Padina

This is the powerful story of  Padina, a former Muslim on the verge of suicide, and how Jesus Christ saved her  life. 

From the time Padina was 4 years old, she followed every rule of Islam in an attempt to grow closer to Allah. But Padina could never reach Allah. "I never felt peace," she said. "I would cry for hours to Allah, saying, 'I am so far from you. I can never go into your presence.'" She felt depressed and hopeless.

So she made a plan to end her suffering. She and her terminally ill mother would take pills, turn on the gas in the kitchen and enter the presence of Allah as honored Muslims.

As Padina started to turn on the gas, she heard her mother's TV in the living room. The words of a pastor on an illegal Christian satellite program grabbed her attention: "Why do you want to kill yourself tonight? Our God is so powerful that he can change your life. Give Jesus one week!"

Repulsed, Padina came up with a plan. "I will pretend to invite Jesus for one week in my life," Padina thought. "I can embarrass Jesus and embarrass Christianity for the false religion that it is. In one week, I will call this television program and kill myself live on the program. That will disgrace the God of the infidels."
(Voice of the Martyrs. Used by permission.)


God had a different plan for Padina. She and her husband are now in a leadership role among Iran’s house church Christians. See more of her story in a recent  interview with at The Voice of the Martyrs. 
                                                                                                            

Please pray for Padina and the house church ministry in Iran:

• that God would give faithful and courageous leaders that would continue to minister under persecution 
• that God would increase their faith- that they would not lose their faith under persecution
• for protection

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