Source: Christian Aid Mission, October 12, 2022
Years after losing the use of his legs [during the Iraq-Iran war], Mustafa Abbas was watching a Christian program on a satellite channel in 2011 when he followed the speaker’s encouragement to pray in Christ’s name for healing, he told ministry workers in his native Iraq.
“I repeated those prayer words with all my heart and asked Christ to heal me, and I was healed,” he told the workers last year. “Christ healed me, and I am grateful to him, and I know you are his followers—tell me how to return this favor to him.”
They gave him a Bible and encouraged him to read it. The ministry leader then told Abbas, “If you want to return the favor, surrender your life to Christ as you surrendered your body, and the Lord will heal you from sin as he healed you in the body.”
“Not a week goes by that Mustafa doesn’t call us to ask us about an issue in the Bible and theological matters,” the leader said. “Hallelujah.”
Read the full story and another from Christian Aid, Refugees Obtain Miraculous Help in Europe.
For more about refugee ministry, read One Year Later: Afghanistan (Help the Persecuted) and the last bit of a roundup of news and analysis from the war in Ukraine in Jeff Fountain’s Weekly Word (which also deals with geopolitics and Christian nationalism).