 Can you please help me welcome Paul as he comes up to the stage Wow, man. What did you do? You really got the shout It's good to see you Thank you so much for coming up here and are willing to share your testimony with everyone here and also with those Who will be watching or rewatching us on Livestream and we believe that it's gonna bless a lot of people Let's start off with your name and where you're from and why are you in tri cities? I'm almost convinced that everybody knows my name in church, but it's Paulus and I'm from Lithuania, which is in Europe Yeah, and I came as an intern here And it's a privilege for me to be here and share my testimony actually come on guys Let's put our hands together for him being all the way from Lithuania and Thank you so much for coming again. Would you please share with us? What was your life like before you met Jesus Christ? I think I call my testimony is a week Jesus victory over my life because you know like I Was like race and not Christian family. I mean Catholics, but not Christians actually and I was born in a small city And the only one the only way to get out of this little city was the good grades and go to the university So I was a very good student and I managed to get to the university in Vilnius in capital And then the all the things the happy things so-called came to my life Like girls sex drugs or control everything You can imagine like parties techno music everything like that And and I mean it didn't take me long to get down on the on the track And I was the greasing as a person my morality went up my conscious conscience was like switched Switching off a little bit and my moral values go down And I got into depression of course and depression addiction depression a lot of girls Kazanova lifestyle even though my Finances and I managed to set up business So I was like, you know Two polices were like one is like empty and the other is like socially powerful Money traveling and everything like that, but I was lost from inside an empty Yeah, so With you like you mentioned to me that you were searching for truth And what are the things that you actually dimpled into before coming to Jesus Christ? Would you please tell us about that and yes the main reason I actually I Started to meditate because my friends see this lost in me is depression and he said Polish You cannot do it by your own you need to meditate and then I started this meditation and I got some really out of body Experiences and stuff like like very serious stuff and I got involved into New Age religion very soon after I went out of my body I had this very Spiritual illegal experiences. I realized that there is God But it was not a true God and I start to get involved in all this Vedas So all this kind of meditation yoga shaman is Tantra. Dao it crystals Psychedelics ayahuasca everything you can imagine I was there and before Jesus I like two years. I was all radically Searching you know for the truth and going as an evolution, you know, I yeah into enlightenment So this search for truth and for fulfillment. You were depressed led you eventually into all of those those dark things and would that help you What did you find at the end of the day? Last year. I was in my bed after drinking juice Vegetable juice for 35 days. I lost 44 pounds On top of that all the meditation breathing exercises yoga. I was like mentally emotionally spiritually In very bad condition and I thought that I would die actually I was I couldn't lift the book I was so weak and I was so like depressed and everything and in this bed actually I Found one book somehow came to me and it was like a diary of one Christian on all days And it was like a diary of Jesus prayer the power of Jesus prayer Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me and this this prayer just it popped out from this book and I just the time stopped and I felt like you know this supernatural peace I started to cry and I realized you know, that's like Jesus is really calling me to step out and I I mean at that time I was hopeless Come on you guys. Let's put our hands together for Jesus Christ Our God is so good in such a dark moment of his life where when he was feeling like about to you know die or disappear and Jesus used that little verse of the book to pop out to him and touch him at that moment. So what happened at that moment? Well, I just started you know to repent and I just really felt you know the Actually every soul Understands when its creator comes to it. I mean I was I had all kinds of experiences Blissfulness is ecstasies in these new age practices. I experienced everything You know every nice feeling, but it was not God and then the real true God comes to your bed You really feel it. It's you cannot you know It's incomparable and that this shalom this peace came upon me Nothing can compare with our God when the presence of the Holy Spirit comes there is nothing that can compare with that amen Yes, amen. Amen. Yes, God is really good and and yeah the following four months. I started to repent I was crying. I also experienced all kind of manifestations But I pray was praying for four or five hours a day this prayer until I got born again and then So wait a second. So since that time for every day, you were praying for five hours That exact that prayer that came out of that diary, right? And you were praying and praying what kind of manifestations were you experiencing? Was it deliverance that took place? Yeah, of course I mean I was like since I was in this yoga Kundalini practices. I was not free and since you know, like pray for one hour you can feel you know that you know in body manifestations and no nothing no one could help me from Catholic tradition, unfortunately So I was looking for truth how to you know set me free and and then I got born again and I met the born again people who helped me to get the liver full deliverance kind of and Yeah, and God is really good and but during this month. I also experienced his grace and his mercy He showed me all of my sins. I made my sin list like 12 pages and Yeah, and I got this instant freedom, you know, like I get more and more free and it was a blessing You know to just experience this even though it was very hard, but it was a blessing to experience this journey What an amazing amazing God we serve amen Now Paul us with all of this would you please share with us? How is your life now different? After you receive Jesus Christ, it's you know, I mean It's 180 degrees different. I'm now I'm engaged. I'm I'm not isolated. I love people. My heart is changed. I don't need any practices to make me love people I don't need any yoga to make me better person. I have Christ in me Who's living in me and that's more than enough that's more than enough And I mean all the relationship with my family is getting better everything just increasing and of course It was hard times. It's not like some kind of rose Tinted glasses on me But I mean I I'm in the season where I'm really blessed to be here in America to learn to get grounded in the faith And actually I don't know just like I'm surrendering to everything what he has to offer So powerful Couple more things Do you feel like the search for truth and fulfillment has been actually ended for you with meeting Jesus Christ? I've read 100 books before Jesus about new age and occult and not not occult and you yoga out of the autobiographies Didn't give me any satisfaction I was hungry and hungry and hungry and when I when I put the Bible for the first time in my life I got satisfaction and Nothing can satisfy me can't satisfy a person nor glory nor business nor money Nor girls nor sex nor drugs nor rock and roll nothing nor even enlightenment can satisfy a person and only Jesus can satisfy a person Hallelujah Come on That is so powerful Paulus we are so happy for you and we celebrate what God has done in your life together with you today and We just want to hear your advice to people who might be struggling with some things you've gone through and maybe those that Okay. Yeah pastor wants me to ask one question. How did you hear about? Hungry Jen ministry and our internship program. Yeah, that's actually at the same time I met my future wife I heard about this church to like more than two months ago I met my vivetta my girl which which we came together here and she mentioned and there's a this practical Bible school With a supernatural ministry and I was praying for that and she was praying for a person to come together So, you know everything was like that and I I didn't research I just prayed about it and it happened to be and I didn't take any time to decide. I just like let's go That's awesome. So how you feel now being here in the internship. How is it impacting you so far? It's been two weeks now. I mean I had bigger and I had good expectations But it's it's just overflow money my any expectation I had I mean teachers people love here and Feeling that the Holy Spirit is really boss here. It's like whatever I need is That is so awesome. Thank you so much for sharing and lastly, would you please share word of advice to people who might be? searching for truth or dumbling into different kind of Teachings and that are not from Jesus Christ. What would you tell them? I would tell them that you know, I was Sensitive person. I was going after my heart But I didn't know at that time that you cannot trust your heart and actually new age is teaching to trust your heart But when I trusted my heart in my life, it went to all kinds of sins So I suggest people to trust the word of God and not your heart Come on, let's put our hands together one more time Thank you Jesus. Thank you so much. We appreciate you sharing your testimony. Thank you. Thank you. Wow wasn't that powerful? Nothing gets better when you hear how God Changes people's lives and how he brings them to his to himself to his presence and how the life The life when when it was empty now satisfied when it was going straight to hell and living in hell and earth Now is with the Lord Jesus Christ, amen