From Ashes to Hope

I want to share with you a testimony from a weekly fellowship that reached me from Iran just recently.

From the series of Psalms, Negin joins their weekly fellowship.

She had been going there for a while. She tells Ra'na, "I wish I had believed in Jesus Christ sooner. I feel like I've missed out on so much."

Ra'na encourages her, strengthens her. She says, "It's never too late for God."

Then, that week, Brother Behrang speaks in line with Psalm 113.

Where God lifts up the fallen, raises the needy from the dust, and seats them with princes.

Upon hearing this message, Negin and the members of the weekly fellowship were greatly strengthened.

After the message concluded, Ra'na shares her own story, saying: "I too was living in the garbage of this world. I was in darkness, and God also lifted me up."

And through their fellowship, hearing God's word together, the stories of each member of that house church and that fellowship, how much it strengthened one another.

Gathering together, hearing God's word, and hearing their stories of how God, one by one, lifted these dear ones from darkness and from falling in the past, and how much that fellowship strengthened each of them.

From hearing God's word, from hearing their stories of how powerful God is and what new hope He bestowed upon all of them once again.