SHOW ME YOUR GOD

I remember how one of the teams went to a village to preach the gospel.

The pagan priest said to them, “You can preach to us about Jesus, but we want to tell you we have known the devil for many generations. If we want healing, the devil gives it. If we want rain, the devil gives that. Whatever we want, the devil supplies. We have our own Bible, too; and our gods supply all our needs according to their riches.”

Of course, they didn’t have a real Bible like ours. But they had recorded many unusual experiences and evil manifestations — and they worshiped by these.

“If you tell us about the new God, let Him prove that He is more powerful than our gods,” the priest told the team.

The Challenge to God’s Power

The team didn’t know what to do, so they prayed together and asked the Lord for help.

The Lord said to them, “Tell those people if they want your God to prove Himself to them — that He is more powerful than their gods or demons — let them gather together, and I will prove Myself.”

The pagan priest was excited. He wanted to see if the Christian God could prove Himself.

They came together — about 1,000 of them — with the head pagan priest standing at the front. The team stood across from them.

The team members lifted up their hands and prayed:

“God, You said to us to go out and preach the gospel. You said that many signs shall follow those that believe; that in Your name they shall cast out devils. God, these people here want You to prove Yourself, that You are more powerful than their devils. Now, in the name of Jesus, we bind and cast out all demonic power that has ruled these villages and people for these many generations. Because of Christ’s blood shed on Calvary, we command them to leave in the name of Jesus.”

After this simple prayer, they just said, “Amen,” looked at one another, and let God do the job.

The Power of Jesus Revealed

Trusting in what Jesus had said, the team waited quietly. They looked at one another, smiled, and praised Jesus.

Soon, the head pagan priest began to tremble. Then he began to cry. And then he said, “Brothers, sirs, I want your God, Jesus, right now.”

It was such a quick transformation that the team members didn’t know what to say.

“Why did you change your mind, sir?” one of them finally asked.

“Oh, Jesus is more powerful than the devils,” he replied.

“How do you know that?” they asked.

“I am a pagan priest. I have talked with the devils. I know many of them by name,” he said as tears flowed down his face.

“When you prayed in the name of Jesus and bound all the demonic power here and commanded them to flee, do you know what happened?”

“No,” the team said. “You tell us what happened.”

“I tell you,” said the priest, “I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears all the demonic power that has ruled this village. They just gathered together, one by one, from the biggest to the smallest, and they ran away crying, ‘Jesus won’t permit us to stay here. We must go because Jesus wants these people.’ Jesus must be a tremendous God. I want to know Jesus.”