Kamran Yaraei's Blog

Power to Obey What will give us the power to obey Jesus? Our love for Him will give us the power to obey Him. Gather love in your heart for Jesus. I used to think if I obeyed Jesus I would be a happy person, but the fact is that our happiness comes from Jesus and not from our works for Him. Let your love for Jesus give you the power to obey Him. If you try to obey Him without using your deep love for Him, you will burn yourself out. Obey Jesus to make Him happy, but know that your obedience will not make you happy. Let Jesus be the source of your happiness. Don’t pursue happiness through your obedience. Your happiness comes from Jesus Himself and not from your works. We want to obey You because You love us and we love You. We will be happy just because of You, Jesus Christ. We will be happy even if we fail. We will be happy even in our weaknesses. We will be happy even with our corrupt hearts that are in need of cleansing. We will be happy even if we can’t find our callings. We will b...

Jesus’ Heartbeat Ask the Holy Spirit to teach you to walk with the heartbeat of Christ Jesus . It is a very important lesson in our Christian walk. Learn to hear His heartbeat and tune your life with it. Learn to hear His heartbeat in your own heart, and to hear and recognize His heartbeat in other people. Can you hear the call? His heart is calling; His heart is beating. Let us march with the heartbeat of Christ. His heart is beating for all people groups. His heart is calling. His heart is calling from other people’s hearts that do not even know Him yet. It is a mystery, but we can hear and understand some of it. Let us answer the call and move to His heartbeat. From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.

Seeing Jesus in the Flesh Jesus wants to be seen and recognized in Spirit and in the flesh. He visited the earth in Spirit and in flesh, but most people didn’t recognize Him and persecuted Him. He still wants to visit us in the flesh. The Pharisees were seeking the Messiah but missed Him when He came to them. It is easy to recognize the King in kingly clothing, but it is not easy to recognize Him in ordinary clothing. The Pharisees were looking for the Messiah to come as a glorious king who would take all their problems away and set them free without any cost or struggles. Does that sound familiar? They were waiting for a big revival that would make everything clear and easy. They missed Him when He was in front of their very eyes; they even talked to Him and didn’t recognize Him. I am assuming that the high priest could see the manifest presence of God at the time of sacrifice and offering, but missed Him when He appeared as a normal person. Jesus came 2,000 years ago and chose to liv...

It Was Jesus All Along Even when I didn’t know God personally, He knew me. When I didn’t have Him in my heart, He had me in His heart. When I didn’t feel His love through Christ, He gave me His love through the taste of my favorite food, my favorite toy, and my favorite place. When I didn’t know His beautiful voice, He sang to me through my favorite song. When I had no picture of Him in my heart through Christ, He painted my heart with my favorite things. When I didn’t have Him in Spirit, He came to me in flesh. He came to me through my family, through movies, clothes, etc. He was always there. He uses the people and things around us. In Africa many are dying, and the Lord doesn’t have as many provisions to work with in the natural. He doesn’t have many people who are willing to help the needy and dying. But the Lord can use anything around those people to show His love to them. The Lord is always ready to show Himself to people, but He uses us to minister to each other. If He didn’t, ...

Strong Hearts and Minds We need strength, focus, boldness, and toughness in order to carry out our callings and God’s commandments on earth. Christ was a very strong-minded person. He was not weak toward others. He was very bold and was not easily moved by anything but His Father. If He was not a strong man, He couldn’t have carried out His Father’s commandments. He may not have been very strong physically but He was strong in mind and heart. What was the root of Jesus’ strength and toughness? The answer is love. Love was and is the root of His strength and toughness. Let us be strong, but still receive our strength and toughness from godly love. We need to be strong, focused, and bold so that we can spread God’s love. Some may think that weakness in heart and mind will carry God’s love, but I believe strength in heart and mind will carry His love . The disciples could not have done what they did if they were not strong, focused, and tough. But they all got their strength, focus, and t...

Wrestling with God Why should we wrestle with God? Have you seen a lion wrestling with his cub? Will wrestling help the cub grow stronger? Our Father in heaven is the Lion. Satan wants to be a lion and he tries to act and roar like one. He always wanted to be like God. I believe wrestling with the true Lion, our Father in heaven, helps us face Satan and his foes and not be shaken. How can we wrestle with God? Start by asking Him to wrestle with you first. One way to wrestle with the Lord is to knock persistently. Then He said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and goes to him at midnight and says to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and from inside he answers and says, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been shut and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.’ “I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet b...

Facing Lions Imagine you have a very powerful gun in your hand and are facing a lion that is getting ready to charge you. You would be thankful for the gun, but is that all you need to face the lion? What will happen if your hands start to shake? My fellow brothers and sisters, exercise your God-given authority. Point your weapons toward the lion that is seeking to devour you, and stop shaking. Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour (I Peter 5:8). Christianity is not just about being nice, meek, and naive. There is a time to be a lamb and there is a time to be a lion. Most of us know how to be lambs, now let us ask God the Father to teach us how to be lions. We are children of the Lion and the Lamb. It is a very strange combination. He wants us to be wise as serpents and gentle as doves (see Matthew 10:16). That is a strange combination also. May your hands never shake as you face the enemy. May God im...

The Face of the Enemy The worldly mindset will advise us to study our enemies in order to bring them down. In the kingdom of God we don’t study our enemies, we bring them down with the name above all other names, Christ Jesus our Lord. David didn’t study or meditate on the height of Goliath, he just defeated him. You are not called to meditate and look upon your problem for a long time. You don’t have to be tall and strong like your problem in order to defeat it. If you were as strong and tall as your problems, when you defeated them the credit would go to you and not to the Lord. Your height and strength would be lifted up and exalted. When you are small and weak, the glory will go to the Lord. When you are small and weak, you are eligible to face the enemy and build an everlasting testimony. As you face your enemy, don’t meditate on his height, face, or strength. If you do it will bring you down. You have Christ in you. You can stop meditating on the enemy. You can stop shaking. We a...

We Cannot But He Can Moses said he could not deliver the Israelites out of Egypt like the Lord asked him to, and the anger of the Lord burned against him (see Exodus 4:10-14). What really made the Lord angry? The Lord didn’t get angry because of what Moses said. He got angry at what Moses didn’t say. I think it is very important to acknowledge our powerlessness, but it is more important to acknowledge the Lord’s might and power. We can do nothing on our own, but we can do all things through Him. Moses was right about his condition, but he didn’t see and acknowledge the Lord’s might, power, and ability to accomplish the task. It may take some of us forty years to acknowledge that we can do nothing in our own power, and another forty years to see the Lord’s might and power and to know that we can do all things through Him. Lord, let us not walk around the wilderness twenty, forty, or eighty years. Help us to learn this now. Help us with our unbelief. Lord, we can do nothing in our own st...

The Only One Who Deserves Our Fear Is Almighty God When I was a Muslim, I gave the god of Islam so much respect without even knowing him. Now that I have a relationship with the true God, I don’t give Him the respect that is due to Him. I get too casual with Jesus Christ sometimes. True fear, awe, and respect toward God Almighty provide a very strong covering for us. Godly fear will bring security and will cause us to rest in awe that He is mighty and great and above all things. Godly fear protects us and is needed in our love relationship with Him. How I wish that I could know His fear and rest in it. Grant me Your fear, O Lord, that I may praise You with awe. The only fear that brings rest is the holy fear of God. Do you want to rest? Sometimes we submit to any fear but the fear of God. This can be the cause of our restlessness. We should know that the only One who deserves our fear is Almighty God . No other person or thing deserves our fear. I don’t want to be afraid of You, but I ...