Mobile Daily Devotional with Pst. Oluboye Emmanuel Week 21, Day 1: Sunday, 21st May, 2023.

“23. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely:

24. Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

25. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

This week, the Lord will be revealing to us that, those situations has their opportunity in us, every circumstance has positive contribution to our lives and ministry. From our Bible passage this week, we shall be seeing how Apostle Paul and Silas found their predicament as an opportunity to affect lives.

Firstly, after being beaten, they were thrown in the prison. In that situation, they were in pains, supposed to be complaining, crying, casting blames and begging the authority and the prison warder but instead of all these, they turned it to an opportunity to pray to God, to cry to their maker. To seek His face and His will in the situation they were. How often do we put prayer aside and search for who to blame and even questioning God in our predicament? How often do we look for shortcut to be set free from our struggling instead of Looking up to Jesus? When you can’t sleep, that’s when you can read your Bible and pray. In that bad situation, rejection, difficulties and oppression, there is what you can do which is, to Pray. Relax, settle down, In that situation, you can pray, you can seek His face in that circumstances, and before you know what, you are jubilanting in the midst of oppositions.

Good day and God Bless you.

Happy Birthday to all celebrants and Happy Wedding Anniversary to those celebrating today. May you experience God’s fruitfulness in Jesus Mighty name, Amen.