12 min
Acts #55 - Returning with Faith Daily Read
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- Christianity
Acts 20:1-12 (NIV)
Read by: Tammy Eckhart
Have you ever felt stuck spiritually in a place? Have you ever had to return to that place later in life?
In today’s passage we journey with Paul and his companions as they return from their journey to Macedonia to Troas. Traps was the place were they arrived after being blocked by the spirit, they did not know what to do or where to go and they had to wait on God. Then Paul had a dream of a man calling him to come across the sea, and so they went.
But now after having experienced the faithfulness of God they are headed back through this place on their way back but now filled with faith. They are returning to the place where they experienced confusion and ambiguity but now with stories of God’s faithfulness.
Some of us are faced with returning home to the place where we were once stumped in our faith. We have to face people or situations from our past and bring our new increased faith to bear there. Today’s passage gives us an example of that. What would it look like for you to return to a previous context with renewed faith?
----------REFLECT----------
1. What moment in this passage stood out to you?
2. How might you relate to Paul and his companions in this story, how might you feel distant from their experience?
3. What would it look like for God to show up in spaces where you previously experienced spiritual ambiguity and hardship? What dead things would come to life?
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Acts 20:1-12 (NIV)
Read by: Tammy Eckhart
Have you ever felt stuck spiritually in a place? Have you ever had to return to that place later in life?
In today’s passage we journey with Paul and his companions as they return from their journey to Macedonia to Troas. Traps was the place were they arrived after being blocked by the spirit, they did not know what to do or where to go and they had to wait on God. Then Paul had a dream of a man calling him to come across the sea, and so they went.
But now after having experienced the faithfulness of God they are headed back through this place on their way back but now filled with faith. They are returning to the place where they experienced confusion and ambiguity but now with stories of God’s faithfulness.
Some of us are faced with returning home to the place where we were once stumped in our faith. We have to face people or situations from our past and bring our new increased faith to bear there. Today’s passage gives us an example of that. What would it look like for you to return to a previous context with renewed faith?
----------REFLECT----------
1. What moment in this passage stood out to you?
2. How might you relate to Paul and his companions in this story, how might you feel distant from their experience?
3. What would it look like for God to show up in spaces where you previously experienced spiritual ambiguity and hardship? What dead things would come to life?
----------GO DEEPER----------
Bible Project: Acts 13-28 Overview >>
InterVarsity Press Selections: Acts >>
----------CONNECT----------
Find an InterVarsity Chapter >>
Start an InterVarsity Chapter >>
Learn More >>
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dailyread/message
12 min