The moment of my conversion pt 9

these alter calls last forever. It lasted for at least an hour. I think it was longer than that. I think it was an hour and a half. Yeah, I think it was an hour and a half long alter call. And they were singing "Lord let your spirit fall on me" by Shirley Ceasar and I was soloing almost like the whole time for about an hour and a half. And my Grandfather looked at me dead in the eye the moment I was born again, which reminded me he was in the hospital before that. It wasn't that much longer before that that he was in the hospital and I came in the hospital with him and then he looked at me and when you know somebody as well as you know your grandfather you have all that non-verbal communication and I saw that look on his face like, "That's the one. The one who's going to follow me and, you know, he's gonna he's going to be my successor. He's gonna succeed me." and I was like, "you got the wrong person here"; and then the instant that I got saved he looked at me dead in the eye. He knew exactly what had happened.



I was so confused after that. You know. After the service was over somebody I knew all my life he walked straight up to me and asked, "what happened?: You know, what did I say? He said, "Are you saved?" I said, "No." "Then what happened?" Then I described the conversion. And he was just baffled, 'cause I was baffled. I described being born again but the word "being born again" or "saved" actually the word "saved" actually didn't mean anything to me. Even though I had read the Bible back and forth. I could quote scripture and everything I could quote it but I didn't understand it but yet I could explain it to other people. It was thoroughly confusing.



But, leaving out numerous details, uh, my grandfather asked... I joined his church. My grandfather asked me to come to a three day fast--no food, no water. So, I did and I prayed a 72 hour prayer, "Lord give me understanding." It was amazing how I could just pray that same prayer;