TESTIMONY

Shortly after my confirmation I deeply doubted in God, perhaps my sins were the cause, I do not remember today. I thought I was a happy person, sometimes my conscience bothered me, because I started using stimulants early. I was 19 when I wanted to read the New Testament for the first time in my life from cover to cover. Though my motivations were poor. I thought the Bible was a product of the human mind, but I wanted to have arguments in discussions about God and faith. After a few minutes of reading I had enough, I got bored. Then I thought that maybe the text is true, maybe it’s like a textbook or manual: difficult, but it makes sense. I returned to reading and after a few minutes I believed again: first I started to pinch myself, because I wanted to remember the feeling of faith, then I prayed to Jesus so that I would not stop believing in Him. I returned zealously to Catholicism and read the Bible as the best novel. Quickly, after just a few months I found out that Catholicism makes the same mistakes as Judaism in the times of the prophets. I asked for the baptism in the church, where the Holy Bible was the basis of learning.

What did Jesus do in my life? I have seen and lived through hundreds of signs and wonders, hundreds. I will quote some, they were interspersed with difficult moments and months of vain efforts. Removing the passion for cigarettes, changing the taste so that alcohol became disgusting to me (this last almost 30 years), banishing allergies, dreaming patents (more than 10 registered), repeated healing of children (eg. temperature drops from 39.6 to 37.7 within 2 minutes of prayer, eczema, allergy, asthma, pain – many times), supernatural supply (employment including company car and apartment in 2004 after 5 years break, unexpected raises of salary, frequent promotions), dozens of cases of pain relief during prayers for me or others.

I saw with my own eyes, directly, within reach, lengthening the legs, moving the bones at the right place, removing blindness, deafness, paralysis, schizophrenia, depression, psoriasis – all at the command of Jesus issued on His behalf. Jesus is life for me, it’s no longer just a matter of faith. I love Him, I know and I see that He works, that He heals today as He once did, He changes people’s characters, He delivers, He heals. After several dozen of years I still experience challenges for faith and then surprise, shock, euphoria, because He acts like never before in my life. One can stop at some stage of knowledge about Him, knowing Him, experiencing God, but what for ???