This is the story of Lkhdr from Algeria. He used to live life by his own desires. He was once a thief. He was once an atheist. He took jobs here and there and wasted the salary he received on drugs and alcohol. He didn't care about anybody but himself.
One of the jobs that he took on included underground digging. One time, he fell down a deep well. It was a very serious accident that got him straight into a comma. When he woke up 15 days later, he found out that his skull had been shattered in multiple places and had 15cm screws implanted in his body in order to hold it up together. He couldn’t even walk.
Then he had a dream. In that dream, he sensed God warning him to turn from his wrong ways. He then shared that dream with his mother and his family took Lkhdr to a Mosque for physical and spiritual healing. But nothing happened. Later on, Lkhdr asked to be taken to a church and his family hesitantly obliged. At the church, the people there told him that if he accepted Jesus as his Saviour, they would pray for healing for him. Lkhdr accepted Jesus and received prayer. Miraculously, he started to feel much better from that day onward. Today, he is working as an electrician and can even walk up and down the stairs. He gives thanks to Jesus, for taking him out of darkness and into the light. Watch his short 8 minute testimony here in his mother tongue with English subtitles.
This is the testimony of Fatiha from Algeria. When she was young, she witnessed her father regularly beating up her mother. One time, she even tried to intervene to stop her father from beating her mother up. Her father ended up beating up Fatiha as well. One of the reasons may have been that her father had gotten depressed following the death of his son, Fatiha's brother, when he was only 11 years old. With no other sons, her father saw no one else able to handle the responsibility of the family going forward. So Fatiha's father many times resorted to alcohol, which made him abuse his family.
One day, Fatiha’s father decided to kick her mother out of the house. Fatiha was really angry at her father for separating her from her mother. Fatiha lived under the ongoing abuse of her father.
Fatiha's dad met 2 Christian men that told him the gospel of Jesus Christ. He originally laughed at them, thinking how could anyone change him from the religion of his fathers? But one day, while he was watching TV, Jesus Christ appeared to him. And He told him: 'Follow me. I am the way, the truth and the life.' in the spirit of John 14:6. This drove her father to seek the Christian men he had met and asked them for a Bible.
Fatiha saw a complete change in her father's demeanor, becoming more peaceful. And one day, she also saw Jesus in a vision and Jesus told her: 'My daughter, follow me and never be afraid.' Listen to her touching testimony here:
This is the story of Nazweena from Algeria, spoken in her native Kabyle language with English subtitles. She was married to a man who often came home drunk and beat her up. She would try to accept the beatings for the good of their daughter. One time her husband even used a gas tank to hit her. All she could do to defend herself was to bite his hand back. In a few instances, she would even pass out from her husband’s beatings.
One evening at 2am, she saw a green light go across the room. And she involuntarily shouted 'joy, joy, joy! It's Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ!' The experience changed their whole family. Nazweena and her whole family decided to follow Jesus after this supernatural encounter. Since then, her husband has completely changed his attitude towards her. Nazweena has since forgiven her husband. Watch her amazing testimony here!
This is the story of an Ex-Muslim girl from Algeria. Her story is documented by a well-known Christian Arabic programming channel from Brother Rachid, a Moroccan Ex-Muslim. She came from a Muslim family where her mom and dad followed Islam devoutly. She submitted and feared Allah, but never really felt any love for Allah.
She has a sister and a younger brother. Her brother Nader was sick at a very young age. There was a French doctor that came to Algeria and had a look at him and told her parents that there was nothing that could be done. Nader would at most live until 12 or 13. Her mom had Algerian Christian friends and one day she asked them to come to pray for Nader. Within three days of praying for Nader, they noticed significant improvement in him.
The family decided to give Nader a checkup and the doctors were shocked, asking them what they did to treat Nader because he was indeed a lot healthier. The only honest answer they could give, was the fact that they asked the church pray for Nader.
This miraculous healing brought her parents and brother to all follow Jesus. She and her sister didn’t immediately accept because they were terrified of becoming apostates. It took her several years to decide to follow Jesus, but the amazing change of her parents and the miraculous healing of her brother drew her to believe and follow Jesus too. Watch her amazing testimony here.
This is the story of Mariam. She is an Algerian who lived in Mecca, born to a very devout Muslim family. She used to wear the full hijab and followed the traditions of Islam. She always wanted to love Allah, but she never felt that love being reciprocated. As Mariam became a mother, she thought she would sense the love of Allah, but still it never came.
The lack of presence of God in her life drove Mariam into doubting her Muslim faith. Yet she didn’t want to become an atheist. Personally, Mariam had one last test or checklist to believe in a true God, whoever that God would be. The following were the list of requirements she put together.
- She wanted to have peace in her heart, to feel the love of God.
- She wanted to see God.
- She didn't want to see some people at her birthday that she had to invite. She wanted them to not show up on their own accord.
- She wanted to pay off a debt that was not due to her own fault.
Then she had a dream. In the dream, she remembers seeing through a little hole she looked out from her house. And she saw her life revealed before her own eyes. It was a life full of misery and injustices that had been done to her. And then she sensed someone that was behind her. Mariam somehow knew it was Jesus. He grabbed her arm and told her it was enough fighting and enough misery. Then she immediately woke up. Following the dream, she felt God’s true peace in her heart. The rest of the checklist requirement were also fulfilled against all odds. She knew this was God answering her prayers.
She called a friend and told them she needed to obey Jesus and get baptized. It was a long process, but it was as sweet as eating a spoonful of honey every day. Listen to her story from Islam to Christ in her own native language.
Ali was a jihadi. He had a long beard, wore white clothing and trained to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. One of Ali’s brothers, however, had become a Christian.
Ali belonged to an Islamist cell group that distributed tracts about fasting, Islamic dress and joining the jihad. But in 1992, following a crackdown on Islamists, he suddenly found himself at the top of the Algerian government’s most-wanted list.
One day, frustrated with his self-imposed house arrest, Ali went for a bus ride and got off at a random stop. A young woman at the bus stop caught his eye, so he asked her if he could talk to her. “No,” she said bluntly, “don’t talk to me. I am a Christian.”
Ali was surprised, not least because it was a risky thing for her to admit. Still, he was attracted to her, so he tried another approach. “My brother is a Christian,” he told her. “Really?” she asked. The girl then told him that she had become a believer by listening to Christian radio stations and writing down the Bible verses she heard. She had never even met a Christian.
As the girl became more comfortable talking with Ali, she boldly asked him if he could get her a Bible from his brother. Eager to please, Ali did get her a Bible, and in the process he became curious about what it had to say. He read the Bible, compared its teaching with the Quran and began to ask questions at the mosque.
Then one night he had a dream in which Jesus spoke to him: “Come to me all who are heavy burdened and I will give you rest.” Ali woke up and immediately felt as if a load had been lifted from his shoulders. “At that moment,” he said, “I woke up and told him, ‘Lord, forgive me. You are Christ, you are God and I believe.’”
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https://www.persecution.com/stories/former-jihadi-now-church-planter-algeria/
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