Acts 18:1-17 – In Corinth.
- “Stop Trying; Start Training”
- Abraham Lincoln: Today I will prepare for tomorrow my opportunity may come!
- Too many of us are trying too hard and training too weakly.
- Our opportunities come and try as hard as we might we fail due to our lack of training.
- Paul has been training for such moments as this. He needs three things it seems from this passage to be successful in setting up a strategic stronghold for the advance of the Kingdom in the region:
- The ability to help himself.
- The help of God
- The help of Godly people.
- Paul had been trained to help himself; he was a tent-maker by trade. The Jews believed in providing their children with one manual skill no matter how rich [or poor] they were. Paul is able to draw upon his training to help himself make a living.
- He had be trained by the Spirit to hear God and take direction and so a dream was all it took to keep him on track. For some Christians; they can hear the Holy Spirit clearly and it still not be enough because they have not been through the process; they have not habitually submitted to the spirit’s leading and so in crucial times, when God speaks clearly; they try but fail to obey.
- Paul had been trained to convince and through this as well as God’s providence, God had placed many supporters in the city for him.
- Stop trying and start training.
- There is training for God.
- There is training for evil!
- Gossip is a training syllabus for Rebellion.
- A lack of study is a training course for poor choices.
- Flirting is a training scheme for adultery!
- What are you trying for, when instead you should be training for?
- Praying I will stick to the training program God has put me on.
- Praying today for Churches to train our people rather than just teach them.
- Today I will train for tomorrow my opportunity will come!
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