"My parents moved to the city to find work," says Makaram Lim, now a youth leader and worship pastor at Church of Cambodia in Pnomh Penh. Makaram stayed with his grandmother a few hours east of the capital city as his parents tried to make their way in the bustling city—his mother selling vegetables and his father driving a taxi.

They lived on a mattress outside the front gate of a relative's home.

Makaram's grandmother was a strict Buddhist who prayed at dawn and dusk each day to her god—at least an hour of prayer and worship in each session.

Due to the rigors of his parents' long work hours, with little time to rest, Makaram's father contracted typhoid. Sadly, he succumbed to the disease in only three months.

So at nine-years-old, Makaram and his two sisters moved into a slum area with their mother near the Russian embassy in Phnom Penh. "It was full of taxis, vegetable sellers, drug addicts, prostitutes, robbers, and all the bad people lived there," he recounts.

A blackened river ran near the slum known as "Hundred Directions Water" because it became the drainage channel for every form of human waste and debris. "The water had a very bad smell," Makaram says.

Makaram's mother began to get sick from a mysterious ailment that no doctor could explain. "First they thought it was her stomach, then her lungs, then her liver," he recalls. "She was getting weaker and weaker, losing her will to live."

"The doctors gave up hope and told her to go home. They said they had no way to help her." Makaram's mother asked her sister if she would care for her three children when she died.

One Saturday night a Christian woman came to visit the family and spoke very directly to Makaram's mother: "Sister, Jesus is God," she declared. "He is the Savior of the world and the Savior of sinners. If you come to know the Lord Jesus—even if you die today—you go to Heaven."

"Jesus is very powerful. He has the power to heal all your diseases," she said.

Makaram's mother had a sharp, negative reaction to her message. "Jesus is an American God, a foreign God, not a Cambodian God," she told the woman.

"She was a really strong Buddhist and she hated Christians so much," Makaram notes.

But later that night, around midnight, the power of the living God began to prevail upon her hardened heart. The Holy Spirit broke down walls of resistance as only God can do.

Having lost all hope, Makaram's mother looked up toward the starry night and said a prayer for the first time to the Christian God. "I don't know how to pray to You," she began, "but if You are the real God, please come and heal me." (Photo via God Reports)

Then she fell into a deep sleep.

"When she woke up in the morning she was healed from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet," Makaram recalls with joy.

"He answered my prayer! He answered my prayer!" she shouted to her stunned children and anyone else who would listen in the neighborhood.

"She knew this God must be the real God" and accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior, Makaram recounts.

Because of his mother's miraculous healing and the influence of a church they began to attend—Compassion of Christ Church—Makaram was also born again.

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