My name is Harpak Hosseinkhani Hezaveh, I was born on 15 April 1983 in Iran. I believe in Jesus since 30 Dec 2016.
My father was Houshang Hosseinkhani Hezaveh. He was a businessman and he died when I was six so I lived with my mom. My mother’s name is Jila Gharagozloo. She was born on 7 June 1953 and remarried after my father died and she is a housewife now lives in Iran.
I have 2 half brothers and 2 half-sisters. I first read the Bible when I was 15 but God had more plans for me. I lost my father when I was 6 years old. It was so hard for me to live in that situation. I felt so lonely and no one seemed to understand me. I had an accident at that time and I was nearly lost my eyes. So I got fatter and sadder day by day. It made me felt lonely and unloved. I thought no one could love me.
My mom married again and that made my life more miserable. I had a new brother who had a real father but I didn’t have one. I felt there was no father and no man in my life. I started smoking cigarettes and soon after became a chain smoker. I was upset, depressed, and full of anger for myself. I was known for my anger everywhere. I had to fight a lot with all people around me actually for no reason.
In the year 2005 when I was 22 years old, I fell in love with Ghazal Amini but years later she got married to another person. It made me so sad. Because for the first time in my life I realized I could love someone, but unfortunately as usual no one did love me. I thought if I had my father I could marry her. It made me smoke more and more and also fight random people more. I had gone through the darkest part of my life.
In July 2007 Ghazal got married, but two years later in May 2009, she got divorced. I heard about her divorce, I tried to contact her but she pushed me back again. I didn’t understand why. For the last 11 years, I had been suffered for my one-sided love for her. I hated all women and I cried a lot in my loneliness. Because of that, I was interested in reading and I read a lot about religions. I read and searched a lot but it made me so confused.
However, there was just one book that I liked to read more and more. I thought 2 or 3 times I read that. It was interesting but made my mind confused. It said that there was someone that loved all peoples even the bad ones. It talked about someone who was called Mathew. He was not a good person but he changed after he met Jesus.
Four and a half years ago now Ghazal called me for a work project. She worked at Lego education in Iran and they needed help with their monitors. I was very happy and I helped her, so we started to talk together. She looked differently even on her face. She has been changed a lot. I asked her what happened to her. She told me about Jesus and what God had done to her life.
She encouraged me to go to church, so I went to her church together. I read before about those things and I had lots of questions. I and Natanael, her church pastor, talked together in person and also on the phone. I searched more, Pastor Natanael asked me to pray for myself, I prayed and prayed and one night I had a dream. There was a man who called Gabriel and he showed me a sentence. I woke up and tried to find what Gabriel said in my Persian Bible. But I couldn’t find anything.
I searched more and then I looked in English Bible. Finally, I found the verse in Luke 1:19.
The angel said to him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.”
I’d been waited for a sign to accept God and that’s the best sign. Finally, Jesus touched my heart and I believed in my heart that Jesus is God. Jesus is the father of all peoples. On 30 December 2016, I opened my heart to God. Especially for me, Jesus touched me a lot because I lost my biological father. I asked God and prayed to him for the purpose of my life.
As I believed in Jesus, I proposed to Ghazal and with God’s help finally she said yes to me. Two days later I went to her father’s house and asked him and her uncle and they said yes, but just for one condition. They wanted a small wedding. So on 8 January 2017, I got married to Ghazal.
Step by step I grew in my faith and I changed. I did not fight anymore and now it had been 1 year that I stopped smoking cigarettes. Ghazal and I moved to Turkey on 10 FEBRUARY 2018 AND WE APPLIED FOR UN ORGANISATION on 12 FEBRUARY 2018 and also teach English to Afghan children in Turkey.
Now I am a MDiV Theology student online at GMU in California and I am so glad to know more and more about our God Jesus christ
Thanks so much to Jesus evermore.
