“So he set it before them. And they ate and had some left, according to the word of the LORD” (2 Kings 4:44 ESV). When the prophet Elisha was given an offering of bread, he instructed his servant, Gehazi, to feed the people with it. But Gehazi answered that there wasn’t enough to feed the
“And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed” (Acts 14:23 ESV). After Paul and Barnabas preached the gospel and made many disciples in city after city, they returned to each city to appoint elders in every church.
“O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways” (Psalm 139:1-3 ESV). The psalmist David wrote of his wonder at God’s constant
‘But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not here another prophet of the LORD of whom we may inquire?”’ (1 Kings 22:7 ESV). Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, requested that Ahab, king of Israel, would inquire of the LORD before they united to go to war against Syria. Ahab gathered his 400 prophets and they all positively affirmed
“By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion” (Psalm 137:1 ESV). The Jewish captives composed this melancholy song while exiled in Babylon. Having lost their homes in Judah and seeing their holy city Jerusalem with its Temple destroyed, they gathered somewhere on the shores of the Euphrates, and
“And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God” (1 Kings 19:8 ESV). After God had used Elijah to win the victory over Baal’s prophets on Mount Carmel, he had no doubt expected a revival to break out
‘And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.”’ (1 Kings 18:21 ESV). The prophet Elijah challenged the people of Israel to stop “limping,” or wavering back and forth between “two
“And on the following day they entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends” (Acts 10:24 ESV). The Roman centurion, Cornelius, had sent for the apostle Peter and upon hearing that he was on the way, he “called together his relatives and close friends” to meet and hear
‘And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.” This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven’ (Acts 10:15-16 ESV). While praying on the rooftop of Simon the Tanner, Peter saw a vision of “unclean” animals lowered down from
“Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda” (Acts 9:32 ESV). After Paul’s conversion there was a season of peace for the church. During this time, the apostle Peter traveled throughout Judea, Samaria and Galilee visiting the new believers and strengthening them