Cambodian Buddhist Testimony to Becoming a Christian

 I met a pastor, named Tom, here in Cambodia who had an incredible testimony about becoming Christian. The testimony begins around 1975, when Cambodia is still fighting the Khmer Rouge (Red Communist Cambodians). Pastor Tom's family were all practicing Buddhists. Pastor Tom's brother-in-law, Jim, was a school teacher in Phnom Phenh.

Jim was teaching class,writing on his chalkboard, one morning and he felt someone standing beside him. It was an eerie feeling. Jim turned from what he was writing on the board to see what it was. He turned and froze and then let out a scream. There was a manifestation of an evil spirit standing next to him. The spirit lunged towards him like it was going to grab him and then it vanished. Jim was terrified and all the children in his class were laughing at him. They didn't see the evil spirit.

The very next day Jim was in his class and the evil spirit returned. It frightened the whits out of him. And again the children couldnt see what was terrifying Jim. This occurred for several consecutive days and Jim was very frightened to go to the school to tach.

Jim's family were Buddhists so he went to the temple monks for help. Jim said about twenty monks tried to break the curse over him. They tried using a Buddhist curse breaking technique of tying a rope around his waist. Then they sent him home.

The next day Jim went to school to teach. The spirit appeared and terrified Jim agin. A girl in his class yelled at Jim and said what are you afraid of we can't see anything. The spirit tormenting Jim went into the girl at that moment. The girl started acting like an animal and ran across the desktops growling. Some of the boy classmates chased her and tried to catch her. When the boys caught her, Jim said she had supernatural strength. The boys couldn't hold her down she was too strong.

After school, that afternoon, Jim went to his Aunt's house and told her he was troubled. He was too afraid to go back to school and teach. In these days in Cambodia, if you weren't a teacher or a doctor, you were an infantry man on the frontlines fighting against the Khmer Rouge. Jim said he would rather die in the army than go back to school and face the evil spirit. He was that terrified by this spirit.

Jim's aunt said she had a friend who kept talking to her about Jesus. But she never listened because she was Buddhist. But one thing her aunt did remember about the conversations of Jesus -was that He was very powerful. Both Jim and his aunt figured it was worth a try. Otherwise, if he quits his teaching job he would have to join the infantry.

Jim's aunt called her Christian friend over and explained to her about the spirit tormentng Jim. The woman came right over and prayed with Jim. She explained to them the power Jesus had over all the spirits. Buddha and his false gods don't have the power Jesus has. Jim apathetically received his prayer hoping this would fix his predicament.

The next day, Jim with Christian woman's blessing, returned to his class. The spirit did not appear. In fact nothing at all happened. Nothing happened ever again. Jim realized this Jesus was very powerful. Even the evil spirits didn't want to mess this Jesus.

Jim was excited and after school ran home to his aunt and explained to her the power of Jesus worked. The aunt called over her friend and within the week the entire family became Christians. Jim is now a pastor in Cambodia.

Just another cool testimony I got to listen to while I was here in Cambodia. The powers of darkness are everywhere here and they are tied to the Buddhist temples. All these powers bow on their knees to the name of Jesus.