Madam Jubaidah: Testimony from East Bethel, Nov 2007
“Sirih please,” I said to a sirih seller women in the side of the road. Her name is Jubaidah, 58 years old. In that time I wore the Moslem’s female’s head cover but introduced my self as a Christian. “We have the same God, right? Allah ta Allah? She inquired me. “We praise the One God. Christians praise God in Isa Almasih’s name (Jesus Christ) but you praise God in Muhammad’s name,” I said. She agreed and said, “Oh, that’s ok. The important thing is we are willing to make relationships with any body.” I often visit her ever since, believing in her open hearted.
On my next visit, she started to share her problem. She had to face all those problems without a husband. Her husband had left her and her three children for couple of years and remarried. Her son, 24 years old loves to collect magic and use the magic things to hurt somebody. She had to send her daughter to an orphanage in other city. She did that because she is so poor. She also told me her other difficulties. I told her, “God let you experience all those things and let them all happen to you because He wanted to test your faith.” Then I told her also a story about a poor widow in the New Testimony who gave her last money as a sacrifice.
At the last fasting time she fell sick. So, I suggested her not to fasting. I told her God’s words from Isaiah 58 that the real fasting is not only physical exercise and learning but the real fasting is to do HIS words. “Giving with the broken heart. We do fasting because we honor God not because it is obligatory.
One morning at 7.30 Ibu Jubaidah came to my house. She told me again her all problems with tears in her eyes. She told me that her son did not want to come back home, her daughter had ran away from the orphanage because the coordinator of the orphanage tried to marry her to a man she doesn’t know. Furthermore, one of her daughter’s relatives who had been living with her for some times need to go back to her hometown. And it took an amount of money to send her back home. She was very tired. I could see the weariness on tired face. Then I told that God is calling every tired people and the people who are heavy burdened to get relief in Him. That is God’s words in Mathew 11:28.
“Do you believe in Isa Almasih?” I asked. “I believe,” she replied. “It is written in Al’Imron and in the Surrah 3 (Qoran) that Isa Almasih (Jesus Christ) is the prominent in Heaven and in the hereafter,” I explained. I also testified my faith about the salvation in Isa Almasih. I asked her once again seriously to receive Isa Almasih and again she said that she wanted to.
In that time I doubted her seriousness to believe Lord Jesus, so I called brother Nullang (he is one of our team member) to serve her together with me. Upon his arrival at my house, brother Nullang asked Ibu Jubaidah seriousness and still Ibu Jubaidah said that she was serious. Then, brother Nullang guided her to pray and receive Lord Jesus as God and her savior after testifying the salvation in Isa Almasih. We then prayed together for her problem.
“Trust and pray always to Isa Almasih maam. He can heal and relief. He can do anything,” add brother Nullang.
Pray:
- Pray for Ibu Jubaidah so that she will be God’s disciple.
- Pray for sister Martha who will continue to disciple Ibu Jubaidah.
- Pray for Husaini (Jubaidah’s sson) who still has tie with the dark power.
- Pray for Sa’diah (Jubaidah’s daughter) so that the coordinator of the orphanage will not force her to marry the man the coordinator looked for.
- Pray for Sa’diah so that she will follow Lord Jesus.
- Pray for Sa’diah to have a chance to continue her study. She is in the second grade of Senior high school.
Note: Sirih is a kind of traditional snack in some tribes in Indonesia.
