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“We just encountered something I haven’t experienced before at Long Hollow or at any church for that matter,” Gallaty explained. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. We now with unveiled faces are looking at the glory of God are being transformed.”

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Soon after these thoughts surfaced, Rita’s mother brought a stack of free books home for her. One of those was a Bible.

Seeing it as an opportunity to prove this so-called infallible book wrong, Rita pored over the pages of Scripture day and night.

But instead, she met the real Jesus.

“I started to read the Bible to prove to Christians that they were wrong,” said Rita. “But I was wrong! And the grace of Jesus Christ started to touch me.”

Intellectually, her mind rebelled, but her heart simply couldn’t resist.

“I was reading things like ‘pray for your enemies,’ ‘love them,’ and I was someone who wanted to kill them… Intellectually, I didn’t want to accept Jesus, but Jesus started to do a work in my heart.”

As soon as she informed her family of her decision to abandon the Muslim faith and follow Jesus, they disowned her—but thankfully, Rita had found a new family.

“Today my family abandoned me. I am alone, I have no home. My family abandoned me, but I have a new family, and this family is all around the world, and it’s my family in Christ.”

And Rita’s miraculous salvation story was just getting started.

When it came time for her to get baptized, a supernatural event unlike anything she’d experienced before completely took over her body, and a demon manifested within her.

“When I got baptized in water a demon manifested, and it wasn’t me at all. I don’t remember what I did. I had to see in the video of my baptism. I was completely crazy. The demon was crazy. It wasn’t me. I kicked Jon. He baptized me. I kicked him, and I said sorry.”

As the screaming and flailing persisted, Jon continued to speak life into Rita and commanded the demon to flee in the name of Jesus.

Eventually, an unexplainable peace washed over Rita, and she felt the evil presence leave her.

“After the baptism, I felt like the heavy weight completely disappeared,” she explained. “And I was so excited to go and make disciples.”

She felt like a completely new person, ready to go and spread the Gospel of Truth to everyone she met, even those who led her down a destructive path in the past.

“I started to want to talk about Jesus to everyone, even to the people who led me to terrorism. I wanted to go and see them, tell them that they are wrong, and that love is waiting for them.”

Now, that’s exactly what she does, sharing her testimony far and wide with gospel minister Peter Ahlman, along with her other brothers and sisters in Christ.

Kelsey Straeter
Kelsey Straeter
Kelsey is an editor at Outreach. She’s passionate about fear fighting, freedom writing, and the pursuit of excellence in the name of crucifying perfectionism. Glitter is her favorite color, 2nd only to pink, and 3rd only to pink glitter.

“We Heard a Loud Bang, and Then BOOM!”: Megachurch Pastor on God Turning Off His Church’s Power So They Could ‘Witness His Power’

“We just encountered something I haven’t experienced before at Long Hollow or at any church for that matter,” Gallaty explained. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. We now with unveiled faces are looking at the glory of God are being transformed.”

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