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 it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,
• Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
• 1 Cor 12:11But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
• Rom 1:1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,
• 2 Tim 1:11For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
• Acts 14:26From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
• Dan 9:3I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
• 1 Tim 2:7to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
• Acts 22:21“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
• Col 4:17Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”
• Luke 2:37and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.
• Acts 8:29The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”
• 2 Tim 2:2The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
• Matt 6:16“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
• Acts 10:19While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men seek you.
• 1 Sam 2:11Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.
• Gal 2:8–9(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);
• Matt 9:38Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”
• Acts 10:30Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
• Matt 9:14–15Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”
• Deut 10:8At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
• Acts 16:6–7When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
• Eph 3:7of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
• Num 8:11–14and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.
• 1 Chr 16:4He appointed some of the Levites to minister before Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:
• Rom 15:16that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
• 2 Cor 6:5in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
• Acts 13:3Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
• Heb 5:4Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
• 1 Cor 7:5Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
• Acts 6:4But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”
• Acts 20:28Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
• Rom 10:15And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
• 2 Tim 4:5But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
• 1 Chr 16:37–43So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required;
• 2 Tim 4:11Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.
• 2 Cor 11:27in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
• Luke 10:1Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.

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