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Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus | John Ghanim

Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Great Lakes Outreach

Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9663 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

John is a fearless follower of Jesus who gets bombarded daily with death threats from across the world for his outspoken witness for Christ. His back story was that he had misgivings with the faith of his birth when on pilgrimage from Yemen to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. As a disillusioned but spiritually searching agnostic, his convoluted travels led him to meeting a Syrian refugee in Greece with a tattooed cross on his wrist. That launched him on a journey to passionate faith in Christ, not as a prophet but as his Lord and Saviour. 

John’s meteoric rise as an influencer on social media has led thousands of Muslims around the world to encounter and embrace a personal living relationship with Jesus. His straight-talking boldness and courage are a real challenge to Western Christians lacking in gospel confidence.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I am praying. I do all the duties, all the rituals of Islam, but I don't have the connection with him.

0:07.0

Where is he? I go to Mecca, which is the most holy place of Islam, and I pray there and I might encounter Allah because I was seeking him.

0:16.0

Brother, nothing happened. Among of millions of Muslims. So I gave up Islam in front of Kaaba and that was so big

0:25.1

decision welcome everybody this is Simon Gilbo with inspired inspired if you're new to us

0:33.3

is all about meeting different mates of mine from across the spectrum of experience, life experience,

0:38.8

and yeah, we're relentlessly bombarded by negativity in the press.

0:43.2

It just induces fear and cynicism.

0:45.7

It makes us depressed and anxious as a nation, as a world.

0:49.4

And what we need to hear is stories of overcoming faith of good news.

0:53.9

And I've got no doubt this week that you're

0:55.6

going to be massively inspired and challenged in your faith because we've got with us the one for

1:01.3

John Hanim. Welcome, John. Yes, thank you so much for having me, brother. I'm really excited about

1:07.6

this. I've listened to you a number of times and guys, gear up, fasten your seatbelts.

1:12.4

John is turbocharged. He's from Yemen originally. He's now in the UK. Now, I've, you know,

1:18.9

I had a season when I was getting death threats and it was, it wasn't fun. It was definitely

1:23.7

traumatic. It had nightmares. Had to vary my roots around towns. This guy came to my house with a grenade to blow me up.

1:29.2

So I've had a bit of this, but John almost every day gets their threats.

1:34.3

He's a very loved man, but he's also a very hated man because of the message that he carries.

1:40.3

I just checked on Instagram, John, you're up to 418,000 people who are following you there.

1:46.1

TikTok, you've got some million views, all sorts of stuff.

1:48.3

So you've got a big social media presence and you use that very effectively.

1:53.4

But anyway, listen, I just want to hand out to you and say, take it away.

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