Knowing When to Speak, When to Turn, and When to Trust God With the Outcome
Before The Noise
Chad Prather
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Acts 13:13-52 captures a decisive turning point in the mission of the early church. Leadership shifts, courage is tested, and Paul delivers a gospel message rooted in Israel's history and fulfilled in Jesus Christ. As hunger rises and opposition intensifies, the gospel moves beyond familiar boundaries and explodes into the wider world. This passage shows how faithfulness precedes fruitfulness, how grace confronts religion, and how obedience to God's mission requires both bold proclamation and the willingness to turn when God redirects.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Before the Noise, the place where we slow down before the chaos kicks in every weekday. |
| 0:05.2 | Join us for more at BeforeThe Noise.com. Let's go. |
| 0:08.4 | Good morning, everybody. It is December 23rd. It is Tuesday. I want to welcome you to Before the Noise. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm so thankful that you guys chose to get up with us this morning and hang out. |
| 0:18.6 | My name is Chan Prather. If you knew here, |
| 0:25.5 | these are my devotional thoughts. You guys just kind of ride along with me. And we've got a lot to dig into today. So I'm going to jump in there really quick here in a second. We've been |
| 0:29.4 | working our way through the book of Acts. Acts chapter 13. And we're going to finish that chapter. |
| 0:36.3 | We're going to bite off a big chunk today. |
| 0:39.3 | And so I'm very thankful to have you guys along. |
| 0:44.3 | A lot on my mind today, a lot on my heart, a lot going on. |
| 0:47.3 | Can me just tell you, I had a number of friends that were at the house last night, |
| 0:50.5 | had a little swaray over here. |
| 0:53.4 | You know, man, the people that matter in your life, hold them close to you. I mean, hold your family close to you. And I know a lot of you guys have family coming in for the holiday season, for the Christmas season, and you get to visit with a lot of folks. Maybe folks you don't get to see very often. Man, life's quick. Life really is quick. Make sure that you take care of those |
| 1:13.8 | relationships. Those relationships are things that you have the opportunity to take into eternity |
| 1:18.6 | with you. And so cherish those. Really, truly make it a conscious, deliberate effort. I'm |
| 1:25.1 | going to encourage you to do that because you don't get to hold |
| 1:27.7 | everybody forever and uh yeah that's all i'm going to say with that and i love you guys so much i'm |
| 1:34.3 | so thankful for my relationship with you guys and so uh acts chapter 13 is where we are guys |
| 1:40.2 | i'm gonna i'm gonna read this we're going to jump into it thank you hit that like button thank you |
| 1:44.1 | for those of you |
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| 1:48.7 | or under the google overlords over on youtube thank you for being here if you're watching on facebook or x |
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