MARTYRS' WIDOWS: God Takes Special Care
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The Voice of the Martyrs
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🗓️ 11 September 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Gracia Burnham was serving as a missionary in the Philippines with her husband, Martin, when they were taken hostage by a radical Islamist group. Martin was killed in a rescue attempt, leaving Gracia to raise their three children alone. But she was not alone; God has been with her. "I've seen God be faithful…He takes special care of the widows," Gracia says.
Semse Aydin also experienced the loss of a husband when Necati was murdered with two other Christian men in Malatya, Turkey in 2007. The couple had two young children.
Listen this week as these two women share the stories of their pain and loss, but also how God has written a different story, one of joy and forgiveness and provision.
You can hear in-depth interviews with Gracia and Semse in the VOM Radio Archives. Please continue to pray for them, and for their children.
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| 0:00.0 | At times, I think we all struggle to forgive people who hurt us. |
| 0:06.5 | Shem Sa'idan knows what that struggle is like. |
| 0:10.0 | She gets frustrated and needs to work things out with people just like we all do. |
| 0:16.1 | But when her husband was murdered because of his witness for Christ, Shem Sa received |
| 0:21.7 | a supernatural gift. |
| 0:24.5 | That gave her almost instantaneously the ability to fully forgive those who murdered her |
| 0:31.1 | husband. |
| 0:32.1 | Yeah, we didn't struggle to forgive the murder. |
| 0:36.0 | Even I saw them face-to-face, even they were laughing. |
| 0:39.8 | I never experienced hatred toward them because Holy Spirit did this and it was already |
| 0:46.4 | like gift. |
| 0:47.4 | You know, for the gift you don't have to do anything, just you use it. |
| 0:53.0 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 0:56.2 | In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them. |
| 0:59.8 | He sent them out as sheep among wolves. |
| 1:02.6 | Jesus' words came true in the life of the apostles and they're still coming true today |
| 1:07.3 | in the lives of his followers around the world. |
| 1:09.8 | Join host Todd Nettleton's. |
| 1:11.3 | We hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the Voice of the |
| 1:15.8 | Martyrs Radio Network. |
| 1:17.6 | Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio. |
| 1:19.8 | My name is Todd Nettleton and we are in our studio today in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, |
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