Muslim woman bedridden for a year, healed by prayer in Jesus name
By Mark Ellis, Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
GERMANY (ANS -- January 18, 2017)
-- An American missionary couple working with Ekballo Project answered
God’s call to Berlin, Germany, and have been ministering to refugees
from the Middle East.
They recently baptized a young man named Nizar who told them a story that demonstrates the power of Jesus name.
“My
uncle’s wife, she couldn’t walk,” Nizar recounted to them. Due to a
serious back problem, she was confined to her bed for a year and her
weight swelled to 220 pounds.
“My
uncle was really lost, he didn’t know what to do,” Nizar said. His
uncle had little work and was facing the possibility of relocation to
another city. Nizar says his uncle is one of the toughest people he
knows. “He even has a tattoo on his body that says, ‘Don’t mess with me;
I’ll kick your ass.’
“He didn’t have much money. He had to sell the things he had. It was a very hard time for him,” Nizar said.
A
few months went by and his uncle decided to study the Quran and become
more Islamic. But after spending several weeks in the Islamic scripture,
he became disillusioned and said, “OK, let’s see another thing.”
So
he began to converse with some of the Druze refugees about their faith.
Their religion is considered a monotheistic Abrahamic religion, but it
does not follow the Five Pillars of Islam. Their beliefs integrate
features of Ismailism, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism and other philosophies.
The
Druze call themselves “People of Unitarianism or Monotheism.” After the
uncle searched for answers among the Druze he concluded, “OK, I have
found nothing here. Let’s go to another place.”
Then he found a New Testament and started reading. “He read and read and read. After one week he was bored,” Nizar recounted.
One
day Nizar’s uncle walked into the living room, set the New Testament
down, and began to pour himself a drink of arak, an anise-flavored,
distilled alcoholic beverage.
“He was an alcoholic,” Nizar noted. “When he was spiritual he left alcohol, but now he decided to go back.”
At the same time, his wife was in the other room in severe pain.
At this point, he was desperate for any kind of breakthrough and cried out to God.
Photo captions: 1) Refugees lining up to be baptized in Germany. 2) Mark Ellis.
About the writer: Mark Ellisis Senior Correspondent for the ASSIST News Service (www.assistnews.net), and is also the the founder of www.GodReports.com,
a website that shares testimonies and videos from the church around the
world to build interest and involvement in world missions.
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