Acts 14:19-28 • How Much Do You Trust The Lord?

20 But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city,

++and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

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21 When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,

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22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

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23 And when they had appointed elders for them in every church,

++with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

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In another translation:

++23 When they had appointed elders for them in every church, having prayed with fasting, they entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had believed. (NASB)

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Paul and Barnabas Return to Antioch in Syria

24 Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia.

25 And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia,

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26 and from there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled.

++26 From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been entrusted to the grace of God for the work that they had accomplished. (NASB)

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27 And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

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28 And they remained no little time with the disciples.

++28 And they spent a long time with the disciples. (NASB)

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Call to action:

++- How much do you trust God?

++- Can you trust The Lord in hard times?

++- Can you turn away and leave the most important things in your life in God's Hands?

++- Can you trust The Lord to work through others?

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Time to respond:

++What is God telling you today?