MY JESUS IS EVERYTHING
Bro. Nilesh Naik

My name is Nilesh Naik. I'm from Bombay India. I was born and brought up in a non- Christian family. For the last 20 years or so I used to worship idols. The culture I come from you are told this is the god and you must worship it. To receive any miracles I had to perform something like chant mantras x number of times or offer a sacrifice. All the gods I worshiped were warriors who had to kill and fight to prove themselves. There was a certain fear that the god will punish me.

I was a very short-tempered person, and highly addicted to tobacco. When my little girl asked for her birthday gift for me to quit tobacco I was not able to do it. I had a lot a pride and felt powerful because I had several businesses, which brought in a lot of money.

I used to own stores Dunking Donuts, Baskin Robins and Quizno's. One guy name Pastor Raj Nagi used to come to my store almost every day. He always would talk about Jesus and salvation. One day I decided to listen to what he had to say and tried to figure out his passion and love for Jesus. Couple things I noticed was he was so happy all the time. He had peace and here I am with eight stores, sixty employees and everything a person needs to be happy, but I didn't have that peace or joy.

One Sunday I was at Quiznos and Raj Nagi and I were talking and I asked him your god can do anything and he said yes. I told him if the store would do thousand dollars in sales today I would think about his Jesus. Now that store never did more than 350 in sales on a Sunday in three years. So he prayed about it. That day till 12:15 pm I had only one customer. Come 1:30 people started coming in till 5:00. Sales at that point were $550. Then again they started coming in at 6:30 till we closed. We did $1100 in sales. I didn’t know where the customers came from.

It was now almost 2 years of ministering and Bible stories from pastor Raj. One evening a customer who was a friend of Raj left his Bible on the counter. I tried to avoid touching it. After I closed the store I felt guilty about not taking the Bible because I knew where the prayer meeting was that they were going to. So I went back into my store and got the Bible, and headed toward the meeting. At this point the plan was to drop it off and not go inside. When I went there they convinced me to stay there. His prayer meeting lasted for about three hours and what I saw was love, peace, happiness. So I decided to have prayer meeting at my house.

It was December 2003 and I was convinced by then that there exists a Lord above all gods I knew. I never had this experience in my life before. I was so wanted to give my life to the Lord Jesus but wasn't able to convince my family because of social stigma. Then December 31 my wife and kids were out of town. That day there was a prayer meeting at bro Dilips house. And there I received Jesus Christ. Life has never been the same.

I had mentioned about my tobacco addiction and bad temper. As I prayed I asked Jesus to take all the bad habits from me. From that day till today and forever I will not miss tobacco. That habit just left me. Praise the lord for that.

In those days I learned how to pray to God and depend on him. My wife said that I was a changed person and I had quit tobacco, and I was less angry. She saw me more peaceful and happy. She saw that what she was trying to do for the past 11 years was to help me quit tobacco but Jesus did it in one night. Finally she picked up the phone and called brother Raj and told him she wanted what I had, which was Christ.

In those days I had a tumor on my right hand wrist as big as a golf ball. I had this tumor for the last 9 years. The max I could do with my right hand was write three sentences at a given time, and was able to pick up only three to four pounds with that hand. One night we had a prayer meeting. I was playing a tambourine and we were praising and worshiping Lord Jesus. My right hand was hurting so bad that I had to put the tambourine down. I told the Lord it hurts. Next day morning I went to one of my stores and was helping to put up the truck delivery, that’s when I realized that I was holding a 50 lb sugar bag. I got scared and I dropped the bag. I turned my right hand around and I saw my tumor was gone. Praise God it has been 3 years now and has never come back.

Now I realized that I don't have a religion but a relationship with the lord. Before as a Hindu I had to perform to get the idols attention, but I know now that I don't have to do this because my Jesus had done it all for me 2000 years ago on the cross, and I know that when Jesus was on the cross I was on his mind.

It is good to get miracles like that. But what do you do when you are praying and doing the right thing and nothing is happening? What do you do when every human hope you have has failed you? What do you do when you feel when God is not listening to you or has forgotten about you?

This is something we are going through now. We have lost everything. We went from living in a big house to an apartment. From having business to being an employee. We are going through a lot of humiliation and trouble. But even though we are going through all these problems we as a family have raised our hand up to Lord Jesus. And we believe in him and we know that he is cleansing us and on the other side there is help. Whoever is reading this story if you would please believe with us because there is power in agreement and pray with us that the Lord is going to restore my family hundred times more than what was taken. That he will use us for his purpose, because I know and believe that my Jesus is everything.

I CAN DO ANYTHING THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME
Philippians 4:13

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