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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

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Hey, thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive today. My name is Bro, and we spend a few minutes here

each weekday just trying to get to know God better. And we've been walking through His word, trying to stick some hope and truth and wisdom from his heart in our heart.

And we've been walking through the book of Acts for a while.

And for the last few days, we've been looking at a guy named Barnabas.

Now, his real name is Joseph, but he was given a nickname, and that nickname stuck.

The nickname means the son of encouragement, because that's what he was known for.

It describes him simply as a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and strong in faith.

And God used this humble, generous guy to make a huge difference in the world.

We talked a few days ago how Barnabas believed in Saul when nobody else would.

Everybody else was afraid of this treacherous, murderous dude, but not Barnabas.

He tells everybody that Saul had met, indeed, the resurrected Jesus, and had quite the encounter

with him, that he had repented of his

sins, he'd been baptized, that God had chosen him that preached the good news.

When everybody else held Saul at arm's length, Barnabas embraced him, included him, mentored him,

coached him, loved him, invested in him, and as a result, Saul would become the Apostle Paul, who God used to spread

the good news all the way to us. And gang, that's the power of encouragement, seeing potential,

and just believing the best in other people. And these two guys would become very close,

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