Testimony from the Middle East
This incident happened in the Middle East. Fatima, a young woman who is completing her doctoral program, has dreams of Jesus. She went to Australia with her daughter for the ultimate goal of the doctoral program; in this new country dreams of Jesus continue. She looked for a Christian to explain the dreams to her and then Fatima became a Christian. After graduating she returned to her home country.
One day during a celebration, Fatima with overflowing joy in front of her entire extended family said, "I am no longer a Muslim, I am now following Jesus." The room that used to be boisterous with laughter suddenly fell silent.
Two nights later while she was sleeping, she heard a commotion. When she opened her eyes she saw two men standing near her bed with knives in their hands. Her two uncles were about to kill her with sharp weapons. There was no time to run away, so Fatimah just prayed, "Jesus, into Your hands I surrender my soul."
The two men did not stab Fatimah, stood frozen, and then came out of her bedroom. Near the bedroom door, her young daughter saw what had just happened.
Fatimah immediately ran and hugged her daughter who was also a Christian and said, "I'm sorry, daughter, you've seen things that are not good. We have to go, it's not safe here. "
The daughter said, "I know that mother will be safe."
"How do you know that?" her mother asked.
"Mother, didn't you see that Jesus has stood next to you to protect you!?" Putriina asked back.
Her mother didn't see Jesus, but she passed the test as a follower of Jesus.
Testimony from the State of Jordan
While Rena was quietly reading the Bible, God said to her, "Today you will go to the Muslims and give out the Bibles."
Then she told her husband Kamal about her intention. Her husband replied, "Alas, we can't do that, you can be thrown in prison. If you meet radicals and priests they can hurt you. We have to be careful."
Rena said: “No, I have a box with several Bibles, and I will go where I need to go. You go with me or not I'll still do it. " After a long drag-and-drop conversation, her husband finally joined in, driving the car for his wife to give out the Bibles.
Somewhere Rena saw a father standing on the corner of the street. This father was a Muslim believer, with a thick beard and an Islamic hat.
"I will go to the man in the corner there," Rena said to her husband who was driving the car.
"No! You don't go!" I know that person, he is a bad person he will hurt you," her husband strictly forbade her.
"I will go," said Rena, "If you do not stop, I will jump out of this moving car!" Kamal relented.
Rena got out of the car with the Bible in her hand, approached the Imam and said, "I have a Bible for you." And the conversation between Rena and Imam happened.
Kamal watched them both from the car anxiously. Kamal saw the way this priest spoke to Rena, it seemed that the Imam was angry.
In Islamic custom, a foreign woman approaching an imam is very taboo, especially in the Middle East, let alone giving the Holy Bible to a Muslim, especially an Islamic leader. You can imagine, what was on Rena's husband's mind.
What conversation is really going on?
After the priest received the Bible, he told Rena, “You know, I have been waiting in this corner since morning because I have had dreams about Jesus, and last night I dreamed the same thing again."
"I asked Jesus, "What does this mean?" Jesus replied: 'Go stand on this street corner. Tomorrow morning a woman in a car will give you a Bible, so go stand there."
Then this priest, raising his hand, showed his watch and said to Rena, "Lady, it's 12.30, you're late!"
These things are currently happening in the Middle East!, Tom emphasized.
In a Gulf Arab country in the Middle East, Aisah is a young university lecturer who teaches Islamic Law and Sharia Law to students. She started dreaming dreams about Jesus, and some Christians shared the gospel message with her. In short, this young lecturer accepted Jesus as her Savior and Lord, and her joy flowed. She is now beginning to be discipled and involved in House Church activities.
Testimony from the State of Egypt
Tom Doyle met a woman who lived in the middle of an Islamic environment. Mona, the name of this woman, dressed in traditional Islamic attire and Tom saw the beaming eyes of the woman full of joy, so he approached her and asked, "Excuse me, can I ask you?"
"Yes," Mona replied.
"Do you know anything about Jesus," Tom asked
Bringing her head closer to Tom and placing her hand on the side of her mouth, she said in a whisper, "I love Jesus, I am a follower of Jesus."
Then the woman put aside the sleeves of her Islamic shirt, showing Tom a tattoo in the form of a cross on her hand. [It is a common Egyptian custom to put a cross on the body when a person becomes a Christian]
"How did it happen? Tom asked.
“I have dreams. I had never been so loved and so safe before. I cannot reject Him. I have now been discipled for two months. Bad things have happened since then, my husband tried to kill me."
"How can you survive?" Tom asked again curiously
"Tom, God gives life one day at a time, not a week, not a month and not a year; just day by day, and every day we give our best to Jesus,” Mona explained her secret.
Testimony from the State of Kuwait
Sofia was brought by her parents to Mecca, Saudi Arabia when she was eight years old. Near the Kaaba, there were a lot of people. She thought that she was in the queue to pray, it was not. They are carrying a Muslim woman with her hands tied behind her back to be placed on a high stage. Then a man on the stage prayed on a prayer carpet. After the man prayed, witnessed by many people and the eight-year-old girl, this man stood up and decapitated the woman's head. The woman was executed like a goat being slaughtered.
Sofia asked her parents, "Why did that happen?"
They replied, "That will also happen to you, if you do not obey us and obey the Qur'an."
They moved to the United States, where Sofia realizes that she has to be nice if she is to live; her life was filled with fear and nightmares, terrible visions in Mecca haunting her life.
Long story short, she told her fear to her friend. A Christian woman invited her to a Christian service.
Sofia, in her hijab outfit that covered herself from head to foot, arrived at the church building. She encountered something utterly strange that she had never experienced as a Muslim: everyone in the Church greeted her and they all scrambled to sit by her side. On that day for the first time, she heard the message of the Good News. Sofia in her youth is now serving in an organization called "Gospel for Muslims"
Testimony from the State of Afghanistan
Tom has a friend named George who is serving in Afghanistan as a missionary. Soon after George's arrival in Afghanistan, he discovered that the country had serious problems with homosexuality (including men using teenage boys as prostitutes).
One day when George was sitting eating at a restaurant, he saw an adult man dressed in a Pashtun tribe watching him continuously. George was really uncomfortable.
And suddenly the stranger approached George and said to him, "You must come with me to my house!"
George said in his heart, "Even my corpse will not go with you."
The Pashtun man realized George's reluctance to go with him, so he said again, "I know you don't know me, but it's good that you come to my house, my wife and children will be happy to see you, and that's important for my family."
He continued, "If you are afraid, you can invite your friends to come along."
The Holy Spirit in George gave peace, “It's okay, go with him.”
George went out with this Pashtun man. He was greeted by the man's family. While sitting on the sofa and enjoying his tea, this father started a serious conversation, "Why are you here in Afghanistan?"
"Yes, I just want to help the community, make something better, and make Afghanistan a better place," George replied.
"No, no, no! Why are you here in this country?” this father insisted on wanting to know.
"Why is that a problem for you?" George asked in return.
"That is important because you are in my dream about Jesus for seven nights. And also yesterday, in that dream you wore exactly the same as today,” the head of the family explained. I said to Jesus 'I want to know more about You.' And Jesus answered, "You will meet My friend tomorrow, and He will bring you a message," the man explained.
"Mr. George, what is Jesus' message for me?" the father now asked with slightly restrained emotions.
Throughout the afternoon George preached the gospel to the father in the presence of his wife. The head of the family on that day also prayed to receive Jesus. And they were taught in a Home Church in Afghanistan.
Tom Doyle said that Afghanistan is the second-fastest growing country in Christianity in the world per capita today, and Iran is the first country per capita. PRC is the largest in number, but not per capita.
Note:
Tom Doyle has written five books. His latest book (published late 2012) entitled Dreams and Visions: Is Jesus Awakening the Muslim World?
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