"Who
His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being
dead to sins, should live unto righteousness, by whose stripes you were
healed" 1 Peter 2:24.
Are you sick today? Do you need
healing? Jesus, the Son of God, not only died on a cross to bear the
sins of the whole world, for all who will receive Him, but He was beaten
and by those stripes, we were healed - it's already done! Yes,
the healing has already been provided, you only need to believe it, obey
the Lord and receive it.
It is important to remember the
critical factor included in the scripture above, "we, being dead to
sins, should live unto righteousness." The Lord has no obligation to
show His divine favor to those who do not obey Him, or follow righteous
living. Yes, of course, He healed many, in fact, everyone who was
brought to Him. We also read about many who were healed and delivered,
whose lives were also changed, they gave glory to God after their
healing and deliverance. The scriptures reveal that divine favor
follows those who love the Lord and obey Him. Jesus confirmed the
healing of the one who returned to Him to give thanks, in the example
below. Have you ever known someone to proclaim their healing, but the
illness returns to them? I have.
On His way to Jerusalem,
Jesus went through Samaria and Galilee and met 10 lepers. They cried
out to Him and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. When Jesus saw
them, He told them to go show themselves to the priest. As they went
(in obedience) to show themselves to the priest, they were healed. They
were healed on their way, in obedience to the Lord, not before they
left to go to the priest. Only one turned back and "glorified God with a
loud voice." He fell down on his face at Jesus's feet and thanked
Him. Jesus said, Weren't 10 cleansed; where are the other nine? Jesus
said to him, Rise up and go your way; your faith has made you whole (Luke 17:12-18).
"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever" Hebrews 13:8. What the Lord did during His ministry on earth, He still does today, if we will only believe.
Someone,
somewhere needs to hear this former Muslim's testimony of how Jesus
appeared to him, as he was dying in Toronto General Hospital, and He
healed him miraculously. That same man is a minister of the gospel of
Jesus Christ today and the founder of Wisdom Ministries.
Jesus visits dying Muslim in hospital room, brings
healing -- He had the worst case of shingles
in the history of Toronto General Hospital and doctors prepared him for the worst. Raised a devout Muslim, he was stunned when
Jesus appeared in his hospital room and brought the kind of healing only Jesus can bring.
“My skin was burning as if someone had doused it with
gasoline and then threw a match on it,” says Dr. Nasir Siddiki, the founder of Wisdom Ministries. “I felt like I was
on fire from my inside.”
In a sterile room on the eighth floor of the hospital, his
doctor informed him “the blisters are multiplying so fast I can literally watch them grow. Your body has stopped fighting
back.”
The next day he contracted chicken pox and doctors placed him in
strict isolation. His temperature soared to 107.6 degrees, a life-threatening level high enough to leave his brain permanently
damaged.
For days he continued to deteriorate. “My nerve endings
became so inflamed that even a single hair drifting across my skin sent shock waves of fire rippling through my body,” he
says.
At 34,
Dr. Siddiki had already earned his first million dollars,
but he wasn’t prepared to handle his own mortality. “In facing death I
felt nothing but weakness and outright terror.
I didn't have the slightest idea what might await me on the other side. I
had been raised as a devout Moslem and I had been taught
that Allah was a god who did not heal sickness. I thought that my only
hope was in medicine.”
As Dr. Siddiki slipped close to death, he became listless and
unresponsive, yet he could hear his doctors’ conversations. "His immune system has simply shut down" one of them
said.”
“He’s dying," another doctor stated. "His immune
system must be compromised by AIDS.”
I don't have AIDS, Dr. Siddiki wanted to say, but was
unable to speak. The full weight of their remarks hit him like a sledgehammer. If they had given up hope, where did that leave
him?
Doctors delivered the bad news to his business partner.
“In a few hours he'll be dead," they informed him. “If by some miracle he lives he'll be blind in his right eye, deaf
in his right ear, paralyzed on his right side and severely brain damaged.” Then they walked out of the room, leaving him
alone.
“I suddenly felt like a drowning man going down for the
third time,” Dr. Siddiki says. “Gathering what little strength I still had I was barely able to whisper, ‘God if
you are real do not let me die.’"
Then in the middle of the night, something remarkable happened.
He awoke suddenly to find a man standing at the foot of his bed. “I was shocked because rays of light emanated from him,
which allowed me to see his body in my pitch-black room.
But one part of the man’s body blazed with glory.
“Amazingly I was unable to see His face. It was too bright to look at it without hurting my eyes.
Even as a Muslim, he had an “inner knowing” that the
one who stood there was Jesus Christ.
Dr.
Siddiki felt no fear, only profound serenity in the presence
of the one called the Prince of Peace. Although he couldn't speak, he
wondered why Jesus would come to a Muslim when everyone else
had left him to die.
He didn’t hear an audible voice from Jesus, but these
words came into his mind: I am the God of the Christians. I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
“That is all He told me. As suddenly as He had appeared
and woke me up, He disappeared.”
The next morning Dr. Siddiki’s doctors returned to examine
him. “The blisters have stopped growing," they almost shouted with amazement. Since he seemed more alert they said, "we
don't know why but your shingles have gone into remission."
The following day, still in severe pain and covered with
blisters, Dr. Siddiki was discharged from the hospital with a suitcase full of drugs. “Don’t leave your home," they
cautioned. "It will be months before your blisters disappear and when they do, you will be left with white patches of skin
and severe scarring all over your body. The pain that you are experiencing can last for years."
“I looked like a cross between a leper and the Elephant
Man,” Dr. Siddiki notes. “When people saw me they literally fled to the other side of the street because I scared them
so much. However I wasn't concerned about my appearance because I couldn't stop thinking about Jesus' appearance. I was certain
that His presence in my hospital room had stopped the shingles virus.”
As a result of his unusual encounter with Jesus, questions
swirled through his mind. “I knew very little about Jesus. I still had a consuming question in my mind. Is Jesus the Son of
God as Christians claim or is He just a prophet as Muslims are taught?”
His first night home he continued to suffer. “In spite of
my medication, the pain and itching was so horrible I almost had to tie my hands to a chair to keep from scratching myself to
death.” Mercifully, he drifted into a deep sleep.
The next morning he woke up early and turned on the television.
“While flipping through the channels I froze when I saw the following words on the screen: ‘Is Jesus the Son of
God’? I watched captivated as two men spent the entire program discussing this topic and in the process, answering all of my
questions.”
Before the program ended, one of the men led the television
audience in a prayer. “My body was aflame with pain but I knelt on my living floor anyway.” As tears streamed down his
face, he repeated the prayer and invited Jesus into his heart.
Immediately,
the Holy Spirit brought a voracious spiritual
hunger that caused him to want to know more about Jesus. In spite of his
doctor's orders to stay inside, he went out and bought a
Bible.
He devoured the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.”I
still felt spiritually ravenous so I then started in Genesis and read through the entire Bible during my sleepless
nights.”
His business partner, who happened to be a Christian, brought
Dr. Siddiki books and teaching tapes, which further explained the gospel to him.
As his faith began grew, his prayers got bolder. “I dug
out a picture of how I looked before I was attacked with shingles. I prayed and asked God to make me look that way
again.”
A few days later, something amazing happened. Dr. Siddiki
awakened to find his pillow covered with blisters that had fallen off his face. “I crawled out of bed and stepped into the
shower. What started on my pillow was finished in the shower.
“Every blister fell off my body!” he exclaims.
“Instead of being covered with patches of white and scar tissue, my skin turned red. It then slowly healed, returning to its
pre-shingles condition. When that occurred I not only looked human, I actually looked like I did before I became ill, except for
the scars that I still have on my chest.”
Amazingly, none of the doctor's dire predictions came true.
“My eyesight is now 20/20. My hearing is normal. My speech is unimpaired and I suffered absolutely no brain damage at
all.”
“My healing was totally miraculous, swift and complete. I
never suffered from lingering pain or in fact any other complication. I had the most miraculous recovery the Toronto
General Hospital has ever experienced.”
Jesus showed up in a hospital room of a dying Muslim and brought
healing. “But that wasn't the greatest miracle that He performed,” Dr. Siddiki notes. “The transformation that
occurred in my heart was even more dramatic than the one that occurred in my body."
From that day forward, Dr. Siddiki's passion has been to know
and serve the Lord Jesus Christ.
An
international teacher and evangelist, Dr. Siddiki holds
crusades throughout the world. He and his wife, Anita, host a
television program on TBN, Winning with Wisdom, which is
broadcast to 15,000 stations via satellite reaching millions, including
those in the Middle East. The founder of Wisdom
Ministries, Dr. Siddiki teaches biblical principles for success at the
Wisdom Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For more information, go
to his website at http://www.wisdomministries.org/
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