Boy - talk about 'court confusion'! God used it to keep Paul alive and the Jews angry! Sounds like our court system!!! Again, God was using the situation to keep Paul in Rome so he would have the chance to speak and tell his 'story', the story of Jesus, many, many times to people who would not have heard it any other way.
Do you know that you are used that way each day, if you allow yourself to be used? There are some people who will hear from you and no one else. Just like God held Paul in Prison, He has you here in Lincoln - or wherever you are - to use you to tell His 'story' and to tell it with your testimony so people will hear and turn to Him! We are always trying to run from our situation and God wants us to turn to Him and let Him use those things in our life to shape us and form us and, in the mean time, use us to spread the Gospel. Don't run away from "Jerusalem" but set your face toward those things that seems impossible and unlikeable and let God show you how He is going to work it all out!!!
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Amen! Very cool how God used what looked like a mixed-up, frustrating situation to spread His Good News around some more! ... all the various people Paul was privileged to share the Gospel with -- an audience with the king and other authority figures he probably wouldn't have had anywhere else.
Yet another opportunity for Paul to preach the gospel to a "new audience!" If they were going to keep him in prison, then they got to hear the good news! A captive audience!
Oh that we would be like Paul . . . to not complain about our current situation(s) but to see it as an opportunity to share Jesus! We allow the enemy to keep us from sharing when we are going through a battle by listening to him say, "How can you share God's promises (in the area of battle) when such and such is happening in your life?" All the more reason to share!!! Because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God! And God watches over His word to perform it in our lives!
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