Hey everybody, Greg Laurie here. You're listening to the Greg Laurie podcast. And my objective is to

deliver, hopefully, compelling practical insights and faith, culture, and current events from a Biblical

perspective to find out more about our ministry, just go to our website, harvest.org. So thanks

for joining me for this podcast. Pastor Greg picks up this riveting story just after his decision

to become a follower of Jesus. At first I was very uncomfortable and I didn't feel like I

fit in and I didn't think that was going to work. But my life started to change and it started to

make more sense to me and hanging out with my old friends was making a whole lot less sense to me

and things were happening in my life. Little prayers I was praying were being answered. I went down

to the Bible bookstore and I saw this Bible. It was a scoffield cross reference. Pastor Greg's

recollection from a radio interview nearly 20 years ago. And I prayed and I said, God, if you're really

there for me, please provide me with that Bible. And I didn't tell anybody about it. And I called my

grandmother and I told her, Mama's telling, I guess what I've become a Christian and asked Jesus

Christ in my life. And the first thing she said was, well, I want to buy you a Bible. Do you know a

Bible that you'd like to get? And I said, oh God answered my prayer. And so the Lord used my

grandmother to enter that first prayer. And I still use a scoffield by the other day. And so,

but that was, you know, I was just excited because I wanted to tell her because that was a part of it.

It helped to plant the seed that was harvested much later. So those seeds that you planted all those

many years ago, those seeds blossomed, didn't they, Mama Stella? I could see God was changing me

in this anger that I seemingly have for the whole world was gone. And I was actually feeling

a love for people I used to hate. And I thought, this is really radical. I knew that Christ was

changing my life. When we heard that someone had told him about Jesus, we just shouted. Pastor

Greg Sam Willie, Willie Jordan, it was so exciting that Charlene Son had come to Jesus. And what was

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