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Pakistan miracles: U.S. church able to free 4,500 Christian slaves under Taliban’s clutches as 2 Muslim clerics come to Christ


Reuters – Heavily armed Taliban fighters with fully covered faces march along a dirt road.

In an amazing story highlighting the awesome power of God, a church in South California with about 400 congregants undertook a huge evangelisation project in Pakistan that resulted in what could only be described as divine miracles.

The undertaking led to the establishment of a Christian school and the freeing of more than 4,500 Christian slaves under the control of the Muslim fundamentalist Taliban group.

That’s not all. The mission led to the Christian conversion of two Muslim clerics plus several hundred others of their followers.

In an article recently posted on the God Reports blog, two members of the California church known only as Pastor Paul, aka J.P., and Mark linked up with Pastor Tariq in Pakistan to negotiate with a Taliban leader to free some 4,500 Christian slaves working at Taliban-owned brick factories.

Earlier, the church agreed to partner with Pastor Tariq to start a school and help free some of the slaves. To the church’s surprise, huge sums of cash donations coming from its congregants quickly snowballed, allowing the church to build a K-12 Christian school in Pakistan that accommodates 2,000 students.

The 73-year-old J.P. then decided to go to Pakistan with the mission to free as many Christian slaves as possible from the clutches of the notorious Taliban Islamic radicals.

J.P. made four trips for this mission, with the first two trips resulting in the release of 108 Christian slave workers.

He made his “miraculous” fourth trip just weeks ago, which resulted not only in freeing 4,500 Christian slave workers but also the conversion of two Muslim clerics, one of them a notorious Taliban commander who owns those slaves.

But before this happened, the Taliban leader gave the pastors what could be the biggest scare of their lives.

The Taliban leader told the pastors that he wanted $1,000 per Christian family to be released from slavery – a huge increase over the agreed terms.

He also demanded outright payment, but the pastors said they didn’t have the money yet since it’s still in the bank. One of the Taliban leader’s guards then approached one of the pastors and stuck the barrel of his AK-47 against the pastor’s throat.

Instead of being intimidated, J.P. confronted the Taliban leader. He told him: “I will have to stand before God some day and I will have to give an account of how I’ve lived my life. You will have to stand before God some day and give an account of how you lived your life.”

J.P. then asked the Taliban chief to lower his asking price for his Christian slaves and stick to the earlier agreement they made.

The Taliban leader looked at J.P. carefully, then nodded his head in approval. He then surprised the pastors when he asked J.P., “Will you pray for me? My kidneys are failing.”

J.P. stood up and placed his hand on the man’s back and prayed for God to heal his kidneys.

To everyone’s surprise, the two elderly men then hugged one other.

The next day, the Taliban freed over 4,000 Christian slaves.

“It was the happiest day of my life,” J.P. later recalls. “The magnitude of it — it’s hard to explain. To see that many slaves set free….I couldn’t even fathom it. I went to bed that night and said, God, nothing could top this.”

The miracle did not end there. During the following Sunday service inside the church, 11 Muslim clerics together with hundreds of their followers walked in.

J.P. asked the people to raise their hands and receive Christ. Several hundred Muslims in the crowd—including a Shiite cleric—raised their hands!

The Shiite cleric who raised his hand then started preaching to his own flock, declaring that Jesus is the Messiah!

The Muslim cleric returned days later, telling J.P. that he had a startling vision of Jesus – the Man in White – who came to his bed as the Great Physician. He said in his vision, Jesus performed surgery on his ailing heart.

He woke up the next morning feeling great. He went to see his cardiologist to report his improved condition. After the doctor performed some tests, the incredulous doctor told the Muslim cleric, “Your heart is normal!”

The Muslim cleric was so overwhelmed by the vision and the healing hands of Jesus Christ that he not only converted to Christianity but also volunteered to spread the Word of God in his country. For this, he requested for 1,000 Bibles in the native Urdu language.

His wife also embraced Jesus Christ.

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