Ramin Parsa's Testimony

[Music] all for those of you haven't heard my testimony first of all I was born and raised in Iran as a Shiite Muslim and my entire life I was practicing Islam and from the very childhood I love God with all my heart how many of you know the children here and they have a hunger for God sometimes we try to ignore them that you know they're catering but they understand more than adults Jesus compared he said if unless you convert and become like children you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven and it was a child and I loved God with all my heart and I was growing up and I wanted to serve God and I wanted to follow God but the only options we had was Islam in 1947 1979 where the revolution in Iran and Islam came to power in Iran and began to dominate every aspect of life in Iran where there was economy where there was media schools newspapers you name it everything started being dominated by Islam and that's what Sharia law is Sharia law is the supreme law of Islamic land every this is the plan of Islam to bring every nation under the rule of the Sharia law that's what they believe that there will be ultimate peace peace comes when the whole world submits to Sharia law and as a child I grew up in an environment that everything was about Islam I had to pray five times a day we had to pray go to the mosque and beat ourselves we were Shiites and Shiite beat themselves for dead Imams and you know remember when Elijah began to challenge the worshippers of bel and they came on the mount carmel and they began to want themselves and beat themselves up and they start bleeding into that bad would answer them and there was no answer and Elijah began to mock them a virgin God may be the sleeping and that's exactly how we were and it's the same spirit of the worshippers of Bal Islam is the same as spirit because in fact they have a name called or Shura in the worshipers of bal had a day and that's exactly the same name that muslims used for our Sharad to mourn for dead Imams I wish to beat herself and walk on hot asphalt for miles and beat our chest and beat our back and put mud on her head and beat her head and some people use dagger and they would themself and blood comes all over them do you know why to get what you and I have for free through Jesus they do that they're ignorant they have a zeal for God but without knowledge ignorant of God's righteousness trying to establish their own righteousness their own way of getting right with God but God has a way of getting you right with God hallelujah and Jesus said I am the way the truth and life and no one comes to the Father except through me he is the way of righteousness so I was growing up in that environment I was seeing as 11 12 years old kid I was walking go to school I saw people being executed on the street imagine you're going to school as 11 year old kid you're going to school and he's seen people being executed on the streets hanging from a crane and giving the up their last breath and I was terrified as a kid and imagine I'm going to school to learn math and literature after seeing people being executed and to be honest with you after a while it became normal we thought this is norm all over the world within what's going on other part of the world because the government controls everything you know VHS the VHS reader those tapes it was illegal in Iran you could not even have an own and a VHS we deny it a tape player so well then who had no idea what's going on in other parts of the world today as I'm speaking here satellite dish is illegal it's illegal to have a satellite dish in Iran aren't you glad I live in Montana [Laughter] and I'm telling you I was hungry for God I was seeking God as a child even and they told us and it's not a Comerica they have options you go to a mosque you go to a temple you go to a synagogue or you go to a church or your research and you go to see what Christians say or did you say there's no option everything is dominated by Islam and I grew up in that environment every morning at a school they line us up and the cold winter was shaking trembling and they forced and they read the Koran to us a passage of the Quran in Arabic and then they force us to shout death to America and death to Israel every morning and in our textbooks at a school we have pictures of Israeli soldiers killing Palestinian babies and they sow the seed of hatred in their heart for Israel was a caricature of Israeli assault with a gun and the babies crying tears coming down and he has a pistol mean-looking guy has a gun in the head of the Palestinian baby and and they told us that Israelis are evil the occupiers they occupied the Muslim land and we have to go take it back from them we fight with them and the name of that chapter in the textbook we had it was the occupied Palestine so all was political at school I mean the media you open the radio was Quran or a mullah was talking all about against Israel against America was all about jihad and Sharia law and all those things open the newspaper was the same thing because the papers were not free to what to publish what they want to so everything was censored by the government the media opened the TV was the same thing the only thing the only free time we had was to go out and play soccer and that's the only the only fun thing we had you know I never learned to swim because the pools if you want to use a pool to swim you had to go to class doctoral learn the Quran in the class for three months in order for you be to allow the user pool can you imagine that now the parents they teach their own kids some way but that my time when I wasn't here on as a kid you couldn't do it now I try to do something to try to learn now hallelujah and I was in that situation and I was hungry for God that began to take my to take Islam seriously because they told us these are the enemies of Allah these are the enemies of God these are the coffers infidels we have to fight them we have to kill them we have to take the lands back from them their ungodly people they're unclean and as a child I began to really practice and when it was 11 years old I began to fast for first time and in Ramadan you fast before sunrise until sunset you cannot eat or drink anything and the first day I broke my fast three times and I felt so much guilt and shame because I felt that I broke the law of God and I God is mad at me now because they broke the fast but as I grew older I began to be more diligent and and try better and do better and trying to please Allah I was trying to earn his love and his acceptance I was looking for a love but I couldn't find in Allah and I was practicing and praying five times a day going to mosque at 5 a.m. praying in Arabic seeking Allah fast beat ourselves I'm a moment I used to go to a the shrines of dead Imams and we hang to the shrines and cry and pray asking for forgiveness asking for help and not even once our prayers were answered not even once so as I grew up I was 16 years old when I was arrested we were going to a wedding and they pulled the car over drinking or having alcohol in Iran is illegal completely illegal I mean everything is illegal in Iran and according to Sharia law everything is illegal glory be to God this wedding and my relatives gave me right I was 16 years old I was in their car the only crime I committed I was in their car they were giving a right to go to a wedding my plants were already there I was going there to be at the wedding and as I was going there and the Sharia law police because even the Sharia law is implemented then they have police to make sure you obey the sharia law just as you have no traffic laws and then their police and have a patrol make sure you you obey the law and there the Sharia law police make sure you obey the laws of Islam and that checkpoints and they pull the car over and they open the door and they smell the alcohol and they didn't ask who drank where did you get it from they just they come out and they took all of us in a car in a bus and they already had the rest as so many other young kids and it took us to a confinement you know in Iran if you're with a woman with a girl you have to prove that she's your wife or she's your sister or she's your mother if you can't prove that you're in trouble that's the Sharia law woman's have to woman have to cover themselves and wear the scarf and the hijab the woman to this day woman if they go to a beach in Iran they have to go to the water with the clothes on with the scarf on that's the contribution of Islam Obama said that we are in debt to Islam the Western civilization is in debt to Islam and I when I heard that first time I say ooh what that came from what source did is speaking is it speaking from I have been I was like blown up and that that's when I realized that Wow America is in trouble when I heard that it was right after the election because I came to America September 2008 three months before the election three months right yes and after his elect was elected we went to Egypt he gave a speech and when he said that I say my goodness what's going on here so they took us to confinement they took all our clothes off the began to pour cold water on us and began to beat us with the / for something that I hadn't done and it's not like in America they test you and behavior Miranda right and they say you have the right to be silent if you're not silent you know you can say whatever you say can be used against you in the court right you don't have a Marine the right they beat you up first and they take you to court right guilty unless proven otherwise so they took us to his confinement they took all the clothes after began to beat us and they had us face the wall and sit up and sit down and they were mocking us and beating us and then we put our clothes back on and then they said we bidding you to sober you to make you sober and they throw us in a room fifty us in a room probably as big as that that part of the church start back there and we were choking almost a small window up there one egg in the morning boiled egg one boiled egg at night one time restroom in the morning what time race through at night sixty Seconds we had time to go to rest we come back and you go to airport here people stay hooked for thirty minutes in the restroom sixty Seconds to go to use the restroom come back and we were like and no water only like one bottle of water and then we all had to drink from the water that's how sixteen year imagine 16 year old boy for something I hadn't done even that's how I was treated and that was a turning point in my life then they put shackles in her life on a hands and feet and it took us to the court and my family bribed him it was a holiday so the courts were closed for a few days so we had to stay in the jail for go through that hardship for that five four days and then took us to this court and my family already found the connection they paid him some bribes and they they wrote a fine for us and this mullah will disturbin around his head wrote a fine and then we came out of the prison but I was full of hatred I forced full of anger I was full of Rage I mean if I had a gun I would kill those people and that was a turning point in my life that I began to question everything about God and his Lama began to research more and pray and seek and read and I saw Muhammad's life that this Muhammad was a wicked man I mean they make Muhammad like a God almost people every time they say his name they have to say peace be upon him but whenever ease and read and I've researched more and I saw Muhammad kill Muhammad be heard people he was 53 years old when he had the wife of nine year old girl she was nine years old when Muhammad consumer the marriage with him with her and he was 53 years old he had 13 wives you robbed Cara Wanda killed people and that was Islam that it was following so my faith in Islam began to crumbling but I was a threat at the same time I was afraid because they told us if you leave Islam and go to hell and God is gonna be mad at you is gonna punish you so I was afraid if I leave Islam then who is God I don't think that God the real God the true God who made this creation is the God of Islam but if he's if it's not the god of if Islam is wrong if Muhammad is not the Prophet if Allah is not God then who is God who made me who made this creation who made the heavens and the earth and the stars who made like what is the purpose of life and these were my questions a genuine question as a teenager I began to ask myself what is the purpose of this life why do we leave 80 90 years you work hard or go to a school you get a degree you find a job you get married you have children then you die and I said what is the purpose of this that if death is the end why not now why you have to go through hardship I have to go through so much injustice and wars and crimes and fights and then he died if death is the end why not now and these are my questions but there's no answer then after surely afterward my father passed away and after my father passed away that devastated me because my father was a good man and his life ended up he died in a heart attack and after that was I was just hopeless I have no purpose for life nothing was making me happy everything was temporary everything was meaningless and I left my mom's home because we lived together until we get married here like Italians they live together after they get married and I left my mom's house I isolated myself I left all my friends left my family began to think about meaning of life purpose of life past present future deep things of life the origin where I came from who is God who made me where I'm going if I die then thoughts of suicide began to come I was in in my life but I was afraid that same time where I'm gonna go because some people who want to come is the devil lying to people to commit suicide but you don't know where he going do you think it's the end but it's the beginning and that was a problem I was afraid that if I die where I'm gonna go he's there life after death is God real and it was afraid at the same time left Islam I was in dilemma what's gonna happen to me so now what and I was broken and I start losing my hair and I still having big pimples on my face I couldn't eat I couldn't sleep I was crying out and no answer and the only thing you know in Iran all those satellite dish is illegal but everybody has one they break the law people you know where the law abound sin abounds and so the Bible says the Bible says Paul says in chapter 7 Romans chapter 7 that law provoked in me every kind of evil things the Lord came to prove to you what is inside of you and then come to save you so all those don't induce they cause people to more actually seek to see what's going on what is it why they say don't do this and people are having satellite because Iran had these ten channels and was all propaganda and lies and every channel in turn was a Muslim one with the black turban with whatever that's what the whole difference it turned the channel and the ones with the black turban they claim to be the descendants of Muhammad became is straight from Muhammad and the voiced ones are shakes and they are do Islamic leaders and Muslim leaders and then so the only thing I had was a satellite dish and a computer and it turn I was out of this person was turning these channels and I came across this guy was talking about Jesus thank God for satellite the Word of God cannot be chained amen God always finds to get his word out to somewhere and I was hungry I was devastated I couldn't sleep I couldn't eat and I heard the gospel for the first time in my life I heard that Jesus is the Son of God he died for me on the cross he rose from the dead and he is a savior and when I heard that I said no and I was afraid because I was hurt by religion I was cautious and when I heard that although my faith in Islam was was gone but I still I was afraid I said God doesn't have a son because they told us God is not father and he has no son you know first John chapter 2 the Bible says you denies the father and the son that's the spirit of Antichrist and also chapter 4 and chapter 5 verse 12 chapter 5 verse 2 says he doesn't he who does not have the son doesn't have the father also so Islam denies that God is the father and he has a son so if reject so when I heard that naturally I said how could God if there's a God how could him how could he have a son so I had rejected the whole things I know that's a bunch of baloney I had rejected the whole thing and about a week later I was full of rage and anger and disappointment I was suicidal I was going to take my life and I was crying out to God said God who are you why did you make me are you real I was disappointed I was I didn't have a reason to lie to live and I didn't have the courage to kill myself because I didn't know what I'm gonna go after I died uncertainty and then it's the second time again I was this he was on and this guy came on and he was talking about Jesus that Jesus loves you he died for you on the cross he rose from the dead on the third day he loves you he atoned your sin he paid for your sins through his own blood that through faith in him he can be justified and right with God so when I began to hear those things it was like you know for me who is trying to attain God's righteousness with all my own works when he heard by faith by believing Jesus I can't be forgiven it seemed too good to be true but you know what I didn't have any to lose and that day I opened my heart I say gee this I do not know you I was told that you're a prophet only but today I hear that you are the son of God that she died for me on the cross that she rose from the dead after the third day I don't know if he's truth or not if it's true they ask you to come into my heart be my lord be my savior forgive me of my sins give me a new life and the guy was praying and was repeating after him and as I was praying and asking the Lord to come to my heart a heat went through my hand something warm went through my left hand he went through all my body and I began to shake and tremble and it is I somebody you know reached has his hand into my heart and yanked out all that hatred and anger and disappointment from my heart and I was a brand new creature hallelujah glory be to God I was filled with joy is something we began to boil in my stomach and I began to speak in tongues and I had no idea what tongues was am I talking to a presbyterian church I mean I was filled with the Holy Spirit and I was on fire I was jumping up and down and these words were coming out of my mouth I didn't know what I was saying but I felt good though hallelujah glory be to God you know Muslims have faith they believe they believe in supernatural so when I when I received the Lord man this thing came out all over me I was jumping up and down I was filled with joy and with love I ran to my mom's house and went the mall and mom was sick for many years the doctor said you have to have surgery she didn't have the money and Iran has the third oil in the world all boil reserves and in the world and the second gas in the entire world but people are poor because they spend all the money and terrorism and the nuclear thing and then sending money for the Hezbollah and so forth so they kept the people poor so my mom when she saw me she said what happened to you I say why she said your face is shining I mean before it was grumpy was sad you know the Bible says those who worship the idols they will be like them I've become like an idol myself and American Idol but their lives I mean I was grumpy I was sad looking I was sour looking I was broken depressed oppressed and when my mom saw me she saw a light in me and the Bible says those who looked upon him with radiant and they were not ashamed hallelujah so my mom saw me and she said what happened to you say mom I accepted Jesus this what happened to me a hit went through my hand I mean mom was like so excited and I put my hands on her and I come out I didn't have to lay hands on the sick I didn't have a New Testament Bible I had a red mark chapter 15 and 16 I put my hands on my mom my mom and I command the sickness to leave my mom and instantly pain left her and she fell now feel good no more pain and she was in pain when I saw her so mommy my family was the first one that gave her heart to Jesus and she was a devout Muslim because I was the youngest boy so after my other boy but brothers were grown I had to go with my mom to shop and go to the so I was with her a lot and we used to go to the mosque together so when I got saved she got saved Amen hallelujah and now she says every time we talked with him she said I just wake up in the morning feed the birds and I pray and I prayed to Jesus hallelujah glory to God and that's what happened to me that soon I am one of millions in Iran every bubble is breaking out hallelujah [Applause] underground Church is exploding underground Church is exploding and to the point that the Supreme Leader of Iran the Ayatollah said the underground church Christianity is a threat to our national security they're feeling it that the enemy is feeling the power of the church growing and people coming to the Lord I'm telling you and when they get saved there and fire for God I mean they're willing to give everything for Jesus I began to look for a Bible for three months after see because they told us that Moses brought the Torah Jesus brought the injeel and muhammad brought the quran so since i gave my heart to Jesus I was looking for an Jean which is the gospel so I came I went the store after store about library after library and asked for injeel and people roll their eyes and say don't look further is the story is corrupted this change it's man's world it's illegal and it was illegal do you know the Bible this book is illegal in Iran so I looked and it searched for three months I couldn't find one but you know what I was interred with the Lord I was walking on this treatment I was praying in tongues I mean I was walking the streets I didn't know how I crossed the red light how I passed this is Street how and here on earth ever has a car so you have to walk and everybody is skidding around because they walk a lot stringbean from Tommy's right and I was walking the street and I was praying in the Holy Ghost I didn't know how I passed the streets and I reached as open my eyes I was at home and I was praying in tongues I was talking to Jesus I wouldn't talk to anyone when I wake up in the morning before I talk to Jesus first I was a fanatic I wouldn't go to bed with her talking to Jesus I mean he was my comfort he was my love he was my everything imagine four years that : Allah pray to Muhammad pray to this Imams pray toward Mecca and nothing happened and first time I call on Jesus and he hurt me and then healed my mom and all these things together and after I got saved I could have sleep well I could eat well I was healed I mean I was like flying Acts chapter 2 so I looked for three months I was looking for tobacco to find one and finally I came on the internet and internet was brand new it just came to Iran you and the government was controlling it and was very slow and you have to buy a card over dial-up internet through those dial-up and so I bought a card and it started you know connected to the internet and then he searched for the word and Jill miss gospel in Farsi and I began to look for an Jill and after searching and searching and loading and loading the error came that access to this website is prohibited in Farsi they try to chain the Word of God but the Word of God cannot be chained amen so I my major was computing in high schools I began to use proxy to break that block is because he was in the countries that they oppressed people people find ways to go around it and I broke that proxy use the proxy to break that blockage and I found all these books I found Genesis Exodus Leviticus numbers Deuteronomy Joshua judges Esther I said were these people who is there I mean Esther is building Iran with they know they want to keep the Iranian people ignorant of their own history in school they teach more about Mohammed and all about Allah and and and God of Islam they teach more about the Arab gods and not about dario's and Cyrus and they teach all junks and we know our own history recently earrings are finding out who they are and that's why they're rejecting Islam and I read that and I and I saw these books I saw first as I guess time ago who Samuel Daniel is building around to in Shushan in Iran and I would they know that so then I began to search I saw all these books and I saw four Gospels Matthew Mark Luke and John and I said why there are four books and I didn't know why therefore but I download them and I began to read them and I was crying and I was crying and I was sobbing and I was sobbing at first time in my life I read somebody says love your enemies and pray for those who spitefully use you and hate you first time in my life I heard somebody says I am the bread of life I mean Jesus spoke with authority his message was victory love life victory over death victory over sickness I mean I saw he was my hero I was really honest I was crying the things he's saying this simple but powerful and profound war they say it was you know Jesus said my my wars are spirit and life they're not like man's war die before they speak it but God's Word lasts forever amen glory be to God the Bible says the Word of God endures forever and I began to read and I saw that he somebody says I am The Good Shepherd and the Good Shepherd lays his life down for his sheep first time I heard somebody says he believes in me I will raise him about the last day he who believes in Me shall not die and I've read those things I mean Islam is all crying and weeping and he said you do these things maybe one day somehow he go to heaven maybe but when I heard that jesus said I am the truth and the way in their life no one comes to the Father except through me when I read those things Ben I'm telling you I was always revolutionized and I said why this book should be illegal isn't that thing again against anyone in it doesn't say you know rice against the government doesn't say it's gonna pay the taxes of the government I wish I didn't say that and the words I read was filled with love love your enemies love one another as I have loved you as the father sent me I sent you I mean these things were so calling God the Father it revolutionized my life and then what happened was I began to copy that's those cities and I was sobbing God is my witness I was crying as it was really the new tests were first time I encountered the New Testament and I began to copy it and CD and I start going give it to people I start going to gym because I was a heel I was you know I had hope and was talking to one person this is the gospel man and Jean I heard it's powerful it's so amazing and people heard me over here young people and they ran to me to rush to me they say you can have a copy - could have a copy - please can you give me a copy - and that's how hungry people are for the words of life it's like people starving I was like a tree in it in a desert dried forsaken I think a river of life water the living water came and I revived me and there's so many people out crying out and they were looking for hope they're looking for love because for years I've been condemned they have a bit beaten up they have been rejected they have been they have been bashed I'm broken and condemned and only by the government but by Allah by their but Quran so when I read that I was revolutionized my life change people were I I know asking for copies and after eight months somebody stopped me and you have to leave the country I couldn't because I didn't have money or Passport in Iran if you would have a passport as a male you have to go to military serve two years mandatory in the military if you're a woman you have to have permission from your husband your brother or your father to be able to travel to get a passport so I didn't have a passport but God told me leave the Holy Spirit is talking to me leave and one night after I've recovered after a good a stop I throw some clothes in a bag and left the country came to the board I don't know what I'm going the only thing I knew when I was leaving I knew that I'm not gonna see this country for a long long time but I had confidence and peace in my heart and I've been ever Bible so I've wrote the scripture on paper I wrote the scripture of paper to encourage myself with and I would pull them out once a while I read them and I would put in my pocket again I was afraid what if they would take it from me I didn't put the whole book name I just put like for example Matthew I put like em in Farsi and they put a reference but I put the verse like you know let not your heart be troubled believe me God Allah meeya also what are you ask the Father in my name I do for you and her father helped me to not be arrested protect me so I came with a bus to the border of Turkey and Iran and God miraculously put people on my path and they take when they crossed me through the border I came in Turkey and here in Turkey I they know where I'm going I was nineteen years old do you know what I'm doing I don't know what I'm going I didn't have money I had $300 there was all the money I had and God miraculously put people on my path and I made an Iranian guy and this guy said I just began to share the gospel with you I said I'm not a Christian but I go to church to see what Christians say you wanna come with me I say yes so he was the one who gave me the first actual New Testament it was a pocket size as big as an iPhone he gave it to me I began to open to make sure it's the same but I read download in Iran I began to read the verses are memorized and the one I had my pocket I began to read them and it was the same and it's like somebody gave me the entire world I mean I was like holding it near to my heart like hiding it in my jacket like this holding it and hiding it and once you want to open take a look and then put it back I was like it's except somebody gave me a Ferrari or something I was I mean I was full of joy I was so happy that I got a New Testament it was so scarce that I I I was by biology sleeper Bible trying to find vials and collect the Bible and I went to the church for first time in my life that that unbeliever and believer took me to church gave me the first New Testament and I saw people worshipping they just like tonight playing guitar playing keyboard and I saw the love people rejoicing because in the in the mosque is all crying and weeping and gnashing of teeth that's what that's the outer darkness but first time I saw people praising and worshipping and rejoicing and man the pastor came and asked me what we're doing here I told him my story well praise God God has called you then I went to someone's house and somebody from the church took me to his house I was there it's long a story make it sure what happened was they told me if they arrest because I was going to all the meetings at the church I mean people were so hungry in Turkey for God the church was packed I mean there's no police place to see it all for Muslims and you could lose your life any time for being there and then what happened was the church they told me if they erased you in the church they will shut the whole church down because they're looking for excuse to close the churches down so if they find you I said they harbor illegal people and they would shut the whole church I said they asked me to go to United Nation I went there and I introduced myself I signed up and they gave me a paper and they said take this to the police office and they took it and then they legalized my presidency for two years and then I was busy when I was going to all the meetings at the church I was going to miss very you speedy ladies meetings I mean everything I was at the church man I'm telling you I was at everybody I mean if the door was open I was there and my pastor was getting crazy because I was asking so many questions in the Bible what is this what this verse is saying what what what did Jesus mean here and asking question I was a hungry man and what happened was after long story short we gave Bibles away I was arrested for five times the Turkish government threatened cast out by the Turkish police they threatened me to kick me out of the country they threatened me to home and to hold me when I'm going to go out of the turkey so fear all over for brethren I mean name it we didn't have a shower even we had to put water in oil barrels and put a naked electricity at night to warm the water so we could take a shower in the morning once a week and we will keep our socks on for like for the whole week it was so cold because the wall there you have sheetrock here right and then you have insulation there is all concrete so in the winter is like crazy cold inside and summertime is hot inside I mean you could put ten blankets on you and was cold and then we would take a shower once a week but you don't have smell back ever so cold you're gonna smell anyhow but then we take shower like once a week it was so cold and then we were in the morning after at night because the electricity was so weak we take shower in the morning people would walk to the church five six seven eight miles with babies in their arm walking to come to church to worship Jesus we didn't have a car that's how we live man and were threatened they could be arrested one time we're building the church because the church was growing we were knocking knocking down the walls and the church was expanding people were coming getting getting saved and then a Muslim guy was passing with Kurdish Muslim guy from in Turkey he said what are you guys doing here and one of the worker was Iranian he said we're building a Kleiza Miss Church so the guy went he came back with hundreds of people he said we blow you up with chili here you guys are infidels you corrupt our children that's what Muslims think about Christians the owner was arrested in Turkey one time they told me is CIA paying you to do that they believed that CIA is paying me to preach the gospel I said I wish they would man and what happened was then they closed the secret service scam the police came the media came they shot down the whole church we had to move to different place cover the windows worship see we're Pentecostals remember holy ghost few people within it we denote denominations at all within within a MRSA which everybody was people the Holy Spirit praying in tongues that's the first century church man and all these you know seminaries and all these theology here in America they have made them whatever God of no effect but they're people they have no idea all they have been is a Bible and the Holy Ghost and they're tarried that nation down and then what happened was men I was like filled with power and then what happened was we were worshipping God in secret people would come with babies and women men children they walk on ice turkey is very cold for six months is like Montana it's all ice people walk for seven months they come to church sometimes after the church were go on the streets and preach the gospel give Bibles away our church began after the church and that's how we were and then after all when I was accepted by UN and then US government took my case to come to America and then we was coming I was sitting in Istanbul in the airplane was so excited to leave behind all that persecution and all the hardship behind all go to America land filled with milk and honey Christian nation and suddenly my excitement turned to concern the Holy Spirit began to speak to me say be careful when you go to America the Holy Spirit said to me be careful when you go to America I said Lord America I had the bigger action at the time say America land fluid McCain Hani Christian nation because in the mid East everybody think reaches our nation the America is a Christian nation so everything they see in Hollywood they think Christians are doing those things yeah that's what they think because they think everybody is Christian America so whatever they think they see this they think that's Christianity so what happened when I was coming to America and then I know that that wasn't true that the Hollywood is not God but because I had the Lord but they don't know so when I was coming I thought at least a big majority of Americans are Christians I was coming but the Lord said be careful when you go to America and I did understand him and he said do not lose your fire so when I came to America I didn't like I didn't I saved America why so when it came to America after three months I realized what he meant people would come to church late they would leave early no passion no love for God I mean there's don't get me wrong there's so many good people like yourself I love the Lord we have prayer meetings in in Tulsa Oklahoma that's a buckle Bible Belt and we had prayer meetings and two old ladies show up I was only a young person I was like too old I said is that pretty I thought people common from fire crying out to God intercession to old lady show up for prayer and I was man I was devastated I said I was gonna go back I was tempted to go back to Turkey I said what I'm doing here because people will just go to work they make money pay the bills same thing over the next week and that's the waste of life I mean I don't get me wrong we have to go to work I understand that but I'm saying is that everything we do should circle around what we do for Jesus we go to work so we can preach the gospel we can support the gospel which is to go into water to survive God wants to do to thrive to bless you amen for his purpose for his kingdom it's not just okay I just go to church on Sundays but my life is different no your whole life should be about Jesus and then I I was I was like going crazy because you know even the young people didn't have passion what happened I just began to go to hospitals and nursing homes and pray for people I went to a hospital say I came here to for for the sick can I do that the reception said you have to talk to Chapel I think the chapel was okay I have to go talk to that person I went to that room was a Catholic Church a Catholic hospital Catholic check a chapel and I said hey I want to go pray for the sick people and can I do that he said no no I said God will save you from the Iranian government and the Turkish government to be afraid by who I have a got to walk on the roof man I what I went to the elevator I went to the second third floor I began to go room to room mainly hasn't people pray for I began to preach the gospel testify I mean I'm alone nobody told me to do nobody paid me I was like I was feeling like being so wasted before that and I began to go and preach and sure and that's when I remember what the Lord meant be careful you know in America is harder to be Christian than in the Middle East people think the opposite that is always so hard to be no because their people rely on God here despite all the distractions if you choose to still come to church on Saturday night you are the good of the bunch you are good Christians you chose to come here tonight to hear to pray to worship amen because you have already have the car right you have warm house running water you have a bed to sleep in I mean at night we're in Turkey where was this thing at sometimes we had scorpions in our house and we would get up in the morning God is my witness we'll get up in the morning we had deadest scorpions around us that's why I just said even if you drink something deadly okay if you're bitten by snake and I gonna be harm right so what happened was that's how we live man we thought that's normal but here you have all the car you have all the gadgets you have all these TVs you have Super Bowl right I thank God for you when it came here when you guys are praying and also you have pray meetings this is a living Church ever say living this is a living Church that you guys pray you are on the track you're interceding for the nation pastor told me they're praying for the California and it's needed because I live in California I know what I'm dealing with their men um you walk on the streets you're walking on demons but pray for the nation pray for the president pray for this whole country man we need prayers amen see in Luke chapter 21 verse 15 the Bible says for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist verse 16 you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers relatives and friends and they will put some of you to death and you will be hated by all men for my name's sake Jesus is saying that's the norm you'll be held open but God has promised to us to bless us you're gonna come out on the top of everything within the pack you're gonna come out of all the persecution live in the pack and win and be a victor amen but we need to pray my way to become men and women of prayers I mean I've only have intercessions after I was went to I came to America I went to Tulsa Oklahoma I was there I began to go to Bible College after a graduate I went to California I started a church among Iranians Muslims in two months in a month and a half I'm going back to Turkey to give 1,500 new testaments away hallelujah I'm taking it to glory be to God I'm taking it teamed with myself to Turkey we're gonna give 1500 New Testament the same New Testament that I got my god in Turkey first and by the way the guy who gave me that first New Testament he got saved eventually hallelujah so God is opening doors I'm going preaching sharing and giving stuff away we do outreach in Los Angeles we give Bible the way we give New Testament I mean compre become a prayer warrior Charles Wesley and and John West his mother Suzanne Wesley she hadn't she had 11 kids her husband had left she had to put the apron on her head and telling her kids be quiet I'm gonna pray she would pray for an hour and the kids watching her she prayed that all her kids would serve the Lord all of her kids began to serve the Lord John change America Charles impacted Europe be an example to your kids they learn they see you praying seeking the Lord walking in love they see those things they will be impacted by your lifestyle amen so God loves you become a prayer worried I pray for me pray for your pastor pray that God will open effective door for us so we can preach his word amen and the enemy hates this country Islam hate this country because America is preaching the gospel is funding the gospel and the enemy hates his country we praying for America we pray for the president because the anyones to stop this country I was a citizen I finish two weeks ago I was in sitting in a Starbucks in Los Angeles downtown Los Angeles was reading my Bible and I was sitting at the table at the Starbucks I saw a few Muslims out there I saw one with a scarf with a hijab and two guys and a woman was I think was Mexican she was Mexican and I began to pray for says Lord touch these people's heart and they came out and they came inside and they sat right next to me and this we're speaking Arabic and I began to talk to him in Arabic Allah bit I don't speak much Arabic but a little bit so I began to talk to him and they were happy oh you speak Arabic and then we start talking and then I sell from Iran they say from no Egypt or from Egypt and I began to Ben it in front of me and a white guy came and sat in front of me and I was talking to these guys and guess who he began to oppose me and fight with me that white guy was a liberal Jew he was a liberal secular Jew eighty issue began to follow me and he said why are you harassing them I said I'm not harassing them I'm sharing the gospel with them and he went talk to the manager of a Starbucks say this guy is arising these Muslims and I began to talk to the manager said no I'm Shirley my story I'm reading my Bible this guy came and jumped to my conversation and the manager could go sit down is okay and I continued to preach the gospel to them and this guy was burning and I'm telling a demon was in him and I began to share with them and I began to tell them the gospel there's a war breaking out there but that's not saying the Liberals want to pave the way for Islam to come to America because they know that they they have the same objection knowingly or unconsciously they are opposing the the life of God ignorant of the God's righteousness they hate the name they hate the name they blaspheme the name do you know I just was watching a video today having seen this new Google device they put in a kitchen you talked to him and this lady if you have seen this video this lady was testing it and this lady said who is Allah and he began to explain the Allah according to Wikipedia Allah is the all-mighty God and so forth of all who is Buddha the Buddha is so so being out to explain Buddha for you who is brought Branum and began to expand by him and then he said who is Jesus just sorry we cannot help you with that can you imagine that and then says who is Jesus Christ this sorry I can't help you with that they hate the name man they hate that name but I am his voice I can help to you that Google device I can help you with that we can help with that name right we can go and preach that name and that's all the disciples did man these typos didn't have a similar degree they didn't have a seminary education all they had was the God what was the gospel the words of Jesus that Jesus rose from and they testified that we saw him he rose from he was crucified and rose from it and they had the Holy Ghost that's all and be careful about all these theologies and these seminaries and I've seen people from Africa coming here going to seminary they're on fire for God they go to a seminar they come out they don't believe any more anything so be careful pray intercede for your city amen and preach the gospel hallelujah are you fire now hallelujah say it I'm fire say this I'm on fire I'm gonna testify about Jesus I'm gonna preach the gospel I'm determined to preach his word and to share the gospel I'm determined to become a man or a woman of Prayer hallelujah glory be to God and pray in the Holy Ghost there's nothing you know I wouldn't be here today I wouldn't be here today without praying in the Holy Spirit if it wasn't for the baptism of the Holy Spirit I wouldn't be here praying tongues as much as you can sing in tongues and read the word and that's all you need and come to your church testify wherever you go there are some people that only you can reach not your pastor there are some people at your workplace your neighbor your family members that only you and you alone can reach Amen god bless let's pray and then we and father we thank you for today we'll give you all the glory the honor and praise but I pray everything we heard tonight will remain with us Lord but I pray that a fire may be ignited in us and we become passionate and zealous for God father God that we may not take for granted the things you have given us and the things you have done our lives father I pray that you create a hunger in our hearts Lord when time has come that we want to forsake it all I'm gonna quit and give it all give it all up remind us of the man on the cross and the mission he loves to fulfill father remind us of the man on the cross and the things he has done for us I pray father God that the words we heard tonight remain in US and we'd be determined to become a man and a woman of Prayer to become intercessors Watchmen on the wall and to dig again the wells that the enemy has filled with dirt to dig again the things that enemy has covered in the name of Jesus

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Published: Mon Jan 29 2018