Praise the Lord 7 Oct 1982 Paul Crouch and Jan Crouch host Laverne Tripp, Lee Mcveigh and E V Hill

Laverne Tripp gave his testimony on television about how he used to be a Christian and secretly smoked pot and how the Lord set him free from it and then this hardened prisoner(Lee Mcveigh) was watching it on TV and then on this program Jan and Laverne went to visit him and he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. Jump to 20:56 for the interview.
Then jump to 51:06 to another powerful testimony of a former criminal named Sneaky Pete whose life was completely transformed by Jesus Christ
Laverne Trip's testimony:
Satan made gospel singer and evangelist LaVerne Tripp feel so guilty with this lie that the mental torment finally led him to attempt suicide. He gave up smoking pot after accepting Jesus, but he was overwhelmed with guilt when he later began smoking it again and could not stop. He felt that God surely must have given up on him for being a hypocrite-trying to live a drug-free life when he knew he did not have the willpower to quit on his own. As he poured a bottle of sleeping pills into his hand, the phone rang; it was an old friend with whom he had not spoken for a year.
The friend told LaVerne he had been praying earlier. The Lord supernaturally had impressed upon him that LaVerne was in trouble and that he should call LaVerne at his office. LaVerne admitted that he was about to attempt suicide, and the friend showed LaVerne how the devil had lied to him and convinced him to take the pills. The friend pointed out that one does not have to be “good enough” to be a Christian and to make it to heaven. One’s salvation has nothing to do with how strictly one follows the law, because salvation cannot be earned; rather, salvation is a free gift, received by putting faith and trust in the redeeming blood of Jesus Christ. In LaVerne’s own words, “I recognized the truth when I heard it. It came to me as a revelation that set me free. He thereafter was able to “kick” the drug habit by the Power of the Holy Spirit through Jesus, not by his own efforts. Since then, he has won thousands of lost souls to Christ, a great defeat for Satan (something Satan apparently sensed would happen and why he wanted LaVerne dead) and victory for God.