Soul Food
Soul Food
The Naked Truth: Escaping the Mask
What happens when the missing puzzle piece in your life isn't something material but spiritual? Lilliete's powerful testimony reveals the journey from emptiness to fulfillment that many silently experience.
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Speaker 2:Naked truth, revealing the truth, uncovering the truth for you. You know that in this program, we talk about subjects that are hidden, subjects that have been omitted from you. But here, on the showdown of faith, naked Truth, we have nothing to hide, nothing to hide from you. But here, on the showdown of faith, naked truth, we have nothing to hide, nothing to hide from you All to reveal. By the way, if you have any question about the naked truth, if you have any question, you can just give us a call, because we are going to be more than willing and ready to help you or to answer you. You are going to learn today the story of Liliat, a young lady who suffered in life but she did not know the truth. By coming to this ministry, she has learned the truth and the truth has set her free. Now Liliat has a different life. Hello Liliat, hello Bishop, how are you?
Speaker 3:I'm good, thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you for joining us, and today we are going to be talking about first your past life. Tell us, before you know the truth. Jesus said you shall know the truth. The truth shall set you free. Who was Liliat? Without the truth, Like a person that was blind, cannot see the light, did not know the truth. Tell us your dark life.
Speaker 3:Thank you, yes, I will. So it's so funny because I grew up in the ministry in a church, but I still didn't know the truth. I didn't make change in my life, however, I grew up in Portugal and after an accident that my mom and my sister was in, they passed away we were able to come to the United States. My grandmother went to go get us. She was here in the United States and we came here. So after the accident, we had a brand new life in a brand new country and brand new friends. Everything was new, everything was different. And here we thought you know, things are going to be different and life is going to keep going.
Speaker 2:So let me understand, you are from Portugal.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Right, you are just saying what mistakenly people do. They leave their country, their state, their city and they go to another city. They go to another country, another state with the illusion I'm going to start afresh, I'm going to start all over. I'm going to be a change in life, right?
Speaker 3:Correct and you know, apparently it was a good change. I had opportunities to study here. I had opportunities that I didn't have in Portugal. You know, when my mom was alive we were very poor, so that whole life kind of ended. Now I was able to buy stuff because I started to work. So I came here when I was 15. And at 15, I had a job and Portugal was different. Apparently it was better. And even though I started to make friends here but the friends I had here wasn't like I had in Portugal. There was not so much closure, it wasn't friends that you could tell your secrets to. You know, hug, if you were to hug a girl here, you would have considered a lesbian. You would have considered a lesbian. So that was a little bit different to to experience that.
Speaker 3:Um, in the school that I was going to, because there was a lot of that. But, um, me and my grandmother she, you know, try to keep us in in going to church. She, she, she was going to church, but I still didn't understand why I was doing that. It was just a tradition thing to me. So I ended up leaving and I said you know, I don't know why I'm doing this. This is kind of a waste of my time, um, cause I couldn't comprehend why I have to go to church, like I was just being dragged there. That was my thoughts. So I ended up I told you know, I turned 18 and then I thought I was working, I going to school, I got myself through college.
Speaker 3:You know, my family here didn't speak much English, didn't really know how the process went, so I kind of figured out everything on my own. And it was difficult because then I started wanting the things of the world. I started to date. I wanted to live with my boyfriend, I wanted to do these things. So all of that I wanted those, the friends that were supposed to be my friends. They took me to different lifestyles that before I never used to be in, and I started to remember, or I started to have this emptiness that I've never felt before. Even though I didn't know the truth, I didn't feel empty and I never missed my mom like I did in those days.
Speaker 3:I never did drugs. I did some drugs but I never won. I knew that if I would become addicted or if I would do cocaine or those type of more hardcore, it would take me to bad places. So I knew that those things I couldn't go for, but I did want to try it here and there. So At some point I noticed that even though I wasn't going to church, I still gave my tie to my grandmother to take it, just because it was something that they told me. If I didn't do that, I don't know something would happen. So I kept doing that.
Speaker 3:But one day I went on a trip to Canada with my friends and I had this envelope of money and I forgot what is that for, and I remember that I used that money to go party with my friends. We drove all the way to Canada and I spent that money and after that wasn't the first week, it wasn't the second week, and after that wasn't the first week, it wasn't the second week I got myself through college and I was on my way to become a manager from Bank of America. All of a sudden, things change. I basically got kicked out of that job and I started having problems with my boyfriend. Everything at the same time, kind of you know, start to happen. That's when I I started to feel like this emptiness. I used to always miss work because I couldn't wake up or I wouldn't sleep all night and and I didn't know exactly what was happening. But um and one of my going out, I met someone that used to talk to me about God all the time, and I used to not like that.
Speaker 2:Let me ask you something Going to parties, always among friends, drinking, using drugs, when you said that you start missing your mother, it shows that you were empty inside and it is called nowadays depression. Before they would not use the word depression, just say sadness or missing this. But depression happens when a person misses or loses something. Depression is the disease of the soul. When you lose a job, you lose a family member, you lose a house, property, somebody that you love, so then you fall into deep sadness. That is called also depression, right?
Speaker 3:Correct After I lost my job that I so hard fought for. After I lost my job that I so hard fought for, I also lost a lot of the benefits. That kind of kept me thinking that I was okay so I couldn't stop in a good relationship. But it was okay because I had my car, I had my apartment, I had my money, so it was fine. When I lost my, my money or my job, that provided me that I moved to a room. It wasn't an apartment, it was a room smaller than any room that you could live in and and you know, with the drinking and the pottying and you know the friendships, the non-stopping relationships, I would start a relationship, finish, go to another. Stop a relationship finish, go to another. There was no connection anymore. There was no. I couldn't find love and it was getting me more and more sad every day.
Speaker 2:So everything for you were unstable Love, life, finances, family. Your faith also was weak, cold, so everything in your life was unstable. I want you please to hold on for a second. We are going to show here this video about depression. Many are those that outside they are smiling, they have this beautiful smile on their face, they pretend to be happy, but deep inside of them, they are completely sad, frustrated. If this is your case, I want you to watch this.
Speaker 1:You picture yourself being happy, enjoying life. To watch this, you picture yourself being happy, enjoying life, always smiling. Unfortunately, that picture doesn't match how you truly feel inside Smiling depression. Smiling depression is a term for someone living with depression on the inside, while appearing perfectly happy or content on the outside. You truly feel sad and depressed, and perhaps you don't even want to live anymore, but you mask all of those feelings with a fake smile. Perhaps you don't even want to live anymore, but you mask all of those feelings with a fake smile, not knowing what or whom to trust. In order to find true happiness, you must be true to yourself. Are you dealing with smiling depression?
Speaker 2:Smiling depression. You always pretend, pretend, everything is okay, but deep inside of you you know you are not okay. You do need deliverance. You do need freedom. Liliat, you were saying that your grandmother used to go to church. Take you to church While you were there partying depressed, didn't you miss the church? Didn't you miss going back to church?
Speaker 3:when I was supposedly okay. Um, I used to. I used to hate because she sometimes used to tell me to go and I used to feel bad. So I used to go with her. But I had the night before just came from a party. So I didn't like that feeling of I thought to myself judging Cause I just went partying last night, I was doing everything bad, and now this morning I'm sitting here listening to everything that I'm doing bad. So in my mind I thought I don't want to come back here because I want to continue to do that. And that was in my mind. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Some people, like you, had this thought. They think in the same way. Why should I go to church? Should I sit there to hear what the pastors have to say? They are talking about wrong things. This is what I do, but what people have to understand is not the pastor who is saying, but God that knows you, god that knows your life, and this is talking directly to you.
Speaker 3:Yep, I used to think that my grandmother told the pastor those things Because I was like how does he know that Everybody thinks the same?
Speaker 3:I used to think that and she used to always tell me no, but it was hard to believe. And eventually she passed away in 2013. And that was kind of a wake up call. 2013 was a wake up call to me, and that's also when I lost my job. Everything happened at the same time. I trembled my relationship, I couldn't have one that was a good one, that would be fulfilling, and somehow and I was doing a lot of partying, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot and none of that was filling me.
Speaker 2:Did you ever hear in the church as your grandmother was taking you? Did you ever hear the pastor say what Jesus said without me, you can do nothing.
Speaker 3:No, every time I was in church Bishop, this is what I used to do. I would dread someone to talk to me about God. I didn't want to. I would have be there, sit there and block out, Just to me. I've never remember any of the service I went that I went because, you know, I was trying to please my grandmother or my aunt or whoever. I blocked out, I blocked out.
Speaker 2:What was the worst moment of your life?
Speaker 3:Yeah. So after my grandmother passed away, I lost my job, I had to be kicked out of my apartment and went to live in this small little room in a whole different city that was in Boston. And then, and there was someone that spoke to me about God and for some reason he said something to me that's thick. It was like he said Liliac, you have everything. You have everything. You're a good person, you can conquer a lot of things, but imagine what would it be if you were a woman of God.
Speaker 3:And for some reason those words stayed in my mind and I kept thinking like where did I hear this before? And I remember that because it was. It would make. That was what made me think, ah, I was in church. Maybe I should go back there and see it's. If God is real, like it's if he's real for real, if my grandmother was really talking the truth, if my mom was talking the truth like I need to figure this out, you know. And I remember I started to remember because I had blocked If anyone would talk to me about God. I would just completely turn around Like I wouldn't be rude, but I just didn't want to. I didn't want that, I just blocked.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:And and I? I said no, I'm in my worst. Now I and many people think that's not when they should seek God, but in my mind to me, because I was in my worst, I said only God can help me. And that's when I went to church on my own.
Speaker 2:Returning to church. What did you do and how is your life now?
Speaker 3:I remember the first service that I went. Again, the pastor was there talking about all the things that I did and I said there's no way he can know who I am because I didn't go to the church when my grandmother was a helper and people knew me. I went to a different church in a different city because I wanted to know if it's true. So I went to a different church like the same universal church, but in a different city and there he was telling me all about my life and all the things I needed to change. And the first thing I did was I became faithful to God. I became a tithe giver again because I stopped being one.
Speaker 2:So, and what God has done in your life? How is your life now?
Speaker 3:Bishop. After that it took a little bit of time for me to convert. It took a good two years for me to let God in because I thought I needed to do all the changing on my own to then God, you know. So it took a little bit of time for me to understand that God wanted to be with me and fight with me. But after I understood God has changed my life completely Inside out. Most people I didn't go after the material things. I didn't go after them. Even though I had lost everything at that time I didn't go after that. I wanted that emptiness, that pain in my heart to get out. I want to not miss my mom, to feel like I had this hole in my chest you know, so you learned how to make Jesus your priority.
Speaker 3:That was my priority. I wanted to find if God was real and that's when I started reading the Bible. My priority I wanted to find if God was real and that's when I started reading the Bible. And because I had a lot of bad eyes towards, like the pastors and the helpers, because in my family there was a lot of people that wanted to be in the work of God and unfortunately didn't do it right. So I used to see that testimony and think, my god, that's what, that's what everyone is, and it wasn't. It's just that's what they did. And today I have that understanding. So I walked around my bible everywhere because I would have confirmed everything that was said to me if it wasn't a bible and I believe that that was. You know, that was when I was gonna get my truth from and that's how I met the truth.
Speaker 2:Okay, how are you feeling? How is your life now?
Speaker 3:I changed. Today I have the Holy Spirit, I'm a helper myself of the church. I have my own business. I do, you know, nothing is absence of me. I have everything that I ever wanted in my life, and, most of it, the most important thing, is that I have the peace that I was looking for. I have that puzzle piece that was missing in here, you know.
Speaker 2:So transformed life, happy inside, yes, and you have the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3:Amen, yes, I do.
Speaker 2:All right, liet. Thank you very much for your story. All the best, god bless you more and more.
Speaker 3:Thank you, bishop, god bless you.
Speaker 2:Bye-bye.
Speaker 3:Bye-bye.
Speaker 2:You see, my friend, it is not a movie, it is not fairytale, it's something real. This is what the naked truth is all about. Her transformation, her life changed because she received the Holy Spirit. As a young girl, she was taken to the church, dragged into a church by the grandmother, but she left because she did not know God. You need to know two things the power of God and you need to have the Spirit of God Both the power and the Spirit of God inside of you. This is the naked truth. If you need spiritual help, give us a call right now. 1-888-312-4141. 1-888-312-4141. Call this number. If you prefer, you can send us a text. This is the text number 1-888-312-4141 1-888-312-4141.
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Speaker 4:He's seated on the throne, instantly swatching over a world that's bleeding. There'll be no crying, no more pain. God, you promised everything would be okay when we meet up in the heavens one day. Oh, by the power of his grace, I believe he's in his own make-away. I know I can't. I can't wait until forever Staying in the house of heaven. We're gonna celebrate Joining with all the saints Angels, sing hallelujah, giving the praises to you With hands up to the sky. Yahweh be lifting high, high. We will lift you high. We will lift you high, yahweh, we lift you high.
Speaker 4:I long to see his face. Wanna look into his eyes of fire and stand in awe of almighty. God. Oh, how I love the name. Wanna give him all of my desires, my treasure's in silver and gold. There'll be no crying, no more pain. God, you promised everything would be okay. Made up in the heavens one day. Oh, by the power of his grace, I believe he's innocent to make a way. I know I can't. I can't wait until forever staying in the house of heaven. We're gonna celebrate joining with all the saints Angels, sing hallelujah, giving the praises to you With hands up to the sky. Yahweh be lifted high.
Speaker 5:High. We will lift you high. We will lift you high. We will lift you high. Yahweh, we lift you high. The worship goes on and on, forever and ever. Every knee will bow to our almighty God. Yahweh be lifted high, forever and ever. Choirs of angels singing you are holy. The worship goes on and on, forever and ever. Every knee will bow to our almighty God. Yahweh be lifted high, forever and ever. Choirs of angels sing you are holy. I can't wait until forever Staying in the house of heaven. We're gonna celebrate Joining with all the saints. Angels sing hallelujah, giving the praises to you With hands up to the sky. Yahweh, we lift it high, High.
Speaker 2:we will lift you high. We will lift you high, Yahweh, we lift you high. Actually, we are going to pray right now. I have my cup of water. Please take yours. Let us pray together.
Speaker 1:It's now the moment of prayer.
Speaker 4:Let us talk to.
Speaker 5:God, here I am.
Speaker 6:In this moment of prayer.
Speaker 4:So despised without love.
Speaker 5:Need to talk With my Lord.
Speaker 4:Oh my Lord.
Speaker 2:My Lord and Father, god of the Bible, god that Changed the life of Lilliet, lord, just as you did for her. There are many others out there watching us listening to this prayer. They have tears falling from their eyes. They have this pain, yes, this pain upon their bodies, pain, yes, this pain upon their bodies. And I pray to you, my Lord, for the change, for the transformation in their lives.
Speaker 2:Disperser cannot take it anymore. Enough of pain, of suffering diseases that is dispersed in the hospital right now, feeling pain that is dispersed in the hospital right now, feeling pain. Oh, god Almighty, come with your power to transform, to change the life of dispersal once and for all. God Almighty, I ask you to visit all the listeners, the viewers, in such a way that dispersal will be the next one testifying here in our program. My Lord, bless this water that they may drink and may be set free. In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, amen, praise God. Wherever you may be, you may drink this water. This is drops of the power of God entering your body.
Speaker 4:We lift our voices, we lift our hands, we lift our lives up to you. We are an offering. Lord, use our voices, lord use our hands. Lord use our lives.
Speaker 2:They are yours. We are in the fruit. All that we have, all that we are, all that we hope to be, we give to you To be wicked, to be wicked. Your life, your future is in God's hand and he never fails. He is with you wherever you go. That was one more naked truth. Let me show to you once again the text number that you can contact us 1-888-312-4141. Feel free to contact us anytime. The helpline is still available. So is my email. Tell a friend of yours about us. Take the link Share on your page, on your contact. Send it to everybody. Let more people know about the naked truth and they are going to be blessed for sure. May the God of the Bible bless all of you. You may have a good one we give to you.
Speaker 4:We give to you, we lift our voices, we lift our hands, we lift our lives up to you.
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