Power in Praise

Paul and Silas had just done a good deed in serving the Lord and being used by God to free a girl who had been enslaved and used by her owners for monetary gain by fortune telling. But their good deed was met with anger from her owners and being beaten and thrown into jail illegally because they were Roman citizens. 

How would you deal with a circumstance such as this? Get angry? Yell at the guards? Feel hopeless?

Paul and Silas dealt with it very differently. They began to pray. They lifted their voice in praise and song to God. At midnight. In a jail cell.

You know what happens next. An earthquake, chains loosen, and they share the Gospel with the jailer and he and his whole family come to faith in Christ. 

How can we see the power of God in our lives when things get tough? Pray and praise through it! There is power in prayer and there is power in praise because the one we pray to and praise is the maker of Heaven and Earth!

In His Service,

Pastor Jared