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Testimonies

from "Living Israel" rehabilitation center

Boris Buksht

Other testimonies:

Edward

The first miracle that God made for me was a deliverance from smoking and alcohol.

Peter Barzakh

I felt as if I couldn't live without these heightened sensations. A year later I started to use hard drugs.

Alexander

Anger, hatred, resentment of people, of life and toward God had finally overwhelmed me.

Ygal

My friends' appearance and his positively changed behavior attracted me to him.

Gleb Spiridonov

God gave me the hope for different life that was free from drugs, smoking and stealing.

Dmitry

I living and am 'alive' - many thanks to Jesus Christ for that.

Eugene Rabin

After so many years of living in darkness, personal suffering, and time spent in prisons, I came to God.

Natalia

For the 2.5 years, which began shortly after my divorce, I started to drink a lot more alcohol than made any sense.

Victor Bordin

After that I became very disappointed in people and resorted to, once again, using drugs.

Alexey

I had an understanding that the nature of this emptiness in my life is spiritual.

Vladimir

Everything was great. But one day everything changed. I, foolishly, experimented with drugs.
Stas and Irina

Stas and Irina

But, the firmly planted seed of Jesus' Word had sprouted and slowly began to grow within me.
Michael Fishlin

Michael Fishlin

I realized that demons could return and bring others worse than themselves along with them.
Benjamin

Benjamin

After the death of my father, during a spiritual crisis, I returned to drugs.
Alexander Gez

Alexander Gez

What am I doing here in this dark, deserted house with a candle on the table in the middle of the bustling city?
Maria

Maria

Of course marijuana was an integral part of what we then called "freedom".
Benjamin

Benjamin

In time I found myself in prisons in Germany, Switzerland and Finland.
Yulia

Yulia Vatkovski

I started to go to parties, drank a lot of alcohol and took ecstasy.
Denis

Denis

Now God has changed everything and being in courts is part of my service.
Pavel Cogan

Pavel Cogan

I found therein my suicide note which I’d written in sheer agony.
Slava Ignatenko

Slava Ignatenko

17 years of hard drug addiction and 5 years in prison, totally ruined my life.
French

Michael "The French"

5 times I served time in prisons in Russia, Germany and Switzerland.
Natalia

Natalia

It was at time when my life was already over, I was very ill.

Michael Sluzkiy "Internet"

Up to this day my tomb lies in the cemetery in Kiryat Gat

Misha Segal "Meek"

Once I jumped under a truck's wheels, but as a result I was beaten by the truck driver instead.

Bondarenko Leonid

My wife had divorced me, and I was out in the street without means of substance, and without a purpose.

Andrey Butenko

I tried to stay "clean" by my own human efforts, but I couldn't and I fell again.

Andrey Nenashev

The criminal environment had kind of romance, and I was attractived to it.

Valera Ermakov

I felt like a human wreck, alcohol, and the drugs took everything out of my life, what I was needing to live.

Gennady

During the past 13 years, I was seriously addicted. I was isolated in jail 15 years, nearly half of my life.

Maxim

I was delivered to the hospital where they diagnosed me as clinically dead.

Rakhamimov Modest

The Lord stopped me from going straight to hell.

Boris Buksht

“But where do you live?”, exclaimed my friend.

Igor Epshtein

After many unsuccessful attempts with drugs, I decided to come to the rehab center in Israel.

Anja

At the age of 14 I started taking hard drugs...

“Let him,who boasts, boast in the Lord” 2 Cor.10:17 Recently I came back home from my job by bus together with my friend. He knows that I live in the beautiful and expensive area of Haifa, because every day I came from the bus to the bus station in that area.My friend was talking that the tax for a land in Israel is very high. He asked me: “How much do you pay, living in a such elite area?” sincerely I replied “I don't know”. Being amazed he continued , “Well, you don't know how much your rent is for your house or apartment?” Anticipating the pleasure to boast, I replied, “I don't know exactly, but about 60-70 thousand shekels”. “So how many rooms you do have”? “On the first floor...” I began to count, “On the second floor...,also the third floor and then there are houses in the yard”. “But where do you live?”, exclaimed my friend. So I began to tell him in the bus about our rehab center. How the Lord Jesus is saving the sinners upon the earth and how the last ones are becoming the first ones in God's kingdom. After I repented and began to follow God according His commandments and His Law, I still had a problem, I love to boast, to embellish and to exaggerate.I began to realize, that now it's wrong to do so, but it was still hard to tame that desire to do it. But soon I have found, that it is possible to talk eulogizing God. So I have the facilitation, that I don't have to control my tongue and didn't have to be quiet. I told to my friend and some other people, who were interested, that before I lived alone in a 90 meter apartment and I was deadly alone, but now, hallelujah,I am in a big house and with a big family! Here I have so many brothers and sisters, that I can't even imagine. I consider our monastery and our rehab center as my own home and I'm trying as much as I can to do all I can to become a man according to God's will more beautiful outwardly and inwardly. I told my friends from my job, that here in our home all the needy and the suffering have found God's mercy, His forgiveness and His deliverance.God gives GOOD to those who are coming to Him. It's a wonderful life here on the Earth ,and there is faith in life after death.That's cool! After you experienced the grace of the Lord and you renounce the sinful thoughts and deeds that are displeasing to God. My testimony is only about that, what the Lord gave me. During my rehabilitation I got delivered from an addiction to alcohol, it destroyed my family and my health. My financial situation has changed for good and all my problems with the bank are solved. Now I'm a competent citizen of my country and a member of society, and now obedient to the laws. God helped me to finish a professional course and I am now getting a more complicated profession-programmer as a CNC. I have a lot of interesting plans for the future.In all of that the Lord blesses me. My part now is trying to live and to work according to God's commandments. I pray to God for His mercy daily and that it will be with me constantly. I'm afraid of depriving it. I will boast in my Lord everywhere and forever. I just want to please Him! I like it, and it is for my good, that's all. Hallelujah!

Boris Buksht