Of the seven billion people living on our planet,
two billion are Christian and two point one billion are Muslim.
Two different religions with two very different points of view.
Fatima Devanbeigi learned the truth about each of these religions,
in her search for a genuine relationship with God.
on the inside I felt like there was a huge rock hanging in my heart.
I could feel it, I could even tell you what the size of it was, was it looked like.
It was real and it was painful.
it was like something that would draw me down,
and wouldn't let me
live.
There was no hope in it.
There was no hope for the future.
Fatima was raised in Iran as a Muslim.
Being a Muslim is not by choice,
it's by heredity, so if your parents were Muslims
and you're born in that family, you're automatically a Muslim.
But Fatima resisted her parents Muslim faith.
At a very young age,
I started questioning existence, questioning whether,
whether there was a God or not.
I would be like spending hours and hours and hours thinking about,
what will God look like, what will he,
where will he be,
but traditionally in Islamic culture you don't ask these questions,
they're taboo, you know,
you know if you start asking questions like these,
they will call you faithless.
growing up,
the god of the Quran was the only God that Fatima ever knew.
He's not a personal God, he's distant and he's a creator, nobody knows who he is.
Nobody knows his nature.
Nobody knows his plans.
You just know that he cares about morality.
And in order to go to heaven,
you must go good works.
So, it's through your good works.
As a teenager, Fatima looked for answers in fortune telling.
And by reading coffee grounds.
I did that for a few years.
Like I said, I was still searching for God.
That practice did not lead me to know God.
But still I searched, I had no choice.
Something in me would not rest.
And finally I came to a conclusion, I said God you're either so complicated that I could never know you,
or you're just right in front of my eyes and I can't see you.
And so I remember like every day,
I would cry and cry and ask God to show me himself,
and look at the sun, are you the sun, is that...
Is that how you reveal yourself?
Where am I suppose to look.
Her cry was answered when Fatima says that Jesus appeared to her in a dream.
I dreamed that Jesus and I were walking in a rose garden.
gona make me cry, and um...
We were walking and in the dream I'm thinking he's a prophet.
he's walking and I'm just following and he said:
do you want to come with me?
And I said yes,
and he said then follow me.
And I said hmm... my mind thinking how to follow a person who's not even...
I mean he's a prophet from long time ago.
I'm to follow a person and not his instructions you know, would you follow,
so that was kind of puzzling, why would he ask me that?
Night after night,
Fatima had dreams about Jesus,
God,
and church's,
old churches, new churches, modern churches, you know...
and I dreamt that, you know, my mom and whole other family are,
you know, holding hands and going to the church.
Fatima moved to the United States when she was 20.
she met a friend from work,
who told her about Jesus.
It was after he accepted the Lord Jesus,
that he um...
he found joy and peace and...
those words just popped.
He said wow, this is good and he said every time he receives it.
Every time they pray for him,
He's filled with joy and peace, I said, I want that,
I want the joy in peace, you know...
So Fatima went to a Christian Church,
and a woman there asked her,
do you believe Jesus Christ is God and I said...
did he say that, did He say that?
that He was God? and she said,
yes, he says that.
I said sure.
I believe he's God, trust me I'll find out if he's not.
I will just find out, you know...
if things aren't true.
But I'm willing to give Jesus a try.
Definitely.
And she said, do you want to pray, Salvation prayer?
Absolutely.
So it was very,
because of my thinking of God softened me up to the point that,
you know, I was,
soft toward it.
Toward God, I wasn't you know, resisting.
That night after years of searching,
Fatima prayed to become a Christian.
Things just um...
Started changing.
That heavy heavy heart,
that stone,
that I could, you know, it was sharp even.
I could feel how sharp and painful it was.
That was gone.
It was completely gone. That night,
the Lord just, it's just like he took his hand,
In my heart and,
and took that rock out permanently.
The one significant thing that God did for me, that Christ did,
was that,
he put hope in my heart,
a permanent hope.
And as I got to know the Lord more,
you know of course the Lord gave me many more dreams,
just to show that the Scriptures were true.
And everything I was reading.
God was backing them up.
Today Fatima's mother, brother and two sisters are all Christians.
Fatima's a Real Estate Broker,
and studying to be a psychologist.
She's also married and has two sons.
Fatima understand Muslims who were curious about Jesus.
And those who really don't understand who Jesus is.
I would say don't say no,
just because your parents were Muslims,
parent before, you know, your great-grandparents were Muslims,
and this is what your always taught,
you need to,
find God for yourself, he's available
you know, if Jesus says he's God then he will prove it.
All you have to have is an open heart,
open heart to allow Jesus to come in,
and then you will know for yourself,
if he's God or he's not God.
How to begin your relationship with God.
God loves you and want's to know you!
In the Bible Jesus Says... "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not Perish but have Eternal Life" John 3:16
Song: Come just as you are
Here the spirit call
Come just as you are
Come and see
Come receive
Come and live forever
Come just as you are
Here the spirit call
Come just as you are
Come and see
Come receive
Come and live forever
Life Everlasting
Strength for today
Taste the living water
And never thirst again
If you are ready to take that step, Pray something like this...
Dear Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner. I Believe you died for My sins. Right now I turn from My sins and open the door of my heart and Life. I receive you as My Personal Lord and Savior. Thank You for Saving Me. Amen.
May God Bless You In Your Walk With Christ!