For he (Barnabas) was a good man, filled with the Holy Spirit and with faith. And a large number of people were won over to the Lord.
Acts.11:24
Barnabas was entrusted by the Apostles to go and assess what was happening in Antioch. The Holy Spirit residing in him affirmed that the preaching to Greeks was producing good fruit.
The Church is starting to grow and its growth was not from Jewish converts but from the pagans. This was unexpected and unsettling. Yet, on investigation it was seen as a genuine work of the Holy Spirit.
It took good, Jewish men such as Barnabas, filled with the Holy Spirit, to let the early Church move in a new and fruitful direction. The Church eventually became a church not of the Jews but of the gentiles.
It seems a prerequisite to being in the center of a move of the Holy Spirit is to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Come Holy Spirit, fall afresh on me.
Saint Barnabas, please pray for me.
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