Testimony-Interview Pandit Dharm Prakash Sharma finds Lord Jesus Christ

A Pushkar Pandit's encounter with Lord Jesus - Pt. Dharam Prakash Sharma

Pandit Dharam Prakash Sharma, the great Brahmin, the only son of the chief priest of Pushkar Teertha, Ajmer (Rajastan) came to know Lord Jesus Christ as his life, his Lord and his Saviour by reading the “Sermon On The Mount” which was a part of his college curriculum and which also influenced Mahatma Gandhi, his mentor, tremendously.

Panditji says “The desire of the vedic rishis from ages was a quest to seek the ultimate realization of the the true God and His grace. The same thirst of my heart was fired through the power of this great good news of the heavenly Father and brought me at the feet of the eternal God.”

He had a brilliant career first as a well-known film star, then a prominent business executive and finally as a member of the Indian Parliament. Ten years after his knowing the living God and ten days before his death, the senior Pandit Sohan Lal, his father said to him “My son, for ten years I have watched your life change and the resulting peace. You are on the true path and have found the way. Your Lord is my Lord too.”

His is a life of the quest of the living God ultimately finding fulfilment despite all manner of difficulties and opposition. It was through the spiritual strength of his wife Smt. Asha Ji, which guided him to a very intimate relationship with the Lord and experience the true meaning of fulfillment.

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Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Rom 8:35).

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Life Transformation - Before the judgment seat of Jesus - Fr Steven Scheier

Father Steven Scheier should have died on Oct. 18, 1985, in a collision while traveling back to his parish in the Diocese of Wichita, Kan. He suffered a major concussion and fractured vertebrae of the neck. Doctors gave him little chance to survive.

But he did.

Shortly after returning to his parish, as he read the Gospel of Luke about the unproductive fig tree, the page illuminated, enlarged and moved toward him from the Lectionary. Shaken after Mass, he remembered that after his accident he found himself before the judgment seat of Jesus.
Our Lord went through his whole life, showing him sins unconfessed and unforgiven since his last confession.

Father Scheier could only answer, “Yes, Lord.” Although a priest, he admittedly was not very spiritual and had practically no prayer life.
The judgment was hell, to which Father Scheier agreed. He said the Lord was merely “honoring his choice.” But then he heard a woman’s voice pleading to spare his soul. He knew it the Blessed Mother.
He heard Jesus say: “Mother, he has been a priest for 12 years for himself and not for me; let him reap the punishment he deserves.” Our Lady responded, “But Son, what if we give him special graces and strengths and then see if he bears fruit? If not, your will be done.” Jesus replied, “Mother, he’s yours.”
Since then, he has been hers. That extreme wake-up call with its eternal consequences has made all the difference in Father Scheier’s life and priesthood. Moreover, he wants it to make a difference in the lives of others. In the 1990s, he appeared as a guest on Mother Angelica’s EWTN show to recount his experiences.
In terms of near-death experiences, the Register reported on this topic in 2001. “I cautiously treat these experiences as a good thing, but not as a major argument for life after death and our belief in the Resurrection — the big thing is Jesus’ victory over death,” said Father Gerald O’Collins, professor of systematic theology at the prestigious Gregorian University in Rome. “However, he added, ‘Some people have quite a big change in their lives for the better after one of these experiences.’ Father O’Collins also sees no reason why theories about near-death experiences being a glimpse of the eternal have to be in opposition to those that attribute the effect to chemicals released by the brain. As he put it, ‘Who made the brain anyway? God.’”

Today, Father Scheier is pastor at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in rural Caldwell, Kan.


Did your judgment experience transform your life?
It has changed my priesthood. More than anything else, I am very conscious of the pilgrimage here on earth. This period we have is a test, and time is so relative here compared to eternity — and so much depends on my time here.

What important things did you learn?
It wasn’t any question of belief in the tenets of the Church. But now, to me, heaven and the saints are not merely things on paper or in the books I read or at services; they are real. I believe with the head and the heart.
A lot of our priorities are mixed up. My priority should have been to save my soul and others — what a priest should do, investing in that future, not investing in happiness here on earth.
If we run from the cross, there is a bigger one awaiting us.
We have a heavenly Mother. Since then, she’s been everything. Any one of us in the same stead would suffer the same consequence and experience the Divine Mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ I experienced. His mother is the one who interceded for me.

Any other reason you were allowed to live?
My mission is to let you know that hell exists and we as priests are liable to it. But also his Divine Mercy exists. His love outweighs justice.

But mention of hell and sin are so unpopular today.
These are things that have to be talked about because they are real and are probably the most important things we can talk about. I remember years ago visiting Cardinal William Baum in Rome, and he said, “You have a problem in the United States. People are not going to confession anymore.”
People don’t think they sin anymore. There are no longer lines for the confessional. Sometimes a priest sits for an hour without hearing one confession. How strange to me everybody goes to Communion on Sundays and nobody goes to confession.
I see Communions being a matter of routine — no thinking about who we are receiving. The idea of the Real Presence is less and less in the minds of Catholics.

We are depending more on science than religion.
When you once gave talks around the country (he no longer does), what did you see happening then — and now?
The Church as I saw it was changing. I’m seeing a remnant that is holding on to the traditions and to the doctrines of the Church, and the Church is growing less in numbers. Things are not relevant as they used to be, such as confession, devotions, novenas, Holy Hours, Benediction, perpetual adoration, and prayers for souls in purgatory.
If (scheduling) is not convenient, people are not coming to any rites we have. Sports are taking over as precedents to religious activities.
People are following their consciences, and their consciences are not being directed by the Church in grave matters.
I’m finding people do not want any constructive advice today. Remember the book I’m OK, You’re OK? We’ve taken that to the ‘nth’ degree: I’m okay, and you’re here to please me and affirm anything I say or want. Whatever I do or say is okay because I’m a good person.

Do you find not shying away from telling people the truth is unpopular?
Right now, to tell the Truth is to pay a consequence. The consequence being we’re not going to be liked, and we’re going to be talked about and avoided. That’s martyrdom, in a way, unbloody martyrdom. But we’re all called to be martyrs. We can be and will be if we stand up for the truth, even to the point other people are going to ridicule us for it.
He never promised us we would be popular being his followers. He only promised us crosses. But the crosses are bearable because he is there and because his Blessed Mother is there to lighten them.

Crosses are also unpopular to talk about, aren’t they?
I’m still very much afraid of crosses. Oftentimes, we avoid crosses. But our Blessed Mother and Our Lord have said crosses are like jewels, ways for us to get to heaven. The cross is the only way to get to heaven, Our Lord said.
When I look at the crosses, I look at the three on Calvary. The Blessed Mother said we can choose one of them. Remember the Bad Thief who cursed his suffering and the good thief Dismas? Which do we choose?
It’s only in suffering we come to know religious values. Proof is people who spend time in the hospital. Their suffering seems to bring them to their knees. I think that’s what God is trying to do to us now, to the point where we fall on our knees and stay there. The Twin Towers were a wake-up call. We didn’t heed it. At Akita, the Blessed Mother said that she could not hold back her Son’s arm anymore.

Do you propose we have a healthy fear about all this?
I don’t think we’re conscious of the fruit of the sacrament of confirmation. But this is the role of the Holy Spirit, making us soldiers of Christ: being unafraid, giving witness of the truth of the Catholic Church; and we become devoid of fear by our devotion and prayer to the Holy Spirit.

What do you see in regards to our Blessed Mother showing us how to lighten the crosses?
What is really paramount, to me, these days is the fact that the majority are not paying any attention to the locutions or appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is marking out for us a detailed plan on how to get to heaven. That’s how concerned she is. It’s not a surprise, because we’re her children, and she loves us more that our own mothers. I found that out.
At the wedding feast of Cana at Galilee, she says, “Do whatever he tells you.” That’s what she has said in all the apparitions and locutions for centuries. “Do whatever he tells you.” Revelation has ceased. She’s said nothing new. What she’s done is what the Holy Spirit is doing in our time. He’s reminding us of what Jesus said we should do. The Holy Spirit and our advocate, the Blessed Mother, have the same job.

If young people want to know their vocations, who do you suggest they ask to help and to show them?
As far as I can remember in my early childhood, I had a special devotion to our Blessed Mother. Not expecting anything from her, I would go and write special prayers to her. She was always important to me — and remains so, even though I went off and did my own thing for awhile. But she didn’t forget, and it was to my advantage she didn’t forget. Early devotion to our Blessed Mother played a great part in my vocation to the priesthood and led me to the priesthood. I always relied on her for everything, especially getting through the seminary and my studies.

Why is the devotion to our Blessed Mother you have now so important for all of us?
The Blessed Mother is like our lawyer, our advocate. She is closest to God as mother of his Son and the spouse of the Holy Spirit. I don’t think we know how powerful she is. The Blessed Mother pleads, “Please pray.” What queen pleads with her subjects? She’s humility personified.
In her mind and words, priests are special. They are to be likened to her Son, who is the most humble person who came upon the earth.
The one thing God does not stand for is arrogance and thinking more of ourselves than who we are. Look at the parable of the Publican and the Pharisee.

What major insight did you get about the Trinity and our Blessed Mother?
One thing I’ve learned is this beautiful truth: the Trinity — Father, Son and Holy Spirit — none of them, not one, can say “No” to her. They cannot. They will not. It’s impossible. St. Bernard said the same thing. Even here on earth Jesus could not say “No” to her. And that’s because his will and her will are one. Isn’t that somebody we want on our side?

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Several thousand MUSLIMS have been baptized - Ministry entrusted by JESUS

Interview with Father James Manjackal (Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales MSFS)
May 31th, 2014 on the Feast of the Visitation in Germany
by Gisèle Bomal.
for Chrétiens Magazine.

Before starting the interview, Father James prayed to the Holy Spirit, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary.
 GB: On behalf of all French Catholics who are preparing for the retreat in August with you, thank you for choosing France for your early retirement after a long absence I am also grateful for having given me this interview.
 
 Father James: I'm very happy to meet you and answer your questions.
 It is always a great joy for me to meet French and return to France to preach.  Belonging to the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales based in Annecy, I had French teachers at the seminary and novitiate.  I received my French spirituality;  this is why I am pleased to return to preach in France.   When I preach in France, I give them what I received from them!
 GB: All of your retreats in 2013 were canceled and you from May 2014 you began again. We learned at that time that you were seriously ill..  Can you tell about that?
 Fr. James: In November and December 2012, I went to Arab countries to preach the Gospel.
 
 GB: Is not it dangerous to preach to Muslims and their land?
 Fr. James: This is a special ministry that the Lord has entrusted to me for 15 years.  In this context, I faced the release, torture, imprisonment.  I was beaten, kidnapped, etc..  This is part of my mission!  They are the Muslims themselves who invite me to speak about Christ, they really want to hear about Him.  Several thousand people have already been baptized.
 
 GB: Was it during this trip that you were sick?
 Fr. James: It was when my return to Munich in early December, which was noted a stomach infection with a high fever.  I asked my doctor a safe treatment in order to go to India for my nephew ordination which took place on 28. But on 21th, I felt a weakness in my body, then I found paralyzed.  It began with the hands, then the chest, then half of the face.  Then I found myself in an induced coma for 13 days.  And for four months I was with breathing support.
I was sent to three hospitals in nine months.  First in Salzburg, Austria but doctors did not identify the cause of my illness.  After three months, in March 2013, I was sent to Spain in a hospital in Pamplona where they eventually diagnose the Guillain-Barré syndrome.
The treatment helped me to recover, speak and breathe without ventilatory support, but my body was still paralyzed.  I then returned to Austria, where I benefit from 5 months of physiotherapy treatment which allowed me to move my hands and legs and speak more easily.
 GB: This healing came at Easter, precisely at the end of a vast movement of prayer in the world.  This spiritual support has been for you a great comfort?
 Fr. James: Yes, prayer does wonders.  My friends around the world have mobilized to offer prayers, masses, fasting, adoration for my healing, I experienced the love of others there.  I saw them in my heart.  Prayers does wonders!
I think there was the prayers and sacrifices of others who have facilitated my healing.  I praise Jesus for all those who prayed for me!
 
 GB: The intensive care you have received, and for so long had to be very expensive.  Have you been supported?
 Fr. James:: No, I have no insurance, the various hospital stages costed me very expensive (over € 700,000).  I now have to repay the loan;  my apartment in Munich had to be mortgaged.
 Then donations arrived from around the world and have covered a large part of this debt.
 I still have to pay a lot of money to the bank, especially to get back my apartment but I know that the Lord will help me to return the debt, thanks to the generosity of friends and benefactors.
 
 GB: Many people have visited you, you have sent messages of encouragement, by telephone, e-mails ... How have you seen these beautiful stories?
 Fr. James: I really experienced the love of all these people during this time of suffering.  All those who visited me beamed upon me the love of God!  I always see in my heart especially the Holy Mass ... I am indebted to them.
 I was supported by my congregation and by a lot of people.  Because hospital charges were high, my friends decided to take me in a private home for treatment and therapy.  One of my spiritual son, Dr. Richi (son of Gaby know that many in France as she works with Father James) was kind enough to welcome me home, so I now receives home care less expensive.  The treatment seems to act and therefore there is a marked improvement, I can walk with crutches, but I still need someone to help me get up and move around.
 
 GB: In your Christmas message 2013, you said that the Virgin Mary had promised you the healing you she said you will walk again?
 Fr. James: No, she did not tell me, but she consoled me, bringing the presence of Jesus in my heart.  She wore my prayers to her Son.
 As I just said to Jesus, "If you keep me alive, I would preach even if I have to lie on a bed or sitting in a chair.  I've heard Him to say to me, "You will preach with more power my gospel.  "
 He did not assure me that I was able to walk.  He fulfilled His promise, as I preached with greater power of my wheelchair in Poland in May.
 Throughout this period of suffering and especially during my coma, I felt the power of the Holy Spirit over me, which filled me with his strength, his power.  Then, when I was no longer in a coma, the Holy Spirit was still there, it gave me strength.  Now, thanks to my suffering, I feel strong, not physically of course, but spiritually and mentally.
 Now I can say that I'm not sick.  I am healthy.
 
 GB: While thousands of people you know, and you wait, they need your teachings and your prayers, how do you explain that God allowed this long illness and much suffering.
 Fr. James: God has His own plans.  The Lord said, "For My thoughts are not your thoughts and my ways are not your ways," says the Lord.  Heaven is high above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.  "(Isaiah 55: 8-9).  He can do his job even without me!  I always think I'm not absolutely necessary for his work.  Anyone can do the work that I do.  In my 41 years of priesthood, I have never had a vacation.  Maybe the Lord gave me a vacation like me my spiritual director said!  I am convinced that during this illness I've suffered for my sins, for those of my brothers in the priesthood, and for those of all the people who come to my retreats.  I believe that suffering is a ministry.
 The suffering of Jesus on the cross was His mission to save the world.
 If Jesus had not suffered on the cross we would not be saved.  It is the same for his disciples for which it is also a ministry.
  Certainly, for a year and a half I did not go to preach, but I exercised my ministry by these sufferings, and God acted.  St. Therese of Lisieux has never preached but through his suffering for the salvation of the world, she became the Patroness of the Missions!  She saved many souls through suffering.
 During my illness, I have received many letters and e-mails talking about cures, graces they received.
 If accepted and offered my sufferings have contributed, I thank God.
 
 GB: The suffering accepted and offered in union with that of Jesus saves souls.  So you have to repair for the salvation of the world?
 Fr. James: Yes, and also for my own sanctification.  Like St. Paul, I would say: "I rejoice in my sufferings I endure for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in Christ's afflictions   for his Body which is the Church.  "(Col 1: 24)
 
  GB: In spite of your suffering, some of which are constant, we see you through photos, videos, still beaming, smiling.  Can you tell us more about this Joy that you live?
 Fr. James: Uniting my sufferings with those of Jesus during my illness made ??me deeply happy!  When people came to see me while I was paralyzed and mute for months, I could smile at them.
  I've always been happy in my heart because I knew why I was suffering: it was a gift from God.
 Suffering is neither a curse nor a punishment, it is a gift of God.
 Throughout this period, I always thought that suffering was a gift from God.  I was in this state of mind when I was kidnapped, they broke my arm and right leg cut deeply.  These are trials that I wear again.  It is always very painful and it is also a gift of God.  "But inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, so that when his glory is revealed, you may also be joy and gladness.  Happy if you are reproached for Christ's sake, for the Spirit of glory, the Spirit of God rests upon you.  "(1 Peter 4: 13-14)
 GB: On several occasions, we have seen blood in your hands, are they stigmata?
 P. James: I do not call them stigmata; this is simply a gift from God.  I also have five wounds: hands, feet and side, but I do not think they are stigmata.
 I think the stigma is for holy people.  I am a sinner and I am not worthy to have the great gift of the stigmata.  I kept this as a secret and I had never told anyone.  But now people know, because I was bleeding during the elevation in the Mass.  During my illness, Jesus told me: "I will remove these wounds I'll give you them back when I decide."
 So I have no sores or bleeding but I have marks on my body.
 
 GB: One of the main themes of your retreats,  are Christian values, family but also the dangers of the occult, the adverse effects of practices such as yoga, magnetism, spiritualism, qong qi, reiki ...
 Fr. James: I am announcing the Word of God in truth.  I make no compromise with the esoteric or New Age, or all practices from pagan religions.
 
 GB: Your message is intended only for Catholics?
  Fr. James: My message is for all those who want to live a holy life according to God's will.  In general, these are Catholics who come to my retreat, so my messages go to them directly.  I am a Catholic priest and it is my duty to tell the truth in the Bible and the teachings of the Catholic Church to the Catholics.
 Did you know that the Iranian government has banned yoga?  He says that "yoga is destroying the Muslim religion."  It is the same for Saudi Arabia where all yoga centers were closed.  Muslims understand that the power of yoga is destroying their religion but unfortunately many Catholics do not understand.  Yoga is inspired by Satan.
 St. Paul says that the pagans worship evil spirits, we worship the Holy Spirit: "But I say that the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be in communion with demons.  You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and at the same time the demons;  you cannot take part in the Lord's table and at the same time the demons.  Do we provoke the jealous zeal of the Lord?  Are we stronger than he?  "(1 Cor 10: 20-22)
  GB: A good portion of humanity seems to turn to these practices; you do not make friends preaching the opposite of what they do?
  Fr. James: I know that many are furious against me;  in France, many do not appreciate my warnings against yoga, against satanic cults precisely because many practice it.
 There is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God or the evil spirit, the spirit of Satan.  There is the kingdom of Christ and there is the Kingdom of Satan.  Esoteric practices, the New Age, alternative treatments based on cosmic forces come from Satan.  "The whole world is under the power of the wicked" (1 Jn 5, 19b)   Christians must reject all these practices.  This is what we have done in baptism;  we renounced Satan and all his works.  We must never go back.  We should converse with the Holy Spirit, but never through other spirits.
 
  GB: Do you take risks in addressing these subjects?
  Fr. James: I do not preach to please people, but to please God.  I do not preach things that people want to hear, but what God wants me to tell them for the salvation of their souls for eternal life!
 I do not want to compromise.
 When I was sick, doctors, healers came to me and said: "Father James, I can give you up, I have powers."  I told them I did not want to walk again by the power of Satan, I just wanted to be healed by the power of God.  I like to suffer at the hands of Jesus rather than be healed by Satan!
 A therapist from Prague who wanted to put me up in a month began to use esoteric powers on me;  I felt his power and I told him "NO".
 Now I have a good therapist.
 
  GB: How can I tell if a therapist has links with the esoteric?
   Fr. James: Just ask him where he was educated, he has other skills outside of medicine ...   Dr. Richi and several of my family and myself, we do not compromise with these practices.
  To conclude, my current decision is to continue to preach even if I have to do in a wheelchair.  God willing I will rise, I will walk.  I will continue to evangelize even if I have to stay paralyzed.
 I also have retreats scheduled in Czechoslovakia in Portugal in France, Austria and Switzerland and again in Poland ...
 
 GB: Do you know why so many people are attracted to esoteric?
 Fr. James: I do not know why many people turn to the esoteric.
 Maybe it's because they do not find an answer to their problems in their situation.  There is  also ignorance among people about the danger.  There is a document from Rome about the dangers of the esoteric and New Age "Jesus Christ, the Water Bearer live."  It's good to read that Catholics;  you can find it on my website. ( http://www.jmanjackal.net )
 
 GB: By denouncing all evil, do not you fear retaliation?
 Fr. James: When I'm sick, exorcists have discerned four powerful forces of evil against me.  They prayed for me.
 During my coma, I had a wonderful spiritual experience of heaven and hell and purgatory.  I describe in my book "I saw eternity" which will be released very soon for my next retreat in France in Saint Maur des Fosses.
 I have seen Satan and hell.  Satan told me: "You James, you're working against my kingdom, I want to conquer the whole of Europe but thou destroy my work which is why I hate you.  Yes I really heard, as I have written in this book.  You must know that Satan is a liar, and he is the father of lies, and he is also a murderer. (C / f Jn 8, 44)
 
  GB: Dear Father, your serenity and joy impress me. What would you say to people who are suffering?
  Fr. James: "To all those who suffer I say that suffering is a gift from God, we must never think that it is a curse, instead it is a great blessing.  Today people do not like suffering because they have lost faith.  Only someone who has faith in Jesus crucified can understand the meaning of suffering.  We must not only rejoice when good things happen to us in our lives, but we also rejoice when bad things happen.  See teaching of St. Paul that had a lot of suffering for Christ.  "Rejoice in the Lord always;  again I say, Rejoice.  "(Philippians 4: 4).
 These words gave me strength in my sufferings.
 Jesus is the Way.  Jesus chose the way of the cross, we must imitate.  Christ prayed, we must pray.  Christ preached, we must preach.  He has done good works, we need to do too.  Jesus was holy, we are to be holy, to walk towards holiness.  Jesus suffered, we also suffer like Him.  Many people love Christ as a powerful and glorious Lord, but little love Christ crucified.  Many people are attracted by miraculous healings, blessings, but few are attracted by the suffering of Christ.  However, there is no crown without thorns.  The Christian should love the Cross.  Jesus said, "Take up your cross and follow Me."  When you take his cross with the cross of Christ, the light becomes ours.  In all our suffering Jesus, who is with us, said, "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made ??perfect in weakness.  "(2 Cor 12: 9)
  Therefore, you should never suffer alone, but suffer with Christ.  If we must suffer, we must contemplate the wounds of Christ, see the power coming out of the wounds of Christ.
 Numerous saints suffered in union with the sufferings of Christ as Padre Pio, Marthe Robin ... And above all, of course, the Blessed Virgin Mary, our Mother, is the great example since she gave birth Jesus and accompanied him to the Cross.  During this time she suffered horribly without complaining, it has not collapsed, it remained standing at the foot of the Cross.
 Mary is the symbol of the strong woman who suffers but with love.
 That is why when you suffer, pray always the Virgin Mary for more courage.  During my illness, I constantly felt the presence and maternal comfort of our Holy Mother Mary.  Often I felt like a child sitting on his lap ...
 
 GB: Could you say a prayer for the readers of this interview?
  Fr. James: I wear all who read this to the Heart of Jesus and pray:
  "My Lord Jesus, I take all who read this interview to your Sacred Heart and I pray that many blessings flowing over them and their families.  I pray that the messages in this interview touch their hearts and make their conversion, healing, new life, they bring them all the blessings they need.  All I bless you and sanctify you.  Placing you all in the Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, our Mother, I bless you in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  "
 
 Thank you to pray for me.  Live Jesus!

Muslim Mustafa and Jesus Christ - Vision and Permanent Conversion

Rev.Dr. Paul Musthafa. M.Div.,D.D.  My name is Paul Musthafa. I was born to a Muslim family on September 10, 1977. My father was a train driver of south Indian railways and mother was a house wife .In the year of 1993, I was studying to take the examinations for my final year in high school. One day as I walked to a place to receive help from a tutor, I suddenly heard a voice calling by my name “Musthafa! Musthafa!” I stopped and thought someone was calling me. I turned and looked all around, but no one else was present. I shrugged off this voice and started to walk. Again I heard the same voice calling my name, and the voice said, “Look at me and be ye saved, I am The God, and there is none else”. I looked up at the sky and saw no one. However, a felt some kind of power come around me. I could feel this power that seemed to be like electricity passing all over me. A voice spoke to me.

I thought, “. . . this must be Allah, the God of the Muslims whom I serve.” Every where I walked, the power came with me. I was going to the Mosque, the prayer temple for Muslims. But the presence of God stopped me from going to the Mosque by leading me to my house. As I was about to step into my house, suddenly my foot came back and the presence led me to a church compound. In those premises, there was a Gospel meeting going on under a tent and a preacher was preaching about Jesus Christ.

I thought to myself, “why did I come here, and what am I doing? This is a Christian church. I am not able to understand what the preacher is preaching.” However, I did understand that this preacher was speaking about Jesus Christ. And the power that had led me here spoke to me and said, “He is preaching about the one who spoke to you on the way. He is the Lord Jesus Christ.” Then I closed my eyes and said to Jesus, “From now on I will pray to you.” I went to my home. I started to pray to Jesus Christ alone. One day as I finished praying persistently, I saw Jesus Christ a couple of hours standing before me and have often seen Him since that day.

After becoming a Christian, I learned a biblical verse quoted by the Apostle Paul from the prophet Isaiah. "I was found by those who did not seek me; I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me" (Romans 10:20, Isaiah 65:1). Just like the Apostle Paul, God’s grace toward me is beyond my imagination. And God’s grace was extended to my family in a miraculous way, despite the trials that were to come.

When other family members learned about my faith in Jesus, they got very angry. I faced a lot of problems in my family because my parents were so devoted to their Islamic religion. My mother was a devout Muslim that would get up at 4 o’clock in the morning just to read the Qur’an (The holy book of Muslims) and to pray. She brought us up in the same way. And my father was a leader in the Mosque. My parents were extremely angry with me because they thought that I had ruined the family name. However, as time passed, God brought every family member into salvation through Jesus Christ.

My family faced a lot of problems from the Muslim community as they cast us out of the Islamic religion. We were shunned by all Muslims. Some Muslims attempted to kill me several times but the Lord Jesus saved me each and every time. One day, some Muslims came to my room to kill me with a knife. Suddenly, at that time, my friends came knocking at my door. The Muslims thought “… if we kill Mustafa, his friends might tell to the police.” Instead, the Muslims beat me badly and left my room. Then my friends came into my room and helped me.Another time some Muslims kidnapped me and took me to an unknown place. Then they attempted to force me to learn Islam and to practice what Muslims believe. But I escaped.

Many times, Jesus strengthened me and has called me to do Christian ministry. The Lord spoke to me, “… you shall be a witness to me unto the ends of the world.” Each member of my family came to know Jesus through a miracle. And they serve Jesus in ministry. I have three sisters and two brothers that have married and serve the Lord. Also, I have a wonderful Christian wife and we have a son and a daughter. my total family members father,mother,three sister and their husbands and two brothers and their wifes came into the lord and baptized with water and holyspirit.

In 1994, I started Evangelism at Warangal, a district in Andhra Pradesh state of India. I conducted ministry in the surrounding Warangal district for three years. In 1997, I had a vision of the Lord that started a Church at Kesamudram, where my family lives. I inquired of God about the Name of the Church. He spoke to me and said the name of your ministry is “Spreading Fire Ministries” and the name of the Church is “EL-Shaddai”. We are working through out Andhra Pradesh state.We have Pastors and Evangelists working in the ministry. According to the Word of God Acts 1:8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” This is the vision of our Lord to spread the Gospel through out the ends of the Earth. Please pray for the Ministry that we reach unto ends of the World with the Gospel please pray for us.

Thank you,

Rev.Dr.Paul Musthafa http://www.spreadingfireministries.org/FounderTestimony.html

Video: an amazing testimony about hell

 

Also read: St Teresa Avila's vision of the demons.

http://christtotheworld.blogspot.com/2010/06/saint-teresas-vision-of-demons.html

My Divine Encounter with Saint Pope John Paul II

My Divine Encounter with Saint Pope John Paul II 

As our Catholic Church Celebrates the Canonization of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II on 27 April 2014

Popes John XXIII and John Paul II will be declared Saints of the Catholic Church this Sunday - 27 April 2014. Pope Francis had announced in July 2013 that he would canonize two of the 20th century's most influential popes together.

Millions of Catholics all over the world have been inspired by both these Holy Fathers who brought reform and a zeal for evangelization into the Catholic Church. Pope John XXIII was responsible for setting up the Vatican II Council. In his short 4 1/2 year papacy, Pope John XXIII was greatly loved as the "Good Pope" for his simple, pastoral and fatherly love in dealing with the Catholic faithful. Yet Pope John XXIII had a sharp mind and was a top Vatican diplomat handling difficult assignments prior to his papacy. 

Pope John Paul II brought the papacy to the world stage through his charismatic and courageous personality, love for the Youths through International World Youth Days and for spearheading the New Evangelization efforts within the Catholic Church for a dynamic and Christ-centred life among all Catholics - young and old alike. In his final years and death, His Holiness exemplified with great personal dignity what it means to accept suffering from the Hands of God and to continue to serve Jesus with immense courage.

Today, as Pope John Paul II is being canonized as a Holy Saint of our Catholic Church, I wish to share my very own personal experience with this inspirational Holy Father who has made an indelible and deep influence upon my priesthood and my personal Catholic faith. To this day, I recall and practice with greatest love what I learnt from this Great Pope.

In 1979, I was sent to Rome as a young priest to study for my Doctorate in Philosophy at the Gregorian University. I wanted very much to meet Pope John Paul II and had written to the Vatican Papal Office for a personal meeting. To my great joy, I received a letter that I could have this opportunity in early December 1979. I was very excited and filled with joy! However, just a day before that, I received a telegram that left me extremely distressed and disturbed. My elder sister, who was a nun, was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer and given less than 6 months to live – she was too weak for further treatment! I received a second telegram a little later saying that my sister, Sr. Simbrose, was slipping in an out of a coma.

In those days, it was practically impossible to make telephone calls between Italy and India. The telephone landlines were practically non-existent and there were no mobile phones yet. What is more, as a student, I could not afford the airfare to fly back to see my sister. I kept recalling the words my much beloved sister had told me at the airport - “Augustine, study well and come back to us in India as soon as possible. We are waiting for you.” All I could think of was that I would never again see my sister and there would be no way I could even go back for her funeral.

With this great sorrow and burden in my heart, I went the next day to meet Pope John Paul II. As the Holy Father was nearing towards me, greeting those near to me, I was overwhelmed with tears of sadness meeting the Holy Father. Pope John Paul II spoke in the special way he had. Pronouncing every English word distinctly he said, “Young priest, why are you sad?” With tears rolling down from my eyes, I said, “Holy Father, my sister is dying of cancer.”  Pope John Paul II closed his eyes praying and then looked at me, “Tell your sister the Pope is praying for her.” He then told me these words, “This sickness is not to end in death but in the manifestation of the Glory of God.” I immediately recognized this as the Word of God from the Gospel of John 11:4. His Holiness smiled at me, held me around my shoulders and said, “Your sister will not die.”  And my sister did not die – she lived for another 28 more years!

The first lesson I learnt when I later prayed over this special meeting with Pope John Paul II is to learn to close my eyes and pray. In every situation of our life, God has a Word to give us. When we wait for a Word of God, we will hear God’s Voice speaking to us to comfort us. Jesus is the Word of God! Happiness in life is to hear the Word of God.

The second important lesson I learnt was that any pain, struggles and sufferings offered to our God, Jesus takes charge! When Jesus takes full authority and control, Jesus makes good out of all situations and circumstances of our life. I understood what it meant “to take up the cross and follow me”. I need to look at the Face of Jesus and He will take all the pain of our sufferings.

On that December day in 1979 now over 34 years ago, I learnt a great lesson of the mystery of our faith from Saint Pope John Paul II which I have never forgotten. We need to turn to Jesus in our moments of distress not to other people. Let Jesus enter our life! God is greater that any problem in our life.

I always remember the words of St. Peter. “Rejoice when sufferings come your way because you are being given a share in the Cross of Jesus Christ!” (1 Peter 4:13)

Only a Christian can say that because our God is a Crucified Lord!

Saint Pope John Paul II has been an inspiration to me throughout my priesthood, my life and in the growth of our Divine-Potta Ministry.

Yours lovingly in Christ 

Rev. Fr. Augustine Vallooran V.C.

Director - Divine Retreat Centre

Sunni Muslim Faisal Malick from Pakistan - Personal encounter with Jesus - the son of God

Faisal Malick - From Sunni Muslim to Jesus Christ

Faisal Malick’s ministry is to communicate God’s love to the Muslim people. He was born in Pakistan and raised a devout Sunni Muslim. Although he was steeped in this religious training, he felt empty inside. This Canadian businessman considered Jesus to be no more than a Prophet, the Bible inaccurate, and the worship of Jesus unforgivable blasphemy. He took pleasure in challenging Christians in heated debates and was determined to win them to Islam.

https://www.cbn.com/700club/guests/bios/faisal_malick032409.aspx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tIq2j7XqaQ


A friend invited Faisal to go to church with him. Faisal declined and instead asked the friend to go to the mosque with him. This same friend invited him to a business conference with approximately 20,000 people. An offer had been given for front row seats at the afternoon business conference for all who attended the Sunday morning session. As an entrepreneurial businessman and eager student, Malick understood that the best instructors are those that had already achieved success in their area of instruction and purposed to take advantage of opportunities to learn from the “masters”. A guaranteed front row seat for the seminar was an enticing reward for simply attending the early meeting. It wasn’t until the morning session started that the realization of the purpose of the Sunday service became clear. As the speaker stepped to the podium, he welcomed the crowded room announcing, “Jesus is the Son of God.” Faisal thought this was blasphemous! However, he admired the technique that was used and made the decision that he would use the same strategy to promote Islam.

AN ENCOUNTER WITH GOD

Faisal attended two additional religious services connected with the business conventions. It was at the third service that he had an encounter with God. This was on July 3, 1994. He received the message of God’s love; he noticed that Christians had a peace about them. As the altar call was given at the conclusion of the meeting, Malick watched without emotion as others responded to the invitation for salvation.  

Suddenly he sensed God’s presence right in front of him. His first thought was - why would God manifest himself among these people! Immediately he had a multitude of questions racing through his mind, but in his heart, he asked Him only one:  “God, what are you doing here? I thought these Christians were the bad guys.”

In response, Malick heard an audible voice reply three times with the same answer, “No, these are My children.” As God spoke, His voice moved through Faisal and everything he had ever known up to that moment shattered.

He also asked the Lord, “Take away my stony heart and give me a new heart,” was Malick’s cry as he experienced new birth. “I didn’t completely understand what happened or how completely I had been changed until later.”

FROM MUSLIM TO MINISTER

Now, the same zeal which had motivated him to win others to Allah, was directed at winning people to Christ. Sharing his testimony became a daily event and within two or three years Faisal had led approximately 1,500 people to the Lord - Muslims to Jews and Hindus, most of them in his car which was affectionately called the “Save Mobile.”

He didn’t realize that what he was doing was unusual. Faisal recalls that one Muslim man came for two years without accepting Jesus. On the night he finally did decide to receive Christ he said a presence kept following him and didn’t leave until he accepted the Lord.

Another Muslim man came to him with his top 20 questions no Christian could answer. Faisal did not know what the man was going to ask or what he would answer him. Suddenly, an answer came after the man’s first question - and the answers kept coming. By the fifteenth or sixteenth question, God’s change came upon the man. He had to run to the bathroom because he was weeping. He came back and his twentieth question was, “How do I know what you’re saying is truth?”

Faisal answered, “Truth is a person.”

Then the man’s next question was “How do I know this Jesus?”

Faisal’s family somehow heard about his newfound faith and sold the house they allowed him to live in. Faisal had to live in his car during one of the worst winters in Canada. He would move from parking lot to parking lot in the evenings and go to McDonald’s in the mornings to shave. This did not stop him from sharing the Gospel with others.  He eventually was able to move into a basement and his life went back to normal.

However, now he had the challenge of his family. He went back to visit them in Pakistan six years after he saw them last. When his step-father, who is a great man of integrity and well respected in the family and community, saw Faisal, he sensed Faisal was a “holy person.” After his three-week visit, although his family did not receive Christ, his stepfather said, “You have exceeded my expectations and seem to be a pure and holy man of God.”

Also, God has given him a unique opportunity among the Muslim and Hindu people through both his background and what is referred to as the “mehrab.” Faisal says in the Islamic world a mehrab is a mark on the forehead, which Muslims believe is a sign from God of a holy man. Hindus favor this mark too as a sign of God’s miraculous blessing.  Many try to achieve this mark from their faithful devotion to the ritual of daily prayers. Faisal has a mark on his forehead. The most interesting thing is that it is not a birthmark. It just appeared when he was about 14-years-old. At the time, he didn’t understand its significance. But today Faisal sees it as a gift. Through this sign, God has opened doors of acceptance Faisal could never open himself.

In Canada, he would meet people at the local Perkins Restaurant. But this newly found passion took him on the road traveling and ministering life in schools, homes, churches and business communities. People would also invite him to speak at home groups, most averaging 150 people, and lives would be transformed. Many that attended these group meetings became pastors, knew pastors, etc., that would tell others about Faisal.

Once he was invited to speak at a church; the pastor told him there were two TV cameras at the back of the church and that it would be telecast in Canada and the U.S. – and he would minister in front of the church. Faisal read a passage from the Gospel of John. He felt the power of God, and one third of the crowd gave their lives to Christ. This was the first time Faisal was on TV. More ministry opportunities presented themselves.

In August 2003, Faisal’s ministry made a transition to TV. God told Faisal to ‘love these My people.’ God showed Faisal the power of TV and that Faisal would be used in a great way on TV to minister to Muslims. God also showed Faisal that the wall of Islam would fall. He was also making more TV appearances on the Inspirational Network, Sid Roth’s show and others. He launched his daily show, Plumbline, on February 2, 2009, which reaches at least 55 nations a month.

GOD’S MESSAGE TO MUSLIMS

God loves the Muslim people. About 40 percent of the gentile population is Muslim. God has not forgotten them, has a Father’s heart towards them, and hears their cry and longing for their Father. Just like in the story of Ishmael, the firstborn son of Abraham, who was exiled into the desert in favor of Abraham’s promised son Isaac (see Genesis 21:17). The name Ishmael means, “God hears.” He was one of four people in the Bible named before they were born, which indicated their destiny). Ishmael and his mother, Haggar, were exiled to the desert at the request of Sarah for the sake of Abraham’s promised child, Isaac. After a long journey in the desert, Ishmael was dying of thirst and cried out. God heard Ishmael’s cry and took care of him.

God promises to hear the Muslims’ hearts and be their loving Father. Understanding the roots of the Muslim people is an important key to understanding the current situation as well as ministering to Muslims. Dreams and visions are important to the Muslim. There will be a generation of Muslims that come to Jesus through dreams and visions – in the dreams and visions they see a Man clothed in white.  The Church needs to be ready to explain. Muslims are open to dreams and visions, open to God speaking to them in this way.