Cornelius replied, "Four days ago at this very hour, three o'clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my home. All at once a man in radiant clothes stood in front of me

"So I turned my attention to the Lord God, seeking him in prayer and supplication, accompanied with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

"Whenever you fast, don't be gloomy like the hypocrites, because they put on sad faces to show others they are fasting. I tell all of you with certainty, they have their full reward!

Then John's disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"

and then as a widow for 84 years. She never left the Temple, but continued to worship there night and day with times of fasting and prayer.

Do not withhold yourselves from each other unless you agree to do so just for a set time, in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then you should come together again so that Satan does not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights, and hunger;

in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger, thirst, many periods of fasting, coldness, and nakedness.

The holy

Peter was still thinking about the vision when the Spirit told him, "Look! Three men are looking for you.

Because they had been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia, Paul and Timothy went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia.

But one and the same Spirit produces all these results and gives what he wants to each person.

Separate

"Then he told me, "Go, because I'll send you far away to the gentiles.'"

"Then Aaron is to present the descendants of Levi as a wave offering before the LORD from the Israelis, because they are to work in the service of the LORD.

From: Paul, a servant of Jesus the Messiah, called to be an apostle and set apart for God's gospel,

And how can people preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are those who bring the good news!"

But when God, who set me apart before I was born and who called me by his grace, was pleased

For the one who worked through Peter by making him an apostle to the circumcised also worked through me by sending me to the gentiles.

What you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well.

The work

But the Lord told him, "Go, because he's my chosen instrument to carry my name to unbelievers, to their kings, and to the descendants of Israel.

From there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been entrusted to the grace of God for the work they had completed.

So ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest."

After this, the Lord appointed 70 other disciples and was about to send them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place that he intended to go.

I have become a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God's grace that was given me by the working of his power.

For this reason I was appointed to be an announcer, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the gentiles. (I am telling you the truth. I am not lying.)

For the sake of this gospel I was appointed to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the gentiles.

No one takes this honor upon himself but he is called to it by God, just as Aaron was.

General references

Bring the descendants of Levi into the LORD's presence and have the Israelis lay their hands on the descendants of Levi.

The Spirit told Philip, "Approach that chariot and stay near it."