God’s people still need elders, the modern apostle needs elders, and our elders need apostles.

Put on the armor of God daily so you can resist the schemes of the enemy, and after your battles you will stand firm like Paul and Barnabas.

Let believers circle around you in the middle of whatever you are going through, put Christ at the center, and then get up in faith.

God can do what we cannot do in an instant, and he does it with overflow.

Keep your hope in God and continue looking up today, not at the wind and the waves.

In this devotion from John 6:29, Cory Patton reminds us that God’s “one requirement” is not performance, striving, or proving ourselves. Our job is to believe in Jesus. It’s the same message Jesus preached that Paul and Barnabas continued to proclaim and be persecuted for in Acts 13–14. Faith grows when we stop chasing what Jesus can give and return to Jesus Himself as the bread of life.

A move of God requires that the grace of the Lord be the center, which is the empowerment by Holy Spirit for the preaching and for the signs and the wonders.

The source wasn't the leaders; the source was God.

Preaching creates believers, and believers are the ones that primarily spread the message.

They were looking at the wrong thing; inward instead of upward.