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Previous Daily Devotional
About
praying and singing in our persecution… Acts
16:25 - 26 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God,
and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a
violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all
the prison doors flew open, and everybody's chains came loose. (NIV) When we pray and sing in our persecution, something starts happening in our life. When we pray and sing in our persecution, deep rumblings within the world we live in begin to occur and things in our world are shaken up. Very few people who have ever prayed in prison have been freed by an earthquake. However, the earthquake was not an answer to a specific prayer by Paul or Silas to be freed. The point is that prayer and singing took place at a time and in a place where prayer and singing hardly ever take place…in prison after a beating. It is easy to mistakenly think the point of the earthquake and the resulting freedom was that if you sing and pray in prison you will be freed from prison. However, the real point is we should keep on praying and keep on singing in spite of our many adversities. Evil might have thought evil had won with the beating and the imprisonment of Paul and Silas. However, evil had no chance in the life of Paul and Silas. Evil had been defeated when Christ was crucified and was raised again on the third day. In your life, when you sing and pray in your persecution, evil will be defeated. In the face of every adversity, if you dedicate and rededicate your life to doing God's will within the adversity, things will shake and freedom will be realized. What might be a shock to many people is Paul and Silas would gladly have stayed in prison and died there if such acts would have advanced the calling to which Paul and Silas had responded.
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