I. D. Samuel Ministries Intl.

 🍲 *SHABACH YESHUA ENDLESS GOODNESS DAILY DEVOTIONAL* 

Saturday 18th March 2023 

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*TOPIC:* 

*BE A BARNABAS* 

🔑 *KEY VERSE:* 

"But Barnabas took him, brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way...(Acts 9:27)

📖 *TODAY'S READING:* 

Acts 9:26-31; 11:22-26

📜 *ONE YEAR BIBLE STUDY PLAN* 

Deuteronomy 5-7

 *COMMENTARY* 

The text speaks of the rejection and persecution Saul (Paul) faced immediately after his conversion. The disciples never accepted him as one of them. They still saw him as Saul, the persecutor of the church and never allowed him to join them. Barnabas did not only encourage Paul, but he also brought him to the disciples and convinced them that Paul was a changed man after his encounter on the way to Damascus. After a while, the Grecians wanted to kill him because he disputed against them; hence, taking him to his town Tarsus, by the brethren.

At another time, Barnabas went to Tarsus and brought Paul to Antioch. It was there that the Lord called him into missionary work with Barnabas. After a serious contention during their second missionary journey, Paul and Barnabas parted. The missionary activities of Barnabas were never heard of again. It was Paul, Paul, and Paul all the way.

Are you an old believer in the Lord or a strong Christian? Please be an encourager. Encourage the young ones; the new coverts; the weak in faith; the discouraged; the confused and the backsliders. Visit them, teach them the word, guide them properly, pray for them and be a good model. Don't join the group of those whose work is only to find fault and speak against the young and weak ones. Your encouragement to them will not only strengthen but stabilize them in the Lord.

Like Barnabas, your name may not be heard so much but the Lord may use you to groom a global preacher. Therefore, do not

be weary in discovering and encouraging the young and weak in faith.

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🎚 *CONTROLLING THOUGHTS* 

Do not be weary in encouragement; your convert today may become another Paul in our generation.

🙏🏿 *PRAYER* 

Lord help me to be a Barnabas to the weak ones around me. In the name of Yeshua. Amen

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