Lesson 16 - Jesus is Near in the Midst of Our Hardship

Acts 21:31-23:30. Just as the Prophet Agabus had predicted, upon arriving in Jerusalem Paul was seized by the Jewish authorities and handed over to the Romans. Things did not appear to be going well for Paul and it would have been easy for him to give in to discouragement; but in the middle of the night "... the Lord stood near Paul". He told him to “take courage" and promised that just as he had testified in Jerusalem, so he would also testify in Rome! God's plan for His Apostle was not yet complete!