This is an amazing testimony about a young man called Jemal Kamal (was 19 years old in 1995) who was dedicated to the devil since the age of two and was immersed in satanic activities as a way of  life until the Lord met him and destroyed the works of the devil in his life. Those of you who have heard the testimony of Amanuel Amos (the Nigerian), would appreciate this testimony.

Since the Word of God says in Psalms 105:1-2 "O GIVE thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: MAKE KNOWN HIS DEEDS AMONG THE PEOPLE. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: TALK YE OF ALL HIS WONDROUS WORKS." Please feel free to share or forward these testimonies to other Christians (Ethiopians or Americans etc...). That is why I am sharing with you HIS DEEDS and WONDROUS WORKS that I have witnessed.

     I heard the testimony from an interview I had with Evangelist Meaza Bekele, who serves the Lord in Genet or Seferegenet church (Kebena). She is the one whom the Lord primarily used to bring this boy to himself.

The story starts like this:

     One day this boy comes to this church during a weekday and asks a sister he met at the church, if the church was opened for service at that time. The sister responded that it was opened and asked him if he wanted to accept the Lord. He said that he did want to accept the Lord, but his mission in coming to the church was on a Satanic assignment. The sister he first encountered brought him to Evangelist Meaza telling her that he wants to accept the Lord. Evangelist Meaza tried to talk to him about various things in order to understand his background but she was having a hard time in getting much information out of him. She said his responses were very short and non-descriptive. He pretended to be very shy and did not even look at her directly. She said that she concluded that he was a home boy who has a hard time expressing himself. After conversing with him for a while she told him about the Lord and asked him to kneel and pray with her to accept the Lord. He knelt and prayed the sinners prayer with her and confessed to have given his life to the Lord.  She said that was the end of their first encounter. After that he continued to come to that church, still during the weekdays, and was trying to accomplish his Satanic mission.

     One day he went to Entoto Mekane Yesus Church on a similar assignment and got into a very hot prayer meeting. Meaza said that this satanic messengers can for a while, withstand an atmosphere where the power and the presence of God is. Whenever the evil spirits in these people could not withstand the power of God any longer they would prompt the person to leave. At that moment he got out and a sister who was a Muslim convert was coming into the prayer room. When she met him on his way out, she said greetings and introduced herself to him. When he told her his name she exclaimed and said "then you are truly my brother", thinking that he was a Muslim convert too. Then she asked him why he was going out, to which he responded that he felt dizzy. She suggested that he get prayed for and took him in for prayer. Even from the first day at Genet church the Lord had started working in his life even though he was still on Satanic assignment.  Two powers were wrestling for a soul whom the Lord died for.

     After that sister took him in for prayer few brothers and sisters started praying for him. The evil spirits in him could not withstand the direct onslaught of "the effectual fervent prayer of righteous people of God" (James 5:16). During the prayer the demons in him started coming apart and confessed under the power of God that he was under a mission against Genet church but was not able to do much because he was encountered by the power of God. One of the things the demons said was "loosing Amanuel Amos was bad enough, we are not going to loose Jemal".   (For those of you who have not heard the testimony of Amanuel Amos, it is available in a three audio tape series in Amharic).  As it was evident later, Jemal was at a much higher position and authority than Amanuel Amos was in the Satanic kingdom. Actually, Jemal was at a position where he gave orders to the likes of Amanuel Amos. Their position in the demonic world and the levels they go through is measured by the number of RINGS they have acquired. Jemal was on level 4 where the highest RING level is 5, and he was due for promotion to level 5 that year during their annual meeting in India.

     After the believers at Entoto Mekane Yesus Church cast out the demons in Jemal they notified Meaza of what the spirits in him confessed and they let him go agreeing with Genet church to mutually follow him up. After a while, he came to Genet church still not fully delivered from 17 years of demonic control. Imagine someone being totally dedicated to the devil at age 2, he has no academic knowledge and knows no human affection or love. The only knowledge he has is demonic in origin. Meaza and others started praying for this boy intensely, many times they would have whole night prayers for and with him. From the beginning, the BEAST (that is how Jemal refers to the devil), was telling him that he was his true father and that he was the one who raised him up. Since he knew no one else’s love Jemal has fully accepted the BEAST as his true father. At one of the whole night prayers, the Lord revealed himself to Jemal in a vision. Jemal saw Jesus holding him in his hand, and he also saw the BEAST in front of Jesus. In the vision Jesus stretched out his hand that was holding Jemal and said to the beast "If you can take Jemal out of my hand, Go ahead!". When Jesus said this to the beast, the beast lost control and fell down as if something struck him on the head. The Bible talking about Jesus, says "Out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword." Whatever the Lord says to the devil is like a two-edged sword that would make him loose control and balance. The Lord was showing Jemal that He alone is his father and the BEAST is nothing before him. That was the main turning point for Jemal.

      The testimony is very long which I cannot finish in writing, but one last thing I want to say is, when this kind of people come to the Lord the devil would intensify his attack on them and tries to win them back as much as he can. Jemal is just a new convert who, like any new convert, is vulnerable to the attacks of the enemy. From the interview I had with evangelist Meaza, she said that he has some weaknesses in his life at this time that needs our prayer. The only thing that holds him is the Love of God that he experienced through God’s people and directly from Jesus Christ. Please let us pray for him by name.

     May the Lord keep all of us in His Love,

The full testimony is available on the video