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Oh, I praise when I feel least praise with a note.
Oh, I praise because I know it's still in the throat.
I praise when things fall to the side.
Oh, I praise in the shadow.
I praise you in the shadow.
Oh, I praise in the shadow.
Oh, my soul.
Oh, my soul.
Oh, I love you more than you'll ever know.
I praise when things fall to the side.
I praise for your favor.
I praise God's people.
I praise God's people.
I praise God's people.
I praise God's people.
Praise the Lord.
The Lord is with you.
The Lord is with you.
The Lord is with you.
The Lord is with you.
The Lord is with you.
The Lord is with you.
The Lord is with you.
The Lord is with you.
The Lord is with you.
The Lord is with you.
I don't know what you're saying, but I don't know what you're saying, but I don't know what you're saying.
What an awesome privilege we have is to come into this house.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
With your hands lifted all over the building, you're joining what's already going on in heaven.
You're joining what's happening in heaven.
Worship.
You're lifting up holy hands before him.
Just worship.
Worship.
Father, we honor you today.
We've gathered here as your people, blessing the nations of the world and in this city, the church, the body of Christ.
But worshiping collectively together with what's going on.
Around your throne.
We honor you today.
We honor you today.
We bless you, Father.
We bless you, Father.
Just with solemn moment, just with hands that we just, in his presence, just honor him.
Just honor him.
Just a moment in his presence.
You've been worshiping out of your heart.
True worship.
Holy Spirit, have your way.
The gathering of the believers here today, we pray.
In your holy name.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Wow.
Thank you, worship team.
Thank you for worshiping.
Those of you that are in the upper and the lower elementary, they are being released to go to their classes.
If you could take just a moment, they may be joining us online.
Say hi to someone sitting next to you.
We're about to welcome on campus to join us this morning.
This is our only way to be able to be one church in two locations.
And so we're glad that you're able to be a part of this.
Today, as we prepare our hearts to hear from our guests today, Marzia and Marissa Day will be joining me in just a moment.
Let me just say, it's an honor to be able to share the beginning of our conference today with this special time.
It was our way of being able to connect with both campuses in doing that.
So she was over in the Owasso at the 9 a.m.
And able to join us.
She was able to be with us at 11 a.m.
We wish we could be both places simultaneous.
But this is the best thing that we can do to be able to share that time together.
So as soon as they let me know that Owasso has joined us, they are with us.
So come on, guys.
Let's welcome Owasso.
Could you do that?
Welcome to Owasso campus.
Thank you, guys, for letting us do this.
As we said, our speaker was able to be over there with you at 9 a.m.
And now here on the left.
So going back and forth.
I think 2014.
I first got a hold of her book.
I don't know how I got a hold of her book.
But read it in Iran.
And when I read that book, I said to myself, somehow, somehow, we've got to hear this challenging story and testimony.
And our theme this year is stand.
And our theme for the conference is anchored.
And I'm praying that her word today will establish you.
And cause you to stand boldly in the.
Gospel.
After spending those nine months, nearly nine months in one of the worst prisons of Iran, boldly sharing the gospel.
The Lord has opened doors really around the world right now to share the truth about what's going on over there.
As well as to cause Christians to be bold in the kingdom of God.
Would you give me.
Come on, Owasso.
Help me.
Come on.
You're welcome.
Would you welcome Marzia Amarizadeh.
Come on up here and join us.
And have a Claremont Owasso.
Owasso, welcome.
God bless you.
Bonjour.
Ceci est un test de la traduction française.
Father, we thank you for your presence.
We ask you to, with the power of the Holy Spirit, and to get closer to you, to understand your will in our lives.
Thank you so much, Pastor Glenn.
It's a great honor for me to be, to tell briefly what's going on in Iran.
Because the news, unfortunately, doesn't share.
The truth.
And it's good to hear from someone that is connected and know what's happening.
There are lots of stories in both my books.
I encourage you to read them.
My first book is Captive in Iran.
That Pastor Glenn mentioned that.
It's about my imprisonment with my friend that we were in that prison.
The most notorious prison in the world for torturing.
Killing.
Killing lots of innocent people.
And we shared our story and also a lot of other stories.
That how God changed the life of prisoners through our prayers.
Through miracles.
Through dreams and visions that he would give me in prison.
And also, as I mentioned, we shared the stories of other women.
That how they were innocent and the government ruined their lives.
And helped them follow these Islamic rules.
The second book I encourage you to read is Love Journey with God.
I shared my whole journey from 1999 that gave my heart to Jesus.
And I shared a lot of other stories of myself.
That how God, in all these years, built my faith.
And helped me to build a personal relationship with him.
To understand his love.
his purpose for my life.
And I also shared how it is like living in a country under Sharia law, Islamic rules, and how it will impact your life, especially being a woman, because there are a lot of misogynists against women in Islamic countries.
And also I shared lots of my poems.
God gave me that gift to write poems to him.
I encourage you to read them because we don't, in one hour, maximum one hour, we don't have much time to share lots of amazing stories, which is not about me.
It's about God's work in my life.
And I always say at the beginning of my talk that I give all the glory to God because he is the only one who deserves the glory.
I am just a woman, a vessel in his hands, that he decided to use my life story for a purpose.
He allowed me to experience pains and sufferings for a reason.
So also beside that, that can educate you, educate your children about what is true Islam.
Because unfortunately, in Western countries, in America, I remember the first time I heard this sentence was in America, that an American told me Islam is religion.
I didn't know what to say.
I was shocked.
I didn't know to cry or laugh because the truth is that Islam is not religion of peace at all, period.
If anyone, any politician say such a thing, there is a benefit behind that, or they are, you know, misunderstood that.
Because I live that with those Islamic rules.
People like me live that.
And I see in Western countries, they try to shut the mouth of people like me who experience living on, through creating, you know, terms like Islamophobia.
But they cannot close the mouth of people like me.
Because people like me live that, and I have Islamotrauma by living under those Sharia laws, what Islam did to my life and to the lives of many Iranian people.
And I see that because I believe that people like me are living the life of a true Islamic person.
born there.
And when you're born in a country like Iran, from the first day, they call you a Muslim.
Everywhere you go, in universities, in getting a job, or at school, they fill the form for you, and they call you a Muslim.
But millions of Iranians do not practice Islam at their home.
Like my family members, we never practiced Islam.
We were not devout Muslims.
My parents never taught about hate, or hate any countries, any people.
They shared lots of stories.
My father, I remember about before the revolution in 1979, that Americans, many foreigners, would travel to Iran.
We had great freedoms.
But unfortunately, people didn't appreciate that, and they lost it.
And my father's, my parents had neighbors, foreigners, and they would share many stories about their friendship with me, how kind they were.
And my father's relatives, some of them were living in America, and sometimes they would travel to Iran.
I always was curious to know about America, how it's looked like from my childhood.
But when you go to the school, there is a system of brainwashing that starts at the age of seven.
And in Iran, I, unfortunately, I was not lucky.
I was born a few months before the revolution in 1979.
I was not lucky to see any freedoms in my life.
And I was not lucky to see any freedoms in my life.
And I was born there.
And it started with a group of minority young people who were brainwashed by radical Muslims, who were brainwashed by Marxism.
And they came to the streets.
They looted, rioted, set fire to things.
Is that familiar to you?
And then they supported a radical Muslim, Khomeini, come to power because he was a good liar, promising, false promises to people.
And then they lost their freedoms for more than 47 years that Iranian people are suffering.
And people like me, who were born at that time, we started suffering.
Because when you go to school, as I said, there is a system of brainwashing.
And I remember from every morning, when you go to your school, they force you to stand in lines and to say, death to America, death to you.
There were many children like me.
We had no idea why we should say that.
Where is America?
Where is Israel?
They forced us to demonstrations.
We would lose grades.
And there would be punishment against us if we refused to do that.
And for them to create a show, to show to the world, look how many Iranians are supporting regime.
It's a big lie.
Because I know many of my people, do hate this Islamic regime, like my parents did.
And at school there is a specific class.
They call it Quran classes.
And they usually put a radical Muslim in charge of that class to teach Quran to students.
And it is all about punishment.
They teach us how God will punish us if we disobey the Islamic rules.
And they would describe different kinds of tortures to us.
The purpose was creating fear in the minds and hearts of children to make sure they followed Islamic rules.
They forced us to stand in lines and do Islamic prayers every day.
And at the streets, when we would go to the streets as a woman, I always had lots of stress walking in the streets of my country because they had their security forces with a big van waiting for women to get arrested, to be beaten up in front of other people just for crazy reasons of not having the Islamic dress code, having part of your hair out of your scarf, having a nail polish, having fancy sunglasses.
So women like me who grew up under these Islamic rules, have many scars from our childhood.
I never forget one story at my middle school, that one of my classmates, she had a thick eyebrow.
She did her eyebrow.
As a result of that, the manager came to the class, grabbed her with her hair, and dragged her all around the school, and called her a whore.
Can you believe that?
I witnessed these kind of brutalities, from my childhood.
It's not just being in prison.
Before I go to prison, I lived under these harsh rules of Islam, which impact every part of my life.
They arrested my husband.
They tortured him to death for false accusation of drinking wine.
He got 80 lashes.
I never forget his back.
They peeled off his skin.
And they tortured him to death.
They hit his head to the wall.
He was an intelligent young guy.
Very smart.
Wanted to be educated.
To make me happy.
They ruined his life.
He passed away as a result of all those tortures.
So my story here, I'm standing not to talk about myself.
This is one example of millions of stories of Iranian people who are suffering because they lost their freedoms.
They didn't appreciate their freedoms.
They didn't stand up for that.
And now, still they are suffering.
I'm sure you read the news these days.
What's happening in Iran.
It's a big news.
On January, millions of Iranians came to the streets.
They protest against the regime.
They called the return of Prince Pahlavi, the son of the former Shah.
Why?
Because they understood they made a mistake.
And they apologized for that.
And they called for him.
They called for his return.
And the regime came to the streets with machine guns and started killing people.
They killed, the news says, 40,000 people.
But believe me, it's much more than that.
Because I was in prison in 2009 during another protest.
I witnessed how many people got arrested, tortured, in prison.
The number is much more than that.
Every day they are executing tens of young people.
Athletes.
And for people like me, who lived these traumas, every day when I open the news, it's like living in my traumas every day.
Because I experienced that in prison.
The execution of my cellmates.
The execution of my best friend.
So they shoot at people.
They black out the internet because they didn't want the news comes out.
They went to the hospitals.
They shoot at the head of those injured protesters.
Their only crime was demanding freedom.
They arrested nurses.
These are real stories.
And they tortured them.
They raped some of them because of treating those protesters.
Some nurses dared to take people in their homes because they wanted to help them.
And one story is Saleha Akbari.
She was a nurse.
She decided to treat those injured protesters at her home.
They raided at her home when they found out.
They arrested her.
They tortured her to death.
They gang raped her.
And then they sent the pictures of raping her to her husband.
Her husband could not bear and he committed suicide.
So these are real things that are happening.
Human beings cannot do that.
Only people who are possessed with demons can do these kinds of things.
And I experienced that.
The evil nature of these people in my entire life living in Iran.
There are tons of stories like that.
Horrible stories.
They removed the wombs of women because they raped them and they don't want to have their parents have evidence of that.
Many women's bodies are missing in Iran.
People are saying they dumped a lot of them in graves.
And still families cannot find the body of their loved ones.
These are real stories.
There are tons of names.
I shared on my social media.
You can follow me and check.
Lots of stories and films what's happening in Iran.
And people are fighting with bare hands.
And finally, after years, because the Iranians at different times came to the streets to protest against the regime.
The world could see that there is a big difference between the Islamic regime and the Iranian people.
And finally, America and Israel stood with the Iranian people.
And the Iranian people are tanking them.
There are hundreds of thousands of Iranians in the streets of Western countries that they loudly tank President Trump, tank Israel for standing with them.
Why?
No one likes war.
Their true enemy is the Islamic Republic regime.
And they know they are targeting this Islamic regime, these evil people, not them.
My sister's friend, when they were talking when my sister is in America, and she told me her friends are saying that we don't mind even by accident get killed if they are throwing a bomb on their facilities, their military bases, because we want to know if our children live in freedom.
So they are willing to sacrifice everything to get back their freedoms.
And that's, as I said, my story is just one example to stand here to share with you what happened to me, not because of me or having sympathy for me, but to understand the reality of who are these people and why we must stand with Iranian people, with Israel, with America, with the government.
So for me, from my childhood, I was finding, trying to find the truth.
I was so thirsty.
And I could not find it in .
I tried it, because I was so desperate to find the truth.
I started reading Quran and praying Islamic prayers for two years, but it didn't bring a change to my life.
But at least it opened my eyes to the truth.
And what I say that, there are lots of verses in that book that I have a list of them that you can see that what Quran says about infidels.
Who are infidels?
Christians, Jews, any people of other faith in their eyes are infidels.
And it says, I'm not going to quote the verses, but I have the list here.
It says to slay the unbelievers Muslims must not take the infidels as friends.
Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable.
Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam.
Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than Quran.
There are on and on verses here, which is in the book of Quran.
But how you can say this is a religion of peace?
There is a book of Al-Nasa in Quran, which is all about women and teaches men how to beat their wives.
So how you can say that Islam is a religion of peace?
There is no peace in that.
And I lived under these Islamic rules.
I experienced that in my entire life.
But since I was so thirsty in that situation, I was so desperate to find the truth.
But no one can stop God to reach out to people, even dictators.
God reached out to me through my dream.
And my first dream was about a white horse that he showed up.
Please read the details in the book.
We don't have much time.
There are lots of details to each of the stories I share.
That he revealed his amazing love to me and he revealed the true faith of Islam.
Which I could not believe that.
It was unbelievable how much God loves us.
And that dream really changed my life.
But still I didn't know about Jesus.
And it was a few years after that that one of my friends who has converted to Christianity told me about Jesus.
And it was the first time I could hear that Jesus is the Son of God.
But still I could not believe that.
How it's possible.
I started doing more research.
I prayed and I asked God to show me the truth about Jesus.
And more miracles started happening.
More dreams.
Which I share tons of them in my second book, A Love Journey with God.
That how he was communicating with me step by step and showing me the truth about himself.
And I gave my heart to Jesus because I knew that he is the truth.
But still I had some doubts about reading Bibles lots of questions what is the Holy Spirit.
But one day when I was praying to God that really changed my life.
It was the time that I was baptized by the Holy Spirit.
I was praying to him in my language sudden I was baptized by the power of the Holy Spirit.
A fire came on me.
I raised my hand without control and I started worshipping in other languages that I never learned.
And I felt the presence of God all around myself in my room.
I could not understand what languages I was speaking.
I was talking to him and praying to him but I could fully understand what I was telling to him.
It was not in my control it was so powerful I could feel a big circle in my forehead was burning like someone sealed me.
Then God gave me a quick vision I could see Jesus right in front of myself in a white robe beside a big golden throne.
I couldn't believe my eyes my face was full of my tears because it was the first time I could feel the presence of God in my life after years and years searching.
And it took for hours from late at night until early hours in the morning.
And God shut my mouth removed all my doubts about Jesus.
And I dedicated my whole life to Jesus.
I remember I was on fire after that.
I remember where I was living I shared the message non-stop with my friends with my family members there's each long story for each family member how I reached out and what happened.
But God was using me and He had a purpose to meet me in that strong way.
But that just was the beginning of my journey with Jesus.
I experienced His love but He took me to many trials many pains and many sufferings which at the beginning I was questioning Him I was crying, complaining I could not understand it why this is happening to me why?
I went to poverty for years I was living in a wealthy family because of the jealousy of my brothers my life story is more like Joseph's story the same thing happened to me and I asked lots of why's but God again through my dreams told me there is a purpose I am building you, my child and then when I learned that I told God do whatever you want take away everything from me but not your presence not yourself and He tested me with everything I tell people that my life story is very similar to the greatest command in the Bible that Jesus told us in Mark 12 verse 30 to 31 that love your God with all your hearts with all your minds with all your strengths and then love your neighbors love your enemies if you are not building your strong personal relationship with God you are not able to go to the second command and it's not like that easy that I tell God I love you, I'm done no, it's not that easy He takes you to trials He gives us instructions which are other verses for example one verse He tells us you must pick up your cross every day and follow me in Matthew 10 verse 37 to 39 He says anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me anyone who loves their sons and daughters more than me is not worthy of me whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me whoever finds their life will lose it and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it so there is a tough instruction here He says you need to put me above everything in your life and when I said yes to God I was thinking it's that easy I didn't know it's not that easy and when the trials started step by step He took away my families it was so painful my father that I loved so much I was separated from him for 20 years I said yes to him and I said take it away He took away my wealth and I went to poverty many hardships and I said yes Lord I will follow you He touched every corner of my life He wanted to test me that if I am going to follow Him or not but I'm telling you besides being difficult but this journey is very sweet that's why I called in my second book all my sufferings and pains sweet pains pain is not sweet because it makes people bitter but when you understand the purpose of God for your life when I look at back and see that all because of all those sufferings I got to know my Savior Jesus Christ I got closer to Him I said thank you God for doing that in my life now I understand the purpose and that's why now I say take away anything but never your presence because I don't want that precious things that I received it's a treasure and I always tell people the reason I follow Jesus is not because I have a fear of going to hell I don't know what is high it's not because of practicing a religion it's because of love I am so in love with Him and I don't want to lose that love that's the reason that I follow Him and that's why I am telling you that first what you need to focus is building your relationship with Him and that's not going to happen in churches the churches is amazing you must come to have a fellowship to get a teaching but what's happening behind the scene in your private is more important are you building that relationship or just going home and forget about Him so it's a living with Him it's a relationship and the second thing is forgiving your enemies which is again it's difficult and God later when I started my ministry in Iran I went to Turkey in 2005 because I was thirsty to learn more about Christianity and I could not learn it in Iran there are many underground churches and with my friend after getting the training we returned to Iran and we started our ministry by distributing Bibles we distributed 20,000 Bibles in Tehran and a few other cities it's not when I say that it's not that easy there are tons of stories that how many times we were so close to get arrested but God each time would show Himself His presence and saved us each time every time a smuggler a Christian smuggler would bring a few thousand Bibles to us and we were in the streets going to our home and we stopped in the big traffic and the police officers were checking all the cars and we said we are done they are going to kill us immediately seeing thousands of Bibles in that car and we didn't know what to do we started just praying and suddenly a big miracle happened there was just one car in front of us a big fight happened between the police officers and the driver and as a result of that they said go go go and we were shocked but wow so our God is awesome He is alive He gives us the birth so many times like this happened because He wanted to show us it's not about you when I tell you to do something it's me and I give you the word I truly experienced that there were many times that I was thinking it's not me the power the way that I was talking to them I would hear my voice and I was telling myself Marzi you are in a big trouble inside myself I knew how much fear I had but God didn't allow me to look weak in front of them which goes back to the verse to the promise that Jesus told us whenever you got arrested and go to trial don't worry about what to say just open your mouth and I will give you the word I truly experienced that there were many times that I was thinking it's not me the power the way that I was talking to them I would hear my voice and I was telling myself Marzi you are in a big trouble inside myself I knew how much fear I had but God didn't want me to look weak and that's the reason that I am telling you we should never turn our cheek to evil we should never negotiate with terrorists this is not the language the language should be the language of power in front of those people but yes as a Christian still Jesus told us to love our enemies to pray for those who persecute us and he tested me in that prison many times when I was insulted by these evil people God taught me how to forgive them how to pray for them when they insult me not to insult back but when you must stand strong then that's a different story I remember in prison they transferred us after 14 days to another prison which is notorious for torturing executing a lot of innocent people and they because of our story we trusted and we shared our story with many prisoners many of them gave their hearts to Jesus because of our prayers because of the miracles that Jesus was doing among prisoners because of the dreams that God would give me and as a result of that a miracle with difference between their faiths and our faiths they were so desperate because many prisoners wanted to spend time with us I remember my interrogator she shouted me she said you need to shut your mouth in prison and not talk about Jesus you are brainwashing our young generation with your fake religion and I said are you kidding it's Islam that you are brainwashing my people with that why these young people instead of being in universities these innocent people are in prison you are ruining their lives he said we will cut your tongue and I said go ahead and do that as long as I am alive I will find a way to talk to people about Jesus you can't stop me so this is our God this is not me this is the power of God in us and they could see that they forbidden us to go to any facilities in prison because they could see how many prisoners wanted to spend time with us to hear from us they were so desperate the ability for prisoners would go use the library other things I remember the first day I went there and there was a radical woman sitting there and she asked me what is your charge I said I am here because of the name of Jesus I am a Christian as soon as I said that and she shouted at me and she said get out of my office you are in fiddle and you must be executed immediately I don't know who let you here I was shocked by her reaction to my charge and I said do you know what I am here because of the name of Jesus and I am so proud of that I am not a criminal but I never forget that day when I left her office my tears were coming out because the way that she insulted me it was unbelievable and God would remind me the verses in the Bible at the right time and I remember at that time he reminded me 1 Peter that he says rejoice when you suffer because of the name of Christ if you are insulted because of my name you are blessed for 9 months I didn't have the Bible with me but God had a hard time to remember verses of the Bible but God at the right time would remind me the right words that I needed at that time so I saw many miracles in prison at the same time I witnessed first hand the brutality of the Islamic regime against my people I experienced tortures of my cellmates I experienced their execution once they put me in a cell intentionally with the murderers they knew that they are going to execute one of the prisoners and they wanted to show me what will be the cost of our resistance and after I built the friendship they took one of the prisoners and executed her I was shocked I could not believe how easily they can kill people and later they killed my best friend which I built a friendship for 9 months with her they executed her and the worst thing that they did was to send her back to the family and the reason that they do that because they raped virgins before their execution they believe if they send a virgin kill, execute her she will go to heaven and by raping her they avoid that and this is happening in Iran to many women but finally because of lots of international pressures on the regime many Christian organizations advocated for our case I was lucky with my friend and Pope from Vatican sent a letter to government on behalf of us and finally because of all these pressures on the regime we got released but God had a reason to send me to prison and he also had a reason to bring me to America and he always would tell me through my dreams I remember before going to prison and after I got released God told me next you should be in America the ministry that we were working were in the UK they insisted us to go to the UK I said no I said sorry I respect you you are my pastor but I am follower of Jesus not you he told me I need to be in America I don't know why so we moved to America and since then I started sharing about the persecution of my people persecution of Christians in Iran and I see that God sent me here not just to enjoy freedom and forget about what's happening in other countries like Iran how the church, how Christians are suffering just because of being a Christian so God wanted to use me to bring me here with a message for the churches in America to wake them up especially what's happening these days it scares me it reminds me what exactly happened in Iran in 1979 they have targeted American children these pro-Palestinian movements and all these protests these are fake these are just lies and deceptions to brainwash your children to take away your Judeo-Christian values and replace it with Islam I always tell Christians tell people that the danger and it's hard to eradicate that the Islamic Republic regime has already sent their agents to America to Western countries they infiltrated your political system education media for a purpose because when I was living there they were saying, teaching us that we would destroy America within and this is going to happen little by little and it has already spread in America so what is our responsibility as Christians America and Israel are doing their job Iranian people are tanking them that finally they are helping them to get rid of this evil regime but we as Christians also has responsibility it's not just coming to a church and enjoy our fellowship and then go home forget about what we heard we need to activate our faith there are many things we can do like prayers it's a big tool it's the spirit of God that we have the power to experience that in prison in different times of my life we have that authority to pray and I initiated a program through my ministry newpersia.org you can read the details that I asked Christians to pray for Iran and I got that vision through the story of Joshua that God tells him and his army that you need to march around the city seven times and declare the city under God's power so he will bring down the walls he gives him specific instructions like to blow the trumpet to take the Ark of Covenant have seven priests in front of you why? so God could tell them okay sit there and pray and I will make it for you God wanted us to activate us he tells them to march and pray and I got that vision for Iran that Iran is surrounded with seven countries I tried to find Christians in those seven countries to stand up against the darkness in Iran because there is a darkness there is a curse over the country of Iran for so many years they invited curse through the religion of Islam they do witchcraft God gave Joshua instruction and we can look at that what we can do I ask Christians please print the map of Iran put your hands and just pray pray for Iran and declare Iran under God's kingdom this is God's promise in the book of Jeremiah 49 he says after killing the rulers and kings of Elam which is the ancient name of Iran I will set my church a throne there and I don't believe just because in the Bible that's God's promise but also when I was in prison I remember it was during another big protest in Iran I was crying to God when I was witnessing how many people are getting killed tortured in prison I cried to him and I said why don't you destroy them and I had a dream and he told me I am giving these people a chance but if not I am going to destroy them all when I woke up I understood that God is God of love he gives a chance to everyone to repent but is God of justice as well and what's happening in the Middle East regarding Iran is God's justice against these evil people who are possessed with demons so I ask people please pray for Iran pray for Iranian people I found my ministry based on that promise and based on my vision that Iran is going to be a Christian country yes it's possible yes it's happening a revival is happening in Iran just yesterday I shared a video on my social media that Iranians started throwing their Quran to the rivers hundreds of Quran you can watch that movie because they understood the roots of their problems on the other hand America and Western countries are embracing this religion we need to wake up we need to stand up for our values Christianity is the foundation of America when we say religious freedom it's about Christianity it's not about Islam and other religions this is very dangerous and as I said it gives me Islamic trauma when I see what's happening in America in Western countries when I was moving to America I was thinking I'm moving to a Christian country but they know the enemy knows how to use your religious freedom to use it against you if you go to their countries and dare to talk to anyone about Christianity like Iran they will kill you but they easily come to your country because they know they can take advantage of your religious freedom we need to be vigilant and stand up to pray, to be active to question your politicians to make them accountable they are not allowed to negotiate with these terrorists we need to pray for our leaders to make a right decision because what's happening in Iran is not just happening in Iran they have funded organized and supported their agents in our country in America we need to get rid of them Pope said that whoever prays wages war God doesn't hear their prayers it's nonsense it seems the Pope the new Pope has not read the Bible there are tons of stories in the Bible about how God used other nations to punish those nations this is ridiculous how many times King David prayed to God consulted him should I go or not to go should I fight against this or not and God would tell him to go and he would give him the victory we should be vigilant not to be deceived by this kind of things and this deception also is moving in churches trying to convince Christians not to stand with Israel why? your savior Jesus was a Jew Paul was a Jew prophets of the Bible all are Jews were Jews but the difference in your faith comes from the ascendance of Abraham Isaac and Jacob how can you deny that they are chosen people of God it's in the book of Romans 11 that God tells that we should not be arrogant because we are grafted into the covenant that God made with His chosen people and He says they are our brothers and sisters they are fighting against the most enemies of the world that I know them why we should not stand with them as a Christian I'm not supposed to take a gun and kill but I can do the right thing to stand for my values to stand for my country and not to allow them to infiltrate to your church and brainwash your children because if you separate the roots from the branches there is nothing you can't separate Judeo-Christians and we must stand for that we can march like Joshua in our cities go to the streets simple things just march and pray stand up for your values stand up for your children if you do not do that I promise your children in future will ask you why you didn't do anything Iranian children are blaming their parents because majority of them were silent when this happened to Iran and they didn't do anything and now they are saying you ruined our lives but by being silent so as I said as a Christian we have spiritual power and God gave us this power we are not fighting against the flesh but while the army the soldiers are doing their job we can do something to support them not to be deceived by the lies of the enemy because as I said while Iranians are rejecting that boldly stand against it do you know what is the cost of that they can get killed they can be executed but they are standing against it and they are saying no to that why we should embrace such evil things to our country to our homes God is looking for the warriors the warriors of faith those who are ready to say yes Lord I am ready to stand I am ready to go I am ready to do whatever you want I learned that I lived like that and I always said my life is in your hands just tell me where to go what to do and you can read my whole story you can see that so be the warrior for God God bless you two things I want to do today I want to share a story a testimony of a sovereign God who reaches into a life and says that one is mine and brings a conversion in an environment that seems impossible you can't hear that and the story of the call of God upon their lives to risk their life you can't hear that and not want to rededicate or at least dedicate your life in the same way I want to share a quotation placed in this house in line with our theme this year and in line with the theme of this conference that is to stand unashamedly in this conference of Anchored that there would be every individual in this room that names the name of Christ that says Lord you've called me to be bold you've called me to be the testimony of the gospel and I dedicate my life to that and the apostles come in the kingdom of God because of bold testimony how many feel that?
I believe today you're being challenged so we're going to pray over that while you dedicate your life if you're in this room and you've not given your life to Christ if you've not said Jesus you pay the penalty the price for my sin if you are a nominal term used towards some Muslims in Iran are nominal meaning they're not real Muslims there are people in our nation that are nominal Christians how many know what I'm talking about?
they go to attend on a Sunday morning but nothing's ever changed in their life there's no transformation there's no discipleship
