Central Asia: “To Suffer for Jesus Is An Honor”
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CENTRAL ASIA: “To Suffer for Jesus Is An Honor”
Born and raised in a Muslim family, Brother Maksud says it’s a miracle he is now a follower of Jesus Christ.
Maksud’s first years of life were under communist rule as his country was part of the Soviet Union, but it became independent, and more Islamic, after the fall of the USSR. As different factions battled for post-Soviet control, civil war broke out, a difficult time for Maksud and all of his countrymen. Yet good news was coming.
Listen as Maksud tells how he was impacted by seeing the JESUS Film and hearing Jesus speak Maksud’s own language. He’ll share how a Christian stepped into his family’s life, becoming a faithful friend and sharing stories from the Bible about God. Years later Maksud heard those same stories at a free Taekwondo lesson, another step on his pathway to following Jesus.
When Maksud first stepped into a church, he was shocked. It was a completely different atmosphere from anything he’d known. It was full of love; people greeted him by name with hugs. He was floored when believers at the church told him they had been praying for him for more than a year.
At age 18, Maksud made the decision to follow Jesus. His younger brother wasn’t far behind. When they shared their Christian faith with their mom, she cried, knowing their family would be shamed and face persecution in their Muslim culture. Maksud’s father was not home when they announced their newfound faith to their mother. When he heard of their decision, he asked both brothers to confirm their decision to follow Jesus. Expecting their father to be angry, both young men said that yes, they had become Christians. Their father’s response shocked them:
“Thanks to God. Two years ago, I gave my life to Christ. I didn’t know how to tell you, but I was praying for you guys.”
Many people in Central Asia, upon sharing their faith in Christ with family members, face beatings, rejection, and being kicked out of their home. Even though Maksud didn’t experience persecution from inside his home, he knew that he and his brothers would be persecuted by others.
Today Maksud is a pastor, and his brother also pastors a church. Listen as he tells how we can pray for his people in Central Asia, including praying that whole families will come to Christ together.
#voicesofthemartyrs #SufferforJesus
I am a Christian, my name is Abdur Rashid. I came from Bangladesh to Dubai to preach the good news of God's kingdom, God is asking me to preach His good news to the Muslim nation. Pray that the Lord will provide all that is needed to work for the Lord. May I do the work of the Lord's kingdom.
Dear Father in Heaven, in the name of Jesus Your Beloved Son, our Lord and Saviour God, please shower this dear servant of Yours with Your grace, and peace and joy, and holy energy to do Your work in the place You have appointed Him to work. May Your riches from Your storehouse be granted to Him according to the need, so that every need will be supplied according to Your riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Thank You Father for Your abundant supply, in Jesus name amen .
God bless you brother.
Couldn't help but say Wow! when he shared how his father admitted that he too had become a follower of Jesus! Beautiful testimony.
I have heard of HEARTBREAKING stories of Muslums who have decided to follow Jesus. Not only have the sons and daughters been tossed out of their homes, but parents and communities held funeral ceremonies and had burials for their children includung gravestones.
What a beautiful story of redemption! God bless you and your family...❤❤❤
Jews do the same
Sacrificing these saints to their false God. Sounds familiar? Look at the Old Testament.
Praying everyday that Muslims have dreams and visions of Jesus our Lord.
God bless you Maxsud and your family OH mighty man of God.
Oh my goodness.. I’m almost on tears listening to this beautiful testimony.. May the Lord Jesus Christ bless and keep us all.. 🙏✝️❤️
As I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ me and my household will be saved.
We are going to live with Jesus forever ❤❤❤
Beautiful testimony ..another ambassador of Jesus Christ ❤🙏🇬🇧
He is reclaiming His children one by one, we thank God for your bravery🙏🙏🙏
Please pray for the salvation of my doctor Anar Taumanova . I believe she is a Muslim from khazikstan she told me her husband and son are Catholic . Pray for household salvation for her her husband and son. I have preached the gospel to her in a letter and gave her John's gospel. Pray God opens her heart to repent and believe in Christ
Im encouraged that Maksud finds so much grace in realizing his humanity but the Holy spirit strengthens him from fear to boldness yet tender and compassionate.
Every tribe and every tongue will proclaim that Jesus is Lord. Thank you for this beautiful testimony and for your gentle example
The Lord Jesus Christ loves all sinners.His gift of Life is for all who will accept Him...Thank you for your testimony brother in Christ👏👏👏
I love this story. Please pray my family will be saved also. I have been praying for them. I am praying for you. You are so brave ❤
Dear lively heavenly Father, please draw Laura's family to yourself.
Prayers for all serving our Lord Jesus Christ !!! John 14:9 KJV Bible !!!
what a beautiful, brave, and passionate man of GOD, brother Maxud! Thank you to inspire us to live the real Gospel and to love Jesus better
Great testimony! Thank You, Lord Jesus for saving our brothers. Protect them 🙏🏾
I pray the brother gets filled with the Holy Spirit
Jesus Christ is King and lord.
Is the best way to suffer or die 💯 %😃😄Praise the Lord Almighty 🙏 and God help us to be more like JESUS🙏
Wow this is really touching story!! I Love it, and promised to pray❤🙏
Praying always for believers in the Middle East and those being persecuted.🙏🏾
praise the Lord. God bless you brother in Christ
Why here am tearing thank you Jesus , i trust in Jesus 🙏❤️
I love you Jesus. Praise the Lord brothers , please pray for me iwant only to preach Jesus
❤ listening to this podcast. Hallelujah praise The Lord God Almighty Father. It’s so moving & heartwarming knowing this wonderful testament. God took a long time to save the family. 🙏🏻 🕊️
Glory to God for the wonderful works that he has done in this brothers life.
Another wonderful God-glorifying and Church-edifying podcast from VOM… Thank you! (May I suggest that the moderator please take-down any inappropriate Comments. You have been given a sphere of influence and you therefore have an obligation to protect His flock. Posts which focus on worldly mammon are antithetical to His Kingdom as well as an insult to the brothers testimony. Please remove and block that money-focused post.)
HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH PRAISE THE LORD JASHUA ALMASIH PRINCE OF PEACE AND THE GREAT CONCEALER.
Father YAHWEH in heaven. We lift up to you Brother Maksud. Let great spiritual awakening happen in Central Asia. Remove the blinds from the eyes of the Muslims inflicted by Satan as revealed by JESUS CHRIST in the Bible in the book of Luke 11: 33-36. & 2 Corinthians 4:3-5. Glory Honor Praises to our Father YAHWEH in the most powerful name of YESHUAH HAMASHIACH. Amen.
When your father hugged you, I cried.
❤ you are a great treasure in God's family! myself ex muslim.
Praying for you my brothers and sisters!
Brother Maksud, God bless you always. In my language, Indonesian, maksud means purpose or meaning. You really fulfil your life purpose!
Amen thank you beautiful Jesus thank you for saving this precious brother!
Hallelujah!to God be all the glory for reclaiming His own!Hallelujah non shall be lost
This is such a Beautiful Testimony! Praise The Lord Jesus Christ!
Your voice, your testimony is like perfume to my ears just as the BIBLE says. So soothing, sincere, loving, and pure is your love for GOD THE FATHER AND our LORD JESUS CHRIST! PROVERBS 11:30 KJV "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life;and he that winneth souls is wise."
Powerful testimony 🙏❤️
Awesome story God is good we’re praying for your country brother!
I deeply enjoyed this brother's testimony. Love Jesus very much👍🏼
I pray a Rosary for my Brothers in Asia , you are not alone our God Jesus and his mother Holy Mary are with you and that´s one of the reaso why i love being a Catholic, most of our saints were martyrs in their lands and their centuries, you can learn so much from them
What kind of prayer is a rosary?
Catholicism is a PAGAN RELIGION come away from it !!!!!!
Dear Dylan,
We only pray to God the Father in Jesus name, just like Mary and the Christians do. The catholic religion is not of God!
If we carry the Cross for Lord Jesus dats an honour coz we also endure these pain for Jesus Christ. Amen
All honors, praise, and glory belong to Jesus ... Hallelujah
AMEN...Jesus Reign...
watching from the Philippines
God's Name Be Blessed. Thank you for your testimony, Brother Maqsood!
I heard this same story on VOM just this last weekend!! I was hoping that this story would be the same story that was told AND IT IS!! It's such a beautiful testimony!! How the two brothers came to Jesus...then having to speak to their parents and finding out that their father was a believer...then finding out that their little brother wasn't a fighter but was being persecuted for Jesus! Then their mother comes to Jesus!! This story is so beautiful, amazing, and awesome ❤😅
I crying to hear that this is real Jesus love is real God bless you brother you crown of live wait for you
Thank you so much for sharing this with us!!❤
God is so good to Mahsud and family, praise the Lord for His salvation. Please pray for my students to receive Jesus, as I teach in a secular school with few Christians and high Muslim ratio.
Amen brother
Glory to God. Awesome testimony 🎊🎉🙌🎊🎉❤
A wonderful and powerful testimony of a follower of Jesus Christ, and family. God continue to bless you and your family as he certainly will. My sheep hear my voice. Amen.
With Jesus anything is possible. Praise God!
Real men of God light the way of following Jesus starting from father Abraham. Brother Mashut, you and your family are truly the chosen ones. Christ is the answer to the world's problems and through Him, we shall be saved as a crowd of witnesses. I love you very much, and the faith of Christ you profess. We pray earnestly pray for our Muslim friends and family members who want to be followers of Jesus Christ to come forward and declare Him as Saviour. The Lord will show mercy and grace to such obedient ones. Thank you the 700 Club for sharing this with us! To God be the glory forever. Amen 🙏.
Thank you for sharing your powerful testimony of love for your countrymen and for those who are lost! Leaving a blessing behind you and seeds of joy everywhere your go! I am so inspired!
I will be praying for you, your country, and especially for families come to our LORD Jesus Christ and find healing and redemption!
Awesome testimony. Hallelujah ❤️🙏
Oh Amen and Amen to that my brothers. We belong to such a loving God - Jesus paid such high price for us
Praying Praying 🙏 🤲 for you 🙏 ❤ all ❤ 🙏 God bless you all To God Be The Glory great testimony 🙏 amen love ❤
Amazing testimony, Amen 🙏❤
I can't say why but his broken English telling this story made it more beautiful to my ears.
All glory to God that your whole family became very bold follower of Christ !!!
Human race will perish without Jesus...
I pray that your testimony will be used by God to touch the hearts of many ,many of your fellow people to come to have personal relationship with Jesus !
Wonderful testimony. Am super excited. Praise God
Jesus love us..never give up on him..❤🤲
Amen. Great and powerful testimony. God bless.
Wow! Brought me to tears what his father told him at dinner
That's Awesome!!! I Love You!!! Can you pray with me for my family and children, that they will ALL BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST 🙏😔✝️💯❤️ THANK YOU, Amen 🙏 HALLELUJAH 💟
Wow! My friend, this life history of yours, that because you and your younger brother, you decided to give your life to Jesus Christ, and you wait for your father to scold and beat you. But, it turned out that your father hug you and your younger brother instead, and your father ended up confessed that He gave his life to Jesus two years ago. When I heard this Story, really made me fall the happy tears. I could not control my tears my friend. Praise God for that story. I can feal, you and your younger brother also could not control your happy tears right? God bless you.
What an Amazing story. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ. How the Love of our Lord works. Amen.
What a most blessed testimony!
Sometimes, we think we are all alone because there are things happening to us that it is hard to understand why. And then, we hear this beautiful and most touching story in which the LORD is the epicenter and the causer of it, and we find out that HE kept more than a few, most likely thousands to HIMSELF.
It filled my heart with joy.
Blessed be His NAME forever.
My God, my LORD and my FATHER. Amen.
AMEN,GOD BLESSED YOU MY BROTHER.
I love you Brother.....Heaven is rejoicing for you......
Brother, your testimony....hearing your voice speak moved me deeply. Hearing you tell your mother does not worry because she knows Jesus is with her was very strong profession of faith and trust ♥
Please pray for America.
America needs Jesus.
Many have turned heathen here.
What a touching story thank you brother.
LOL...Amen Again 🙏 ***GODBLESS THE MAXSUD FAMILY AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE AROUND THEM AS WELL IN JESUS CHRIST HOLY HEALING BLOODY ANOINTED ALMIGHTY NAME AMEN ✝️ 🙏 🕊 🕊 🕊
amen great story all things are possible for God
Praises to God! The Gospel of Jesus Christ can never be stopped despite the enemy's spiritual warfare. This testimony is encouraging. We must fulfill Matthew 28:18-20.
Its indeed an honor to die in the name of our Lord. It's a blessing which is eternal.
God is good, powerful God. This story proves it.
Wonderful testimony Jesus Christ of Nazareth your
Great
Lord thank you, this is the best story i've heard, this is miracle.
Yes I believe.
Praise the lord 🌈
What an inspirational testimony
Amazing testimony, where this story happened in country central Asia?
Praise Jesus brother
Glory to God!! 25:01
Hallelujah❤
God bless all🙏
Chapter 2 The Cow سورة البقرة - Al-Baqara: Verse 253
تِلْكَ الرُّسُلُ فَضَّلْنَا بَعْضَهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ ۘ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ كَلَّمَ اللَّهُ ۖ وَرَفَعَ بَعْضَهُمْ دَرَجَاتٍ ۚ وَآتَيْنَا عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ الْبَيِّنَاتِ وَأَيَّدْنَاهُ بِرُوحِ الْقُدُسِ ۗ وَلَوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ مَا اقْتَتَلَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا جَاءَتْهُمُ الْبَيِّنَاتُ وَلَٰكِنِ اخْتَلَفُوا فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ آمَنَ وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ كَفَرَ ۚ وَلَوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ مَا اقْتَتَلُوا وَلَٰكِنَّ اللَّهَ يَفْعَلُ مَا يُرِيدُ
Those messengers We endowed with gifts, some above others: To one of them Allah spoke; others He raised to degrees (of honour); to Jesus the son of Mary We gave clear (Signs), and strengthened him with the holy spirit. If Allah had so willed, succeeding generations would not have fought among each other, after clear (Signs) had come to them, but they (chose) to wrangle, some believing and others rejecting. If Allah had so willed, they would not have fought each other; but Allah Fulfilleth His plan. 
God blees you 🌈
May God bless you, brother, AMEN ALLELUIA
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