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Hi I'm Tim Spransy, the pastor of worship arts here at Crosspoint Church and
I'm just gonna take a couple minutes to tell you about scripture
that has been speaking to me lately. I read uh... in
Acts chapter sixteen
about the uh... account of Paul and Silas and when they were imprisoned
and it's pretty remarkable story when you really read into the detail
of it, but
kind of an overview is they got the local
people really upset
they ended up getting severely beaten and flogged and thrown in prison for the night
and uh... I got to thinking about the condition of the prison
and how miserable that must have been
there's there's reason to believe it was either pitch black
or at least a very very dark so if you can imagine being in a place like that
where
you've just been beaten. You're thrown into prison
and your not sure what's gonna happen next. Well, what they do, around midnight
the scripture says,
they start praying and singing hymns. Essentially worshiping God
and I think that this is such a fantastic response to that circumstance
because what happens then is there's this tremendous earthquake
and the prison doors break open
and shackles are loosing from their feet and they're free to go.
They actually stay and lead the prison guard and his whole family to the
Lord.
A lot of people get saved and they eventually do you get free. I think what we look at
when we read that scripture is we look at
the miracle of the earthquake in the prison opening.
But to me
uh... a miracle of equal billing is
the fact that they were able to respond the way they did in such a horrific
circumstance.
They worshiped God
uh...
and that's a lesson that we can take from our lives and apply it into our
lives when we get into, we all find ourselves in, very difficult situations
and circumstances
and what God wants us to do is to turn to Him and give Him thanks
despite or because of our circumstances
and worship Him.
And when that happens,
miracles happen. God moves and He impacts our life. He gives us joy. He gives us
peace.
He does powerful things. So that's kinda what spoke to me these last couple
of days. I hope it's encouraging to you
and uh... you guys have a great day and I will talk to you soon.