I was in Venice, Florida for church on Sunday around August the 19th or so.  The message pierced me and touched me forever.  The guest speaker told a few stories in which touched me greatly.  The first was about a 60 year old Buddhist who was now crippled, his hands were stuck and he could barely even sit up.  He remembered about a man in a book who could heal, when he was child.  The Buddhist man told his daughter about the man and he told her to go into the town and find the book about the man who could heal.  (JESUS)  So she went THREE days journey into the town and came across a church.  The person in the church told her about Jesus, and he told her that her dad would be healed and he gave the daughter the book.  When the daughter went back to her dad, the Buddhist man, she put the book/Bible on his hands and within hours his hands were HEALED/moveable and he eventually got so much better that he could sit straight up.  Jesus gave the Buddhist man mercy and strength.  The Buddhist man sat there and read that Bible for days straight and that's practically all he did.  I believe if I'm not mistaking the man got ordained and starting running and building churches.  He was a man of God and STRONG well into his eighties.  Praise God for his miraculous moving powers and mercy. 

The other story he told us about was a man who was a for real for real headhunter.  The guestspeaker was personally taken to the place where the headhunter would hang the heads of the people they killed and showed the guest pastor the heads.  The headhunter knew that this was not the proper lifestyle or way of living.  Eventually by the grace of God the headhunter found and gave his life to Jesus. Well Jesus found him and saved him.  The headhunter had such a strong zeal, most likely leadership qualities, that the church wanted the former headhunter to start his own church.  BUT, the former headhunter said I cannot leave my tribal people who do not know Jesus alone.  I must go back and do my heart's mission desire.  So he went back, and for 10 years if the former headhunter was not one of the best fighter's they would have killed him.  He fought them for ten years, Lord have mercy.  And finally after the tenth year a person got saved.  Then another, then another and another, until finally all the saved believers could point to the person who was not saved.  Glory to God for His mercies.  (Now obviously this is not exact because I heard the story and am putting it down, but it strongly touched my heart). 

Praise God.  My father is from Iran, he's Persian/Muslim.  My mother is a born-again Christian and believe me the war is constant, because a house divided against itself can not stand.  My mother is Italian, Lithiwanian, and possibly Jewish.  I like to read the Bible, I like to make music, I love eating good food, I dislike fasting for 48 hours without food, but I gotta do it.  I got saved at 18.  Used to cheat, steal, lie, smoke weed, drink alcohol, was into sexual sins, struggled with pornography, used to curse out my own mother at the top of my lungs.  I was a wreck, I could go on and on.  By Revelation chapter 12 verse 11 says something to this effect.  "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death."  You overcome by your testimony but then the devil uses people who are close to you, especially Christians, and those Christians try to make you feel dirty, low and unworthy because a person may have a stronghold or shortcoming.  Be really careful, by God is in control.