Month: September 2025
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🌸 Letter to the Gentile Believers ✉️🕊️
📖Acts 15:22-35 NKJV Scripture Reading 📚 15:22 Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas who was also named Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren. 15:23 They wrote this letter by them: The apostles, the elders,…
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🌸 Paul Stoned at Lystra and Return to Antioch 🌻
📖 Acts 14:19–28— NKJV Scripture Reading 📚 19 Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there; and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead. 20 However, when the disciples gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city. And the next day he…
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🌸 Healing at Lystra and Mistaken Identities 🌻
📖 Acts 14:8–18– NKJV Scripture Reading 📚 8 And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked. 9 This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, 10 said with a loud voice, “Stand up…
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🌸 Division in Iconium 🌻
Acts 14:1–7 — Division in Iconium 📖 Full NKJV Scripture Reading 📚 1 Now it happened in Iconium that they went together to the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of the Jews and of the Greeks believed. 2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds…
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🌸 Acts 13:42–52 — The Response to Paul’s Sermon 🌻
📖 Full NKJV Scripture Reading 📚 👣 Traces of Jesus’ Ministry 👣 📜 From the Early Church 📜 ⏳ Historical and Cultural Background ⌛️ 🔍 Theological Themes 🕎 Old Testament Connections 🏛️ 🗝️ Key Word Studies 🔑 ⁉️ Thoughtful Reflection Questions ⍰ 📚 References 📚 Free Online Sources: Artificial Intelligence Assistance: ChatGPT. “🌸 Acts…
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🌷 “Paul’s Sermon in Antioch: The Promise Fulfilled” ✨
📖 Acts 13:13–41 (NKJV) 13 Now when Paul and his party set sail from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; and John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem. 14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down. 15 And…
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✨ Acts 13:4–12 — Ministry in Cyprus: Confronting Elymas the Sorcerer ✨
📖 Scripture Reading (NKJV) 4 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus. 5 And when they arrived in Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. They also had John as their assistant. 6 Now when they had…
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✨ Barnabas and Saul Sent Out ✨
📖 Scripture Reading (NKJV) Acts 13:1–3 1 Now in the church that was at Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2 As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Now…
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✨ Herod’s Death and God’s Triumph ✨
📖 Scripture Reading Acts 12:20-25 (NKJV) 20 Now Herod had been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; but they came to him with one accord, and having made Blastus the king’s personal aide their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food by the king’s country. 21 So on…
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✨ Peter’s Miraculous Escape ✨
📖 Scripture Reading Acts 12:6-19 (NKJV) 6 And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison. 7 Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison;…