Ken Hayden
Theme:
Miracles can happen for us today just like they did for Paul and Silas, when we
pray and praise God.
1
Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy
Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
-The Holy Spirit dwells in each one of us who has received Christ
as Lord and with his help wonderful things can happen, we would have never
dreamed of.
Acts 16:16-34 ----A demon is cast of of the fortunetelling
woman, Paul Silas are jailed and the jailer receives Christ and he and his
household are saved.
Acts 16:18-19 Paul and Silas spoke and lashed out at the evil
spirit not the girl.
-Many times we
have to recognize the evil spirits behind a situation, not just the
individuals.
Acts 16:23 Paul and Silas had many stripes laid
on them and they were cast into jail.
-Sometimes in
life we have to receive and bare stripes, before we can bare true fruit of the
spirit in our lives.
Acts 16:25 At the midnight hour Paul and Silas were filled with
prayer and songs of praise.
-Miracles
happen when we have a praise party and not a pity party.
Acts 16:26 A sudden earthquake caused the
foundation of the prison to be shaken. The doors were opened and the chains
were loosened and not just Paul and Silas, all the prisoners.
- When
the Holy Spirit comes, he touches everyone, not just a select few.
2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where
the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Acts 16:27-28 The
jailer awoke, seeing the prison
doors open, he was fearful, took out his sword and was about to kill himself.
Paul in kindness and mercy told the jailer
“Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.”
- The jailer awoke from his natural
sleep and also greater still from his spiritual sleep. Sometimes God
does awesome things when we are in not so pleasant places. Christlike
character, godly behaviour and love of others, will cause others to say just
like the jailer in Acts 16:30 “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
God heard
the praises of Paul and Silas and God showed up and miracles happened. Just
like in King David’s time and Paul and Silas time the anointing is still and
always needed. Programs and the ideas of man will never work by themselves. Paul and Silas had a Holy Ghost
anointed praise service and the Glory of the Lord came down; chains were
broken, people were saved and baptized. In the end, when life is over, it will
not matter what denomination we were, what will matter is what we did with
Jesus.
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