REVIVAL IN IRAN AS MILLIONS TURN TO JESUS

A great revival is going on inside the Islamic
Republic of Iran, Christian believers who have
planted an “Internet church” in that heavily
restricted Middle East country have disclosed.
“Right now you can see the results of the Holy
Spirit,” Reza, one of the believers, told CBN
News in Turkey where he was interviewed. “From
1994, there were about 100,000 believers. Right
now, there are 3 million. You can see what the
Holy Spirit is doing with the people,” Reza said.
He said this is happening despite the constant
threat, danger, and risk for the believers.

Reza explained that since churches are banned
in Iran, believers use the Internet to connect to
churches in the United States, Canada, Germany,
and Malaysia via Skype.

“The main church is my house, and through the
Internet I connect to everybody,” Reza said.
“That’s why it’s become like an Internet church.”
He said many of the new believers embraced
Jesus Christ after having a dream or vision of
Him.
He himself dreamt of Jesus a “long time back”
and since then Jesus has been with him. “And in
all of my life, He was helping me and I didn’t
know who was this person. Suddenly Jesus
Christ was over there and He said, ‘Come to me.’
And I came to that side and He accepted me,”
Reza told CBN News.

He said many of the believers have fled to
Turkey for fear of their own lives. Despite the
hardship they are facing at the moment, the
believers exude joy as they remain hopeful that
they would eventually achieve refugee status and
immigrate to other countries, he said.
Some of the Iranian refugees who have fled to
Turkey said they are glad to have “come out of
the darkness.”

As he waits for the U.N. office to grant him
refugee status, Christian Afshin told CBN News
that he can now do things in Turkey that he
could not do in Iran like speaking about “God’s
Word to other guys,” freely praising the Lord and
attending church service.

Afshin said he attended the church led by
American Pastor Saeed Abedini, who languished
for years in an Iranian prison. That church was
disbanded following Abedini’s arrest in 2012, he
said.

“As a result, I came out of Iran because day by
day it was more difficult and it was more risky
for me also,” he explained.
Reza is urging Christians worldwide to pray for
the Church in Iran.

“And I’m just begging, really, from the other
believers, from other sisters and brothers from
all over the world, to pray for Iran and to all the
people of Iran to find new God and be familiar
with God, with Jesus Christ,” he said.
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