Indian Christian Mission Centre

INDIAN CHRISTIAN MISSION CENTRE (ICMC): TIMOTHY SCHOOL

SASI FROM ORISSA (Timothy Student 2005-06)

I am happy to stand in front of you and I would like to tell you my life testimony. I was born into a nominal Christian family. In my life I heard many sermons, but I never heard the word of God. I went to church to spend my time with my friends. My father and mother never taught me the Word of God from the Bible. I never knew that later I would be possessed by a demon spirit.

When I was a small boy, my daddy was drinking much wine and alcohol. My mother sent me to government (public) school and I never read the Bible. I came to hear a little about Jesus and I came to see that I should live a good life. But I used to do one thing wrong. I used to copy the exams (cheat). At that time when I copied, I would be crying, “Lord what kind of person am I?” I spent all my days in school, but I never did exams correctly. I passed most of my 10^th grade exam by copy only. I was failing in mathematics. I passed 9^th class, but in 10^th I was going to fail. At that time, I was crying and my younger brother tells me, “Don’t worry, you are going to pass.” He took my paper and held it down for me so I could copy. Like that only I passed 10^th class. There was no peace in my heart.

At that time my daddy died. What about the property? His brothers took it. Then we went to another village with my mother. Two years passed by. When I became older, I thought, “How can I give peace to my family?” Inside, someone was speaking to me, “There is one God, there is one God”.

I then joined college. There was also no peace in my life there. Then I found out there is only one God. This is how I came to know there is one God. At that time, there was a friend of my sister. He gave a Bible to my younger sister. And then that fellow went away somewhere without telling us about it. At that time, my sister was crying. I told to my dear sister, “Don’t cry, that brother has given us one Bible, let us read the Bible”. When I was reading the Bible one day, a pastor came to me and said, “Come with me and I will take you to Bible college in Kerala”. Everyone knows that I became the leader of the Bible college there and leader of Bible college students and I was doing all the jobs with happiness and was loved by the principal. But the principal said, “You take baptism”. I said, “But I still don’t know about Jesus, how can I take baptism?”

One day some people came from abroad and showed the Jesus movie. Everybody was watching the movie, but I was not there because I decided to go out somewhere. When I came back, they were praying together. The movie was finished and I was sitting and watching everybody crying and praying and I could not speak anything. “Let me watch the movie,” I thought. But I could not because it was finished. At that time I saw the white people sitting there and I knelt down and said for them to pray for me. I spoke only the word “Jesus”.

Then at that time, I became possessed by a demon spirit. No one could control me. They were shouting. Everyone thought, he is going to die. All the students were holding me and they couldn’t restrain me. I was yelling and arguing with the pastor. He could not do any miracle. But at that time, the evil spirit in me did a miracle. My leg was so high it was straight up. Then I was upside down. Everyone thought this boy will die today. I could not understand what was happening. I cried, “Lord, what is happening with me?” The white man said, “He must be saved. He must be baptized”. For me, the man stayed there for two more days. He told me, brother, you take the baptism. I used to roam and shout and there was no discipline in the campus. I said, “Send the white man very soon!”

When the demon had left, another day, that man of God taught me about Jesus Christ and I believed in Jesus Christ. I told him, “I don’t know how to pray. What will I do if the devil comes into my life again?” I fasted and prayed for two days and then I received Jesus as my personal Savior. And I was baptized. When the man of God prayed for me, at that time I saw a shining light. I was standing at a distance from him and I was smiling. The man ran and embraced me, he said, “God has called you, so you go do His ministry!”

So in my life, I have gone through many problems and difficulties. I have decided to follow Jesus so that is why I am here at the Timothy School. So you are kindly requested to pray for me. In my house, I am the only one Christian. My father died without knowing Christ. My mother is alive but she also does not know Jesus Christ. Thank you for praying for me.

"In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith--of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire--may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed." 1 Peter 1:6,7