Life Lesson (verse Acts 16:3)
One definition of ministry is being willing to be 'inconvenienced’ for the sake of others.
Life Lesson (verse Acts 16:8)
Closed doors are a blessing.
Life Lesson (verse Acts 16:10)
Ministry... just do it.
1 Cor 9:22-23 NLT
22 When I am with those who are oppressed, I share their oppression so that I might bring them to Christ. Yes, I try to find common ground with everyone so that I might bring them to Christ. 23 I do all this to spread the Good News, and in doing so I enjoy its blessings.
Gal 2:3 NKJV
Yet not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
1 Cor 1:23 NKJV
but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,
Jer 23:28 NKJV
"The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?" says the LORD.
Matt 7:7-8 NKJV
7 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
James 1:5 NLT
If you need wisdom--if you want to know what God wants you to do--ask him, and he will gladly tell you. He will not resent your asking.
Rom 12:6 NKJV
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them:
1 Cor 10:31 NKJV
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
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