NIGERIA: “My Life is in God’s Hands”

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🗓️ 18 January 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Paul felt God speaking to him, and the message was clear: “Get off this bus. Right now!” Paul obeyed, and his obedience saved his life.

Jesus told His followers to deny themselves, take up their cross and follow Him. God still calls His children to the uncomfortable, and even the dangerous. Paul, who leads the work of Youth With a Mission (YWAM) in Nigeria, shares this week on VOM Radio how God called him to minister in a difficult and dangerous part of Nigeria—a place where Christian persecution is a constant reality. He’ll also share how God protected him as he answered God’s call—including getting him off of that bus.

Today, many of Paul’s coworkers in gospel work are former radical Muslim persecutors of Christians miraculously transformed by the love of Jesus.

We’ll also hear from Paul Childers, who leads YWAM’s University of the Nations in Kona, Hawaii. Childers offers an encouraging update on what God is doing around the world from his front-row seat to missions work in many nations. He’ll talk about a move of God that’s raising up a generation of people willing to truly take up their cross and follow God’s call to any place on earth, no matter how difficult or dangerous.

Paul Childers has been a guest before on VOM Radio. You can hear that interview here. You can also listen to our conversation with Loren Cunningham, the founder of YWAM.

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0:00.0	It's easy to hear reports from troubled places in the world and assume that things are getting worse
0:06.9	But as Paul Childers helps to share the gospel in many nations
0:11.6	He sees that the light is overcoming the darkness.
0:17.0	We're seeing responses to the gospel like we've never seen before on a big event scale and also one to one. People are flocking
0:27.6	to the good news of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
0:35.0	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them.
0:39.0	He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
0:42.0	Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles,
0:45.0	and they're still coming true today
0:47.0	in the lives of his followers around the world.
0:49.0	Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories
0:52.0	and learn how we can help right now on
0:54.8	the Voice of the Martyrs radio network.
0:57.0	Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio.
0:59.1	My name is Todd Nettleton and we are in our studio in Bartlesville, Oklahoma today with two Paul's.
1:05.0	So we're gonna have Paul and Paul. Paul Childers is the campus director of
1:10.0	Waiwams University of the Nations in Kona, Hawaii.
1:13.5	He has been with us before here on Voices of Martyr's radio.
1:17.0	The other Paul, we're not gonna use a last name.
1:19.4	He is the director of Waiwam's work in Nigeria.
1:22.2	We're gonna hear about that work.
1:24.3	Paul and Paul, welcome to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio.
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