diagnosed does not speak above the indwelling life of Christ. We do not call pain lord. We do not call weakness master. We do not call damage final. We do not let history preach louder than union. Christ dwells in us now, and His presence in us is not reduced by medical language, long-standing suffering, or natural expectation. We do not face bodily need as empty vessels begging for help from a distance. We stand as the Body through whom Christ reaches now, and our reach is not limited by what sight reports in the flesh.

We reject the lie that the impossible becomes truthful because it looks established. We reject the lie that chronic symptoms carry lawful permanence where Christ lives in us. We reject the lie that visible deterioration has authority to define the outcome. Christ in us is greater than all visible contradiction. “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4, KJV). We do not measure our reach by the severity of need. We measure our reach by Christ in us, and Christ in us is not inferior to disease, injury, or bodily affliction.

Our arms are not mere human limbs acting alone. Our arms are yielded instruments through which Christ expresses His healing life now. We do not speak about outreach as if we carry a message without manifestation. We carry Christ. We do not stretch forth empty hands. We stretch forth hands belonging to the Body of Christ. We do not separate proclamation from healing, because Christ in us is whole, alive, and active now. When we reach, we reach from union. When we minister, we minister from completion. When we lay hands on the sick, we do not offer possibility alone. We extend the present life of Christ toward visible need.

The world trains people to treat visible conditions as settled truth. Religion often trained us to lower expectation when symptoms looked severe. Yet Christ never bowed to visible lack, and Christ in us does not bow now. We do not say that sickness becomes honorable because it stayed long. We do not say that weakness becomes untouchable because experts described it thoroughly. We do not say that pain becomes permanent because it returned often. “With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26, KJV). Christ in us destroys the tyranny of visible finality, and we refuse to honor the impossible above the indwelling One.

We also reject the lie that outreach belongs only to speech while healing belongs to some distant category of rare visitation. Christ in us is not divided. The same Christ who speaks through us heals through us. The same Christ who sends us also manifests through us. Therefore we do not step toward people with a reduced gospel. We do not preach a word emptied of present expression. We reach with the health of Christ because Christ Himself lives in us now. Our message and our ministry agree. Our doctrine and our action agree. Our union and our reach agree. Christ in us heals, and therefore our outreach carries bodily wholeness now.

We do not let long battles intimidate us. We do not let visible loss silence us. We do not let resistance persuade us that Christ is absent. The presence of resistance is not proof of defeat. The presence of symptoms is not proof of authority. The presence of weakness is not proof of finality. Christ in us remains present, whole, and active. Therefore we remain bold. We keep speaking. We keep reaching. We keep laying hands. We keep declaring life. We keep ministering wholeness. We do not retreat into explanation when Christ calls us into manifestation. We do not let appearance disciple us away from bold obedience in outreach and healing.

So we settle this now: visible conditions do not stop Christ in us. Doctors do not outrank Christ in us. History does not overrule Christ in us. Pain does not define truth. Bodily affliction does not possess final say. We stand in union, we move in boldness, and we reach with the health of Christ. We do not call impossible what Christ indwells. We do not call hopeless what Christ touches through us. We do not call final what Christ has entered. We reach now, minister now, and declare now that the health of Christ extends through us into bodies, into lives, and into visible need.

Chapter 2: We Refuse Lesser Expectations Than Christ

We refuse every lesser expectation that religion, fear, and visible contradiction tried to teach us. We refuse the language that says healing belongs in theory but not in our hands. We refuse the message that tells us to preach Christ while expecting bodies to remain untouched. We refuse the tradition that honors sickness by speaking about it more boldly than it speaks about Christ in us. Christ does not produce reduced expectation. Christ in us does not teach us to shrink back from visible need. Therefore we do not lower our reach to fit human conclusions. We lift our reach to the measure of the indwelling Christ who ministers now.

Fear taught many to speak cautiously where Christ speaks clearly. Tradition taught many to admire healing in Scripture while expecting little in present ministry. Unbelief taught many to call boldness pride and to call reduced expectation wisdom. Yet Christ in us does not train us to agree with powerless patterns. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8, KJV). If Christ is the same, then we do not build a ministry of lesser outcomes than His present life allows. We do not protect ourselves with careful unbelief. We do not hide behind disappointment. We let Christ in us define expectation, language, and outreach now.

Many learned to say that healing may happen somewhere, someday, to someone, but not to speak as though Christ ministers bodily wholeness through us now. That pattern does not come from union. That pattern treats Christ as distant, hesitant, or selectively near. We reject it. Christ in us is not abstract. Christ in us is not symbolic. Christ in us is not locked in doctrine without manifestation. We do not speak like empty messengers delivering information about a far-off answer. We speak as the Body through whom Christ reaches. We speak as those in whom the answer lives now. Therefore our expectation rises to match the One who indwells us and works through us.

Reduced expectation also grows when people let visible severity become their theology. A diagnosis sounds large, and expectation shrinks. A condition stays long, and confidence shrinks. A person suffers greatly, and ministry becomes hesitant. We reject that entire pattern. The size of the need does not redefine the size of Christ in us. The age of the condition does not reduce His life. The complexity of the body does not confuse the One who formed it. “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth” (Mark 9:23, KJV). We therefore refuse to make bodily difficulty the measure of ministry. Christ in us remains the measure.

We also reject the language of delay that hides unbelief behind religious patience. We do not say that bold healing ministry must wait for another season. We do not say that our reach becomes lawful only after perfect conditions appear. We do not say that Christ in us requires visible permission from pain, medicine, or timing before we speak and lay hands. We do not turn waiting into doctrine. We do not turn passivity into reverence. Christ in us ministers now, so we minister now. Christ in us is present now, so our expectation stands now. We do not need appearance to authorize what union already established within us.

Fear also taught many to protect their reputation rather than reveal Christ. If nothing changes, people may judge; therefore some stay silent. If the need looks severe, some avoid direct command. If the body appears broken, some step back from bold outreach. We reject that fear. Our aim is not self-protection. Our aim is Christ expressed through us now. We do not reach to preserve ourselves. We reach to reveal Him. We do not speak cautiously to defend human image. We speak clearly because Christ in us is worthy of open declaration. The fear of being wrong cannot govern us when the indwelling Christ governs our reach and our action.

So we refuse every expectation smaller than Christ. We refuse the doctrine of reduction. We refuse the habit of retreat. We refuse the church language that lets visible need speak louder than union. We refuse fear, tradition, and disappointment as teachers. Christ in us sets the standard. Christ in us lifts expectation. Christ in us heals now and ministers bodily wholeness with boldness. Therefore we do not apologize for believing greatly. We do not excuse lesser outcomes as spiritual maturity. We reach, speak, lay hands, and minister from the measure of Christ Himself. Our expectation does not bow low, because Christ in us remains high and present now.

Chapter 3: Christ in Us Is the Present Answer

Christ in us is not a future solution waiting for a better hour. Christ in us is the present answer now. We do not stand before sickness as though we are alone and asking for help from the outside. We do not stand before bodily weakness as though the answer remains far away. The answer dwells in us now. Christ in us is life now, health now, authority now, and wholeness now. Therefore we do not minister from distance. We minister from union. We do not reach outward while imagining emptiness within. We reach outward because Christ Himself lives within us and expresses His life through our very members now.

Union changes the whole posture of ministry. Without union, people talk as though they are trying to bring Christ near. With union, we know Christ is already present in us. Without union, people plead from lack. With union, we speak from fullness. Without union, people treat healing as a remote possibility. With union, we treat bodily wholeness as flowing from the indwelling One. “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27, KJV). We do not interpret that glory as distant only. We understand that the living Christ within us is the source of visible manifestation now. Our outreach therefore begins in settled union, not in uncertainty or separation.

Christ in us means we do not face the impossible as mere human effort confronting a larger natural problem. Christ in us means the Creator’s life is present in the Body now. Christ in us means our arms do not carry a separate ministry from Him. Christ in us means our reach is joined to His indwelling presence. Therefore we do not speak timidly over bodies. We do not minister as though the flesh has the stronger testimony. We do not act as though we must persuade Christ to care. Christ in us is already the caring One, already the healing One, already the living One, and already the answer moving through us into visible need.

Because Christ in us is the answer, we reject all speech that describes us as abandoned before sickness. We reject all speech that glorifies frailty as though union stops at inward comfort alone. Christ in us touches the body. Christ in us ministers wholeness. Christ in us reaches into visible pain without surrendering to it. “Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you” (2 Corinthians 13:5, KJV). We know this, and therefore we minister accordingly. We do not divide doctrine from practice. We do not confess indwelling while denying expression. We let what is true within govern what we say, do, command, and expect in outreach.

This also means we do not let another person’s bodily condition define our inward posture. When we see suffering, we do not become smaller inside. When we see damage, we do not become uncertain within. When we see pain, we do not let union fall silent. We let Christ in us remain the louder fact. Our compassion does not become passive sympathy. Our compassion becomes active ministry flowing from the indwelling Christ. We reach with clarity because He is present. We lay hands with boldness because He is present. We speak to bodies with authority because He is present. We minister health because the Answer Himself lives in us now.

Christ in us also protects us from exaggerating human limitation. We do not deny the existence of symptoms, but we deny their right to reign. We do not deny the report of the body, but we deny its supremacy over the indwelling Christ. We do not minister by pretending conditions are not real. We minister by declaring that Christ in us is more real, more authoritative, and more final than bodily contradiction. That is why our outreach remains bold in the face of visible weakness. The indwelling Christ does not retreat because a need looks severe. Therefore we do not retreat either. We stand where union placed us and minister from there.

So we declare together that Christ in us is the present answer. He is not external to our ministry. He is not absent from our hands. He is not silent in the face of bodily need. He is our life, our health, our boldness, and our reach now. Therefore we do not shrink before impossibility. We do not describe ourselves as weak containers hoping for occasional help. We are the Body in whom Christ dwells and through whom Christ ministers now. We reach with the health of Christ because Christ Himself is our present answer. Our arms extend what union already made true, and our outreach reveals the indwelling life of Christ now.

Chapter 4: We Receive Before Sight Agrees

We receive before sight agrees because Jesus taught us to believe before appearance yields. We do not wait for the body to change before we stand in faith. We do not wait for pain to leave before we speak as those who have received. We do not wait for visible confirmation before we extend our arms in bold outreach. Christ in us makes receiving present-tense. Therefore we refuse the lie that manifestation must be seen first in order to be true. We receive from union before the natural eye reports agreement. We stand in Christ before symptoms bow, and we minister from that settled reception into visible bodily need now.

Believing reception does not mean pretending. It means agreeing with Christ before the body finishes yielding. It means receiving what He says above what symptoms say. It means taking His word as greater than the report of pain, weakness, swelling, injury, or diagnosis. “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24, KJV). We do not reverse that order. We do not say we must first see and then receive. We receive because Christ said so, and because Christ dwells in us now, our receiving is not empty mental effort but union-based faith.

Sight trained many people to act only after evidence appeared. Religion then added the lie that faith must wait its turn behind visible change. We reject both errors. Faith does not trail behind manifestation as a late explanation. Faith receives first. Faith speaks first. Faith lays hands first. Faith reaches first. We do not need the body to vote before we obey Christ. We do not need appearance to authorize our ministry. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1, KJV). Therefore we do not bow to sight as judge. We let receiving faith govern our words, our actions, and our outreach.

This matters deeply in healing ministry because bodily contradiction can speak loudly. Symptoms repeat. Pain returns. Tests report concerning facts. Yet none of that changes the order Jesus gave us. We believe that we receive. We do not believe after we receive visible proof. We do not construct a doctrine from delay. We do not let a temporary contradiction become our teacher. Christ in us remains present while the body is still yielding. Therefore our faith does not collapse when sight hesitates. We keep receiving. We keep speaking. We keep laying hands. We keep reaching. We keep agreeing with Christ until what is already true in Him manifests visibly in the body.

Believing reception also destroys the lie that faith must be earned through effort, intensity, or emotional strain. We do not work ourselves into receiving. We do not need heightened sensation to prove that Christ is present. We do not need a dramatic atmosphere before we can minister health. Christ in us is the basis of our reception. Union, not strain, governs our faith. Christ has already established the ground on which we stand. Therefore we receive in rest, speak in boldness, and act in clarity. Our confidence is not in our ability to feel something deeply. Our confidence is in the indwelling Christ who remains present and active now.

Because we receive before sight agrees, we do not let the first unchanged moment define the final outcome. We do not stop at the first resistance. We do not call the body final while Christ is still being declared over it. We continue from the place of reception. We continue from union. We continue with our arms extended in Christ’s health. We bless, command, lay hands, and speak because we have received in faith. We do not minister as gamblers guessing at outcomes. We minister as those who stand on Christ’s word and carry His present life into visible bodily contradiction now, without retreat and without apology.

So we settle this doctrine in our practice: we receive before sight agrees. We believe before the symptom yields. We stand before the report changes. We reach before the evidence appears. Christ in us taught us this order, and Christ in us upholds us in it. Therefore we do not let vision rule over faith. We do not let appearance overrule reception. We do not let delay silence bold outreach. We believe that we receive, and we minister bodily wholeness from that place now. Our arms move in agreement with Christ, our words stay aligned with union, and our outreach refuses to wait for sight before it obeys.

Chapter 5: Our Arms Extend Christ’s Authority

Our arms extend Christ’s authority now. We do not treat our outreach as a symbolic gesture without force. We do not lay hands as a ritual that only expresses hope. We lay hands because Christ in us ministers through His Body now. Our arms are not separate from union. Our hands are not cut off from indwelling life. Therefore when we ask, speak, bless, command, and stand, we do so in Christ’s authority. We do not beg sickness to leave politely as though it holds lawful ground. We speak from the finished work of Christ and from His present life in us, and our outreach carries governing authority now.

Authority-filled ministry begins with asking in union, not in distance. We ask in faith because Christ abides in us now and His words abide in us now. “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you” (John 15:7, KJV). We do not ask as strangers hoping to be noticed. We ask as those joined to Christ. We ask from indwelling life. We ask from covenant certainty. Our asking is not timid because union is not timid. Our asking flows from Christ’s own life in us, and therefore our outreach remains bold when bodily need stands before us.

Authority also speaks. We do not only ask inwardly and remain silent outwardly. Christ in us speaks to what contradicts His life. We bless the person before us. We command pain to leave. We command strength to arise. We command bodies to align with the life of Christ. We speak directly because Christ did not train us to whisper around oppression, weakness, or sickness. “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues” (Mark 16:17, KJV). Believing does not end in inward agreement alone. Believing speaks, commands, and extends Christ’s authority into visible contradiction now.

Our authority is never independent force. We do not act as self-powered ministers trying to make something happen through human will. We act as the Body through whom Christ expresses Himself now. That is why boldness belongs in our outreach without pride. We are not magnifying ourselves when we speak clearly to bodily need. We are magnifying Christ in us. We are not exalting our hands when we lay them on the sick. We are acknowledging His life in us. Therefore our commands do not come from fleshly confidence. They come from union. They come from Christ-centered certainty. They come from the finished work alive and active in us now.

We also stand. Authority does not fold because resistance appears. We do not step back when symptoms protest. We do not retreat because a condition looks stubborn. We stand in Christ and continue ministering. We stand in what He finished. We stand in what He indwells. We stand in what He authorized. Our arms are not extended for a moment only and then withdrawn at the first contradiction. We remain steady in outreach. We remain steady in blessing. We remain steady in command. We remain steady in laying hands. Christ in us does not panic when need looks severe, so our authority remains settled and active now.

Because our arms extend Christ’s authority, outreach and healing stay joined together. We do not preach a Christ we will not demonstrate. We do not talk about indwelling life while withholding our hands from bodies in need. We do not separate doctrine from touch, or truth from command, or union from manifestation. Christ in us reaches. Christ in us blesses. Christ in us speaks. Christ in us ministers bodily wholeness. Therefore our outreach does not stop at information. It moves into action. It lays hold of visible need with present authority, and it refuses to let sickness, pain, or bodily disorder speak as though they outrank the indwelling Christ.

So we use our arms as instruments of Christ’s authority now. We ask in faith. We bless with clarity. We lay hands boldly. We command bodies with settled union. We stand without retreat. We do not call our outreach weak when Christ in us is strong. We do not call our touch empty when Christ in us is present. We do not call our words uncertain when Christ in us is the Truth. Our arms extend the authority of the indwelling Christ, and therefore our outreach is active, clear, and healing-filled now. What Christ indwells, He authorizes, and what He authorizes, we now express through obedient action.

Chapter 6: Impossible Conditions Yield to Christ in Us

Impossible conditions yield to Christ in us because Christ in us is not limited by what the body reports. We do not call a condition unmovable because it resisted for years. We do not call a diagnosis final because it sounded precise. We do not call bodily weakness permanent because others adjusted to it. Christ in us remains greater than every visible contradiction. Therefore we expect yielding. We expect pain to leave. We expect strength to return. We expect order to answer Christ. We expect visible change because the indwelling life of Christ is not theoretical in our outreach. When we minister, we minister with the conviction that impossible conditions do yield to Him now.

Jesus never treated impossible bodily conditions as rightful rulers. Blind eyes, withered limbs, deaf ears, fevers, crippling weakness, and long affliction did not instruct Him to lower expectation. Christ in us carries that same present authority now. “The works that I do shall he do also” (John 14:12, KJV). We do not reduce that word into distant admiration. We let it instruct our hands, our speech, and our outreach. We do not claim that our generation must accept lesser manifestation as wisdom. We accept Christ’s own standard. Impossible conditions yield to Him, and therefore our ministry does not bow before sickness, pain, immobility, or persistent bodily disorder.

The yielding may confront many forms of contradiction. Pain may have ruled for years. Strength may have diminished slowly. Mobility may have narrowed over time. Sleep may have been broken. Breathing may have been strained. Internal systems may have worked poorly. Bodies may have carried injury, inflammation, weakness, or recurring cycles of distress. Yet none of these forms of contradiction outrank the indwelling Christ. We do not rank conditions by intimidation and then adjust our boldness accordingly. We rank all bodily need beneath Christ in us. Therefore our ministry stays clear. We lay hands, speak to the body, bless what belongs to Christ, and expect yielding where contradiction once dominated.

We also understand that yielding is not produced by spectacle. We are not pursuing astonishment for its own sake. We are revealing Christ in us now. We do not exaggerate. We do not invent drama. We do not use bodily need as a platform for hype. We minister with sober boldness because the indwelling Christ is real. We speak clearly because His life is present. We expect change because His life is active. That keeps our outreach clean and direct. We are not trying to impress people with impossible stories. We are declaring and demonstrating that impossible conditions yield where Christ is present in His Body and expressed through our obedient hands now.

When conditions seem resistant, we do not let that resistance become our theology. We do not say that the body has spoken the last word. We do not surrender to visible delay. We continue to bless, speak, lay hands, and command in Christ. “And they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” (Mark 16:18, KJV). We take that as present instruction, not abandoned history. We do not apologize for acting on it. We do not hold back our hands until the environment feels safer. We minister now, because Christ in us is present now. Yielding belongs under His authority, and our outreach reveals that authority in action.

This yielding also teaches us not to glorify the impossible. We do not build language around how difficult something looks. We build language around how present Christ is. We do not disciple ourselves into caution by repeating how severe the condition appears. We disciple ourselves into boldness by confessing union. Christ in us heals now and ministers bodily wholeness with boldness. Therefore impossible conditions are not our teachers. Christ is our teacher. Symptoms are not our master. Christ is our Lord. Visible contradiction is not our final report. Christ in us is the final report, and our outreach carries that report into the body until the contradiction yields visibly.

So we move forward with settled conviction: impossible conditions yield to Christ in us. We do not retreat from strong cases. We do not avoid prolonged suffering. We do not step back from visible weakness. We reach, lay hands, speak, and stand because Christ in us remains present, whole, and active now. Our outreach is not shaped by intimidation but by union. Our expectation is not shaped by bodily history but by Christ’s indwelling life. We expect yielding because He is present. We minister bodily wholeness because He is present. We do not call impossible what Christ indwells, and therefore we keep reaching until visible contradiction answers His life.

Chapter 7: We Go Forth Reaching in Christ’s Health

We go forth now reaching in Christ’s health. We do not stay behind the safety of discussion when Christ sends us into visible need. We ask in faith now. We believe that we receive now. We walk as Christ now. We do not call impossible what Christ indwells now. Our arms are not reserved for private theory. Our arms are sent into the world as instruments of Christ’s bodily wholeness. Therefore we go to the sick, the weak, the hurting, the diagnosed, the exhausted, and the afflicted. We do not go as spectators. We go as the Body through whom Christ reaches, touches, blesses, commands, and ministers health now.

We ask in faith and refuse hesitation. We believe that we receive and refuse reversal. We walk as Christ and refuse reduced expectation. We do not call impossible what Christ indwells, and we do not let visible contradiction preach louder than union. “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24, KJV). We obey that word now. We ask before sight agrees. We receive before symptoms yield. We reach before evidence appears. We do not wait for the body to authorize our faith. We act because Christ in us already authorized our bold obedience.

So we speak to the mountain now. We preach the Kingdom now. We heal the sick now. We lay hands now. We cast out demons now. We raise the dead now. These commands are not distant slogans. These commands are present commissions flowing from the indwelling Christ. We do not hold them at the level of admiration. We bring them into action. We do not preach a Kingdom without reach. We do not speak about union without touch. We do not say Christ lives in us while withholding our hands from those in need. Christ in us commands movement, and therefore we go forth with our arms extended in healing now.

We speak directly to pain. We command weakness to leave. We command strength to arise. We command order into the body. We bless joints, organs, blood, nerves, bones, muscles, skin, lungs, hearts, minds, and every visible place of distress. We do not speak vaguely around affliction. We address it in the authority of Christ in us. “In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues” (Mark 16:17, KJV). His name is not absent from us. His name is active in us. Therefore our speech becomes bold, direct, and healing-filled. We do not shrink our words when Christ has enlarged our commission.

We also refuse delay as a ministry habit. We do not say we will start later. We do not say bold outreach belongs to another group. We do not say bodily wholeness is for special moments only. We do not wait until visible need becomes easier. We move now. We reach now. We lay hands now. We command now. We bless now. We preach now. We do not make readiness a future target because Christ in us is present readiness now. What remains is obedience. What remains is action. What remains is bold movement into the places where sickness, pain, weakness, and oppression tried to speak with finality over bodies and lives.

Our commission is clear. Ask in faith. Believe that we receive. Walk as Christ. Do not call impossible what Christ indwells. Speak to the mountain. Heal the sick. Lay hands. Cast out demons. Raise the dead. Minister bodily wholeness. Reach with boldness. Stretch forth our arms as instruments of the indwelling Christ. Refuse fear. Refuse tradition. Refuse lesser expectation. Refuse visible finality. We are not sent empty. We are sent full of Christ. We are not reaching alone. Christ reaches in us. We are not trying to produce life. Christ is our life. Therefore our outreach becomes the expression of His health now in the earth.

So we go forth together without retreat. We do not reduce the gospel to speech alone. We do not separate preaching from healing. We do not separate union from action. We do not separate Christ in us from bodily wholeness ministered through us now. We go with faith. We go with command. We go with touch. We go with blessing. We go with the authority of Christ in us. We go with present health, present life, and present boldness. Our arms are extended, our words are clear, and our outreach is active. We reach with the health of Christ now, and we do not stop where visible impossibility tries to stand against Him.