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Jesus Heals and Delivers in Visions
The incidents in this chapter are some of the most dramatic healing miracles of our day. The author has personally met and interviewed the Arab woman in the following account and she has testified in one of our public services:
Not far from the Mount of Olives, a Muslim woman experienced a remarkable vision. Jesus visited her in a night vision and said in Arabic, “I am the Lord; put your trust in Me.”
But she was afraid and chose not to believe. She rolled over in her bed and pretended the whole experience had not happened.
The following day, while cooking on her tiny stove, she spilled hot oil down her leg. The burn was so severe that her flesh melted. She was rushed to hospital, and her leg was heavily bandaged.
That night in a dream, the Lord Jesus visited her a second time.
“You did not believe Me before,” He said, “but to prove to you that I AM, your leg shall be healed.”
In the morning, as the woman swung her legs out of the bed, suddenly she noticed that her injured limb was pain free and totally healed. The skin was as new and supple as a baby’s.
Though she searched diligently through her bedclothes and everywhere in her house, she could never find any trace of the bandages!
The Lord Jesus’ goodness and Presence have blessed this Arab woman, her husband and their children with salvation. Her testimony has been shared far and wide and much glory has been attributed to the Risen Savior, Jesus!
The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in recent years has been producing awesome testimony documentaries in both the Arabic and Hausa languages concerning persons who have been healed through dreams and visions. In the “Muzika” video produced by Victor Oladokun in Nigeria, the real life testimony of Mohammed Ali is dramatically portrayed.
Supernatural is the Key
Inside Mohammed Ali of Nigeria, there was a vacuum. He sat down one day to think deeply about his life and problems. He turned to God and prayed. From that day onward, his life would never be the same.
“God held me with his right hand,” Mohammed Ali continued, “and lifted me high to where the angels are. An angel came to me with a very black man. The man was handcuffed. His feet were tied. He was dripping with blood all over his body. I was told that the man was an adulterer, a liar and one who makes a bribe. He was involved in every kind of evil. It was said that before God he stood already condemned. I was asked what I thought about the man. I asked if he was really a human being. On taking a good look at him, you could see a life battered by sin. However, I said to the angels that if he was a man, he should be forgiven his sins. I said that even though his sins were many, he stood before a loving God. Because of God’s mercy he should be forgiven! The angels turned to me and said that this pitiful man was none other than myself!”
Mohammed Ali was granted several other similar experiences. From his childhood, his parents wished he would become an Islamic teacher.
“In spite of achieving a position in my community as a teacher, I was not a happy man inside. I was scared of what will happen to me on Judgment Day. I was constantly bothered by a question— where will I go after death? Heaven or Hell? I continued to search for the way of salvation. It was this search that led to my changed life.”
One night about ten years ago, Mohammed Ali was meditating on his bed when, suddenly, “I saw the heaven open. I heard voices. Then Jesus Himself appeared to me! With a calm and soothing voice, He said, ‘I will help you.’
“But I thought He had come to make me rich. I thought that meeting Him would be the solution to my poverty.”
The Risen Jesus Christ continued to reveal Himself to Mohammed Ali though dreams and various visions, yet his life did not alter, because he was resisting Jesus. He did not submit his life to the Lord’s will.
Although Mohammed Ali was married, he committed adultery with a neighbor. On his way back home, he was met by a total stranger who asked him piercingly, “Where have you come from?” Mohammed Ali was angry at the question. He told the man that he had no right to question him. But then something fearful happened. The man suddenly vanished before his eyes! Mohammed Ali was quite frightened. He ran home. As soon as he reached home, he said his prayers. He asked for God's help and forgiveness.
Not long after, Mohammed Ali experienced yet another encounter.
“While I was asleep I heard a knock on my door. I woke up and opened the door. I asked who was out there. I told whoever was knocking at the door to come in. There was no one at the door. I went back to sleep.
“After a short while I heard a voice saying, “Mohammed Ali, come to Me. I am Jesus Christ.” I opened my eyes and, behold, Jesus stood before me. He shone with dazzling brightness. He kept calling me to come to Him. His voice was very sweet. I cannot compare it to anything I’ve ever heard on earth.”
One day, Mohammed Ali went to visit a friend. On his way he met Pastor Emmanuel Kyari. He told the Pastor the story of his encounters with Jesus. The pastor took Mohammed Ali home and explained the humanity of Jesus Christ from the Scriptures. He showed him the way of salvation through Jesus Christ.
What a joy! Mohammed Ali came to the end of his search. Pastor Kyari recited John 14:65, “Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
On hearing God’s Word, Mohammed Ali testified, “I have seen God’s mercies in the life of a sinner like me. The Lord is gracious. He forgave my sins. I now know that even though I die I will live again. That is the assurance I have in Christ Jesus.” Mohammed Ali invited Jesus into his life as his Savior. What followed? His wife divorced him. His parents forsook him. His house was set ablaze. Yet Mohammed Ali said, “I am not ashamed of the name of Jesus Christ wherever I go.”
Today, Mohammed Ali’s life is completely changed. He has new life in Christ and is preaching about it.
Humanly speaking, Mohammed Ali’s life style is worse since he became a Christian. He has lost his wife, a house with all his belongings, and is cut off from his parents. However, he says, “In God’s love and mercy, he has replaced all that I’ve lost. He has given me brothers and sisters in Christ, food and clothing.”
“The Lord has shown me great love. His grace saw me through the trying period. He has kept and preserved me till this day. He is a loving God. He is worthy of all praise and worship. Even if no one else praises the Lord, I have every reason to praise Him for His goodness in my life.”
Sheik Healed of AIDS
On the other side of Africa in the East, in Ethiopia, CBN television cameras have documented a spectacular miracle. This is the story of a man who has been healed of AIDS, through a Jesus vision, and there is hospital documentation to prove it.
Sheik Mohamid Amin was born in the Juna Province of Ethiopia to the son of a goatherd and a mother who was barren for many years. Like Hannah, the mother of the great prophet Samuel in the Bible, Mohamid’s mother was so desperate for children that she made a vow to God that if he would grant her a son, her child would be the servant of God all his days. From his childhood, Mohamid studied the Koran; later he was sent to Oman to study, where he won a scholarship to Saudi Arabia. While he was in Arabia, he prayed fervently and awakened at 2 a.m. to begin his prayers.
“My dream was to spread Islam in Ethiopia and in the world. But one thing constantly troubled me. Something was missing. I could find no inner peace no matter how long I prayed or studied.”
Nine year later, Mohamid returned to his native Ethiopia and earned a position in one or the largest mosques. Again, he left to study in the Sudan, and when he returned to Ethiopia, at age 30, his health was rapidly failing.
“I was a walking skeleton and had lost all of my hair. My family took me to the hospital. I had sores from the top of my head down to my feet. Although I was publicly respected as a teacher, privately I was the greatest of sinners. I could no longer hide my secret, that I had visited prostitutes, and I got AIDS as a result. Truly I had reaped what I had sown.”
For four months, Mohamid became totally bed-ridden.
Mohamid’s family prepared for his funeral, but at that point something miraculous happened. In the hospital Mohamid saw a bright light. Jesus Christ appeared to him dressed as a doctor, the Great Physician! The Risen Lord Jesus looked at him with love and affection.
“Mohamid, rise up!” Jesus commanded him, just as the Savior spoke to infirmed people in the Bible.
Mohamid felt confused momentarily, thinking, “How can I possibly rise up? I was so sick. But He touched my sick body, took my hand and sat down next to me on my bed. Jesus seemed to know my every thought.”
God’s people are filled with compassion. An Ethiopian Evangelist showered mercy on Mohamid and took him home to wash his wounds.
“I sensed God was going to use Mohamid for his glory,” the evangelist said.
In barely a week, Mohamid was walking again. In his possession is a certificate from his regional general hospital stating that he is no longer HIV-positive. Today Sheik Mohamid Amin is a full-time evangelist and speaks in churches all over Ethiopia, testifying of his healing to the glory of God.
“If Jesus had not come to my bed first, I would have lost eternal life and, secondly, I know I would have suffered for an eternity in Hell. There is nothing God cannot do. All of us have done things in the past that we wish we had not done, but God is a present help in trouble.”
“I no longer believe Jesus is just a prophet; now I believe Jesus is the Son of God!”
Many people may believe in Jesus in their hearts, yet still be bound spiritually and unable to confess Him as Lord. Abd Al- Masih relates the following fascinating deliverance through a Jesus vision in a simple African pamphlet entitled “Light of Life:
“A Person Full of Light”
“A Christian organization called Operation Mobilisation held a conference for young trainees. They did not easily accept the concept that Muslims live under a collective religious spirit, as was explained by an elder Gospel preacher. Suddenly, an older lady, sitting in the corner, stood up and said: “Your instructor is correct. I was a faithful Muslim and made a personal decision for Christianity.
“This resulted in severe persecution from my family. I was baptized and became an active member in my church, but I could never bring myself to say, ‘Jesus is the Son of God!’ I was not really free. Twelve years passed after my decision to believe in Jesus and trust Him as my Savior. I prayed a lot for my complete deliverance and sanctification. Suddenly one night, I saw a person full of light standing near me. In this light, I could see that my whole body was bound with rusty chains. The person in the light touched me and the chains sprang off immediately. Out of my mouth came the cry: ‘Jesus, you are the Son of God!’ ”
She added: “An intellectual acceptance of Jesus does not necessarily result in the regeneration of the heart. A personal act by the Savior, Jesus, was necessary for me to be freed from bondage. This is why it is so important for believers to call upon the Name of the Lord and to invite Him to become active in our lives as our life Guide.”
A Supernatural Being
In our years of travel throughout Africa, we have met many believers who have experienced remarkable visions and dreams about Jesus.
A brother named Moussa from the Ivory Coast is the son of an Iman (mosque leader) who was searching for the assurance of salvation. Like many Muslims, he was afraid of going to Hell, but he was tortured by a promiscuous lifestyle and could not find deliverance from the heavy chains that bound him. Moussa received the Lord not only through studying the Koran, but also by a visitation from “a supernatural being:”
“I was looking for my salvation like a sick person seeks healing, but I could not find an effective remedy in the Koran. I studied through all of the 114 suras (chapters) of the Koran. I examined them one by one, and there was not one that could tell me with undeniable certainty that I would go to Paradise. I was very worried. There was another vital question disturbing me: Are the Injil (the Gospels) and the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) true or not?
“Several times Christians in Abidjan [the capital of the Ivory Coast] tried to preach the Gospel to me. I always replied that their Book had been falsified, because that is what every Muslim is taught to believe. However, this time I wanted to be sure. As usual, after the evening prayer, I opened my Koran to Sura 2, where it says, ‘Say ye: We believe in God, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, that given to (all) Prophets from their Lord; We made no difference between one and another of them and to Him do we submit.’
“Now I understood that God gave his book to Moses and Jesus. The Koran was therefore telling me not to make any distinction between these books and that of Muslims and to submit myself to the will of God. The commandment of the Koran was clear: I was not to make any difference between these books and the Koran! I was commanded to have faith in them. Would God ask me to believe in a falsified book? Now I was perplexed, because I towed the line and believed that the Bible was corrupt, but the Koran itself was instructing me to obey the Bible.”
Moussa continued his meditations in the Koran until he arrived at a verse in the fifth sura (verse 43 or verse 47 in some translations) which says, “But why do they come to thee for decision, when they have (their own) Law before them?” He said this verse referred to the Prophet Mohammed and to the Jews. Moussa noted, “I was being instructed that the Jews couldn’t take Mohammed to be a judge or a referee since they have their own Torah. The lesson I drew from this was that if someone has the Torah, he already has the Word of God.
“The Torah came from God and therefore contains the Word of God and cannot be corrupt!
“In the same sura, another verse [number 46 in some translations] says, ‘And in their footsteps we sent Jesus the son of Mary, confirming the Law that had come before him. We sent him the Gospel: Therein was guidance and light and confirmation of the Law that had come before him: a guidance and an admonition to those who fear God.’ ”
Moussa was deeply touched by the fact that the Koran declared God himself gave the Gospel to Jesus, and that the Gospel is the guidance and the light for all the people, and that it confirms the book of Moses, the Torah. Thus he even found the confirmation of the Torah and the Gospel in the Koran.
The Heart of the Matter
“I knew that the main bone of contention, the heart of the matter, was Jesus. Christians say that he is the Son of God while Muslims say that God did not father any child and that this is not possible. Could God have had a wife in order to have a child? This is blasphemy.”
Because of this controversy, Moussa decided to continue his research on the person of Jesus: “Koran commentators agree that ‘holy’ means ‘without sin.’ In the 114 suras, I discovered that five titles are attributed to Jesus. These titles are different from those applied to others and are, in fact, greater than the titles of all the others. He is called (1) the Messiah, and (2) the Son of Mary, because nobody knew him to have a human father. Mohammed is called the ‘son of Abdullah,’ but Jesus is called (3) the Apostle of God, (4) the Spirit of God and (5) the Word of God, one of those close to God, who was honored on this earth and beyond.
“In the 114 suras of the Koran, no sin is attributed to Jesus. Adam’s sin can be found in verse 36 [in some translations] of the second sura; the sin of Moses in Sura 28, and Jonah’s sin is mentioned in Sura 37. In Sura 40, [verse 55 according to some translations] Mohammed is commanded ‘to ask protection and forgiveness for your fault.’
“I said to myself, ‘Even my beloved Mohammed sinned! So how is it that Jesus never sinned? Why is He above all the other prophets?’”
At first Moussa was indignant and jealous for his faith, but he could not help but respect Jesus. He marveled that Jesus had actually lived on this earth for 33 years, and yet there is no record of any of his sins!
During this time some Christians approached Moussa. They claimed that Jesus was crucified and that their sins had been forgiven as a result of His sacrifice.
“Remember that I was seeking for an assurance of salvation, so I thought their message was too good to be true. I wanted to be sure about it. I opened the Koran to the fourth Sura entitled Women: ‘ They say we killed the Messiah, the Son of Mary. He was not killed, he was not crucified. Another person who resembled him was killed in his stead. God raised a living Jesus into the sky.’ (Verse 156 or 157 according to some translations)”
Now Moussa was relieved to find a verse that contradicted the Christians. The following day, “I opened my Koran to verse 48 of the third sura (or verse 55, according to some translations). God said: ‘Oh Jesus, I will make you taste death. I will raise you unto me, and I will deliver you from the unbelievers and those who follow you will be above those who do not believe in you until the day of resurrection. You will return to me. I will judge your differences.’
“That verse knocked me out,” Moussa recalled emphatically. “It had the effect of a sledge hammer on me. In fact, two elements of that verse conflict with the Cross-denying verse 156/157 of the fourth sura.
“The Koran asserts in the third sura verse 48 (or 55 according to some translations), ‘God said to Jesus: I will make you taste death, I will raise you unto me.’
“When I pondered that statement, ‘I will make you taste death,’ I said to myself, ‘THIS RESEMBLES THE CRUCIFIXION!’ And the words, ‘I will raise you unto me’ reminded me of THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD AND JESUS’ ASCENSION TO HEAVEN TO SIT AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD!
“And finally, I was astonished that the Koran says that those who follow Jesus Christ are ‘ABOVE THOSE who do not follow him until the day of resurrection.’ The time period specified is not for 10 years or 40 years or 500 years, but until the day of resurrection! And since that day has not arrived, was I to accept that Christians were above me? I was really not ready to accept this revolutionary message that I had found recorded so plainly in my own Koran!”
During this time, other questions bombarded Moussa’s mind, especially concerning the fourth sura where the crucifixion is denied.
“I continued my research and read the 19th Sura up to verse 33/ 34. Jesus Christ, as a small child in his crib, said this: ‘Peace be with me on the day of my birth, on my place of death and on my place of resurrection.’
We accept the fact that peace dwelled with him for the day of his birth to the day of his resurrection, but not on the day he died because we do not want to accept his death. However, there cannot be resurrection without death. This verse indirectly implies that Jesus Christ was killed and then boldly proclaims He was raised from the dead. I was convinced. After six months of investigation, I realized that the Koran confirms the Bible and that Jesus Christ is above other prophets. He is the Messiah, the Apostle of God, Mary’s son, the Spirit of God, the Word of God. I was furthermore convinced that He was crucified.”
After all these revelations, Moussa did not know what to do. He was truly immersed in a quandary. To distract his mind, he tried to party in the evenings, but his debauched lifestyle was no longer exciting. He could not eat. He was morose because he knew he was a sinner, and he knew he was deserving of Hell.
Therefore, one evening he had the presence of mind to conclude, ”If these trials I am going through are of God, then he should prove it to me physically. He should show me what to do.”
That evening, he spoke to God in Jula, his native language, and not in Arabic.
“I tried to reason with him like this: ‘My father is an imam,’ I said. ‘When I am with him, I lead the prayers. All my uncles are imams. So I am the descendant of an imam. For that reason, I cannot abandon my religion. I must honor my parents and family. I did not know that Jesus said to His followers that we must love Him more than our families.’
“I turned off the light, but all of a sudden another light appeared in my room! Someone was there. Initially, I was scared but afterwards His presence did not frighten me any longer. The Being approached me and placed His hand on my right shoulder. I remember it as though it happened only yesterday. He spoke to me, saying that all I needed to know had already been revealed to me, and therefore it was my personal decision to believe or not to believe. After this, everything became dark again. I could not sleep the whole night, as I was overwhelmed by the vision and by the choice before me, which He was allowing me to decide by my own free will.
“I spent four sleepless nights because I was resisting sleep, but on the fifth day, I could no longer resist. I was overcome by a deep sleep. During the deep sleep, I had a dream. I saw a tall man who had blinding bright eyes like those on car headlights. He tried to dazzle me with this blinding light. I was very much afraid, but suddenly my fear gave way to courage. I demanded to know his name but he would not tell me. Instead he began to recite the Islamic creed. But then he retreated and began to disappear.
“I woke up with a startle and realized at that precise moment something in me was stronger than what was in him. I had the impression that there was a change in my life. I concluded that there is no clear-cut promise of salvation in the Koran, but that the Koran clearly declares that the Torah and the Gospel are books from God. I also realized that Jesus is a Prophet above all prophets, that He is sinless and that He was crucified and raised up again. I had asked God to give me some physical sign. There was the vision, and now this spirit being in my dream was fleeing.”
Moussa decided to make a commitment to Jesus Christ. His prayer was so sincere that for the first time he knew that he had really talked with God. He confessed his sins. Suddenly, he closed his eyes and, as in a film, “I saw passing before my eyes all the sins I had ever committed in night clubs, my indecent sins, the sins of invoking spirits for money and so on. This vision lasted at least ten minutes, during which time many of my sins passed before my eyes. But I also knew that Jesus Christ had entered my life and that it was He who had given me forgiveness of all those sins and an indescribable joy.”
Jesus Christ proved that He alone had the power to deliver Moussa from life-controlling sins.
“I thank God for giving me the strength to say ‘YES’ to the truth proclaimed by the Bible. Now I want to ask my dear Muslim friends, ‘What are you going to do with Jesus? Will you go to the side of the One who is the Truth, Jesus Christ, who assures you of salvation now and in the hereafter?’ Do not say, ‘Because my father is Muslim, I am also a Muslim.’ God has no grandchildren. He only has sons. Ask yourself whether you are saved. If you die today, where will you spend eternity? That is the question you must answer. You will find uncertainties in the Koran, whereas theBible, which is confirmed by the Koran, shows you the path above all others, the only path. The Bible tells you plainly that Jesus is the Door to God. The important thing is for your sins to be forgiven, and the only way for that to happen is through the cleansing of the Blood of the Savior, Jesus. He forgives all your sins, even those you have committed in childhood.
“Especially I say to my Muslim friends, if you are experiencing dreams or visions about Jesus, if you are seeing a Man in White, be assured that He is trying to communicate information of the greatest importance concerning your free salvation and acceptance by God through the Blood of Jesus. Please do not be alarmed, but pray and ask for more revelation. Jesus always says, ‘Come! Follow me.’ ”
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