Originally from Pakistan, Christopher Alam is an Evangelist. He has preached the gospel in approximately 60 nations, mainly in Africa and Asia.
Here is a story he told:
In the heart of Pakistan, at the beginning of his ministry, Christopher Alam was holding a crusade. Thousands of Muslims were attending, out of curiosity.
As Christopher was preaching, he heard a commotion in the back. He then saw some men carrying an old crippled and paralyzed man to the front. After him came a lady (the crippled man's wife) carrying a pillow and a blanket. Next came around 15 relatives, some of them carrying a mattress. They made their way to the front and laid the bed, pillow, and blanket on the ground with the crippled man on it. Christopher stopped preaching, because no one was paying attention. Then all the relatives sat in a semi-circle around the man as they stared at Christopher expectantly.
Christopher then realised they wanted him to prove his Jesus was real. He became very nervous and didn't know what to do, so he asked one of his helpers to pray. During this time he prayed to God and pleaded with him, “I will never come back to Pakistan, I will stay in Sweden. I won't make you be pressured into healing someone. But, please just heal this man, because both of or reputations are in jeopardy." After much frustration he heard someone behind him say, "Do what Jesus did". He looked behind him and there was nobody. Suddenly he remembered the story in the Bible of the paralyzed man who was lowered through a roof. Jesus did not even touch the man, but commanded, "Get up, Pick up your mat and go home."
Christopher was still nervous, but he walked to the paralyzed man. To make sure it would work he told the man, "I am going to tell you to do something, and if you don't do it you will die, nobody is going to help you." Then he closed his eyes and told the man to get up. Shouts erupted, so he slowly opened one eye and he saw the man standing. Next he told him to pick up his mat. Like a soldier the man picked up the mat and stood at attention. The last thing he commanded was not like Jesus. He told the man to run home, and oh, did the man run home. The whole crowd ran after him shouting, "Jesus is alive".
The next day Christopher went back to preach again, when he and his friends parked the car, lots of people swarmed around the vehicle. He was certain they were going to kill him, “but,” he thought, “if this is my time, then so be it.” As soon as he got out of the vehicle the people started hugging him. There thousands of more people than the day before. As he walked to the stage, peddles were thrown the whole way. Many people came to Jesus.
This is his website with his testimony http://pentecostalfire.com/217384.ihtml
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