Acts 16:25-34

In this passage Paul and Silas had been sent to prison in Philippi where we find them praying and singing hymns at midnight. Strange, considering the circumstances. But it’s at that very hour where their imprisonment leads to the opportunity to share the gospel with those there with them.

This passage—a living parable—reminds us that the gospel of Jesus is never imprisoned, that there are times where God sends us into trials so we can have an audience with someone we normally wouldn’t, that prayer and worship shake things up and that prison times shouldn’t keep us from worship and prayer and finally, the main point, there is a prison worse than prison and Jesus came to free us from it.