Acts 13:2
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I have called them."
Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name to the heathen and their kings, and to the descendants of Israel.
2 Timothy 1:11
Of this good news I have been appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.
Acts 8:29
So the Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and join him in his chariot."
Acts 14:26
and from there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had first been committed to God's favor for the work which they had finished.
Acts 22:21
Then He said to me, 'Go, because I am to send you out and far away among the heathen.'"
Romans 1:1
Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to preach God's good news,
1 Corinthians 12:11
But the one and same Spirit accomplishes all these achievements, and apportions power to each of us as He chooses.
Galatians 1:15
But when God, who had already set me apart from my birth, and had called me by His unmerited favor,
Matthew 6:16
"Also whenever you fast, you must not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they put on a gloomy countenance, to let people see them fasting. I solemnly say to you, they already have their reward.
Matthew 9:14-15
Then John's disciples went up to Him, and said, "Why do we and the Pharisees practice fasting, but your disciples do not?"
Matthew 9:38
So pray the Lord of the harvest to send out reapers to His harvest field."
Luke 2:37
She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.
Luke 10:1
After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on before Him, two by two, to every town or place which He was going to visit.
Acts 6:4
while we will go on devoting ourselves to prayer and the word of God."
Acts 10:19
While Peter was meditating on the vision, the Spirit said to him, "There are two men looking for you.
Acts 10:30
Then Cornelius said, "Four days ago, about this hour, three o'clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and all at once a man in dazzling clothing stood before me,
Acts 13:3
So after fasting and praying, they laid their hands upon them and let them go.
Acts 16:6-7
Then they crossed Phrygia and Galatia. But because they were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in Asia,
Acts 20:28
Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, so as to continue to be shepherds of the church of God, which He bought with His own blood.
Romans 10:15
And how can men preach unless they are sent to do so? As the Scripture says, "How beautiful are the feet of men who bring the glad news of His good things!"
Romans 15:16
in making me a minister of Christ Jesus to the heathen peoples, to have me act as a sacrificing minister of the good news, in order that my offering of the heathen peoples to God may be acceptable, consecrated by the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 7:5
You husbands and wives must stop refusing each other what is due, unless you agree to do so just for awhile, so as to have plenty of time for prayer, and then to be together again, so as to keep Satan from tempting you because of your lack of self-control.
2 Corinthians 6:5
in floggings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger;
2 Corinthians 11:27
through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, through many a fasting season, poorly clad and exposed to cold.
Galatians 2:8-9
for He who had been at work in Peter for his apostleship to the Jews had been at work in me too for the apostleship to the heathen --
Ephesians 3:7
for which I was called to serve in accordance with the gift of God's unmerited favor which was bestowed on me by the exercise of His power--
Colossians 4:17
And tell Archippus, "See to it that you continue until you fill full your ministry which you received in the Lord's work."
1 Timothy 2:7
and for which purpose I was appointed a preacher and an apostle -- I am telling the truth, I am not lying, -- a teacher of the heathen in the realm of faith and truth.
2 Timothy 2:2
The things you learned from me before many witnesses you must commit to trustworthy men who will be competent to teach others too.
2 Timothy 4:5
But you, on your part, must always keep your head cool, suffer hardship, do your work as a herald of the good news, and so fill your ministry to the brim.
2 Timothy 4:11
Luke is the only one who is now with me. Pick up Mark and bring him with you, for he is of great service to me,
Hebrews 5:4
And no one takes this honor upon himself but is called to it by God, as Aaron was.