This is the story of Bayram* (not his real name for his protection), who was born and raised to a devout Muslim family in Turkey. He moved to the US in the year 2000 to study his masters. In 2014, there was a lady that came to his store and left a Bible for Bayram.
Bayram took it home and started reading it. The gospel of John chapter 13-17 really touched Bayram. This Jesus was very different from the Jesus he had learnt in Islam. So Bayram prayed to God and asked for help, praying every night. Some where memorized Qur’anic prayers, but he also added his own words.
Bayram went to Turkey for vacation. And one evening, Bayram received a vision of Jesus. It felt like Bayram was on the moon and Jesus garment was covering the Earth. He didn’t say He was Jesus, but Bayram knew in his heart. Bayram knew He wanted him to become a Christian, and he did.
Bayram told his wife and his wife instantly said she would divorce him. Then he told his brother. The next day, they thought Bayram was crazy and wanted to take him to a psychiatrist. He was taken to a mental hospital for 15 days, taking away his phone. The doctors asked many questions, but Bayram knew he couldn’t be the only one seeing Jesus through a dream or a vision.
After he was let go, Bayram went back to the US. His wife didn’t return with him, and his daughter was kept away from him. His father nearly disowned him and his mother was in tears. Bayram prays for them daily. His dad took Bayram as an atheist and said he would bring Muslim scholars to bring him back to Islam. Bayram agreed to meet them. They had hard debates, meeting 3-4 times, but the scholar didn’t know Christianity whereas Bayram knew about the Islam he talked about. Bayram ended up getting baptized.
Listen to Bayram’s amazing testimony here:
Unlike other testimonies found in this site, this is not the full story of a person that has a dream or vision of Jesus. This is a short ‘live’ session from an Apologetics program hosted by Avery from GodLogic. The call came from a man called Hakan from Turkey. He was raised in a Muslim household and currently lives in Germany. Hakan is married and has a child.
A year ago, he had a dream about Jesus who told Hakan to follow Him. Since then, he’s done some research and found out the true identity of Jesus to be God as accurate and even understand and accept the Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit as three in one). But Hakan has trouble fully believing this because of his upbringing and because of the hurt he had from Islam.
Avery from GodLogic suggested reading the Gospel of Mark chapter 9, which shows a person that believes but yet wants help from God for his unbelief. Avery told Hakan to simply trust the Holy Spirit to help him find the truth. Hakan left the call saying he would ponder on it, because accepting Jesus as his Lord and Saviour has to come fully from the heart.
Aysen was born and raised in Turkey to a not overly strict cultural Muslim family, but with fairly conservative grandparents observing the 5 pillars of Islam. Aysen question Islam from a very young age.
One time she decided to start fasting through Ramadan and memorized some simple Arabic Qur'an verses to recite when praying. She started to read the Qur'an in Turkish to understand it better. She recalls reading a passage about the punishment of a woman caught in adultery, where many men would see the punishment carried out mercilessly. She could not believe that was from the same God she believed in, and that made her doubt Islam.
Aysen became a businesswoman. Her father was ill in a coma. She read the Qur'an to him, but her father's countenance didn't look any better. Then a Christian read from the Bible and somehow her father got up from the coma and shook the man's hand, before leaning back down. This was an unforgettable experience.
She lost her father and got divorced following a failed marriage. In the US, Aysen was able to look into Christianity, something that her father and husband had opposed in the past. She asked God for the truth, and she started to get many strange dreams. She got connected to an old man from Czechoslovakia, who had memorized the Bible. She shared about the dreams with him, and he told her to read certain passages from Scripture herself. She was shocked when she learned that her dreams matched the Bible, which she never really read. Aysen continued to draw close to Christianity and believed.
Listen to Aysen's testimony on how she continued to get more connected to God, and ultimately seeing many of her family members also turn to follow Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour as well.
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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