Former Muslim Mike Westerfield recently shared how he originally fell away from his Christian upbringing, converting to Islam due to the religion convincing him to question whether or not Jesus was really divine and whether or not what is told about Him in the Bible is true. Thankfully, God does not let His children wander too far from Him. The Holy Spirit, through the power of a dream, confronted Westerfield. From that point on, it was clear to him that Jesus Christ was the fully human, fully divine, Son of God.
“After being introduced to Islamic literature in a Florida prison, Westerfield found his Christian faith shaken, where he pursued the Muslim faith. “I ended up abandoning Christianity and embraced Islam. I was a Muslim for 12 years and attended an Islamic University for some time in hopes of becoming a Muslim imam or scholar. After about 7 years of being a faithful Muslim, I started rethinking Jesus’ role after learning more about Islam, its deception, and lies,” he said,” The Christian Tribune reported.
Westerfield’s dedication to the Islamic faith was eventually challenged by a few of his Christian peers, who then talked him into look a little more carefully at Christian apologetics. He then met a former Muslim man who helped him along the path returning to Christ.
“I started looking back into my old books on Christian apologetics from a Bible college I attended and began reading the Bible. I also started reviewing Lee Strobel’s literature in the Case for Christ, Case for Faith, and watched Ravi Zacharias’ videos. I was eventually introduced to Abdu Murray who was with Embrace the Truth International, he was an Ex-Muslim turned Christian apologist. He was the first Ex-Muslim I met and could share my thoughts and doubts with. He talked openly with me and did not condemn me. He listened as to why I was now considering leaving Islam after being fanatical about it at one time,” Westerfield recounted.
Eventually, Mike had a powerful dream where the Holy Spirit visited him, completely turning his life around. “In 2012, I ended up having a dream about Jesus and in it I was covered in his blood! I couldn’t understand why I had this dream but it was truly amazing and I couldn’t get it out of my mind. Jesus’ blood filled the scene in my dream. I tried to run from it, but it covered me entirely! I felt such peace and love, and Jesus’ dark brown eyes pierced my soul!”
Further describing the amazing dream, Mike said, “I remember in my dream, I was thinking about the Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament, and then at that time, this face of a Hebrew man disappeared to me, and he didn’t say anything. He just looked at me, and his eyes were just dark and piercing, like he was just looking through my soul. And I said, this is Jesus. He just looked at me, and I was like scared that I didn’t know what to do. And then blood filled my dream, and this blood started just coming from nowhere, and I’m just trying to escape it, trying to run from it. It’s everywhere. And then I saw myself projected out into the blood. Then I woke up in peace and love.”
The experience ultimately pushed Westerfield to surrender his life to Jesus Christ. “Finally, I fully surrendered everything to Jesus a year later in January of 2013, and was born again! It was glorious! Jesus never gave up on me,” he said.
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What a great story.
In a day when the news cycle seems to always be negative, it can be easy forget that God is still very much at work in human history. His work, however, doesn’t fit with the left-wing agenda so it goes unreported and people are led to believe there’s no movement of the Lord happening across the world, but clearly, it’s not true.
Keep the faith, brothers and sisters.