When Rick Lawson experienced revival during a Life Action Summit, he was convicted that he needed to clear his conscience.

Five years earlier, he'd lied on an application for a security clearance, hiding past drug use.

Even though the maximum penalty for lying was 10 years in jail or a $10,000 fine, he knew he had to make things right.

The paperwork fit in a number 10 envelope. And I filled that out, took it to work again. And it took me

about three tries to walk from my desk down to the security office. And I would be thinking

thoughts like, Rick, you know, if there's no God, then you're going to throw your security office. And I would be thinking thoughts like,

Rick, you know, if there's no God,

then you're going to throw your life away,

and it's unrecoverable.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, April 13, 2016. Thank you. Nancy's in a series called A Clear Conscience.

Yesterday, we took a break from the teaching to see what a clear conscience

looks like in real life.

God used a team from Life Action Ministries who visited Rick Lawson's church.

He experienced revival.

And that led to that very difficult paperwork describing lying and drug use.

If you miss part one of Rick's story, you can hear it at revive our hearts.com.

Nancy and Rick will pick the conversation back up.

So I took a day of vacation, actually, from work, came home, filled out all the security

paperwork again. If you check yes in those boxes, then you have to give an account of everything

that you did. I was fairly heavily involved with that kind of thing in college, so it took

me a while to fill out the paperwork. The paperwork fit in a number 10 envelope, and I filled that

out, took it to work again, and it took me about three tries to walk from my desk down to the

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