Testimony Tuesday - 4th of April 2018 - Muslims Come to Christ

hey this video is just some testimonies that I found in this book from a local church and Nottingham that I used to go to before I got married and I just read two of them and I found them so encouraging that I just wanted to share them with you guys as well and so the first one is a lady called Sonia Sonia and I'm not really sure how you pronounce that and I just want to read the testimony to you from the book it says in total I have 16 half sisters and brothers and my mum raised me I went to Quran school as a child to learn the Quran by heart and they taught me that Islam was the one true religion I used to pray five times a day and fast Ramadan but I never had a relationship with Allah he was far away from me and I did not know if I was going to go to heaven or hell I had to rely on my good deeds to get me into heaven and I knew I wasn't good enough I came to Europe when the Somali civil war broke out and I started to dress more religiously with the hijab but I always felt empty in my heart I'd always had a picture of Allah being angry with me and as I wasn't doing good enough deeds and I avoided talking about Allah as I was too scared of him and death in 2005 a friend of mine sent me a video of the beheading of an American man in Iraq I watched it and what I saw was horrific and so shocking I had never seen anything like that in my whole life and I didn't understand why they were doing it I noticed that the man who was beheading the innocent man had a Koran in one hand which he was reciting and a huge knife and the other on the group of men's forehead they had some cloth that had there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger on it that night I couldn't stop crying and being sick I couldn't sleep I was shaking my mind was full of questions I thought how could these people who are followers of Allah do this disgusting and terrifying action in a large name for the first time before I tried to desperately go to sleep I spoke to a larder ectly for the first time I asked how can I follow you are you okay with people doing this in your name is this right the beheading of a human after that I finally went to sleep and dreamt I hadn't had significant dreams before but that night I had a vivid dream I was standing in front of my house and I saw a huge light coming from the sky I looked up at the sky and I saw a glowing man that came from heaven he was wearing a white robe and the light coming from him was almost blinding he shouted with a loud voice to come to him everybody suddenly froze and started to bow down to him and started worshiping him we were all saying you're my god you're my god in the morning when I woke up I thought it was Allah although I didn't know who it was I still felt happiness in my heart the second night I asked Allah was that even my dream or the Prophet Muhammad I want to follow you then I had another dream this time in my dream my mother brought me the Quran with her and put it on my knees and told me to read it every time I tried to read it I just kept saying Jesus said that I'm the way the life the truth no man comes to the Father except through me she became very angry and frustrated and she just said go and bring me some food everything I tried to serve her just turned into cross shapes she then said you are a Christian and not Muslim anymore she called the rest of my family and told them about me when they came I was so scared they would harm me before they opened the door the shining man returned to my rescue and grabbed me and we flew through the walls we were flying in the air and I remembered looking down seeing the tops of people's heads and buildings we flew out into space and eventually arrived to what I believe was heaven it was full of flowers buildings rivers of amazing different colors it was the most beautiful place I'd ever seen there is nothing on earth for me to compare to what I saw it is more than our imagination he told me you are safe with me here he pointed to a place that looked burnt and was full of darkness and he said they're over there and they can't get here I woke up filled with happiness and joy and my dream my dream confirmed me that it wasn't Allah or Muhammad but instead Jesus Christ I started researching on the internet about this man called Jesus and if he's the only way to heaven I came across some very helpful websites and the more I read about him the more I fell in love I found the Bible on the internet and I was so amazed that what my mother's what I told my mother in my dream was in the Bible and was this verse John 14:6 Jesus said to him I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the Father except through me it was amazing how I had never read a Bible and that God revealed his words to me in a dream and then I found it in the Bible even the way that Jesus came back in my dream is how it's written in the Bible John 3:16 for God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life this verse showed me that is not about my good deeds but about God's grace and love I never knew God would love me so much unconditionally that he would pay for my sins through His Son Jesus I didn't know that I can't go to heaven through my own good deeds and there's nothing I can do to save myself except to accept Jesus I felt like an extremely heavy weight had been lifted from my shoulders the fear of death and condemnation was gone for the first time in my life I felt so free and so loved by God I decided straightaway to give heart to Jesus and that is where the problems began I told my husband that I had decided to follow Jesus and at first he wasn't happy with me he argued with me because he couldn't understand why I wanted to become a follower of Jesus as it would put us in danger since our family is Muslim however I told him after Jesus came to me the touch of God changed my heart and filled my heart with his love there was no turning back I became a new person he came to save me personally and I told my husband that I didn't care what my family thought of me or did because I knew that Jesus was and is with me at this point I had started to go to this church with my neighbor on Sundays my husband said I love you for who you are and not what you believe and I cried because I didn't accept him I didn't expect him to accept me but he did although there was a condition for our kids not to become Christians my younger sister found out that I had become a follower of Jesus and she was so shocked and told me that I'm not her sister anymore she then told the rest of my family I got dozens of phone calls and my husband had meetings with some of my family at first they tried to convert me back to being a Muslim when that didn't work they told me they weren't related to me anymore and they threatened me they all decided to disown me and suggest that my husband took my kids and leave me but he defended me he was on my side and told them to leave us alone my husband was surprised at how quickly my own family turned against me I was so upset at what they'd said to me I'd lost my whole family because they decided to follow Jesus however I wasn't just going to give up and leave him the Bible was comforting and it felt like God was talking to me directly this verse is an example Matthew 19 29 and everyone who has left their houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life this was shown to me mostly through the way this church welcomed me and supported me it was the first church I'd ever been to and I never experienced people loving and welcoming me genuinely I was in love with this church and always wished it was Sunday though I lost my family I got another family in Jesus which is much bigger and filled with unconditional love my son who is who was 12 and my daughter who was 13 had been exploring Christianity and became followers of Christ without my husband knowing behind his back one night my son asked if he could come to church with me my husband became very angry when he heard this he said you are Muslim and you're going to stay Muslim therefore you would not go to church after that my kids informed my husband that they were both followers of Jesus that night he was very upset and furious shouting and crying saying he'd leave in the morning feeling like he's the only Muslim in the house he felt like I'd betrayed him after he stayed with me despite the fact that I was a Christian and broke his only condition not to allow the kids to become followers of Jesus we were all crying begging him not to leave he slept in a different room and me and the kids prayed we asked God for my husband to accept us all and to stay when we woke up my husband said I don't know what happened to me but I'm not going to go I'll accept you as followers of Jesus and the kids can go to church with you our prayer had been answered praise the Lord my children and I got baptized in 2008 at this church the biggest difference is in how I felt about God when I was a Muslim and how I feel about him now I used to be so scared of the angry God I'd envisioned in vision and visions envisioned and vision and I didn't have a relationship with him but now I'm the beloved daughter of God and I'm confident in him and my salvation I have a personal relationship with Jesus and I can talk to him he doesn't feel faraway and uninterested in me it's nothing to do with my good deeds but all about the finished works of Jesus grace which is the unmerited favor of God submitting to him believing and trusting in Jesus is what saves us no matter how many good or bad deeds we do I know that God is a loving God and He loves me very much as he was the one who saved me he loves each and every human being unconditionally after all the things that Jesus has done in my life and forgiving all that I've done wrong I am so thankful and I know I'll forever be trusting in him and following him for the rest of my life now after I read this testimony I was like Lord Jesus please save her husband please save her husband you know we need that husband to come to Christ as well guess who the next testimony in this book is her husband her husband called shiner and I'll quickly his testimony is shorter than hers so I'll read his as well I was born and raised up as a Muslim I grew up without parents but I had an amazing aunt who treated me as her own as a child and young boy I was always missing the love of my parents and trying to occupy myself with different kinds of sports I did well at school and finished university in mark addition when the civil war erupted in Somalia I fled to Sweden with my wife I'm still married to my wife Shanna and we have two amazing kids together we were normal Muslims who used to follow Islamic teachings in Islam I felt I had to rely on my good deeds and there was no hope no love no certainty no relationship with Allah but a lot of fear there was no guarantee to get to heaven with all of this I felt I had to follow without question because all my family and friends were in that religion and custom if I left the religion I would have to leave the whole society and have nothing to do with them we were Muslims until five years ago when my wife became a Christian through having dreams about Jesus leaving Islam means to be persecuted and I was concerned about the consequences I advised her to think about her decision however she was a hundred percent committed to following Jesus after that we had many arguments because I couldn't understand why she was putting all of us in danger in the end after a lot of arguments I accepted her as a Christian but I told her to leave the children alone and let them make their own decisions when they were grown up after a while her family found out about the fact that she's a Christian they tried their best to take her back to Islam when they couldn't do that they tried to persuade me to leave the kids and leave her and take the kids with me her mother told me that as well if I didn't implement the Islamic laws then I'm not a true Muslim that was the turning point for me to think about Islam how could my religion State for me to leave my dear loving wife I thought that it was wrong as time went on my way from my wife grew in her faith she became a different person I was surprised how she was praying forgiving and being very patient to me when I was against her beliefs she became more loving caring and very happy in the meanwhile my children also became followers of Jesus I didn't know until one night when they asked if I could go if they could go to church with their mom that night I was so shocked and angry I couldn't believe it happened to me I remember shouting and screaming because I didn't know what to do I felt as though I was that I felt as if I was alone as the only Muslim in the family I threatened to leave them when I said that my children started crying and they kept begging me not to leave they however couldn't deny Jesus my daughter even said that Jesus my daughter even said that Jesus said that if she denies him in front of people he will deny her in front of the father she said this when she was 13 years old and I was so surprised that touched my heart but I couldn't say anything in the morning I don't know what happened to me but I just decided to accept them and let them go to church with their mum they even got baptized here in 2008 one day my wife handed me the Bible and advised me to read but isn't allowed for a Muslim to read the Bible because of a belief that is corrupted and has been changed many times somehow I started to want to read the Bible and my wife challenged me to find any contradiction anything bad or wrong in it when I started reading the Bible I had two major issues to find out the corruption the corruption of the Bible and the debt the deity of Jesus Christ whilst I was reading the Bible I fell in love with it and the Word of God began working in me and his love was touching my heart I realized the Bible is the true Word of God as it is filled with God's love forgiveness and salvation I couldn't stop reading it I found all the answers to my questions within it after that I stopped doing anything to do with Islam but I started to consistently pray in my own way to the God who created me and this world to show to show me his right way in the beginning of 2009 my wife asked me to come to church just to see how they worship she used to ask me every week but I declined her request many times I finally decided to say yes and I was only going to see what they do as soon as I entered this church I felt warmth and a nice atmosphere I felt as if I belonged here the worship songs were amazing and the service was wonderful I felt so much love that I'd never felt before from then on I was coming every Sunday although I wasn't a Christian yet one day in November 2000 I ask God to show me a sign of what to believe because I was so confused a voice a voice inside me told me to open the Bible randomly and I read the title the unbelieving people warned which is John chapter 8 verses 21 to 28 my eyes were stuck on the verse 24 therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins for if you do not believe that I am you shall die in your sins at that very moment I was both amazed and surprised how God was so quick to give me the answer that was a confirmation after that day I surrendered to the only true God and decided to give my life to Jesus my life completely changed I see the world through different eyes I became a different person filled with love and happiness filled with the love I was missing in my childhood imagined the creator of this universe the king of kings telling you and pouring into your heart his unconditional unfailing and everlasting love I am overwhelmed with his love and grace Jesus has brought love peace and harmony to my family and I have come and I have constant relationship with him everything I do I do for Jesus I got baptized at this church in May 2011 after I became a follower of Jesus I lost my family and friends but the Lord gave me another family and friends in Him who don't despise or judge me but love me unconditionally just as he loves me unconditionally now I have assurance and know where I'm spending eternity thank you Jesus I will follow you and worship you the rest of my life when I read those two testimonies I was like they are so encouraging and I loved it and I wanted to share them with you today and I want to be sharing more testimonies I want to do testimony Tuesday where I either get people on to share their testimony or I share testimonies that I've found to encourage the body of Christ so I hope that you would not enjoyed this video thank you

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Length: 19min 56sec (1196 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 10 2018