October 22: Job 11-12; Acts 15-16

Scripture: Acts 16:35 (NIV) When it was daylight, the magistrates sent their officers to the jailer with the order: “Release those men.”

Observation: Paul and Silas had been preaching the good news about Jesus in the city of Philippi. They were brought before the city officials on a false charge they were beaten and thrown into jail. During the night an earthquake set all the prisoners free, not just Paul and Silas. The jailer was about to kill himself, thinking everyone had escaped, but Paul called out that everyone was still there. Then the jailer took Paul and Silas to his home and washed their wounds and became a believer. So…
When the word came for their release, they had already been set free!

Application: Often God has given me freedom in my own heart before the problem is solved. The circumstances may indicate that I am “still in the jail” but my heart is already free!

Prayer: Lord, when you set us free, we are free indeed! No circumstances on earth can control those you have freed! Even in death our spirit will be free long before our bodies are placed in the grave! Amen.

Pastor Leon
Making friends for time and eternity!