Kamran Yaraei Blog

TV Interview with Rick Joyner

2011-12-19T12:01:00.000-08:00

Prophetic Perspective on Current Events TV show with Rick Joyner and Suzy Yaraei

Title: Serving The Lord through serving each other

Prophetic Perspective on Current Events TV show with Rick Joyner and Suzy Yaraei

Title: Pioneering Worship

Prophetic Perspective on Current Events TV show with Rick Joyner and Suzy Yaraei

Title: From the glory of Nashville to the Glory of God

Prophetic Perspective on Current Events TV show with Rick Joyner and Kamran Yaraei

Title: Life Lessons on Friendship with God

Prophetic Perspective on Current Events TV show with Rick Joyner and Kamran Yaraei

Title: A Former Shiite Muslim's Journey to Jesus

God's heart desire.

2011-12-19T07:25:00.000-08:00

What is the desire of God's heart?
You are.
May you be fulfilled.
Merry Christmas.

Being with Christ in all things

2011-12-18T22:02:00.000-08:00

We heard that we can DO all things through Christ.
Now can we believe that We can BE in all things with Christ?

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Playing by His Rules

2010-10-12T10:52:00.000-07:00

Playing by His Rules

When people play sports, they have to play

by certain rules and regulations.

We don’t make fun of them for playing by a set rules.

Athletes are not mocked for moving the way they do.

Basketball players and football players have fun as they play;

that sport is their hobby.

There is nothing wrong with having hobbies.

When we play with the Holy Spirit of God,

we have to play by His rules, and He changes His rules all the time.

We see people in some churches who move in a strange way.

Sometimes they look funny.

Should we judge them for the way they move?

No.

Should we judge athletes for the way they move

when they play sports?

No.

Does the Holy Spirit want to play with His children?

Yes.

Does He have His own rules that change all the time?

Yes.

Why does He always change?

Because He is unlimited and full of creativity.

Does He want us to be creative and let go and follow His creativity?

Yes.

Have fun with the Holy Spirit.

From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.

Our Decisions Will Affect Others

2010-10-08T00:00:00.000-07:00

Our Decisions Will Affect Others

Our decisions about others can bring pain or comfort into their lives.

Our decisions about our own lives can

also greatly affect other people’s lives.

We have the power to affect each other.

We are all connected.

The Lord is reigning in heaven, but He gave

the earth into the hands of men.

The heavens are the heavens of the LORD;

But the earth He has given to the sons of men

(Psalm 115:16).

He also gave us free will.

I want to consider others and know that my decisions about my own life

will also affect them.

We are not here for our own benefit but for God’s plan and purposes.

We are not called to make decisions based on the

benefit they will bring for us.

Ask yourself some questions before you make a decision.

How will this decision affect other people’s lives?

Am I here just for me?

Please know that your decisions will affect other people.

Consider others when you make decisions.

From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.

Being a Good Person

2010-10-01T00:00:00.000-07:00

Being a Good Person

The rich young ruler called Jesus a good master and His response was,

“Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone”

(see Luke 18:19).

Of course the rich young ruler didn’t see who Jesus really was.

He called a human being a good master, and Jesus questioned him.

Now the questions we should ask are:

Am I a good person?

What will make me a good person?

Am I a better person than a murderer?

Are my sins lighter than the sins of others?

Whose sin is greater, a person who was caught in the act of adultery,

or a person who is committing adultery in his or her heart?

Should we call ourselves better people than adulterers

because we’ve never physically been

unfaithful to our wives or husbands?

Who says we are better than the Muslims who

bomb buildings and kill people?

Should we call ourselves better people because

we’ve never physically killed anyone?

We are all sinners.

Who is the biggest sinner?

Paul said he was (see I Timothy 1:15).

The only One who is good is God.

We become good through the blood of Jesus Christ.

Forgive us, Lord, for thinking that we are better than other people.

Our ability to hear God’s voice does not make us better

than those who don’t have a relationship with God.

As Christians we should put down our pride

and know that we are not better than those whom we call unsaved.

We are all sinners and we all need Jesus’ forgiveness every day.

It is about Jesus, not about our goodness.

May the Lord help us to see one another as He sees us,

and may He help us to love one another as He loves.

From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.

Heart for the Muslims by Kamran Yaraei

2010-09-28T11:42:00.000-07:00

Try Jesus.dv

2010-09-25T19:42:00.000-07:00

Kingdom Keys

2010-09-24T00:00:00.000-07:00

Kingdom Keys

“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven;

and whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven,

and whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven”

(Matthew 16:19).

The Lord Jesus wants to put the keys of the kingdom of heaven

in our hearts instead of in our hands.

If we receive the kingdom keys in our hands,

we will use them to expand our own kingdoms and not His.

But if we receive the kingdom keys in our hearts,

we will use them to expand His kingdom.

Is your heart ready to receive the keys?

Holy Spirit, make our hearts ready for the keys of the kingdom.

From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.

Affected and Moved by Needs and News

2010-09-18T00:00:00.000-07:00

Affected and Moved by Needs and News

Do you ever find yourself being moved by news that you hear

and by people’s requests and needs?

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany,

the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

And it was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment,

and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

The sisters therefore sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”

But when Jesus heard it, He said,

“This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God,

that the Son of God may be glorified by it.”

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

When therefore He heard that he was sick,

He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was.

Then after this He said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”

The disciples said to Him,

“Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone You,

and are You going there again?”

(John 11:1-8)

Jesus was not affected by His friend’s need for healing

or His enemies’ plans for killing Him.

Let us take a look at our own lives and see what affects us.

Jesus was not affected by His friendship with Lazarus, Mary, and Martha.

He was not affected by the fact that the Jews were seeking to stone Him.

He was moved by His Father.

How much does the news we hear affect our prayers and our lives?

Does what we hear and see cause us to react out of need and fear?

Sometimes we get so caught up in the news on TV

that we forget how powerful and mighty our God is.

Sometimes we work to take care of people’s needs and wants.

Others’ will in our lives can cause God’s will in our lives to fade.

When we live for the King of all kings,

nothing should affect us but the King and His will.

The King sees what we can’t see; He has all of our interests at heart.

Nothing should affect us and move us more than Him—

not our feelings, failures, news we hear, people’s approval or disapproval,

control, manipulation, lack,

plenty, sickness, health, friendship, etc.

When we get to the place of being affected

and moved by the Holy Spirit,

we can truly love people, not just please them.

In that stage the fear of man will be burned up

and the fear of the Lord will accompany us.

Some people around us may start to manifest, judge us,

and get very angry at our decisions.

People may call us rude, insensitive, and even proud.

Others may persecute us.

Even our closest friends might leave when we need them the most.

But Jesus will always be with us.

It is better for our friends that we not follow them but follow Jesus.

In the end we all will receive the benefit of following Jesus.

We love You, beautiful Jesus.

From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.

Life in the Manger

2010-09-16T10:50:00.000-07:00

Life in the Manger

And she gave birth to her first-born son;

and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger,

because there was no room for them in the inn

(Luke 2:7).

It sometimes seems that what is important to God is not important to us,

and what is important to us is not important to Him.

Could it be that what appears insignificant in

our eyes is very significant in His eyes?

Jesus hides behind the little things we think are insignificant,

but most often we look for Him in the big happenings.

The Pharisees did not recognize Jesus when He came

because He was not big enough.

He came as a carpenter’s son.

He was only thirty years old and did not have a proper education

through the synagogue.

He was born in a stable and placed in a manger,

which is a long, open box or trough that horses or cattle eat from.

The Pharisees were waiting for the Messiah to appear as a mighty king,

but Christ appeared so normal.

There was no room in any inn for the King of

all mankind to enter the world in.

God planned this from the beginning

to show us the importance of the seemingly insignificant.

The Source of Life was found in a manger.

He was manifested there in that insignificant place.

He chose that place.

All too often we look for the Life in the mansions of our minds.

Fear will categorize our lives and tell us what is important and what is not.

Fear will always tell us to go after big things and leave the small behind.

Fear will tell us to hurry and get the seemingly important things done first.

Fear will cause us to rush and miss the value of small things.

Fear will compel us to want to be around those

whom we think are more important

and leave the less important people behind.

Who is really more important than whom?

In many of the visions of modern day prophets,

such as Rick Joyner and Bob Jones,

the most important people are seemingly insignificant people,

such as beggars who had only a small amount of love to give.

But it was not small to God.

Fear will blind us from seeing small things.

But guess what?

God is mostly in small things.

For some reason He manifests Himself through people

and things that we think are meaningless.

Some of us think our jobs are not important.

What if we start to think our jobs are the most important things

on this planet in God’s eyes?

If we put all of our hearts and souls into

the jobs God has given us right now

and consider them important, we will see God in them every day.

You see, fear will always keep us from enjoying the simple things in life.

Fear will keep us from seeing the Life inside the manger.

There is such a peace and joy when

the Lord opens our eyes and gives us the gift

of seeing and enjoying the simple things of this world.

May the Lord open our eyes to the Life inside the manger of His love.

There is love in the manger.

What mangers have we missed in our lives?

Where is our Messiah?

Are we looking in the right places?

He can be found in a very simple conversation with our neighbor’s children,

a homeless person or beggar, a friend who is grieving,

the sick and the needy, or an old friend.

He can be seen in the person right in front of you.

Make that person the center of your attention.

That person has so much value in the eyes of the Lord.

Start watching.

Focus on the moment and where Jesus is,

what He is doing, what He looks like.

He can be heard in the sound of a frying egg on the stove.

Make that sound the center of your attention.

Start listening.

Focus on what He sounds like.

Where is our Messiah?

He is everywhere.

Suddenly, everything in your day becomes significant.

Lord, forgive us for ignoring the beautiful, simple things of this life.

Forgive us for rejecting You when

You came in a way that was insignificant to us.

Lord, open our eyes that we may see You in the mangers of life all around us.

From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.

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The Way We Look at Him

2010-09-16T10:18:00.001-07:00

The Way We Look at Him

Have you ever been in love?

There is something about looking at someone for the first time

and feeling love and passion for them.

The way we look at each other is so full of fire.

Our faces are radiant.

I remember the way my wife looked at me when we first met.

It was so fulfilling.

I miss that and I know she misses that too.

Do you remember the first time you met Christ?

When we gave our hearts to Him we felt

so much passion toward Him

and we looked at Him with so much love.

Is it possible that He enjoyed our love, passion,

and the way we looked at Him?

I personally believe that He enjoys the way we look at Him.

Are we looking at Him the way we used to?

Is He thirsty for our passionate looks?

Absolutely.

What can we do to get back to that place?

Ask Him to stir your heart to look at Him like you did when you first met.

Look at Him in your heart every day like you just met Him for the first time

because He is God and will reveal Himself every day in a new way.

Tell Him every single day that you are glad you met Him.

Think new thoughts toward Him every single day.

Worship Him like you have just discovered Him and been discovered by Him.

Tell Him things you never told Him before.

Walk with Him the way you never walked before.

Touch Him like you never touched Him before.

Be so honest with Him like you have never been before.

Tap into your true feelings for Him and meditate on them.

Look at Jesus for the first time again today.

From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.

Unconditional Evangelism

2010-09-12T12:35:00.000-07:00

Unconditional Evangelism

The most effective form of giving is unconditional giving,

but many of us give the good news of salvation conditionally.

Many of us share the message of salvation with others,

expecting them to give their hearts to Jesus upon

hearing the good news.

If they do not, we become unhappy, unsatisfied,

and unnecessarily burdened

because we expected to get something back from them.

We focus more on the person’s submission than on the good news.

God never asked us to force people into His kingdom.

He only asked us to share His kingdom with others

and to extend them an invitation.

If you have ever evangelized on a conditional basis,

I would like to introduce to you a new method:

unconditional evangelism.

Conditional evangelism is giving the good news of salvation to another person

with the expectation of their submission.

In this kind of giving, we give to receive something back,

which opens the door for limitation and suspicion.

Unconditional evangelism is giving the good news of salvation

without any expectations.

Our focus is on giving the good news, not receiving submission.

We need to be like John the Baptist,

preparing the way for the Lord to come in

through our unconditional love and evangelism.

There is such beauty and freedom in unconditional acts of love and giving.

Unconditional giving attracts the Lord and unbelievers.

Unconditional giving is always welcome among people of any culture

or background.

God’s love is not conditional.

The power of His unconditional love made the way for us to be saved.

So why do we make our evangelism conditional?

Let us share the gospel of Christ with others

and not concentrate on their responses.

Let us focus on giving the good news and leave the rest to Jesus.

We are called to share God’s good news

and love with others unconditionally.

Lord Jesus, help us to share You with others unconditionally

as Your Father shared You with us.

From Kamran Yaraei's Book"Food For The Heart".

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Prologue From Kamran’s Book “Food For The Heart”.

2010-08-29T02:37:00.000-07:00

I want to talk to you about my experience with God Almighty

and the journey that I walked as a Shiite Muslim.

When I came to this earth, I landed in a small city in northern Iran.

It was not my decision to be there.

God wanted me to be there and I was there on time.

Where did you land, my friend?

Did you choose to be there, or was it your destiny?

The country that I landed in has a Muslim religion.

When I grew old enough to pay attention to my heart’s desire to know the

Creator,

I was told that Allah is God and Islam is the true religion.

Was it my fault that I was exposed to Islam?

I leave the answer to you.

All I wanted was to know God and I was told His name was Allah.

I was also told many other things about the god of Islam,

and I believed what I was told.

What do you think of me now?

For thirty-three years, I thought Almighty God was

what Islam described Him to be.

I didn’t want to kill anyone.

I was just an average Muslim who wanted to be a good person,

have a relationship with God, and make it to heaven.

I believe that 90 percent of Muslims never think to hurt anyone,

or to kill, or to be involved in acts of terrorism.

I was one of those average Muslims.

Most of my life I pursued God and wanted to have Him in my life.

My dream was to get His attention,

to move Him to look at me and be pleased with me, my good works,

and my prayer five times a day.

I just wanted to know God and be known by Him.

Since I landed in Iran in a Shiite Muslim family, all I knew was Islam.

I had many Shiite Muslims around me.

When you started to listen to your heart’s desire for God,

who was around you?

What kind of information did you receive about God?

What incidents took place to form your belief or unbelief?

What were you exposed to?

Let’s talk about the minority of Muslims who end up as terrorists.

Who do you think they had around them?

Are they all bad?

Are we all good?

What should we do about our differences?

What should we do about the judgments we have against each other?

Who is right and who is wrong?

Is life about being right or wrong, or is it about love?

On January 21, 2000, Jesus appeared to me and I gave Him my heart.

I wanted to tell everyone about Him.

It looked like Christ was not in a hurry to use me to

spread the good news at first.

I begged Him many times to release me to tell Muslims about Him,

but He had a different plan for my heart in that season.

He allowed me to walk with Him day and night.

He took my heart to the school of love,

but my heart was so afraid and hurt.

I was not a very good student of love,

but my teacher was patient with me.

It makes sense that my teacher was patient because love is patient,

and love was my teacher.

After eight years of Jesus working on my heart,

I now feel personally released to share the good news of Christ with others.

I was so surprised and touched when one day I heard this in my heart:

“Close your eyes and ask your heart this question:

for the person I share the gospel of love with?”

The answer in my heart was no.

Then I heard this:

“Are you willing to meditate on laying your life down

for the one you give the good news of salvation to?”

“Yes, I am willing to meditate on it,” I said.

Later I learned that the meditation of laying down my physical life

for those I share the good news with will open my heart

to receive supernatural love from above for them.

“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends”

(John 15:13).

“I don’t necessarily call myself a friend of Muslims,” one may say.

“To be honest, I don’t feel like being their friend,” another may say.

But wait a minute.

Jesus was sweating blood in the garden

before being nailed on the cross for all of mankind,

which includes Muslims too.

He didn’t feel like going to the cross,

but He endured and went beyond His feelings

and pain because He is love.

His love gave Him the ability to finish the job that had to be done.

He taught us how to do the same.

Love can believe all things, endure all things, and get the job done.

[Love] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away;

if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away

(I Corinthians 13:7-8).

Some may say, “Come on, this is the twenty-first century.

Wake up and see reality.

Poetry and nice writing will not get the job done.

We need to show those Muslims that they are wrong.

We need to stop them as soon as possible or they will take over.”

I am writing this because one of you reached out to me

and shared the gospel with me.

I was a Shiite Muslim.

I am the product of God’s love through you, my friend.

You changed my life and gave me hope, my friend.

You hugged me when I so desperately needed it.

You poured into me when I was thirsty and dry,

and I bless you in His name.

May you and your country prosper and be blessed.

May your children’s children see God’s face and be blessed,

my fellow Americans.

Thank you for sharing the love of God with me.

Now I want to share with you some of the nourishment

I have received from our precious Jesus.