Laison’s Testimony

My name is Laison, and this is the story about how God has changed my life.

It is a wonderful thing to be in the hands of the Lord. Before I got born again, I had no idea what it is like to be in the hands of the Lord, because I thought I was the lord of my own soul. And I never thought there was anyone greater than me. All along, I believed that I was a kind of a small god because I was taking care of some other people’s lives. People took me as a god, and I acted as a god. I loved being a god. You see, I was a traditional doctor and also a prophet. This made my life to be something else which I did not understand. I knew that I possessed power, but there was a question in my life. Though I was trying to give back some people’s lives by healing those that were sick, I had a disease in my heart which I could not heal—it was the disease of sin.

Many people were calling me names of gods, but there was a day when I sat down and I said, “When I die, where will I go?” I asked myself, “What is it like to die? Exactly when I die, how will I be? And where will I be?” That was one challenging question in my life. I went with that question for a long time. I needed an answer to that question, because my worst horror was the end of my life. I thought, “If my life ends today, what will become of me? What will I become, or where will I be?” And that thing was a horror to me.

As I lived, I was under the oppression of the demons. In my heart I reasoned that one day I would die and I would stand before God. But I told myself that I had never lived a life that was like anyone’s life, so God could not judge me. I never lived a normal life from birth because I was oppressed by the devils. So that was my excuse. I thought that if God judged me, I would give Him my excuse and would say to Him, “You never gave me a life that was like anyone else’s life, so why are you judging me, knowing that you gave me a very bad life?” I thought in my heart that it was God that had given me a very bad life.

There was one day in 2009 that I went to work at the market as usual. But that day is when I saw the greatness of the Lord! As I got to the market, everyone was calling me Moruti, because they knew I was a prophet. I was a big guy, so everyone was afraid of me. Some were afraid because I could witch them. Some were just afraid because of what I was. That day it was very early in the morning, and I saw some people gathering by the mopane tree. So I went to see what was going on, and I found a white guy from America. He was making some drawings and teaching the people some verses from the Bible. He was talking about when you die what will happen, so I began to listen to what he was saying. This was something I wanted to know about.

He said that this body is just like a motel, but one day the soul which lives in this motel will check out, and you will stand before God. Then I said, “That’s one thing that I don’t want to do. We are going to have some difficulties there, because God will want to judge me, and I am going to produce my excuse. I am going to tell God that He cannot judge me because of this very bad life He gave me.”

That’s when he told me that my excuse was not going to work with God. But then he said that God has given me a chance that I may resolve and fix all things that were troubling me in my life. As I listened, he told me that Jesus came to earth. He said that God sent His Son Jesus Christ to earth to die for our sins. He told me that I may have life by believing in Him. This man whose name was Dave taught a lot of things there in the market that day. But the main thing was that I could make my things right with God. I began to have a hope in my heart.

I told this man that I was afraid of dying, I was afraid of the judgment, and also I was afraid of my demons, that someday they would come and choke me and kill me if I rebelled. So he showed me this verse from the Bible. “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” (First John chapter three, verse eight)

When I saw what God said, I developed a hope in me, and I began to believe that Jesus was more powerful than the demons in me and He would take care of me. I started to trust in Him, but I still had some little fears because I wanted to hear more. So I asked him to come to my place and teach me some more. To my surprise, that night I saw the white man coming to my place. I said, “How can this be? For the first time a white man coming to my place! He must have something very important to tell me.”

So we went inside our house and this man taught me and my wife the Word of God. He taught us many things, but he did not push us to get saved. He said, “Be sure you count the cost, because this thing can cost you your life. So think about it.” Then he showed us a verse in the Bible which says, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Mark chapter 8, verses 35-36) I knew there was nothing.

As I was at work the next day, I couldn’t work perfectly. I wanted to take Jesus and to make Him the Lord and Savior of my life. I kept thinking about it and looking at the time and watching for Dave to come by. I couldn’t wait. Finally he came and we sat in his car. I started praying and crying and asking Christ to come into my life and to forgive me of my sins. I knew that I was a sinner and that God is righteous. Before I had blamed God for giving me a bad life, but now I saw that I had chosen that sin. I had no right even to blame or condemn God because myself I was condemned already. That day I asked Jesus to forgive me because I had condemned a blameless God. You know, though I was an evil, evil man I found grace. Jesus Christ came into my life and changed my life. I am what I am today because of Him. I am a brand new creature because of Christ Jesus.

I can now live a good life with my kids and my wife because I am a brand new creature in Christ Jesus. Before I couldn’t do that because the devil was with me. I had all medicines and all African love potions, but all those medicines did not make me love my wife. But this is the best love potion that I have found—Jesus is the best medicine. I started seeing my wife as a wife and began to love her in a right way. When I took Jesus into my life, He cured my heart of the disease of sin and opened my eyes. Now I am happy in Christ. You can be also happy, if you will come to Jesus Christ. It is not for me only but even for everybody.