Isik was born and raised in a Muslim family in Turkey. Although her family didn't lack anything financially, Isik had a very difficult and sad upbringing. Her father was a womanizer. Her mother in turn vented her anger from her husband’s infidelity towards Isik every time she found out about his affairs. Isik's mother abused her daughter continually, even being told they hoped she was never born. Isik was often beaten up and they would off her beautiful long hair. One time she was molested by a relative's son who was a lot older than her. What made things worse for Isik was that she learned that her parents knew about the molestation all along and did nothing about it.
Isik was dedicated at studying her Qur'an, through her great grandmother’s teaching. Isik had started to pray and fast since she was seven, but she never heard back from Allah. When Isik was older, she studied Islamic literature and met someone in college that was a fanatical Muslim. They eventually got married, but then her husband started to become extremely abusive. She was spat on, pulled by the hair, and slapped in public; yet her husband would excuse himself because the Qur'an allowed it.
Isik needed to divorce this man. Once she graduated, she bought a one way ticket to the US and left her husband. She married again in the US, hoping it would be a better relationship but it also ended up in failure. As a woman in her late twenties, she was now a single mother under great depression. At the time, she was working for a Christian man who loved Jesus. She felt even more miserable that someone could love their God. Just when she was planning to end her life, she asked God why He hated her so much. She felt abandoned by Allah. Around that time, her boss surprisingly asked to meet her. Her boss had a very uncomfortable message to share with her. For some reason, her boss felt very strongly that Jesus wanted to tell her that she was NOT abandoned. That He loved her even when she was abused as a child. This experience made Isik accept Jesus into her life, and the burden she carried in her life she was able to let go.
Watch her amazing testimony that continues into a path of forgiveness towards her mother, and her father, who once hated Armenian Christians, ended up accepting Jesus as his Saviour and now is attending an Armenian church. Isik is now married and her whole family is serving God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ7skWvh5rA
Turkish woman decides to follow Jesus!
Angel is half Turkish and half English. She was born and raised in a Muslim household.
She was involved in a romantic relationship during her teenage years that eventually ended up breaking her heart. Because of this, Angel started reading the Qur'an more. She travel and moved around the world. She got to know a friend called Jacob who was a Christian and he explained his belief to her. Angel was extremely confused on how God could have a son in Jesus Christ. She ended up getting a Bible, which she used to compare what it said with what the Qur'an said. Unfortunately, because Jacob lived far away in Budapest, she felt alone in trying to understand more about God.
She remembered, someone once told her that she could simply ask Jesus to reveal himself and He would. So Angel did exactly that and for a period of two weeks, she had many powerful dreams. She used to wear a necklace with the name Allah in it. One time, Angel had a nightmare and when she woke up, she noticed an imprint of Allah in her hand from her own necklace. Because Angel sensed that this was a spiritual attack, she felt the need to have it removed. Her multiple experiences led her to understand she was not following the right path and God was giving her signs in order to change. So she believed in Jesus as her Saviour.
Finally, Angel felt the need to be baptized in obedience to what Jesus commanded. Angel told her friend Jacob the good news and asked if he would baptize her in a river, and he agreed. She was very scared about sharing with others about her new faith, but God continued to encourage her to be a light, not to be hidden under a basket, but to be put in the middle of a room to shine for all to see, in the spirit of Matthew chapter five, and repeated once again in Mark chapter four and Luke chapter eleven. Listen to her unique testimony and be encouraged because God answers honest prayers to know Him.
Yuce was a Muslim from Turkey. He learned from his grandmother how to memorize Qur'an verses in order to pray to Allah. One day he had a dream where he saw some women saying “He is not in the grave” and then left with mix feeling of fear together with joy. He didn't understand the meaning of this dream, but it left a deep impression in him.
One day, Yuce saw an advertisement for a "free Bible". He accepted the free Bible and when he read up to Matthew chapter 27 and 28 regarding the resurrection of Christ, he was shocked to see his dream explained by the Bible. After Jesus died on the cross and his body was placed in the grave, women went to the tomb and an angel told them he was no longer there because Jesus had resurrected. Yuce could not believe his eyes. He immediately thought, Allah, please don't test me like this. Yuce did not want to become a Christian.
As Yuce did further research, he had questions to professors about the differences between the Qur'an and the Bible. Simply speaking, why does the Bible say Jesus was crucified and the Qur’an says he was not? The professors said the Bible was corrupted but failed to give any factual evidence supporting their claim. So Yuce spent hours in a library furthering his own research, where he looked for the historical evidence for Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection.
Yuce found himself at a crossroad. He was a Muslim. But yet, the Bible was telling the truth because the historical evidence was undeniable. Yuce’s biggest challenge was that the Bible also pointed to Jesus as divine. The apostle Thomas, who initially doubted Jesus’ resurrection, later acknowledged Jesus as “My Lord and my God”. Jesus was worshipped.
As a Muslim, he couldn't accept all these facts from the Bible. But he recognized that the Bible was telling the truth. He finally made a difficult decision to become a Christian. When his parents found out about Yuce’s new faith, they made him leave the house. But over time, Yuce’s parents saw positive changes in his relationship with them. Today, his family has come to terms to accepting Yuce. Now Yuce is studying seminary to serve Jesus, his Lord and Saviour. Please listen to his amazing testimony from Islam to Christ!
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