that God has not looked away from you through 40 years of the Islamic Republic through the executions and the imprisonments and the economic suffering and the social oppression, through the protest movements and the crackdowns and the generations of young people who grew up in a country that told them their deepest longings were dangerous.

through all of it.

And before all of it and after all of it, he has not looked away.

He sees Iran.

He has always seen Iran.

And I believe I believe it in the same place where I believed in the margins of a prison Quran.

In words only I could read in years when I did not know if I would ever be free.

I believe that the story of Iran and the story of the gospel are about to intersect in a way that will be talked about for generations.

Not because I am optimistic by personality.

Not because the political situation has produced comfortable conditions for it, but because the God who sustained the underground church through 40 years of suppression is not a God who does things halfway.

He sustains through the dark so that he can release into the light.

And the Iranian church has been sustained.

It is alive.

It is ready.

And the light is beginning to come.

Iran, it is your time.

Not the time of any political faction.

Not the time of any foreign power with interests in your geography.

Not the time of the regime that is ending or the replacement that is forming.

This is the time of the God who has been waiting at the door of this ancient, beautiful, suffering, searching people and who is now, I believe, about to make himself known in Iran in a way that the world will not be able to ignore.

Pray for Iran.

Pray specifically and persistently.

Pray for the believers who are still inside that they will have wisdom and courage and supernatural protection in this transitional period.

Pray for the Iranian people who are watching the collapse of the only governmental framework they have known that they will find not just political freedom but the deeper freedom that only God can give.

Pray for the leaders who will emerge in Iran in the months ahead.

That among them will be people of genuine conscience and genuine faith who will help their country find a different path.

And and if you are Iranian in Iran or anywhere in the world and you are searching and you want to know the Jesus that I have been talking about, he is not hard to find.

He is not behind the locked doors of an institution or a program or a denominational system.

He is available to you right now wherever you are in whatever language you carry your innermost self in.

You can speak to him directly.

You can ask him to make himself real to you the way I asked in a prison cell with nothing left.

More the way Miam asked in a kitchen in Tehran before she fully understood what she was asking.

The way tens of thousands of Iranians have asked in secret over these 40 years and have received an answer.

The door is open.

It has always been open.

And I believe that in this moment in Iran’s history, it is open wider than it has been in a very long time.

My name is Elias Hoseni.

I am an Iranian man.

I am a husband and a father.

I am a pastor.

I I was imprisoned for 8 years in Evan prison for the faith I am still standing here declaring I am free.

My family is free.

And the God who freed me is the same God who is moving across Iran right now in ways that are visible and in ways that are not yet visible.

Hold on, Iran.

Your time is here.

The light is coming.

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