Saul becomes Paul and the first missionary journey of Paul begins.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a long chapter that will do us good to read and understand.\u00a0 Paul teaches in the Synagogue on the Sabbath, he went when he knew the people would be there.\u00a0 From verses 16 through the end of the chapter we are given a great overview of the Old Testament and a clear picture of the gospel.\u00a0 Read it striving to follow each event and connect the characters Paul talks about.<\/p>\n
There are two prophets mentioned in the beginning of the chapter.\u00a0 One prophet is working in the church and helps lead the people to select Paul and Barnabas as missionaries to be sent out from the church.\u00a0 Side note: Our church should be sending out missionaries, and starting new works as much as possible.\u00a0 Back to the prophets; why don\u2019t we have prophets today?\u00a0 The scriptures seem to do away with the activity of prophets on their own as the scripture is completed.\u00a0 Many in the early church age saw less of a need for the office or gift of a prophet as we received the Holy Word of God.\u00a0 The role of teacher of God\u2019s Word replaced that gift.\u00a0 There are some people today who claim this office.\u00a0 But if you want to claim the position, and you are incorrect even by the smallest detail you must be done away with as a false prophet.\u00a0 I think we have people who have the gift of discernment, and can discern the times.\u00a0 These people share and give great wisdom to how we should function as God\u2019s people.\u00a0\u00a0 The most prophetic word we have and need today is to look for Christ\u2019 return, and live as if He may return today.<\/p>\n
Please also notice the church was fasting and praying.\u00a0 Prayer meetings are the least attended and the most important corporate function as God\u2019s Church.\u00a0 We should spend days fasting, coming together to pray and seek God\u2019s direction, and God\u2019s power.\u00a0 Would you attend a week of prayer?\u00a0 This would be a time where the members are asked to fast from morning to the evening coming together at\u00a06pm\u00a0to pray?\u00a0 Eating only a light meal after prayer with the understanding we will meet again the next day.\u00a0\u00a0 Would you come?\u00a0 I believe this would send the power of God and start true revival.<\/p>\n
Keep on listening to God through His Word.\u00a0 He is speaking clearly, we just need to open up His Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}