Can I tell you something?" I asked. Never before had I felt led to tell anyone the full story about my experiences, dreams, and visions. For nearly three hours, I poured out my heart about things only the Lord and I knew about. anniversary of this classic with more than one million copies sold. Revised and updated with bonus study guide included.

In my upbringing, bargaining with God wasn't unusual. And olive oil was a precious commodity. So I made the vow.

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than I had ever known. It was not by reading a book. Or following a formula—A, B, C. It was just by asking the Holy Spirit to open the Word to me. And He did. " . . . as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, 'Abba, Father'" (Rom. 8:14-15). Immediately I was wide awake. At the time I could scarcely understand what was happening, but it wasn't a dream. Those kinds of feelings don't happen in a dream. God allowed me to experience a vision that would create an indelible impression on my young life.

My eyes were closed. Then, like a jolt of electricity, my body began to vibrate all over—exactly as it had through the two hours I waited to get into the church. It was the same shaking I had felt for another hour once inside. It was at that moment, at a charismatic service in an Anglican church, that this good little Catholic from a Greek Orthodox home made a public confession of his acceptance of Christ. "Jesus," I said, "I'm asking you to be the Lord of my life." The book was first published in 1990, then revised and expanded in 2004. Millions of copies have been sold.Woe is me, for I am undone!Because I am a man of unclean lips,And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;For my eyes have seen the King,The LORD of hosts. (Isa. 6:5)