RELEASED TO TELL OTHERS (PART 2)

A Personal Encounter with God

She kept praying, crying and asking God over and over for just that a connection. She wondered, “Could this be what I am looking for?” She wasn’t sure. “Then I began to pray that I would be delivered from sin,” she remembered. “That day, it was like God was talking to me, through me. He was saying, ‘This is the truth. I am the true God. I am the one God.'”
Sara raced into the kitchen to find her sister and tell her the news – Jesus had saved her!

Learning to Pray and Connect

When Sara began praying, it was as if she was learning to talk for the first time. “I had no Bible,” she recalled. “I knew hardly anything about Jesus. All I had was a coloured picture of Jesus about six inches high with a frame painted with flowers. In the picture, He was looking to one side so to feel close to him, I would sit on the side where he was looking in the picture. This way, I felt that he was always looking at me.”

House Church Life

She began meeting secretly with members of a house church and was given a New Testament Bible. “I was so happy,” she said.
When Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979, the Bible Society closed so Christians or curious Muslims often had to travel hundreds of miles to find one. The house church met in a tiny room with mud walls. “But from those walls,” she said, “love came out.” They talked about how they engaged with God without being caught – a young man spoke about how he would sit in the family car at night to read Scripture by flashlight; Sara shared her longing to tell others about Christ, but how would she do it?

To be continued…

Date: 14th June 2025
Martyr: Sara
Location: Iran
Source: Tortured for Christ (The Voice of the Martyr)
Author: Richard Wurmbrand

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