A miracle and saving grace, men at work in prayer to bring others to Christ!

 

The crowd in Philippi joined in the attack on Paul and Silas,

and the magistrates had them stripped

and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

After inflicting many blows on them,

they threw them into prison

and instructed the jailer to guard them securely.

When he received these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell

and secured their feet to a stake.

About midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying

and singing hymns to God as the prisoners listened,

there was suddenly such a severe earthquake

that the foundations of the jail shook;

all the doors flew open, and the chains of all were pulled loose.

When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open,

he drew his sword and was about to kill himself,

thinking that the prisoners had escaped.

But Paul shouted out in a loud voice,

"Do no harm to yourself; we are all here."

He asked for a light and rushed in and,

trembling with fear, he fell down before Paul and Silas.

Then he brought them out and said,

"Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus

and you and your household will be saved."

So they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to everyone in his house.

He took them in at that hour of the night and bathed their wounds;

then he and all his family were baptized at once.

He brought them up into his house and provided a meal

and with his household rejoiced at having come to faith in God.

~Acts 16:22-34

A miracle and saving grace, men at work in prayer to bring others to Christ! Was this a miracle or a coincidence or both? God's timing is always perfect and we can see here how He used Paul and Silas to bring others to Christ, even locked up in a jail, people believed and knew they had the power from God to convert others to Jesus! What a blessing, what a miracle! God is so good to all of us! He just wants us to go to Him, to believe, to follow Jesus, to reflect, imitate, and love like Him! Do you have faith in God? Jesus I believe in you and your power!