Oh, come, oh, call me, Matthew.

Stories are important because they are meaningful, and they are meaningful because they are memorable, powerful, and they are personally connect us with each other.

In this podcast, we take names, faces, hopes, and dreams of people of all walks of life.

We are diverse with ages and races.

You will have the opportunity to hear these stories in their own words.

We believe your story and God's story will intersect with the stories of others.

God's story is revealed through scriptures.

Your story is revealed through experiences. Their story is revealed through experiences. Their story is

revealed in life events. Our hope is that through this podcast, we will recognize that God

uses every part of our stories, even the messy parts, to bring glory to himself, draw his children

close and call others into his family. This podcast is the

perfect intersection between your story and God's story. We believe you will leave here inspired,

encouraged, and challenged to share your story with the world. Welcome to the Scriptures and Stories

podcast with your host, Rashon Copeland.

Hey guys, my name is Desire Luster, and my testimony starts about a year and a half ago when I got a call that would forever change my life.

A little bit about me before this moment where my life shifted was I was just graduating from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, which is where I'm from.

And God had blessed me with this amazing opportunity working for a Fortune

500 company. I had a lot of the things that people would say one should have to be deemed successful.

And I had a lot of these things throughout college, if I can be honest. And so in regards to my need or my want or my hunger for God, I won't say it was really there.

I went to church almost every Sunday and I was in the word sometimes and I prayed sometimes.

But I more so knew what people said about God rather than

what I knew about him through a relationship and an experience. And so by the time I got this

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