Follow Jesus! To everyone’s surprise, one of the fastest-growing conversions to Jesus is in Iran than in any other country in the world. Millions of people turning from Shite Islam and turning to Jesus the Christ.
You might have seen on TV people shouting death to America or death to Israel, but those orchestrated demonstrations come from the hardliners running the government.
This underground church movement that the Holy Spirit is growing has no church building and owns no property, no denomination yet is growing tremendously every day.
The people of Iran are looking for new answers, they are not happy with Islam and not satisfied where they are spiritual. It seems that a large number of these people are having dreams and visions about a shining man dressed in white before they are told about Jesus.
Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
To evangelize in Iran results in extreme persecution, but the Christians in Iran seek prayer, but not for the persecution to stop since it helps spread the Gospel but prayer for them to be able to endure through it.
Matthew 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
2 Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
If you convert to Christianity from Islam in Iran and are caught you are arrested and persecuted as a heretic.
John 15:18 If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before it hates you.
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhan was given a 10-year prison sentence for spreading propaganda against the regime, which comes down to preaching about Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 3:17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil doing. Detentions without formal charge, trial or sentencing are common and their families are publicly humiliated. Prison in Tehran, which is famous for beatings and torture.
It’s estimated that there are over a million saved Christians in Iran in the last few years and more every day. Pray for the Christians in Iran and the new converts in the future.
1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory