Alex Masih

Alex Masih

I was born in a Christian family, to a Mother that loved the Lord and brought my brother and I up as God intended. For the first 15 years of my life I was very close to God, but the following 30 years I drifted away and hurt my mother immensely. I became a very mean and nasty person; I started drinking, smoking, swearing and became very aggressive.

Around 10 years ago I began attending Church on Sundays as I had children and wanted them to have the same upbringing my mother gave to me. For 6 days of the week I lived my normal sinful life and on Sundays I went to Church for two hours only to return to my normal nasty ways. My Mother was very disappointed in me, she had bought me up well and had taught me about the Lord but I had let her down.

I felt I did not need God, I had it all; a good degree, a good job, a nice house, but the one thing I lacked was inner peace. Beer, Bacardi and football gave me no peace. I made football players my heroes and they were the examples I followed.

In 2005 my wife, Jo became very ill. She suffered constant anxiety and dizzy spells which made our lives very difficult. During this time, Pastor Daniel (from Chandighar, India) was visiting England and staying with my brother in Birmingham. My brother suggested that we meet the Pastor as he had prayed for Jo over the phone and was keen to meet us. The week before we met him, Jo told me that she had decided to get baptised as she had been talking to the Pastor daily and felt she was ready to take this step. She asked me to also get baptised, but I told her “no, I like my life the way it is and there is nothing God can do for me”. She still however kept praying for me. On the night before we met Pastor Daniel I had got very drunk and despite my wife’s efforts I insisted there was no way I would get baptised.

The next day we met Pastor Daniel in Birmingham. I told him I was not interested in God and he looked me in the eyes and said “Brother, it is time you need to come back to God”. I was shocked by his direct attitude and although I made excuses, deep down I felt the need to come back. I made the excuse that I could not get baptised as I did not have a change of clothes ready for the Baptism on Sunday. My wife however then told me that she had packed me a spare set of clothes, and having no more excuses I found myself saying ‘yes ok then’.

I was baptised on the 17^th April 2005 in Calvary Church Handsworth, Birmingham and since that day my life has been filled with the Love and Joy of our Lord Jesus Christ. I now have peace in my life and no longer have the desire to drink, smoke or take part in any other bad habits. I just want to be right with God and serve him with all my heart, mind and the skills he has blessed me with.

I no longer look back at ‘the old Alex’ as I am now a new man and am reminded of the following scriptures:

“If any one is in Christ they are a new creation, old things have passed away, behold all things are new.” (Corinthians 5:17)

I have given up the old habits and am a changed man, a new man in Christ.

This now makes us a number one target for the devil, who gets very upset when he looses one of his followers.

Yes, we have has it hard, we lost my Mother, my wife’s brother Bob was killed in an accident (33 years old), her older brother Joseph has been suffering for over a year with cancer of the Brain, but praise to our Lord that he has now been healed, the Lord sustains you and God is in control of our lives. Jesus is with us and he will see us through.

Last year my wife attending a Christian meeting held by the ‘Khush Khabri Radio Ministry’ where she met Pastor Sardar Thapar. When she returned home all she kept talking about was the sermon and what wonderful teaching she had received. She wanted me to meet him but I was unsure. However, the following day I went to the meeting and heard Pastor Sardar preach about ‘the seven ways Jesus bled for us’. It was very educational and thought provoking. We met after the meeting and began speaking regularly over the phone. I had been praying for a Church where we could receive good teaching and feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in action. When we went to the Bedford Christian Centre we found our Church!

The love displayed by the Church is fantastic and we feel part of the family of God. We now travel 70 miles every Sunday to Bedford and I would recommend the Church to anyone who wants to find Jesus, have the love of the Lord and be part of a vibrant Church. Amen

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