“Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, 'Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.' This is a desert place.”  Acts 8:26

At the height of a Holy Spirit outpouring in Samaria, where the Gospel was being preached with great power and droves of people were converting to follow Christ, the LORD instructed Philip to leave Samaria and head south to Gaza.

Philip didn’t know a divine appointment awaited him. 

Through his ministry to the Ethiopian Eunuch, the Gospel would spread to Africa.

He left the crowd.  To serve one.

I call this step down faith. It's easy to step up for the attention and applause of the masses, but do we have step down faith?

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