"I DARED TO CALL HIM FATHER"

I have recently read an amazing book called “I dared to call Him Father”, written by Bilquis Sheikh with Richard H. Schneider. It is Bilquis Sheikh’s amazing testimony.

Bilquis Sheikh, a highly respected Muslim woman, comes to know Yahshua in a very personal way. She is confronted with His realness and gives her life over to him.

By accepting God as her father and Y'shua as her LORD and Saviour, she not only puts her own life in danger and dishonours herself in the Muslim world, but she puts many others lives into danger and dishonours her whole family.

God begins speaking to her in dreams, but being brought up in a devout Muslim home, she is not sure who they are from. She then decides to read the Koran and Bible side by side, thinking that they will say the same things, but she soon sees that they do not. In one of her dreams she meets John the Baptist, whom she has never heard of. She then seeks the help of a local missionary, Synnøve Mitchell and inquires about John the Baptist. Synnøve, reveals to her that John the Baptist came to prepare the way for Y'shua, she also tells her the story about the three wise men who received a dream from God. Bilquis then knew that God had given her the dreams.

It is amazing to see that a woman who had no former “Christian” experience gives her heart in such a radical way to her true creator. She explains so well what Muslims think and believe about Y'shua and Christians, and how her thoughts and views changed when she met Y'shua. Y'shua tells us to have faith like little children, to just believe and trust in Him, Bilquis Sheikh is a wonderful example of this.

This is one of those books that you can read over and over again and never get bored, but only learn more each time. Not only do you see her amazing testimony and how God used her, but you also learn about God’s unconditional grace and love and how He is able to use us and what He can do in our lives.

One thing that she mentioned that caught my attention, is that when she was Muslim and met Christians at the many dinner parties she attended, they never once told her about their faith. She saw it as such a natural thing to do. Sometimes we are too afraid to take the opportunity to minister to others, even when it glares us in the face. Yes, we need to be sure that it is the right opportunity that YHVH has given us, but we must not try to be “too sure” and then miss the opportunity. There are people across the world that are giving their lives up for Y'shua on a daily basis while we “western civilised” Christians are sitting back and enjoying the endless luxuries. Often, when I feel that what I’m about to do could be a massive risk; putting myself in the line for persecution I know that it is the right thing.

We are called to be fishers of men, so let’s cast our fears and worries out of the net and focus of Y'shua before us.