Friday March 6^th-Walking in Wisdom!

Acts 16:22-30 

Trials and Tribulations! 

How do you react when going through them?  We probably will never experience what the disciples went through, but we can be encouraged when we go through our own struggles.    

Can you imagine having your clothes torn off of you and then beaten with rods?  After much affliction and blows to their bodies they were then thrown into the inner prison with their feet in stocks. [Acts 22-23] 

I am sure they must have felt the pain of what they went through.  But, what were they doing around midnight?  There were praying and singing hymns of PRAISE to God.  Those around them got the benefit of hearing this and they whether they liked it or not got to listen to it.  [:25]

When we are rejoicing in the Lord, it is far reaching in our lives to those around us.

Even there in the prison God was with Paul and Silas.  There is nowhere that you can go that God is not there.

[Psalm 139:7-12]

Do you know someone who seems at peace and calm through their storms of life? 

For me it was Corrie Ten Boom, [The Hiding Place] and Elizabeth Eliot [Through Gates of Splendor]. 

They  encouraged me when I first became a Christian.  How did they do that?  I believe that spending time each day with the Lord in His word and praying and praising Him is the answer.  The more time you spend with Him the more you will get to know Him and know who you are in Him. 

I encourage you to read Isaiah 53 and see what Jesus has done for you. 

blessings!

Lyn