993. Paul and Barnabas in Iconium — Acts 14:1-7

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Acceptance and Opposition 
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Today's Passage: Acts 14:1-7
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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
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• 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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 1. The same thing happened in Iconium. Paul and Barnabas went to the Jewish synagogue and preached with such power that a great number of both Jews and Greeks became believers.
2. Some of the Jews, however, spurned God's message and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against Paul and Barnabas.
3. But the apostles stayed there a long time, preaching boldly about the grace of the Lord. And the Lord proved their message was true by giving them power to do miraculous signs and wonders.
4. But the people of the town were divided in their opinion about them. Some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

5. Then a mob of Gentiles and Jews, along with their leaders, decided to attack and stone them.
6. When the apostles learned of it, they fled to the region of  Lycaonia — to the towns of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding area.
7. And there they preached the Good News.
Acts 14:1-7 NLT

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