Acts 13:2

As they worship and fast, the Holy Spirit commands them to set apart Barnabas and Saul for his appointed work. God himself calls and sends his missionaries.

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• Gal 1:15But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
• Acts 9:15“Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.
• 1 Cor 12:11All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines.
• Rom 1:1Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—
• 2 Tim 1:11to which I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.
• Acts 14:26From Attalia they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had just completed.
• Dan 9:3So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
• 1 Tim 2:7For this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling the truth; I am not lying about anything.
• Acts 22:21Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
• Col 4:17Tell Archippus: “See to it that you complete the ministry you have received in the Lord.”
• Luke 2:37and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
• Acts 8:29The Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to that chariot and stay by it.”
• 2 Tim 2:2And the things that you have heard me say among many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be qualified to teach others as well.
• Matt 6:16When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
• Acts 10:19As Peter continued to reflect on the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are looking for you.
• 1 Sam 2:11Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy began ministering to the LORD before Eli the priest.
• Gal 2:8–9For the One who was at work in Peter’s apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in my apostleship to the Gentiles.
• Matt 9:38Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.”
• Acts 10:30Cornelius answered: “Four days ago I was in my house praying at this, the ninth hour. Suddenly a man in radiant clothing stood before me
• Matt 9:14–15At that time John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast so often, but Your disciples do not fast?”
• Deut 10:8At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name, as they do to this day.
• Acts 16:6–7After the Holy Spirit had prevented them from speaking the word in the province of Asia, they traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia.
• Eph 3:7I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace, given me through the working of His power.
• Num 8:11–14Aaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, so that they may perform the service of the LORD.
• 1 Chr 16:4David appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, to celebrate, to give thanks, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel.
• Rom 15:16to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
• 2 Cor 6:5in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
• Acts 13:3And after they had fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
• Heb 5:4No one takes this honor upon himself; he must be called by God, just as Aaron was.
• 1 Cor 7:5Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.
• Acts 6:4and will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
• Acts 20:28Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
• Rom 10:15And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
• 2 Tim 4:5But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
• 1 Chr 16:37–43So David left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to minister there regularly according to the daily requirements,
• 2 Tim 4:11Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is useful to me in the ministry.
• 2 Cor 11:27in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
• Luke 10:1After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit.

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