God's Power of Healing
Introduction
The word of God says that “My dear friends do not be surprised at the painful test you are suffering, as though something unusual were happening to you. Rather be glad that you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, so that you may be full of joy when his glory is revealed. Happy are you if you are insulted because you are Christ’s followers; this means that the glorious Spirit, the spirit of God, is resting on you. If any of you suffer, it must not be because you are a murderer or a thief or a criminal or a meddler in other people’s affairs. However, if you suffer because you are a Christian, don’t be ashamed of it, but thank God that you bear Christ’s name. (1Peter 4:12-16)
I was born into an animist family in which Christians are limited; I come from a poor and illiterate family. After the death of my parents it was not easy to continue with my studies, but by the grace of God I continued. Jealousy pushed some family to unhappiness, seeing me progress with my studies. They started sending down on me evil spirits, days and night, accompanied by poisons. This tormented my studies. With the power of prayers and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ all these problems of demonic interference and the poisons they had given in water and food have been annihilated and I am healthy.
I was born into an animist family in which Christians are limited; I come from a poor and illiterate family. After the death of my parents it was not easy to continue with my studies, but by the grace of God I continued. Jealousy pushed some family to unhappiness, seeing me progress with my studies. They started sending down on me evil spirits, days and night, accompanied by poisons. This tormented my studies. With the power of prayers and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ all these problems of demonic interference and the poisons they had given in water and food have been annihilated and I am healthy.
A life in a demonic status
Director Dieudonné Safari poisoned
After having academic support from our Mennonite Christian brothers and sisters, some members of my family who are animistic were never happy to see me become Christian. In my family I was the first person to become a Christian Protestant and the first one to attend high school. This made them jealous. They began to send me the evil spirits who attacked me at night and made me upset, to lose the knowledge of my studies, These demons did not accept that I continue with my studies. The demons were tormenting my school and caused me to have some school failure, God’s unlimited love was sent to me in his Congolese servant to pray for me. His prayer became a power which led me to a secondary school certificate graduation.
The family did have understanding about the power of prayer. Daily prayer caused them to fail with their ambition to stop me from finishing with high school. Sending the evils spirits to me was becoming a limited strategy to block me continuing with study, so they were began to use poisoning, trying several times. My family bought the poison from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda after they paid the persons who came to poison me wherever I lived.
These poisons were insects, animals and the bark of trees, poison from the Democratic Republic of the Congo equatorial forest. My body and skin were taken away, deteriorating day and night. All my friends were beginning to avoid me and others accused me of being suffering from HIV/AIDS. My girlfriend who I loved said she hated me and went to marry a soldier. She always accused me of being sickly. For her, I was not a man who could help her in life because I was a weak man, unabled at all. That illness had prompted me to seek care in several hospitals of Rwanda and Uganda without finding the cure of the disease.
Day and night I felt the pain of the stomach and intestines, and when I spoke, the smell coming from my mouth was of rotten meat. This bad smell pushed some of my friends to isolate me and marginalize me. I was ridiculed by friends, university colleagues and even my Christian brothers and sisters who had never come to visit me. I was considered by myself as a living death, the sufferings pushed me to want to die but that was not possible. After having traveled to several hospitals of Rwanda and Uganda without success my heart begin to relive the fear of death because doctors told me to go to rest at home and wait for the day of death. The doctors told me they saw viruses which they do not know. Something destroyed the vital antibodies and made my body weaken. With this suffering my body was under attack by demons that invaded me at night. My life was succumbing to demonic forces and poisoning.
Despite the enormous suffering accompanied with isolation and marginalization, I decided to leave Rwanda and go to Burundi to continue with my studies and make a new circle of community..
The family did have understanding about the power of prayer. Daily prayer caused them to fail with their ambition to stop me from finishing with high school. Sending the evils spirits to me was becoming a limited strategy to block me continuing with study, so they were began to use poisoning, trying several times. My family bought the poison from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda after they paid the persons who came to poison me wherever I lived.
These poisons were insects, animals and the bark of trees, poison from the Democratic Republic of the Congo equatorial forest. My body and skin were taken away, deteriorating day and night. All my friends were beginning to avoid me and others accused me of being suffering from HIV/AIDS. My girlfriend who I loved said she hated me and went to marry a soldier. She always accused me of being sickly. For her, I was not a man who could help her in life because I was a weak man, unabled at all. That illness had prompted me to seek care in several hospitals of Rwanda and Uganda without finding the cure of the disease.
Day and night I felt the pain of the stomach and intestines, and when I spoke, the smell coming from my mouth was of rotten meat. This bad smell pushed some of my friends to isolate me and marginalize me. I was ridiculed by friends, university colleagues and even my Christian brothers and sisters who had never come to visit me. I was considered by myself as a living death, the sufferings pushed me to want to die but that was not possible. After having traveled to several hospitals of Rwanda and Uganda without success my heart begin to relive the fear of death because doctors told me to go to rest at home and wait for the day of death. The doctors told me they saw viruses which they do not know. Something destroyed the vital antibodies and made my body weaken. With this suffering my body was under attack by demons that invaded me at night. My life was succumbing to demonic forces and poisoning.
Despite the enormous suffering accompanied with isolation and marginalization, I decided to leave Rwanda and go to Burundi to continue with my studies and make a new circle of community..
The healing power of God
(1) Karanga in Kiswahili & (2) Kibonobono in Kinyarwanda
Jesus is a doctor of the poor: “[…] Jesus gave a command to the demon, and it went out of the boy, and at that very moment he was healed. Matthew 17:14-18”.
After having spent years suffering, in 2010 when I was at the University, God sent me a Congolese Banyamulenge student, from Congolese Tutsi ethnic group to come to comfort me. He told me, "God sends me to inform you that, the time has come for you to receive healing. As proof God himself will lead you to a medicine that will help you to spew poisons that your family had given you. They were given a traditional poison that is able to remain years in your body. Here even the demons that they send to you will not have an impact on your studies because God Himself is the driver of your studies so you will finish your studies".
It was the day after I started having dreams in which a man made me a tree flour accompanied by peanuts and he told me to eat it for six-months and after a year I should be healed of these poisons which weaken the body.
I was shown the instructions of what this man said to me in dream. I started eating it, and began to vomit things that give a bad smell like blood, I felt myself weak, but vomiting and diarrhea made a systematic change. It was really the love and grace of God as weapons against the evil that meant in a few days my body begin to be clear. I began to eat whole foods when I had gone for years without even being able to eat anything good. My usual food it macaroni and cow’s milk only. In three days I just start eating despite the stomach problem and the fatigues of my poor health, I had contracted tuberculosis during the long journey on foot to perform studies. I had experienced much hunger because I was not even able to find the diet prescribed by doctors.
After taking these medicines, which were miracles of God given to me, I was strengthened s with all courage to continue my studies and finish the bachelor’s program in 2011. Once having had my bachelor's degree I started the master program. Again, my family members weren’t happy with that and they continued to send the demons to troubling my studies.
They sent me the demons who attacked my right side and spine so that I start walking bent like a bow, and standing hurt very bad. My sisters came to me and my brother and say to me “We cannot accept losing you; we are ready to bring you to a traditional healer. He can heal you from all the suffering.” The suffering was to push me to agree with them to go to be treated.
After having spent years suffering, in 2010 when I was at the University, God sent me a Congolese Banyamulenge student, from Congolese Tutsi ethnic group to come to comfort me. He told me, "God sends me to inform you that, the time has come for you to receive healing. As proof God himself will lead you to a medicine that will help you to spew poisons that your family had given you. They were given a traditional poison that is able to remain years in your body. Here even the demons that they send to you will not have an impact on your studies because God Himself is the driver of your studies so you will finish your studies".
It was the day after I started having dreams in which a man made me a tree flour accompanied by peanuts and he told me to eat it for six-months and after a year I should be healed of these poisons which weaken the body.
I was shown the instructions of what this man said to me in dream. I started eating it, and began to vomit things that give a bad smell like blood, I felt myself weak, but vomiting and diarrhea made a systematic change. It was really the love and grace of God as weapons against the evil that meant in a few days my body begin to be clear. I began to eat whole foods when I had gone for years without even being able to eat anything good. My usual food it macaroni and cow’s milk only. In three days I just start eating despite the stomach problem and the fatigues of my poor health, I had contracted tuberculosis during the long journey on foot to perform studies. I had experienced much hunger because I was not even able to find the diet prescribed by doctors.
After taking these medicines, which were miracles of God given to me, I was strengthened s with all courage to continue my studies and finish the bachelor’s program in 2011. Once having had my bachelor's degree I started the master program. Again, my family members weren’t happy with that and they continued to send the demons to troubling my studies.
They sent me the demons who attacked my right side and spine so that I start walking bent like a bow, and standing hurt very bad. My sisters came to me and my brother and say to me “We cannot accept losing you; we are ready to bring you to a traditional healer. He can heal you from all the suffering.” The suffering was to push me to agree with them to go to be treated.
A traditional healer had given me a small bottle...
On arriving there, a traditional healer had asked me to write my name on a piece of paper and then he persuaded me to put it in the water that was in a basin and put in my right foot while repeating what he said in an unknown language. In the house of this traditional healer there were the bones of the legs and skulls of humans. On the table there were bottles filled with the blood of animals and bottles filled with the blood of humans. In these bottles full of animals’ blood there where animals who moved inside and in bottles filled by human blood inside there were shapes men and women moving, I asked the healer and my sisters, “what is the role of these animals and humans found in these bottles filled blood?”
In response a healer had told me that these animals have been sent to torment the life of one who is being challenged by a client who comes to ask help and support. The persons in bottles are the spirits of the persons who were challenged by his client to be killed or make him suffer by the desire of the one who gave the directions for that man or woman. He told me that these people imprisoned in spirit in the bottles are alive and they continued their daily activities, but they are not aware they have been imprisoned in bottles of witch doctors.
I was surprised with that information and my heart was beginning to feel fear and doubt of their healing power. The one who claimed he can help me to be out of suffering had imprisoned the spirit of persons in bottles for their suffering continually or death. A traditional healer had given me a small bottle filled with fat snakes mixed with ingredients of other trees. He told me that he only gave me this is as protection against evil spirits of different sorts.
The requirements of this medicine provided by the traditional healer was to put this lotion all over my body and I would then say the pact with healing spirit of our ancestor. After having had my life this drug was surely evil, I said God is the only one who had cured me of the traditional poison that killed more health in my body. I believe God is capable of healing me and I would be healed of the disease caused by demons. I decided myself to take this healing medicine and put it down the toilet. Despite of all suffering I was beginning to request for God’s forgiveness and the love of God’s forgiveness was on my life, The load of pain in my spine begin to decrease day and night.
In response a healer had told me that these animals have been sent to torment the life of one who is being challenged by a client who comes to ask help and support. The persons in bottles are the spirits of the persons who were challenged by his client to be killed or make him suffer by the desire of the one who gave the directions for that man or woman. He told me that these people imprisoned in spirit in the bottles are alive and they continued their daily activities, but they are not aware they have been imprisoned in bottles of witch doctors.
I was surprised with that information and my heart was beginning to feel fear and doubt of their healing power. The one who claimed he can help me to be out of suffering had imprisoned the spirit of persons in bottles for their suffering continually or death. A traditional healer had given me a small bottle filled with fat snakes mixed with ingredients of other trees. He told me that he only gave me this is as protection against evil spirits of different sorts.
The requirements of this medicine provided by the traditional healer was to put this lotion all over my body and I would then say the pact with healing spirit of our ancestor. After having had my life this drug was surely evil, I said God is the only one who had cured me of the traditional poison that killed more health in my body. I believe God is capable of healing me and I would be healed of the disease caused by demons. I decided myself to take this healing medicine and put it down the toilet. Despite of all suffering I was beginning to request for God’s forgiveness and the love of God’s forgiveness was on my life, The load of pain in my spine begin to decrease day and night.
She has asked all there to become intercessors for prayer...
The Author's wife, Alice
In praying about myself, I began to walk without being bowed but I felt something was heavy on my mind. This is because that bad weight made me all the time to feel tired, and being a man determined on my studies I forced myself to do my academic research in suffering.
All circumstances made me to be tormented by disease and trauma, a life that was more and more difficult, I lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Burundi lived my wife. I had to send the money to buy food and pay for the house but that situation had made our life difficult. She spent three days without eating while pregnant, I had told God to take me before because of the suffering and now I needed to overcome difficulties surrounding my life.
My wife advised me to leave Congo and go stay with her in Burundi, I followed her advice and I went to stay with her. We started to pray and God answered my health needs day and night until I felt a little bit to be free. My wife looked everywhere for who she could find to be a servant of God capable to help me with prayers. By the grace of God on a Saturday she found a church containing a prayer room. That day, she came to interest me in this prayer room and I was glad to God for that. Monday of the following week I was decided to go there And my arriving there made the lady in charge of the prayer chamber to start prophesying about my life and the whole situation of my health, She has asked all there to become intercessors for prayer over a month’s time for me. But by praying the demons threw me to the ground until God told the people to take water and pray about this and give me the water to go wash my whole body. When I washed my body they were continuing the prayer for me.
In returning home and having been healed without pain, I found in two days that the evil one sent me even more demons and Saturday I was forced to return. Yet they prayed for me by making a plan of my life so I would heal. I felt God had given me the day of prayer for my life and for the continuance of my family.
After five months without going to one of Congo family, who to me were the witch doctors and servants of Satan, we started feeling the disruption of their forces, because of the prayer of myself and my wife alone. When I have gone to Democratic Republic of the Congo, they told me, “we accept that you are a Christian and your God is a living God.”
They also said: “We had ten (10) years we looked how we can kill you by the demons, poison and sickness without respite. Now we follow you to accept to be saved by one who is beyond the world’s idols”. I was beginning to talk to them about the word of God and to pray for them; now three people including two women and a man have accepted Jesus Christ as the only healer and the one who is stronger than all demons, family ancestor’s practices, all world idols and fetishes and Satanist practices.
All circumstances made me to be tormented by disease and trauma, a life that was more and more difficult, I lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Burundi lived my wife. I had to send the money to buy food and pay for the house but that situation had made our life difficult. She spent three days without eating while pregnant, I had told God to take me before because of the suffering and now I needed to overcome difficulties surrounding my life.
My wife advised me to leave Congo and go stay with her in Burundi, I followed her advice and I went to stay with her. We started to pray and God answered my health needs day and night until I felt a little bit to be free. My wife looked everywhere for who she could find to be a servant of God capable to help me with prayers. By the grace of God on a Saturday she found a church containing a prayer room. That day, she came to interest me in this prayer room and I was glad to God for that. Monday of the following week I was decided to go there And my arriving there made the lady in charge of the prayer chamber to start prophesying about my life and the whole situation of my health, She has asked all there to become intercessors for prayer over a month’s time for me. But by praying the demons threw me to the ground until God told the people to take water and pray about this and give me the water to go wash my whole body. When I washed my body they were continuing the prayer for me.
In returning home and having been healed without pain, I found in two days that the evil one sent me even more demons and Saturday I was forced to return. Yet they prayed for me by making a plan of my life so I would heal. I felt God had given me the day of prayer for my life and for the continuance of my family.
After five months without going to one of Congo family, who to me were the witch doctors and servants of Satan, we started feeling the disruption of their forces, because of the prayer of myself and my wife alone. When I have gone to Democratic Republic of the Congo, they told me, “we accept that you are a Christian and your God is a living God.”
They also said: “We had ten (10) years we looked how we can kill you by the demons, poison and sickness without respite. Now we follow you to accept to be saved by one who is beyond the world’s idols”. I was beginning to talk to them about the word of God and to pray for them; now three people including two women and a man have accepted Jesus Christ as the only healer and the one who is stronger than all demons, family ancestor’s practices, all world idols and fetishes and Satanist practices.
Conclusion
Seeing the healing power of Jesus Christ, as a sinner and a poor believes, I journeyed towards Him after several years of suffering due to demons and poison. My life almost succumbed to the pain, humiliation, marginalization and even ignorance of my friends, Christian brothers and sisters. I traveled to regional hospitals and clinics and to a traditional healer to seek healing because that sickness was an obstacle on my physical and spiritual evolution. Savior Jesus Christ and our loving God watch over my life as a doctor who is above all the doctors in the world. His divine hospital passes that of men, by his goodness and love he had always said to me “welcome” in his divine healing as I am a poor person in flesh and spirit. Today I'm healthy because our Lord Jesus Christ gave miracles to me and strengthens me, leads me to love and I continue to be in his service until I quit the world and He returns to take up his Church.
I say thanks to all of you.
Dieudonné SAFARI
I say thanks to all of you.
Dieudonné SAFARI
Dieudonné Safari
has dual citizenship in Congo and Rwanda, and is currently living in the war torn city Bujumbura, Burundi. As the director, a researcher, writer, and psychotherapist, he speaks nine languages, including several Congolese dialects.
has dual citizenship in Congo and Rwanda, and is currently living in the war torn city Bujumbura, Burundi. As the director, a researcher, writer, and psychotherapist, he speaks nine languages, including several Congolese dialects.
