By Vivian Chou and Mark Ellis
Kosh Dahal
If 330 million gods and goddesses couldn’t respond to his prayers,
Kosh Dahal doubted whether one God like Jesus could do very much. Plus,
the Nepalese was a Hindu priest from the highest caste in Nepal, and he
didn’t want to submit to a belief system he perceived as having a lower
status.
“There was no caste higher than my caste,” he said in a YouTube video. “I didn’t want to mix with the people of the low castes.”
So Dahal repeatedly dismissed a Christian evangelist who showed up
day after day to share the gospel at his veterinary clinic in Kathmandu.
Dahal, a Hindu priest and the son of a Hindu priest, told him to stop
coming by, but the pesky evangelist kept showing up and 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.”
Kairos Nepali Church KNC in Malaysia
If Jesus didn’t respond in an undeniable way, Dahal said he would
file a complaint with the police about the annoying evangelist. Nepal
law prohibits proselytizing. “You will be in trouble.” he warned the
evangelist. But the Christian didn’t back peddle and seemed to relish
the wager.
By the third week, there was still no answer. Dahal who dutifully
prayed with all sincerity warned Jesus that his time was running out.
At the end of the third week, however, the power of the one true living God struck.
“This power like a current of electricity came into me and began to
run very fast,” Dahal remembered. “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?’”
It was an experience he had never encountered in his 30 years of worshiping the Hindu pantheon of gods.
“I was challenging Jesus,” he recounted. “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 realized that Jesus Christ is real.”
Naturally, Dahal failed to disprove Jesus. What lay ahead of him was to honor his wager: he had promised the
Baptism at Kairos Nepali Church
evangelist he would leave everything to follow Jesus.
His wife Shobah saw a dramatic change in her husband and decided to
follow Jesus too. She was eased to faith when she was miraculously
healed in Jesus’ name of a uterine myoma, a benign growth that might
have required a hysterectomy.
The couple, with their three children, abandoned the Hindu priesthood
and began evangelizing. They planted a church in Kathmandu. After some
years, they left their jobs, properties and families and moved to the
Philippines to study in seminary. While there, they planted five more
churches.
Since 2013, they have been ministering to Nepalese in Malaysia at Kairos Nepali Church KNC.
Source: Godreports