I had lost most of my friends, I had given up on any hope of a career or just about anything you’d like to name that was important. I had lost my girlfriend. I was asked to leave my apartment when my lease came due. I look back now and I was doing things that I can’t conceive of myself doing now but I was doing them and embracing it almost.
MOTHER: I had been listening to Richard Roberts for quite a while now and I had been trying to get my Richard to listen to the program. So when I received the wafers for the communion service, I myself… I didn’t even know where Richard Roberts was at that point, so when I received them, I carried those with me to Los Angeles because I didn’t think I’d be back in time enough to have them here. And then I found him in Los Angeles at the hotel and then he came home.
She turned on the program and we sat and prayed together and we took the communion along with Richard on the show and I felt…. it’s hard to explain but I felt kind of lightened like a lot had been lifted off me, a lot of the heaviness had been lifted off of me. And at that point I immediately….. not immediately but in the rest of that day I drank half as much as I’d been
drinking and even less the next day. My mother fixed me a large chicken dinner and I asked for seconds and for anybody who drinks, food is way down on the list. And Monday I quit drinking altogether and I haven’t had a drink since. MOTHER: First of all he stopped drinking and second, he’s like he was years ago when he was so sweet and pleasant.
And he wants to do something for somebody else now. He isn’t selfish like…. he started to drink and become selfish and mean in his life and it was very hard to handle. And now he’s totally different.
If it wasn’t for Richard’s show I think I’d either be in a hospital or possibly not walking this earth. I’d be dead. Thank God that I got it turned around and on the right track again, that I got a second chance. A lot of people don’t get one.)
Friend, he is the God of a second chance. He went to the cross for you that you might have a second chance. You may be a lot like that young man. God can turn the situation around in your life. In a few moments we’re going to pray. I want you to get yourself ready. Here we are on the National Day of Prayer but I don’t need a National Day of Prayer to pray. I believe in praying
all the time. And in a few moments we’re going to join together and pray for you.