Day 1

-12/4/2009-

This morning I was reading a passage from Acts chapter 16, verse 22 and on. Paul and Silas were at one point surrounded by a mob. The city officials ordered them to be beaten with wooden rods. Paul and Silas were severly beaten and then put into prison...

Children of God were spreading His word and living by Faith and Love, depending on God's protection and mercy...beaten??

While paul and Silas were exhausted and recovering from the attack, at midnight, as they are especially restrained with their feet clamped, the Bible tells us they were "praying and singing hymns to God, and other prisoners were listening."

As I read this, I had to stop and think of our situation as Christians today...How do we respond to spiritual attack? Do we continue to sing and pray? Or do we often ask God to unload the burden we have...

Look at the trust, faithfulness and sincerity Paul and Silas leave me and you to learn from in their worshiping our God.

Shortly there is a huge earthquake (God has never left His servants!) and Paul and Silas not only save the jailer from committing suicide, but also, by introducing Christ, he was able to accept the gift of salvation for himself and his household.

God wants to remind us that in serving Him, our faith and Love and commitment will be tested. But never are we left alone during the exam.

the process may be the one and only most humiliating, humbling and breaking experience one fears the most. But God reminds us that He will be glorified in the result, and if He lives in you, then you too, shall understand the joy of glorifying God Almighty.

psalms 143:7-8"
...come quicly Lord and snwer me, for my depression deepens, Don't turn away from me, or I will die, let me hear from your unfailing love each monring for I am trusting You, show me where to walk for I give myself to you."