can you please help me welcome Paulus as he comes up to the stage wow man what
did you do you really got the shouts going on it's good to see you thank you so much for
coming out 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 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 testimonies Jesus victory over my
life because you know like I was like raised in non 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 all the things the happy thing so
called came to my life like girl sex drugs and rock and roll 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 degreasing 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 casanova lifestyle even
though my finances and I managed to set up business so I was like you know two
policies very much like one is like empty
and the other is like socially powerful money traveling and everything like that
but I was lost from inside and empty so would you like you mentioned to me that
you were searching for truth and what are the things that you actually doubled
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 his depression and he said paulus 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 in the 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 true God and I start to get involved in all these Vedas so all this kind of
meditation yoga shamanism Tantra Dawa it crystals of psychedelics
you ask everything you can't 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 yeah and enlightenment so this a search for truth
and for fulfillment you were depressed led you eventually into all of this
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 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 and 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 you
you know died or disappeared and Jesus used that little verse of the book to
pop out to him and touched him at that moment so what happened at that moment
so I just started you know to repent and I just really felt you know actually
every soul understands when its creator comes to it I mean I was I get all kinds
of experiences blissfulness is extra Z's 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 and I just
nothing can compare with our God but the presence of the holy spirit comes there
is nothing that can compare with that amen yes God is really good and and yeah
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 the 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 we don't like pray for one hour
you can feel it you know that you know in body manifestations and no nothing no
one could help me from Catholics 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
like born again people who helped me to get deliver 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 sinlist like twelve
pages and yeah and I got this instant freedom you know like I guess more and
more free and it was a blessing you know to just experience this even though it
was very hard but this it was a blessing to experience this journey what an
amazing amazing God we serve amen now Paulus 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 now I'm engaged I'm
I'm not isolated I love people my heart has 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 living in me and that's more than enough
that's more than enough and I mean all the relationship with my families
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
cause everything what he has to offer so powerful a couple more things do you
feel like the search for truth and fulfilment has been actually ended for
you with meeting Jesus Christ I've read 100 books before Jesus about New Age and
occult and a new yoga autobiographies didn't give me any satisfaction I was
hungry and hungry and hungry and when I put a Bible for the first time in
my life I got satisfaction and nothing can satisfy me it can't satisfy a
person nor glory nor business nor money nor girls nor sex nor drugs not
rock'n'roll nothing nor even enlightenment can satisfy a person and
only Jesus can satisfy a person 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 gen ministry and our internship program yes
that's actually at the same time I met my future wife I heard about this church
two-like took more than two months ago I met my Bavetta my girl which which we
came together here and she mentioned and there's a this practical Bible School
with the 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
do 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 just overflowing my any expectation I had I mean teachers people love here
and and feeling that the Holy Spirit is really boss here it's like whatever I
need is like it come on Holy Spirit is the boss here 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 doubling in to 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 a 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 why 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 is satisfied when it was going straight to hell and living in Hell on
Earth now is with the Lord Jesus Christ amen