Paul’s First Missionary Journey<\/a>\u00a0 (Map)<\/div>\nNotice that there are two Antioch\u2019s on the map.\u00a0 The first one is the Antioch where they were located when they received the instructions.\u00a0 It is Syrian Antioch.\u00a0 The second Antioch is West and North and it is in Pisidia, so known as Pisidian Antioch.\u00a0 They left Antioch and took a short ride on the Orontes River to Seleucia and from there caught a ship and traveled about sixty miles to the city of Salamis on the Cyprus Island.\u00a0 Cyprus is a large island about one hundred forty miles long and about sixty miles wide.\u00a0 Economically it was noted for its copper mines.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God\u00a0in the Jewish synagogues.\u00a0John\u00a0was with them as their helper.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 After arriving at Salamis they immediately began to proclaim the Word of God.\u00a0 These were men full of the Spirit who could hardly wait to get started in their Holy Spirit directed ministry.\u00a0 They were excited to see what God would do.\u00a0\u00a0 As we continue on in Luke, we must remember that Jesus said in\u00a0John 16:33<\/b>\u00a0\u201cI have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.\u00a0In this world you will have trouble.\u00a0But take heart! I have overcome\u00a0the world<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0 As we continue to read we must remember that Jesus did not promise no hardships where He sends us, in fact, He said we would have trouble.\u00a0 Too often it is easy to quit when it gets hard and we may think \u201cThis is tough. Maybe we didn\u2019t hear from God.\u201d\u00a0 We must remember that if we are doing what God will have us do we should, as Jesus said, expect opposition.\u00a0 Not that we shouldn\u2019t be open to the possibility that we misunderstood.\u00a0 But Family, opposition and troubles when we are doing the work of God should be expected and more likely is confirmation we are on the right path than that we are on the wrong path. We must remember, as I was told by a most loved and respected pastor \u201cBob, the Lord greatly loves you, but the devil hates you.\u201d\u00a0 Certainly I am nobody, but the devil hates all of us that stand up for Christ and who endeavor to do His will.\u00a0 We should expect the enemy to attack us.\u00a0 If He is not, then we should wonder why we are not receiving opposition.\u00a0 Perhaps we are no threat so he doesn\u2019t waste him time on us.\u00a0 Even worse, perhaps we never left his side of the fight?\u00a0 God forbid!\u00a0 Let us faithfully serve God and rejoice in trials, they most likely show that the enemy does not like us invading his territory. \u00a0Rejoice in trials! (1 Peter 4:13, James 1:2, Acts 5:41<\/b>) Praise God for allowing us to serve Him.\u00a0 Praise God to praise God!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n
Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n
Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Acts 13:4-12\u00a0\u2013 The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit,\u00a0went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.\u00a05\u00a0When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God\u00a0in the Jewish synagogues.\u00a0John\u00a0was with them as their helper.\u00a0 6\u00a0They traveled through the whole island until they came to Paphos. There they met…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[82,1700,100,94,90,17],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-acts","tag-james","tag-john","tag-micah","tag-peter","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}