My daily devotional reading for Wednesday, August 13, was from Acts 16. This chapter has always caught my interest. After what must have been a troubling disagreement with Barnabas in Acts 15:36-41, Paul and Barnabas parted ways. Then, Paul and Silas begin Paul’s second missionary journey. Because of a vision Paul receives, they leave ‘Asia’, or what we know as Turkey, and start preaching in Europe, in Macedonia, specifically in Philippi. Paul might have had questions on his mind after he and Barabas split up. I would. So, perhaps like me, he looked for the hand of the Lord in the coming events. Those events were not necessarily positive.

If you read Acts 16:10-37, we learn that Paul and Silas had a positive experience with Lydia. Lydia believed their message about Jesus, and then urged P

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