Muslims converting because of dreams

By Nile Hosni –

On pilgrimage in Mecca, Muhammad saw a vision of a man in white who beckoned from atop the kabbalah stone during the holy month of Ramadan.

“Muhammad, you’re following the wrong way,” the man in white told him. “Leave and come follow me.”

Back in his native Jericho, Muhammad heard the Gospel from a Christian neighbor and came to Christ.

At a time when demographers are predicting Islam’s takeover by birthrates, visions and dreams are undercutting projections by leading tens and thousands of Muslims to Jesus.

“This is the Great Awakening for Muslims right now,” says Tom Doyle, professor at Dallas Theological Seminary. “They’re having dreams, they’re having visions. Christians are praying for them and they’re getting healed. It’s ramping up.”

The phenomenon of Muslims getting dreams is so widespread that Doyle, who was a missionary in the Middle East from 2001, wrote a book about it in 2012 called Dreams and Visions : Is Jesus Awakening The Muslim World?

As a missionary, he shuffled around nations of the Middle East. He saw 500 Jordanians come to Christ, one-third of which were introduced to the Gospel by dreams.

“The dreams are high-definition and rock their worlds. They can’t shake it, and they start seeking,” Doyle says. “Along the way (of traveling around the Middle East), we were hearing these stories all the time about Muslims having dreams about Jesus. It blew our minds.”

Why does God use dreams for Muslims? Perhaps, Doyle says, because Islam started with a dream. The Prophet Muhammad got a dream from Gabriel while he was sleeping in a cave.

Today, as a seminary professor, he brings medical clinics to the Middle East, at which 300-500 get free attention. Usually 30+ get saved. “Many of them tell us, ‘I had a dream.’” he relates. “We’re hearing that more and more openly.”

At a medical clinic in a “country next to Israel,” a fully covered Muslim lady asked if she could come into the Christian event. She didn’t know if Muslims were allowed. Welcomed in, she stayed for three days. She heard doctors and nurses share the gospel multiple times.

On the last day, she came in, overjoyed. “I saw him last night,” she said. “Jesus came to me in a dream.”

According to a Fuller Seminary survey of 1,000 Muslims who converted to Christianity, one-third did so because of a dream, he says.

Informal survey of ministries in the 10/40 window “half” of converts via dream, Doyle says.

In Isfahan, Iran, Tom was discreetly evangelizing and handing out Bibles in Farsi, when a man on the street invited him to his home. After kebabs with 29 family members, the grandfather sat down on a chair directly facing Tom.

“I have questions,” he said, and began a 2-hour-long interrogatory about Jesus, at the end of which, he and his family got saved. The reason for the questions? Jesus kept coming to him in dreams.

An Iraqi woman was got beaten everyday by her husband cried out to God, “Where are you?” But after many days of praying expecting Allah, the god of Islam, to answer, she finally changed one word in the petition.

“God, who are you?”

No surprise, Jesus showed up that night in a dream, Doyle says.

Dreams among Muslims are so common that some Christians bought ads on bus signs, saying, “If you’ve seen the man in a white robe, contact this number.” Phones were ringing off the hook (750,000 times!) until authorities wised up and shut it down.

Doyle started IFoundTheTruth.com of testimonies of Muslims who have come to Christ. Of their 85 videos, scores of them have over 1M views. “It took off like a rocket,” he says.

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