and today we'll talk about the mission field and also a testimony from a brother which came all the way from romania has a tremendous testimony how he serve the lord under the companies and how he came out from that and was able now for the last seventeen years i can say almost seventeen years to be able to be free and to spread the word of god all over the world and i remember when jesus talked to the disciples and he just described the destruction of the temple and the disciple asking when those things is going to happen and he said you see the signs of the age when  before all things they will lay their hands on you and persecute you deliver you up to the synagogues and prisons you will be brought before kings and rulers for my  sake but i but it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony and i was looking here and amplify and says this will be a time an opportunity for you to bear testimony and it's very powerful this because we have our testimony in the time of trial and tribulation and those in those days were christian went through  very powerful testimony which probably you heard from other people but this isn't unique testimony because this is his personal testimony what he went through but before that let's go to a break and i will be right back if you would like to receive our monthly newsletter please call us at our toll free number eight six two two five seven eight eight born e mail us out john town i yahoo dot com you will be up to date on our when i i see your language improve so much and you have so much to say today we have a beautiful meeting over to be a man and it was wonderful testimony which i really want you to talk again about your testimony how did you receive the lord and how you turn your life around and the time when she was born in a country like romania he was under the communist and what happened in your life john first of all i want to thank you so much for inviting me to be part of your program i are really pleased i'm so pleased to see your heart for the non believers as you look forward to reach out to them and also your heart for the needy and i was born in romania in the city of tour this is in north site nor the west side of romania it's like in the middle almost of the country ye opera from the middle towards the nord and it's a city located in the province which is well known as thanks alina i was born in a family with two believed that the communism was the best the laws of it in the world and in the same time my mother was very committed believe are born again christian she came to  christ at my age of five after having a dream the lord revealed himself to my mother into a dream and in that dream he asked her to go to a certain place in the city where she would find a church and the lord said the name of that church my mother never heard about a church like that and then the lord said if you go there and you will hear my word and you will do what you will we'll hear and you will accomplish what is my will then you will be saved yourself and your family which so my mother came to christ she went there and she obeyed the word of god for the first time when she listen to the word of god she believed it and she was born again well now i the age of twenty three eventually my mother small the old succeeded and what happened was that i wanted to try to find out some possibilities to fill up my which i had in my my heart in my soul and i started praying for three months every day to earn unknown god and i called him the god of my mother but your father was his reaction when you mother tune her life around and receive christ in her life that's there is very good that you ask this question because i think that in the context of my testimony this is very bad my brother was beaten by him and he was very often challenge by his colleagues the communist to do something against her my mother didn't get divorce only because she and two brothers i have another brother wind of mine so that happened and i grew up with up to the age of twenty three when i started praying to the god of my mother and i asked him to reveal himself to me if there is a god they said if you are god then i want to to reveal yourself to me and i will be ready to commit my life to you if this is a reality that you have a plan salvation and you have a future for me for eternity then i told the lord i will be ready to give in even my life for you in this case well for sure i didn't know what i i said then i didn't know that the time was going to come was going to come in my life for such a trial when i would be under such oppression and prosecution to be almost ready to die for them all you did in education in the meantime right yes i i you know i i came to the lord with two signs and i asked him in during this time of three months every day praying to him by myself not knowing much about god but i was also starting reading the bible of my mother and i received one sign from the lord which i asked in my prayers and then when the second sign which i it was a wonder i asked the lord to do something again because i said maybe it was just that happened the first one then when is it was fulfilled the second one i was trembling and they said lord i want to go to the church which eventually happened and when i went to the church it was one but you become a christian before you finish the school royer in my first year at the university i became a christian and thus was something which was blocking you to continue the school i mean it was a hard time for you in school it was it was a possibility to go on with studying but you know in romania during those days those who became christians believe worse they were oppressed they were rejected they didn't have the possibilities as for the nonbelievers as for those who accepted being communist for instance i wasn't invited to be part of the communist party and i said yes and when i was there for the meeting  when it was appointed i was asked the ok you reno's to your faith in christ i said no i don't read nasty to my feet but yeah you you want to become a communist member to be a good character and to to believe in god and to trust him and to be a good person why do i have to renounce to my faith so they said in this in this case you cannot be a communist so i said ok i choose to stay in my feet with christ so for these reasons a person would be rejected the not having the possibility to get a prize and not having the possibility to climb up  the different levels for profession you know it was much more difficult this kind of opera oppressions for for christians in those days were like such a person one who was a believe to eighty nine to ninety after nine years i didn't get an apartment from the communist government because the only reason was i was the repainted one as they called me i was the preacher when i  went to ask for a priority place for getting an apartment because they said look in these offices here i'm the only one with three children and i have some you're seeing simon engineer here and i children and my wife all five of us will leave for for a few years in one room apartment because in my father's home but explain to people because it was not was very hard to get an apartment because all the it to the point it was only by the decision of the authorities in those days and the communist were those who took control of everything like this so for this reason my father a loud me to stay in his home and he gave me one room and we lived in one room that was everything all how many years nine years for nine years or nine years and one of my children started going to school the oldest one and the other one the other two aunts were in the kids kindergarten and i worked in different shifts because i was the christian one and i needed to go i was sent to go in during the night time in my war work in my job so it was not very easy during those days but more than it is now coming to the point because this about the testimony you are read something from luke i want to mention here worry about how or what you should speak for it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak for it is not you who speak but the spirit of your father who speaks in you now i want to tell you john this is it's very very interesting it's kind of a paradox when you look to what is happening even now in the world i was in the country of vietnam in the mission field and it's it's a country where there are persecution which they call them christian they are more dangerous for the society because they thought they were the spy of the government yes and that was the whole thing which they put upon them it's right and what happening when certain look good to the outside world yes they want to see the christian movement is free in romania but just certain regulation which we keep it keep are our eyes and that's why they put fires accusations but actually was looking for people with the miracles as i told you my mother came after a dream you know the lord works with dreams but you maybe don't hear so often in the free world something like that happening you know someone church right here i went to a church and for the first time when i heard the gospel preached i received the word of god and i asked the lord to come into my heart and i asked him for forgiveness for my s in that evening after the church service was over i went to the camp where i was staying with four other colleagues of mine who were students like me in the same university and as soon as they entered into the room where we lived or five of us i told them guys i have a wonderful news for you the reason god and i discovered him and this and i was very enthusiastic i was so so happy you know and they looked to me and i expected them to ask me well how did you find it and where did you find it and tell us about this but instead of that i was surprised they they were my friends and then my colleagues and we drink drink beer together and we went for parties together and after three months my life was changed you know since we knew each holler and i came with this new isn't instead of that the told me you crazy and then i was you know a little stepping back not so enthusiastic but in the same time i started the attending services in the churches in the going to together with the people of god and i found out that there was a group of christian students inclusion and i became part of this group where i grew up in the in my feet and also in the word of god and then literally become like the leader in groups in the year in a way yes not so much in that group but as soon as they went to toward us i was already a preacher a young preacher and i was going from village these agreement with the colonists to go into villages to preach the gospel in those days for sundays the communist didn't allow buses to go from villages to to service in order to to with his testimony how really he went through trial and tribulation to pay a price serving a living god it's very important to understand he mentioned here and that was like in the late eighty's yes late eighty think about that almost twenty years ago when i was impossible to use that car that's why i like it to pay attention to this program because in the next program will we become more powerful you know why because you will hear testimony which you probably never heard before and it's similar to other testimony that people went through hard time  give me a call let me know and somebody will help you to know more about the word of god and to receive that word which is the word of the living god don't forget west next week to continue the story and this is again we we have that or opportunity for him to be in our studio to share his testimony in the way how he shared last week for those which they didn't watch the program you should ask for a us probably we cannot endure to go that much less the holy spirit give us the power ability and the breaking through it's powerful to know when you suffer for christ and christ is you with you and he give you that power to not be worry about to not meditate what they're going to happen and the way how he said in the very beginning i will serve the lord no matter what it's going to happen with my life but let's go to a break and after that we'll be right back if you would like to receive our monthly newsletter please call us at our toll free number eight six two two five seven eight eight bor welcome you to the program and we are so glad because we have you here and like we talked last week about how you turn your life to the lord and we we remain with the program when you going in the mission and because of that you spread the word of god to become more involved and preaching of the word of god and more mature and our direction and the holy speedos was give you the anointing and the power and understanding how to spread the word and many people got korver what happened after that well that was not very well accepted by the rulers but the by the communist secret situation which was not very pleased to them to see the youth came to the lord and there were multiplication in the churches after after i was there for the first for the last time it was about eight y seven eighty eight when they invited me for the last time at the headquarters of the a community could police then i was warned by the officer who was connected to our factory where i was working as an  communism was over in the romania because the revolution broke out and there were no more companies i'm in the leadership in the ruling the country but six weeks earlier it happened that they have arrested me i was brought to the police station and i was asked to to confess some kind of things they wanted me to exactly it was exactly what you mentioned it was something we may call false accusations you know now the time in america as a romanian living in the romania i see such a huge difference between what was in the past in romania mostly and what is in the free world and looking here around you i have a lot of blessings and they see so many christians have experienced the blessing of abraham in the matter of having very good material things and positions and i accept that this may be the boss and that was part of the blessing which was in the promise of the sons of doctors abraham by faith but literally a litany remind you about another blessing which not many in america have experienced yet and i say that the because i see what kind of blessings you have but also i want to underline have not experienced yet but never know when the time is coming and i would like that this testimony of mine to be used by the lord and by the holy spirit to encourage people here because we never know what we heaven for so they persecuted the prophets who were before your is is the jesus word when he said when the safe house accusation against you yeah that's that's right that happened with me it's exactly what they did they wanted to put on my shoulders these false accusations in order to determine people during those days to concentrate and to focus their attention mostly to the christians instead they're focusing their attention to the needs that were in the country of romania i want to remind you that those days were days when i didn't know then but they said when in other countries in the eastern european bloc communist bloc there were some some movements against the communities i'm i didn't know that i was not familiar with that but afterwards and the still that was the real reason behind the scene when they decided to move the focus of the people in the country against something else it or something else you know and they decided to come against christians eventually called christians so the because  the revolution that it was a column though from the communist secret police so called in romania secret at that and he asked me to to declare what whatever he wanted me to declare and i told him i i don't do that i don't let you put the church and the false accusations using me and for this reason he locked my hands at my back with handcuffs and he asked me to lay down on the floor and w and then he took my shoes off and he was sitting on the onus on the sofa which was in the inquest room and i was laying down there with my my hands locked at my back and he started we the rubber baton and he was hitting me regularly and asking me again and again do you want to declare what i want you to what i want to dictate you  and he then every time after half an hour forty forty five minutes he stopped and he left the inquest room locking me inside the lid as i was laying down on the floor and after one hour one hour and a half he came back again and he started doing that again but every time when he came back he came and we started talking about christ about my  is something that i have experienced exactly as jesus said in matthew chapter ten when he said that what you have to say when they bring you in front of governors and kings to give an a me or for my sake jesus said don't be afraid because the words that you have to say will be not your words but the holy spirit will give in that very moment to you what you have to say and i am a real experience that it was you know i have the experience that sometimes i have received the feeling that i need to tell this man but what if you would have a son and you would know that he is beaten for no reason what would you do because my father was there and when he entered in the room he said your father is also right and he want to know about you and you will not go free from here you will be killed and so on and i told him what about if you have a son i didn't know he really had a son you know i was a father of three children in those days he had a son but finally everything came to my mind  after everything that happened i really realized that it was not even a word which was implied us added which i was sorry i said and it was nothing that i i should say and which i didn't you know when i made something like a process of my consciousness i realized that indeed the holy spirit come came upon me there while i was testifying to that man who was my decided to be very brave and not to cry not to remember the word yes that's right i remember the war but i also decided to be the be very brave started screaming from the bottom of my heart with loud voice i never ever heard someone screaming as i did i recognize that it was so painful when he was beating me and  the last sciri it which he gave to me administrated to me i remember that he asked me not to try to hide my feet under the body because of the the pain i  was you know recognizing the next heat when regularly coming when is the time to come the next heat so it's at that very moment suddenly the feet started to to hide themselves try to hide themselves but the feet just suddenly did it so he started beating me all over the body and in that very moment i turned my face up he thought i wanted to hit him with my one of my food which was not right but they screamed to this man said stop beating me like an animal here not even an animal is bitten leahy like you beat me if you want to kill me just do that and finish with me you had this power now you ha received this power do that and finish with me but stop beating me i will never ever accept to be clear what he was me too so he stood up and he was very angry he was swearing and spitting on me and swearing he decided to go out but before that he asked me to kneel by the table which was in the inquest room which i did and he locked me with my hands and my back on one of the feet of the table and afterwards he left the room and that was about eight thirty in the night and i will never forget john that that evening was a friday evening late in  eighty nine in the fall and i remember that it was friday because i prayed together with my church in spirit because friday every friday it eight thirty my church was praying for the people in needs for the for those who are suffering for those in sorrow for those who are sikh and knowing or not knowing them and in that very moment i united my my prayer with the congregation and i told the lord lord they don't know i'm suffering this no one knows what is happening here only you and these people who who put me in trial who beat me lord i only want you to ask to take care of my family thought there was the there were those last moments in my life just take care of my family i want to meet them in heaven when you will come again and then don't let people in my congregation to believe that i did something wrong but just as you finally revealed your your the the reality about you and what happened you been under false accusations i told the lord you've been  accused falsely that you were against the roman empire you work is the king caesar in the same the way they treated me now i want you to reveal the congregation that this is not right and giving praises to the lord that he considered myself worthy to suffer for his sake that was a privilege that he chose me for this but think about us ten o'clock in the morning there yes and it was like eight thirty eight thirty in the evening yes that's about ten hours almost ten and a half hours and those ten and a half hours probably five or six hours i was beating ours  presence of god upon you you knew in your heart god is with you no matter what right that's correct ladies and gentlemen i want to make sure about he won this church because he was one of the leaders of the groups in the church then the whole church would be playing and that's why you refused to sign that paper and what happened next boat twelve o'clock also mixed up with a lot of joy in my heart because the presence of the lord will be with worshipping the lord and that it was a position and i really started praising the lord and i told him lord that's amazing to me that  not only that they asked me to stay by myself alone with you in the best position but they locked me to stay in this position when they link before the lord this is exactly as i started looking to  i was asked by the chief who came alongside with this guy who beaten me i was asked by him that he said we will release you to go home but i was asked by him not to tell anything to anybody about what happened because they warned me if you will tell anybody that we have beaten you the next day you will be no more we will kill you this is what they  in that very moment i couldn't believe that they would release me john in those days i heard stories about people who just disappeared from homes yeah you leave because nobody knew you were the communists were able to do anything you know they just do to make people suffer it was no problem for them to do that and they they were so strong in their power in the authority which was given to them by the lord finally y o'clock little more than twelve o'clock maybe it was in the night midnight when i was released to go home with my shoes in my my hands i started to walk back home because there like one mile but the i decided to go the shortest way to my home that was from downtown to through a park and then crossing the bridge i was for i'm over the river in the city i was very close to my parents home and i did it but by the time i got to the park it was too painful to walk you may you actually try to work on your feet  i walked on my feet but it was like having a sponge your own feet were a sponge you know and it was like having flame with every step i performed and i decided to stay nearby the part because it was very dark to go through the trees and they said lord if they want to kill me just let them have the opportunity why do i put so much effort to continue good god walking if they want to kill me i wait here well next week ladies and gentlemen we're going to continue to talk about the way how he walk home and what happened next day when he went back to the station think about he caught all the way home because he living god you pay a price don't forget next week to watch the next program because it would be very powerful and more likely that that would be the power of the word which are going to touch many people hard to make them to understand this country we have the freedom so many of us we have the freedom to go to church to share the word of god with others we have no persecution and think about other also believe in jesus what's next week and the same time and same station