Iran: "In Love with Jesus"
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The Voice of the Martyrs
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🗓️ 8 July 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh were bold evangelists in Iran, sharing their faith and distributing Bibles in that Islamic nation. Their evangelism work caught the attention of the authorities, and the two women ended up in Iran's notorious Evin Prison, where they spent 259 days.
But even in prison, Maryam and Marziyeh saw God's hand at work, providing for them and allowing them to be witnesses for Him.
"We experienced in prison how we should trust God and how we should trust His plans," Maryam says. Listen as they share how they began their ministry, what happened the day of their arrest, how they saw God at work in prison and even about the most discouraging day in Evin.
You will be inspired as you hear Maryam and Marziyeh share about their sacrificial love for Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Miriam could see Evan prison from her apartment window in Tehran. |
| 0:04.9 | Evan is notorious in Iran and is famous for arresting, torturing, raping, and executing of many innocent. |
| 0:14.0 | And in that very apartment she was engaging in illegal activities |
| 0:18.0 | that could lead to her being locked up in that prison. |
| 0:22.0 | What kind of illegal activity? She was distributing |
| 0:26.2 | Bibles and hosting house church meetings. Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 0:34.0 | In fact, he told his disciples the world would hate them. |
| 0:38.0 | He sent them out as sheep among wolves. |
| 0:41.0 | Jesus' words came true in the life of the Apostles and there's still coming |
| 0:44.5 | true today in the lives of his followers around the world. Join host Todd |
| 0:48.8 | Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the Voice of Martyr's |
| 0:54.5 | radio network. Many people around the world know the names of our two guests |
| 0:59.2 | today. They are Merriam and Marzia. They were prisoners in Evan prison in Iran for their faith in Jesus Christ. |
| 1:07.8 | They are authors of a book called Captive in Iran. I want to encourage you to get a copy of that book and read their story. It's |
| 1:16.1 | incredible their testimony of their faithfulness but also what God did inside Iran and even inside prison. |
| 1:27.0 | God worked miracles in their lives and the book tells their story. |
| 1:32.0 | If you come to view on radio.net and click on the store link at the top of the page |
| 1:37.5 | you can order a copy of the book directly from the Voice of the Martyrs it's called |
| 1:41.6 | Captive in Iran. I had the opportunity to speak with these two |
| 1:46.9 | brave women at a voice of the martyrs chapel service and then a second time in a makeshift studio and you're going to hear clips from both of those |
| 1:55.5 | recordings today on VOM radio. You might notice that since these interviews weren't |
| 2:00.7 | recorded in our regular studio the sound isn't quite what you'd expect, |
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