Are You Ready?

As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work." - Acts 13:2


Three months before a planned mission trip, a friend and I were talking about the upcoming event. He said to me, "If anyone can't go, I'd me willing to step in and join you." This was not going to be an easy 8 days, for we would be painting, repairing, and fixing stuff in the July heat of Jamaica.Yet my friend seemed eager to go.

About 6 weeks before we were scheduled to leave, there was an opening. I e-mailed my friend - whom I hadn't seen in the interim - and asked if he was still interested. He immediately responded, "Sure! And I got a passport just in case you asked." He had made sure he was ready - just in case he got the call to go.

My friend's preparation reminds me of what happened back in the first century at Antioch. Paul and Barnabas were among a number of people getting themselves ready spiritually for whatever God might ask them to do, or wherever He might send them. They didn't prepare by getting a passport, but they "ministered to the Lord and fasted" (Acts 13:2). And when the Holy Spirit said, "Separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work" (v.2), they were all set for the journey.

Are you preparing for what God might want you to do? When the Spirit says, "Go," will you be ready? - Dave Branon


Available for God to use me,
Available, if God should choose me;
Should it be here or there, it doesn't matter where;
My waiting heart prepare. - Anthony

Keep your tools ready - God will find work for you.

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Acts 13:1-5

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them." Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus. When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. They had also John as their attendant.

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Father, I wish to be use by You... Please give me power of learning... I still have a long way to go for and learn... and may all I do will please You... You are my Lord, please show me the way... what shall I do... none of my mind can stop You... I will only go for you...