Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
February 11, 2022: SOAP #4453:  Leviticus 15-17; Acts 18

SCRIPTURE:  Acts (NIV) 18:9 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. 10 For I am with you, and no-one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.” 11 So Paul stayed for a year and a half [in the city of Corinth], teaching them the word of God.

OBSERVATION:  As Paul was moving from city to city, preaching the good news about Jesus, God would give him specific direction.  It is interesting to me that God gave Paul general directions in sending him out on these journeys, but the specific instructions came as Paul was moving in obedience to the general call.  Stay here; Go there; Do not go there. 

Two reasons for Paul to continue preaching in Corinth.  The first: God was with Paul!   The second:  God already had people in the city. 

APPLICATION:  I can easily see God’s similar plan working in my life.  As I am faithful to continue writing out the daily SOAPs, God fills in the specifics as we move ahead.  God has Pastor Andrew, in Sierra Leone, who has a vision for spreading the SOAPs around Africa.  He has arranged for thousands of copies to be printed each month and distributed in Freetown.  In reaching out to Liberia, God has a man who conducts conferences for pastors in the West Africa countries.  Bishop Emmanuel has taken laptops to seven countries where they have internet and printers to print out SOAPs and distribute them in their country.  Tomorrow he leaves with seven laptops for the remaining seven West African countries where God has pastors to print and distribute the SOAPs.  And in the heart of it all, God has a businessman, Joshua, who has provided laptops at a good price. 

God had “many people” in Corinth.  God has many people helping with the SOAPs, people in America, Asia, and Africa. 

PRAYER:  Lord in so many ways you have blest me in preparing and sending out the SOAPs.  I ask that you bless each one who reads them, forwards them, prays for them, invests their time and money in them, prints them, distributes them.  First, speak to their hearts, then through them to others. Amen.

Pastor Leon
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