A Call for Christ Followers to Wake Up and Pray

A CBN video interview excerpt
transcribed by RAM

November 10, 2023

“My sadness is not what Satan is doing, because this is already prophecied. My sadness is what will happen to wake up the church? What will have to happen to provoke the church into forgetting is own pity, introvert attitude, and come say, ‘Listen, let’s join hands, this denomination, that denomination.’ It is far by gone the time of even evangelizing. This is the time that we are nearing the end time, and we need to wake up and pray together so that God can perform His own will into the human kind in this region of the world.

“Millions of Iranians have turned to Christ, and no one ministry or no one organization can take credit for that. That is absolute tragically false. That’s not possible. In the book of Isaiah, it says, ‘[To] a nation which did not seek me, I stretched my hands.’ And it’s not only for the nation of Israel.

“When I was growing up in Iran, no one person was interested to hear the gospel. We were trying to talk with people. People were saying, ‘Get our of here! Go and work! Lazy sluggard!’ Because we were trying to distribute tracts. But what happened? The Islamic Republic was formed. All of a sudden, hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands flocked towards the church. And as a result, the Islamic authorities got very furious, and they started obliterating, destroying, closing down all the churches. They didn’t know that God has given us the technology of satellite, and because of satellite preaching and ministry, and social media, millions have turned to Christ.

“I think we will have an opportunity, and I’m not afraid of that. Iran will open up for the gospel in unprecedented way. I think before the end time and Armageddon, tens of thousands of Iranian missionaries full of the Holy Spirit will march into Turkey and Yemen and all these Arabic countries and say, ‘Listen, this is not Revolutionary Guard, this is revolution through Jesus Christ. We are here not to kill and destroy. But we are here to pray, heal and amend and attend to their wound. This will happen. Please believe that.

“And accelerating this will be united prayer of Christians, not to be afraid of what Hamas and Hezbollah will do. I think they will do what Satan has asked them to do. But the question is are we ready to do what God has asked us to do: to go on our knees; pray for healing of our land.”

Lazarus Yeghnazar
Transform Iran