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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Paul Goes to Jerusalem Bible Verse :Acts 21:15-17 "After these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem. And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we should lodge. When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly." Message:
Paul’s missionary journeys have ended. (He will take an interesting fourth journey, and will build up the church in Rome—but it will not be strictly voluntary!)
We haven’t indicated routes on our maps, since they are primarily made to be used in connection with reading Acts, where the route is given in the text. But it is easy to see the general route.
All of the journeys began in Paul’s home base, Antioch. Paul’s first journey, made with Barnabas, was relatively short. He sailed to Cyprus, then went north into the center of Anatolia to Antioch (in Pisidia). There he founded churches in a number of small towns and cities, after which he returned to Antioch (the great city, in Syria). His route described a rough circle clockwise from Antioch.
The second journey lasted three years and was, really, the great missionary journey of Christianity. At the very start, Paul squabbled with Barnabas, who then made his own missionary journey to Cyprus; so Paul took Silas as his primary companion. The second journey described a great circle, this time moving counterclockwise. Paul traveled the entire diagonal length of Anatolia from Antioch to the port of Troas, visiting the churches founded in the first journey and starting new ones. (It was on this leg that he met Timothy.) He then crossed to northern Greece (Roman Macedonia) and traveled south to Corinth, starting churches all along the way.
From Corinth, he went to Athens for his remarkable encounter with the Greek philosophers. He then sailed home, stopping briefly at Ephesus.
The third and longest journey was largely similar in route to the second, with two differences. Instead of heading to Troas in northeastern Anatolia, Paul traveled due east to Ephesus, where he spent three years building up a major church in Ephesus itself. He also traveled to unnamed small towns in the area around Ephesus (known to the Romans as “Asia”). He then visited the churches of Greece, but instead of taking a boat from Athens, he went back to the north of Greece by foot and then boated to Antioch via the Greek Isles.
Meditation : Prayer : Lord, support me all the day long of this troublous life, until the shadows lengthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over and my work is done. Then, of Thy mercy, grant me a safe lodging, and a holy rest and a peace at last through Jesus Christ, our Lord......Amen |
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