Here is the testimony of Iysha
Beevi, born and bred in the Islam faith. When she received Jesus into her
life as Lord and Saviour, her husband and three children were born again
in faith. It happened five years ago.
Rejuvenation in Faith
Twelve years ago, severe
chest pain and ulcer in the intestines afflicted me badly. When the ulcer
began festering, the pain became unbearable. Every possible type of treatment
by medical experts did no good. Reduced to skin and bones, I was confined
to the hospital bed. When I was found to be an incurable case I was discharged.
Even my family members were tired of me and hated me.
The situation became worse
when I was again admitted in the hospital. A slight movement in the throat
was the only sign of life. The doctors lost hope and discharged me. I made
a sign to my husband to take me to Potta Ashram. He agreed. The moment
I made the decision, I regained my suppleness of body and agility.
I arrived at Potta. God
gave me the grace to accept Jesus as Lord. "Believe in the Lord Jesus,
and you will be saved, you and your household" (Acts16:31). These
words touched me. If so, I shall accept you as my Lord and God, I told
him. It was in an ambulance that I had been taken to Potta for I had all
but collapsed. But now I knelt down with those who had come to hear the
word of God and praised him. The doctors had feared that all my life I
would have to be sustained only on glucose drips. I could retain nothing.
But now here I was eating the four slices of bread given at Potta, with
no difficulty whatsoever.
In the ensuing weeks I went
to Potta to participate in the one-day prayer. Before my eyes there appeared
words as on a TV screen. To me, an illiterate, uneducated woman, the Lord
gave the great gift of reading the Bible and other publications on spiritual
matters.
In 1994 I went to Assissi
Retreat House at Bharananganam for a couples' retreat. Vomiting and other
signs of my illness became worse. My mouth was festering. I was being prepared
for the touch of the divine hands of my Lord. I heard Jesus whispering,
"You shall not have any other God but me". This experience happened on
the third day of the retreat. The Great Healer was working in me. He healed
me completely and let me know I was fully in his providential care. At
that retreat centre I began eating all kinds of food.
On June 26, 1997, my husband,
three children and I received Jesus into our hearts, our lives and home
forever by receiving baptism. Thus were we able to proclaim to all the
world with all our heart and with all our life that there is no Saviour
but Jesus Christ. My husband, a cooly and my school-going children, are
zealously living in the love of Jesus. The Lord gave me the grace to give
witness to his love and power at Potta and Divine. I am now fully involved
in the activities of the choir and other church organisations at Chunangamvaley
in Ernakulam district. To be an instrument in God's hands, guiding numerous
people to retreat centres, has made my life rich and beautiful and happy.
Praise you Jesus! Thank you Jesus!
Lydia (Iysha
Beevi P V)
Peedikaparambil,
Keezhmadu,
Alwaye