NIGER: “Getting Ready to Go to Heaven”

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🗓️ 10 August 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

“I really shouldn’t be alive,” says Brent Teague. He’s one of a small number of Americans who have survived an Al Qaeda attack. While serving in Niger, he was shot multiple times and left for dead. But as he prepared to say goodbye to life on earth and enter heaven, Brent sensed God telling him that his earthly ministry wasn’t finished yet.

Later, he discovered that God had worked a miracle—before he was even shot—that led police to find him before it was too late. Hear the incredible story of his rescue, and how God has used the story of the attack, and even the physical scars, to open doors for ministry for both Brent and his wife, Shelley.

Brent and Shelley will also share advice for creating opportunities to share the gospel with Muslims that you know, and talk about their ongoing work for the gospel in West Africa.

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0:00.0	It was sharing the gospel of Christ in the nation of Niger.
0:07.0	While he was driving in the desert, Al Qaeda operatives pulled up alongside him and opened fire.
0:14.1	So the first bullet went through my knee and then the second bullet went through
0:17.6	the chin of my leg. I just missed the main artery by about a millimeter and I had no hope for survival. I was
0:26.0	laying in the desert praying, getting ready to go to heaven when the Lord
0:29.4	spoke to me and told me my mission wasn't over on earth. Jesus never promised his followers an easy path.
0:37.0	In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them.
0:40.0	He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
0:43.0	Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles
0:46.0	and they're still coming true today
0:48.0	in the lives of his followers around the world.
0:50.0	Join host Todd Nettleton
0:52.0	as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the voice of the martyrs radio network
0:57.6	Welcome again to the voice of the martyrs radio. My name is Todd Nettleton. You know next month we're going to be celebrating five
1:05.0	years of God's goodness allowing Voice of the Martyrs radio to share the
1:10.3	stories of persecuted Christians and of God's work in hostile and restricted nations.
1:16.0	I kind of feel like we just got started, so it's hard to believe it's been half a decade
1:21.0	that we've been sharing the stories of our persecuted brothers and
1:24.2	sisters all over the world as we think about this milestone. We're looking back at
1:30.4	some of the most powerful stories that God has allowed us to share here on VOM radio.
1:36.0	Today we're going to hear from Brent and Shelley Teague.
1:39.0	They've been gospel workers in West Africa for more than 20 years. We first heard this story in
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