Apollos had everything you could possibly want to be effective: he had education, talent, skill and experience. But until Apollos had the Holy Spirit, his ministry was not effective.
Minor Prophets: Hosea, Gomer Redeemed
Some prophets preached God's message, others wrote it down, but Hosea, now, Hosea lived it out. Because of his marriage, Hosea’s story is able to show you and me, like nothing else could, what God feels, His depth of suffering, His heart response to His people.
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Acts Wednesday: Chapter 18, Third Missions Trip
Embedded so deeply you would just about miss it, Paul meets Phoebe in Cenchrea while making a vow.
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Acts Wednesday: Chapter 18, Corinth
When Paul was at his lowest, flat broke, homeless, utterly alone, and his spirits fallen, God was there to provide in six significant ways.
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Acts Wednesday: Chapter 17, Athens
Usually we don't think of apathy and disinterest as opposition, but it is, perhaps the strongest kind. In fact, it nearly undid Paul.
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Minor Prophets: Hosea, Gomer Leaves
For Gomer this felt like total deprivation, and yet it was the very best thing for her, as Hosea wooed her back to himself. Allowing God to allure me, when I sense I am in the wilderness, letting Him speak tenderly to me, allowing this time alone with God to be enough makes these wilderness times turning points in my life.
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Acts Wednesday: Chapter 17, Berea
Luke, in all the rough and tumble of Paul's missions trip, had been recording a very interesting development with particular implications for the 21st century church...
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Acts Wednesday: Chapter 17, Thessalonica
The believers at Thessalonica were to become among Paul's most beloved friends and supporters, a living model to all the surrounding area of what it meant to belong to Jesus and live by faith.
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Minor Prophets: Hosea Marries Gomer
When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.” So Hosea married Gomer daughter of Diblaim.
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Acts Wednesday: Chapter 16, Demons and Jail
God sometimes allows something to happen, to put us in the position to be ready for the next step. Paul’s willingness to trust and accept even the really hard steps God took him through, the church at Philippi was establish—the only church Paul consistently received help from throughout his career.
