Jesus was Vani Marshall’s last hope.
A mysterious disease had baffled doctors in her native Malaysia, ravaging her with pain and causing her to randomly collapse, but nothing showed up on CAT scans. The doctors’ best guess was that Vani might have cancer in her brain.
Without a diagnosis, there was no cure, so they sent her away with pills to manage the pain.
With a full bottle of the pills in front of her, Vani (pictured above) considered downing the lot, ending the pain forever.
What other ‘solution’ was there, now that she’d prayed to her 3.3 million Hindu gods, and none had helped?
But on the day she planned to end her life, she was sitting in her room remembering how, years before, people had knocked on the door and given her a Christian tract. It would do no harm to ask Jesus for healing.
It was late at night, time to sleep, but she cried out: “Jesus!”
At first, nothing happened, so she continued: “I’m Hindu. I worship many gods.”
“Jesus!” she cried out again.
She lived on a street with no street lights, but suddenly a light appeared outside the house, reaching the room.
Then, a voice: “I am Jesus! I am God!”
The pain vanished.
She told God Reports: “The pain I had for many years, that I had become accustomed to, was gone immediately. The pain left.”
Vani’s mother found out the next morning and, after prayers, returned with her dad and several relatives who were Hindu priests. They were shocked: how had she been deceived to believe in Jesus?
“It is unthinkable if you have a lineage of Hindu priests for centuries old,” explained Vani. “There is no way you can step into another religious system and let it be accepted.”
But Vani was determined. “I couldn’t go back. He healed my pain.”
Her mother drove Vani to the home of Christians, effectively disowning her.
“The good thing is, when you’re among believers, they make room for those who are thrown out,” said Vani.
Her mother, feeling betrayed, hung up every time Vani called. But her father visited her church, asking: “What is that I am feeling in here? It’s so thick. I can’t stop praying.”
Vani recalled. “God filled him with the Holy Ghost.”
He was shaking.
The pastor came in, and her father was baptised, casting off his red thread bracelet of Hinduism.
Today Vani is married and ministers with her husband, Francis, in Louisiana.
