so please tell us what your name is uh my name is Everett and I'm an intern
here awesome where where are you originally from san
Francisco area CA nice so for all of our
California's watching out there this is one of yours and he's one of we're
borrowing him so thank you um so everett tell us just start from
the beginning man yeah so I grew up basically no knowledge
of the Bible no knowledge about Jesus just typical
secular upbringing no sunday school nothing like
that and uh you know as life progressed I
started wondering you know the deeper questions because
what I was grew up with didn't explain everything
so in high school I started you know dabbling
uh with the spiritual questions philosophical questions
and sort of got into buddhism meditation started smoking marijuana getting a
little hippie-ish you know trying to I loved the deep
questions going deep and stuff like that so um and then as college came around I
still loved this and it was my passion like
philosophy and and spirituality but I took a degree
in business just for the practical reasons because I
like studying that on my own so I started meeting a lot of people because
I went to boulder which is like the new age capital of the United States
and I started meeting a lot of people in the new age and
I thought it was fascinating and more and more I just knew that the
supernatural was real and that what I was learning in psychology
and in and in addressing sort of mental health it there was a cap
you know it didn't explain everything about the nature of the mind and
thoughts and emotions so I knew that the supernatural was real
and you know I started witnessing uh you
know people who were tormented in ways that that
psychology couldn't explain you know that were supernatural in their
nightmares and their dreams and and in ways like that and so I met a
lot of people in the new age who seemed to have
known how to address these things with their own little modalities their
own healing modalities I was so into healing I was looking for like
what is the best way to heal you know there are so many people suffering
I went through my bout of depression anxiety I
fractured my back in high school i had to quit football
that's when I started smoking a lot of weed and getting into those things so
you know I had my own issues but um I was so passionate about finding
what is the the ideal way to heal and and how can I
help those around me I really felt called towards helping others
um just as my calling and and so in in boulder I just met a lot of people
who psychics uh channelers you know
energy healers and these types of modalities that I was
sort of experimenting in trying to look for you know what was
effective um little did I know there's a big dark
realm of that and you're opening a lot of doors that
you don't realize and that deception's real even if you
have good intentions if you're deceived you are going to pay
for it and it could cost your soul literally
and I didn't realize that until you know I was saved by Jesus Christ
which I never in a million years would have thought would be
happening to me I like the whole word christian
christianity just felt like outdated old religion to control people
you know it's just some some old things so I didn't really know much about it
but these kind of uh supernatural things started happening to me and um
one of them was I was just having lunch with my friend
and I get a facetime on my phone and i pull out the phone I'm like
oh it's from a guy named Luke Abel and I'm like
Luke Abel and I'm like trying to think about his name oh this is a guy on
freshman year on campus who said hey do you believe in God
and he like tried to have a conversation with me and I'm like oh I love these
types of conversations you know not 100 sure whether God's real blah
blah told him all about buddhism and uh we exchanged numbers just because
I wanted to be nice to him never ended up doing Bible study or
talking or anything like that but uh three years later here he is
facetiming me and I'm like okay I'm gonna have lunch
with my friend and later that day I said hey what's up man
and he's like hey what's up and I'm like you facetimed me and he's like no I
didn't and and then he's like number one I
don't facetime people and number two you're three years back
in my texts and I'm like okay the only the only
possible reasons for this is either he's like
some psychotic religious dude trying to convert me with this weird
you know making me think this is some crazy thing or
maybe it was some sort of glitch or you know maybe there's something divine here
maybe he's lying so I'm like all right I felt something
just divine about it and then the curiosity of like I want to look into
this guy's eyes and and ask him like did you click facetime
like did you did you call me so that was an element
buy I felt something divine kind of pushing me towards learning about
Christianity because I learned about all the other different
religions and kind of modalities but never really gave any thought
to the bible you know or to Christianity and so I'm like all right I'm gonna go
learn about this and I did Bible study with him once a week and uh
he was praying over me teaching me the basics you know the wages of sin his
death and Jesus lived a perfect sinless life for us
and He died for us on the cross and all we have to do is to believe in Him to be
saved and uh I was like man this i feel sorry
for this guy you know he's this guy is just settling
settling for this you know to feel good you know he's settling for
Christianity just to feel good and not explore the real deeper questions
so part of it was like me trying to help him with his deception
and uh so like a month and a half go by and he's really just trying to convert
me trying to you know bring salvation and and I'm just like
you know I I felt he was a little too pushy am I
I'm gonna go study it on my own and uh so we stopped doing Bible study
we stay in contact a little I try reading the bible walking to class I'm
reading like hubba cook or something not really
knowing where to start and uh I end up putting it down for a
while but I started
god was there moving and I started in my life in the new age and
and in this quest for for searching you know
the demonic you know because entities are real I would see people
channel entities their whole body would change and they'd automatic handwriting
they'd have these like divine uh teachings and doctrines about
you know the nature of reality and souls and psychics and all these things and
talking to the dead where they can literally tell you what you know your
your parent was like so you start to believe these things you're like wow
this is fascinating you know every human has these capabilities and
everyone should activate these capabilities that's what I thought
so um you know I'm going I'm doing my meditation I'm trying to you know just
maximize life in every single way I honestly
believed that there was an evil force I believed in satan before
I believed in Jesus because I knew there was an evil force
attacking people trying to dumb people down trying to
to to make people depressed and kill themselves and I really felt called
towards fighting that so my quest in the new age was you know
I thought I was like a light worker you know trying to bring light to where
there was darkness and um so I see these entities
and I start watching Bob Larson I see because I start researching the demonic
and I read few of his books uh another like
some like catholic uh one and then some other new age
entity removal books and uh so I'm really diving into the to
the subject and uh I'm watching a lot of Bob Larson like
man there's something going on here there's definitely something going on
this guy has a gifting this guy is some sort of you know
a supernatural ability so I'm trying to people in my life who are you know I'm
trying to help I'm trying to look for like the demonic
root because there are people you know involved in in you know worshiping these
astrology goddesses and these spirits and things
and you know I from what I was watching like that seems
a little sketch you know there's good and there's bad entities
but I didn't really know what meant a good and a bad
spirit so I started having encounters with people manifesting and me being
able to sense these things and it would manifest just like a Bob
video but it was a smirk the whole time it was a little laugh
and then they would come back and say
what's happening and it would be it would be like what a Bob video does and
I was trying to use my new age techniques I was trying to use my
meditation techniques just to push it out you know with my
light that I've been building my light through meditation and no
fear and all these things nothing was working nothing was working
and after a really big one you know that I honestly felt like I was I
honestly felt guilty after this one I'm like you know I don't know if this
is you know multiple personality or an inner child or maybe it's a spirit
that this person was because this person was channeling
entities but they were tormented they had
suicidal thoughts they had depression and I wanted to to do what I could to
help that and um so after one big event I look and
I'm like I need to know what this is what is this
and I look up Bob Larson and I look on his schedule and he's in my town in a
month and so I'm like oh sweet like I'm seeing
this guy I've seen him on tv on youtube I gotta meet this guy
so I call his office and I talk to his assistant and I ask him I'm like
is there any way I can meet with bob one on one and she's like yeah you can just
schedule an appointment and I'm like okay and she's like let me
check and see if he has any appointments pretty
last minute so she goes on hold and she says yeah we have one appointment left
out of like some 40 that he had scheduled for that week that he was in
denver and I'm like book it booked it right
away and I brought two of my friends who were unbelievers as well to his Seminar
and we witnessed this woman who had been tormented with a spirit a
divorces uh horrible relationships with men
you could feel her soul just struggling you know we our heart
we could just feel something in that room going through and multiple people
manifested and we saw the power of Jesus Christ and
this demon was scared this demon was so scared of Jesus
and this crucifix that Bob was holding up to it
and we were like wow like there's this is real and then she was delivered and
then just this massive love just came throughout the room and
everyone was just in such an amazing state of like
love and joy and then I go up on prayer line to talk to one of his ministers and
he's he's trying to tell me like you have no
authority over these things unless you have
the authority of Christ unless you have the Holy Spirit and you don't get that
until you confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior
come on let's just take a moment there that's our authority
and uh you know I'm like you know I still think Jesus is some enlightened
guy you know he knew of some other knowledge to give his power maybe
there's something here but maybe I don't think He's God you know I don't think
He's God in flesh but right next to me this
guy's fully manifesting like like and I'm like talking to this guy I
don't even want to be talking to him I just want to be looking at this guy
getting a demon cast out of him by one of Bob's
ministers and then another dude next to me and my two friends are like what is
this this is insane and um and we end up talking to a lot of
people there and they're all just so nice and uh but I don't I'm still kind
of like no yeah they got to do more research got to
do more research I'm not sure so we leave and the next day is my
appointment with Bob and uh one on one meet him in the lobby
we go up the elevator we go into this suite in the hotel
and he's got four of his ministers there he's like all right if they're in here
I'm like yeah that's good the first 40 minutes of our
our talk was just debating just spiritual topics the bible the
the claims of the bible all these things everything that I believed why I
believed it we were just back and forth back and
forth back and forth and uh but during this time I just felt this
conviction kind of brewing in me and uh it came to a point where I
remember just looking away from Bob looking out the window and
this massive sense of importance came across me
and just fell on me and something so important came over me and I'm like
you know is this really what life's about
you know is this just believing in Jesus Christ
just believing you know and I felt this such strong importance why aren't
why is it so hard to just believe this and um
I felt my soul was in danger honestly at this stubbornness there was this
stubbornness in me so I'm like I eventually make up in my
mind I'm like I don't want to I don't want
this stubbornness anymore and and I feel like I feel like
there's something here and I look at Bob and I say bob I'm
ready and he looks at me he's like because
the point was just getting it was getting drawn out you know nothing was
nothing was happening I'm like I'm ready just out of nowhere he's like
so he puts His hand on me He leads me through the sinners salvation's prayer
and at this moment I knew my whole life was going to change you
know
Amen come on that's worthy of a little bit of praise guys
Amen and uh you know I said the prayer
and the moment I opened my eyes from that prayer
I just started bawling and weeping and his
love just consumed me and I had an encounter with Jesus
and and it felt like this all of this all of this sin that I didn't even know
was sin that was in me I felt so sorry but then instant forgiveness
instant love he had been with me my whole life he had been sending me these
signs and I was continuously rebelling in ways but he was sending me
coming after me seeking me in this love like he knew my
soul more than anyone in my whole life knew
my soul more than I knew who I was he knew me more than I could even
imagine and I was just weeping and bawling and all of the ministers were
around me everyone was crying and I got up and I thanked Bob I thanked
all of them and I I left that place and got into my car
and just boom started crying again crying
and crying and crying I couldn't believe it you know I felt like a new person I
literally felt like it was the most important moment of my
whole life that my whole life had been leading up to
and um and I just kept crying and the next day
I went home the next day I bought a bible I put in worship music
and I just stuck my face in that and tried to understand it
as much as I could I'm like I am so far behind I gotta know the truth this is
the truth you know and um
and so that one month after I was saved I cried more than the previous 10 years
just at in awe at His love honestly that's what it was and just how and some
repentance too of things that I did not want to live
with anymore things that I didn't even know
I had in my soul character flaws you know
things in my thoughts and my intentions were just so
impure and I didn't want to live with that anymore and in his grace
month by month month by month just things just started leaving me
just problems I had loneliness and depression and
hopelessness that I didn't even know were down there they just were leaving
me and that's what I see as the grace of
God I'm wasn't doing anything I was just being with Jesus
fixing my eyes on Jesus and all these things I was trying to
meditate through and help myself heal from or being healed
without me knowing only months later I realized they were they were gone from
my life and Amen Amen
now you were pretty popular guys still are pretty popular guy
um you had a pretty big circle of friends can you tell me a little bit
about what that started to look like yeah so you know I knew that
something massive changed with me and um I knew that I want like
I wanted my friends to know you know I wanted my friends to experience what I
experienced so with I would tell them my testimony
my close friends and hallelujah many of them were saved and
gave them their lives to Christ
and then others you know that it was just associates with in the new age just
I had no desire you know I had no desire and there were there were there were
some were very against Christ who you know I couldn't
couldn't tell them to there were others who I did try to tell you know
but um yeah and then then my mom ended up accepting Christ months later and
and God's been moving in my whole family and in every heart he's just been
working and working and working and uh you know I believe he's gonna move even
more powerfully and and all of my friends and all my family
and uh yeah it's just so amazing He's so good
yes He absolutely is so okay so now I know that there are gonna
be some of you that are dabbling in new age
it just is what it is you're hearing a testimony here about
the true power that is found alone in Christ
and you have somebody here that can testify
directly so please tell us and for those who are watching who may be dabbling
in new age buddhism meditation all that stuff what is your
what is your advice to them you know I would say research Jesus
He is He is not just some other enlightened human
He is unique and He is different than everyone else and everything else He is
God and if you want to know him just reach out to him just just call out
to Him and He will reveal himself to you and there is no power greater
than his power there is no force in the universe greater than his force
and there's no goodness and light and holiness greater than his holiness
and if you just reach out to Him He will reveal Himself to you
and His love will consume you and He knows you more than you know yourself if
you're seeking right now you're meditating you know
you're experimenting with drugs trying to find the secret to life
the truth is in Jesus Jesus is the way the truth and the life
Amen Amen