Alex’s parents dedicated him to witchcraft, but he dreamed of serving the Lord.

When Alex was a child, his parents dedicated him as a future witch doctor.

“I was born and raised in a Catholic family,” he said. “[But my parents] used to consult witch doctors every now and then. I was even marked … in a ritual ceremony that would involve passing between a witch doctor’s legs naked, meaning I had made a covenant of witchcraft.”
In his Catholic school, however, Alex learned about the true God and began dreaming of becoming a priest.

That’s also when he began having serious health problems in his chest. Over the years, various hospitals failed to bring any relief, and his parents finally took him to see the local witch doctors. They declared that Alex was sick because he was supposed to be training as a witch doctor. If he would give in to witchcraft, they said, he would be healed.

Alex resisted, believing that God would heal him in the end.

God answers one of Alex’s prayers

By this time, Alex was looking toward college. “I was very bright academically, but I dropped due to [lack of] school fees. I believed in God for supernatural provision. I used to spend all my free time in prayer for healing and school fees provision.”

One day he met a group of young people taking photos and joined in. Only later did he learn that they were submitting their photos to a college sponsorship program.

“I was miraculously enrolled, and that is how I managed my university studies,” he said. The Lord had taken care of one of his two great needs.

His health challenges continued, however, and his parents increased their pressure on him to devote himself to witchcraft.

“I would attend any religious meeting for prayers, hoping to get healed. I would travel far distances, and I spent all I had. My faith was drained.”

He even spent 40 days at a prayer center praying for healing, but he left in despair.

“I started thinking God was unable to heal me,” he said. Alex started contemplating suicide.

Alex is delivered from despair

Soon after that, Alex’s friends from his prayer group invited him to attend a Christian conference, and he agreed to go, hoping that he would finally find freedom from his ailments. This would be his final attempt.

“Nothing happened,” he said.

Alex decided to end everything. He bought drugs and water, then found a dark, isolated corner of the conference room that night after the program ended.

“I set an alarm, [planning] to take the drugs in thirty minutes. But before it rang, I fell asleep and someone appeared to me in a dream. He showed me his hand that was bleeding. He said to me, ‘My son, people have different ministries. Each ministry has a different level of magnitude, and every magnitude of the ministry depends on the price you pay. What you are waiting for is big. Be patient and wait for me.’”

Then the man in the dream handed Alex a car key and touched Alex’s chest. “I felt like he poured cold water on my chest,” Alex remembered. As he went to open the car door, Alex suddenly awoke and realized he had been dreaming.

“I immediately felt the chest pain go! I threw away the drugs, and up to today I have been healed and well.”

Freed from his ailments and with his calling confirmed, Alex found a mentor in Pastor Duncan, an Open Eyes Mobile Messenger.

Alex now serves God as a Mobile Messenger himself, working with other Mobile Messengers in the area to start churches and lead discipleship classes for new believers.

“I am serving God as a living testimony,” he says.