A Pagan Priest’s Conversion: The Day the Bible Changed a Village

One of the teams went to a village to preach to the Gospel. A 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 us. 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 don’t have a real Bible like ours. But they have records of many unusual experiences and evil manifestations and they worshipped them.

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

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 to know if I, God, prove Myself to them, that I am more powerful than their gods or devils, let them gather together, and I will prove Myself.”

Then the team said to the head pagan priest, “Gather all your people and tell them to come and you will see what will happen.”

The pagan priest was excited. He wanted to see if the Christians could prove what they were talking about. So he gathered many of them together, about two thousand of them, in front of the team.

The team members just lifted up their hands and said, “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 all their gods. Now in the name of Jesus, we bind and cancel all demonic powers that have ruled these villages and people for these many generations. Because of Christ’s blood that was shed at Calvary, we command the manifestation of Your power in the name of Jesus. Amen.”

Jesus wants these people. Jesus must be a tremendous God. I want to know Jesus,” said the pagan chief priest.

The team just simply said, “If you want Jesus, we want to show you the way.” So, they opened the Bible and showed him how to accept Jesus Christ as his own personal Saviour. He and his followers accepted Jesus there and then. Praise God!

After that simple prayer, they looked at one another, expectant of God’s manifestation.

This Christian life is simple, (if the Christian life were complicated, we in the heathen country could never have become Christians). When the Bible says something we just need to take it as it is: believe it, rest, smile, and let God do the job.

Soon the pagan chief priest began to tremble. He cried out and said, “Brothers, sirs, I want your God Jesus right now.” It was such a quick transformation. The team members didn’t know what to say, or reaction to the situation.

“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?” one of the team members asked.

“As a pagan priest,” he replied, “I have talked with the devils. I know many of them by name.” Then he started to cry and couldn’t control himself.

“What is the matter?” one of the team said. “Yes, yes I know what is going on,” the pagan priest replied. “When you prayed in the name of Jesus, you bound all the demonic power here and commanded them to flee, do you know what happened?”

“No,” the team leader said, “we don’t know what happened. Just 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 powers that have ruled here for many generations, the biggest to the smallest, and they just gathered together one by one, then 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” said the pagan chief priest.

The team just simply said, “If you want Jesus, we want to show you the way.” So, they opened the Bible and showed him how to accept Jesus Christ as his own personal Saviour. He and his followers accepted Jesus there and then. Praise God!