1 Kings 3:5-15. Offered anything, Solomon asks for a discerning heart to govern — and God is pleased by what he did not ask for.
Ananias sent to Straight Street to lay hands on the man who came to arrest him. Saul is named a chosen instrument before he has done anything to deserve it.
A verse-by-verse walk through John 14, read as a journey with terrain worth mapping — with the promise that either direction you turn works out for those who love God.
The third part of the Simon the Sorcerer story in Acts 8, closing with Peter and John preaching through the Samaritan villages on the way back.
Simon the Sorcerer, part two: what happens when someone tries to buy the power of the Spirit, and what Peter tells him to do about it.
Philip and the Ethiopian in Acts 8:26-40 — God sends someone to explain the text to a man already reading it.