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Nabeel had been exploring faith
for some time. One evening, his
Christian friend suggested that
perhaps he was ready to “open
the door to Jesus”. That night,
Nabeel prayed, “Oh Lord, I give
my heart to you and I open my
door to let you in.” Despite the
fact that his flat was freezing
cold, Nabeel describes how he
“felt a sense of warmth flowing
through me… It felt really
supernatural”. He always went to
bed feeling cold, but that night
he didn’t even need a duvet.

Kez, a university student, had been pretty hostile to Christians
and Christian faith. Now, she’d been attending a church for a few
months and was doing Alpha. On the Friday night of a church
weekend away, she fell asleep and had what she described as “an
out of body experience and I thought I was dead… I was like, “God,
this is really not cool killing me off on the weekend away; it will
really traumatise these people when they
wake up!” And from behind, I heard this
voice just say to me, “You’re not dead. You’re
fine… But all the time you’re resisting, I can’t
come in.”” Later the next day, Kez was in a
worship session, when a lady said to her, “I
really feel as if you need to stop resisting.”
They agreed to pray together, and as they
did, Kez “literally felt all this grief and anger
and upset and guilt fade off me, and that’s
when I realised that God was real”.

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