Why Muslims Follow Jesus

Christianity Today reviews a recent 750 page survey on why Muslim have been coming to faith in Jesus the Messiah. The first most prominent reason given was the lifestyle of Christians ~ especially their love. Then there is this:

The next most important influence was the power of God in answered prayers and healing. Like most of the factors that former Muslims list, experiences of God's supernatural intervention often increase after Muslims decide to follow Christ.

In North Africa, Muslim neighbors asked Christians to pray for a very sick daughter who then was healed. In Senegal, a Muslim marabout (spiritual leader) referred a patient to Christians when he was not able to bring healing. In Pakistan, after a pilgrimage to Mecca did not cure a disabled Shiite girl, she was healed following Christian prayer.

Another reason is the power of Jesus to deliver them from the demonic:

Closely related was the finding that some noted deliverance from demonic power as another reason they were attracted to Jesus. After all, he is the healing prophet in the Qur'an and has power over demons in the Gospels. In northern Nigeria, a malam (what some might call a witchdoctor) used sorcery against a man who was considering following Jesus. The seeker became insane, and his extended family left him. But then he prayed that Christ would free him, and he was healed.

Dissatisfaction with their experience with Islam is another reason Muslims have been turning to Jesus. Islamic law does not have the power to transform lives and society.

Dreams and visions have also played an important part in many conversions:

Many Muslims view dreams as links between the seen and unseen worlds, and pre-conversion visions and dreams often lead Muslims to consult a Christian or the Bible. Frequently a person in the vision, understood to be Jesus, radiates light or wears white (one respondent, though, said Jesus appeared in green, a color sometimes associated with Islamic holy persons). An Algerian woman had a vision that her Muslim grandmother came into her room and said, "Jesus is not dead; he is here." In Israel, an Arab dreamed that his deceased father said, "Follow the pastor. He will show you the right way." Other dreams and visions occurred later and provided encouragement during persecution. A Turkish woman in jail because of her conversion had a vision that she would be released, and she was. A vision of thousands of believers in the streets proclaiming their faith encouraged a young man in North Africa to persevere.

Miracles Bring Muslims to Jesus

Tom Gilson, at Thinking Christian, considers a survey cited by Christianity Today of 750 Muslims who have come to know Jesus the Messiah. He finds that there are four main reasons:

• First, they are drawn to the lifestyle of Christians.
• Second, they are experiencing the power of God in answered prayers and healing.
• Third, they are dissatisfied with their experience with Islam.
• The fourth reason Muslims are converting to faith in Jesus is because of dreams and visions. 

Gilson elaborates:

Just last Tuesday I asked a missionary if he knew of experiences of signs and wonders. He spoke of a team of three missionaries, colleagues of his, who were paddling up a river on a boat, in a place where they had not been before. A woman called out to them from the shore, "Are you bringing the word of God?" They landed there and she told them she was the local religious leader. She had had a dream the night before that three men would come in a boat, bringing the word of God. This was not a Muslim community, but illustrates the same point: God is working through dreams and visions. Note that this cannot be ascribed to mere psychology; the information was too specific. The same is true of stories Moreland tells, for example of a Muslim man who walked up to a Christian missionary in a marketplace and said, "I had a dream last night that if I came to this marketplace at this time today, I would see a man wearing a blue jacket just like yours and he would tell me about God."

Christian Revival in the Muslim World

Dreams and visions of Jesus are causing many Muslims to come to Jesus the Messiah. This report is from CBN.

Miracles Among Muslims ~ The Jesus Visions

Miracles Among Muslims:
The Jesus Visions
by Christine Darg

From the back cover:

Christine Darg, a dreamer in the tradition of biblical Daniel and Peter, heard the voice of God tell her in a dream to go to to an Arabian city where the Holy Spirit was moving in Revival. What could she do but head there? Miracles Among Muslims chronicles her amazing encounters with dreams and visions in this current move of God, and also some of the startling visions she herself has experienced in the Middle East and throughout the world.

In remarkable ways, and on a seemingly unprecedented scale in fulfillment of Bible prophecy, the Lord is showing Himself alive (Acts 1:3). Miracles Among Muslims is an extraordinary account of signs and wonders in the Muslim world.

For many centuries of desert like dryness in the Middle East, the word of the LORD was precious. There was no open vision. But suddenly, in the fullness of time, the spiritual scenario in the Middle East has changed. He is also fulfilling His promise to Abraham that Ishmael might live! Dreams and visions are some of the primary ways the Lord is communicating His gospel to the children of Abraham: "And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions" (Joel 2:28 NIV).

Chapters include:

1. "Not by Might, nor by Power, but by My Spirit!"
2. Miracles in the Holy Land
3. Let Ishmael Live!
4. Multitudes Reaching for Jesus
5. Jesus Heals and Delivers in Dreams and Visions
6. Glory in Egypt
7. Signs and Wonders in Iraq and Jordan
8. Adventures Through Dreams
9. Jesus Appears in Arabia
10. Lessons from Jesus' Visitation in Arabia
11. More Signs, Wonders and Miracles
12. Biblical Dreams and Visions
13. How to Discern if a Vision or Dream is from God
14. Revival Epilogue

"This book shows what happens when you follow the voice of our Lord." ~ The Reverend Canon Andrew White, President of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East

A Muslim Cries Out to Jesus

This is the testimony of Kamal Saleem, a Muslim and also a terrorist. Befriended by Christians, he was confused by their love for him. He cried to out to his deity, Allah, but Allah said nothing. In his despair, he decided to end his life. But as he held a gun to his head, he heard a voice call his name. It told him to call out to God, the Father of Abraham, Isaace and Jacob. So he called out as the voice told him. Then he had a vision of Yahweh in His glory, a vision of Jesus with holes in His hands ~ and Kamal gave his life to Jesus.

Cerebral Palsy Healed Through a Vision and Prayer

This is the testimony of a young woman who was healed of cerebral palsy through prayer in Jesus' name after she received a vision from God. Her body movements straightened out, she was able to walk and her vision was corrected. She lives a happy, vital life today and praises Jesus for her healing.

Paralyzed Almost 25 Years, Woman Now Walks

When she was 25 years old, in 1987, gospel singer Delia Knox was paralyzed from the waist down when she was hit by a drunk driver. In August 2010, she was miraculously healed in the name of Jesus at the Bay of the Holy Spirit revival meeting in Mobile, AL.


Here is the meeting where her healing began to come forth.


Recently, she returned to the Bay of the Holy Spirit Revival and walk on stage to sing her praise to God.

Miracles are for Today

Miracles are for Today: Confronting the Powerless Gospel with God's Word
by Troy J. Edwards

“For centuries the place of miracles in the church has been debated. This controversy remains in our day. Numerous views and theological positions are advocated in defense or rejection of miracles for today. There are some who believe they are for today, some who outright deny their validity for today, and some who remain unsure. Even among those who believe that God has never ceased working miracles there are a number of perspectives ranging from the idea that they are rare, that they are spontaneous and happen only at God's sovereign whim, and then there are those who believe that a faith-filled group of Christians who believe God's promises can experience them frequently. In his book, Miracles Are For Today, Pastor Troy J. Edwards refutes the idea that God's miracles are only for a past generation and explains from Scripture how God's people can experience frequent miracles in their corporate worship as well as within their personal lives. Get ready to believe God for a miracle today.”

Chapters include:

1. The Power of a Closed Canon
2. Did Miracles Cease After The Last Apostle Died?
3. Were Miracles Meant Only to Authenticate the Apostles?
4. Miracles and the Name of Jesus
5. Mark 16:9-20 and Your Bible
6. Christ’s Miracles: Were They Meant Only to Prove His Deity?
7. Believers and the Greater Works than Jesus (Part One)
8. Believers and the Greater Works than Jesus (Part Two)
9. Cessationism and the Effectiveness of Prayer
10. Dispensationalism: Another Factor in Powerless Theology
11. Unbelief: The True Reason for the Cessation of the Miraculous
12. The Cessationist Idea that Modern Miracles are Satanic
13. More Cessationist Arguments Refuted
14. Miracles and the Character of God
15. Miracles and Motives

TROY J. EDWARDS is the founder and senior pastor of Victorious Word Christian Fellowship in Central Falls, Rhode Island. VWCF is a thriving fellowship committed to evangelism and biblical teaching. He is the author of several books and publisher and editor of Victorious Word Magazine.

Eyewitness Reports from the Azusa Street Revival

Fire on the Earth: Eyewitness Reports from the Azusa Street Revival
by Eddie Hyatt

Eddie Hyatt's book on the Azusa Street Revival compiles a number personal testimonies of people who witnessed it firsthand. Here is the publisher's description:

Dozens of books have been written about the Azusa Street Revival as authors have attempted to understand and recapture this profound, supernatural event. However, the effort to glean meaning from what happened 100 years ago often leads to frustration and despair as authors seek to distill true history from myth and legend.

Eddie Hyatt went straight to the source for answers. Not satisfied with what others have gleaned, Hyatt mined The Apostolic Faith, the official publication of the Azusa Street Revival. Thirteen issues of The Apostolic Faith were printed and sent around the world as the Pentecostal Fire spread abroad. Fire on the Earth contains selected excerpts from these papers, shedding light on the events surrounding this major outpouring of God.

Hyatt writes, “Anyone reading these papers cannot help but sense the fervency and intensity of these saints who believed that the outpouring of the Spirit they were experiencing was God’s final call before the end of the age.”

Dr. Eddie Hyatt is a church historian, teacher, Bible school director, professor of theology, and ordained minister with more than twenty-five years of ministerial experience in the United States, Canada, India, and Eastern Europe. He holds a doctorate of ministry from Regent University as well as a master of divinity and a master of arts from Oral Roberts University, where he also taught in the School of Theology. He is the author of the acclaimed book 2000 Years of Charismatic Christianity. His articles on revival have been published in periodicals in both the United States and Canada.

For other resources on the Azusa Street Revival, see Azusa Street Project and Shekinah Glory, Holy Fire and Miraculous Healing.

John Wimber on the Gifts of the Spirit

In this 3-part series, John Wimber teaches on the gifts of the Holy Spirit.