672. Paul Commends Epaphroditus— Philippians 2:25-30

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Paul Commends Epaphroditus

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Today's Passage: Philippians 2:25-30

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Thank You for meeting me, LORD.
I welcome you into this place.
Please prepare my heart Jehovah.
Thank you for insight.

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15th strategy.
Imagine

• Prepare your heart - that means ask Him to open you to be able to listen well.
• Ask Jesus to bring you into the very presence of God Himself as you read instructions
• Imagine the characters in this passage.
• Are they facing a large enemy? or a challenge?
• Have they followed God? or have they fled from His guidance?
• Are they trusting God?
• Are they experiencing pain, or loss?
• Imagine them as friends.
• What would you do if you were there beside them?
• Would you be willing to encourage them?
• What would you do if you were experiencing their story?
• Who would you turn to for guidance? God? A mentor? Satan?
• Ask God to show you how to lean on Him in times of attack, or challenge.
• Thank God for His presence with you right now.
  

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25. Meanwhile, I thought I should send Epahroditus back to you. He is a true brother, co-worker, and fellow soldier. And he was your messenger to help me in my need.
26. I am sending him because he has been longing to see you, and he was very distressed that you heard he was ill.
27. And he certainly was ill; in fact, he almost died. But God had mercy on him and also on me, so that I would not have one sorrow after another.

28. So I am all the more anxious to send him back to you, for I know you will be glad to see him, and then I will not be so worried about you.
29. Welcome him with Christian love and with great joy, and give him the honor that people like him deserve.
30. For he risked his life for the work of Christ, and he was at the point of death while doing for me what you couldn't do far way.
Philippians 2:25-30 NLT

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