The Testimony of Paul Rouke - Dead In Sin To Alive In Christ

How Jesus has transformed my entire life from the inside out, hallelujah...

The 2 photos:

1 - April 2019, living a picture-perfect life yet dead in sin

2 - May 2024, living alive in Christ Jesus, transformed from the inside out

Family

2019 - no relationship with my mum for over 20 years

2024 - for over 4.5 years now, I have the strongest and healthiest relationship with my mum ever

2019 - no relationship with my dad for over 7 years

2024 - for over 4.5 years now, I have the strongest and healthiest relationship with my dad ever

2019 - no relationship with my 2 sisters for over 7 years

2024 - for over 4.5 years now, I have the strongest and healthiest relationship with my 2 sisters ever

2019 - completely broken relationship with Clare after meeting & falling in love with each 24 years earlier

2024 - the strongest and healthiest relationship with Clare, healthier than during the last 10 years of our 24 years together

2019 - damaged relationships with our 3 daughters due to how they had seen the breakdown of their mum and dads relationship over the previous years

2024 - the strongest and healthiest relationships with our 3 daughters than ever before

Lifestyle

2019 - living a picture perfect life, earning upwards of £120,000 a year, living in a £700,000 7 bedroom family home in the Cheshire countryside, driving a £80,000 brand new Land Rover Discovery and £40,000 Audi TT. Addicted to porn since aged 11

2024 - living by faith, earning income through carrying out consultancy, currently in the process of God bringing us from our £3000 caravan (now sold) to a new, beautiful family home, driving a £10,000 Skoda Superb. Not looked at anything pornographic since the day I was baptised June 16th 2019

Work

2019 - the year my 12 year agency PRWD, with net profit of less than 10%, almost went bankrupt with £100,000 of debt, having made redundancies to reduce the agency from 15 people to 3

2014 - honoured and absolutely loving being the founder & consultant for Become Customer-Centric, with an almost 100% net profit, working with the worlds largest healthcare provider Allianz

2019 - aged 41, no faith, no-one in my family had faith, no-one in Clare’s family had faith, none of our friends had faith, none of my employees had faith

2024 - aged 46, with many brothers & sisters in Christ across the flat stationary earth, and with family members on the verge of having their own Damascus Road experience, hallelujah

2019 - aged 41, never had any faith in God

2024 - aged 46, now almost 5 years in to a personal, deepening relationship with Jesus my Lord and Saviour

Mental Health

2019 - aged 41, had been battling with poor mental health since my late teenage years. Depression, anxiety, fear, paranoia, mistrust, anger, resentment, guilt, shame, condemnation, suicidal thoughts, unforgiveness. I had been seeking help through 1-1 therapy over the last 5 years, but there was zero healing, in fact aged 41 I was living in the deepest darkness I’d ever lived in, still traumatised by being sexually abused aged between 10-15 years young

2024 - aged 46, living with the peace of God which surpasses all understanding, peace which guards my heart and mind. Living with total forgiveness of people who have hurt me in the past and anyone who seeks to hurt me in my day-to-day life today. All mental health battles have been completely destroyed through my faith and relationship with Jesus

Life Purpose

2019 - I had hit rock bottom, I was helpless and hopeless, without any life purpose, having seeing my marriage collapse and seeing my business implode

2024 - 5 years since Jesus saved my life, 3 years in to stewarding Become Born-Again Worldwide Ministry, living with absolute purpose as a disciple of Jesus, following the Great Commission

“This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him.”

2 Corinthians 5:17-18 NLT

“Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.”

Colossians 3:10-11 NLT

“Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace? Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it? Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives. Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was. We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him. We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus. Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires. Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace. Well then, since God’s grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not! Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living. Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you. Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living. Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right. And what was the result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom. But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Romans 6:1-23 NLT