Below is the testimony of a man that I had the privilege of meeting and working with in Malawi. His testimony is amazing and will really make you think twice about the level of your commitment to Jesus. Don’t just read it, but think about it and pray about it as well. Pray for Eddie, that God will bless his faithfulness. And pray about it for yourself as well, that God will convict you of areas in your life where you aren’t fully, completely trusting Him. Hopefully no one reading this will ever face the consequences that Eddie did, but may we each have the boldness in faith that he possesses if we do. I haven’t fixed the grammatical mistakes, rather just copied it down word for word.
I was born of influential Muslim parents, I was almost killed for believing in Jesus Christ in May 1982. My grand parents were associated with Arab traders in Malawi. These Arabs were Muslims. Thus my grand parents were among the pioneers of Islamic religion in Malawi. Our village is an Islamic village my family is a Muslim family.
From the age of 7 my uncle began preparing me intensively for active participation in the Muslim religion, he trained me in the principles of the Islamic faith and the how tos of Muslim propagation. Unity percent of the training was based on refuting the claims of Christianity, by pointing to assumed arros of the Bible and its teaching. I was instructed that there many arros in the Bible cover 50000 arros.
Naturally I become so committed to the anti Christian religion. In 1976 I was placed in the actual work. I joined the Islamic movement whose goal was to confuse Christians, especially in their meetings. This movement brought me into fragrant contacts with Christian workers especially freelance evangelists, consequally, I become skilled in presenting my arguments against Christianity and its book the Bible. Many Christians become aware of my influence and began praying for me. Though I was committed to the Islamic faith I did the opposite of its claims. I was doing magic, witchcrafts, drinking bears, smoking, involved in sexual immorality, fought with people, rebbed and many others. I saw these indignities as help in my aggressive approach to Muslim propagation. It was a total (though blind) commitment.
The turning point came in May 1982. My uncle just returned from his trip to Mecca, I was invited to a Christian meeting. I proudly accepted and I was ready to fire these Christians with confusing questions about their Bible. I saw at the back row. The gospel was preaching I heard it differently. It was so powerful I began paying attention. Miraculously I moved forward crying and knealt in front of the preacher. He did not care about me, he thought I was starting my opposition. But the Lord had toughed me within. The word convinced me and the Spirit convicted. I was a rebellious sinner. There and then my life was transformed, I accepted Christ Jesus as my personal saviour and the Lord in my life. I stopped fighting against God. The peace of God subduced my worries. How it happened is Gods mystery.
When news of my conversion reached our Islamic village, Satan stirred the hearts of all my relatives to attack me. I was severely beaten by my uncle to the point that I fainted. The next three weeks I was again severely beaten and fainted three times by the elders led by my uncle. He was the first man to beat me. He beat me heavily with his walking stick to the point that I was on the point of death in his house. He then ordered that all my clothes and school books and papers should be burnt. He also ordered to take me to the circumcision camp. I was already circumcised but this time it was to subject me to great pain so that I could renounce Jesus Christ, the Bible and my new food faith in Christ. They tied my hands and my feet and with a big pole carried my body to the camp. There I was tied upside down to a tree and I stayed hanging there head down five feet above the ground for the whole and and repeated for six more days. Substances were rubbed all my body and I was brutally beated for three weeks, fainting three time in the process. When my uncle saw that I was determined to die as a Christian but never to live as a Muslim, he ordered for my release after three weeks.
Commitment to the evangelical faith in Christ resulted in being disowned as a member of my family and village. I was ordered to leave the village. During this time Christian brothers opened thair homes to me. They took care of my spiritually, physically, paying my school fees and involved me in Christian fellowship, asking me to share my testimony to them and other Christians. Many were convicted and challenged. In April 1984 is when I was baptized in a Baptist Church in water as a public testimony of my faith.
I am now serving the Lord as Pastor-Evangelist and pioneer worker among the Muslim people in my area. The majority of the people that I work among are the Muslims, the youth and prisoners in jails and in the rural area. In my ministry I do hold open-air meeting, conduct door to door visitation, I distribute gospel tracts among the lost source and reach many people with the word of a God through crusaders many people who are sick are being healed and got delivered from the bondage of the devil, through prayer my goal and vision is to plant churches among the Muslims villages and to serve the youth and prisoners in jail. Please pray for me that I will fulfill Gods plan to expand its kingdom. Pray for me for they are still hunting for my life. But God our father is still protecting me. Romans 15:20 Isaiah 54:17 God is always great. I praise him for he is always faithful. I am now ready and prepared to work with those who are ready in missions of reaching the unreached, church planting, rural evangelism.
My God bless you as you read this testimony and pray for it for the expansion of the great commission of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.
