A Hindu priest once believed that Christianity is a fake religion and challenged a Christian evangelist to prove to him that was not so by making him accept Jesus Christ in 30 days.
The unnamed evangelist accepted the challenge, according to Kosh Dahal, the Hindu priest who lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, according to God Reports.
Dahal recounted his experience with the evangelist in a video posted recently on YouTube.
In the video, Dahal said the Christian evangelist kept on visiting him at his veterinary clinic in Kathmandu where he kept on talking about the "loving living only God Jesus."
"He bothered me because I didn't want to accept Jesus Christ. He kept coming and ministering the gospel. I kept rejecting him," Dahal said.
"One day I got challenged. I wanted to prove that Christianity is a fake religion. Jesus can't do anything. I will ask your Jesus – 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening – if He is the real God, come on and touch me and change me for 30 days."
Dahal told the evangelist that if his Jesus failed to convince him to change his mind after 30 days, he would file a complaint against him with the police, warning him that Nepal law prohibits proselytising. "You will be in trouble," he warned the evangelist. The Christian missionary boldly accepted the challenge.
Two times every day, the evangelist visited Dahal's clinic and preached about Jesus. With two weeks left before the expiration of the 30-day challenge, Dahal still remained unconvinced about turning his back on the Hindu gods and accepting Jesus instead. If 330 million Hindu gods and goddesses couldn't respond to his prayers, Dahal doubted very much that one God like Jesus could do so.
However, at the end of the third week, Dahal was struck by something he had never imagined.
"This power like a current of electricity came into me and began to run very fast," Dahal recalled. "I was shocked. I was closing my eyes and opening my eyes, and I was very afraid. I kept saying, 'Who is this? What's happening to me? What's inside of me running very fast?'"
He said it was an experience he had never encountered in his 30 years of worshiping the Hindu pantheon of gods.
"I was challenging Jesus," he said. "Jesus sent the power. I began to say, 'Wow. Jesus has the power,'" he said.
"I believed that morning that Jesus Christ is real. He really is the God who has mighty power. He woke me up. I cried. I realised that Jesus Christ is real."
Having "lost" his wager to the evangelist, Dahal promised the evangelist he would leave everything to follow Jesus.
Eventually his wife Shobah also accepted Jesus after seeing the dramatic change for the better in her husband.
To the couple's amazement, her acceptance of Jesus led to the miraculous healing of her uterine myoma, a benign growth that might have required a hysterectomy.
Together with their three children, the couple abandoned the Hindu priesthood and began evangelising. They planted a church in Kathmandu. After some years, they moved to the Philippines where they planted five more churches.
In 2013, they moved to Malaysia and began to minister to Nepalese at the Kairos Nepali Church Knc.
