#‎GOFAMINTDailyDevotion‬ Wed. 17/2/2016

LESSON 12                   21/2/2016

THE SUPPORTERS OF APOSTLE PAUL

Suggested Hymns: G.H.B. 61, 214

Devotional Reading: Acts 16:11-15

Topic For Adults: Support Your Ministers

Topic For Youths: Your Ministers Need You

Topic For Intermediates: Don’t Be Stingy Towards Your Ministers

Scripture Lesson: Lk. 10:7; 1 Cor. 9:7-14; Acts 16:13-15, 40; 2 Tim. 1:14-18, 4:16; Rom. 16:1-9; Phil. 4:10-19

Memory verse:           Whoever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock? (1 Cor. 9:7) NKJV

DAILY DEVOTIONAL READING

Wed. 17/2/2016

Open Your House To The Ministers Of God

Acts 16:13-15, 40

In today’s text again, we have seen another great woman, Lydia, constraining (compelling) men of God she met to come and stay in her house.  Paul, Silas and Luke yielded to this call and they stayed with the woman.  After the events (vs16-39), they returned to the house of Lydia where they met other brethren.  She, like others, opened her house twice to the Apostle and it is strikingly stated of her that “she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul” (Vs. 14b). What an example for us! Providing accommodation for ministers of God is of great blessings.  In the past, that used to be the practice when churches had guest ministers.  Members opened their houses to such ministers but today, that is hardly done as guest ministers prefer staying in hotels thereby denying members of blessings that accompany accommodating ministers of God.  Let us consider this old and rewarding practice again

Point of Emphasis:      Open your house to the ministers of God.

Prayer Point:                           Lord, help our church to go back to that which was highly rewarding in the past

by opening our houses to ministers of God.