TODAY’S TURNING POINT WITH DR. DAVID JEREMIAH 23 AUGUST 2025 DAILY DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE
Read David Jeremiah Daily Devotional – 23rd August 2025, Saturday Turning Point Devotional Message
TOPIC: Rousing Send-Offs: The First Missionaries
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The Holy Spirit said, “Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then, having fasted and prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them away. – Acts 13:2-3
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Acts 13:1-5
In 1793, William and Dorothy Carey were commissioned as missionaries to India in a great church service in which the congregation sang Benjamin Beddome’s hymn: “And must I part with all I have, Jesus, my Lord, for Thee? This is my joy, since Thou hast done much more than this for me.”6
Have you ever been in a service in which missionaries are commissioned and sent off? It began in Acts 13 when the Paul and Barnabas became the first missionaries sent out by a local church. These events are too rare today. Jesus told us to “pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest” (Luke 10:2).
This weekend steal away for a few moments to your “prayer closet” and ask the Lord of the harvest to send off more laborers. Let’s return to the glorious days of missionary commissioning services.
Turning Point
Savior of souls, could I from Thee a single smile obtain, though destitute of all things else, I’d glory in my gain.
Benjamin Beddome
6. Timothy George. The Greaz Commission, eds. Martin I. Kaluber and Scott M. Munecsch (Nashville, TN: B&LI Publishing, 2008), 50.
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