“The most powerful weapon for silencing the mouth of the world is not brilliant theological apologetics, but the practice of a holy life that resembles Jesus Christ.” “Now it happened, as Jesus went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they were watching Him closely. And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy. And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ‘Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?’ But they kept silent. And He took him and healed him, and let him go. Then He answered them, saying, ‘Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?’ And they could not answer Him regarding these things” (Luke 14:1–6). (1) As I meditated on today’s passage, Luke 14:1–6, the phrase that first caught my attention was: “they were watching Him clos...
The prayer place I am looking for,
the prayer place that
the Lord is leading me to?
While
Apostle Paul and Silas were going to a place of prayer,
they
encountered a slave girl who was possessed by a fortune-telling spirit,
and
in the name of Jesus Christ, they drove the demon out of her.
They
were captured by her masters, taken to Roman officials, and ended up in prison.
They
were imprisoned and prayed in prison (Acts 16:16-25).
Clearly,
the place of prayer
that
Apostles Paul and Silas were looking for was not a prison.
However,
I think that Paul and Silas used the prison as a place of prayer,
guided
by God, who in His sovereignty also uses
the
guidance of those whom He wanted and did not want.
I
think that the fact that we prayed with this in mind (v. 16)
is a
lesson from God to each of us.
If we
are currently trapped in the East, West, South, and North,
and
the solution to the problem is clearly visible,
perhaps
that prison-like situation may be the prayer place that the Lord wants for us.
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