Good evening, everyone!
I meant to post this earlier, but I got busy today and totally forgot.
Unfortunately, that means this post will be short because I have to get to bed.
Today I read Acts 16-17.
In today's reading, Paul and Silas are preaching in a city in Europe, where a demon-possessed woman was shouting how they served the Most-High God, causing a stir. So, Paul commands the demon to come out of her. Her masters are angry because they got money from her divinations, so they have Paul and Silas arrested.
While in prison, under heavy guard and bound with chains, Paul and Silas began praising God. Suddenly the earth quakes, and their chains fall off and all the prison doors open.
The jailer rushes in, and assuming that all the prisoners have escaped, prepares to kill himself. Paul and Silas step out of their cell, and stop him from harming himself, because all the prisoners are there.
The man asks how he can also be saved, so they tell him, and he and his whole house convert.
Now, the point I really took from this - though there is a lot to be learned from this story - is that Paul and Silas praised God through their imprisonment. They prayed and praised so loudly, in fact, despite their circumstances, that they were freed.
That can happen to us too. When we focus on God rather than our circumstances, they can't bind us. When we praise rather than complain and pray rather than despair, our circumstances will not become our prisons.
I hope you'll join me tomorrow when I read Acts 18-20.
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