Nigeria: Did You Forgive?

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The Voice of the Martyrs

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 6 February 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In spite of Boko Haram attacks, Christian brothers and sisters in Northern Nigeria continue to serve Jesus. This week Ray and Denise Thorne share how God brought them together in ministry—through disappointment and heartbreak—to serve Him and to serve persecuted believers. We'll hear how they met widows of martyred Christians in Nigeria, encouraged women who'd been kidnapped and abused by Boko Haram fighters and met a faithful Christian miraculously sustained by God even after being shot in the face with an AK-47, and how he encouraged his son to forgive the attackers. Ray and Denise's stories from our persecuted family in Nigeria will lengthen your prayer list and encourage your faith.

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0:00.0	Those disappointments God was using to rearrange and make other appointments in our lives.
0:15.0	When he opened the parlor door, there were radical Islamic Boko Haram people with AK-47s.
0:23.0	Even doctors in the hospital left him for dead,
0:26.0	but God had another plan for him.
0:28.0	David had asked him,
0:30.0	Father, did you
0:33.3	in the face and his father said yes son I did forgive them
0:39.1	a faithful Christian shot in the face and left for dead.
0:43.0	Christian women, kidnapped by Boca Haram and told to deny their faith in Christ, or else.
0:50.0	This week on V.O.M. radio, we'll take a trip to Northern Nigeria, one of the most difficult
0:56.7	places in the world to be a follower of Christ.
1:00.5	We'll hear about suffering and we'll hear about miraculous healing and victorious faith
1:06.0	faith that even allows believers to forgive those who attack them and slaughter their families
1:13.3	Join us for these encouraging stories right now
1:17.0	on the Voice of the world would hate them. He sent them out as
1:35.0	sheep among wolves. Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles and they're
1:39.7	still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world.
1:43.7	Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help
1:48.7	right now on the voice of the Martyrs radio network.
1:51.1	Welcome again to our studio here in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and to the voice of the
1:58.6	Martyrs radio network. We are visiting today with Ray and Denise Thorne.
2:05.0	Ray Thorne is a name that many of our listeners, if you've been familiar with VOM for a long time,
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