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Take Time With God #85: Life Happens

 19 But I hope [a]in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I also may be encouraged when I learn of your condition. 20 For I have no one else of kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare. 21 For they allseek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus. 22 But you know of his proven worth, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father. 23 Therefore I hope to send him immediately, as soon as I see how things go with me; 24 and I trust in the Lord that I myself also will be coming shortly. 25 But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also your [b]messenger and minister to my need; 26 because he was longing [c]for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick. 27 For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow. 28 Therefore I have sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you. 29 Receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and hold men like him in high regard; 30 because he came close to death [d]for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete [e]what was deficient in your service to me.

1. Philippians 2:19 Or trusting in


2. Philippians 2:25 Lit apostle


3. Philippians 2:26 One early ms reads to see you all


4. Philippians 2:30 Lit because of


5. Philippians 2:30 Lit your deficiency of service

Take Time With God #85: Life Happens

Take Time With God #85: Life Happens

Acts 18:1–17 Can a real Christian be afraid?

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I am reviewing and renewing the first 11 verses of Acts 18 on purpose because I want to do a greater underlining of certain truths that are found in them. How many many times I have been told that if you walk in the Spirit you will never be afraid? Paul shatters that falsehood. Only Christ can lift fear off of a person and it often takes Christian friends to help that happen. Timothy and Silas were the Christian friends that helped Paul become unafraid.

One of the things so often stressed by Christians not going through certain emotions at the moment or who have never gone through them yet is that negative emotions like fear, doubt, anger at God, etc. will keep God from answering that person’s prayers until they absolutely get over such emotions. But Paul feared and God kept answering his prayers. Thomas doubted and Christ showed himself to Thomas anyway and breathed the Holy Spirit into him. And Christ Himself was angry with a fig tree and His power didn’t weaken as a withered the tree.

The point is, Christians do have human emotions and a Christian’s honest emotions don’t limit the power of their prayers. God understands every human’s weaknesses and urges them to boldly come to Him so that He can meet their needs with “mercy and grace” (Hebrews 4:14–16.)

Acts 18:1–17 Can a real Christian be afraid?

Acts 16: 1–15 – Paul and Timothy invade Europe with God"s Word

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The very first person to ever receive Jesus Christ in Europe was Lydia in Philippi. Lydia was a very rich woman and a very hard worker. She sold extremely expensive purple cloth that was specially dyed from a certain shelled fish. Soon she would turn her elegant home into a church and the gospel would begin to spread throughout all Europe. – Ray

Acts 16: 1–15 – Paul and Timothy invade Europe with God"s Word

ACTS 16:1–3; 2 Timothy 1:1–5

Larry Jack, who does all of the technology to make reachmorenow.com what it is, is my spiritual son. He came to live with my first wife and me twenty-one 14. He loves Jesus Christ like I do and we have grown together in Christ as we’ve shared our lives. There are male to male and female to female relationships that had nothing to do with being a homosexual or lesbian. In the Old Testament, David and Jonathan had a best friend’s relationship that was similar to what Larry and mine is. In the New Testament, Paul and Timothy had a similar relationship. In this teaching, Paul talks about his spiritual son and Timothy’s background. I think you’ll find it extremely interesting.

ACTS 16:1–3; 2 Timothy 1:1–5