Happy New Year to all our listeners and friends of African Pathways Radio and those who listen to our programs over the Internet. We are in an exciting time in the history of Christianity. While persecution has increased in the sub-Saharan region of Africa, our listeners have doubled. We had more listeners in 2021 from Islamic countries, and we read emails from many more Africans living in European countries. Our short-wave radio frequency reached our listeners in several countries outside our target sub-Saharan Africa, including India, Europe, Canada, and the United States. We received letters of encouragement from listeners living in the United Arab Emirates, and many listeners sent us posters that helped us learn more about their environments. We thank all of you and promise you that 2022 will be a better year as we line up our programs with messages that will promote Jesus Christ and bring you comfort, strengthen your hope, and encourage you to learn more about the living God. We have added notes on repentance, baptism, and discipleship in our program’s pools of 2022. May God bless you as you listen to his word.
Our listeners, especially those who are going through so much persecution in Sub-Saharan Africa. We commit you to God in 2022 and would like to share a few scriptures with you,
Isaiah 41:10, “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
2 Chronicles 7:14, If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Romans 8:28, “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.”
Psalm 23:4, “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
Psalm 91:1-16, Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” Surely, he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent. “Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
