CCOG 8-3-25 Sunday Service. Prison Break. Changing your Circumstances

Have you ever felt imprisoned by your circumstances? There's an extraordinary power waiting to be unleashed when we choose praise over pity.

Drawing from the remarkable story of Paul and Silas in Acts 16, this message reveals how two men transformed their darkest moment into a divine appointment. Beaten, wrongfully imprisoned, and thrust into the innermost cell with their feet fastened in stocks, they faced a pivotal choice at midnight. Rather than surrendering to despair, they began praying and singing hymns—a decision that literally shook their prison to its foundations.

What's particularly striking about their story isn't just the supernatural earthquake that followed, but the realization that Paul and Silas couldn't peek ahead to Acts 16 to see how things would turn out. They were living what would later become scripture, operating purely from their knowledge of who God is and what He can do. "When you go into your circumstance knowing who God is and what He is capable of," the speaker emphasizes, "it will change everything about it."

The message brilliantly unpacks how the devil often attempts to derail our purpose—not by stopping us completely, but by delaying us with obstacles and isolation. We're reminded that God doesn't just care about our "significant" problems; He cares about everything that concerns us. "If you care about it, God cares about it, no matter how small or insignificant."

Whether you're facing opposition while trying to do right, feeling isolated in a dark place where nobody seems to understand, or simply needing breakthrough in an impossible situation, this message offers a powerful truth: you can change your circumstances through prayer and praise. As the foundations of Paul and Silas's prison were shaken, so too can the walls of your impossible situation crumble when you choose to worship in your midnight hour.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome and Introduction
• 1:56 Pastor Introduces Guest Speaker
• 3:42 Changing Your Circumstances
• 8:49 Paul and Silas's Journey
• 17:30 When the Devil Shows Up
• 25:50 Finding Yourself in Prison
• 34:40 Midnight Prayer Changes Everything
• 41:05 The Earthquake of God's Response
• 44:09 Closing Thoughts and Invitation

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:17

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Speaker 2: 1:08

I'm thankful for Jason and Kayla, taylor and Tucker, and God sent them our way. And you know what they did they packed up, put a for sale sign on their home in Leslie County and moved even deeper and darker in the hills to Harlan County. And that's what you do when God says go, you go, amen. And I'm very, very thankful for this family, very thankful for this brother who is going to come and break the bread of life with you today. Let's give him a hand, and Jesus a hand, as he comes to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to us.

Speaker 3: 1:55

I was telling Kayla earlier that I always get real nervous when it's the home church, always get real nervous when it's the home church, and I told her also that a lot of the added pressure is having the overseer in the house with you too. But I'm just teasing him. But now I do appreciate Pastor John and him sharing his pulpit with me today. Today I honor him, I thank him for what he does and you know, I'm thankful that we got a pastor that actually is called by other churches to come and minister right, because it means we've got other people that want to hear him and we support him here at K-Wood. We love him and, sister Leanne, we're thankful for them and them sharing their pulpit. Let's give them a hand this morning, show them your gratitude and appreciation for them. I'll be honest with you. The Lord laid this message on my heart early in the week I was struggling with a message for today. And then, as I began to pray and seek the week, I was struggling with a message for today. And then, as I began to pray and seek the Lord, he just kind of dropped it all on my plate at one time and I got tickled. I was writing things down yesterday on just envelopes laying around at the house and Kayla said what are you doing? I said I got to write it before I lose it. So you know, I'm thankful that the Lord will pour in because, in all honesty, today's message ties in just perfectly with the way the flow of the service has been going and the name of this thing, if I had to title it, would be Changing your Circumstances. Changing your Circumstances, and if you've got your Bible with you, I think Christian, give them the text earlier. It's found in the book of Acts, chapter 16. I'm going to start in verse 16 and I'll try to hurry and read through verse 34. And if you can this morning and are able, will you stand with me really quick as you're turning. I promise I'll try to speed through these things and get through it, because I want to sum it all up for you in just a few minutes and preach to you a message Amen.

Speaker 3: 4:13

Verse 16 starts out and it came to pass as we now we, there is Paul, silas and Luke. And as it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. The same followed Paul and us and cried, saying these men are the servants of the Most High God. Even the devil knows men of God which show unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days, but Paul being grieved. In other words, he got aggravated and mad. Has anybody been there before? How many get fed up with the devil sometimes? Amen, paul turned and said to the spirit, I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.

Speaker 3: 5:14

And when her master saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas and drew them into the marketplace and to the rulers and brought them to the magistrates, saying these men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city and teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive neither to observe, being Romans. And the multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates ran off their clothes and commanded to beat them. And when they had laid many stripes upon them in other words, they beat them they cast them into the prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God. I'm going to back up and read that one more time. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God and the prisoners heard them and suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's bands were loose.

Speaker 3: 6:42

And the keeper of the prison awakened out of his sleep. Seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice saying do thyself no harm, for we are all here. Then he called for a light and sprang in and came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas and brought them out and said Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said Believe on the Lord, jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. It's that simple. This morning, folks, and not only you but thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord and to all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes and was baptized, he and all of his, straight way. And when he had brought them into his house. He said meet before them and rejoice, believing in God with all his house.

Speaker 3: 7:51

Heavenly Father, we come before you this morning. We're just so thankful for this opportunity, lord, to stand behind this sacred desk, lord, that you've entrusted in Kaywood for almost 100 years. Lord, may I never take this opportunity for granted or forsake. Lord, lord, but I pray this morning that you will usher in your spirit into this house, just as you did on the day that Paul and Silas opened up their mouths and began to pray and sing hymns to you. Lord, I pray that you will send a quake to this place. I pray that you will shake it to the very foundation that everybody, under the sound of my voice this morning, leaves encouraged, lord, with the word that you have given us, and we ask it in your precious and holy name Amen and amen. I told you I'm going to try to wrap all this up, I'm going to try to put it all together for you. Normally sometimes I go through verse by verse and I realize today we're kind of in a little bit of a speedy rush to get things done and get this message out. But I want to sum it all up for you in this summary.

Speaker 3: 9:15

Paul and Silas were going on a second mission trip and, as a matter of fact, silas. This was his first mission trip with Paul and it doesn't turn out too good for Brother Silas. You know, if I travel with you and you get me thrown in jail, I'm going to question my next go about with you. Silas was just kind of new to the territory and he was traveling with Paul and Paul got him in all kinds of trouble and they wasn't out of the will of God. Anybody been there before. You found yourself in a bad place and you began to question things and think am I even in the will of God? Well, paul and Silas and the book of Acts here, brother Luke, they were on their way to a prayer meeting and all of a sudden the devil shows up.

Speaker 3: 10:08

How many this morning got ready for church and the devil showed up at your house this morning and tried to convince you that it may not be a good idea for you to keep going and keep pressing on to church, because the devil didn't want you to get what's here today at church. So he tried to set an obstacle for you. He tried to come in and convince you not to show up. Maybe you had to fight the babies this morning. Can I get real with you this morning. Maybe you had to fight the babies and get them ready. Maybe you had trouble fixing your hair and your makeup this morning. Maybe you had some type of obstacle and you didn't feel all warm and fuzzy about going to church, but you still pushed through anyway because you knew that God was here. You knew if you could just get in the presence of God, everything would be okay.

Speaker 3: 10:59

I'm come to tell somebody today you better not let any devil in hell convince you to stay out of the house of God, because there's something about the house of God. Oh, I'd like for it to be just as simple as a wardrobe malfunction sometimes, but sometimes it feels like you got to fight all hell to get to where you're going. Right, brother Paul was in the same scenario. A devil showed up while he was on his way to prayer meeting and Paul got fed up with it. How many is fed up with the devil? Come on, I need somebody.

Speaker 3: 11:37

I come to preach to somebody who is fed up with the lies of the devil. Who is fed up. Oh, I thank the Holy Ghost for this one who is fed up with the lies of the devil. Who is fed up. Oh, I thank the Holy Ghost for this one who is fed up with the devil telling you lies and trying to convince you and, more importantly, try to keep you from what God has for you. I need somebody in this morning, in this house, that will understand.

Speaker 3: 11:58

You got the authority to look at the devil and say get away from me, get behind me. You don't belong in my house, you don't belong in my family, you don't belong in my vehicle, you don't belong in my school, you don't belong in my job. It's time that we put the devil out of our business. We got to get fed up with it. You see, brother Paul, he didn't just try to convince her to leave. That's what we try to do nowadays. I got to come down here. Sometimes we try to play games with the devil and we try to bargain with the devil and we try to make deals with them and we'll say, if you'll just leave me alone today, I won't pray, I won't open my bible, I won't do this and I won't do that. No, honey, you don't back up when it comes to a fight with the devil. You better square up and know who you are. You better stay. David said you may come at me like a giant. You may look like you're going to win this thing, but I come to you in the name of the Lord, how many this morning need to put some devils to some flats?

Speaker 3: 13:16

This morning Brother Paul got tired of it and he eventually looked around at her and he said I want you out and I want you out now. He didn't negotiate, he didn't give them five minutes to think about it, he didn't try to sit down and counsel them. He said I want you gone and I want you gone now. Can I tell you this morning you got the same authority as what Paul has. You can speak to that devil and sometimes you need to speak to him like he speaks to you. You need to tell him get behind me, satan. Does that scripture sound familiar? Jesus Christ himself said it Get behind me, satan. Sometimes you need to be verbal with the devil. You've got to draw lines with the devil. Paul and Peter, or Paul and Silas, on their way to her prayer meeting, fed up with the devil, says you come out. And in the same hour the Bible said this thing left.

Speaker 3: 14:22

Now I would like to say that everybody was excited, right. I mean we come to church now and we see somebody get a blessing and we see people get delivered from what the devil has been beating them up over and we get excited right, especially in the Pentecostal movement. Now, right, we get all shaken up and tore up from the floor up. We get all excited right, but this isn't the way this went. Oh, I'm gonna meddle a little bit here, pastor, I hope it's okay.

Speaker 3: 14:58

You see, these men her masters, as the bible calls it was not very happy that she got delivered from her devils because it was costing them some money. It was going to cost them some things. It was going to cost them their livelihood and their money. How many knows that? The devil kind of wants your money too. I'm going to meddle here just a minute. Okay, your money too. I'm going to meddle here just a minute. Okay, we get more faithful sometimes paying AT&T as what we do, or ties. We get more faithful sometimes paying our admission to ball games, and we'll leave a bigger tip for the waiter than what we put in the offering plate on Sunday morning.

Speaker 3: 15:41

I'm going to meddle a little bit more, okay, sometimes we'll tip our waiter because they were good about giving us a refill and bringing us their fresh drinks and all this and all that, how about we tithe to the man who hung one Friday night for six hours on a blood stain banner called Calvary? How about we give the guy the money that says, try me and see if I won't pour you out a blessing that you won't be able to contain? They wasn't very happy. They had lost some things. They had lost their fortune in this young woman. They were not very happy, but this woman was causing problems For Paul and Silas. Now she was going before them and she was introducing them and she was saying these are men of God and they're going to teach us the way of salvation.

Speaker 3: 16:50

I had to think a little bit, pastor. Why would Paul get mad at this woman for saying the things that she did? Because sometimes we live in a world where preachers only preach for the introduction. Can I say that one more time? They only occupy the pulpit so that they get their names on marquees. My God, help me, jesus. They only get behind this pulpit and hopefully give you something that you'll cheer up about and make you feel all warm and fuzzy and preach you a prosperity gospel because they want to see their own name on the marquee. And then they were preaching and saying these men are going to show us the way of salvation.

Speaker 3: 17:44

So why would Paul be so aggravated at that? Number one? Paul had his priorities in straight right. John the Baptist I think he was the one who said I must decrease so that he can increase, right? Paul didn't like the fact that he was being introduced and Jesus was not the focus and the center point of it. If we can get back to this thing and put Jesus in the center of it, he said if I am lifted up, I will draw all men unto me.

Speaker 3: 18:16

Another reason that Paul was aggravated about it is the devil was starting to preach. Do you know that the devil can preach too? Did you know that? And you got to be careful who you let pour into you, because the devil will take his time and stand behind any pulpit that you will lend your ear to. He will fill you full of half-truths. Did you get what I'm saying? He will fill you full of half-truths so that you get what I'm saying. He will fill you full of half-truths so that you will be manipulated to believe in what he is saying. He will never preach to you a full gospel. And Paul realized that. He said this is not a devil that's going to deliver this gospel that Jesus gave me charge to do. Go ahead and tell somebody that I've been called to preach, because if you are bought with a price and you are covered under the blood banner of Calvary's cross, you have been called to share the gospel. Not any devil in hell has been called to preach, but you have been charged to preach. Yes, paul did not try to reason with this devil. He cast it out. Paul used his authority.

Speaker 3: 19:36

But once this girl had been delivered, like I said, you would think everybody would be happy for her. You would think everybody would celebrate for her. But sometimes that's not always the case. Not everybody is going to celebrate you. How many has ever been there in their own pity party before? And you get thinking well, so-and-so, don't even love me or care about me, because they haven't even checked on me, they haven't even reached out. Here's one for you. This is free, pastor, you can have it. The preacher didn't even shake my hand today. He didn't even come in and acknowledge that I was in his church.

Speaker 3: 20:27

If you're showing up for the pastor, or you're showing up for the worship leader, or you're showing up for the pastor or you're showing up for the worship leader or you're showing up for the evangelist, you are showing up for the wrong reason. We've got to get Jesus put back on the front burner of this thing, to where he is high and lifted up. We've got to put Jesus back in the center focus of a relationship with him. So these men that were aggravated against Paul and Silas, they went and gathered them a posse. That's what we do in Leslie County. There's a meme I think it says, or meme, whatever you want to call it, that's Leslie County terminology too. It says if my mom knows about it, she don't like you either. Right, if my sister knows about it, she don't like you either. You know what that's ultimately saying. You done like these men against Paul and Silas.

Speaker 3: 21:37

You went out recruiting people, recruiting people to listen to your side of the story. You see, they were out saying that Paul can't be saying these things because they're setting the bar too high for us to achieve. We can't follow what they're preaching because we're Romans. They didn't know that brother Paul and Silas were Romans too. But if you read the story a little farther you'll figure all that out. I'm trying to wrap it up and sum it all up for you and get where I'm going. I'm trying to wrap it up and sum it all up for you and get where I'm going.

Speaker 3: 22:16

They went out and they recruited them a posse and they pulled Silas and Paul and they started beating and mocking them. And it doesn't stop there. They even took them to the magistrates and brought criminal charges on them and says these men are causing all kinds of trouble. Can I tell you, when you get on fire for the Lord and you get on fire and says these men are causing all kinds of trouble, can I tell you, when you get on fire for the Lord and you get on fire for Jesus, you may be charged of stirring some trouble up. You might push again the grain a little bit and people might not understand your circumstance and what you have experienced. Nobody has a Paul experience but Paul himself and nobody can take your experience with Jesus away from you. And when you start talking about your experience with Jesus sometimes it makes other people all uncomfortable.

Speaker 3: 23:04

So they brought criminal charges up against them and they took them into the jail and they threw them in and they gave the jailer pretty much a command saying keep these men at bay, keep a guard on these men and do not let them out. And if you read the gospels, don't that sound kind of familiar to the people that they placed at the tomb to guard Jesus and to try and prevent the stone from being rolled away? When they were throwing Paul and Silas in, they told the guard you were responsible for them, don't let them out, seal them in. And the guard took the responsibility very, very seriously. He threw them in in what today's terminology would call the hole. Some of you may not know what that is. I'll break it down to you.

Speaker 3: 24:05

When you go to prison and you cause trouble, they isolate you even farther and they put you in a dark room and they try to confine you and they try to restrict you so that you don't have any contact with anybody else because you're a troublemaker, right, and they charged this jailer with this. They said you cannot let these men out, just like they did the guards at the tomb. They said you can't let this stone come away. Can I go ahead and tell somebody today that when God gets in it, there ain't a person in heaven or hell that can stand against it. He will remove any stone or any obstacle or any person that he has to to free you and get you out person, that he has to to free you and get you out. So the jailer took that charge very personal and threw Paul and Silas into the hole, into this dark, isolated room in the innermost part of the prison. In other words, they wasn't going anywhere.

Speaker 3: 25:15

How many has ever been in a place where you felt like you have been isolated, you have let the devil put you in a place where you feel isolated and cut off from the rest of the world, where you feel like that. You can't even talk to people because they're not there. They don't understand. You're in this dark place, you can't see anything around you or anything going on. You feel like you've been placed there because nobody cares about you, nobody cares about what you're going through, and you're just put in this place of isolation so that you can die in your loneliness. Many's ever felt that way. Amen.

Speaker 3: 26:04

Paul and Silas went in with a different attitude. You see, what I love about this thing is they were on their way to prayer meeting. Right, they were on their way to church. They were in the center of God's will. They had just cast a demon out. They wasn't living like hell and paying the price for it. They were in the center of God's will and the devil put them in an isolated place, away from everybody, in a dark place where they felt like nobody, cared, nobody and they shouldn't even been there. I would have been that person. I would have been the person in that room saying I don't even belong here. I didn't do anything to get here. I would have been trying to find out why I'm the victim, why they're picking on me and why that everybody else gets to run around free and everything good happens to the bad people and all the good people's casting this outer darkness. That's not you today. Sometimes I get that way. I get in myself and I get in my pity party sometimes. But Paul and Silas was on their way to church and all this happened.

Speaker 3: 27:17

But I love this portion about this portion of Scripture. It says when they got there about the midnight hour midnight hour they started doing what they intended to do before the devil came in. You see, the devil didn't stop them from going to prayer meeting. It may have delayed it for just a minute, it may have set them back for just a minute. But I come to tell somebody today. You may have went through a setback, you may have been through hell, you may have been beaten, battered, beaten and disgusted by the devil, but you don't let that delay your purpose. If you've got to push through, honey, you better push through. You better find your way out and offer up a praise, even if you don't feel, Even if you don't feel like it. You see, paul and Silas had every reason in the world to lay in that room and start a woe. Is me Right? If anybody had the right, it was Brother Paul and Brother Silas, because they were out doing ministry work and all of a sudden now they find themselves confined and in jail. Everybody was against them. The leaders were against them, the magistrates was right, the court system was against them, the jailer was against them, everybody was against them. And they could have just sat there and dried up and died in that position until they made a decision to change their circumstance. Some of you all will get that in just a minute. They had to make a conscience decision and sometimes it's a battle with the flesh right?

Speaker 3: 29:32

I don't feel like going to church today because it's too early to wake up. I don't feel like going to church today because I've got nothing to wear. I don't look right in this. I don't look right in that. I don't want to go because they don't even like me. Anyway, I'm not important. Nobody cares if I show up. Has the devil not lied to you all lately? Has the devil not tried to lie to you all Because I promise you it's coming? If he hasn't, I don't care who you are in this building. If you're under the sound of my voice, If you're in this building, jesus thought enough of you that he would offer his life on Friday night on a hillside called Calvary. He bled out to the point where he didn't have any more blood left in his body, just for you. So you don't let the devil try to convince you any other way that you're insignificant. Paul and Silas made a very conscious decision that they were going to change their circumstance, and what I love about this portion of the scripture is Paul and Silas couldn't go to Acts, chapter 16, and find out what happens when they start praying and what happens when they start singing, because they didn't have Acts. They were living it, so the writer could write it.

Speaker 3: 30:52

Sometimes we don't give God enough credit because we stop taking time to write down the things that he's done for us in our life. I'm not saying that we can add to this book, but you can make a book personal to you. God will make a book personal to you, a love letter to you, so to speak. Make a book personal to you, a love letter to you, so to speak. He has brought me out of so many things I could run out of ink, out of a box of ink pens of everything that he has done for me in my life. And I can tell you today he wants to move in your circumstance. He wants to open doors for you. He wants to move chains for you. You've just got to give him an opportunity.

Speaker 3: 31:35

You see, they could have dried up and died, but instead, pastor, I believe they didn't have the New Testament with them, but I believe they may have had one of those red and green back hymnals he's about to do a lap. They may have not had the New Testament to go by and figure out how this was all going to work out. They were living what the writer was trying to pin. They couldn't flip to Acts 16 like we can and see what happens when you pray and when you begin to rejoice in your salvation. They couldn't do that because they didn't know it wasn't available to them. But do you know what they did? Have they had a relationship with God? That he understood who God was? That God was faithful, no matter what their circumstance is. That God is faithful and I'm gonna tell you this morning how to change your circumstance. You want to know? I'm gonna tell you.

Speaker 3: 32:42

You say my circumstance is too big. Can I tell you this morning that your circumstance is nothing that God doesn't already know about. It's not something that just popped up and surprised God, because if you're going through it, it is part of God's will and I truly believe that everything that you're going through will work out for your good if you just hold the course. It's not always easy to believe that. We've had that message this morning in Sunday school. When you're going through hell, it's not easy to take and believe that all this is going to work together for my good. It's not easy to take that and receive it, but either we believe the Bible or we don't. It's not easy to take that and receive it, but either we believe the Bible or we don't.

Speaker 3: 33:28

Romans 8, chapter 28, says that everything, all things. It doesn't say some. It doesn't say the easy things. What seems hard to us is an easy thing to God. How many people in this building this morning could have made this whole earth and developed it and all the creations in it in seven days? Brother John, pastor, john, we think that is impossible, right, we think that it's impossible, that we, it can't physically be done. But I know a God. You see what I mean when I say you've got to know him. You've got to know what he can do. Paul and Silas went into the cell knowing who God was and what he can do. When you go into your circumstance and know who God is and what he is capable of, it will change everything about it. Amen.

Speaker 3: 35:00

It's easy to get discouraged and stop praying. Right, how many has ever been lied to by the devil? There's no use praying for that, because God ain't going to move for that. No use praying for that, because God ain't gonna move for that. Here's one. Oh, that's too. That's too minute for God. You don't wanna bother Him with the petty things that you're going through.

Speaker 3: 35:22

I had a woman years ago at one of her previous churches she giving testimony for her dog, right Becca, speaking in tongues and prophesying Amen. She giving prayer requests for her dog and in today's world we say, well, god's not got time for that. Oh, there's bigger things on the table that God can occupy his time with than this petty request of this woman putting in a prayer request for her dog. Can I tell you my Bible says that we cast all of our cares on him, even as insignificant as it may seem to you. If you care about it, I'm going to have to post it later. You all ain't getting it. If you care about it, god cares about it, no matter how small or insignificant, if you care about it, he cares about it.

Speaker 3: 36:55

Paul had a response. Paul and Silas and I'm going to close if they want to come back to the music. They had a response, pastor, that the devil had offset their prayer meeting. He did not stop it. I'm afraid we give the devil too much permission to stop things because things are an inconvenience. But Paul and Silas went in with a made up mind. They were going to pray and they were going to praise, no matter if they had to do it on the side of a river bank where they were on their way to, or they had to do it from a jail cell. Do you know what happened when they started singing and praying in the jail cell? The Bible says that the other prisoners heard them.

Speaker 3: 37:59

Now what would have happened to the other prisoners if they would have heard Paul and Silas in the next cell over saying can you believe this After all we've done, after all the hell that I've been through? Everything that we've been through here has led us to prison, and the disciples hasn't even come to try to make us bail. The pastor hasn't even come by and visited me. Nobody has ever prophesied to me and told me that all this was going to work out. And Silas is probably sitting over there next to Paul saying and it's all your fault, I didn't get in trouble and I didn't have a criminal history, and still I got involved with you.

Speaker 3: 39:09

What would have happened if the other prisoners would have heard their bickering, complaining, and the woe is me Instead, and the woe is me Instead. They said you know what? We was on our way to prayer meeting. I'm not letting any devil in hell knock me out of my destination. Did you hear what I said? I need somebody to get that. You have a destination, and it may not look like where you envisioned yourself going, because Paul and Silas. They envisioned themselves going to the side of the riverbank, because that's where they met right. They envisioned themselves going in and sitting down with all the other saints and all the other brothers and sisters and having themselves a Holy Ghost, fiery service, amen.

Speaker 3: 40:28

And then the devil showed up and all of a sudden they find themselves in a dark, lonely place, to where it was just them and God. Do you know, sometimes God will put you there too, to where it's just you and God. Do you know, sometimes God will put you there too, to where it's just you and Him. And they started to sing and they started to pray, and the other prisoners heard it. And do you know what happened? There was an earthquake. That showed up. Leads me back to the crucifixion, because if the message don't lead you back to the cross, it's the wrong message. When Jesus was hanging on the cross, the Bible said he cried aloud. Do you hear what I said? He cried aloud, with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.

Speaker 3: 41:39

And the Bible said that just that minute an earthquake came, and it was so powerful, brother Paul, that it rolled the stones away from some of the other cemeteries. But what's most miraculous about the whole thing is the earthquake was so violent. It ripped the veil in the temple from the top to the bottom. Do you see what happened when there was an earthquake? God moved. God moved. God moved. They tried to confine him to the temple and he tore his way out through an earthquake. Same thing happened to Paul and Silas.

Speaker 3: 42:24

As they were praying and as they were singing, an earthquake come and the Bible says that the jail cells were open, not just on them, but everybody around them. The jail cells was open. We can get all excited about doors open, right? How about the fact that the chains fell off too? You see the doors. They were made to confine them. The chains were made to restrict them and to restrain them, and Jesus will never leave you confined or restrained. The Bible said who the Son sets free, who the Son sets free, is free. Indeed, will you stand with me all over the house If you don't hear anything else I say today? I want you to hear this you can change your circumstance. You can change anything that you're going through through prayer and praise.

Speaker 1: 43:57

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