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Monday, October 13 – Acts 16:22-26

  • Writer: Josh Breslaw
    Josh Breslaw
  • Oct 13
  • 2 min read

For our devotions and sermons between now and Thanksgiving, we will be revisiting some of our core values. Throughout the next 6 weeks, we will examine 4 of our 5 official core values and add 2 more themes, which could very well be core values of ours. The only core value we won’t discuss is prayer because we just worked through that as we studied Jonah 2.


Not only will we go through some CoreValues+ over the next 6 weeks, but we will also do so through the lens of Paul’s second and third missionary journeys. The power of worship is on full display during Paul’s Second Missionary Journey as he and Silas are imprisoned in Philippi. We read the beginning of the story today as Paul and Silas are arrested, beaten, and put into chains. What we did not read was that the impetus for their arrest is casting a demon out of a fortune teller, which means her owner cannot earn profit from her powers. What would you do if you had cast out a demon in the name of the Lord and your reward was imprisonment?


What Paul and Silas did was pray and sing to the Lord. The Lord heard their prayers and songs and sent an earthquake that caused the release of the prisoners. How do we know that it was the Lord? How else does an earthquake open locked doors and unfasten chains? This is the type of power that worship has. But most importantly, no matter the result, Paul and Silas are an example for you and me that no matter what we are going through, we should worship. Paul and Silas could have been bitter about their bondage in prison; instead, they worshipped God. That is a lesson for all of us.


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