HIS Ways are Not Our Ways: Jesus Appeared to a Muslim Woman, and Answered her Request for Cigarettes—Later He brought Her a Miraculous Healing

Mark Ellis : Jun 19, 2017
God Reports

It seems Jesus—in ways that often surprised and confounded His observers—met Nelly where she was, and then began to reveal more and more of Himself to her.

[God Reports] Nelly, a North African woman living in southern Europe, had a brain tumor and was not expected to survive much longer, but Jesus personally appeared to her in astonishing ways that upended her life. (Photo via God Reports)

Knowing her time was short, Nelly visited two Christian neighbors affiliated with Pioneers and asked them to visit her husband and young son after she died.

The Christian workers encouraged Nelly to pray to Jesus and ask Him for help.

Due to her Muslim background, Nelly had never prayed to Jesus. But the nature of her illness prevented her from performing her daily Muslim prayer rituals. So she went home and for the first time in her life and prayed to Jesus, according to the account by Pioneers.

As she began to pray to Jesus, something remarkable happened.

Jesus personally appeared on her balcony, walked through her two doors and spoke with her.

"What do you want," He asked in her heart language, a North African dialect.

"I have a headache because there haven't been any cigarettes in the house for days," she told him.

Jesus left her as abruptly as He had appeared. Nelly went into the kitchen to make herself a cup of coffee. There, in the cupboard, a package of cigarettes had appeared!

"It took us a minute to absorb this," the Christian workers reported in the Pioneers story. "A North African Muslim woman asked Jesus—who appeared to her bodily—for cigarettes. And He gave them to her. We thought immediately of Christians back in the States who would discount this story because smoking is a sin, right? I mean, how do you reconcile God giving a gift that is frowned upon in many Christian settings across North America?"

It seems Jesus—in ways that often surprised and confounded His observers—met Nelly where she was, and then began to reveal more and more of Himself to her.

Nelly had seen "The JESUS Film" and other Christian movies on satellite TV. "She is illiterate and was therefore unable to gain knowledge of Jesus through the Bible," the Christian workers explained in the Pioneers account. (Photo: Public Doman/via Pixabay)

In the months that followed, Jesus continued to visit Nelly. "She said that she was not sleeping or dreaming, but that Jesus was there physically and spoke to her, encouraged her, consoled her. She said that once Jesus entered through the balcony door, spoke with her, and left through the front door."

Her husband heard the door open and shut but never saw Jesus himself.

Then one day Jesus appeared to her and placed His hand on the side of her face that was paralyzed by the brain tumor...

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