Refusal to Deny Jesus Christ will be Rewarded with Death
“Whoever loses his life for me (Jesus Christ) will find it – Mat 16:25 (NIV)”
Although they were all were filled with great joy and wonder seeing Gulshan totally healed; yet they hated the fact that Gulshan was telling everyone that Jesus had healed her. They said, “Mohammed Nabi (Prophet) and Jesus are one and the same. So you must say that Nabi has healed you.” She firmly refuted this saying, “How can I say that? Isn’t it a lie? He who appeared to me, said by his own mouth, “I am Jesus”. So I will not change my words.” She desired to have the Holy Bible and wondered from whom she could obtain it. When she prayed about this earnestly, the Lord again appeared to her in a vision and showed her a servant of God who lived 10 miles to the south and told her that she would get the Bible from him. As seen in her vision, she could locate a Christian missionary couple and through them she got a Holy Bible and studied it day and night. Seeing Gulshan’s deep devotion to Jesus, her two brothers, uncle and close relatives joined together and told her, “You are a Muslim and according to us praising another God Jesus is betrayal of Islam and the family honour. You should immediately stop this and right now deny Jesus. If you refuse, we will not even hesitate to kill you. This is also permitted by Islam.” Telling this they placed a revolver against her forehead. Like vultures waiting to pounce on their prey, all of them stared fiercely at her. Yet Gulshan did not flinch. She closed her eyes for a moment and prayed to Jesus. She could feel the presence of the Lord in her. Then she bravely looked at them and said, “Can you or anyone say that we will never die? It is definite that all who are born will die one day or the other. I am willing to die for Jesus, the one who has healed me. But I can assure you of one thing. No matter whatever
S. THAYAPPAN 91 may be the circumstance, I will never act in any manner to bring dishonour or shame to the family.” Seeing the manner and the courage with which she spoke, they discussed among themselves and threatened her saying, “All this extensive property belongs to you. If you do not listen to us, we will see to it that you do not get even a bit of this property. Moreover, you will also be driven away from this house.” Nothing deterred her. Believing that the Immanuel who had healed her would also protect her, with great courage and fortitude she left her house. Although Gulshan was a very young woman with no knowledge of the outside world, God protected her much more than an earthly mother, enfolded her in His love, gave her refuge and is using her for His glory even today as a testimony in Pakistan and in many other parts of the Muslim countries to redeem thousands of Muslim brothers and others from their life of sin and show them the way of salvation.
Gulshan received information that her elder sister was very serious. She prayed immediately to Jesus Christ for her sister. She believed the Lord who has healed her and millions and millions who trusted Him, will surely save her sister. But when she came home, she found to her shock that her sister had already died and all her relatives had gathered there and were performing the last rites to the dead before burial. Gulshan trusted in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and prayed to Him in unshakeable faith. The Lord heard her prayers and gave life to her sister who was ready to be taken for burial. All were shocked and surprised to see the dead being raised right in front of their eyes by the prayer of Gulshan to Jesus Christ. This was the talk of the town and many including Gulshan’s sister accepted Jesus as their personal Saviour. Gulshan Fatima became Gulshan Esther and she is today miraculously and powerfully doing the Lord’s ministry by being instrumental in delivering many people from the bondages of Satan, sin and sickness. Those who would like to know more about Gulshan Esther, may read her book of testimony, ‘The Torn Veil’. Not only Muslims, the Lord is touching millions of people who belong to
various religions of the world including Buddhists, Jains etc. In Korea, Paul Yangicho who was once a follower of Buddhism has founded the Christian church that is considered to have the largest number of believers in the world.