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I m Indonesian by nationality and indian by race. I come from a strong Hindu Family. Since young, my parents taught me to pray to Lord Shiva (Hindu god) and other Hindu gods as we were told that each god has its own purpose. We maintained strict vegeterian meal as part of our belief. At age of 17, my friend brought me to a temple, named Shri Anandpur which is in India and brahces all over the world. There they believed in a Living Master (something like Budhism)and believed in meditation upon a word ('NAM')which was upon initation into discipleship. I began to have faith in the Living Master and i got initiation and started meditation. Everyday, I used to meditate 3 hours. In my meditation, I could 'see' so much light, I could also 'hear' things, and I had full faith, that i have obtained salvation (enlightenment, nirvana). My Knowledge in Hindu Faith became deeper and deeper as I read the Bagvad gita (Holy book of hindhus) and Adi Grant and many other book about ancient vedas. To make the long story short, I became so religious, like other members of my family, as we were basically a religious family. At age of 21, I told my parents that I would go for 'sanyasi' life i.e. full-time devotion to the living master in India. After coming back from India, I was appointed as preacher in the Hindu temple. Around 5 months back,some people from local indian church visited our house. I used to hate christians because I knew that never respected other people's religion. So when they came, I was so uneasy and little angry. There was a pastor among them and he started sharing about Jesus Christ to me. He knew that I preached in hindhu temple, but he had guts to speak to me about Christ. I used all my knowledge to argue with him, he told me meditation is not prayer, he told me salvation cannot be earned, its a free gift, he told me that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life, Nobody can come to the Father except through me. I was so angry at him, but using my knowledge I was able to turn and twist his arguments, but he defeated me when he told me to tell him any religious figure, who has ever died for mankind's sins and raise back from death. He also shocked me when he told me that God comes not for righteous people(religious people) but those who are willing to accept that they are sinners. He told me christiany is not a religion which i never knew. He left my home, keeping me in dillema, made me not sure of my salvation. He had given me a bible, which i reluctantly accepted and i began to read the bible so next time when i meet the pastor, i will tell him about all mistakes that i m going to find in bible. Nights after nights, i read the bible. I remember that day so well, it was sunday and I was standing infront of 200 people in my hindhu temple just going to began to preach about meditation and living master, when my mouth just wouldn't open. I was so scared, I just couldn't open my mouth. My eyes were suddenly full of tears of fear.Suddenly, pastor words came playing in my mind, 'God is a living God, He can listen and can SPEAK to u', and that very moment, I was terrified, when i heard a voice out of nowhere, "If you want to preach, preach about my only Son, that I gave up for you",so clear i heard, just like a real person is speaking, but no one was there,and i dunno what took over me, I held the microphone closer, and words came out of my mouth,"Brother and sister, today I will speak about God, the creator of Heaven and earth and about His only begotten Son, that He gave up for us", IN A HINDU TEMPLE for almost 45 minutes, my mouth was led by something supernatural to speak about Lord Jesus Christ. After I ended the sermon, I went behind and 5 elders of the temple, scolded me like anything for what I preach, all i said to them, 'If u r hurt today, its because I spoke the truth, because its only the truth that hurts', they asked me to leave the temple immediately. For the past 5 months, i have facing much persecution due to this. In short, I contacted the pastor and asked him to lead me to Christ. And to my amazement, God has touched my family, in such a short time too. My mother, my dad, n sister surrender their lives to Jesus Christ and we got baptized in water recently. Except for my youngest sister, who I need you to pray for. I want to share this, I didn't have to have physical miracle to receive Christ, but the bible, which i testify is the Word of God was a hammer, its so powerful and amazingly quick, beyond ourimagination! Click HERE to return to the edited story Click HERE to create a banner that links to this story! Your e-mail address will be kept private!
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