(SUNDAY'S) OUR DAILY BREAD : ONE BY ONE

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April 21
Sunday


ONE BY ONE

READ:
Acts 8:26-35
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Philip...preached
Jesus to him.
__Acts 8:35
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Edward Payson was a famous preacher in a bygone era. One stormy Sunday, he had only one person in his audience. Some months later, his lone attendee called on him: "I was led to the Savior through that service," he said. "For whenever you talked about sin and salvation, I glanced around to see to whom you referred, but since there was no one there but me, I had no alternative but to lay every word to my own heart and conscience!"

God saves us one by one. If you have access to one, that is your mission field. "Every soul with Christ is a missionary; every soul without Christ is a mission field," the slogan goes. One person cannot reach the entire world, but we can love our neighbor. "Who is my neighbor?" we ask. The next person we meet along the way.
The Spirit brought Philip to the Ethiopian enuch who was reading the Scriptures and needed someone to explain them to him (Acts 8:26-35). The Spirit gave Philip the right words to say, and the enuch confessed his faith in Christ (V37).

Ask God to bring you to the one He has prepared. He'll get you to the right place at the right time to speak to that individual. He will speak through your lips, work through your hands, and fulfill in you the great purpose of His will. __David Roper

````````````````Father, we've been called to witness__``````````````
`````````````````Called to speak of Your dear Son;``````````````````
``````````````````Holy Spirit, grant discernment;``````````````````
``````````````Lead us to some seeking one. __D. DeHaan```````````
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You are a success in God's kingdom
if you are faithful where He has placed you.

************************Today's Bible Reading __ Acts 8:26-35**********************

26 Now an angel of the
Lord spoke to Philip, saying,
"Arise and go toward the
south along the road which
goes down from Jerusalem
to Gaza." This is desert.

27 So he arose and went. And
behold, a man of Ethiopia, a
enuch of great authority
under Candace the queen of
the Ethiopians, who had
charge of all her treasury,
and had come to Jerusalem
to worship, 28 Then the Spirit
said to Phiilip, "Go near and
overtake this chariot."

30 So Philip ran to him, and
heard him reading the
prophet Isaiah, and said,
"Do you understand what
you are reading?"

31 And he said, "How can
I, unless someone guides
me?" And he asked Philip
to come up and sit with
him. 32 The place in the
Scripture which he read
was this: "He was led as a
sheep to the slaughter; and
as a lamb before its shearer
is silent, so He opened not
His mouth. 35 In His
humiliation His justice was
taken away, and who will
declare His generation? For
His life is taken from the
earth."

34 So the enuch answered
Philip and said, "I ask you,
of whom does the prophet
say this, of himself or of
some other man?" 35 Then
Philip opened his mouth, and
beginning at this Scripture,
preached Jesus to him.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Philip, one of the seven men chosen to distribute food among
the poor in Jerusalem (Acts 6:1-6), was the first Jewish evangelist
to cross racial and nationalistic boundaries. He preached to the
Samaritans (Acts 8:5-25) and the Gentiles (vv.26-38), and he hosted
Paul (as recorded in Acts 21:8-9), by which time he was known as
Philip the evangelist.